I’ve never been one to spend too much time playing video games. I’m generally not that good at them, with the exception of games that benefit from many buttons being mashed all at once (Soul Caliber, I’m looking at you). That said, we purchased a Wii in December of 2006 and since that I’ve found a lot more games that I’m decent at. I can stomp all over TheBoy when it comes to playing Mario Kart on the virtual console, much to his consternation.
One of the benefits of being at the LAN party last weekend (more on that soon, I came down with a massive case of exhaustion coupled with a large amount of fluid in the ears) was that I got to watch people playing things. Rock Band, for instance, breeds an awful lot of tone deaf singers, singing loudly. Guitar Hero looked complicated beyond belief, but also really really fun. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any time to play myself and Sunday found me whining to TheBoy that I really wanted to play it. His solution? Let’s go buy it. And we did. And after a few frustrating starts (boy, I cannot wait until they make the left-handed guitar for the Wii, so I don’t have a whammy bar in my palm all the time) I managed to beat the game on easy by the end of the evening on Monday.
Since I beat this version, I’ve started back at the beginning in medium level. It’s more challenging to add in that fourth note, plus more chords. Great fun though, I highly recommend it.
Rock Band is the favorite game for getting people together around here – we’ve had many a 4-player get-together. In fact, on New Year’s Day, we had an 8-hour marathon in a garage with the game projected up on the wall.
Tons o’ fun, and I’m glad you’ve jumped on the boat 🙂
Just this weekend we got Guitar Hero for our Wii! I haven’t gotten much time with it, what with the husband and the son AND the sister bogarting the controller. I can’t wait for them to go back to school and work on Monday. We should have guitar battles over the wifi.
We have it for Xbox, and this morning was first crack at it.
It was fun, and a little trance-ish (in a scary i’m-getting-sucked-into-a-black-hole sort of way.
Still, I kinda suck LOL.
I tried this not that long ago, and it’s totally addicting. It’s a good thing we don’t own it or I may never leave the house. You’d think that it would be easier for me since I’m a musician, but it wasn’t any easier. I think it is just different enough from actually playing that it makes it hard. Maybe we’ll get to have a GH3 party! hehe.