Some Guitar Hero questions...

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OKAY SO.

At my company Christmas party this year, there are a bunch of games/contests/whatever with nifty prizes. Name that tune, guess the number of corks in the bowl, beer pong, etc. One of the contests happens to be a Guitar Hero score competition... with an Xbox 360 and a GH game (not sure which one) as the prize for the person with the highest score at the end of the night. I haven't so much as touched any of the Guitar Hero games for at least 8 months, as I find it hard to go back to GH after playing Rockband. But yeah. A free 360 would be nice, so I have a couple questions:


1. Is the scoring system the same for all GH games? I don't know which one I'll be playing at the party, and I hope it doesn't make too much of a difference.

2. Is the highest possible score the same for any song played on expert? Or do songs with more notes yield higher scores? Obviously if I can get the same score playing a nubby song on expert as playing TTFAF, I'm gonna go for the nubby song.

3. I know that it's better to use Star Power in certain parts of the song compared to others... can someone point me to a site that has this info?


Any help is much appreciated.

[COLOR="Red"]1. Yes, the scoring system is the same. The only difference between GH and RB is that the score for each note is doubled, (i.e. a 4x note in RB is worth 100, and is worth 200 in GH), I s'pose the only other difference is that you can overlap Overdrive in Rock Band, and you can't do that in GH until World Tour.

2. Sure, some songs have higher perfect scores than others, but comparing a perfect on an easy song that yields a high score compared to relatively good on TTFAF (i.e. 600k or so), is like comparing apples to oranges.

3. Here's a chart for TTFAF from the same site Shouri showed you.

Green = Star Power phrase. (gaining it)
Blue = Where you use it.

Don't worry about the red on either side of the blue, that's for people that want to squeeze. That is, manipulating the timing window to fit more notes in SP.

At any rate, it has charts like that for each song, it's not necessarily where you see the most notes, since you can have a slightly slower section with two- or three-note chords, and that'll rack up points much more quickly than a fast section of single notes.[/COLOR]

L4> Blaine in this thread. Mr. GH Master