i'm playing on medium right now in career mode - for me it gets a little easy, but once i go to hard... that orange messes me up man... its fun tho. i cant wait to beat all the songs on medium!

I have 5 stars on all of medium, 9 songs perfect scores :)

I have all of hard beat with 4 to 5 stars, except for the final battle. I cannot win that final battle.

I have half of expert done, but I haven't played all week, so that's where I stopped playing.

my roommate got this when it came out. I have played for the past couple of days (this is my first time playing a guitar hero game). I must say it's real fun, but it's kind of difficult to transition from real guitar to this. I have been getting 4's on all the Medium setting stages, I hope that's not too bad for a beginner.

That's about what I managed when I started. Apparently it's easier for those of us who come to it as actual guitarists, but don't expect playing this thing to be like playing a real guitar. In a lot of cases, the GH versions of songs on expert are harder to play than the song on an actual guitar.

Just picked up GHIII for myself today on PS2. I didn't bother with the controller since I already have my GHII controller and I don't really see the point of the wireless. The cord on my wired controller is plenty long enough for me to sit on the couch and play and I don't have a burning desire to rock out from the kitchen.

I've been playing on hard and have yet to fail anything other than the boss battles. Morello took me two tries to get past, Slash took three. It seems like the difficulty level on this game has been ramped down quite dramatically over the first two, which I find a bit disappointing. Still, the songs are really cool; it seems like there's a big emphasis on classic rock this time around, which I love because that's the stuff I grew up listening to (Sunshine of Your Love? Paint It Black? I'm there!)

Welp, two levels left. Back to it.

interesting because i'd say the difficulty on this actually went up over the last 2.

Really? I find it a lot less intuitive and kind of awkward. I do have a lot more finger dexterity than my roommates but it just feels weird to me.

my thoughts exactly.

Why oh why is the last battle with Lou so stupidly hard? I mean, getting through the song without him fucking around would be a challenge. Having to do it with his stupid attacks and collecting your own attacks to attack him make it downright maddening.

WORST FEATURE EVER.

It's too bad, too, because it's kind of a cool cover of the song. Rather be able to play it at my leisure instead of jerking myself off trying to break his whammy bar or whatever.

I guess, fortunately, I have expert to do now. Yay expert.

Oh, that is awesome!

Hopefully I can start playing this game this weekend.

Seconded. That cover of Devil Went Down to Georgia is just bad-ass. And while it's kind of cool to act out the song in a duel with the devil thing, it's also stupidly hard and kind of unnecessary. Lou was the first and only part of hard difficulty that gave me a hard time; I beat Slash on my third attempt, and then lost count of how many tries it took to take Lou down. Too many.

Just started playing this game this morning. I'm done about 12-15 songs on hard and finished the first guitar battle.

As a quick side note, since when were "the killers" legends of rock? Jeez. They couldn't come up with a better group to add in?!

I liked the tune i played in the guitar battle, but i'm still not really a fan of the whole "let's screw up our opponent" mentality.

So, I happened to buy this game on Sunday. Already through half of the songs on expert. I'm not concerned with five-starring any of them at this point. Just trying to to unlock everything. Personally, I don't like the music set as much as GH2 or even GH. And it doesn't seem to be as hard as GH1, either (Of course, neither was GH2). Hopefully that'll change.

I felt like GH1 was the easiest by far. I 4/5 starred everything until the last set on that one and am definitely not getting those results on expert on GH2 or GH3. I'm on set 7 on expert and it's just brutalizing me at the moment.

Oh well, guess back to practicing!

i've been playing for about 20 years, i'm not trying to say i'm great but i know how to make chords and solo and stuff. i picked up a guitar hero thing figuring, okay, if i actually play that gives me an advantage, right? i fiddled with it for about thirty seconds and then the seventh grade girl who'd come out at random to be my opponent told me, "you're dumb!" never picked it up after that.

it's not like guitar. it's like extremely elaborate air guitar. it looks like fun, though, but the gameplay is essentially very simple -- lights come down these little wires that are supposed to be like the music, but the programming on that is not very intuitive, and you hit the same color button when the right color light comes on. it's sorta like that game where you step on the colored lights (you know the one! that one that makes everyone a spastic stomping cokehead) but with your fingers instead of your feet. and you get to hold a plastic guitar and look cool. and frankly, air guitar is a helluva lot better and more fun than actually playing a real guitar in a rock band -- because they're LOUD and the least fuckup gets projected across the bar, where every inebriated co-ed hears you fuck up rancidly. turns out they dont care cuz theyre drunk and tone-deaf but still, it's wounding to one's pride.

der, DDR is the foot-stomping thing. it's only in the post i quoted.:shakehead:

Gotta love Guitar Hero 3. If anyone wants to play sometime and you're on xbox live, look me up, my gamertag is DJ Wunder.

72% done with Expert difficulty, but think I'm gonna get through Hard first just so I have the stats on guitarhero.com.

How's everyone else doing with this game?

I'm on the final tier of both Hard and Expert. I can't beat One or Raining Blood on either difficulty. These songs on Hard rival any other song on expert. One is just annoying because it takes so dang long to get to the hard part. At least raining blood fails me early :)

lol, ya... those songs are good like that. It's ridiculous how hard they made guitar hero 3 compared to the previous games.

I failed One on hard (not there on expert yet, stupid Slipknot and Queens of the Stone Age songs are too horrible for words) at over 90% at least 5 times before i beat it. Same thing with "Bark at the Moon" on GH1. I failed Bark at 99% with the last note ON the screen at least three times. It was too painful for words.

Raining Blood gets QUITE a bit more manageable once you get through around the 30% mark, since the riffs get easy enough to reliably collect star power and blow through the hard parts. Keep at it!

Guitar hero, easily one of the most fun games Ive owned in decades. Im not sure why I like it, but when your playing on expert or hard...Ifeel like a rock star :)

I was this way the first time I played Miserlou on GH2. I kept telling everyone "b-but, I can play this song for real! On a REAL guitar!" And I did too, but they didn't really care. =(

Am I the only one who thinks that Guitar Hero 3 sucks?

The interface lags, but not consistently enough that it can be calibrated for (the calibration screen doesn't lag at all.) Random strums are thrown into streaks of what should be hammer ons and pull offs. The hard songs on expert are a bunch of wankery rather than an attempt to mirror the real guitar parts like they were on the first two. Overall, playing the game seems like an ordeal rather than fun, and for the most part it's a bunch of getting through stuff to get to songs we like. I'm glad one of my friends bought it and let a bunch of us play it at school so we didn't have to make the mistake for ourselves.

I hope Rock Band is as good as it looks so we have a new party game.

I've heard that it's the wireless controller that is causing problems, not the game itself. I'm almost done hard and haven't had any problems with my GH1 guitar.

This is the thing that pisses me off about gh3. i'll be playing a song and all of a sudden miss a note thinking "what the fuck? why would i need to strum there?"

Parts of it I really love and parts of it I really hate. I haven't had lag problems on any tv I've played it on. When we calibrated it for lag on an HD tv, I could play fine, when I turned it off to play at my house CRT TV, I could play fine, too. My friend that I play with, however, was having serious issues playing it on his HD but can play it fine on my television. The boss battles are horrible and some of the later songs are absolutely retarded. I'm in set seven and really want to get to the songs in set eight on expert but cannot bring myself to practice the retarded Queens of the Stone Age and Slipknot songs (which are both retardedly hard and not fun to play) enough to get through them to get through set eight.

I would cheat my way through that set in a second to get to set eight, because I WANT to practice those songs and learn to play them and beat them legitimately. Doubt I'll ever beat Lou on hard or expert, because it's just not worth the time.

I'm nearly done Expert myself. Oddly enough, I passed 3's & 7's and Before I Forget (the QotSA and Slipknot songs, respectively) on my first attempts, but failed Stricken a couple of times and Knights of Cydonia I don't even know how many. I do agree that Before I Forget is a bit lame, though. I'm actually surprised at myself that I didn't have to repeat it.

Another question: does it seem to anyone else like the boss battles were more of a "hey, we have these guys on board, what can we do with them?" rather than a planned-out process with product testing leading to the inclusion of the feature?

i beat the game in medium. i thought i'd get much more songs that way. oh well. next step, beating the game on hard! but alone this time. not coop!