So how did YOU get into Gh/Rockband?
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I used to read a sports game blog and the guy got hooked on Guitar Hero 1 ans 2. Since I was on Xbox I couldn’t play it, but it sounded awesome and I was fascinated by the total time-suck the game placed on this blogger I liked reading. I get a respite for my jealousy when GH2 finally came out for the 360, and I stopped by a Circuit City on my way home from work on what I didn’t realized was release day for the game. I was lucky enough to snag the last guitar bundle they had, and the rest is history. Been hooked on the HMX games ever since as I transitioned totally to Rock Band when it came out and only played GH3 a couple of hours.
Oh, you know – the usual story – abducted by what I can only assume were aliens, mercilessly probed and implanted with subconscious mental controls that make it impossible for me to stop playing rhythm games. Why else would an otherwise sane middle-aged guy have a $3000 drum kit in his basement that is only used for playing Rock Band?
Hey, we were abducted by the same alien
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />This might be a long one, I go into a bit of detail here.
I was in high school, senior year. I worked as a cashier at Target in the next town and saw people buying the GH1 and GH2 bundles. I didn’t know what that was all about, nor did I really have time to look it up. One day someone brought GH2 to an Anime Club meeting, and I got to see it in action. Looked awesome, so I lined up to try. Decided to try Them Bones, a song I was really into at the time, on Medium. I figured, I can do better than the easiest difficulty in any other game I play, why not this one? I failed. Miserably. Next time I had a turn, I picked Trogdor on Easy. Nailed it. Saved some cash, used my employee discount and bought GH2 soon after.
Picked up GH3 next once I was in college. I saw Through The Fire and Flames and how balls-hard it was, and thought it’d make a good training regimen. Eventually I got into the habit of throwing TTFAF on Expert in Practice Mode (while I was still a Medium-Hard player) and playing through it in its entirety once per day. I’ve only ever passed it once, and nailed that intro once, but I learned so much more that I think that was the thing that pushed me to Expert difficulty.
Halfway through all that, I’m walking to one of my classes and I see a Rock Band trailer directly across from the KUC (bookstore/restaurant building) and the game looks like Guitar Hero but with more stuff to do. Inside the trailer are four setups, all Xbox 360, running a demo of RB1. There was also a stage facing the KUC building. Anyone could line up and play the units inside the trailer, but you had to sign up as a full band to play on stage, and only from a small selection of demo songs. I went up there twice, once as drummer and once as vocalist. There used to be a section on the RB website that showcased these videos, but not anymore. Anyway, I spent a LOT of time at that trailer during the week it was there, and found myself wanting the game. One of my roommates (I roomed with three other people in an on-campus apartment my freshman year) eventually bought the game, and I played on his version both solo and full-band. Got it for Christmas that year, and the rest is a long and continuing history involving lots of playtime, RBN, personal career choices, tons of money spent on DLC, and customs.
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