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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #135 on: July 29, 2008, 09:02:55 AM »
Learned to play rock band drums last night.  The foot pedal was screwing me up before, but I realize the trick is to always have the pedal down and only lift it up when the note comes.  This keeps your foot from staying at that weird angle and keeps your beat funky smooth.

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« Reply #136 on: July 29, 2008, 06:32:18 PM »
I'm actually better not doing that. I've played a good portion of the game through on medium drums, and found that I did much worse when I tried that.
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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #137 on: July 29, 2008, 06:52:26 PM »
You're going to have to learn heel-down. If you don't, you'll snap the peddle in two when you get to anything harder.

I had 100% on Last Hard Drums. Not especially a hard song or anything but seeing a 1421 combo is cool. Missed two on Heroes Expert Drum.

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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #138 on: July 29, 2008, 07:40:27 PM »
that weird angle

And anyway, you don't keep it at that angle, you hold your foot straight, above the pedal, and just move it down (I know this because that's how actual drummers drum).

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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #139 on: July 29, 2008, 11:46:39 PM »
Learned to play rock band drums last night.  The foot pedal was screwing me up before, but I realize the trick is to always have the pedal down and only lift it up when the note comes.  This keeps your foot from staying at that weird angle and keeps your beat funky smooth.

I have played Rock Band a few times and after playing a few songs on easy for drums I just bumped it up to medium and had some difficulty at first but adjusted really quickly. 

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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #140 on: July 30, 2008, 08:52:27 AM »
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I play drums myself and I've seen people do it a lot of different ways... It's just more comfortable when you always keep the pedal down. IE:

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Sorry, I just wanted to do that :)

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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #141 on: July 30, 2008, 05:08:16 PM »
Well, the way I've seen a lot of drummers play is keeping their foot above the pedal and moving their entire leg up and down, basically. It's a lot easier than moving your ankle from the weird angle to flat and back again. and holding it down requires more work, because you have to lift your foot and bring it back down.
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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #142 on: July 30, 2008, 07:33:02 PM »
You're going to have to learn heel-down. If you don't, you'll snap the peddle in two when you get to anything harder.

...or slap a decently thick piece of metal on it. :P

It is amazing how much of a difference having a good technique makes.  I played on the drums quite a lot on hard and expert and the pedal never even showed a sign of wear.  However, after a few of my friends played for one night on easy it started splitting on the side and top (it's not completely broken...yet...one more game session and it definitely will be).  Not sure whether it was just That Time(TM) or what, but the timing seemed awfully odd.

Regardless, the design on the pedal is so poor that it makes my head hurt.  If you push it from the middle it bows inward badly due to the middle section being able to travel further than the top, quickly damaging it.  However, if you push it from the top it bows outward ever-so-slightly, which will no doubt lead to a snapped pedal due to the spring pushing back.  The only real way to keep it in one piece (literally) is if the entire pedal move down uniformly (in other words, a piece of metal covering the pedal should work wonders).
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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #143 on: July 30, 2008, 10:56:45 PM »
Still playing KH2 (brother is on 360 playing Quake Wars)

ALMOST beat Sephiroth with a level 55 Sora.

He had only 1 life bar left and I took a quarter of it down...fucking cheap assed homing dark orbs.

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Half of last life bar with a level 57 Sora

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ONE FUCKING HP!!!

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HELL FUCKING YEAH.  I just beat Sephiroth in KH2 with a level 57 Sora...fuck all strat guides that say you need to be 70+.
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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #144 on: August 06, 2008, 07:26:29 PM »
Just found out there was a ice spread shot and a flamethrower shot in metroid prime. The flamethrowers seems weak considering how strong the plasma beam is, but whatever.

Just beat megaman 2, FUCK YEAH SON.

It really wasn't as bad as most people say it is, in fact I beat it pretty easily.
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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #145 on: August 11, 2008, 08:14:44 PM »
in the lava most of the time because i couldn't get out, i decided to say fuck it, and fire as many missiles into the brain as i could because its better than futilely trying to get out of the lava.

42 health left, and i have to escape, i make it with 600something time left. 

i get the ending where she takes her helmet off and looks like carrot top.

see you next mission.

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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #146 on: August 12, 2008, 04:38:28 AM »
Just beat megaman 2, FUCK YEAH SON.

It really wasn't as bad as most people say it is, in fact I beat it pretty easily.

Megaman 2's difficulty level is just right.  It's not too hard not too easy.  It's definitely my favorite in the NES series.
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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #147 on: August 12, 2008, 03:45:04 PM »
Megaman 2's difficulty level is just right.  It's not too hard not too easy.  It's definitely my favorite in the NES series.

Yeah, if you know what to do and when it makes things infinitely easier on you. That and  really disliked having to do all of those final stages in 1 go.


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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #148 on: August 14, 2008, 11:56:12 PM »
Beat BioShock for my first time.

I got 38/50 achievements and got the "good" ending

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Re: General Gaming Accomplishments
« Reply #149 on: August 15, 2008, 12:27:34 AM »
Got my first piece of gold in WoW.  Yay. :)
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