Guitar Hero Difficulty

What difficulty level do you usually play your Guitar Hero games at?

I find that Normal is the most enjoyable for me. It's not too hard to keep up with the game and I can enjoy the music and pretend that I'm jamming along. Once I up it to hard I don't listen to the music as much and it becomes a chore at times to finish a level. I've never even tried expert so I don't know how that goes. I guess I'm old fashioned in that I like to feel like I'm pretend playing rather than hammering on random colored buttons because they appear on the screen in a frantic effort to keep up.

Well, it depends on which game. If it's Guitar Hero 3, I play Hard, because Expert is just ridiculous. Any other one, I play Expert-- probably not right away though, since I haven't played in a long time-- I'd need to brush up again playing on Normal/Hard.

I generally like to play games slightly more difficult than my skill level. Overall, I say 'Hard'.

I've played it one time. I used easy!

Normal mostly. I can play Hard mode, just not as good as I can on Normal. So I mostly play it on Hard when my friend's over on Co-op.

Expert. Though I yet have to try world tour and haven't beaten GH III on this difficulty. Slayer is just... gragahdk

I play on expert, until I get to the last set of GH III, then I pretend those songs don't exist and play them on hard. :D

Haha qwerty XD I did the same thing.

I tend to play Hard most often though. I find Normal is just too easy to beat my brother on. xD

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Originally Posted by Pete for President

Expert. Though I yet have to try world tour and haven't beaten GH III on this difficulty. Slayer is just... gragahdk

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exactly
i generally hammer out all the expert songs 5 star on my first playthroughs (like on GHWT, when i havent heard half of the songs before)

I'm such a Guitar Hero wuss. :(

haha keep practicing mullet
the speed and movement will come naturally

I usually play on Hard. Expert is just too much on most songs, but I can handle Hard most of the time and it's still complex and fast enough to be challenging and a lot of fun.

Oh come on, I'm a man. Expert.

Wow, the three active users that start their usernames with "I" posted all in a row. That has to be worth something, right?

I play on Expert, but I'm by no means top tier expert - there are still many songs I cannot beat on Expert. I'm still noticeably improving though, which is nice.

I remember trying and trying to get that orange note. Than one day I woke up and I could magical do it with no problem. Anyways...

I try and play Expert always. Unless it's one of those insane songs that I have to play it on hard. :[

I like hard because when you play it for long enough, you start getting that instinctive note hitting going on; you reach for a note, and hit it without thinking about it; then you REALLY feel like you're playing the instrument!

I don't like expert because that's just like brute memorization and practice and I haven't beaten it on GH yet.

I'm a borderline Hard/Expert player. I can handle the easier songs on Expert, but songs like One eat me alive on that difficulty. At least on Hard, I can still pass the song.

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Originally Posted by Rantzien

I've played it one time. I used easy!

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I am to the point where I solely play on Expert. However, unlike every other person, it seems, that has posted in this thread, I can beat every song on Expert relatively easily at this point.

On GH3 I've FC'd about 10 songs on Expert. 5 stars on all the regular songs except for Raining Blood, which I'm about 10k away from 5-starring.

I'll give you info on GHWT in a little over a week, when I finally get to play it.

I play it on normal. Easy is too easy and hard gives me sore fingers. I've pretty much mastered Stellar on hard though.

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Originally Posted by Blue Harvest

I play it on normal. Easy is too easy and hard gives me sore fingers.

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My pinky finger does absolutely nothing, so anything more than normal is way too hard for me :(

I can't physically use the blue button, any of the other ones are fine though :(

Not enough pawpads you see...

Since guitar hero sucks dick, I listen to certain songs (perhaps featured in the games) and do other 'constructive' things.

I play on expert, and on gh3 I can beat every song in the normal game on expert except raining blood(and would probably get my ass owned with the final battle...), and I only bought 4 extra tracks that I can beat. Prayer of the Refugee, My Curse, Take this Life(:D), and Generation Rock.

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Originally Posted by Pete for President

Expert. Though I yet have to try world tour and haven't beaten GH III on this difficulty. Slayer is just... gragahdk

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But I have tried World Tour and was fine on everything I tried

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Originally Posted by Pete for President

Expert. Though I yet have to try world tour and haven't beaten GH III on this difficulty. Slayer is just... gragahdk

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But I have tried World Tour and was fine on everything I tried

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I bought World Tour last sunday and so far I'm doing fine on expert =) I "died" once on the guitar battle with Zakk Wylde and I have yet to master the weirdswitchingbetweenbuttonsandtouchpad though.

I play on Hard. I can play some songs on Expert though.

Easy mode!

Three buttons is a nice way for me to keep up. :p

I don't play it too often. Actually, I'd see more fun in learning to actually playing a guitar than playing Guitar Hero, which is just one step above playing "air guitar" as far as musical capability is concerned. :p

Since I can probably count the number of times I've played on my fingers I play normal.

I was in the mood to rock out last night, which means I'm jumping all over the room and being a general bad-ass when I play. Thus I started a career on Easy and completed half the songs.

BTW I've completed four songs on Hard and one of them with four stars! xD

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Originally Posted by Kirobaito

I am to the point where I solely play on Expert. However, unlike every other person, it seems, that has posted in this thread, I can beat every song on Expert relatively easily at this point.

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lies, i can do every song but slayer easily

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Originally Posted by Pete for President

I bought World Tour last sunday and so far I'm doing fine on expert =) I "died" once on the guitar battle with Zakk Wylde and I have yet to master the weirdswitchingbetweenbuttonsandtouchpad though.

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seriously, the touch pad is a complete waste of time.
only use it on really, insanely fast bits
just hammer on the notes, its much easier

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Originally Posted by Flying Mullet

I was in the mood to rock out last night, which means I'm jumping all over the room and being a general bad-ass when I play. Thus I started a career on Easy and completed half the songs.

BTW I've completed four songs on Hard and one of them with four stars! xD

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Once you can consistently play on Hard, you're pretty much over the hump, which is the shifting. From then on, you just get better.

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Originally Posted by Behold the Void

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Originally Posted by Flying Mullet

I was in the mood to rock out last night, which means I'm jumping all over the room and being a general bad-ass when I play. Thus I started a career on Easy and completed half the songs.

BTW I've completed four songs on Hard and one of them with four stars! xD

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Once you can consistently play on Hard, you're pretty much over the hump, which is the shifting. From then on, you just get better.

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Indeed. Once you learn to use the fifth button it's all little things, like hammering on better, and shifting between 1-3, 2-4, and 3-5 chords.

I usually play hard on Guitar Hero and expert on Rock Band.