Rock band and Guitar Hero suck?

[alekth]

highwaystar101 said:
I don't get people who spend £100 and master tapping buttons on a crap chunk of plastic when they could spend £50 and master the real thing and have much more fun and a genuine skill.

I guess just because it's much easier, which automatically makes it more entertaining for impulsive and casual fun, especially with friends. It's also as far as music goes way faster gratification.

I played classical guitar for a few years, like any other activity you master it's great once you have a nice piece of music down, but unless you're strumming chords it takes a long time especially time before you start working on anything that sounds great. People quit before they can read notes. Plus your fingers hurt quite badly the first few weeks :)

And the only way you can really enjoy that with friends on the same level is to be in a band.

To me Guitar Hero/Rock Band have very little in common with actually playing an instrument. Biggest merit of the likes is that they make people listen to music, and maybe inspire a few to pick an instrument to play. And have fun of course.