Rusty

It really has been since November that I  have played Rock Band Beatles and/or blogged about it. In honor of Maundy Thursday (mostly becuase it meant today Good Friday is a day off work) I went at it again. I refuse to lower the difficulty to anything less than  Hard. So, I am only racking up three stars for my attempts. However, last night, I completed the Abbey Road album and unlocked a challenge.I think real life should really think about how this challenge thing works in games. I find it curious that kids -- many of whom do play games with challenges to unlock -- might take a lesson from this notion. You must reach a level of proficiency before moving oni. Although it is external motivation.  Hmmm. Maybe that is the problem. I do admit that I look at the stats regarding my progress in the photograph accumulating fraction and am a little dismayed.

Because I was also consuming a beverage in a tall glass whist "playing" (sometimes I really do trip out on the fact that this is a plastic guitar) I think I wasn't necessarily helping my progress. However, I did use the opportunity between songs to quaff a bit and look at the graphics on the screen. Our recent upgrade to a flatscreen HD if not huge TV has enhanced the view a bit although we now have adapted to that enhancement I think. For the Beatles fan, there really is quite a bit to see in the game. I was a sort of casual fan -- had favorite songs and would skip over ones I didn't really like (most of Ringo's I must say). But the graphics of the Beatles themselves are really quite good, and the picture montages and the like that come up in the middle of the songs are fun to watch. Especially if you are having a little drink, as I said. 

The solos and riffs on Hard are not quite that one to one correspondence to movement in the right and left hands, but sometimes it is close on one level. So once again, I was impressed with the complexity of their music. It would be interesting to hook the TV up to a better sound system (this one on the new TV is better than on our old set) but I need to save that for a time when I am on my own I think. My playing was tolerated by the other three mammals in the house (2 cats + human) probably only because it was limited.