Guitar Hero II
I played Guitar Hero II over at my friend Clint’s house one time, last year, and it was really fun. Since then, I played it on two different occasions over at my friend Kipp’s house, and determined that I really wanted it. But, I didn’t have a PlayStation 2, so that was my first roadblock (we have an Xbox and a Gamecube). The price tag on the game, itself, was bad enough ($70-80 or so). But to buy a game console as well, just to be able to play it–that was just not practical.
Luckily, the PS/3 and the latest round of console competition has brought down the price on PS/2 systems. So, Lacey bought me a PS/2 and the Guitar Hero II game/guitar pack, for Valentine’s day, of all occasions. But I’m not complaining. Not at all! Not even when it overdrew the bank account. hehe.. Oops! (That was half my fault, though, because I was way behind on keeping track of money, so I wasn’t able to tell her what was available before-hand.)
Jena got the same thing for Dallin, too, which is cool because he lives right around the corner, so it’s pretty easy to bring one guitar to the other person’s house to play 2-player.
I’ve been playing it quite a bit over the past 2 weeks. Stayed up late on more than one occasion, to try to accomplish one goal or another. The night before last, I finished getting 5 stars on all 40 songs on Medium difficulty. Now I’m starting Hard, which throws in an 5th button for my 4 fingers to deal with, plus more notes to play, and faster speed. At this point, I’m getting boo’ed off the stage half of the time. But it’s fun!
Matthew likes it, too, and can do a pretty good job. He hasn’t gotten to play it that much, yet, but we were impressed with what he could do after just a few practice rounds. Lacey completed all of the songs in Easy with 5 stars, and is working on Medium now. Skylar has done the tutorial with me a few times, but she’s only 3, so that’s about all she can do for now. But at least she can play it in some way, which makes it officially “fun for the whole family”! Well.. Except for Nikki, I guess. But she likes dancing to the music, so I guess she’s covered, too.
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February 27th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Glad you had fun at my place. I barely remember that night! It was one of my hazier nights.
I thought the game was only $50 WITH a guitar.
You should get a premod ps2. they must be dirt cheap now. then you can play the homebrew guitar hero 2 with all-differnet songs! master of puppets! Metallica’s “one”!
You should keep more cash in your bank account. Use credit more, keep a cushion of cash.
Cool that you have a 2nd guitar near you as opposed to having to buy 2!
I passed 90% of the ‘hard’ songs in 1 try. game’s too easy. expert is maddening though!