Guitar Hero Update

It’s been a while since I posted about Guitar Hero. In fact, it’s been a while since I posted at all. Therefore, I feel it is appropriate to take a moment to brag about how my skills have improved. The last time I posted about Guitar Hero, I was talking about how I got 5 stars on “Number of the Beast” on Expert. This was, in fact, a big deal to me at the time, as it was extremely hard for me to do. Since then, I have gotten over 500,000 points on that very same song. I have also achieved 5 stars on all Guitar Hero 3 Career Mode songs, and also gotten the achievement for scoring 200k on “Cult of Personality” without using Star Power.

I have purchased and played through Guitar Hero: World Tour. I enjoyed the enhanced gameplay, especially the feature that allows notes to be played while a sustain is continuously held. The slider notes are great as well, as I’m a fan of the Hammer-ons and Pull-offs, and slider notes take that one step further, getting rid of strumming altogether :) World Tour fails, however, to amp up the difficulty until the last couple sets of songs. The only one I have yet to beat is “Satch Boogie,” thanks to its section of extremely fast slider notes. I have also yet to achieve 5 stars on “Trapped in Ice” by Metallica. The other songs, however, I found easy to master. I do appreciate the track list, especially “Hotel California,” a song I had not heard before playing it, but now greatly enjoy.

I bought Guitar Hero: Smash Hits last Wednesday and beat it on Thursday. I beat “Through the Fire and the Flames” for the first time on Thursday, and achieved 4 stars on Friday. Today, I achieved 5 stars on “Psychobilly Freakout,” and 5 stars on “Play With Me.” Now, I am only two stars short of a 5star full game, having 238/240 stars. The ones I’m missing are one from “Raining Blood” and of course, one from “Through the Fire and the Flames.” These are all on the Expert difficulty.

I loved Smash Hits, because it has many songs from the original Guitar Hero, which is not available for the Xbox 360, and I’ve never played it. The re-frets of the GH2 songs are excellent as well. Guitar Hero: Smash hits adds the function of seeing your progress on how many stars you’ve while you’re still playing the song, much like Rock Band does.

ZOMG! OMGOMGOMGYES! 5 STARS ON NOTB!

That’s right! I JUST got 5 stars on Number of the Beast on EXPERT! I got 395,191 points and 95% of the notes! Today I had been busting some of my high scores on songs like “Cult of Personality,” “Rock You Like a Hurricane,” and “The Metal.” While I was on a “roll” I figured I should try NOTB. On my first try, I busted my old high score by about 20,000 points (I got 359,939 points) but still only had 4 stars. I tried it again and was doing GREAT but my dad interrupted me towards the end and I screwed up. I guess third time’s the charm because I nailed it on that third try. I freaked out and forced my brother to come and witness the score so my friends couldn’t tell me I cheated or let someone else beat it :P Now I only have one more song to go (Raining Blood) until I have gotten 5 stars on every Expert career song.

Extreme Progress [GH]

I’m amazed at how far I’ve made it when it comes to my skills as a Guitar Hero player. Just over a year ago I was struggling to beat ‘Beast and the Harlot’ on Expert, and now I’ve almost beat TTFATF. I have 5 stars on every song in Career Mode on Expert, save but two songs: Raining Blood (4 stars), and Number of the Beast (4 stars). I just can’ t seem to get the last few points necessary for 5 stars on those songs! I also have trouble with some of the bonus songs, TTFATF not included either! For instance, “The Way It Ends” is REALLY hard… I haven’t beaten that on either… All in all, though, I’m pretty impressed with my own skill, and am suprised that I got so good with so little effort. Most people I play with think that I practice for hours every day, but I really only play 4-5 songs just for the fun of it most of the time! On Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, I have 5 stars on every expert song, and I’m not sure about GH2, cos my little brothers broke the disc… again. I’m getting ANOTHER copy tomorrow after I get my paycheck lol…

GH: World Tour

I haven’t gotten to play World Tour much, but I like what I see. My friend got GH:WT for Christmas, but only has the Guitar, so I stopped by his house to play it for about an hour. They’ve got a [i]big[/i] selection of songs to play and all of them are great. The slide bar is hard to master and I haven’t gotten the hang of it. I like the new feature where sometimes there is a sustained note with other notes you have to play while keeping the first sustained, as well as the fact that GH followed Rock Band with the ability to gain Star Power while you already have Star Power activated. Expert has moved up a notch on many songs, thanks to the addition of the slidebar, and I think it will be quite a while before a large majority of players have very many 5 star performances on the harder songs! I can’t wait to play it more and would love to try out the drum set.

Crankin it up on Hard: Guitar Hero II

I recently got GH2 for the X-Box 360. I breezed through Expert, finishing up the career with 5 stars on 31/48 songs. I went through on Hard, and I got 5 stars on all the career mode songs (Though it took me about 7 tries to get 5 stars on Psychobilly Freakout. I’m not working on Easy and Medium, getting 100% Gold Star rating on all of the songs, then I’ll return to Expert to attempt getting as many 5 star ratings as possible (I want to unlock that log guitar!). I heard from a friend that a Guitar Hero player is considered “Pro” when he can get a 5 star rating on over half of the songs on Expert, and since 31 is definately more than half (24), I guess I’m pro… Lol. However, I can’t confirm that as a fact, although it makes sense to me. Anyways, I’ll continue honing my skills and hopefully, I’ll one day master the only song on GH2 that I can’t beat on Expert…: Jordan!