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« Reply #950 on: December 28, 2008, 10:33:00 am »
I fucked up a potential 750k run, Missed SP at end of synth death, broke combo in grinding scales which i normally dont do, and choked on "you rock" I ended up with 716k.

I'm gonna start recording my runs soon.

Oh Isqueezed pretty well on Slow Ride which landed me 14th place.... nice!! tied with baseball kid again.

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« Reply #951 on: December 28, 2008, 07:03:00 pm »
Nice job man!

Oh, I beat 3's & 7's, I'm stucked on Before I forget, 35/42 on expert now, I never thought I'd go that far. I hope Before I forget won't be the end of my trip though... it's damn hard.

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« Reply #952 on: December 28, 2008, 09:18:00 pm »
Before I forget is deceptively hard at the bridge.

Ignore the Yellow/Orange chords and just hit the GY and RB chords, wait til you get to red, activate SP and you should easily get through this, just remember it's a LOT slower than you think. try to slow down and hit them as they come...

If you are not making it that far then I guess the chord changes are screwing u up. that just comes with try try and try.

Off topic--

I got 12 FC's in Aerosmith today, climbed up a good 200 ranks, haha I don't know what made me put this game back in my xbox but i did.
I choked on guitar perry guitar battle near the end again. The song isn't even hard it's just full of hammerons and you have to be so consistent. But nothing is really very hard about it at all.

EDIT: oh i tried it out a while back wabs.... If you enter with full green rock metre. and full SP. you can hit ONLY the GY chords as they come. wait til you almost fail. activate SP and just continue hitting the GY chords... I think you will leave the bridge in yellow health.

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« Reply #953 on: December 29, 2008, 06:01:00 am »
Another bridge tip: Use your index/ring finger only. Slide up and down each chord.

If its the rest of the song.. yeah, its rough chords

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« Reply #954 on: December 29, 2008, 10:41:00 am »
Finally beat TTFAF on Expert a week ago or so Also beat the rest of the dragonforce pack before that.

Only Devil left...I just can't belive the dude FC'd it

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« Reply #955 on: December 29, 2008, 06:55:00 pm »
I'm not making it that far indeed, I usually lose at 9%
Thanks for all the tips anyway, they are all *Ngamer's voice* noted.
I'll probably try that later, that seems too hard for now, I'll play some other things and come back to it.

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« Reply #956 on: December 30, 2008, 01:56:00 pm »
Just practice the beginning slowed down, wabs. Most of it is hammer-ons, so you just need to know what speed to move your left hand at, and when to strum.
nothin' moves me more than a groove that soothes me
nothin' soothes me more than a groove that boosts me
nothin' boosts me more, or suits me beautifully
there's nothin' you can do to me; stab me, shoot me

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« Reply #957 on: December 31, 2008, 06:19:00 am »
So the start goes (12) (23) (12) (23) 4 3 (12) (23) 3 4 3, right? Here is how I play it. Start with index/middle on (12) of course. Then going from 12 to 23 is just moving the 1 to the 3. Practice going back and forth between 12 23 12 23 12 23 by making that adjustment. The middle finger is an "anchor." Then on the 4 3 pull off, I KEEP MY (23) ON!!! Same with going from (23) 3 4 3. Play the (23) chord, strum again for the 3 note, hammer the 4 on and take it off. So when you hammer to 4, you've actually got 234 all being held down.

Basically, you never lift your middle finger, ever, in the intro. The only thing you really do is toggle your 1 and 3, and sometimes add the pinky when necessary. This feels a bit odd, so sit at the computer, put your hands on the desk, and practice keeping your middle finger on the desk while alternating between your index and ring tapping on the table. A couple minutes and you'll be ready to go on the guitar.

Good luck!

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« Reply #958 on: January 01, 2009, 01:15:00 am »
Could Kingpin or someone set these guys straight, please?

http://perfectdarkelite.yuku.com?topic=14151?page=2
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« Reply #959 on: January 06, 2009, 07:15:00 pm »
Got into a pretty good groove last night five-starring stuff, all I have left is Before I Forget and all the songs in tier 8.
nothin' moves me more than a groove that soothes me
nothin' soothes me more than a groove that boosts me
nothin' boosts me more, or suits me beautifully
there's nothin' you can do to me; stab me, shoot me

Wabs

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« Reply #960 on: January 10, 2009, 01:54:00 pm »
Before I forget beaten.
My tries tonight on Before I forget were like this : died at 3% - 5% -3% (lol...) - 9% - 11% (that was the furthest I ever went!!!) then right after 21% and... 100%.
I was full red for maybe 75% of the song, it's crazy I didn't die but eh, that's great !
octo: your tips helped a lot, thanks! Although it confuses me a bit because it means I don't get how all this stuff works.
I don't understand how you can keep (23) on and then play 3 4 3 and it works!Huh? I thought it would count the first 3 as a (23) hence it wouldn't play a 3 note alone but oh well... it works and all your tips were VERY useful, I had no clue you could do this so I guess I wouldn't have beaten this song without your advices.
Thanks again.

Now I need to survive the second solo of Cult of personality...



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« Reply #961 on: January 10, 2009, 03:24:00 pm »
Cult of personality will take some practice. You will do it though, it's not too big a step up in difficulty, it's just the eigth tier that you will hate...

You can hold any note down as long as it's lower, try "the metal" at the very start of the song it goes (GR)(GR)(Y)(GR)(GR), so for that part you would hold down GR the whole time! same as TWIE's, you will notice I have the lower note held the whole time http://uk.youtube.com/wat...OtwA&feature=channel_page

You can not do this on Chords though. you have to hold down only the notes shown. but if you wanted to play a single orange note, you could hold down GRYBO and strum and it would register fine, because they tried to simulate a real guitar when they made the game. It's basically a 1 string guitar, and if you pin down the string at the yellow, it wouldn't matter what you did with Green or Red it wouldn't alter the sound on a real guitar either.

Now you probably need to learn about anchoring lower notes for Cult Of Personality, there are lots of short trills 454545454545 sections, you would hold down 4 the whole time and keep tapping the 5's as they come. it will make your life a lot easier. and save your hand from getting tired etc.

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« Reply #962 on: January 11, 2009, 10:15:00 pm »
Five-starred One! 403K.
nothin' moves me more than a groove that soothes me
nothin' soothes me more than a groove that boosts me
nothin' boosts me more, or suits me beautifully
there's nothin' you can do to me; stab me, shoot me

GuitarFailKid

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« Reply #963 on: January 21, 2009, 09:00:00 am »
1000note streak Ttfaf (intro onwards) no new pr though.

edit: Stricken FC

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« Reply #964 on: January 21, 2009, 10:49:00 am »
Nice stuff man!
I haven't beaten cult of personality yet, the 2nd solo is damn hard, it starts at 64% of the song and the furthest point I reached was 77%... I usually lose short after my star power ends...
I won't give up though. I save my giving up skills for Tier 8.

GuitarFailKid

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« Reply #965 on: January 21, 2009, 11:24:00 am »
I challenge you to beat the song before I FC it.. i'm currently at -3.

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« Reply #966 on: January 21, 2009, 02:17:00 pm »
Haha, fun challenge, well, let's try!

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« Reply #967 on: January 23, 2009, 11:55:00 am »
Challenge completed!
Cult of Personality Expert beaten, wOOt!
I think I wasn't strumming enough actually, since I'm still missing many notes in the second solo. I just strummed a lot more than usual and it helped well.
Final result is 80% but who cares...
Now, my giving up skills are ready for Tier 8... ha ha!

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« Reply #968 on: January 23, 2009, 12:42:00 pm »
Tier 8 isn't so bad. Start with Cliffs of Dover, then do One. For the One solo, keep your bottom finger down, strum very fast and flail the other two fingers, and don't activate star power until you get into the yellow/red line. Then Number of the Beast isn't bad either, the solo is short so SP gets you through and the rest is just fast chords that aren't too hard. Then we'll talk about Raining Blood when it is your last thing left It is the hardest

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« Reply #969 on: January 23, 2009, 02:25:00 pm »
damn! good job. I didn't even attempt a real run of Cult Of Personality becuse i started getting terribly inconsistent at the solo's in practice mode, but good job man!, I challenge you again to beat RB before I FC

Nothing for me Here
Cult Of Personality
Holiday in Cambodia
Rock you like a hurricane

they are all -1's and RB could take you a lil while, and i'm close on all of those songs, sooooo that might be a more realistic challenge to set me, I need something to push me harder seeing as I already lost on the first one.

Black Sunshine FC 1st try today.

I hardwired my Les Paul too, it works just.... beautiful

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« Reply #970 on: February 06, 2009, 07:28:00 am »
I have this game for Wii. I've finished everything on expert except TTFAF (best: 78%). Some of my scores are here: http://community.guitarhero.com/accounts/625842 - I got a lot of my scores while offline and they didn't get uploaded, but I'm slowly playing the songs again, trying to get all my PRs onto the website and improving them as I go. Also focusing on 5 staring everything.

There's a GH3 tournament in my town in a month's time. I plan to dominate.

Edit: My friend has World Tour, and I've finished 93% or so of that on expert guitar. There's a few songs I couldn't get (BYOB...), so I dropped it to hard for those ones. Kind of annoying how the game doesn't give a completion percentage for each difficulty.

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« Reply #971 on: February 06, 2009, 08:39:00 am »
^little things like percentages makes a huge difference in games IMO.

I didn't know you playd GH3. And that you are actually really good at it aswel. good luck with the tourny you sound like you will most likely win, as long as no-one from scorehero enters.edit: no offense buddy

Speaking of scorehero.com u should upload your scores there. I couldn't view the other link. its said (I rocked out too hard)

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« Reply #972 on: February 12, 2009, 03:01:00 am »

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« Reply #973 on: February 12, 2009, 05:23:00 am »
Devil Went Down To Georgia 4* - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VV6jyuBbvM

Pretty awful attempt but I thought some of you might like to see it since most of you play on Wii or whatever.

GuitarFailKid

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« Reply #974 on: February 12, 2009, 08:06:00 am »
^I'm an Xbox360 User now Neo.

You stopped playing for 6months damn.

You must a pretty hard to maintain Girlfriend or something now.

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« Reply #975 on: February 12, 2009, 08:09:00 am »
Oh cool, we should play sometime... but from the looks of it you'd totally kick my ass now.

Anyway, I stopped playing because I wasn't really getting any better, and I got bored with almost all the songs. Only threw it back on today to up some videos for some friends who wanted to see how good I am. >_> I'll eventually pick up RB/WT/something when/if they come down in price.

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« Reply #976 on: February 12, 2009, 02:20:00 pm »
Hehe, that DWDTG run is exactly 50 points over the 4-star cutoff!

I wish I had access to this song I've played it once or twice but can't remember my score

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« Reply #977 on: February 15, 2009, 12:01:00 pm »
Yeah Neo we can play whenever you want buddy. Just incase you wanna add me any time Skatergamer0209 is my GT.

I just choked on a 750k Run of ttfaf, resulting in 734124, which puts my ttfaf at a 6star. which means everysong in the game is now at a 6star.. NICE!

EDIT: I hit 24mil too.

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« Reply #978 on: February 15, 2009, 05:10:00 pm »
Quote from: Kingpin0072001
damn! good job. I didn't even attempt a real run of Cult Of Personality becuse i started getting terribly inconsistent at the solo's in practice   mode, but good job man!, I challenge you again to beat RB before I FC  
 
  Nothing for me Here  
  Cult Of Personality  
  Holiday in Cambodia  
  Rock you like a hurricane  
 
  they are all -1's and RB could take you a lil while, and i'm close on all of those songs, sooooo that might be a more realistic challenge to set me,   I need something to push me harder seeing as I already lost on the first one.
Sorry, I forgot to answer Kingpin.
Well, I accept the challenge but no way I can win this one!
RB is the hardest of the 4 songs and I can't even beat the easiest song of the 4 which is Cliffs of Dover I guess. I'm gonna try that one first, then The Number of the Beast and One and maybe in one year, I'll beat RB!

Anyway, I have a few questions:
_ what are the exact requirements needed to 4-star and 5-star a song? Is it only the score that matters or do the percentage and the streak matter too?
_ what are these 6-7-8 stars you're talking about? ^^

Thanks for your tips GH boys!


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« Reply #979 on: February 15, 2009, 05:26:00 pm »
How many stars you'll get depends on what your average multiplier is.

4 stars = 2.0 average multiplier

5 stars = 2.8

6 = 3.6

7 = 4.4

As you can see, the number between these cut offs are 0.8.

Do you play with the guitar that came with GH3, Wabs? I've heard that it's really bad on PS3 (lag and stuff), so I think you should perhaps consider buying the new World Tour guitar or something. It's not fair if you've got a faulty guitar.

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« Reply #980 on: February 15, 2009, 05:57:00 pm »
I do play with the guitar that came with GH3 for PS3 and I often think it's not working well but I keep saying myself "you fool, you're looking for excuses, it's not the guitar, it's just that you suck" and that's probably the truth.
Anyway, after what you said, I might consider buying World Tour and its guitar! Just to be sure.

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« Reply #981 on: February 16, 2009, 05:41:00 pm »
The game only keeps track of 3, 4, and 5-stars. Only at ScoreHero do people keep track of higher-starred runs.  Average multiplier is directly linked to score, so you can actually look up on SH what exact score you need to obtain a 4-star, 5-star, and so on.

Hmm, I see the PS2 version of this game at a decent price online... I may just purchase it. My Wii guitar is junk and I'm never using it again, and I'd rather pay 30 bucks and play on PS2 with my sweet cherry SG than pay 45 bucks to get a new (shitty) Wii guitar. I'm craving this game again

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« Reply #982 on: February 16, 2009, 06:39:00 pm »
I'd say you should at least consider buying World Tour then. Or perhaps check if there's some other third-party controller that works well. I've pretty much only heard bad things about the PS3 guitar for GH3.

You may find stuff here out of interest and it's a very good place to ask about this sort of stuff: http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=33

Also, would be nice if you re-bought GH3, Cyber. Even though it's not as great as GHII and it lags on some songs on PS2 (Neversoft really seems to hate PlayStation). You could pull off some neat stuff, I'm sure.

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« Reply #983 on: February 17, 2009, 12:28:00 am »
When you say PS3 guitar for GH3 has some problems do you mean one that comes in a PS3 bundle or my actual PS2 cherry SG? I don't own a PS3 console either way.

And I'm not getting World Tour for sure. My friend has it, and while it has some neat songs, it kinda sucks for guitar on expert. Plus the whole fretboard, interface, and engine piss me off  I'm not spending more than 30 bucks on GH stuff right now since I really shouldn't be playing much anyway; tons of school/career stuff that I should really be focusing on.. hehe.

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« Reply #984 on: February 17, 2009, 02:08:00 pm »
It's the Les Paul guitar for PS3 (and PS3 only.. but the Wii one seems to be bad to when reading your post) that has got some problems with lag and stuff. Your PS2 cherry SG will work fine for GH3 on PS2, though, it's the game itself that can be a little laggy on a few songs when activating star power. I've experienced it on Knighs of Cydonia for example. But overall it's good:>

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« Reply #985 on: February 17, 2009, 11:05:00 pm »
I will miss it on the Wii version how all the menus/songs load up insta quickly! And I'm so horrible at Knights of Cydonia that the lag shouldn't hurt my terrible score too much

Purchased this via Amazon yesterday for 30 bucks, and it should arrive early next week!

I was looking through the tech forums on SH, and I saw something interesting that might help my Wii controller. Detaching the neck, unscrewing everything and rubbing some kind of lithium grease on the frets. Maybe I'll give it a shot some day... it'd be nice to press the buttons and they actually go down and register. Though I hate the strum bar on the Wii too... just hate the sound it makes. I seem to be so much better at fast strumming on the PS2 SG since I can hear myself so much clearer with the nice noise it makes.

And my goal is to 5-star everything. Last time I played GH3, I still needed Nothing For Me Here (my worst song ever)!! Raining Blood... which should be pretty easy actually now.. and of course TtFaF which I'm excited to not suck at.

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« Reply #986 on: February 18, 2009, 07:30:00 am »
I think the main problem with the Wii's guitar is the crappy whammy bar, mine gave out pretty quickly, and so did Octo's I think, yet my 360's les paul is fine. I had to hardwire it in the end though so the frets didn't cut out but I generally stick to the World tour guitar at the moment anyway.

I think you will get Nothing for me here 5* with no trouble at all now, same with RB seeing as you can pull off far sicker shit on GH2.

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« Reply #987 on: February 18, 2009, 04:50:00 pm »
Hehe, I hope so!

And yeah, my Wii whammy bar is pretty bad. It works fine if you whammy with it, but it's in desperate need of Viagra... and I don't want to always have to cradle it.

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« Reply #988 on: February 18, 2009, 10:07:00 pm »
I was bored today (extremely fucking bored actually)

So I ran through career again with lefty flip for the Hendrix Reborn acheivement, it was SO TEDIOUS, but I wanted the acheivement so meh.

Then I FC'd the setlist on easy difficulty? Purely for scorehero purposes. But It's something i've always thought about doing. Might do Medium another day. A funny fact is that I didn't miss a single note, i fc'd every song first try. thank god.

ttfaf on medium will be fun!! not.

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« Reply #989 on: February 20, 2009, 03:48:00 pm »
Just got GH3 in the mail today (that was fucking fast!)

I realized my brother had data saved on this memory card from the last time he played it on PS2 a couple years ago, so all the bonus songs were already unlocked. Needless to say, I went right for TtFaF! It was a bit frustrating at first, and took some getting used to... hyperspeed 3 seems to work best for me. I only played this song a few times through.

Previous best before today... like 420k or some crap.

Just got - TtFaF - 541k!

Wow, and this is my first day with this song again, no particular path in mind, and lots of mistakes. Good to know that the 5-star should be in reach with some actual practice! Wish me luck guys!

Oh yeah, and I 5-starred Nothing For Me Here (like 170k) 3rd try. Man I hate this song! That stupid GGRR[RY][GR] or whatever riff was usually the combo-killer on these runs. Not gonna play this song for a long time! I'm excited to try to 5-star Raining Blood after I work my way down the setlist

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« Reply #990 on: February 20, 2009, 06:51:00 pm »
Nice one!, I didn't doubt you for a second. A five star of every song on this game shouldn't take you long at all. As you say GH2 is harder anyway.

And that was fucking fast!

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« Reply #991 on: February 21, 2009, 02:32:00 am »
As I was going down the setlist, I managed a -3 on Welcome to the Jungle (still crappy score) and a -1 on The Metal, which I haven't FC'ed on the Wii, lol. Up to Stricken currently. I'll play more tomorrow... my fingertips kinda hurt now! >_<

Looks like I'm beginning to average about 530k each run on TtFaF. I really just need to get consistent at a few different sections. I'm guessing my best bet is to keep an 8x through both Grinding Scales I and II. I also really suck at Synth Death... usually hit or miss with this one. That one part early on in the song that goes YRG BRG ORG YRG I now tap, because it makes me look cool and I'm more consistent than doing it one-handed, lol.

From what I remember, I usually average:

 80-90k after the intro.
195-215k after Bridge I.
290-305k going into Synth Death.
And I think anywhere from 360-395k after Grinding Scales II.
Possibly 425-450k right after the crazy solos are over (is it called Here we Stand?)

If anyone can give me some good benchmarks for any of these spots for a 5-star run (566k?) I'll get a better understanding of where I really suck.

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« Reply #992 on: February 21, 2009, 10:21:00 am »
try to hit 90-100k after the intro, that first long pause. (I occasionaly get 70k lol, it doesn't really matter just make up for it elsewhere)
320k entering synth death
and I think 490k at that famous 83% mark, on the 3note chord of freedom thing. From memory, that's what I used to aim for. Not 100% certain on the 490k but I think so!

EDIT: are you updating your scorehero's page? bcutsdeep?

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« Reply #993 on: February 21, 2009, 03:22:00 pm »
Thanks for the benchmarks. I'm not sure if I want to update my Scorehero yet. All my scores are on the Wii, and I don't want to input the few scores that are better from PS2. I'm also not sure if I want to re-FC every song with paths and actually "go" for high scores again on PS2.

High score on TtFaf - 545k (4.8 stars)
Also played The Way It Ends - good 1st run in terms of notes hit, but i hit 9/15 SP phrases! I overlapped one, and I think I somehow missed 5 others. It could have been a good score, but wasn't even over 500k because of this.

Quick TtFaf question: For Post-Insanity (I think thats it - the part right after the intro HO's) do you guys find it's easier to keep a combo while anchoring green? Currently I alternate between each fret, but I might try this method if it's more consistent.


EDIT: Just finished going through the main setlist. Lots of PR's from my "first try" on each song

Raining Blood - 250k first try (5-star, lol), previous best was like 214k. This run kinda sucked, but wasn't hard at all.

Cliffs of Dover - 271k, previous best 238k. Lots of dumb mistakes

Number of the Beast - 583k, previous best was a pathetic 524k. Messed up SP a bit on this one.

One - 575k, previous best was 462k. This took 2 tries. The first time I FC'd up to Fast Solo A, then failed at the very end of the solo. The next run I missed once/twice before Fast Solo A, but saved SP so I wouldn't fail... not sure if I needed it that time. Oh well. A less embarrassing score.

Then beat Lou first try! My fingers hurt (mainly just my pinky, which has this weird hangnail or something on one side which makes it kinda painful to play/slide over the frets. I should focus on school stuff for the rest of the day.... I think.

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« Reply #994 on: February 22, 2009, 12:01:00 am »
I kept benchmarks for TTFAF but just deleted them all. I believe I was around...

95K intro
220K bridge I
330K into synth death
?? forget my benchmark before the solos, maybe 410K?
470K after the solos

My key for jumping from 540K to 570K was grinding scales. As you said, you need to FC both. Other than that it is just being consistent on the other streams. I have a video on youtube of like 555K but without a whammy bar so the path etc gets all screwed up, it's basically 5* cutoff quality run with whammy, so its a good benchmark for what you need to hit, I guess. Atleast one way to do it. My channel is "octoinky" I'm too lazy to find the vid but if you care enough it'll take you like 30 seconds tops

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« Reply #995 on: February 22, 2009, 10:25:00 am »
I have uploaded a clip of Grinding scales and synth death to show you how I do it, You can't see my hands but you can hear my strumming, it's taken from my ttfaf 5star run with no SP which I havn't uploaded because it's pretty shameful, I made the 5star cutoff by about 3 notes or something rediculous it was the 2nd try of the day though so my fingers were not warmed up to it at all I can upload if you wanna see it but it's just basically a bad video of all my stupid mistakes, but It's still a 5star nonethe less i guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAkrrMi0fP8
LOL. now as you can see I was at 310k at the start of it and by the end i'm at 410k ish, and that's without SP so you can see how important that part is, and it's easy too! Id highly recommend practicing this section then I reckon you could get a five star everytime even on your shittiest of runs. I did miss at the end though. but meh.

Notes:
I tap the Red and Yellows in synth death with my Middle/Ring fingers, You may find it awkward but that's how I do it;
The trills at the end of synth death I do with my 1 and 2 fingers. you just have to be quick to jump your hand back up to the green fret after it's finished.
Then at least give this strumming a go, I find it's WAY more consistent that stright alt strumming through it I don't hardly ever miss in this part.
I let my strum bar back to the neutral position after every set of strums aswel. then just flick it Down/up, or DUDU for the quad. etc.

It's definitely the part you wan't to be able to hit in this song consistently. it's the only thing that saved me from the 4star on this run.

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« Reply #996 on: February 23, 2009, 01:27:00 am »
A few PR's from one/two runs through some songs:

Same Old Song And Dance - FC. Probably a couple thousand under my old PR since I didn't use an SP path and I know it was wrong.

The Metal FC - 283k I think. Again, not a perfect SP path, just kinda hazy one from memory. Didn't overlap tho...

Down and Dirty - 402,500. -5 I think?

Welcome to the Jungle - 330kish? -3 I think

Pride and Joy - 340kish... bad SP path (overlapped one) -3 I think

3's & 7's - 375kish, missed once I think about 75% through the song

Cliffs of Dover - 299k. 997 note streak. Somehow I just randomly tapped the intro without practicing and hit it, and didn't miss again until the ending reverse-tapping. Bad ending though, and screwed up SP path.

Impulse - 303k I think. Decent

No progress yet on TtFaF. I suck too much at grinding scales.

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« Reply #997 on: February 23, 2009, 04:26:00 pm »
Through the Fire and Flames - 564,479. 4 fucking stars. 90%. Multiplier of 2.790. I want to kill myself.


EDIT: On a less depressing note:

Same Old Song and Dance - FC - 211,641
La Grange - FC - 250,740
Welcome to the Jungle - FC - 352,222 (took way too long... fucking annoying sweep of notes)
Even Flow - FC - 358,364

Decided to update some of my scores on the PS2: http://www.scorehero.com/...p=4&game=5&diff=4

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« Reply #998 on: February 24, 2009, 05:10:00 pm »
This is post #999 in this topic because #1000 is about to be EPIC

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« Reply #999 on: February 24, 2009, 05:13:00 pm »
Through the Fire and Flames - 588k, 5.1 stars. 91%

YES!!!!!

I had about 417k coming out of grinding scales and I knew it would be a good run, or at least very close. I did, however, miss the star power right before The Twin Solo and then the OO-RR-OO-RR one after Here We Stand. It's okay though! SO HAPPY!!! Grinding Scales 2 - I came up with my own little method when I strum most of it, then use hammer ons at one certain part.

Also:

Rock and Roll All Nite - FC - 233k

Re-FC'd the first 2 tiers on the PS2 and put more scores in. The only non-100% score I have in is TtFaF, hehe.