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[Aboobie]

Time for a rant.

Guitar Hero...

A year or so ago I finished GHII on hard and GHIII on medium all 5 stars and on hard except after 100+ goes I just couldn't beat Lou.

..forward to now..

I finished GH:WT on hard. Pretty straight forward and I quite enjoyed it. On Bass on expert I've managed to finish all the songs then hit the last one before the encore and bam. The usual GH trick of suddenly really ramping up the difficulty. Had 20 or so goes and go out at the same point. I think with a little practice and no kids running around me I'll do it though.
So I thought, with all this additional practice let's go back to Lou. Fired it up and much better, I'm pretty much pulling off all the solo stuff now with ease and then Wham, Lou hits me with a double up, I somehow manage to stay in it and even pick up the attack, which I hit him with and he shrugs off with ease. 4 or so more attacks on me and I'm out though. 10 more goes and a similar story. I cannot believe how hard this is; it's random which attacks he sends at you and some are game enders, any attacks I send at him have negligible effect. I don't think I've played anything quite so demoralising. It's the first time in ages I've come close to smashing the guitar and disc up.

Do the GH developers have no idea how to finish games? I agree the finales should be tough but they shouldn't feel out of reach. It's one thing the Rock Band guys have always got right, GHII and Rock Band were much better at progressing the difficulty.