{"id":23,"date":"2007-01-23T23:35:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T04:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/23"},"modified":"2016-05-15T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T18:52:02","slug":"guitar-hero-random-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/23","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero: Random Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve completed Easy mode by now.  I always start rhythm games on Easy mode,  I know my limitations.  I still haven&#8217;t even finished <em>Frequency<\/em> on Medium difficulty.  In this game, though, Easy mode is missing enough of the content that I don&#8217;t think it counts as really completing the game for Stack purposes.<\/p>\n<p>And now that I&#8217;ve made some progress in Medium, I&#8217;ve noticed that this game is heavily zone-based.  That is, success depends on &#8220;getting into the zone&#8221; and letting muscle memory take over &mdash; moreso even than in other rhythm games, I think, possibly because of the way you need to coordinate both hands.  There comes a point where you&#8217;re automatically pressing the frets in advance of the note and not noticing that you&#8217;re doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Playing this game has been also been filling in gaps in my musical education.  For example, until now, I only knew of the band Franz Ferdinand from reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questionablecontent.net\/view.php?comic=657\">webcomics<\/a>.  And I had no idea how &#8220;Smoke on the Water&#8221; goes after the first twelve notes.<\/p>\n<p>My one biggest disappointment in the game is the same one as in all rhythm games, and to a certain extent action games of other sorts: that you can&#8217;t play the game and actually watch the graphics at the same time.  I can catch glimpses, so I know that your on-screen avatar does something tricky and acrobatic with the guitar when you activate &#8220;star power&#8221;, but I couldn&#8217;t tell you exactly what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve completed Easy mode by now. I always start rhythm games on Easy mode, I know my limitations. I still haven&#8217;t even finished Frequency on Medium difficulty. In this game, though, Easy mode is missing enough of the content that I don&#8217;t think it counts as really completing the game for Stack purposes. And now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-guitar-hero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}