New guy with a couple questions

**Dustan** · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

First off, hello. Found this site from google and it's amazing. You guys rock. just picked up gh3(ps3) for the wife and I for christmas. First time ever playing any music/rhythm type of game.

Even though I suck, and play on med/hard I really get a lot from this site. The note charts forums with some sp paths kick ass and really helped my scores.

Anyway enough running my mouth here are my questions.

Is it me or does the ps3 leaderboard online suck? Even with the limited filters it seems pretty useless. Is there something I'm missing?

Can I count my pro-battle scores on the wonderful score keeping system you guys have here or just use solo runs via quickplay?

Is anyone aware of a group of guys using this website who are at my skill level decent at med grinding through hard, that I could rock with and get better?

I've seen the topic a couple of times but I'll ask again in hopes of some fresh opinions, should I even bother with hard or just grind away at expert? It seems that I'm grinding anyway, so why not be working where the action is. To quote some cool guy from this site (forgot his name) or his friends name rather, fuck easy, fuck medium, fuck hard, expert is where its at. Words to live by?

Also if you see me online, come kick my ass ps3 ID: Demize

One last thing, why do I have 5 stars on almost every song on medium but cant 5* barracuda for the life of me, I'm better at it on hard than med!

**Silly**

Hello and welcome.

1. Everything with PS3 and online in the same sentence is doomed to failure, the online system is awful. That said, online on all systems is sucking recently.

2. If you're certain that you would have passed it in career/quickplay, you can use pro-faceoff scores.

3. Have a look in Rivalries forum, post a new topic saying where you're at, ask similarly skilled players to compete with you.

4. I worked up through Medium to Hard, then moved on to Expert. Do it how you want.

5. Barracuda is a bitch.
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**Dustan** · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

Thanks for all the input guys. I think I'm rushing because expert seems to be "where it's at". In the end, I still have fun playing the game. I'll check out the rivalry forum tonight and see if I can find come competition/motivation.

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**Dustan** · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

Geeoff, you nailed it! funny thing is, when I started this game i was an alt strummer, it just felt natural, then I got stuck on RB easy and my wife was like why not down strum stat section (as it was kicking my ass badly) and I did and it worked, so I abandoned the alt strum all together. Bad idea I guess, I think If I spend a day or two getting the hang of it again I could do it.

That and I read that on expert some songs have sections that almost require alt strumming.

off to practice.

Oh, and one more question, I know most on this site play expert but in general, what percentage of people would you say ever beat the game on expert, and of those how many go on to 5 star expert (el jeffe i think)?

realistically (not in the score hero world) how much of an accomplishment is this?

**Silly** · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:40 am Post subject:

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Christmas, and already doing well on hard. Is nice! Quick improvement, dude. You'll be rockin' expert in no time.

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**oorza** · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 35

Yeah, I'm jealous of you. I first got GHII last January and have played it religiously ever since and I'm just now being able to 5 star expert songs, and not all of them either, after a year of playing at least 20 hours a week (yes, I'm a loser). The first night I had it it took me hours, literally hours, to be able to pass the third tier of GHII on EASY. I have no natural sense of rhythm at all, so that sucks for me, but you've had it for less than a month and are rockin' out to hard? Man, you'll be great in no time.

Personally, I went medium -> hard through three or four tiers until I figured out the fingerings for five notes -> expert, but it's up to you. The biggest advantage to playing through hard (or disadvantage, depending on how you look at it) is hearing the songs that many more times, and you have a greater sense of the timing of the song and the beat and all that jazz. Speaking of jazz, there needs to be some John McLaughlin in GHIV, that guy's nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO0G8wv1lAQ&feature=related for proof.

Anyway, I'm rambling, so hang in there. I wish I had discovered SH before I tried expert, good luck and all that happy crappy

**Dustan** · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

I don't owe my limited success on hard to being good, I'm fucking addicted! Ive done an 18 hour session! (I'm the loser) My fret knuckles feel like I pummeled the shit out of someone when I'm at work during the day. My sleep schedule is totally messed up, look, its 5:50 am central and I work at noon.

I'll have to slow down when school starts again 2 1/2 weeks!

Kick ass game and fucking awesome community.

Anyway, thanks for the encouragement. I'm feeling good today, hard is introducing 3 note cords, so I feel like I'm learning and getting better. I'm also down to 3 normal career songs on med left to 5* then I can concentrate on hard a little more.

now its time to sleep.

**Boomsars** · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 1273 Location: Arkansas

Don't be so concerned with getting to Expert as quickly as possible. It's not necessary to enjoy the game, nor to be respected around this community. That said, a majority of the players around here do play on expert, simply because they have played the game so often. Advance through the difficulties as quickly as you like. A good example is the user Final Aeon (not meaning to call anyone out). He posted on this page and you can see his stats in his daily updating images. He's not spectacular player considering he does not have the log on any games, yet he is in a top 10 place in Easy and Medium on multiple games. This community is not just about expert. That's why there are SP Path forums for Easy, Medium, and Hard as well.

Also about the "Fuck easy, fuck medium etc.," guy, if you would have noticed, he's a doucebag in almost post he makes. But I'll stop before I get myself in trouble.

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About the "are pro face-off scores submittable?" question:

In all previous discussions that I've seen, the answer is always "yes, but it's frowned upon." It's unacceptable to submit PFO scores if you would have failed the run (most notable songs are One, TtFatF, and Jordan). And, since the only condition of submitting a PFO score is essentially that you could replicate it in single-player mode, then you might as well do that anyway.
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