Unless you are jumping platforms, the older guitar hero controllers will work fine with the newer games. Vice versa, the GH3 controller will work with the older games as well.

Any suggestions would be great.

GH3 seems pretty buggy. I cant believe they didnt catch this in testing.

GH3 totally rules. I think in some respects, its easier than GH2, because I beat every single song on Expert the first time through without failing except for Slayer’s raining blood. I failed that once, but the rest I was able to either 4 or 5 star the first time around, including One. Maybe its because my learning curve happened during GH2, because I at first failed Freebird and hangar 18 a few times and have never passed Jordan (was able to get 98% on Six though – I’ve always been a speed picker, so Six was definitely easier than Jordan by far for me). But its probably because as so many of you have said, the margin of error on the hammer-ons is ridiculous. You don’t even have to think about the timing, you can basically just hit the buttons before they are off the screen and they will connect…definitely more fun, but definitely less challenging. I can definitely see why they did it, from a marketing perspective anyways. I think the relative difficulty of the songs is greater for GH3 though – that prototype song is crazy, and i haven’t unlocked it yet because I’m a bitch and I wanna do everything on expert straight up, but the dragon force song looks insane as well…can’t wait

But uh…I haven’t beaten Lou on Expert yet. Probably because my buddy got pissed when he lost a song and killed the power in the middle of a save which, as I’m sure some of you know with ps2, is a death sentence for your save file. I’m gonna try to do it without ever practicing which would be pretty sweet. I’m also gonna try to do it without seeing any of the super hardcore gamers do it on youtube

But yeah. this game kicks some serious ass to the point of distracting me at work and making me want to leave early…and I sit at a computer all day!!

It was a demo that handpicked some of the easier songs. Nonetheless, I stand by my statement still.

When I said the game is easier, I was implying OVERALL, not some handpicked songs. Dragonforce was obviously handpicked to be placed in the game because of all the GH forum’s fan wishlisting for something evil in difficulty. You don’t even get the song unless you beat career, so it’s a bonus as far as I’m concerned. If you want another hand picked one, try the Prototype bonus song. It’s a beast as well.

The mere fact I advanced through 30 consecutive songs of expert on GH3 without failing a SINGLE song, to me, implies that this game is easier than GH2. The hammer-on window being large has EVERYTHING to do with making the game easier. The arrangements being the only counter to that.

And the hammer-on arrangement in GH3, if you haven’t figured it out, is layed out like the real guitar counterpart. This is more intuitive to those who actually familiar with the real guitar arrangement. Just because you liked the predictable one-after-the-other hammer arrangement in GH2 says to me that you don’t sight read well and either work off memorization or intuition. Learn to watch the screen.

The intro to Through the Fire and Flames is a synthesizer harpsichord (which they make you play for some dumb reason) then followed by the mad picking part. Go watch Herman Li and his counterpart play this song. You’ll notice they don’t use hammers, just picking and sweeps there. There are plenty of hammer-ons in the song later. It’s not like its completely devoid of them. I’d have a more valid argument that the acoustic intro to My Name is Jonas SHOULD be strummed.

And I got through My Curse on expert on the second try. Ask Ron, he was there. To put things into perspective, I can’t for the life of me BEAT Freebird on expert still (damn you Solo J). Nevermind five starring most of those last set songs in GH2. I don’t practice the game to death like most. I don’t have time.

GH3, on average, is easier than GH2. The fact they packaged a large number easy songs with a handful of extremely hard song does not make the challenge well balanced. With that said, I find GH2 the better game still. GH3 wins points on a few technicalities, but at the end of the day ends up being trumped by the song selection of GH2.

That said, the track list is still pretty disappointing all in all. There are a few great songs, and lots of songs that are just blah.

WROKK ON!