How To Use a Real Guitar With Rock Band 3 180
wirelessdreamer writes "Using a real guitar, with a hex-aphonic pickup, and guitar synth rock band 3 pro guitar mode can be played NOW with a real guitar. Thanks to the game2midi project for makeing g2ghpro a multiplatform release. Selfless promotion as the submitter is the game2midi project lead :)"
Personally.... (Score:3, Insightful)
I think this is a pretty good idea and would be nice if it could be made more main stream. It gets kinda annoying when you have a bunch of kids bragging about how could they are at guitar hero, even though they can't play a real one at all. It could also help kids learn an instrument that they would otherwise look past since that it would be a video game and therefor automagically cool.
Re:Lame (Score:4, Insightful)
Real guitars are for people who don't want to look like fucking retards with a toy that vaguely resembles a guitar.
Re:Lame (Score:5, Insightful)
Real guitars keep you from wasting time with "Rock Band".
Re:Lame (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What's Next? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's funny. I was able to actually play a guitar when Guitar Hero came out, and I enjoyed Guitar Hero immensely. They are two entirely different experiences, and the itch scratched by one is not necessarily scratched by the other.
I don't mind that you don't like the games. To each his own. I do think it's ridiculous to claim that it is because you can play the real guitar. Just say you don't like the games, dragging "I play real guitar" into this just makes you sound like a snob.
Re:Lame (Score:5, Insightful)
Kids from my generation dreamed of being rock stars, not of sitting in front of the boob tube playing what amounts to a nursery school game.
So what you're saying is that Kids in the past sat around day-dreaming while kids today sit around pretending.
Isn't technology amazing?
Re:Lame (Score:5, Insightful)
Why all the hate? It's just a game. Do you get so angry at people who play racing games rather than trying to become an actual racer?
And that "kids from my generation" thing just screams "get off my lawn." Thought you should know that.
Re:I kinda understand the hate (Score:5, Insightful)
Or maybe they're just proud that they're good at the game? Maybe it has nothing to do with playing real music. Maybe you're reading too much into it. I've seen people who are really good at call of duty, and was fairly impressed with it. But I don't immediately disregard it with the claim that "they think they're actually shooting people." I'm pretty sure most of them realize that what they're good at is the GAME ITSELF, and not the subject the game emulates. The same is true with Rockband.
Besides, if you really look at all the posts in this thread, you won't see anyone making the claim that playing Rockband is equivalent to playing a real instrument. The only people who bring up real instruments when discussing rockband are people like you, who are for some reason are incredibly defensive of the game. Relax. Someone being good at a game isn't going to distract from you impressing people with a real guitar. There's no threat.