Not sure what I think of this whole guitar hero craze. I too am an amateur musician. I have worked hard over the past several years to accomplish a competant level of playing. I personally would rather see kids learning to play an instrument than endlessly pressing buttons under the pretense of creating music. On the other hand it is a blast to play the game. Maybe Guitar Hero will launch more kids toward a path of music discovery. That's what I'd like to see anyway. There is so much pride in really learning and understanding your instrument.
It doesn't matter if "you want to see more kids playing real instruments". What matters is what the kids want (and adults, don't be so quick to judge). And if a kid wants to dedicate his time to playing video games, giving them a music-playing game lets them learn a little bit, and roll with it.
If someone wants to dedicate the time to learning an instrument, guitar hero isn't going to stop them. It is another option for people who don't want to LEARN how to play an instrument, and just want to play a game.
While its tablet world topping pixel density, Tegra 2 silicon, and fresh to death OS certainly sound awesome, we had to get our grubby mitts on one to see if it's as good as its spec sheet would have us believe.
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Not sure what I think of this whole guitar hero craze. I too am an amateur musician. I have worked hard over the past several years to accomplish a competant level of playing. I personally would rather see kids learning to play an instrument than endlessly pressing buttons under the pretense of creating music. On the other hand it is a blast to play the game. Maybe Guitar Hero will launch more kids toward a path of music discovery. That's what I'd like to see anyway. There is so much pride in really learning and understanding your instrument.
It doesn't matter if "you want to see more kids playing real instruments". What matters is what the kids want (and adults, don't be so quick to judge). And if a kid wants to dedicate his time to playing video games, giving them a music-playing game lets them learn a little bit, and roll with it.
If someone wants to dedicate the time to learning an instrument, guitar hero isn't going to stop them. It is another option for people who don't want to LEARN how to play an instrument, and just want to play a game.
You did know it was a game, right?