Re: Planned Weekend Gaming (withouth Want or Bins, hopefully...)

On 2008-05-30 10:08:34 +0100, "Chris Stevens" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

The Rev wrote:
Aren't you finding easy a bit *too* easy, though? Certainly my
experience of guitar and vocal is that even medium is a little on
the easy side...

I am definitely finding Easy too easy. It's actually not that
interesting. If I get less than 97% it's probably because the cat jumped on me, or
something.
But unfortunately Medium is too hard. Not for the most part - the vast
majority of songs on Medium are doable, even if some are a bit messy
(I can get through Celebrity Skin with no problem at all and get four stars,
even though I mess up the chorus completely every time) - but there
are some songs on Medium that are impossible.

Well, one so far. Which is Enter Sandman. Which (a) I hate and (b) we
need to do to complete the current stage of our World Tour. I fail minutes
before the vocals even start, so there's no chance of my wife saving
me.

It is, so far, by some distance the hardest song I've played. I found it harder on medium than a lot of other songs on hard.

That's why I'm going through the solo mode. Well, I'm going through
because it's ace fun and a proper new Guitar Hero game when you do it
that way, but I'm also going through to try and improve my skills and get to Enter
Sandman to try and learn it.

The trouble is that on Easy I can keep my hand in the same position,
so I know what colours my fingers are on. I can use my little finger for
the odd blue note, but I haven't got enough strength or control in it
to use it many times in a row, or for bits where I have to press blue
and another colour at the same time. So I have to move my hands
around and my fingers get completely lost and everything goes horribly wrong.

It was always the move up from medium (one finger per button, no need to move your hand) to hard (fingers everywhere) that got me. Something clicked the other night, though, and I just gave up on trying to return my hand to its usual medium position when playing hard and just winged it. Once you get away from rigidly associating one finger with each fret, it suddenly becomes a lot easier.

And! Also! I have no fucking rhythm so long, quick sections of the
same note are impossible for me. I normally get through about five
notes and then start to fail and can't get back on track. (And trying to strum up
and down instead of just using my thumb to flick the strum bar down
leads to disaster in all cases.)

I cannot, to save my life, manage to strum up and down on quick sections either. I can't remember the song, but on expert there was one that had a good minute or so of continuous, tightly packed in notes, and I'm sure that if I could master strumming up and down it would have been a relatively relaxed bit of the song. As it was, I was repeatedly tapping down and almost died of exhaustion by the end of the section. :)

Did you ever play Knights of Cydonia on GH3 on the harder difficulties? :)

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Zo

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