Guitar Hero

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:53 am

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:42 am

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.

Selby · Post by **Selby** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:15 am

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:30 am

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?

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:31 am

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.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:52 am

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:56 am

Tutorials... I should check that out.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:51 pm

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:21 am

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.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:23 am

Too bad nobody can invent a game just as fun, but using a real guitar... hint hint.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:39 pm

I don't even know how to play a real guitar.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:14 pm

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:59 pm

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.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:53 pm

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.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:30 pm

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:48 pm

I played the 3rd difficulty level today... I got booed off the stage in 15 seconds, after hitting 6% of my notes.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:30 pm

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:45 pm

Haven't gotten to that song yet... will check.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:11 am

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.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:28 pm

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.