Guitar Hero
 

Hey Guys,

Has anyone besides me come across this gem from the creators of Frequency and Amplitude? Being a guitarist myself im surprised at how this game flew under my radar. Anyways, the game comes with a guitar controller (runs about $70 for game and controller) and is easily one of the most fun times ive had with my PS2.

If you like guitars, or rock music in general, I highly recommend this game. Its a blast and the song list is incredible.

Oh man, I heard about this on the radio.

It sounds pretty good, but are the simulated guitar "controls" anything like playing a real guitar, or is it like DDR is to really dancing?

I heard about it on TV the day before it came out. Considering it came from the makers of Amplitude/Frequency and the controller is made by RedOctane. I'd like to try it out, but I'm not ready to pony up $70 as of yet...

(sidenote: I almost typed "RedCoctane". Eww.)

it will probably be one of the few games that go up in price with time.

Even if that wasn't true (and it will be), it's totally worth $70. I've been playing it non-stop for two weeks now. Excellent song list- I know they couldn't possibly fit every legendary band in there, but there's a damn fine sampling. The extra tracks aren't too bad either- "Caveman Rejoice" especially kicks some ass.

Coworker brought it in with 2 controllers and we jammed to it. Pretty fun. And like RedComet said, excellent song list. We were rocking out pretty good to it. I especially like the way you activate the star power by rotating your guitar so that it's vertical.

I dont play the guitar.. and im not particularly a rock music fan.. but when one of my roommates got this for our room, I dont think the PS2 turned off for about a week straight!

We've been trying to get through all the songs on the difficulties.. but the expert is hard.. and we cant get Bark at the Moon on Hard.. :D fun fun fun tho!

:p goddamn you in the states!... :( there isn't a hope in hell that we'll get this in new zealand.. when'd it come out? I'm a guitarist and it sounds like a fucking awesome game!

I got a chance to play Guitar Hero at a party last weekend, and everyone loved it. It was pretty hard for the people who had never picked up a guitar, but they were still fighting for their turn.

Hopefully this game will make alot of money and encourage other developers to create more innovative games like this. The price is a little steep because of the controller, but it seriously made me feel like I was actually playing the song.

My real guitar hasn't made me feel like that yet.

I bought this game as soon as I could find it. (For awhile it was sold out everywhere, even the Red Octane website was backlogged and not taking any new orders.) I love it. I'm currently on the 5 tier expert. Most songs are great but some seem wierdly out of place (Sum 41 comes to mind).

I've now played this a couple times at a buddy's house. He and I are both guitarists (he's WAY better than me--we play jazz with him on guitar and me on piano), so it was fun to rock out in head-to-head.

I'll say this: at higher levels, the game REALLY captures the feeling of playing guitar. SRV's "Texas Flood" on Hard was a serious challenge (with about half an hour of playtime under my belt), but when you nailed a pattern, it felt a lot like playing it on an actual guitar.

One thing I noticed while sitting out a tune--the drummer who plays behind you has his animation synced with the actual drums in the song. It's a very nice touch.

I just got done with a hardcore session of guitar hero... I've gone through all of the songs on hard (not the unlockable bonus songs though), and I must say, it is HARD. Bark at the Moon nearly made me throw the guitar across the room. Crossroads drove me nuts for a few hours, but it also forced me to get better at the game and now I don't have much of a problem with it.

I play guitar, so a lot of the finger positioning came natural to me, but it still gets really hard on the later songs on the hard difficulty, lots of complicated guitar solos and hammer-on/pull-offs to do. Sometimes it feels like playing a real guitar is a lot easier because you already know what to play, rather than having to follow scrolling notes on a screen. It's an awesome party game though, we spent hours today passing the guitar between five or six different people taking turns playing different songs... It's even fun to watch other people play because it's really funny when they screw up notes, especially the sustained notes.

My pinky hurts really bad right now from playing, though. :(

Bought this on Friday and took it over to a friends house where we played for many hours. After the new years party, we came back to his house around 1 and didn't stop till 6am, which is weird for an old fogey like me.

Know how, if you screw up, the "rock meter" goes down and the crowd starts booing? One of the guys I was playing with was going through "More Than a Feeling" (a crowd favorite with us) and screwed up a really good part. Man, we turned on him so hard and fast it shook him and he couldn't finish the song.

Respect the song dude! :)

I guess what I'm trying to say is I really love this game.

I finally got the game with two guitar today, I ordered from redoctane.com 15 days ago!! I can't play the game yet, gotta study for the make up exam tomorrow morning. Dame you MTA strike!! Damn you to hell!!

was gonna start a thread about this great game, but i see one's already here... it just needs some lovin'. :)

anyway, i've been playing GH since february, and it rocks! me and another guy at work have managed to get another 4 or 5 folks hooked on the game, so now there's all kinds of GH talk going on at the office. comparing scores, favorite songs, etc.

btw, if you haven't seen it yet, there's a cool scorekeeping site here:

ScoreHero

if you don't have folks to compete against regularly, or just need a reason to play Ziggy Stardust for the 11 millionth time, check out that site. you can enter your scores and see how they compare against the other folks registered on that site. i'm progfanxyz there.

looking forward to GHII in november!!! :thumbsup:

Oh man we played this AND Donkey Konga in my Music Psych class (the best class of all time, btw) and they were both freaking awesome. I know Donkey Konga sounds a bit odd, but if you like GH, you definitely need to give it a shot. It is so much freakin fun.

Word to that. It's even more suited to drunkeness. Bongo drums rock!

I have been playing the game for the last few days. I have done one song so far on expert, but I have finished easy and normal. I thought bark at the moon and crossroads was hard on normal I can only imagine hard.

After reading so much from Wil Wheaton writing about this game, I'm very tempted to buy the console, guitar, and game.

sapiens, that's exactly what i did. played it at a friend's house and within a week i owned a used PS2 and a brand new GH bundle (game + guitar).

I had never done anything guitar related, but I played this with a friend and really enjoyed myself. I picked an Incubus song, so it wasn't hard. :)

At the beginning of last semester, I had the choice of spending $80 on Guitar Hero, or the textbook for one of my politics classes. I am confident that I made the right choice, especially after hooking it in the auditorium and playing on the big sound system and 20' screen.

I even skipped a few exam reviews to play this game.

This game is like digtal crack. I haven't played in a while, cause I'm waitin for my fingers to stop feeling like they are bleeding. :)

I'm hooked on this game right now. It inspired me to buy a real guitar too, so now my fingers really hurt.

there's an open source computer based guitar hero game that's pretty cool here: http://frets.freenerd.org/

I just got this game yesterday. And I have to say that I love it. My hands are really sore from playing it too much. The main thing is that my hands are tiny, and as such, any notes I play with the pinky are a pain in the ass.

It also doesn't help that i'm not very good. I know that I can beat all the normal songs. But once I hit hard, I know it's going to take a while.

I love this game. its even better if you play a real guitar. the only thing i don't like about this game is that there is no way to get updates for new songs. If this was a pc game and the guitar was a usb controller, it would be just that much better

for everyone interested, guitar hero 2 is comming out soon. includes new songs and better graphics.
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpage...=guitar%20hero

For those of us who can understand Japanese, you can also purchase the Guitar Freaks games. Unfortunately, they are imports.

The Guitar Freaks games are not compatible with the Guitar Hero controller and vice versa. :mad:

You can still play guitar freaks with the guitar hero controller

What you do is go to options, change the controller layout to "type c"

After that, to strum the red key, you hold down the red button. To hit the green key, you hit the blue button, an to hit the blue key, you hit the orange button. There's an annoying 1 key gap, but the game is still very playable.

guitar hero is always in the ps2 at my buddies place.
i'm fairly good, my other friends are freakin bad ass. they pretty much have 5 stars for almost all the songs.

This game is great!

It makes parties more fun, especially if you have 2 guitars.

Guitar Hero II

Full set list per joystiq including bonus tracks

The Las Vegas - Raw Dog
Drist - Arterial Black
Anarchy Club - Collide
That Handsome Devil - Elephant Bones
Valient Thorr - Fall of Pangea
VAGIANT - FTK
Brian Kahanek - Gemini
Bang Camaro - Push Push (Lady Lightning)
The Acrobrats - Laughtrack
Freezepop - Less Talk More Rokk
Buckethead - Jordan
The Amazing Royal Crowns - Mr. Fix-It
Every Time I Die - The New Black
Artillery - One For the Road
The Neighborhoods - Parasite
Count Zero - Radium Eyes
MEGASUS - Red Lottery
All That Remains - Six
Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives - Soy Bomb
Shadows Fall - The Light That Blinds
DETHKLOK - Thunder Horse
Strong Bad - Trogdor
Voivod - X-Stream
Made in Mexico - Yes We Can

1. Opening Licks
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Danzig - Mother
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Wolfmother - Woman
Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

2. Amp-Warmers
Kiss - Strutter
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
Police - Message in a Bottle
Van Halen - You Really Got Me
Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son

3. String-Snappers
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
Black Sabbath - War Pigs

4. Thrash and Burn
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night
Mathew Sweet - Girlfriend
Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

5. Return of the Shred
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of
Primus - John the Fisherman
Sword - Freya
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
Aerosmith - Last Child

6. Relentless Riffs
Heart - Crazy on You
Stone Temple Pilots - Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
Allman Brothers - Jessica
Jane's Addiction - Stop

7. Furious Fretwork
Anthrax - Madhouse
Living End - Carry Me Home
Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout
Rush - YYZ

8. Face-Melters
Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Dick Dale - Misirlou
Megadeth - Hangar 18
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

Must.....have....!!!!!

Got my copy of Guitar Hero II today... already having a blast!

A friend just sent me this link (he found it on slashdot) and I thought the folks reading this thread might be interested:

http://tinyurl.com/ymd6v7

There's more in the article, but there's a taste...

I'm curious as to how good the musicians are when they play guitar hero. my friends, who play drums, were able to start at a very high level when playing drum mania.

As for me, i'll try to head out and get a copy of it this weekend. Since there are a couple games i want, I figure it's worth the trip.

love this game, i'm a freaking electronic music nut, not really a fan of rock, but theres just something to this game thats like "holy damn, i'm a freakin rockstar" :)

So how's everyone doing on GH2? I'm done 30/40 songs on hard.

I've noticed that most of the songs are considerabley longer than the ones in GH1.

And I get the feeling that the tough songs on expert will be an extreme pain in the ass to conquer (if i can do them at all).

i can beat 39/40 songs on expert.
hanger 18 is pretty tough.


*and i dont even have a playstation/GH


=)

hell yes.. I have Guitar Hero I & II... I love these games.. I even bought the bundle with Guitar Hero II so I'd have 2 guitar controllers. Now anytime anynoe ever comes over I try to coerce them into playing. Some people I've gotten pretty hooked on it.

Then again, most everyone knows I'm a regular music game fanatic at my house. Beatmania, too many damn versions of DDR, Frequency, Amplitude, Guitar Hero I & II, will it never end?

I've beaten all the songs on hard for gh2. I'll move onto expert eventually.

i'm tempted to buy the beatmania controller to make use of my beatmania/guitarfreaks combo games to their full potential.

Ya I love my beatmania. I don't have Guitar Freaks.. but I'd like to get it if I ever modded my playstation. :P

man is this game ever Fun! wow. i just beat the game in Easy mode with all 5stars. I'm starting in medium now and I hope it's not too hard to get all the songs unlocked eventually.
When you beat hard mode, does that unlock all the songs?

and if I'm playing guitar hero 2 for the 1st time, would it be worth getting guitar hero 1?

In career mode, you get songs as you progress and you don't get to play the bonus songs

in quick play, you get all the normal songs, but you have to buy the bonus songs individually from "the store" in career mode. you only have to buy the bonus songs once (ie: you don't have to buy the easy mode version, medium mode, etc.)

Beating different difficulties does unlock stuff, but it doesn't unlock songs.

As for GH1/GH2, i found that GH1 is slower paced, with shorter songs, but in general, harder than gh2.

i found that overall the techniques required for gh2 are easier than gh1, but what makes it hard is that you have to deal with a lot more notes and longer songs.


On a side note: i missed out on getting a drummania controller for $58!! the store was sold out when i found out about the sale :(

all i meant was that in easy mode, it's set to 28 songs and medium is 40. so i was assuming that hard or expert unlocked 5 or 10 more songs. unlock or get them as you progress is the same thing. :)

on another note, i recently tried Frets on fire. it's the PC version of guitar hero. wow is that ever cool to be able to play on my pc! it's not as good of course but it's cool to know that if my ps2 exploded, i'd still be able to play the game. apparently you can even get a ps2 to usb converter so the guitar hero controller can be plugged in your pc!

also: who here has tried the multi player coop/face off mode in guitar hero2? is it worth getting the 2nd controller for ? how is it?

has anyone seen or tried any 3rd party controllers like the wireless ones from that other company?

the co-op and face off mode are worth if if your living room is a social hub of rockin gamers, but other than that, the 2nd controller may collect a lot of dust.
I'd just as soon treat it like paintball, make people bring thier own.

I've heard that the Topway guitar (used for guitar freaks, not sure about guitar hero) really sucks. But then again, i've also heard that the Topway drum set is no good and I haven't had any major issues with it yet.

As for a 2nd controller, I personally wouldn't get it, because no one in my family will play guitar hero with me.

i was talking about this one in particular.
http://www.theantcommandos.com/
they have a bunch of them and they look very nice!

story link

My neighbor picked this game up and asked me if I wanted to try, so I come over, and I am told that I need to wear a leather vest and a pair of shades to play, which is cool cuz you have to look like you rock to rock. I start playing and sucked at first, but as soon as I got used to it I became the crazy GH master. The notes you have to use the wa bar on I freakin' rock at, no matter how short it is I can make it go all crazy like it does. I love this game almost as much as I love DDR.

has anyone heard about the new GH that's coming out soon?
I've read reports that a "GUITAR HERO: 80's Edition" is supposed to come out in the spring.
what's your thoughts on this? i personaly thing it's a fucking great idea to stick to 1 era of music. plus, the rock of the 80's is very memorable. (not the pop which everyone thinks suck. )

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Sweet, I also hear another company is releasing a game called "Guitar Villain". Sounds like a ridiculous idea for making money off an existing idea, but still, Evil will always win, because good is dumb.

it's not another company, it's still activision buying the trademarks for futuregames or to protect the names so that someone else doesnt just ripoff theirs.

Guitar hero 80's edition seems odd. Isn't a fair amount of music from guitar hero from the 80's anyway?

i think the look and feel of the game is what will make it great. have you played GTA Vice City? that one was great because the feel was totaly 80s! if they keep to that, we'll get a great game. kinda like if you were in the 80s trying to start a band, playing covers... I'm totaly ready for it. plus, pinkfloyd, ledzeppelin and so much more WERE playing in the 80s. so seeing them in there would be fucking great!

I think the co-op mode is super fun. I just don't own one of my own so I have to play at my buddies place. I wish this was around when i was younger, not quite as easy to find time as a 25 year old professional!

I've played the PS2 version of GH2 at Circuit City and it was awesome. I'm waiting for the 360 version before I buy my copy though.

I picked up GH2 last night at circuit city...I was totally prepared to be disappointed because I knew there was no way the game could live up to the hype. I was really surprised, this game is awesome! Ummm....I have to log out and go play now....my controller looks lonely...

I think what really makes this game great is that

a) there are very few interactional games in the north american market

b) this game is fun whether you're on expert mode, or can barely pass easy.

My one wish for this game is that they keep a running count of how many notes you hit in a row (kind of like guitar freaks)

it's out! and it fucking rocks!! I got guitar hero 3 this morning. 1st day it's out and I have it. all thanks to my awesome gf who got it for me.

so overall, it's the same but the new guitar is great and wireless plus it's detachable so if you want to travel with it, you can. from what I saw of the new songs in the games, it's good. not great yet because i haven't seen em all.

the new battle mode kicks ass but it's fun with someone of the same caliber.
the overall look of the game has been brought up like 5-10 years in the age group. it's no longer a 10-15yr game but a 20-30 age game. much more mature.

Same as MOAB. I got it today for PS2, except I already have a guitar from previous games. So far I like just about everything except the boss battles. I've been stuck on the first one for a while.

Ok: boss battles are retarded for now. they should give a little meter to tell you before it's too fucking late! like fuck. in multiplayer, the battles go on till someone loses. not when the computer decides. gay. i'll try it again and try to save up my power attacks.

and LoganSnake: I just got the bundle because it came with the guitar so that I could play multiplayer with my gf. the game alone was 60$ so a 40$ guitar isn't bad. they're usually much more than that.

The final battle in hard mode is the only one I'm stuck on... about 40 attempts later and I can't beat it... I have 5 stars on almost all hard mode songs, yet can't do the battle.

If anyone has any tips on beating him, I'm open for all suggestions.

Has anyone found any cheat codes for it yet? There is a section in options for cheats... Was curious if anyone knows what they do.

Cheat mode:
Enter one of the following codes at the "Cheats" menu in the options to activate the corresponding cheat function.
Mike J..

All songs:
Press Yellow + Orange, Red + Blue, Red + Orange, Green + Blue, Red + Yellow, Yellow + Orange, Red + Yellow, Red + Blue, Green + Yellow, Green + Yellow, [Yellow + Blue] two times, [Yellow + Orange] two times, Yellow + Blue, Yellow, Red, Red + Yellow, Red, Yellow, Orange.
Mike J..

Hyperspeed mode:
Press Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow.
aenwhtlac, vsvhteMike J..

Precision mode:
Press [Green + Red] three times, [Red + Yellow] two times, [Red + Blue] two times, Yellow + Blue, Yellow + Orange, Yellow + Orange, [Green + Red] three times, [Red + Yellow] two times, [Red + Blue] two times, Yellow + Blue, [Yellow + Orange] two times.
Mike J..

Performance mode:
Press Red + Yellow, Red + Blue, Red + Orange, Red + Blue, Red + Yellow, Green + Blue, Red + Yellow, Red + Blue.

I'd buy this game now, but if I did I'd more-than-likely start neglecting my school work. Oh well...

The battle mode in career play is the most retarded, god awful "feature" they have ever come up with. I have been absolutely destroying Hard difficulty (4-5 stars on almost every song) and have run into a complete wall at Slash. I've gotten him into the red once, and while my meter stays green until I run out of time and the death drain wins for him, I just cannot consistently get the "power" riffs to block his and drain his. It's absolutely retarded as a mode to have against the computer. Might be cool against another person, haven't tried it, but it's just obnoxious to have otherwise.

If anyone knows a level cheat, I would skip this stupid shit in a second to get to the SONGS I actually want to play. I often wonder what kind of idiots come up with this shit.

Sorry if you like it. I'm kind of grumpy about it right now.

use the song cheat that logan posted above.

at the very least, it'll let you play all the songs if you can't progress the actual single player.

but like i said before, guitar hero with power ups/downs sounds like a bad idea.

I agree, Career Battle mode is massive lamesauce

I guess I wish the "boss battles" were an optional thing you could do if you cared enough to unlock the character as a playable character. Forcing you to do them to progress seems almost cruel. It is a bad idea. I guess if I freak out, I'll use the cheat, but I'll probably figure out a way to beat it before that point. I had to play "Beast and the Harlot" about 30 times on GH2 before I beat it, so I've been stuck before and pushed on through.

Also, you said about uh, eight months ago in this thread that you wish that they had a note counter? Well, they followed your advice for GH3. There's a note counter past a 25 note streak and at 50/100/200 little announcements pop up to tell you how far you've gotten. It's very nice.

Actually, Slash gave me much less problems than the previous boss did. All you have to do is collect two Whammy and one Double or Hard power ups and use them at the very end of the song where he goes to make a solo (where you can't play anymore). He'll mess up.

Bought GHIII (for PS2) yesterday at Futureshop. It came with a free guitar stand and Cost $89 Canadian ($94 US). I will present it to my son next week for his 15th birthday.

Looking forward to it.

For GHIII, when will we be able to buy just the guitar controller?

Went to best buy today to pick up a second so my bf and i could jam together, but alas, they dont sell them separately!

You can use a GH1 or GH2 guitar with GH3, so long as you don't care about it not being wireless. I would imagine you could find those without really any trouble at all. The GameStop we went to yesterday to get the game had a bunch of extra controllers, though, so maybe your area just has more reserves or higher demand.

Edit: Great advice, LS. Beat him in one shot using that strategy!

I went to Wal-Mart last night to get the game but the bundles they had for xbox 360s came with the white corded guitar that came with GH2. I didn't buy it because I'm not paying extra for a guitar I already have. I'm just going to have to wait until they have bundles with the wireless or the game by itself.

Yep, I saw that when the video of the dragonforce song came out. It's nice to know how many actual notes you hit each time, instead of finding out at the end what your longest streak was.

Personally, i'm a big fan of the note counter for Guitar Freaks. It counts each individual note past 10. It really boosts your ego when you watch that thing fly :thumbsup:

gh3 does it too. after 25, you see it count at the bottom. every 50 and it shows in your face and at 100. i don't know after that because it's too distracting! haha. but it's nice to have though.

I tryied gh3 and I loved it but I played using a controller. :(

What I meant was that Guitar Freaks counts every single note and displays it on the screen

ie: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 etc.

When you do really fast sections of the song, you can see it fly :thumbsup:

gh3 too! just that it only appears after 25 notes. it's not worthy to show it before that. my record is 270ish. i'm gonna try for a full song soon.

What difficulty is everyone playing on and/or has cleared?

I have the Slayer song and the last battle left on hard. There's a section about a minute and a half into the song that's just killing me. On practice I do fine once I'm past that and I'm pretty sure I can clear the song, but I guess I might have to put in some quality time to be able to nail that riff well enough to do so.

My fiancee just cleared easy tonight and is starting on medium. The guitar you get for clearing easy is pretty damn sweet. Can't wait to see what the hard guitar looks like!

I'm more than half way into the coop career and the single career in medium. i'll go back and finish the easy later when i'm bored. but i want to beat medium with 5 stars everywhere and then jump in to hard. that's my goal. i tried 1 song on extreme and it was very easy compared to what i remember from gh2. slow ride. i got to 50% before dying but i had also never touched the orange button for like 4months!

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.