TCrouch wrote:Yes. The software isn't recognizing your whammy bar as returning to the "rest" position. Half the guitars seem to have that problem. They need to adjust the game to recognize anything less than 15% or something as "resting" so it will actually work for all axes. A backwoods type of fix is to use a girl's little hairband and wrap it around the whammy bar and the cord outlet...it works like a champ until they can fix the stupid game not registering it. It's silly, I know. But it works
I am loving this game, and I'm still only playing on easiest setting. Just going at my own pace. It's a bit too tiring for me to play it more than an hour at a time, but it's been a heck of an experience so far.
jondiehl wrote:Anyone needing a USB extension cable, I highly recommend MonoPrice.com for cabling needs.
You can get a 10ft extension cable for $2.10 (even less when ordering more than one) and shipping is actual shipping rates ($2.64 for 1st class in my case, coming from California).
I've ordered a bunch of home theater cabling from them over the years (component video, HDMI, DVI, etc) as well as lots of USB cable and extensions like this one. They always have the best prices around and ship fast (and cheap).
Just wanted to second your opinion of monoprice. I just got a couple wall mounts from them for my 32" lcd tv and for a 19" lcd monitor. the 32" wall mount was about 24 dollars and the mount for the 19" was about 8 bucks. Shipped in a timely fashion, and good quality products. I was very pleased.
Scroll down and see the article about GH 2 and a chance to Jam with Gene Simmons! I want this game! Where is UPS???? Heading to Walmart and see if they have it.
The way the leaderboards work is that it takes your highest score in each song that you've played. If your highest score has been on hard it will post that, if your highest score has been easy, it will post that. I believe that difficulty is weighted though, so if you notch 95% on hard you will score higher than somebody who notches 95% on medium, etc. .
I find it kind of frustrating how you have to back out of career mode to check leaderboard scores. It would've been handy to throw it on the tour menu or what-not. Come to think of it, the career interface is kind of clumsy altogether.
Yeah I went through Heart Shaped Box about as clean as I could on hard and I could barely notch 217 or 220K. I turned around and worked on it on Expert and got 300K+, so it's definitely possible to get higher scores (naturally). But if you miss notes due to the complexity of a song and somebody on an easier difficulty can go 100%, keep the 8x multiplier the entire time, and have a "higher" score, it's just bizarre. Why they couldn't just filter by friends and a subfilter for difficulty is beyond me.
I spent the last three nights playing through Easy and Medium and, believe me, you cannot get a score over 200k for a song on Easy. And really, it's damn hard to get over 200k on Medium. After five starring everything on Medium (with a couple of perfects thrown in), the only score I got over 200k was Freebird.
---Todd
ubrakto wrote:I spent the last three nights playing through Easy and Medium and, believe me, you cannot get a score over 200k for a song on Easy. And really, it's damn hard to get over 200k on Medium. After five starring everything on Medium (with a couple of perfects thrown in), the only score I got over 200k was Freebird.
---Todd
Yeah, I've completed every song on Medium and still don't have the 200k Achievement. There's more notes and chords on the higher difficulties. Chords are worth more points and there's more opportunities to score points with Star Power since there's more notes. I've almost cleared the second tier on hard now. I love this game!
I am a patient boy.
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait.
My time is water down a drain.
I was struggling with the decision to pick this one up. I just couldn't see spending $90 on one game even though I knew how much fun I had with their previous titles (Frequency and Amplitude). Well, my wife saw how much I wanted the game but knew I wasn't going to crack and spend the extra cash so she took $50 from her personal stash and told me to go pick it up. She rocks!
Anyway, I got through the first two venues on easy and I'm really loving it. It's taking me a while to get used to it since my brain wants to concentrate on the drum beats. (gee ... wonder why? ) But it's slowly coming to me and I'm having a blast. I can't wait until I can bump up to the higher difficulty levels and try some of the more complicated patterns. It's funny how playing this thing affects you. I found myself leaning a bit back in my chair, propping my foot up on my computer desk, and holding the guitar at a slight angle like I was all smooth. I guess it would be a little less embarrassing if I was on a difficutly other than easy.
Honestly I was grooving through Jessica last night on Expert and I end up doing little guitar wiggles and crap like I'm trying to create harmonics on a plastic toy. It really does get you in a zone like no other game does...propping your foot up on a desk is the least of the embarrassing things you can do. I end up dancing like a moron AND moving the guitar around as well as what are (what I imagine, at least) ridiculous looking facial expressions, I'm sure.
TCrouch wrote:Honestly I was grooving through Jessica last night on Expert and I end up doing little guitar wiggles and crap like I'm trying to create harmonics on a plastic toy. It really does get you in a zone like no other game does...propping your foot up on a desk is the least of the embarrassing things you can do. I end up dancing like a moron AND moving the guitar around as well as what are (what I imagine, at least) ridiculous looking facial expressions, I'm sure.
There's simply no excuse for them not including camera functionality for this game, and allowing high-score performances to be uploaded! Show me your dance face!
I'm to the final set in Medium. The difficulty definitely picks up and I've been getting mostly three stars with the occasional four. Had to turn to practice mode for "The Trooper" -- the Y-G-R movement of the main riff was hard to get used to. That also had the worst vocal I've heard in the game.
I probably will keep playing again on Medium and go for 5-stars because I don't think I'll be able to hack Hard right now.
TCrouch wrote:Honestly I was grooving through Jessica last night on Expert and I end up doing little guitar wiggles and crap like I'm trying to create harmonics on a plastic toy. It really does get you in a zone like no other game does...propping your foot up on a desk is the least of the embarrassing things you can do. I end up dancing like a moron AND moving the guitar around as well as what are (what I imagine, at least) ridiculous looking facial expressions, I'm sure.
I know exactly what you mean. The first day I played I was unknowingly trying to use my fret hand for vibrato whenever I could hear it in the background.
I'm to the final set in Medium. The difficulty definitely picks up and I've been getting mostly three stars with the occasional four. Had to turn to practice mode for "The Trooper" -- the Y-G-R movement of the main riff was hard to get used to. That also had the worst vocal I've heard in the game.
I probably will keep playing again on Medium and go for 5-stars because I don't think I'll be able to hack Hard right now.
Based on my experience with GH1, you really want to be able to four star a lot of medium before jumping to hard. Although for the last set in GH1 (Bark at the Moon and Cowboys from Hell especially), I wasn't able to do those until after I played on Hard. Once I got the hang of hard, going back and getting those last few songs on medium got... not easy, but much easier.
Also, when you get to the final encore (the last set) in GH2... I won't spoil it, but it's damn funny how they set that up.
---Todd
I just recently found out that my cousin that lives in Chicago is not only a huge gamer but also Guitar Hero fanatic and posted a bunch of videos on youtube. There's also a few non-GH related videos but I thought some of you might want to check out the GH ones if you're stuck at work like me waiting to play again.
TCrouch wrote:Honestly I was grooving through Jessica last night on Expert and I end up doing little guitar wiggles and crap like I'm trying to create harmonics on a plastic toy. It really does get you in a zone like no other game does...propping your foot up on a desk is the least of the embarrassing things you can do. I end up dancing like a moron AND moving the guitar around as well as what are (what I imagine, at least) ridiculous looking facial expressions, I'm sure.
I know exactly what you mean. The first day I played I was unknowingly trying to use my fret hand for vibrato whenever I could hear it in the background.
If only the guitar was wireless!!! I do rock star moves all the time and sometimes they actually help. I just have to be careful to not accidentally engage my star power (which has happened more than once).
I suck pretty bad at this playing on easy but it is a really fun game and I definitely look forward to getting better with it and progressing up to medium and hard difficulties later down the road, probably much later which isn't a bad thing as it will keep the game fresh for me.
Watching those videos, mix, showed me something that I've been doing wrongly. I've been trying to 'play' using the buttons as much as the strumming. No wonder it's been so hard to play!
I didn't realize that you could just hold those buttons down and do the rhythm with the strummer. That makes alot of difference! Now if I could just get the funds to get the game...
