[PS2] Guitar Hero

I've been pretty addicted to this game as of late.

I've played through every difficulty of career mode, and I've been able to beat everything EXCEPT Cowboys from Hell and Bark at the Moon on Expert.

As a guitar player I think Cowboys from Hell on Expert is more difficult than actually playing the song on guitar

The things I have the most difficulty with are long, fast, repeated rhythms, and the solos (which for the most part, I breeze by with the star power I've saved up) Some parts of the solos simply move too fast for me to even comprehend.

For the most part, on Medium, I would get low to high 90s in notes hit, mid 80s to mid 90s in hard, and mid 70s to mid 90s on expert.

What's with the focus on "Boston Rock" in the bonus songs? I see that mentioned alot in the loading screens for some of them. Of the bonus songs, I really like Cheat on the Church. Does anyone know if there is any Graveyard BBQ stuff floating about? I'd like to hear some of thier stuff.

I actually like alot of the covers in the featured songs better than the originals. Mostly the classic rock stuff, as the guitar becomes much more...hard rock sounding, especially stuff like Crossroads and Spanish Castle Magic. Seeing as how the game only features Gibson Guitars, I wonder if the covers were made using only Gibsons as well (which would impact the sound in Crossroads, for example, because Clapton uses Fenders).

My friend suggested a neat feature I'd like to see implimented, which is the ability to remove vocals from a song. I like most of the songs, but some I would like more without the singing. I find alot of the metal and classic rock singers are pretty good, but for the modern rock ones (Stellar for example), the singers sound kind of whiny and emo. (moreso than the original)

Overall, I think this is a really enjoyable game. It works for alot of skill levels, like my friend who only plays on easy for fun, so he can hear the song and get 100%, whereas I would play on hard or expert for leisure. I would totally like to see lots more sequels of this game released. Each with a different genre would be cool, like metal for one, classic rock for another, modern rock, etc.

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

I was actually wondering about how they went about doing the covers for some of the songs. I mean, some of the vocals sound way to close to be a cover band, so I was wondering how it might have been done. When tracks are originally recorded, they have all the parts recorded individually, right? So for the game, did they just redub their own custom guitar track to go along with the rest of the music?

Being familiar for most of the songs, I can say that all the vocals were re-done, some not as well, and some really well. I imagine that they'd try to get as close to the original singers as possible than to half ass it. All the recordings are completely original, and as far as I know, do not use anything from the original versions. There's credits to the people who did the covers in the manual I believe.

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Originally Posted by Slash

The only song I remember not being a cover was the RHCP one because their sound is ALOT different and hard to duplicate.

No, that's most certainly a cover.

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I finally beat Bark at the Moon on Expert yesterday. Luck was all that got me there, really, and getting as much star power as I could. Needed to use the star power first after the last fast part in the first solo (the part where it runs back and forth up the neck, then goes out of control), and then tried to last as *long* as I could before using star power in the outro solo. When it ran out, I tried my damndest to finish and BARELY did, with my rock meter in the pulsing red. I swear if there had been 4 more notes I would have failed. (which I did before, I failed the song at 98% =( that was very discouraging)

Also, upon reading a gamefaq on it, I had not understood how to do hammer ons and pull offs until...yesterday. I don't remember the tutorial mentioning that black circled notes had to be picked and open white notes could be hammer on'd, pulled off. That helped tremendously with improving my scores in other songs.

(but for an integral game skill, I'm surprised I got through EVERY song on every difficulty except BATM without using hammer ons and pull offs. Just picked every note =/)

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Yes, more prog indeed. I'd like to see what any Dream Theater song on expert would be like. Had you not insta-failed, you'd fail at nine minutes, where you'd be too pissed to continue, because it was only 50% done.

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Well yeah...I was just saying IF they had Dream Theater in there. Actually, 21st Century Schizoid man would be a really fun song to play on expert methinks (besides the noise solo)

I don't think they'd pick anything so far out of the social consiousness of music like King Crimson though (though I'd love to see it) Where I could possibly see them putting a Dream Theater song in due to current popularity, I doubt were really gonna get much more prog than YYZ on GH2. I just hope they don't put too much popular modern rock in.

I've gotten 5 stars on 15 of the songs on expert. The rest I have 4 stars besides Texas Flood, Frankenstein, Cowboys From Hell, and Bark at the Moon. Texas Flood I can never get that high of a multiplier on as I'll keep missing notes. Just getting through the solos on the others is mostly hindering me from doing much other than just passing them.

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When I first started playing on medium, I tried that too, to not position shift at all and always stay i-m-r-p was g-r-y-b, but it didn't really work out that well once I moved to hard (I tried to move my pinky out to orange and then quickly move back, but it didn't really work). Even in that configuration, having to hit a red-blue chord with your middle finger and pinky is kind of awkward. I move as the song dictates really, using MOSTLY three fingers unless there is alot of green to orange or blue or consecutive green yellow red blue, or anything like that. Actually, I find that the little indicator on yellow helps alot to place yourself. But after awhile I can go back to the other notes from any note from just being used to the aritmatic distance between the "frets", sorta like real guitar.

I was at my friend's house yesterday and played BaTM on Expert, and I failed at 99%, it was pretty lol. Not only was it 99%, it was the LAST NOTE. I missed the last note and that failed me. I really wish I had video of it though, I don't think that's ever going to happen again. If I hadn't already beaten the song though, I think I'd be pretty pissed.

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