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author=Chartley link=topic=551.msg7182#msg7182 date=1199680808
Oh, and the drum solos are a lot of fun! Sorta makes me want to take up drums, but I know I'd never any good at them. I don't have the coordination or sense of rhythm for it.

Actually, there is no such thing as a naturally gifted musician. If you want to play drums, then start; just like every other drummer, in the beginning you'll have no coordination or sense of rhythm.

So Kentona, because you posted the same thing on two different forums, I'll post the same reply that I did at GamingW (shadowtext had complained about the singing being wonky):

With singing, certain combinations of difficulty level and song can actually produce strange results in this game. There are songs where the vocalist scoops a lot and if you don't scoop in exactly the same way, you can fail the song if you aren't playing on Easy or Medium. Other times, the game wants you to hold a steady tone when the recording has the singer scooping. It doesn't seem very consistent and it sometimes it seems like the more comfortable you are with your singing voice, the worse you'll actually do. A few of my friends and I, who are all musicians and can definitely sing in tune, were pretty frustrated by a few of the songs. The game has a very strange and sometimes finicky way of determining whether you are singing the right notes. Conversely, on Easy or Medium, you can just scoop random sounds up and down without any regards to the actual part and you'll do very well as long as your pitch matches the music for at least a split second. WEIRD.

Anyway, this game is the worst thing that has ever happened to me because my girlfriend plays it literally without interruption. She's smitten with the drumset, which makes it worse because I hear the constant CLACK-CLACK-STOMP-CLACK-STOMP-STOMP of her vigorous playing. Curiously, the guitar accessory is much more quiet than Guitar Hero's, so when she plays that instrument it isn't nearly as annoying as it was when she was obsessed with the original Guitar Hero. It gives me a chance to catch up on the stack of PC games I haven't been able to play (she previously had taken over my computer), but if I hear that stupid OK Go song one more time I am going to snap the game in two. Also, my friends Dustin and Alex have stopped being my friends and have become Kyrsten's friends because she invites them over to play Rock Band and drink until three AM and I'm the LOSER who won't play with them.

I hate these stupid BE A ROCKSTAR games because my girlfriend loves them so much and they've ruined all sorts of really good songs for me :( :( :(

XBox360 should be a separate top 10 list. Anyway, I will just quote you on the three games that I really enjoyed on XBox (I am sure that had I actually owned one I might have gotten into a few shooters or something):

3. Knights of the Old Republic II
I generally like Bioware games a lot. This game did a pretty solid job imitating and improving on the first, and I actually liked it a bit more. I give it slightly less credit for originality. I played this on PC and not XBox, but I'm sure the experience is the same.

2. Knights of the Old Republic
A brilliant work of Star Wars fanservice that most people argue is the best thing to happen to Star Wars since the original trilogy in the 1970 and 80s. This was one of the most innovative and well-crafted RPGs anyone had ever seen and one of the XBox's few saving graces for many years. Although, let's be honest; this game would have never happened if not for the groundwork layed by Fallout.

1. Fable
I played this on 360 years after the fact so I wasn't expecting the BEST RPG EVER as promised by Peter Molyneaux (spelling?). Therefore, I could see the game for what it was: an oustanding action-RPG with extremely clever writing, tons of style, and core gameplay that felt good. One major drawback in my opinion was that the game effectively rewarded you for using weak attacks by building up a massive modifier, but I guess you can't win them all. My favorite game on the original XBox.

author=Quiversee link=topic=266.msg6956#msg6956 date=1199130403
You know what I hate. Spyware. Why?

Cause it hosed my dad's old computer, got transferred to mine, hosed it, forced it into the shop for a while, and wiped my drives clean.

I now need to restart my games and all my sprite work...

Look at less porn and back up your work.

author=Alex link=topic=44.msg6401#msg6401 date=1197939999
R u serious? I guess I'm just too lazy to make my characters stronger. I even have to Strategy Guide, LOL.

The final boss is show-stoppingly brutal. It's an awesome fight though. I think I was stuck at that point for several months and had to keep going back to the game before I managed it.

Canuck: That's because we were too busy playing good games :(

Actually, 7th Saga is a game I would rent constantly when I was younger but could never get through. It was just far too demanding for me, being eight years old or whatever.

I don't really follow this stuff but is the announcer from Mario Party a character? Because that would be pretty awesome.