I am a Guitar Hero and I Just Dance

Please try to abstain from making fun of me, I can think of nothing else to blog about. So here I go. I love both games. They are excellent for parties. Guitar Hero involves pressing buttons on a guitar shaped controller in time with the notes that are going past on the TV screen. It involves using a lot of hand-eye coordination, which is good for some and bad for others. The best part about the game, though, is that you get to play to some of the best songs, some more difficult than others. As technology enhanced and Guitar Hero got some competition from Rock Band, other instruments were added. This was a good addition involving partner play, but the songs are lacking now. Not lacking in overall quality, but in the difficulty of the guitar part. It is, after all, still called Guitar Hero, but I feel that the guitar part has been left in the dust. Also when/ is there going to be a Guitar Hero 6? I never know. Guitar Hero 5 was unheard of by me until I looked it up to see if it existed last Christmas. No one else knew it existed. Will the Guitar Hero legacy finally end? Do I care? I don't know.

Moving on to Just Dance. My friend first introduced me to this amazing game last summer. It was crazy fun. It was a revolution. And best of all, it included my favorite song at the time: Acceptable in the 80's. The gameplay is simple: hold your Wii remote in the standard position and follow the dance moves on the screen. Only it's not that simple. Besides the fact that the dance moves are shown beforehand by an awkwardly posed stick figure with a mess of arrows, the game is very picky when it comes to where your remote is and when. Not only do you have to hold it at the exact correct angle to begin with, but you are expected to keep it at that angle while doing difficult dance moves. Despite these grievences I still love the game, and the gameplay and song list has gotten better from the first to the second song. Here is the preview for Just Dance 2:



*Update. As it turns out there is a Guitar Hero 6. Who knew? Well now I do. And looking at the song list is making me angry. If the majority of the songs weren't so terrible, I might be able to overlook their use of an Interpol song. But the majority of the songs are terrible. So I am angry. Guitar Hero has gotten progressively worse and I get very protective of bands like Interpol when it comes to being used in movies, or games. Grrr. Here's the song list: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock song list