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Guitar Hero 3: Cult of Personality – Expert… Seriously?

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Wow.  I’m definitely stuck now.  I’ve made it through everything up to Cult of Personality, the encore song in the 2nd to last group on expert (well, except for the expert guitar battle vs. Slash, but who the hell can do that anyway?).  I can make it to the first mini solo in a full combo, but then end up in the yellow during that mini solo.  Then I full combo to the actual solo and get booed off the stage within seconds.  The farthest I’ve made it yet is 68% and will never, or so it seems now, go further than that.

Anyone have any pointers?  I’ve tried doing it in practice mode, and can get through it pretty well on slow speed, but full speed just kicks my ass right out.

Knowing how to play guitar, it makes it even more frustrating, because you know the Living Colour guitarist was just moving his fingers within a scale form on the guitar and picking wildly.  That’s really where this game takes a sharp left turn from actually playing guitar because the patterns on the screen really have nothing to do with how the actual solo is played.

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The Quest for Eternal Lives

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Super Mario BrosI recently downloaded Super Mario Bros (the original NES version) on the Wii Virtual Console and tried playing it again. I remember when I was little, there were people who could get infinite guys by jumping on a turtle on the stairs at the end of level 3-1. After searching for a while, the only place I could find mention of it is here:

Super Mario Bros. Extra Lives on World 3
[From Cheats Addict]

At the end of the third world you will see two turtles coming down. Let the first turtle go then jump lightly on the second turtle so that it is standing still on the steps (this will take practice.)Jump on the turtle again, if you do this right it will keep bouncing into the other turtle and give you points.
After a while it will give you free men. Get as many as you wish, but be careful not to get more than 100 men because if you do when you die the game is over.

That’s impossible! After playing the game for a while, you’re careful not to do something like that because you might die. Can anyone do this? Or find a youtube video of it?

I wish I could do it though… That’s definitely going to be my goal over the next few weeks, especially since I’m stuck in Guitar Hero 3 on Metallica – One on hard and Disturbed -Stricken on Expert (the end of the solo kicks my ass right off stage every time).

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Wii GH3 Replacement…. 3 to 4 weeks!??!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

GH3 Replacement FormHoly crap.

Holy crap holy crap…

Step 1: Complete this form
Step 2: Send in your Guitar Hero 3 disc.
Step 3: Allow 3 to 4 weeks for your replacement to arrive.

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

Regardless of the fact that it’s just a game, I paid for it, and I shouldn’t have to wait 4 weeks. They’re doing this all wrong. I’m really glad that they’re owning up to their mistake and giving me a free replacement. But this should be done like any other RMA for a non-working product: I register, put in my credit card, they send me a replacement with an RMA envelope, and I send back the damaged hardware. Then, if I don’t send back my copy, they pay for the new copy with my credit card. I get my replacement promptly, they get their property back, and everyone’s happy.

Seriously, Activision, I’m definitely not happy with you right now.  First, GH3 has an audio problem, then Tony Hawk: Proving Grounds for Wii sucks, now this shitty replacement policy.

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