Complete Control
Jan. 30th, 2009 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaMeh. I've already done a round of pissing people off this week. Why not go for broke and alienate all my friends.
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elfs linked to this article, and honestly, it's one I couldn't agree with more. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/01/complete_contro_1.php Guitar Hero is one of those things that really just totally baffles me. If I'm going to learn to 'play' music, I may as well grab a real guitar and learn to play that. (And in fact, I do practice guitar, flute, and keyboard) Sure, each of these are FAR more complex and difficult to learn than mashing keys in a video game, and certainly I can never look forward to being 'the absolute best' at any of them. In fact, I'm not even at a level where I'm keen to torture my friends with my playing. BUT learning stuff is fun and well... As the article said... For me, it's all about opening possibilities.
Sorry if I'm really down on this whole creator vs consumer thing lately. Perhaps I should spend less time blithering away on LJ and more time creating stuff myself.
elfs linked to this article, and honestly, it's one I couldn't agree with more. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/01/complete_contro_1.php Guitar Hero is one of those things that really just totally baffles me. If I'm going to learn to 'play' music, I may as well grab a real guitar and learn to play that. (And in fact, I do practice guitar, flute, and keyboard) Sure, each of these are FAR more complex and difficult to learn than mashing keys in a video game, and certainly I can never look forward to being 'the absolute best' at any of them. In fact, I'm not even at a level where I'm keen to torture my friends with my playing. BUT learning stuff is fun and well... As the article said... For me, it's all about opening possibilities.Sorry if I'm really down on this whole creator vs consumer thing lately. Perhaps I should spend less time blithering away on LJ and more time creating stuff myself.
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Date: 2009-01-30 05:34 pm (UTC)Different strokes for different folks. Guitar Hero/Rock Band are about stripping out the technicalities and focusing on the sheer joy of performing music. If you read interviews with the Harmonix staff, the original chords and finger movements are all there, just in derivative form (i.e. like derivatives in calculus, "simpler" expressions of more complex patterns). You can't get a good percentage in a song by mashing.
It is air guitaring but it tricks you into feeling that you are participating in the music, and it does it so well for someone like me who is not musically inclined. Hell, it does it for
If it isn't your thing, that's cool but even
So don't harsh on my enjoyment ;) I quit playing music as soon as I could because I don't have it in me. But I do enjoy playing at