How can I miss the point by expressing my opinion? I've played most of those games, and multiplayer gaming is basically all I did for many years. The point isn't that gaming isn't fun, it's that spending all of your time immersed in gaming is missing the point. The Earth is the world that is in trouble, and plenty of things need our help and attention. The real adventure is getting out there and doing something about it. If you want to talk about gamer cred, I have it..I personally contributed to games universally held to be some of the best of all time. I was in the arcade playing pac-man when I was four years old. So, it isn't a lack of experience that I say this. Like anything gaming is great in moderation, but it shouldn't be a lifestyle as this video suggests.


>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Dammit Shiny, why do you always have to miss the point? This video is awesome, and gaming is awesome, for the reasons the song says and more. Gone are the days when gaming was 'solitary'. Gaming is a shared experience now: you're losing out if you've never played Mario, or Portal, or GTA, or Angry Birds, or Call of Duty, or Sonic, or Monkey Island, or LittleBigPlanet, or Guitar Hero, or Left4Dead, or MineCraft, or even BeJeweled, dammit. And not just because of the multiplayer games on that list that are a literal shared experience, but because these are cultural touchstones, even if you play them by yourself. Everyone knows the Mario theme, and everyone knows the cake is a lie (or is it?). There are games out there that are so good that not playing them is like never seeing a production of Hamlet, reading To Kill a Mockingbird or hearing the White Album.

Dammit Shiny, why do you always have to miss the point? This video is awesome, and gaming is awesome, for the reasons the song says and more. Gone are the days when gaming was 'solitary'. Gaming is a shared experience now: you're losing out if you've never played Mario, or Portal, or GTA, or Angry Birds, or Call of Duty, or Sonic, or Monkey Island, or LittleBigPlanet, or Guitar Hero, or Left4Dead, or MineCraft, or even BeJeweled, dammit. And not just because of the multiplayer games on that list that are a literal shared experience, but because these are cultural touchstones, even if you play them by yourself. Everyone knows the Mario theme, and everyone knows the cake is a lie (or is it?). There are games out there that are so good that not playing them is like never seeing a production of Hamlet, reading To Kill a Mockingbird or hearing the White Album.

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I thought he was playing that drum-Hero or whatever the equivalent is to guitar hero.

>> ^westy:

Why is there a "male" and "femail" catagory for something like this .
if your going to do that should have a disabled , black , chnise , jewish , 1 leg catagory as well


Because if they(women) want to be #1 in something, they need their own category for it because men are better at almost anything they put themselves in to. I'm not being chauvinistic, it's just the way things are.

oh cool, guitar hero 3, i sure do love living in 2007.

also, i agree with @westy , having a separate category for girls doesn't really help the equality issues.

she seems to be hitting allot of wrong keys and the timing and strength of key presses to me seems all over the place.

allot of the times watching people play pre existing songs on piano is pretty much the same as watching sum-one play guitar hero on a hard setting , it depends how much the change the song , I think it can be gr8 when your watching it in person but watching sum one copy existing music in a video over the internet for me often do sent work to well , unless they are doing something substantaily different with it.

>> ^bareboards2:

I was confused by all the hair, until I saw the Canada tag.
Needs fire, too.
I'm not a metal fan, but I loved this.


Oh we usually keep it short -- we're not the Dutch -- but in this vid, these boys probably haven't been back to KAF in weeks.

LOL @ "spud launcher" - Haha no, actually, thats's the M777 - That came after my time. I'm a vet of the good ol' M198.>> ^eric3579:

@MarineGunrock that spud launcher @2:08 look familiar?

This is one of the greatest things about groups of men, the incredible excitement about "accomplishing" the most trivial things.

Here's another great example, skip to about 7:10
http://videosift.com/video/6-Guys-Beat-Guitar-Heros-Hardest-Level>
> ^BoneRemake:

christ, you think they cured cancer by all the noise they where making.

GIMMICK! Gaming always has these cycles of little peripherals, control schemes, etc. that at best contribute a few fun experiences, but are always are advertised as revolutionary, incredible things that will forever change way we play games.

Some examples:
Nintendo Power Glove (NES) - worthless as a controller, for any purpose

Light Gun (NES) - Games worth playing that used the light gun: Duck Hunt

Super Scope (SNES) - the Super Nintendo version of the light gun, minus anything worthwhile to play with it

3D/"Virtual Reality" goggles, Virtual Boy (var.) - the next "big thing" is always 3D displays through glasses or head-mounted displays. Reality: the hardware has always detracted from the experience, ranging from mildly annoying at best to instant motion sickness / vomit-inducing nightmare. Good 3D software engines displayed on a flat 2D screen actually *did* revolutionize gaming in a way these likely never will.

Dance Pad/Mat control (Dance Dance Revolution, etc.) - Makes kids exercise! Watch all the fatties lose weight! Sound familiar? Reality: niche appeal, niche market, fatties stay fat

Guitar Hero guitar controllers - Kids learn to appreciate music! They can develop musical talent! Reality: learn to play a faster-paced, vaguely guitar shaped version of Simon!


I don't mean to suggest that some of these things aren't fun. However, I think this sort of thing is guaranteed to have at best a pretty quick flash-in-the-pan sort of popularity. The best ones are instances where the peripheral is designed to work and work well with one given game or type of game, and the cost of that niche input method is just added in to the price of the game it was designed for.

To me, Nintendo was insane to base the entire market viability of the Wii around motion control. Competitors will develop their own solutions (Kinect, for example) and steal away some of the surge of motion control novelty attraction. Once the novelty wears off people will realize that the controllers, keyboard and mouse, joysticks etc. that have been used as input methods for 30+ years have been around that long because they aren't gimmicks, they actually *(&%ing work.

/rant over
//get off my lawn

Theremin > all other instruments. Even guitar hero.

YES!!!! AIR GUITAR HERO!

Ladies, this is what you should do when your boyfriends tell you you suck at Guitar Hero.

They should make a bill and ted guitar hero

The eyelids are waaaaaaay fake in their movements too.

I remember this guy from the guitar hero video of YYZ. The guy that just got done doing sweet tricks on his motorcycle... http://videosift.com/video/Guitar-Hero-2-Rush-YYZ-on-Expert