This is a thread to discuss the newest entry in the "Guitar Hero" series, which will soon be hijacked by people who - probably completely correct - say that "Rock Band" is better in each and every way, to which I say: "Well, too bad that all I have is a Wii and I live in Europe so there".
Or, possibly, people will laugh at me, because nobody here plays rhythm games, because we are all to busy playing "Crysis" and ... wait, I don't know the name of a different shooter.

My thoughts on GH3 can easily be summarized as follows: ARGH. Don't worry, I'm going to explain this. See, I'm new to the whole plastic-guitar thing. I enjoyed Elite Beat Agents (weird track list and all), and with all the positive buzz, I bought GH3! Soon I was standing there holding an undersized plastic guitar and wondering how in the hell I might look even dumber. Turns out, activating "Star Power" would do the trick, because for some reason, sometimes it registers perfectly, but sometimes I have to hold it in so crazy positions that I can't help but miss a few notes because it would be too awkward to play them. I guess I'm doing something wrong.

While I was playing through Easy, I thought that this game was actually pretty easy. I didn't fail a single song and always managed four or five star ratings on my first try. Then, I switched to Medium and Oh my God a fourth finger? After some time practicing how to press buttons on an undersized plastic guitar, I managed to go through that. Confident in my abilities - and naive as I am - I went to "Hard" difficulty.
Yeah, right. What the hell? Five buttons? How am I supposed to do that? I only have four fingers up there (I can't use the thumb, in case there are any questions). Lots and lots of practice later, I can make my way through many songs, but in the last tier, I only managed "Cliffs of Dover" and I don't see any possible way to ever, ever make it through one of the other songs (I haven't even tried one of them yet). How insane are those songs? My hands are tired after twenty seconds and I'm screaming in pain aifter fourty, only to fail right then and the game lets me know that I managed "37%". How could they have such a jump in the difficulty? Thats not fair. Don't get me wrong, I like challenge, but I want the easy kind of challenge thats doable and that doesn't require a miracle.

Has anyone seen the Zero Punctation review on this? It's right on the money, at least for me (who hasn't played any of the prior games, so ignore those)

So, ahem, that were my thoughts on the game. It may also qualify as some kind of criticism of the game, so we can discuss it!
Oh, and if anyone wants to beat me and humiliate me completely online, be my guest, but I only have the Wii version. Thank you, and good night.