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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:53 am
by Malcolm
GH3 is alright. It don't seem massively different than GH2. Over at my buddies. I can do damn near any song on medium w\o too much trouble (simply cos it's only four buttons). Hard brings in the fifth, which is where shit doth get interesting.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:42 am
by TheCatt
Malcolm wrote:GH3 is alright. It don't seem massively different than GH2. Over at my buddies. I can do damn near any song on medium w\o too much trouble (simply cos it's only four buttons). Hard brings in the fifth, which is where shit doth get interesting.
I've never played GH or GH2, so this is the first GH I've ever played. So while it's more of the same to you, it's something I'd never played before.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:15 am
by Selby
Malcolm wrote:GH3 is alright. It don't seem massively different than GH2.
Wait until you get to expert. For some reason they decided to make the game even harder and more impossible than GH2 at that difficulty level as the songs go up in level.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:30 am
by TheCatt
I heard that, too. Which will be said, cuz I'll never make expert.
So... I can buy things at the store, but it looks like they are just for decoration? They don't actually improve my character's performance?
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:31 am
by TheCatt
So when yall play, do your strum up and down like a real guitar? I just strum down with my thumb, was wondering if that would get me in trouble later in the game.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:52 am
by Cakedaddy
It will hurt in expert mode, but the lower levels are more forgiving. Also, there is a practice/tutorial thing that teaches you special moves like:
Strum and hold, then move your fingers between the colored buttons. Makes it easier to do a fast string of notes.
I don't do the advanced moves either cause I'm not that good. But my kid plays most songs on expert and I've seen him do the tutorials.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:56 am
by TheCatt
Tutorials... I should check that out.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:51 pm
by Malcolm
Yeah, there's some that are (as my buddy referred to them) hammer-down notes. You can just hit more keys w\o actually strumming.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:21 am
by TheCatt
I decided to play left-handed, cuz my left-hand can't do the notes as well.
It took me a few songs to get used to it, but I'm consistently over 90% on the easy, and just hit an 89% on medium.
The guitar is not really made for ambidextrous use, but it works out OK.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:23 am
by GORDON
Too bad nobody can invent a game just as fun, but using a real guitar... hint hint.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:39 pm
by TheCatt
I don't even know how to play a real guitar.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:14 pm
by GORDON
Exactly my point. A game using a real guitar would teach peeps to use a real guitar instead of a game controller shaped like a guitar.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:59 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:Exactly my point. A game using a real guitar would teach peeps to use a real guitar instead of a game controller shaped like a guitar.
Real guitars are hard.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:53 pm
by GORDON
Which is why I felt it important to state "...just as fun" like a million posts ago because yes, real guitars are hard, which is why the fun factor has to be there or peeps would quit in frustration.
But then they'd be learning something real instead of... well, it's already been said.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:30 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:GORDON wrote:Exactly my point. A game using a real guitar would teach peeps to use a real guitar instead of a game controller shaped like a guitar.
Real guitars are hard.
There's songs that braindead mongoloids can play on guitar that seem nigh impossible in GH expert mode.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:48 pm
by TheCatt
I played the 3rd difficulty level today... I got booed off the stage in 15 seconds, after hitting 6% of my notes.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:30 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:I played the 3rd difficulty level today... I got booed off the stage in 15 seconds, after hitting 6% of my notes.
The barometre we found was if you can't do "Knights of Cydonia" respectably on medium, then don't try hard.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:45 pm
by TheCatt
Haven't gotten to that song yet... will check.
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:11 am
by TheCatt
Malcolm wrote:TheCatt wrote:I played the 3rd difficulty level today... I got booed off the stage in 15 seconds, after hitting 6% of my notes.
The barometre we found was if you can't do "Knights of Cydonia" respectably on medium, then don't try hard.
Fuck me.
Got booed off at 62% of the song.
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:28 pm
by Malcolm
I choked the first time I did that one myself. But, seriously though, once you can reliably hit 85-90% on that one, you're as ready as you ever gonna be for the difficulty levels beyond. "Slow Ride" is a decent song to start out w\ trying to incorporate the fifth button.