The cool thing about Guitar Hero III is that you can view stats online. This is nice because the stat-viewer in the game sucks compared to Guitar Hero II. Anyways, here’s the link to my Guitar Hero statistics.
On a side note, I’ve found that in some ways GH3 is both easier and harder than previous GH games. I also found that I much prefer the layout and whatnot of GH3 to the previous games. Oh, and the newer guitars are much better than the older ones. Tried playing GH2 on PS2 yesterday and I sucked more on it than I do on GH2 on xbox360. Dunno if it’s the guitars themselves or how it shows on the screen (graphics look kinda sucky, and there’s a definite lag and the calibration seems to have made it better but not perfect).
Oh, and Cowboys from Hell on the first Guitar Hero is still the only song I’ve not gotten 5 stars on in medium. Yeah, I’m not so good I can play stuff on hard/expert very well (hard I’m actually doing moderately ok at in that I’m half-way thru it, but with average 3 stars per song — expert is out of the question). Dang Pantera! Although, I honestly suspect that if they made Cowboys from Hell downloadable for GH2 or GH3, I might get my 5 stars… hammer-on’s I find are dang-near impossible on the first GH.
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The timing on GH3 was made noticeably easier than GH2 (you have a wider window to hit each note), according to all the reviews. This was to make overall ‘harder’ charts like Through The Fire And Flames possible.
Makes sense. I’ve noticed with hammer-ons you can hammer-on well before the note actually comes up and as long as you’ve got it held down, the note picks up. Tried the same with GH2 and was wondering why I kept missing notes. =)
And Through The Fire and Flames… good song but dang!
It was funny. I actually did a pro face-off against this fellow “Mr. Perfectionist” or something and he picked that song so I picked One, thinking he was probably some guy who plays expert and was doing medium for kicks. I just barely beat him in One (by a thousand points), then we were doing the Dragonforce song and amazingly enough I was pulling out ahead of him… near the end I was about 5k points ahead of him, and then he disconnected.
So I went off to play another song and got a message from him which basically said “R u a girl? I was taking it easy on you but we can do it again if you want”. My wife was watching and started roaring when she read that. So I simply wrote back: “Not a girl, but thanks for trying”.
Probably some 15 year old kid couldn’t take the bruise to his ego (with a username like that, suppose I can’t blame him).
yeah, well, I think we all discovered the world is full of morons a long time ago.
lol… ain’t that the truth.