Guitar Hero 2 on XBox 360

trezzer · Post by **trezzer** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:35 pm 0

For those of you who had whammy bar issues (I figure that would be all of you): There's a patch now that gets auto-installed when you run the game. It fixed all the issues here - tilting also reacts much faster now.

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:01 am 0

frak wrote:Tried playing on Hard earlier...
I'm afraid it's way too much for my stiff little fingers

Back to medium then and playing for laughs

I completed the first 5 tracks on hard, and man is it a step up. I doubt very much I will be able to complete them all on this setting.

frak · Post by **frak** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:25 pm 0

trezzer wrote:For those of you who had whammy bar issues (I figure that would be all of you): There's a patch now that gets auto-installed when you run the game. It fixed all the issues here - tilting also reacts much faster now.

Great!
I had zero issues until that damn patch. Now I can't even play the frikkin thing unless I choose not to log in. Bang goes access to live scores/achievements etc etc.

edit> Anyone else with this problem, just delete your accounts GH2 save and all should be well.

ShadowTail · Post by **ShadowTail** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:17 pm 0

Ratsoap wrote:I completed the first 5 tracks on hard, and man is it a step up. I doubt very much I will be able to complete them all on this setting.

I thought exactly the same thing on the PS2 version, but keep at it and you'll get better and better without realising it.

/Struggling like hell with Expert though...

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:52 pm 0

ShadowTail wrote:
Ratsoap wrote:I completed the first 5 tracks on hard, and man is it a step up. I doubt very much I will be able to complete them all on this setting.
I thought exactly the same thing on the PS2 version, but keep at it and you'll get better and better without realising it.

/Struggling like hell with Expert though...

Yeah, it's interesting, I went back to medium and did a couple of tracks, and 5 starred them easily on my first go. If only playing for real was that easy...

tentaclesex · Post by **tentaclesex** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:53 pm 0

I finally completed the campaign on Expert! I never managed to get past Freebird on the PS2... I think the X-Plorer makes things easier for me. The stronger action on the buttons along with their shape and placement feels a lot better.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:06 pm 0

GBH wrote:Is it as horrible to a real muscicanas I fear it is or can you actually get passed that and enjoy it even though you're hankering for 6 strings and a good amp?

I will have you know that after playing DDR I became the star on the dance floor!

Disclaimer : I haven't played DDR, just proving a point

louiecat · Post by **louiecat** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:57 pm 0

this really really hurts my hand (button hand) which is a pity. its a great game, but I'm too rusty for it methinks....

trezzer · Post by **trezzer** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:32 pm 0

tentaclesex wrote:I finally completed the campaign on Expert!

Me too. Still haven't completed Jordan on expert though. I plan to. Just need a wee bit o' practice. Or maybe a wee bit more.

Skah T · Post by **Skah T** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:46 pm 0

trezzer wrote:
tentaclesex wrote:I finally completed the campaign on Expert!
Me too. Still haven't completed Jordan on expert though. I plan to. Just need a wee bit o' practice. Or maybe a wee bit more.

I bow to you then

I completed GH1 on Expert, but can't get anywhere near it on the sequel. My problem is that, for the most part, I don't like the last couple tiers of songs. So when I get stuck I have no desire to hear the same crappy tune over and over again.

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:21 am 0

I played this again yesterday - it felt at some points like my fingers were going to fall off.........

I'm still struggling with a few of the tracks on medium so i've left them for now and gone back to try to push my scores up on some of the tracks i've already got 5 stars on.

I've also started working through the game on Hard difficulty - the first few tracks didn't pose too much of a problem - I was getting 75%+ of the notes.

Then I hit Mother (by Wolf Mother) and that insanely hard section about 60% of the way through. I think THAT is going to take some serious practice........

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:44 am 0

Yeah, the guitar solo is completely out of kilter with the rest of it. Try to get the first bit right, then you can star power through most of it and hope. It's miles easier after that one for ages. And it's Woman - Mother is the Danzig track

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WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:03 pm 0

Dio wrote:Yeah, the guitar solo is completely out of kilter with the rest of it. Try to get the first bit right, then you can star power through most of it and hope. It's miles easier after that one for ages. And it's Woman - Mother is the Danzig track .

Aaah, thanks for the pointers. I was cursing the other night because I managed to build up a goodly supply of star power only to accidentally raise the guitar head and have it deploy way too early.

I'm going to have another crack at it tonight hopefully.......

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:11 am 0

Yaaaaaay!! I finally 5-starred all songs on Medium AND managed to get through Woman on Hard.

It's true that the songs after Woman are easier to work through - i'm not failing them but at the same time my note hit ratio is pretty crappy - it's going to need some serious practice now - it seems the later songs force you to move your hand around much more (if you're to have any chance at all of hitting those blasted orange notes).

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:32 am 0

First step is to have the option of the default position being first finger on red, and shift down one and immediately back whenever you need the green. That will do you for about two thirds of the tracks (and is essential when you get to the long-sections-of-leap-about that you'll see in Sweet Child Of Mine and a few others.

Once you've got used to that you'll start to see places where you are best shifting your default position between green, red and even yellow if there's a tricky bit all on the top three notes.

Early on you'll often get horribly confused and find yourself pressing the wrong notes when your brain and fingers' idea of what position you should be in are out of sync; if this happens you'll panic, so when you feel that happening actually stop for a couple of notes - sync and recover rather than trying to bash on - if you concentrate on the idea that first-finger-red is the 'high priority' position you might be able to use that as a lever. Work through it, it goes away pretty quickly.

After that, you can just wind up the speed and look at getting the hammerons right. It becomes more and more like real guitar playing in that it's all about economy of effort; the less you need to move, the faster and cleaner you'll go.

You'll get to the point where the orange is surprisingly irrelevant to difficulty and only the speed of the track matters.