JJB’s Ramblings

Did you know that video games really help break a person down to expose their true moral fiber?  It’s true.

It’s no secret that I wanted Guitar Hero II.  In fact, it’s no secret that I occasionally digressed to the attitude of a spoiled 8 year old.  ANYWAY.  I finally got Guitar Hero II a few weeks back.  I told E that having it would help us spend more time together as we would come home from work and just play the game, eat dinner, play some more, etc etc etc.  What I didn’t count on was E’s natural talent to kick ass in the game.  While I was more concerned with playing the songs that I knew and liked and getting better at them, eRock  (which, I suppose, is more fitting now than ever) put the wa-wa pedal down to the metal (oh puns, how I love thee) and cruised through the Easy Career mode in a short time.  Oh, then she ploughed through the entire medium career mode unlocking the penultimate encore song Freebird.  She sailed through that and went back to bettering her scores in the medium mode before stepping up to Hard.  All the while I had skipped the easy mode and just started playing through all the songs in medium that I liked (and that she had already unlocked) and noticed that my best scores were still leagues below hers.  Well until this past Friday night. 

After a few warm-up sessions I launched into Guns ‘n Roses Sweet Child of Mine (a personal fave) and after playing what I thought was a stellar game, noticed that her score was still better than mine.  I would not stand for that, so in 3 more tries I finally beat her by about 15,000 points.  I was so psyched that I actually called her to tell her that I beat her.  That was it.  No other reason except to gloat.  She took it all in stride, asking if I really called her just to tell her that.  I said yes. She laughed and we hung up.  Little did I know that my reign was to be short lived. 

The following night we had some friends over for dinner and a little guitar hero action.  I was in the kitchen slaving over a hot stove while E talked her friends through the finer points of the game, occasionally playing a song or two herself.  Then I heard the opening notes of Sweet Child of Mine.  Wow, she made it through the opening pretty well…covered the first two verses like Slash …big middle solo sounds pretty darn good…  wow, she cleared that ending with ease….  That’s when I hear (from her friends) OHHHHH!  I knew that my reign was over… she beat me.  She beat me real good.  It must have been a damn near perfect play.  I am gonna start getting up in the middle of the night to practice I think… that’s when rock stars usually thrive.

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