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Originally Posted by sadistikdreams
Oh man, I heard about this on the radio.
It sounds pretty good, but are the simulated guitar "controls" anything like playing a real guitar, or is it like DDR is to really dancing?
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i've been playing for about 20 years, i'm not trying to say i'm great but i know how to make chords and solo and stuff. i picked up a guitar hero thing figuring, okay, if i actually play that gives me an advantage, right? i fiddled with it for about thirty seconds and then the seventh grade girl who'd come out at random to be my opponent told me, "you're dumb!" never picked it up after that.
it's not like guitar. it's like extremely elaborate air guitar. it looks like fun, though, but the gameplay is essentially very simple -- lights come down these little wires that are supposed to be like the music, but the programming on that is not very intuitive, and you hit the same color button when the right color light comes on. it's sorta like that game where you step on the colored lights (you know the one! that one that makes everyone a spastic stomping cokehead) but with your fingers instead of your feet. and you get to hold a plastic guitar and look cool. and frankly, air guitar is a helluva lot better and more fun than actually playing a real guitar in a rock band -- because they're LOUD and the least fuckup gets projected across the bar, where every inebriated co-ed hears you fuck up rancidly. turns out they dont care cuz theyre drunk and tone-deaf but still, it's wounding to one's pride.
der, DDR is the foot-stomping thing. it's only in the post i quoted.
