Rock Band & Guitar Hero Options

[dabutcher]

Anyone know if Live ever plans to put some of thier songs out for either of these video game franchises? It would be great plus they would get more exposure and extra $.

[Sonic Tonic]

"If you were to take a person, with absolutely no experience on either, that person will be playing sweet child of mine on Guitar Hero Expert much sooner than they will be playing it on an actual guitar."

Agreed. Sorry distance to me but you are wrong. You can't use yourself or any real guitar player to judge what's easier. It would have to be someone that doesn't play either. And from all the people I've seen try both, they easily got really good a lot faster at these games than any real guitar. Some to this day play guitar but are nowhere near as good as they are at those games.

Obviously there are exceptions (like with anything) but overall it's much more likely for the average person to learn to play a guitar hero game better than a real guitar.

This post has been edited by Sonic Tonic: Jun 8 2009, 5:35 pm

[LiveRoCkS77]

"If you were to take a person, with absolutely no experience on either, that person will be playing sweet child of mine on Guitar Hero Expert much sooner than they will be playing it on an actual guitar."

Agreed. Sorry distance to me but you are wrong. You can't use yourself or any real guitar player to judge what's easier. It would have to be someone that doesn't play either. And from all the people I've seen try both, they easily got really good a lot faster at these games than any real guitar. Some to this day play guitar but are nowhere near as good as they are at those games.

Obviously there are exceptions (like with anything) but overall it's much more likely for the average person to learn to play a guitar hero game better than a real guitar.

I agree that learning the guitar is much harder and takes MUCH longer than it does to get good at these games.

But, my buddy at work, who has been playing guitar for over 20 years and plays gigs in Toronto til this day, swears that actually playing songs on expert level on these games is way harder than it is on guitar. He says it's mostly due to the fact that the charting on these games isn't very realistic. He can pick up a real guitar and play most all of the music on this game quite easily, yet fails out on expert level on all the same songs.