The Curmudgeon now has Guitar Hero.

[The Curmudgeon]

Sorry, let me make that a little bit more accurate; MRS Curmudgeon now has Guitar Hero. She played it for the first time in a bar in Gran Canaria and loved it, and as soon as we got home her mission was to get it.

So now we have it, and I've yet to try it myself, but it just looks as hideous as I imagined it to be. Standing there holding that ridiculous plastic guitar hammering buttons in time with the flashing colours on screen.. that's not a game, that's a fucking punishment.

She's still on the beginner stages, but I can say I will die happy never hearing "Living on a Prayer" or "About a Girl (Unplugged)" ever again. Yeah yeah, I know I'm in the absolute minority and Guitar Hero is the biggest gaming phenomenon since Pong, but fuck me it looks like hard work.

Anyway, point of thread; Guitar Hero veterans - what games should she look out for? What are the best songs to play? Any tips, because if I hear Bon Jovi's "Wooga wooga wooga wooga" intro one more time I may well murder my wife. Save her!

[trashcanman]

Guitar Hero 3 had a pretty awesome and varied tracklist (I'm partial to jamming on Sonic Youth's "Kool Thing") and should be very cheap to buy. I so would not want to play acoustic Nirvana on Guitar Hero. Bleh. I've kicked my music game habit for now (though I plan on reviving it when my son is old enough to join in) because there are just too damn many of them coming out all the time. I've found that oversaturation is my gaming kryptonite. Every kind of game that comes out with a game a year or more eventually gets dumped by me and i lose interest. Guitar Hero and Rock Band are the very worst offenders. Honestly, though, it's still fun as hell and I can't imagine a music fan not having a great time once they get used to the controls.