Posted on 02/25/2008 5:40:16 PM PST by processing please hold
How do your skills stack up to his?
I wonder how well an Atari 2600 could do that style of game. With the right programming, the music might almost be workable. Not sure what to do for the controller. Maybe the game would be playable with a joystick. Not sure if it would be worth the effort to code, though.
My son owns a vintage 1965 Vox Bobcat and a Gibson SG and he too plays Guitar Hero and Rock Band constantly.
Although I must admit he is very good on both.
Kinda chuckling a bit ...
My own experience has been that actually having experience playing an instrument is a detriment to playing Guitar Hero. But full disclosure, after 5 minutes of GH, I’m thinking ‘I could pick up an actual instrument’.
My digitech rp3 has a play along feature ... plug in the iPod and off I go.
It depends on how long and how well you play the real instruments. Both of my now young-adult kids played in the shool orchestra from 3rd through 12th grade. They have an intuitive sense of rhythm, phenomenal hand-eye coordination, and even an understanding of song structure.
Wow... I played piano for at least 12 years by now, and I’m learning acoustic guitar, and while I have a great understanding of theory and song structure and all that, I completely lack any sense of rhythm or hand-eye coordination (or any coordination at all), so Guitar Hero is sort of like learning an entirely new instrument for me. However, my siblings who do have things like coordination and a sense of rhythm, are absolutely great at it.
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