GH3: LoR (Activision sued over Wii/Mono-only sound)

Flameboat · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:50 am Post subject:

Wow, the chart for Kool Thing sucks a lot.

The loading times seem pretty bad too.
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Black Lab · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:39 am Post subject:

I have no problem with loading time son my 360. But the controller is pissing me off, since the tilt sensor is so sensitive that hitting the whammy bar too hard will sometimes trip star power when I don't want it to. I tend to sway a little bit when I play, and standing absolutely still so I don't trigger SP at the wrong time sucks a bit.

Also, the level of sell-out is clearly higher. Axe Girls FTL.
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cfusionpm · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: San Diego, CA

to be honest, i'm really dissapointed in GHIII. i played through the career mode in its entirety at a friends house on hard, and then played some random ones on expert. first of all, the difficulty jumps from mind-numbingly easy to stuff that all three of us had trouble passing and took many attempts (only in the last set really). there's one particular song, i forget the name, but its the first song in the last set, that took us over an hour to beat. and its not like we all are terrible. each of us has cleared expert careers of GHI and II sans freebird; and i have 4-5 stars on most). for the life of us, we could NOT get past that ridiculously fast OBY to BYR run. the only way we finally got through it was only hitting one of those quick riffs and completely ignoring the other. the note charts are wildly unballanced in terms of difficulty, and dragonforce's song is easilly the stupidest song in GH history.

the new battle mode is crap IMO, and detremental to the GH series. as some magazine articles wrote, it takes the game's fun atmosphere of comrodary and replaces it with cutthroat "make your opponent fail" modes.

to be honest, this does not feel like guitar hero. it feels like the equivelant of ITG compared to the original DDR. hard for the sake of being so, horrible chart ballance, and taking the game away from its roots. thats not to say that some people wont like it, i just personally will not be buying it after my ~5 hours of playtime. i will gladly be enjoying my harmonix-developed Rock Band.
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skillz187 · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject:

yeah, i got it, its not guitar hero 2, but its ok for what it is. im definitly getting rock band, but probably for christmas.
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Mike Blitz · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject:

I love this game. I'm going to have to agree on the star power issue, though. otherwise, I like the songlist a lot, so I'm glad I bought it.
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Zonic · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject:

I'm probably be able to play it in a few weeks, since our chruch has GH2 set up w/ a 50-ish inch projecter & everyone loves it.

cfusionpm · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: San Diego, CA

a church would love GHIII. the last stage is in hell, and you battle the devil as the last song.
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Flameboat · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject:

The way they handled hopos in this feels really wonky. Did they go through and decide what could be hopo'd on a note-by-note basis? It seems like sometimes you can hopo notes that are really far apart, and others you can't do it to notes really close together, and it's really bothering me. Also, the starting and ending points for SP phrases seem odd sometimes.
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Opethian · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:06 am Post subject:

they should have put in Dead Skin Mask over Raining Blood

but yea it seems the timing it a lil starange on the tapping riffs after the "mosh" riff

maybe the downloadable content will make or break this game
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cfusionpm · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: San Diego, CA

well i was never a fan of these battle modes. i hated it in disney's rave, hated it in ITG, and hated it in supernova. so i'm not surprised i dont like it in guitar hero. lol.
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mtwieg · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject:

Huh, there's a prototype song on there. I guess that makes it the only metal song that isn't horrible or cliche. I really wonder how they decided on that one. There are many other comparable bands that would be better.

Still not nearly enough to warrant buying the game, though.
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Zonic · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:28 am Post subject:

Yeah, if there's something I've always hated about GH, the only thing to say about the Diff. is which catagory they're in....I mean, make song out of, like, 10 or something....

Flameboat · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:16 am Post subject:

Oh, another thing I like is how the tier 1 songs are all harder than pretty much all the tier 2 songs (sans perhaps the Morello battle). Just AWESOME design there, guys.

Prayer of the Refugee's Expert Chart is retarded. (Hmm, RB-GY-YO in 1/8th notes? AWESOME! It works as well as the GO chords!)

I'm enjoying FCPREMIX for the most part, so at least they didn't ruin that song.

Slash is retardedly hard to beat; I had to skip the battle. It's going to be just great when I have to go against Lou (assuming I ever beat Raining Blood).

Edit: Damn it the Cult of Personality solo is hard.
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Flameboat · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject:

mtwieg · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject:

The amount of product placement in this game is ridiculous. I get music related stuff like musicman and fender and stuff, but Red Bull? Axe??

The sellout factor is even greater than the horrible songlist suggests. It's astounding.
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