Guitar Hero announced today that it is going to stop making Guitar Hero.
Apparently, everybody who already wanted it or its competitor, Rock Band, already has it and there is no market left.
The video game in which you hold a toy plastic electric guitar is a testimony to just how mediocre things have become.
You would think that the game would teach you how to play guitar. It doesn't.
While a familiar song is playing, color icons come racing by you on the screen and you have to push the corresponding colored buttons on the guitar. That's it. The faster you are, the more points you get.
It does not teach you how to play a guitar, form chords, play notes or anything musical.
Which is why I have been saying it is ridiculous for the last 5 years.
Having played guitar for almost 50 years, it's almost like comparing driving to riding a tricycle.
Even when The Beatles version came out with stunning graphics, all I could do is question how much closer anybody was to learning how to play one of their songs when they finished.
I had to do it the hard way. I had to pick up a guitar and try different chords until they matched the song.
Of course, that involved putting in some effort. That's apparently asking too much these days.
