GH3 Dragon Force-Through the Fire and the Flames on Expert...

[Forizzle]

...can any human actually pull that off?

[Tacitus Krekt]

Yes.

/gu

[Flare4War]

The video proves all, it's rather insane.

[Inimitable]

Yep yep. It took me about 3 dozen tries, but it's definitely possible! One-hand tap the intro FTW!

[Devyn]

This is funny - My friend brought GH3 to my house Friday night. We played for about 3 hours - My friend actually made it through the level. The song gets old after hearing it about 4 times, but it's way better than the other difficult songs.

[Bahamut]

Last week when I was in Gamestop here, I saw someone pull it off twice in a row. That was ridiculous.

[Neo Samus]

That video was so crazy I showed it to my Fiancee's bro and he was in awe. Then he said "That guy is fucking nuts!!"

I also but it on my Myspace page.

[Avatar of Justice]

My roommate seems to have chosen to ignore all the other songs in lieu of beating Through the Fire and the Flames...on Medium. Or at least, something better than his current 85%. I made him put on his headphones. Damn, its my favorite Dragon Force song but I don't like hearing it 10 times in a row.

[L.T.W.]

My record is 61% on hard. Im very far from trying expert though.

[DragonFireKai]

Yes.

/gu

That's inhuman...

[Alexis]

This is the farthest I've ever gotten...and probably ever will get.

[Tensei]

So is this Guitar Hero 3 thingy harder to learn than Stepmania?

[zircon]

Is that stepmania video played by someone w/ a dance mat or with their typing keyboard?

[JackKieser]

So, yeah... I got 93% of the way through on Hard... once. As far as I can tell, with the exception of on Expert, the trick is just to get through the intro; it's really the only patently rediculous part of the song. Everything else is rather doable, in retrospect.

Of course, the outro is designed to be a bitch, too. Although thanks to it, I got the achievement for failing a song past 90%, so I guess silver lining, eh?

--Jack Kieser

[Alexis]

Well once you get past the intro its not bad. However, the part with the three solos in a row gives me some issues.

Also, the other song that is currently driving me to insanity is Raining Blood. It's the only song I have left on expert, and I can't get more than about 40% of the way through it. Grr.

[The Legendary Zoltan]

Is that stepmania video played by someone w/ a dance mat or with their typing keyboard?

yeah. That really fast drum roll of four hits during the intro seems near impossible to pull off in my mind. Is the step mania pad really small or something?

[atmuh]

people that play stepmania just use their keyboards

its not that impressive

[Tensei]

Um ya, but my point kind of was: is it really that much harder to press buttons on a guitar-like controller and imitating a strumming motion as opposed to mashing buttons on your keyboard?

[sephfire]

Completing TTFATF and 5-starring Raining Blood are consuming me at the moment. I WILL achieve both. That intro is brutal, though.

[Broken]

Through the fire and the flames, I will go OOONNNN!!!!

dunununun.

Yeah, it's no dobut harder to play this song on a guitar controller (which is akward for me because I don't play guitar,) as opposed to a keyboard, which I'm more accustomed to and which can be configured to your liking.

However, despite not owning any GH game, I can actually play some of the harder songs if I simply turn the guitar on its side and play it like I would "spread- style" on Stepmania. The only difference really is that there is an extra note key and a strumming key.

[atmuh]

Um ya, but my point kind of was: is it really that much harder to press buttons on a guitar-like controller and imitating a strumming motion as opposed to mashing buttons on your keyboard?

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[Jarvi]

The intro and solos have me pretty bad, I can get the intro on Slower, but when I move it up to Slow, my ring finger keeps missing the blue (I'm using one hand to hold green and my other to tap the other four keys, prob not the best method, but I'll work on it)

[Murmeli Walan]

That's inhuman...

I don't have anything to add, except that the Dragonforce album that TTFAF appears on is called Inhuman Rampage. So yeah, haha.

On topic, when I eventually get GH3, finishing this song on Medium is my first goal.

[Effector]

Does anyone know if you can access the Live Leaderboards for this (or any 360 game) without a 360? I'm trying to find a kid's ranking (Otakujack, or something similar) on GH3... I believe at one time he was ranked in the single digits, which is wild. Weird having someone that insane live less than a mile from you.

More on topic, his five-starring of TTFAF makes me cry. I think his trick to beat the intro is tie a string around the green fret (since it's a part of all the chords there) and knock it off the button once the crazy intro is done. That may not really work, but it's what I heard, secondhand, so I don't know if that would work (conceptually, with all the HOs and POs).

[The Legendary Zoltan]

Are all these songs already in the game or do people custom-make these videos with Dragon Force songs and stuff?