Guitar Hero Good Or Bad?
synfection
Apr 12 2009, 09:54 PM
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what are your thoughts on guitar hero?

on one hand i could see how it could lead kids to a real guitar but ... on the other i've seen seriously obsessed kids with that game that have stopped playing their guitar to play guitar hero more!!!

tell me your thoughts!!

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Apr 15 2009, 01:50 PM
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I didnt say mmorpgs are better than reading.

I said if you spent ALL of your free time in one or the other at least mmorpgs involve socializing and contact with other people.

Reading the printed word does not be default lead to intelligence. Go to the beach. Look at all the reading going on. Are these the greatest minds of our generation? I see a lot of fluff romance books laying there.

There are just as many garbage books as there are worthless tv shows, probably more.

Ad whats a classic? A story of a whale and a captain? Sounds like something my kid would read.

Fiction, in any form, is just that. Fiction. I dont care if its Shakespeare, Stephen King, or Jackie Collins. Why is reading Othello any better than some modern trashy erotic thriller? Is it really any differnet? Or have we been brainwashed by the schools to think that its somehow more noble because its Shakespeare?

Do you give your mind more of a workout imagining the scenes yourself as you read vs watching tv? Sure. But in the end you are in the land of make believe. All by yourself. Laying on the couch. Just like the guy watching Jerry Springer.

Its all entertainment.

Sure you can learn things reading. And you can learn things watching the discovery channel too.

I just dont buy that I'm smarter than you because I am holding a book, you are holding the TV Guide, crap. And I'll take the physical health, social roundedness and metabolism of a 16 yr old who plays Rock Band with his friends after school EVERY DAY for 4 hours vs the kid down the street locked in his room reading all night, alone.

If after 5 years of that one of them was discovered to be a violent offender, which one would your money be on?


Like I said a lot of posts ago, its all about balance. Too much of one thing is just that. Unbalanced and too much. Even reading.

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- synfection   Guitar Hero Good Or Bad?   Apr 12 2009, 09:54 PM
- - Artemus   It's a fun game but I sometimes find it annoyi...   Apr 12 2009, 09:59 PM
- - Ctodd   guitar hero is one of the reasons that I got inter...   Apr 12 2009, 10:03 PM
- - DragonX556   I think it is good because it introduces music to ...   Apr 12 2009, 10:09 PM
- - superize   I really like to play guitar hero but i prefer the...   Apr 12 2009, 10:11 PM
- - Artemus   My favourite T-shirt:   Apr 12 2009, 10:33 PM
|- - synfection   QUOTE (Artemus @ Apr 12 2009, 10:33 PM) M...   Apr 12 2009, 10:35 PM
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- - Bogdan Radovic   I think this is a good thing! It introduces ki...   Apr 12 2009, 10:38 PM
- - Artemus   http://www.guitartshirts.com/ for the guitar t-shi...   Apr 12 2009, 10:42 PM
- - Azzaboi   Its a great addictive game with some good songs, o...   Apr 12 2009, 10:48 PM
- - Fran   I really like GH, addictive gaming with awesome ro...   Apr 13 2009, 12:10 AM
- - jer   I think these games are AWESOME. I'd rather s...   Apr 13 2009, 12:27 AM
|- - Praetorian   QUOTE (jer @ Apr 12 2009, 07:27 PM) I...   Apr 13 2009, 02:48 AM
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- - ParalyzedHorse   I think playing guitar hero is helpful to your rea...   Apr 13 2009, 12:30 AM
|- - Marcus Lavendell   QUOTE (ParalyzedHorse @ Apr 13 2009, 01:3...   Apr 13 2009, 09:43 AM
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- - jer   It cant hurt, thats for sure. I like rockband be...   Apr 13 2009, 12:32 AM
- - PluckerFlucker   It sucks. I have kids and 2 are teenagers. They s...   Apr 13 2009, 03:26 AM
- - jer   are there people really giving up guitar for the g...   Apr 13 2009, 03:32 AM
|- - PluckerFlucker   QUOTE (jer @ Apr 12 2009, 10:32 PM) are t...   Apr 13 2009, 03:47 AM
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- - Skalde   RE: Guitar Hero Good Or Bad?   Apr 13 2009, 11:56 AM
- - jer   QUOTE I would rather blow away armed opponents who...   Apr 13 2009, 12:32 PM
|- - Ivan Milenkovic   QUOTE (jer @ Apr 13 2009, 01:32 PM) Thats...   Apr 13 2009, 01:04 PM
|- - fkalich   QUOTE (Ivan Milenkovic @ Apr 13 2009, 07...   Apr 13 2009, 11:27 PM
|- - jer   QUOTE Why is this a good thing, being inactive, a ...   Apr 13 2009, 11:33 PM
|- - Red   QUOTE (fkalich @ Apr 14 2009, 12:27 AM) W...   Apr 14 2009, 10:52 PM
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- - jer   I wonder why people who play sports don't bad ...   Apr 13 2009, 01:11 PM
|- - Praetorian   QUOTE (jer @ Apr 13 2009, 08:11 AM) I won...   Apr 13 2009, 09:49 PM
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- - Roadside   It´s a funny game, but I hate the hype about it. ...   Apr 13 2009, 03:04 PM
- - synfection   LOL at the guitar hero for mac:D   Apr 13 2009, 07:14 PM
- - jer   Thanks. Its a very overlooked analogy in my opin...   Apr 13 2009, 09:53 PM
- - Startear   agreed, it's better to play guitar hero than W...   Apr 13 2009, 10:05 PM
- - jer   RE: Guitar Hero Good Or Bad?   Apr 13 2009, 10:10 PM
- - Marcus Siepen   I have no problem with Guitar Hero, I have it myse...   Apr 14 2009, 04:38 PM
- - berko   QUOTE (Skalde @ Apr 13 2009, 12:56 PM)   Apr 14 2009, 04:42 PM
|- - Marcus Lavendell   I can understand why some say that Guitar Hero is ...   Apr 14 2009, 05:28 PM
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- - Artemus   On the subject of GH, I've got to share these ...   Apr 14 2009, 04:53 PM
- - Skalde   I once tried Guitar Hero and found it rather borin...   Apr 14 2009, 10:15 PM
- - jer   Unless you are reading a book. Then somehow you ...   Apr 14 2009, 11:37 PM
- - Skalde   Well, and I am pretty sure that reading books has ...   Apr 15 2009, 12:14 AM
- - Artemus   QUOTE (Skalde @ Apr 15 2009, 12:14 AM) We...   Apr 15 2009, 12:20 AM
- - Jose Mena   Seems to me it makes kids develop an interest for ...   Apr 15 2009, 12:28 AM
- - Skalde   Of course there is nothing wrong with playing game...   Apr 15 2009, 12:32 AM
- - jer   I don't think anyone would dispute the potenti...   Apr 15 2009, 01:18 AM
- - Artemus   I think it boils down to the definition of a ...   Apr 15 2009, 01:34 AM
|- - fkalich   QUOTE (Artemus @ Apr 14 2009, 07:34 PM) I...   Apr 15 2009, 03:00 AM
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- - jer   QUOTE have read the classics I hate this statemen...   Apr 15 2009, 03:08 AM
|- - Koopid   QUOTE (jer @ Apr 15 2009, 04:08 AM) I hat...   Apr 15 2009, 07:01 AM
|- - opeth.db   QUOTE (Koopid @ Apr 15 2009, 02:01 AM) Ab...   Apr 15 2009, 03:04 PM
|- - Koopid   QUOTE (opeth.db @ Apr 15 2009, 04:04 PM) ...   Apr 15 2009, 05:12 PM
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- - Tono Fyr   What Mr. Siepen said.   Apr 15 2009, 03:14 AM
- - Sircraigery   Ok kids, let's not fight. I like GH just for ...   Apr 15 2009, 07:24 AM
- - David Wallimann   I don't know if it really helps as a guitar pl...   Apr 15 2009, 01:00 PM
- - jer   Sorry if I wasnt clear, I'm not saying you sai...   Apr 15 2009, 05:29 PM
- - synfection   thanks for all the replys by the way guys. its mak...   Apr 15 2009, 11:48 PM
- - ErikEklund   When I first played guitar hero I had not heard of...   Apr 17 2009, 07:24 PM
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