The Shrine

I creamed through easy to help get familiar with the new songs and 5 starred everything in one try. Some were perfects. I'm glad i got that out of the way because easy is way too easy and while fun, medium is much more fun to me. Medium feels like you play most, if not all, of the notes in the actual song and with some difficulty. Hard, seems to play the same notes in the actual song as medium does, but throws in wickedly hard combinations just because...

The songs seem more hard rock than the last game, some songs i didnt recognize at all, but i like the list they put together as a whole. The 2nd set is the best with Heart Shaped Box, Message in a Bottle, and You Really Got Me. Some of my other favorites are John The Fisherman, Crazy On You, Jessica, and Psychobilly Freakout. What a song to end on, it was great.

I guess Easy doesnt unlock the encores or the last set, so i'll have to work my way through medium soon. I like to have the songs available for when i play with friends. Cant wait to bust out some co-op mode.

The co-op is really great in that game. Being able to have different levels of difficulty and different parts really ups the fun factor.

After beating the orignal on Expert, i couldn't go back to Easy or Medium, so I started on Hard with this one. Didn't even use the Star Power 'til the second last set, but they get relatively hard for the last 10 songs. I can't wait to get my ass handed to me on Expert.

I haven't played it since the Wii came out, though. It's been all about that system and Hardcore GoW since :-)

I blew through medium really quickly. It was just too easy. Hard was much more fun to play. I just need to complete Freebird on hard now (I hate playing through the first boring five minutes) and that'll be all of em.

Overall the track list from GH1 is better; much more solid than this one. Girlfriend? Barf! Stop might be an alright song if the singer from Jane's Addiction (and the cover) didn't sound like such a bag. There are some really awesome songs in this one though. Madhouse, Hangar 18, Beast and the Harlot, Crazy On You, and YYZ are the best of this bunch. Hangar is the new BaTM.

The co-op was fun for the wife and I for a while, but we've gone back to taking turns now as neither of us particularly want to play the rythm or bass parts.

I am blowing through medium, too. War Pigs was a crappy song to pick, they should have done Mamma I'm Coming Home or something. Love Carry On My Wayward Son.

Flip wrote:War Pigs was a crappy song to pick, they should have done Mamma I'm Coming Home or something.

Now you die!!

*blarg*

Warpigs probably would have been my choice after Crazy Train.

The first 4 sets of songs on Expert weren't particularly hard either, although I did have to use my star power a little more often. I'll let you know how the last sets are.

Stop might be an alright song if the singer from Jane's Addiction (and the cover) didn't sound like such a bag.

You die also!!

There are some really awesome songs in this one though. Madhouse, Hangar 18, Beast and the Harlot, Crazy On You, and YYZ are the best of this bunch. Hangar is the new BaTM.

Heh, I didn't dig these tracks at all. I haven't decided whether the track list in GH1 or GH2 is better, but GH2's is definitely a lot more rock.

I started on hard - I couldn't imagine not using that fifth fret, so medium was out. I've beaten all but the last three tracks and I think hard in GH2 is about the same level of difficulty as expert was in GH1.

Favourite tracks of mine:

Strutter
War Pigs (die Flip!)
Stop (original master, fuck yeah!)
Sweet Child O' Mine (of course)
Can't you hear me knocking (probably my favourite song of the lot, actually)
John the Fisherman (another original master, and awesome, even though I don't usually dig Primus)
Jessica (just really fun to play)
Misirlou (really fun to hear, but jesus, it's hard!)

The Freezepop song is a little weak, which was disappointing. Trogdor's inclusion is AWWWWESOME.

I forgot Stop wasn't a cover... it probably could have benefitted from one since it SUCKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! BWAH HA HA!

Mmmmmm......War Pigs......*drooooool*

While you are all playing cheap imitation guitars, and cheap imitation covers of cheap imitation rock bands, I'm singing with my REAL voice into a REAL (if shitty) microphone playing Singstar.

I ownz0r j00 all b1+[4es!!!!!

(Disclaimer: I bet the song list is actually pretty good in GH2, but I just enjoy talking the smack. )

TROGDOR!
TROGDOR!

Trogdor was a man
I mean, he was a dragon man
Or maybe he was just a dragon

But he was still TROGDOR!
TROGDOR!

Burninating the countryside,
Burninating the peasants
Burninating all the peoples
And their thatched-roof COTTAGES!

THATCHED-ROOF COTTAGES!

(Woah, this has wicked dueling guitar solos!
It's like, Squeedly versus Meedley over here.
Go Squeedly!
Go Squeedly!
SQUEEDLY WINS!)

When all the land is in ruin,
And burnination has forsaken the countryside,
Only one guy will remain.

My money's on TROGDOR!
TROGDOR!

And theTrogdor comes in the NIIIGHT...