GHIII News - Death to Rock Band

[gekko]

You will be fine no matter what game you start with. HOPOs are improved as you go, and the HDTV lag issue isn't there anymore, but the game difficulty itself is pretty much identical.

I've heard GH was easier than GH2, but everyone who has played GH3 says it won't be much of a challenge to those who have mastered GH2. If you can beat all of expert on GH2, you have enough skill to be able to beat all the songs on GH3 after a few attempts. It's not like GH3 is designed only for people who have mastered the previous, it's at a similar difficulty, just with different songs.

But if you are just investing, I would say but GH3. It has the best guitar, and then just buy the stand-alones of the old ones.

But just a little word of advice, start on hard. You'll develop more bad habits than you can ever imagine playing easy and medium. It's not even worth it. Go hard, and never look back.

[Perfect Stu]

Some very good tracks on there.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by gekko

You will be fine no matter what game you start with. HOPOs are improved as you go, and the HDTV lag issue isn't there anymore, but the game difficulty itself is pretty much identical.

I've heard GH was easier than GH2, but everyone who has played GH3 says it won't be much of a challenge to those who have mastered GH2. If you can beat all of expert on GH2, you have enough skill to be able to beat all the songs on GH3 after a few attempts. It's not like GH3 is designed only for people who have mastered the previous, it's at a similar difficulty, just with different songs.

But if you are just investing, I would say but GH3. It has the best guitar, and then just buy the stand-alones of the old ones.

But just a little word of advice, start on hard. You'll develop more bad habits than you can ever imagine playing easy and medium. It's not even worth it. Go hard, and never look back.

What kinds of bad habits would those be? Anyway I'm almost inclined to move on to hard, since I played Rocks the 80's yesterday and I was in the green when I completed "Holy Diver", and I was using the medium difficulty level. Mind you, there were times where I'd be in the green, then regressed to amber, and then back in the green again.

So am I completely doomed since I decided to start on easy, and then moved on to medium when I was feeling comfortable? I completed three songs on easy in GHII, and tried one of those three songs ("Possum Kingdom") on medium and completed that one on the firs try there. I mean I've seen people play on hard and expert and the don't even choke. So I didn't think I was worthy to try and run with the big leagues just yet. You know what I mean?

[jeepnut]

Originally Posted by Storm Eagle

What kinds of bad habits would those be? Anyway I'm almost inclined to move on to hard, since I played Rocks the 80's yesterday and I was in the green when I completed "Holy Diver", and I was using the medium difficulty level. Mind you, there were times where I'd be in the green, then regressed to amber, and then back in the green again.

So am I completely doomed since I decided to start on easy, and then moved on to medium when I was feeling comfortable? I completed three songs on easy in GHII, and tried one of those three songs ("Possum Kingdom") on medium and completed that one on the firs try there. I mean I've seen people play on hard and expert and the don't even choke. So I didn't think I was worthy to try and run with the big leagues just yet. You know what I mean?

I started on Easy and Medium and the progressed to Hard on the first GH. It didn't seem to hurt me much. Just make sure that when playing on medium, you use your pinkie to hit the blue fret button. You cannot succeed in Hard without using your pinkie unless you are rediculously good.

Don't get me wrong, the transition from Medium to Hard will be difficult as you get used to hitting five buttons with only four fingers and it will take some time, but it's far from impossible.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by jeepnut

I started on Easy and Medium and the progressed to Hard on the first GH. It didn't seem to hurt me much. Just make sure that when playing on medium, you use your pinkie to hit the blue fret button. You cannot succeed in Hard without using your pinkie unless you are rediculously good.

Don't get me wrong, the transition from Medium to Hard will be difficult as you get used to hitting five buttons with only four fingers and it will take some time, but it's far from impossible.

I'm only now seeing your response. I didn't think anybody would touch this thread ever again.

I've still been practicing in the stores, and I'm still doing it on medium. I've tried hard sometimes, and I'm still not doing all that great. Though I've actually completed two songs on hard. It's nothing to brag about though, since I finished them when in the red. "Bang Your Head" really throws you for a loop when it's about to end.