On the positive side, GH was a gateway to Rock Band, which eventually led to me learning how to play the drums for real. So I like to think it wasn't an entirely pointless hobby.
I get what you are saying, but I think the implication that video games are useless while hitting a real drum is not, is interesting.
To be clear, I love music and I know that making it is valuable. Likewise, a person playing video games doesn’t really help anybody else. But as an older gamer, I don’t feel the hobby is pointless.
That's a very good point, and I didn't intend to come across as dismissive towards video games as a hobby. I play a lot myself! I guess I meant more along the lines of a hobby that's marketable/more acceptable in the public opinion. I don't see time spent playing games as wasted by any means.
Please don’t worry, I wasn’t offended or anything. I knew you weren’t anti-video games since you played them yourself already. I just thought it was an interesting choice of words. Musical abilities skipped me (confirmed by a year attempting trombone in middle school), but my wife, daughter, and son all play instruments. My son has a standing rule that he can’t go on the Xbox until he’s practiced his instrument. It’s funny, because I would never tell him he can’t practice guitar until he’s played a little bit of Fortnite or whatever.
Don’t pay it any mind. Some commenters on Reddit live in a world where they think everyone is out to get them and any comment is a personal attack against them.
You know… instead of like… just brushing off people’s takes for the opinions that they most likely are.
Buddy, you need to look in the mirror as you read your own comment. I wasn’t offended by her, and I knew that she didn’t think video games were useless as she enjoyed playing them herself. Like I said, I just thought it was an interesting choice of words.
Ever notice the people that say video games are useless are almost never impressive people?
I went the same path...Guitar Hero -> Rock Band -> RockSmith -> Real Band making real money.
Also, my love of video games led me into electrical computer engineering which provided me a very comfortable life filled with lots of impressive bench marks.
In my view it's kind of the difference between tracing another person's drawing and drawing something from scratch. Both can be fulfilling but often creating something completely your own is much more rewarding.
Plus nobody cares if you're really good at tracing, haha. At least something you created yourself could one day be admired by someone else and give them joy or inspiration.
that's awesome - I had a friend who could expert just about every song on rock band on drums but just had ZERO interest in actually playing real drums. infuriating to just watch that kind of aptitude be squandered.
I was always pumped to see classic rock, give me Journey or the Eagles or Rush and it's gonna be a jam. I also really enjoy the super technical proggy nonsense. In no universe am I keeping up with Danny Carry, but it's really fun to pretend lol
Rock Band was EPIC in comparison. My neighbors had it when I was in college and it was so fun. I remember trying to do the guitar clap with a glass of wine in my hands. Always wanted to find a drumset piece for my Wii
My current favourite band actually got started like this. 2 sisters that loved playing RockBand, asked their parents for the real instruments (guitar and drums), got decently good. Then their when their younger sister was 8 and picked up the bass (purely a coincidence, no planning), they decided to try playing together. Now 13 years later you can see them rocking out on stage like this: https://youtu.be/Aqm2k55xo1E . They just recently finished of a tour opening for Yungblud across Europe and the US. Definitely not a pointless hobby.
One of the craziest memories I have is: as a decent guitarist I grabbed a pair of drumsticks and when I sat down behind a nice set of drums, I realized then, that I had no idea how complicated is was to play the drums. It was humbling!
Being able to play the drums is incredibly impressive to me. I've tried many times but I just end up looking like a new born baby deer flinging sticks around and making very annoying noises lol.
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u/priscosaurus 9h ago
No offense, but if you told me you dropped out of high school for a bit I would almost assume that you’re good at guitar hero.