OpenChord allows actual guitars to play Guitar Hero, sound atrocious
By Darren Murph 
posted August 7th 2009 9:53AM
posted August 7th 2009 9:53AM
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posted August 7th 2009 9:53AM
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I didn't think I would ever say this but, I have finally seen someone who learned how to play guitar on Guitar Hero.... and it is sad...
What?
I hate this comment engine eating my posts.
I hate these games! Just a bunch of poseurs pretending they know how to play a REAL instru-...er..controller?
Huh..
Hmm.
I hate people that play madden, what posers. They should go about and play actual football.
People who play forza aso, why dont they just go out and race there cars.
Gosh.
No one is pretending anything. We are playing a *game* which incidentally uses a controller that looks like a guitar. I make no claims as to my actual guitar playing ability.
@kaz
yes but there are many people that DO think they're good at real guitar b/c of guitar hero/rock band. THAT is truly annoying.
@bryan
it's about the people that play a game and assume they're good at that because they're good at the video game. it shows no experience in real life situations, so how does it make them good in real life? maybe not you, but trust me, there are A LOT of people who act that way.
And here I thought my joke would be lost on people...
Engadget Readers: The most humorless people on earth.
internet + sarcasm = miscommunication
I once knew a particularly annoying guy how said that he 'could be an awesome sniper, you should see me play online!', so yeah, wow, no mention of the marksmanship principles or anything....
No way man, those people who think they can just play FPS games are the real posers. Why don't they go outside and play with real guns? lol.
I agree with you for the most part, but I think Forza is a bad example. It teaches you many things you can apply to real life, like slow in fast out, using all the track, braking before, not in a corner, waiting to nail the gas until you can keep your foot on the gas, etc. Driving a real car is pretty much the same thing (except different controls, and you're not nearly as fearless ;) ).
What's worse is they got the most uncomfortable human to showcase their idea. Note the Dry swallow.
and ruin my ibanez? yea, i dont think so
and for all the people thinking that this will bring them a step closer to making it seem like a real guitar.... HA
just practice your real guitars already. gosh
this is a joke?
I'm still waiting for Ukulele Hero
I wanna hear someone do Hawaiian Superman on sed game
MANDOLIN HERO FTW!
Actually it would be quite good. I want this song on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZS8KgMXECU
I'm waiting for the Didgeridoo Hero.
@G.I.
It would be so bulky!
Ahh, but it just wishful thinking, cause at the end all of the "instruments" would just be large pieces of plastic with buttons on it. :'(
Didgeridoo Hero is awesome! It totally beats Triangle Hero!
Ukulele Hero..?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuybeFoHj_g&feature=related
Kazookelele hero FTW!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfFSTiblQl8
@DarKlar
Wow... just... wow..... O_o
You guys are forgetting the most awesome game of ALL TIME: Accordion Hero
http://juiceonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/accordion-hero.jpg
HAHAHAHA i wonder if can actually hear how bad that is. What a straight up LOL
tis rock band not guitar hero!
Marketing for guitar hero is so good that hardly anyone even mentions 'rock band', if only they put half of that marketing money into making a game half as good :/
This is up there with Cowbell Hero!
what would be really awesome is for this to requre that you actually be hooked up to an amp with the volume maxed.
He's playing Rock Band, not Guitar Hero.
Innovation?...ftw
Practicality?...no dice
You could set this up so that all the button combinations played notes that were in the same scale or were intervals of third 4ths and fifths.
It wouldn't sound like the actual song on the screen but it would at least sound tolerable.
wow that sucks.
Never trust a guy with no shoes trying to sell a guitar game peripheral!!
I wish I could hook my wiimote up to my pair of Uzis/ Ferrari / Fist / so GTA would be more real ..
Whatever happened to Guitar Rising?
I think you are missing the point in this article. He is controlling the game with the guitar. Does the sound coming out of the guitar while playing the game sound like ass? Yes it does. Is he using a real guitar to play the game? Yes he is. I don't think they claimed that the guitar would play the song you are playing in the game through the amp.
Right, it's got nothing to do with the game not being designed to be played with a real guitar, and everything to do with a guitar not being designed to be used as a game controller. It's the guitar making the sounds, not the game.
All he really needed to do was turn down the volume knob on his guitar and it probably would have been fine... though personally, I'd probably still need to crank the TV volume way up to drown out even the sounds the guitar makes acoustically.
This is probably also one case where a crappy guitar would work better, because crappy guitars are more "dead" sounding when not being amplified, and often quiter. Really good electric guitars are quite loud and "alive" even when not amplified - that's one way to tell a good guitar from a bad one.
BAHAHAHAHA!!!
At least before people could hear the plastic clickety-clack and know what was up. Now, people overhearing will think your actually trying to learn, and failing miserably.
And I thought Guitar Hero was already pretty bad
"You've heard that saying "so close, yet so far away," right?"
nope.
I think the real point that we need to take away from this is.
The people that claim that they are Rock-stars or Hero's because they are good at a game, in reality are as good as the sounds coming out of that amp....
Simple Frets simple minds.
what the hell?
if you have a REAL guitar you can play it for real.
I guess completely off-pitch actual guitar strumming is entirely complementary to a faux guitar game..
This is like trying to shoehorn a real horse inside a car engine compartment.
Did you see the household hacker video where they guy solders some wire onto an actual guitar to play guitar hero? it's pretty cool haha.
here's a link to the video: http://www.tvlesson.com/video/36406_how-to-play-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar.html
Come on guys, as a proof of concept this is pretty cool. He needs to turn the amp off though, since the mapping of GH/RB positions just doesn't translate to a real guitar. To make the audio part function properly, the game would have to be modified to work with it (which ain't happening). Although it could be an interesting training tool for ACTUAL guitar (kinda like that lit up neck trainer).