November 21, 2007
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.
October 24, 2007
According to most gaming sites, Guitar Hero III is supposed to be released on October 28th. Either it got pushed forward, or I lucked out and my local Walmart screwed up big because when I was out buying picture frames, I decided to see if Conan (which was supposed to be released today) had come out… lo and behold, I walked out of Walmart with the single copy of Guitar Hero III they had on the shelves. I presume they had more copies and sold them already, but I don’t know for sure.
Anyways, on medium difficulty I’m ranked 104 of 184… and it was 182 earlier this evening so I’m presuming that more copies either got mistakenly sold a week early or it’s already out (but since I didn’t see it any other stores I looked at today to get Conan, I think someone let it go early).
Should probably be finished it tomorrow… too tired to play more tonight. Definitely has some cool songs tho. =) Guitar Hero II is still selling like crazy tho… on the 18th there were 898243 users on the leaderboards (at which point I was ranked 119207), and as of the 21st, which was the last time I checked the leaderboards, I was ranked 115949 of 908952. Gotta keep track of these scores somehow and the blog seems like the best place to do it.
Oh, and I have a receipt to prove I actually did buy it from Walmart tonight, before anyone starts thinking I downloaded it or something stupid like that. Kinda ticked that I didn’t walk away with Conan, but I’ll take Guitar Hero III… for now.
