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  • Bacardi151
    **t *f y**r *l*m*nt D*nny
    • Aug 2002
    • 3114

    #166
    Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

    Originally posted by WDaniel
    Only reason he's on expert is because he has played before. If you are new to the series, it will literally take you a good 15-20 hours before you can even think of getting to that level.

    I agree. You will be on medium for a while if you havent played before.
    Last edited by Bacardi151; 04-03-2007, 02:55 PM.
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    • jdros13
      MVP
      • Oct 2004
      • 1255

      #167
      Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

      Originally posted by Bacardi151
      I agree. You will be on medium for a while if you havent played before.
      As someone new to the series (I had only played at Best Buy before), I was able to pass easy first time right through (although I did fail one to get the achievement). I'm working on making all the Easy's 5 star right now to keep practicing, although I seem to be having some issues with the 7th group of songs (only one I have 5 starred as of last night was the Stray Cat song - the other 6 song sets are 5 star - yes, I know I suck). I can't imagine how hard the 'Hillbilly' song is on the higher levels.

      I have played some on medium, and I can pass every song I've tried, but at 3 or 4 star level only...my pinky finger just doesn't want to cooperate. I have a feeling that I'll be on Medium for quite a long while if I want to actually play them well.

      Off to Circuit City to get my free points...
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      • Bacardi151
        **t *f y**r *l*m*nt D*nny
        • Aug 2002
        • 3114

        #168
        Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

        Originally posted by jdros13
        As someone new to the series (I had only played at Best Buy before), I was able to pass easy first time right through (although I did fail one to get the achievement). I'm working on making all the Easy's 5 star right now to keep practicing, although I seem to be having some issues with the 7th group of songs (only one I have 5 starred as of last night was the Stray Cat song - the other 6 song sets are 5 star - yes, I know I suck). I can't imagine how hard the 'Hillbilly' song is on the higher levels.

        I have played some on medium, and I can pass every song I've tried, but at 3 or 4 star level only...my pinky finger just doesn't want to cooperate. I have a feeling that I'll be on Medium for quite a long while if I want to actually play them well.

        Off to Circuit City to get my free points...
        There is a serious ramp up from medium to hard. If you havent tried it yet, go ahead. Most of the time you will go back to medium till you can play with your eyes closed, and THEN you will be ready for hard
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        • Jistic
          Hall Of Fame
          • Mar 2003
          • 16405

          #169
          Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

          Picking this up tonight, can't wait to relive my youth (even though I played a different instrument).

          Look out Johnny.....I'm gunning for you....
          PSN: JISTIC_OS
          XBOX LIVE: JISTIC

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          • Sully
            Hall Of Fame
            • Feb 2003
            • 16003

            #170
            Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

            Originally posted by Jistic
            Picking this up tonight, can't wait to relive my youth (even though I played a different instrument).

            Look out Johnny.....I'm gunning for you....
            The skin flute?

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            • ex carrabba fan
              I'll thank him for you
              • Oct 2004
              • 32744

              #171
              Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

              Originally posted by Sully
              The skin flute?

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              • Jistic
                Hall Of Fame
                • Mar 2003
                • 16405

                #172
                Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

                Originally posted by Sully
                The skin flute?
                This is a family site, don't make me lock this thread.
                PSN: JISTIC_OS
                XBOX LIVE: JISTIC

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                • bcruise
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 23274

                  #173
                  Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

                  For those who have now played both (PS2 and 360), how do the note charts compare? Are there big differences in the notes in the 360 version?

                  I regret that I won't be getting the 360 version (seeing as I don't have a 360, and have no intention of getting one anytime soon)

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                  • Bacardi151
                    **t *f y**r *l*m*nt D*nny
                    • Aug 2002
                    • 3114

                    #174
                    Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

                    After speaking with Terry, i take back what i said about being stuck on Medium. Now my mission is to learn those hammer ons and pull offs.

                    This game is all of a sudden much deeper than i initially thought.
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                    • TCrouch
                      MVP
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 4819

                      #175
                      Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions



                      Once you figure out how to strum twice in an 8-note section, leave your fingers on the lower fret buttons and just tap the higher ones and crap...everything opens up. There's no way you should be strumming every single note. Just no way you can survive doing that on harder difficulties without looking like a crackhead in a porn theater. You'd slap the strumbar silly and break it within a month.

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                      • nyisles16
                        All Star
                        • Apr 2003
                        • 8317

                        #176
                        Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

                        pst.. people stuck on medium... man, i am stuck on easy with either the PJ song or VH - both of which I stink at doing

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                        • Brandwin
                          Hall Of Fame
                          • Jul 2002
                          • 30621

                          #177
                          Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

                          I don't even know what you two are talking about.
                          Share the wealth...

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                          • bcruise
                            Hall Of Fame
                            • Mar 2004
                            • 23274

                            #178
                            Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

                            Originally posted by TCrouch


                            Once you figure out how to strum twice in an 8-note section, leave your fingers on the lower fret buttons and just tap the higher ones and crap...everything opens up. There's no way you should be strumming every single note. Just no way you can survive doing that on harder difficulties without looking like a crackhead in a porn theater. You'd slap the strumbar silly and break it within a month.
                            Funny you mention that.....at times that was only way to make it through certain sections of GH1, since the hammer ons/pull-off didn't work as well. They made them much easier for GH2, though.

                            Besides, you'll be strumming fast enough during some parts anyway.....Do a Youtube search for "Misirlou" and you'll see what I mean.

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                            • TCrouch
                              MVP
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 4819

                              #179
                              Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

                              Yeah I tore up Misirlou on Expert but I always strum up and down anyway so it wasn't much different than things like Texas Flood during the solos.

                              Dookie...what I mean is this. Biggest helpers:

                              1. On single notes, you can hold every lower fret button up to a single note that you want. So on some sections where you alternate between green and blue back and forth, for instance...you can just hold green and then strum it once. Tap blue and it counts both notes. Holding a lower button, strumming, and then tapping a higher note is a "Hammer on". Guitar Hero's kind of suck, but they work. They're harder to do but they're doable. So at the beginning of YYZ, for instance, I can just hold Green and then tap Blue while still holding green. As long as it's a single note and not a chord, the blue supercedes the green so it's not a "buzzed" note.

                              2. Reverse that and it's a pull off. You may see some sequences where you have 4 notes in a row, quickly to a sustained or something. Pull all four fingers on green-to-blue, then strum once on blue, and then quickly release blue, then yellow, then red, then green. It counts the notes. You can even slide straight down the fret. When you go from a higher fret to a lower fret, it's a "pull off". The 2 note pull offs are easy, but when you get into the 4 note ones it gets tougher. You can't leave one button off and then press another, it has to be impeccably timed.

                              Using those two things, you can actually strum once and fire through 2, 3, 4 notes in a row. Combine that with actually "picking" at the strumbar like a real guitar. Up AND down. You will feel it's awkward at first, but as the previous poster mentioned, there's no way you get through some of the harder songs like Misirlou with "one way strumming". I even have kind of a "robotic" pause. If it ends an an upstrum, I leave it frozen there until the next note and then go back to a downstrum. It built the muscle memory for sections of a song so it's just natural instead of shifting back and forth, sometimes up, sometimes down, etc.

                              But with up *and* down strumming, combined with hammer ons/pull offs and slides, it's very fun. Not nearly as fun as tearing up a real guitar, but it's a damn fun rendition of it.

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                              • Brandwin
                                Hall Of Fame
                                • Jul 2002
                                • 30621

                                #180
                                Re: 360 Guitar Hero Impressions

                                ^ I see Terry, or I think...

                                I guess once I play, I'll get a better idea of what you're talking about.

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