My go at 8 positive things everyone can agree with about GH3

**Prong1978** · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 2257 Location: Flint, Michigan

There have been countless posts on this website about what Neversoft has done wrong in their freshman effort at a Guitar Hero game. While I agree with many of the complaints, I have decided to leave that to others for now. Not all change is bad though, and I have taken the task of listing changes that I believe everyone could agree are positive. With that in mind I refrained from listing anything that I felt people would have a very legitimate complaint against (i.e. music selection, game engine etc…). Unfortunately this list may not apply for PS2 owners based on the first point and last points.

1. Online Play – Whether or not you think it was implemented well or not, the online features of the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii now exist where there were none before.

2. More Master Recordings – No we’re not all they way to 100% original artists, but you’d have to admit that the master of Pain it Black makes you feel more like a Rolling Stone than Pride and Joy reminds you of Stevie Ray Vaughan (this parenthetical phrase is to acknowledge that Paint it Black’s master recording made it impossible to separate the bass track, but overall I think it was worth it).

3. More Playable Systems – You no longer have to buy an antiquated PS2 or Microsoft’s Xbox 360 to play Guitar Hero. More systems = More players = More Guitar Hero.

4. Better Graphics – Even if you don’t find graphics important, they’re still a step up from previous installments which can’t be a bad thing.

5. Co-Op Career – Play it if you like it, ignore it if you don’t. True, you can’t play it online, but it wasn’t even available before. The fact that there are co-op exclusive songs doesn’t count as a negative tin regards to this point, because without co-op those songs might not even have been put into the game.

6. The Soundtrack – What, you don’t like the songs on it? You don’t like the DLC (360 only)? It’s still better than the GH1, GH2 and GH80’s Soundtracks that were never made.

7. Removable Faceplates – It’s completely optional, and doesn’t interfere with the performance of the guitar.

8. Faster load screens (Xbox 360) – This can’t possibly be a bad thing.
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**Prawbill** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 84

I dont agree with the SRV comment.. I thought the cover singer was horrible.. it made me want to throw up.. I almost couldnt finish the song.
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**HottLixx** · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject:

Bravo,man it's nice to know there's something good in GH3.

**JRyder** · Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 1274

Alright, let's give this a go.

**Prawbill** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 84

**Siberian** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 207

Actually in regards to Paint it Black the fact that all the guitar sections cut out when you miss a note makes it feel more like a user track then I would like and detracts a bit from the experience.

**Hatredy** · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 11

While I think the removable face plates were a good idea, the way they were implemented is pretty terrible. The un-rounded edges of the guitar resulting from easy implementation of the face plate system result in a guitar thats pretty uncomfortable to play for long periods of time. I'm easily bothered by this sort of thing in the first place, but many of my friends feel the same way.

**glacier985** · Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 288 Location: Hebron, OH

I definately noticed a huge improvment in the loading times of GH2 on my PS2 and GH3 on my PS3. Some of the songs load so quick I don't even have time to read the text.
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**mr-apples** · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 963

Instead of these two points I'll throw in the new cheats/hyperspeed interface as another undisputed improvement.

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**Twang** · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject:

**HammerOn** · Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 257

well, co-op was a side item i think. Too much time was spent on battle mode, so much so that the loading screen in co-op where you pick the difficulty there is a huge "VS" in the middle of the screen. i mean wtf?
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