Thursday, May 04, 2006

Quitting My Day Job

I’m totally quitting my day job. Because I KNOW now that I have a future as a ROCK STAR.

I know this because we bought Lucas Guitar Hero for his birthday last week and I am quite good at it. I rule, as a matter of fact. So naturally, it follows that I’m going to be making it big Real Soon Now.

OK, technically, I can’t do anything beyond the “medium” skill level and even then I know that I’ll never be able to play “Bark at the Moon” if my life depended on it. But Lucas is a freaking DEMON at the game. The boy’s fingers FLY over those buttons. I’ve already signed him to a long term management contract with Ransom-Note-Typography Management and Bloodsucking Services. (We only take 78%!) Boy’s got a real future, I’m telling ya.

Seriously, if you are going to have a party that involves a) 12 year old boys, b) drunken adults, c) totally immature adults (that’d be me in that category), it’s the BEST GAME ever. Loads of fun. Even Reha (!!) likes playing it. And last game that she really ever played and liked was Ms. PacMan, so that’s saying something. And yes, she’s better at it that I am. All those years playing and faking practicing the violin totally pay off when you have to play “I Wanna Be Sedated” on a fake plastic guitar.

The only problem is that it doesn’t have an online component. If ever there was a game that cried out for download-able content, it’s Guitar Hero. Seriously, Microsoft should shovel loads of money at Red Octane for an xbox port and put that thing on Xbox Live. Or just buy them out right. That’s how much fun the game is. And a game like this should show Sony that if they don’t do something decent with online “stuff” with the PS3, it’s doomed.

Yes, we’ll be pre-ordering Guitar Hero II when it comes out in November of this year. We are sheep now.

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