{"id":346,"date":"2009-07-06T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/guitar-hero-metallica-impressions\/"},"modified":"2009-07-06T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T20:12:00","slug":"guitar-hero-metallica-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/guitar-hero-metallica-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero Metallica Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wiitalk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/guitar_hero_metallica.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 369px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiitalk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/guitar_hero_metallica.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Despite the fact I tend not to like Guitar Hero games as much as Rock Band I decided to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001Q4HLFQ?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jighcsranrev-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001Q4HLFQ\">Guitar Hero Metallica<\/a> anyway. I&#8217;m not a huge Metallica fan but they have more songs I like than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andymerrill.com\/rantreview\/2008\/07\/guitar-hero-aerosmith-review.html\">Aerosmith<\/a>. Plus, a couple friends of mine kept telling me how much fun it was.  So, I decided to give it a try.  While I did like playing some of the songs I just find the really hard solos annoying and then overall difficulty curve for the campaign seemed way off.  I started off on Expert Guitar getting 5 stars and working my way through the song list.  about 1\/2 way through through I hit a wall. The difficulty seemed to jump from manageable on Expert getting 4 stars to where I had to drop down to Hard and was getting 3 stars. It was not like I was slowly getting worse scores either. Just one song was the cut off and it went from songs that I could play on Expect to so hard I was failing before 20% of the song. This reall turned me off. I went ahead and finished the campaign on Hard doing just the required songs, but then I sent it back to GameFly. There were some little improvements to the user interface but nothing major that I noticed from Guitar Hero World Tour. I have no plans to play Smash Hits.<\/p>\n<p>I actually may not play any more Guitar Hero games not that I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/fofix\/\">Frets on Fire X<\/a> working on my PC. It has pretty much every good song from the past Guitar Hero games available to play but I can set it to use Rock Band 2&#8217;s theme and scoring.  Sure, I&#8217;ll have to wait a few weeks or even months to play the newest songs from Guitar Hero 5 but I&#8217;m ok with that. The Guitar Hero experience is just not for me and there is no point in forcing myself to try and enjoy it when I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact I tend not to like Guitar Hero games as much as Rock Band I decided to check out Guitar Hero Metallica anyway. I&#8217;m not a huge Metallica fan but they have more songs I like than Aerosmith. Plus, a couple friends of mine kept telling me how much fun it was. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,5],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}