Guitar Hero III - Misc comments and a few questions
When I first picked it up, I was really wondering whether or not it would be value added in any way in my life. Like I mentioned before, my TV has virtually no usage on it (until about two weeks ago) and sitting on my couch in front of the TV is not something I felt was missing in my life. GH III has managed to eat up about 45 minutes to an hour each night though. I started on easy and felt like I wimp. Moved up to Medium and got to the point that I could pwn any of the songs on it the first time around (at least in the first three groups). Moved up to hard last night. Since it was Saturday night, I didn't feel bad wasting more than an hour. Literally, I said "this is it, one more game and I'm hanging it up for the night" and I managed to finish - 89% on hit me with your best shot.
Got up this morning and got to where I can finish everything in the first two groups on Hard. Decided to go into Career mode. Moved back to medium for it. Finally got to Battle Tom Morello and got my a55 handed to me repeatedly until I learned to shock him by moving the guitar up. When I get to Atlanta tonight, I'll probably give it a go on hard just b/c I feel like a wuss if I'm not playing there. Winning was cool so far but it was medium so it doesn't really count.
I've found that although it's a waste of time in terms of productivity, it is very effective in terms of clearing the cache. No matter what's on your mind, after a few rounds of intense concentration, you've forgotten about it. To that end, I guess i'm ok with it. If I start spending more time on it or something though, I'll probably revert back to my original curmudgeonly ways.
--- Question though.... I really hate a lot of the songs on there. Poison? Barf. Foghat? Dude, you spilled the bong water. Hit me with your best shot is cool b/c even though it's wussyish, Pat Benetar is cool. The Killers? Uhhh. Barracuda? Bitchin but how many times can you play it? Painted Black - totally rules. So can you pull down other music? I went to the store and EVERYTHING Sucked. Not just sucked but sucked on wheels or at least so it seemed.
Is there a way to get stuff that in the words of Beavis and Butthead, Rules? Metallica (Old), Linkin Park, NIN, Prodigy???????????? or something along those lines? Even if not stuff that awesome, I'd settl,e for way cool, Pink Floyd or anything old school that didn't blow chunks. If so, pretty please, fill me in.
Slight rant - Back in high school, I'll cop to liking a lot of really whack stuff. College was even worse. But never did I go for Poison, or even know anyone that owned Poison cd that I knew of. They just sucked. Stewart might as well have worn a Poison shirt b/c Brett Micheals was no cooler than Kip Winger. Who on Earth made the call to put Poison in GH III? I could sort of see missing the ball and doing it in GH I. But I can only believe that kids of today must think Poison sucks and I know everyone in my day hated them. And that Social Distortion crap, WTF? I honestly never heard that song before GH III and I just feel dirty afterwards, like I've basked in a cesspool of unadulterated suckiness. I can almost hear Butthead saying "Change this or Kill me"
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So I've found that no matter how bad you suck the first time you play, you can get good quickly. I mean, I went from bombing out in the first section to busting pretty high numbers on Hard in under 2 hours. Sarah was playing with me too last night. She went from never playing to jamming in the 90s on Easy in under an hour and a half. Kim's still not playing but I'm hoping she will soon. However I tried Expert today and just got smoked. After repeated attempts, I wasn't getting better. So I can't say the same for expert but I'm guessing by this time next week, I'll change my tune. I just stubbornly kept going when I was sucking and got better fast so If you're playing now and suck, a little practice will get you there. Not even a lot of practice, just a little.
So if you can help me out with finding some better songs, I'll be indebted in a big way - if I can get any of the above 'cool bands' on there I'd be wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy appreciative.