![]() Also keep in mind that the setlists of those first two games leaned heavily in the classic rock direction (not exactly my thing), but despite not knowing or not liking most of the songs at first, a funny thing happened. ![]() This was back when Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, and Rocks the 80’s were the only extant releases, both of which featured a rich competitive mode that would subsequently be watered down. “Dude man, you definitely wanna play on easy, shit’s soooo hard,” was the general consensus. After a lot of goading – almost enough to send me into a tantrum – I picked up that plastic guitar. I was actually pretty turned off by the whole thing and immediately sensed the night going downhill. At the time I was getting to know a new group of friends, and when I went over to their house for the first time, I walk in on none other than the drunken sounds of accomplishment that so often accompanied success in the game. Not long after that, Guitar Hero was everywhere, nigh inescapable. Somewhere inside of me there was still a 15 year old who wanted to be rock star who took this “fake plastic rock” as an affront to the whole of rock music. I was never any good at playing a real guitar, though I did own a guitar and a bass (and a drum machine, and a 4-track recorder, and a keyboard, and about 6 or 7 amps…) and as such I had some respect for how hard the guitar could be. And then it happened…I saw someone playing Guitar Hero, gave myself a couple of minutes to figure out what was going on….and thought it was absolutely the stupidest, most ridiculous looking thing I had ever seen. ![]() I kept up with Mortal Kombat fairly well, played the hell out of Halo and Halo 2, and got down with Mario every now and then. A lot of it had to do with the fact that the old junk that I really liked was all packed away, and I just wasn’t interested in the growing complexity of games at the time. A few years ago, I was going through a 2 or 3 year stint where video games weren’t terribly appealing, and only an occasional form of recreation. ![]()
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