An awesome multi-platform game that has become a
pop-culture phenomenon due to it's ability to make the
player feel like they are a talented guitarist without having to waste any
time actually leaning how to play a guitar.
Like all things that experience fast widespread success, and cause hot topics of conversation, it has it's detractors. Mainly guitar-players who are angry at the game's ability to make them look bad, and because they didn'
t know about it first. Like all critics of this type, they take an elitst stance and usually combat any conversation regarding the game with statements like 'Why don'
t you just play a real guitar'. Or 'It's just a poor man's version of a real guitar',
ignorant to the well-noted fact that no girl has been impressed by a
guy who can play the guitar skillfully since 1995.
It is this shift in the
female gender's attraction from the traditional guitarists to non-instrumental vocalists that has garnered much resentment from the guitarist community. In addition to the fact that being a member of a small band is now less attractive than being a Level 639 at Warcraft.
It is also worth noting that while there are other games that simulate the experience of a sport or activity, such as the Tony
Hawk's Pro
Skater franchise, Dance Dance Revolution, 'music-making' games, and Sim-
whatever; which do not recieve the same hostility from their peer groups. "Why don'
t you just go and skate/dance/compose/build your OWN theme-park. This is understood to be because of the "Guitars-are-
lame paradox", where being skilled at a video game replicating classic guitar songs looks more fun than actually playing them would be.
Subject A: "
Hey I've just bought Guitar Hero!"
Subject B: "Ughh, philistine. How moronic. Why don'
t you just be a REAL man and learn how to play guitar for REAL. Heh"
Subject A: "Errrm, are you aware that you're not in 1995 or a movie?"
Test subject (
female): Will you (subject A) come over to my house to show me how to play Guitar Hero?"
Subject A: "Yes."
