Where would you be without Guitar Hero?

**stealthamo** · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:14 am Post subject:

My music taste would probably be less expanded, seeing as GH and RB turned me on to so many different bands that I wouldn't have heard of before.

Game wise, I usually alternate between GH and sports games. So I'm thinking that I would've played a whole lot more sports games.
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**bombillo** · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject:

i have no idea, but musically i would be like, jonas brothers and miley cirus

and i would probably spent the 2000+ hours of my life, in other better stuff like... playing with my dog? lol idk,
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**Hak** · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject:

I hated Rock music before I started playing Guitar Hero. Now, my favorite genres are Hard Rock, Classic Rock and Metal.

I'd probably still play video games all day though. I am such a sad person.
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**memesis** · Joined: 06 Apr 2007 Posts: 360

Guitar Hero was my doorway into the gaming industry, so I can't even imagine where I'd be today if I had never picked up a plastic guitar back in the summer of 2006, let alone if GH never existed

. It also opened me up to a world of music that I had barely experienced, despite my decades of musicianship. I owe a lot of thanks to the dudes over at Harmonix for crafting such a fun and addictive game, because it really did change my life radically

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**Megashot** · Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 520 Location: Atlanta, GA

Hmm, where would I be without Guitar Hero?

Well, for starters, without Guitar Hero I wouldn't have the large PS2 game collection that I currently have. Seriously, before I found out about and got Guitar Hero, I rarely played my PS2. I had only about 20-30 games for it at the time. It literally breathed a new life into my system and suddenly I was interested in buying more games for it. Right now my PS2 collection stands at about 160 games, and there are still titles out there that I would like to get. So if GH wasn't made, my PS2 library wouldn't be as big as it is now. GH really made the PS2 my "favorite" gaming console and I still like it today. Heck, I even prefer playing GH on the PS2. I get a nostalgic feeling when doing so, despite the graphics and such (as in GH Metallica, Van Halen) looking dated.

I would still be a video gamer, regardless of Guitar Hero or not. I would still play games, but maybe my tastes would have ended up different if GH wasn't made (no music games). I would probably be playing more RPG's, and I would actually have the time to play them as opposed to jamming out on GH or Rock Band every other minute, lol. Without Guitar Hero I wouldn't have gotten a ton of Rock Band DLC, either.

Also, it also introduced me to more music. Guitar Hero and Rock Band are a gateway to the hard rock music industry. There's several bands out there that I discovered through Guitar Hero/Rock Band, and both me and my brother (Ultrashot on the forums) have gotten songs by them because they sound good to us (like The Sword).
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**TheTrueSatanist** · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:37 pm Post subject:

I would probably have found rock/metal sooner or later, but most likely, later. I probably would never have found Prog, never have been inspired to play Guitar and still like synthesised, looped over pop songs
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**Cubsrule21aza** · Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 185 Location: Indianapolis, IN

i'd probably be doing some crazy ass final fantasy challenges lol
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**f4phantom2500** · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 2885

I'd be completely fucked financially. I've won several thousands of dollars from tournaments, and a lot of it kept me afloat. My first big win, $1,000 cash, was used to keep from going over the limit on my credit card. I used the money I got from selling an Alienware laptop that I won to pay off that card the next year. I also used tournament winnings to pay for at least one semester of college, thus keeping me out of (additional) student loan debt.

I also wouldn't have nearly as much nice stuff as I do. I used GH money to buy my 360, Logitech Z-5500, a few nice pairs of headphones, I won a 22" LCD monitor...more stuff but it's been awhile so I don't recall everything.

Beyond that, I think GH is probably the one thing that I have become more masterful at than anything else. As such, it helped me to see the beauty and elegance of a system. That is to say, I can analyze a system based on the central concept behind it. For example, look at a river. It's a winding stream of water that can be lazy and placid or fierce and torrential. But it all centers around the properties of water. The only reason the behavior of the water is different in a given area is because of the terrain or other environmental effects. It's just how the water behaves in a given situation. At the constituent level, GH, as with any well-orchestrated system, is composed of a single idea that takes many forms. However, every form is related. It's like a rainbow. Every color is different, yet they are all extensions of each other. This, in my view, is a universal quality of a well-orchestrated system.

I hope that last part made sense...
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