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Guitar Hero 3 Progress

tycage — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:17:24 +0000

I finally managed to get 5 stars on all the songs for Guitar Hero 3 on Medium. Knight of Cydonia and Raining Blood were the two that took me a lot of practice before I could do them. That’s done now and I’ve moved on to playing through career on Hard. I made it through the first stage already, but boy is my hand tired. Not all 5 stars of course, at this point, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to manage that. I guess it’s just a matter of practice though.

Assassin’s Creed

tycage — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:38:01 +0000

I finished Assassin’s Creed last night (mostly, I still have some achievements to finish, but I finished the main part of the game). It was quite an amazing game. The only complaints I have about it are that it was a little repetitive at times. I would have like more variety in the information gathering parts of the missions. Also, I would have liked the guard to have been a bit smarter. I could do some pretty extreme stuff right in from of them and they would only make snarky comments about it. Still, those things aside, the game was amazing. It had a great feel and the controls worked very well most of the time. The combat system, while starting out a little simple, does develop a little depth as the game goes on.

It is also a game that is what you make of it. You don’t have to be super stealthy with your kills if you don’t want to. I chose to go the stealthy/planning route, and I think the game was more fun because of it, but you don’t have to play it that way. I also took a lot of time to explore the story of the game. The game has a very strong plot and an ending that provides lots of fuel for speculation for the hoped for Assassin’s Creed 2. I had a great time playing it. Now I just need to finish finding all the flags so that I can get all my achievements for it.

Guitar Hero Update

tycage — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:52:56 +0000

I went back down a level to finish Guitar Hero on Easy to get the achievements involved. I finished that on the 16th and finished them all with 5 stars a couple days later. Now I’m trying to get all the songs with 5 stars on Medium before I make a serious effort on trying Hard, which in my experiments has been an ego crushing experience. Hopefully I’ll get better with practice. Xander is starting up trying the Medium difficulty today.

In other Guitar Hero related news, today the Halo Theme was released for free on Xbox Live. A very nice surprise for those of us that are fans of both games. It’s a lot of fun to be able to play.

GH3 Medium Done!

tycage — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:07:16 +0000

Just finished Guitar Hero 3 on medium. It was a ton of fun. I’ve still got to try to get 5 stars on all the songs, which is easier said than done. Then I’ve got to ramp up for Hard. I might go ahead and play Easy first just to get it out of the way for the achievement.

My Aching Wrist

tycage — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:56:15 +0000

I broke down and picked up Guitar Hero 3 yesterday (for the 360, of course). I had a ton of fun with it last night. The only down side of it is that my left wrist and fingers are a little bit sore today from all the playing I did last night. It is a tough game, and I’m only playing on the Medium settings so far, which uses 4 of the 5 frets on the guitar. When I finally decide to go to Hard, that’s going to be a huge adjustment. The game is a lot of fun though, and the kids are enjoying it quite a bit as well. I’ll likely let Xander give it a try this weekend, and see if he likes it.

Finished the Fight (Again)!

tycage — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:28:16 +0000

Three friends and I finished the fight on Legendary last night! It was a lot of fun to play through the game at that hard level with a group of friends. I highly recommend the experience to anyone who has finished the campaign on their own. It really gave a different feel to the game. Great job Bungie on finally giving us this awesome feature!

Finished the Fight

tycage — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:43:21 +0000

I just finished the fight! No spoilers. My reaction to the ending is mixed though.

Halo 3 Is Out!

tycage — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:48:54 +0000

I’ve played my first few minutes of Halo 3. I’ve got a migraine today, so I only played for about 30 minutes. I played a brief bit of single player just to see how it looks (it looks great in 1080p, by the way). Then I took a quick jaunt into multiplayer to try that out and won my first game! It looks like it is going to be lots of fun! Feel free to check out my service record.