The Guitar Hero Thread

[Cactus Drags]

I see what you mean. It'd make a nice change of pace though, and it can always be made harder with more chord changes and stuff like three-fret chords.

[stokeriño]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=232

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

I dunno, man. I noticed at least a 15% difference in the hardness of my rocking after I put stickers on my controller, maybe even 20%.

[EddieRuckus]

Agreed. I rocked out much harder with my PS2 controller that has stickers than I do with my 360 controller without stickers.

[Toe]

When I got the game for the 360, I also picked up an extra controller. I took all the stickers from both guitars and stuck them all on one of the guitars. It looks super bad-ass.

[BlackFlagg]

Finally found a copy, yay!

[R.W.]

Picked up a copy yesterday, and it's great fun.

Didn't realise I knew so many of the songs and just didn't recognise them by song name (Woman, Cherry Pie, Surrender etc.).

Must say though, my favourite to play at the moment is Message In A Bottle. Though I'm sure that will change as I unlock more!

[Pepsi]

Picked up a copy yesterday, and it's great fun.

Didn't realise I knew so many of the songs and just didn't recognise them by song name (Woman, Cherry Pie, Surrender etc.).

Must say though, my favourite to play at the moment is Message In A Bottle. Though I'm sure that will change as I unlock more!

[stokeriño]

I reiterate the Message In a Bottle love. It's one of my 'warm-up' songs, along with Search and Destroy and Heart-Shaped Box. Helps to keep my fingers from dying when I move on to the harder ones. >_>

Edited May 3, 2007 by stokeriño

[Toe]

My favourite song to play in the entire game has changed from The Trooper to Madhouse and Thunderhorse.

[Cactus Drags]

I love playing Bass along to Message in a Bottle. I can play the whole thing without looking at the screen, so I rock out and stamp about, while my mate feverishly scans the screen for his notes. It's awesome.

[BlackFlagg]

working my way through medium right now, still trying to get a good rhythm going. Best song on med so far was Tattooed Love Boys, 4 star, 92% note hit, 82504 score and 105 note streak. I'm passing thourh med fine, but I have a feeling I'm gonna get my arse kicked when I try hard, heh

[kale]

Most people do get their asses kicked moving from medium to hard. I know I did.

[zero]

Most people do get their asses kicked moving from medium to hard. I know I did.

Definitely. Best songs to learn on are Strutter, Possum Kingdom and Salvation.

[NobBe Nobbs]

Hm. Played Frets on Fire just now and man am I going to suck at GH.

[-A-]

It's weird. I pretty much blasted through Easy and Medium and then ran into a brick wall at some track on Hard, 'Woman' I think. I completed the first 5 songs on Expert, even, but I can't beat that fucking solo. I think it shows that Hard is the point where you actually need to put in some practice and know the songs, rather than relying on sitting down and sigh-reading the notes.

[Toe]

On Women, make sure you have star power and use it right as that solo starts so that the notes you do hit move your fan support meter over to the right quite a bit.

[Venom]

When I'm playing songs on Expert and such (where "playing" is interchangeable with "surviving through"), I find it's best to wait until you're almost booed off the stage to use my star power as opposed to using it at the beginning of the tough part. That way you can do your best to survive through the beginning, and by the time you need to use star power, you're hopefully at least almost halfway through the solo, putting you in the clear for the rest of the song.

Edited May 6, 2007 by Venom

[zero]

From PSU:

First Guitar Hero III band announced

News of Queens of the Stone age will no doubt be music to the ears of any fan, and theprp.com has revealed this week that the rock band will be featured in two upcoming PlayStation 3 games: Guitar Hero III and Rock Band. At the moment, it is unknown which songs will be included in each game.

Queens of the Stone age is not new to the Guitar Hero franchise, and has had their song, No One Knows, featured in the first game. The band will be releasing their next album in June this year.

Guitar Hero III is currently scheduled for a fall 2007 release, while a release window for Rock Band remains unconfirmed.

[Toe]

That's pretty cool news, but it doesn't shed any light on the bands that I really want to see in the game - Metallica and AC/DC.