My Guitar Hero dreams
I’m not only a serious music collector, I’m also a hard core gamer. I just recently purchased a kick-ass video card for my new computer so I can play the upcoming Direct X 10 capable PC games.
But even with the jaw dropping graphics that my souped up computer can provide I’m still obsessively playing with Playstation 2 — more specifically Guitar Hero II. I think that Guitar Hero II is the perfect melding of my love for both music and video games. I just love rocking out to really cool rock songs. I have to say that not all of the songs work for me, but those that I love really give me a great buzz. I love to imagine that I’m playing a real guitar (although I do play the guitar my skills are intermediate, at the most) and executing those hard licks like a true virtuoso.
I am quite stoked about the upcoming release of Guitar Hero III because of the large amount of original songs included in the game. Some old faves are also included so I’m really polishing up my “fretwork” to do the songs justice.
But if I have the ability to choose the songs in Guitar Hero I’m going to come up with a radically different song list. I’d have Elastica and Blur in the lineup along with more Ramones and Stooges songs. I’ll also have some synth based bands in the line up like Moving Units. I’d also add some upbeat songs from Aberfeldy or Architecture in Helsinki to brighten up the song lineup a bit. Of course, punk will figure prominently in my dream Guitar Hero game — with the likes of The Blitz and The Exploited. Now that would be cool.
Guitar Hero, The Exploited, Elastica, Blur
October 10th, 2007 at 3:44 am
Hey Mel, what’s your new video card?
October 10th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
I got a Gecube HD2600XT. From what I’ve read it’s almost equal to the performance of an Nvidia 8600GT, but it still has a lot to offer because the drivers for it are still undeveloped. According to new release from ATI, Catalyst 7.10 drivers will bump up its performance by up to a whopping 30%!