[taidan]

So I got to Lou on Expert.

He's pretty tough.

Rather, I should say that the song isn't impossible, but I have to get better at it with powerups getting in my way.

Right now I just want to beat him via the cheap way (lucky whammy powerup right before his string of green notes), but to perfect my technique I want to beat him fair and square.

People at scorehero proclaim that if you can't beat him fair on expert "you suck". I mean, I guess you do compared to the very best, but I think if you're good enough to beat the rest of Expert, get some five stars in most of the previous sets, you're still pretty good compared to the entire player base.

Guess I was wrong!

[belthegor]

Yeah, they're full of it. That boss battle is still the worst idea for a final challenge ever and has nothing to do with you sucking. It's about as skill-based as winning a slot machine.
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[km]

[belthegor]

By the way, after like 30 tries, I finally won that stupid boss battle with the whammy powerup trick. I'm so glad I'll never have to do that again.
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[BalbanesBeoulve]

Jesus christ, this game is an ugly piece of shit.
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[taidan]

[Monthenor]

I'm reading entire threads in this forum between songs, because I forget the game is on! The screens explaining the boss battle rules have no music whatsoever to remind me I should be rocking.

I'm really not compelled to go through Expert after doing Hard. It makes me a little sad.

EDIT: Whoa. And once again, it swings from blah to good. Even though it's a slower song, the Expert note chart for the bonus song "Avalancha" is more compelling for me than most of the regular songs in the game.

EDIT DEUX:

[belthegor]

[taidan]

so it is determined - I can five star the first 5 3/5 sets in the game on expert, and I can't beat the final boss. I got the whammy once on the first powerup and failed before I could use it because I freaked the fuck out.

I don't know what it is - for some reason I mess something up on that first powerup, and since I can't practice it, I don't know what I'm doing (other than panicking) to do it.

I don't actually hate the boss battle despite this - its epic and cute and aside from an achievement and some money I'm missing out on nothing really. I still want to beat it though, and I think I'd be a little happier with it if it was like the first two boss battles - relatively easy to play the song, and you both get a fair amount of power ups. I beat Slash by blocking his powerups and using my own at the right moments. In other words, strategy. The final battle doesn't toss anything your way for a while, and when it does its not easy to land it under pressure.

Though according to score hero, its "not that hard" to FC it until the first solo. How could I forget?

[Deets]

Can you play any of the boss battle songs on their own, outside of the context of the singleplayer mode?

[taidan]

[belthegor]

[belthegor]

[taidan]

[taidan]

[belthegor]

[Monthenor]

Finally beat Lou on Hard last night, after 45 minutes of trying, and it didn't feel satisfying at all. It felt like an accident.

Guys, please re-hype me for this game. Please.

[km]

I think I've figured out what I don't like about this game:

I very rarely feel like I'm rocking out. A lot of the songs are just long, long, long stretches of the same goddamn note or pattern of notes. Anarchy in the UK, Barracuda, and that Sonic Youth song spring to mind. They might be good songs (except anarchy, ugh, why did they record that again?), but they just aren't like HELL YEAH I'M ROCKING OUT. At the end of Anarchy I was really really happy that I 5-starred it because I honestly really did not want to have to play it ever again. When your game is pretty much sold on it's replay value, that's a pretty bad thing.
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[Monthenor]

[taidan]

[km]

[Monthenor]

[SplashBeats]

[Leau]

Kind of not related and kind of is; Did anyone buy this for the PS2? I'd like to know how the new guitar is. I've still just got the original from GH1 and I've never thought the whammy bar on it is as accurate as it should be. Is this a noted problem? Have subsequent guitars been significantly better, or should I not bother?
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[taidan]

[Monthenor]

[taidan]

The first time I played Yes We Can it was so bad I forgot what it was like.

The second time I played Yes We Can I said I'm not doing this ever again, even if it means missing out on an achievement.

I stand by my oath.

[Monthenor]

Well, I've already told you the lengths I went to to avoid Yes We Can at home.

The only time I played it, I was at the office and playing on a buddy's card. I was all "okay, I have to try this once, it couldn't possibly be as bad as Farewell Myth". By the time the "singing" actually started, my jaw was hanging open. A coworker was watching, mystified that such a thing could exist.

And when I got through the drill-whistle breakdown, and that glorious clear stretch of notes seemed to signal the end of the song, and then another verse appeared?!? I wanted to cry. I wanted to drop the guitar in the office and just cry. It's such a horrible guitar part, embedded in such a horrible song, that I have to assume the lead "singer" is blowing somebody at Harmonix.

Oh lord. Punk/salsa/reggaeton?

[SplashBeats]

jesus it's like you guys have never heard a shitty prog song before
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[taidan]

[Monthenor]