Dragon05555 wrote:Hello folks, time for a rant.

This has always driven me a little crazy, people's arrogance and ignorance.

SURELY, everyone knows about a music game, whether it's Guitar Hero or Rock Band (who knows what game number each series is on now). In it, people wield a plastic guitar with five colorful buttons and a simple 3 way switch where an actual guitar player would strum the strings with either his hand or a plectrum (pick in modern lingo).

Everyone from little kids, highschoolers and middleschoolers (undoubtedly the targeted demographic), and even younger adults could get in on the fun without actually having the neck mastered. Difficulty could be adjusted (although "expert" is still not as hard as the real thing.), then anyone could have a good time.

What really pisses me off is the pricks that think because they can play a fake version of a guitar and get a 96% on expert of some damn song, think they could play the actual guitar. I can't remember exactly when guitar hero really caught on, but for the record lets say it was when i was in 8th grade (...around 2006, 07? I cant remember stuff like that, because i really dont care what year i was in what grade). Since then, almost every male in my school (middle school especially because if highschoolers werent as traumatized by it, it would make sense that the 7th and 8th graders of 2007 [the freshman and sophmores now] played guitar, and even some girls started.

Now, (as stated on EncyclopediaDramatica, but is still, sadly, true) there are tons of "guitarists" running around that think they can shred because they can play the first 10 seconds of all of their favorite songs.

The worse thing about this (i have no qualms with people discovering the power of music) is their goddamned arrogance. I've been playing guitar since the 2nd grade, but because i cant play any of those "popular" songs, i am somehow less skilled then them.

I was playing a lick from a song by a man named Mississippi John Hurt, a very talented Delta Bluesman, and this fucking retard said "Is that Mario or something?". He then took the guitar and played a riff from some song from some obscure band with a name like "Bucket of Mud" or some retarded shit like that and said "THAT's music". He couldnt even play the whole song, or tell me any of the notes he played, and he fumbled the whole goddamned thing anyway. It's called respect, and no one has it.

If, in the last 3 or 4 years, the amount of people you know that play guitar (I'm mainly talking to highschoolers and middleschoolers, some college kids, so this may not apply) has shot thru the roof, then you know what I'm talking about.
/rant.

EDIT: Highlighted important parts for you Tl;Dr ers

I only have one rebuttal.

TouchyChaff2 wrote:Seriously, how many guitar heroes are there?? And everyone buys it (prob a shitload of ppl on this site too). Yet in my opinion there really only needed to be one...the rest was just "new music" how the hell does that justify the purchase? Bear in mind these are the same ppl who complain about ODST and Left 4 Dead 2

I got 3 because I didn't have a Guitar Hero and I bout World Tour because I wanted the new stuff. Haven't even thought about another one.

GuitarHero9 wrote:I am a serious RB player, but I definitely don't think I'm a good musician; not even close. I just care about getting a high score. I still agree with you about the morons that think that they can play the real thing just because they can play on Expert. It's like if your masturbating and you think being able to pick up a chick and do it with her would be as easy as jerking it.

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GuitarHero9 wrote:It's like if your masturbating and you think being able to pick up a chick and do it with her would be as easy as jerking it.

Nice analogy, lol

ShortHairedOffender wrote:

TouchyChaff2 wrote:

ShortHairedOffender wrote:

TouchyChaff2 wrote:Seriously, how many guitar heroes are there?? And everyone buys it (prob a shitload of ppl on this site too). Yet in my opinion there really only needed to be one...the rest was just "new music" how the hell does that justify the purchase? Bear in mind these are the same ppl who complain about ODST and Left 4 Dead 2

I got 3 because I didn't have a Guitar Hero and I bout World Tour because I wanted the new stuff. Haven't even thought about another one.

Yeah I understood when they changed it up to compete with Rock Band. But after that it just seems like "30 new tracks to play and now you can look like Kurt Cobain yay" who gives a shit

I want to dress like Cobain AFTER he shot himself.

You just missed your chance man, halloween was a few days ago. Good idea though I like where your heads at