Letters to the Editor
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@ timbuktom
After nearly three years of Guitar Hero being on the retail shelves, I've heard the "why don't you just get a real guitar" argument enough times to make me want to puke blood. Guitar Hero, like all video games, is an opportunity for those of us who will never be able to do a particular thing to live out the fantasy of being able to do it.
I spent about five years (and a lot more money than I've ever spent on GH) trying to learn how to play guitar well enough to perform live. The only thing I learned is that, no matter how many hours I practiced or lessons I signed up for, I was just never going to be able to make my fingers move fast enough. I might as well have been wearing mittens. Maybe playing a "real guitar" is "vastly more fun," but saying that to me is like telling a kid with a club foot how awesome it feels to run a marathon.
We all participate in delusions that help to satisfy otherwise insatiable needs and desires. For some of us, that means getting a bunch of friends together and pretending to be rock gods in somebody's living room. For others, it means getting a bunch of friends together and pretending to talk to their invisible dad at church.
Either way, y'know, judge not.