Most, if not all songs in GH games are made artificially more difficult. It's part of the reason why there was a decent amount of players who noticed and jumped ship to RockBand, because they used far more accurate note tracks for those games.
@@vahlok1426 wym raining blood has the same intro as rockband 😂 unless you mean the last solo (it's the best part) but if that's the reason people jumped to rockband idk what to say.
@@blanketdtf Playing guitar hero and an actual guitar aren't even comparable, they are two completely different things. Even Herman Li himself can't play ttfaf on GH at all
It doesn't help that half of it is just going insane on the tremolo which just isn't able to be copied in the game Honestly kind of weird they never implemented mandatory whammy sections for stuff like that
@@SJNaka101 funny, I'm almost always the reverse of that. I do all batting, golfing, and hockey as a lefty, but am mostly a righty in everything else.
Quick tip regarding the Lou fight on Expert: After your first powerup, Lou gets a huge stream of green notes. If you pulled Whammy from your first powerup, and use it here, you will knock him out with only one powerup, ending the song long before it gets really hard. You can also do this with Broken String if you hit his green, which is a 1 in 5 chance. If you really are struggling, restart the fight until you both get Whammy and he doesn't get something that makes it borderline impossible for you to get whammy, and you can basically skip the fight.
@@Phantom-kc9ly its a good song but its the hardest song in the game and its a boss battle for a reason. its borderline impossible to get through him without taking advantage of his insane note counts. also, there is a dlc OF the song and thats where you can play it to your hearts content. the boss battle is not the place to enjoy the song lmao
Man I loved the guitar battles in the game, that's just one thing games like clone hero couldn't ever beat. I feel like if they just released a modern day guitar hero for the PC, added in all the nostalgia bait characters, released some instruments and let modders do the work that copyright wouldn't let them do then that would be all it'd take to make an amazing timeless classic.
I dream of a proper GH reboot but i'm not sure it's ever going to happen :( Haven't given clone hero a go before, slowly working through the series achievements on xbox only
@@JForJackPlaysIf they had guitar battles on Clone Hero it would be the goat. Deffo worth a play since it's technically the best version of any guitar hero game
That's a matter of personal preference, I'm glad Clone Hero exists, because without it GHWTDE would not have happened, but in many ways it's geared toward the kind of people doing insane FCs of meme charts who prefer the looser timing window reminiscent of GH3 and don't mind the barebones presentation compared to the GH/RB series. As far as just having a huge collection from each GH/RB game and playing casually on Expert (not usually looking for FCs just maybe five-starring everything) I still think GHWTDE is preferable, but more for entertainment reasons than technical ones. @@VoltiXHD2
If they remade guitar hero, it’s have a battle pass (somehow), god knows how many cosmetics, some probably for sale with real money, and their new guitars/instruments would be SUCH ass.
I feel like Vicarious Visions would have done an incredible Guitar hero remake, considering they worked on the DS games, and the Wii ports, which often had higher ratings than the 360/PS3 versions if I remember correctly. Sadly, Activision merged VV with Blizzard and its probably one of the worst moves in gaming history imo
I remember shitting bricks when I got the “meet your maker” achievement lol “beat one of the creators of GH3 at their own game online” Good times, simple times 💜
Oh I hate those 'beat the developers' achievements when put in games, because you know at some point it will be impossible to get those achievs when the hype for the game dissipates.
Good on you, Jack. I've gotten into your channel recently, and you've showed me some games (notably the Guitar Hero franchise), that I've avoided over the years. I'm happy you got this, I can respect the dedication (and in some cases the "what the hell am I doing with myself right now") for this. I've always loved achievements, and as I grow older my urge to collect the lil things gets stronger. Stay strong man, keep on keeping on, and myself and a ton of other folks will gladly follow you along for the ride, no matter how long it may be.
Ah those are some very kind words! Thank you, means a lot. I have many more planned and will keep grinding away. and I'm 100% with you on the urge to collect
This is probably one of my all time favourite games. Funnily enough I enjoyed playing with the controller, found it a lot easier than the guitar & can remember getting the achievement legit.
I was the same, one metallica took the longest to beat, but then i actually beat the boss first time after. Ive no idea why one was so difficult for me Could play expert pretty well most songs, never got past holiday in cambodia though story mode
Just found your videos and it's so nice to see these older Xbox games covered, literally bringing back so many childhood memories. Such well made and relaxing content- keep it up dude, you'll easy hit six figure subscribers in no time.
I’ve watched this video like 6 times. I always throw it on while I’m focusing on some work or when I’m trying to chill. Great work on this just wanted to share my appreciation!
I, for some reason, learnt guitar hero on lefty flip. And a few years back, before I could play clone hero properly, I downloaded something called youtube flipper that let you mirror the videos and just loaded up youtube playthroughs of guitar hero songs and played to them. Good times.
I remember playing through this game on the Wii 15 years ago, then when I got an Xbox 360 and got into achievement hunting, I got stressed out just looking at this achievement list. Thanks for the nostalgia trip! You are seriously impressive at this game, teenager me is in awe.
I've revisted GH3 this year and gotten the gold 20 songs and 5 star all songs on expert. I wish I had bought the music packs and participated in the multiplayer when it was active in 2012. The only multiplayer experience was through GH5 and WOR in 2009-2010 on the Wii. Never had the privilege to play Guitar Hero multiplayer on 360. This was a great video, Jack. Looking forward to watching the co-op portion of this journey.
It was a good time - but it was frustrating on GH3 Online that you could just win by playing any song on easy. You could play separate difficulties of your choice and lose to worse players
What an awesome video, congrats Jack! I was contemplating going back and making an achievement video for a GH game too, I used to adore these games back in the day. I 5 starred all of GH3 expert back in 2010 but sadly never found anyone relatively close to Devon, England to 5 star expert co-op so this sits incomplete on my tag to this day, I'll be super jealous once you mop it up!
@@EffigyXBL I’m in north Devon, Tavistock actually. I can easily do expert but have been longing to do the co-op expert achievements for over 10 years! If you wanna get this done we can definitely arrange something if you want?
I grew up with guitar hero 3 onwards only ever playing with a controller, and personally consider it easier than the few times I've played with a guitar, and watching you struggle with the controller that much was a soul rendering experience.
I have a glassed entertainment system behind me which I could use to play left-handedly lol. But I have done that back in the day. Either that or I would lay on my back in my bed and play it with my head upside down, looking at the screen and watch as the notes "scroll up" lol
Fantastic video! You caught me off guard a few times by knowing some of the old tricks. When you were doing left flip, I was thinking "Just use a mirror", seconds later out comes the mirror lol. Also, glad you knew about All Nightmare Long. Didn't get the 750k until that track pack came out too lol. Can't wait to see the next part. Also, makes me want to go back and finish cleaning up achievements for GH3.
Cannot wait until the co-op video! Loved this so much! I have so many great memories playing this game back in the day, and still play today through Clone Hero!
I was 13/14 when this came out, and I played this non-stop. I could clear any song on expert, and was so proud to have scored 86% on Through the Fire and Flames. All that being said, I COULD NOT beat the final boss battle. That was just too much, and I have lots of respect to anyone who can beat him on expert
Use the first power-up as the Whammy on Lou’s set of alt-strumming green notes and you can end the battle immediately to win without struggling. Trust me, try that and you’ll beat the Expert difficulty.
Ironically, Strumming is the Left Joystick, and the Whammy is Right Joystick. O was Orange, and Select was Star. L2 green, L1 Red, R1 Yellow, R2 Blue. (I played it on PS3; Too late to buy a proper guitar, so I did it all on Controller. Was very fun.
It’s not too late now to get a plastic Guitar recently, you can get a new one online. If the prices are too expensive for you, FaceBook Marketplace, Goodwills, and Thrift Stores have the cheapest options. If that’s not available, you’ll have to work for it. But it’s worth giving it a try, it’s more comfortable to use than a standard controller on certain hard songs like Knights Of Cydonia on Expert. NOTE: If you’re playing Rock Band games on console normally, you can’t use a standard controller for Guitar or Bass. It’s gonna force you to use a plastic Guitar to access it.
interesting that the 750k achievement icon says 1M. it's literally impossible to get 1,000,000 points in singleplayer: the theoretical perfect score on Through the Fire and Flames is 991,934 (played by a bot on PC with uncapped framerate). 1,000,000 was probably possible at some point, but the devs had to continually reduce the difficulty of Flames during development because nobody could pass it
You know you played too much GH3 when you can identify the songs just from looking at the notes you have to play with no sound. I remember being TRAUMATIZED trying to do Raining Blood %100 on expert, all the triplets really had their way with me.
26:53 Fun Fact: On the All Nightmares Long hard chart on GH3 there is an invisible note that is impossible to hit so the FC for the song is impossible, and this is the only song that has this from what I remember.
@@JForJackPlays I mainly play Holiday in Cambodia, Cities on Flames, Black Magic Woman, Sabotage, Bulls on Parade and Cult of Personality and the last time I was there in May I was still at or near the top of most songs on most machines. So if you see Chief on the list then that's me xD
I'm one of those nerds that have this 100%. Infact I have all the GH and rockband games 100% completed achievement wise. By far my fav games over the years. These days I play more drums than guitar.
That is crazy. Some of the achievements that I haven't managed yet are the 575k creeping death on GHM & 5* all songs on GHVH. Maybe one day I'll get back to them!
@JForJackPlays I think GHVH is one of the toughest completions out of both RB and GH. GH2 was tricky for the local 2nd player you needed to be very good also. Thanks for the vid as well bro I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane.
14:04 Controller player here: I was able to do *most* of Expert with a ps2 control. Funny enough it was "Holiday in Cambodia" that stopped my playthrough because the intro was too fast for me to get through. "Knights of Cydonia" was possible for me by saving the star power for strumming parts, since your meter increases faster when powered up. Other songs that I felt were too hard to beat were "Raining Blood" and "One."
Been playing guitar for 2 years and can play everlong in my sleep. Went to a friends house and they were playing guitar hero. I loaded up everlong thinking “No way I’m not gonna play on expert, I play the song on a real guitar I can definitely easily play it on a cheap plastic toy.” …… I failed in 10 seconds
Never underestimate how the game works. Lower difficulties are necessary to warm up and play on a lot before you jump to the higher difficulties right away. Expert is never like playing real guitar on Guitar Hero/Rock Band games. You can’t just expect to be better at Expert because you just “played the song on real guitar before”. The game wants you to practice on the lower difficulties, even every real musician needs to know that once they try it out.
Iv been rinsing your content since I found your channel recently. Really enjoy your videos man. You've hit a perfect little niche in my brain. Commentary, challenge and edits are great.
answering your question in 14:15.. I finished GH3 on expert using a controller.. and Knights of Cydonia was so hard!! I took the controller with my left hand.. and when the spamming notes begins, I used my right hand, middle finger and index finger swaping to fast! and press the start button when the new notes begin.. like green spaming > middle and index finger swaping fast (L2) > when the green ends, I pressed start and swap my fingers to the red button (L1), return the music and middle and index finger swaping fast on L1.. and I did it all the music and this is how I beat the Matt Bellamy in GH3 in the controller UASUHSAUHUSA
Another great video! GH3 is definitely one of the hardest games to get 1000G on. I played the game religiously back when it came out and only got to about the 800 mark (helped by a few glitches to unlock the lefty and controller achievements). I was good but a friend of mine was a real GH wizard and we even had some co-op high scores in the top 10 of the global rankings for a few songs - Me playing bass, of course!
@@JForJackPlays Was missing a lot of the ranked online and the 5-starring every song on co-op achievements. You could only get the co-op one through local play and this was an online friend who I didn't know IRL.
Man, it really sucks that RUclips doesn't let you play the music. I really wish I could still play this. I still have aps3 and guitar and the games, all I'm missing is the friggin dongle, this video really made me wanna pick it back up
One thing to mention, don’t play PS3 Guitar Hero and Rock Band if the dongles are difficult to get and connect, it’s not worth it. Get the PS2 or Xbox 360 versions instead.
This will sound quite odd but I've been playing Guitar Hero on PC with a keyboard pretty much exclusively (I'm ashamed to admit I couldn't get into playing it properly with a guitar controller). However, a friend of mine learned to play the game with a proper guitar controller so we played co-op quite a lot, even managed to 100% Mississippi Queen once. Thank you for this trip down memory lane, Guitar Hero 3 was my first game in the series.
To answer your question about playing expert on the standard controller. You need to change your grip to hold the controller in your left hand and twitch hit the buttons with your right. It's not clean by any means but it works with some practice.
Gh3 is my first guitar hero and I still play it till this day and when he said “I don’t know if it’s even possible to complete expert on controller but someone out there probably has” it gave me Vietnam flashbacks because knights of Cydonia was INCREDIBLY HARD I’d just position my controller in a way where I can tap the button really fast at the time I didn’t have a guitar and on offer up they’d be going for like 50-100 dollars
This is AMAZING! I've been playing GH3 since it first came out, but I never got to use the actual guitar. I always played with the console controller. Never beat TTFAF on Expert, congrats.
I really need to earn that 750k points achievement at some point as well. Super grats on this achievement; certainly a dedicated skill is required to complete these achievements and you certainly have that.
If you bought the DLC song “All Nightmare Long" by Metallica, it’s your easiest way you can get to get the achievement. If not, Through The Fire And Flames on Expert is your only option on console normally.
oh shit, excited to see a new vid from you! the guitar was so hard for me to play for some reason, so i played with the regular controller instead and ended up loving it lmfao.
This was one set of achievements I got and I never, ever, ever, EVER want to try to complete again, so I definitely salute you. Meanwhile, I've been sitting with one achievement left in GH: Metallica since that game came out, and that really gets on my nerves. One of these days, I'm gonna finish it.
14:14 I exclusively play GHIII with a standard controller and there's actually a way to do fast strumming on single notes. Let's say there's a large string of yellow notes, you actually hold down the yellow button (R1/RB) while quickly tapping between the green and red buttons and the game counts it as repeatedly tapping the yellow button. This only works for yellow, blue, and orange because the buttons you alternate between need to be lower frets than the one you're holding. This means that this trick simply does not work on green and red notes. I've been playing this game since 2007 on regular controller across PS2, PS3, and Xbox 360, and yet I still can't beat Expert because of Raining Blood and One. I think I have 5 stars and almost every other song with the standard controller, though. Some of the charts are just so insanely fun on the standard controller, and I'm sad they removed the ability to play with it in the later band focused games, but at least it forced me to get good with the guitar controller as well.
I got GH3 the night it dropped due to winning a GH contest in my local GameStop, and I only just this year got all the achievements. That Big Ol Pile of Wins one took forever, and the 750k on TTFAF was no joke either. Welcome to the club homie B) lol
This video was great brought back a lot of memories for me. I’m one of the ones that finished this game 1000G and it took soooooo much time!! When I was first learning the game I remember expert being really rough. If I attempted this again I think the only song that would give me issues would be raining blood! My lord that was so rough to five star!
Really good video. Brings me back to the days when TTFAF was the pinnacle of achievement, nowadays we have FCs on grade 20 songs which is something I'm not even close to doing.
Dude this is just awesome to see! As a Clone hero player i really wanna point out how difficult playing GH3 on console is compared to playing Clone Hero and you would definitely "look" better and feel like you ARE better if you tested your skills out in that game :) Not being capped on framerate along with all the other QoL changes truly makes for a more spammy experience :b With that said, keep it up champ. Easy like+sub
hm, i had a similar issue with my downloaded content. Downloaded Simpsons and X Men arcade games on my xbox360 back in 2013 from xbox arcade when they were briefly available. Theyre still on my harddrive, but when i play it on a different console using the same hard drive, its only the demo. Im going to try that "License Transfer"
Smash hits had arguably the hardest achievement I've seen: Bloody feet - 5 star Raining Blood on expert+ drums. Two simple requirements: 1. have a drum kit good enough to even work well with two pedals. 2. be basically a professional drummer who can play double bass on a slayer song.
14:08 I actually did manage to beat Expert with a standard controller, but it was NOT easy. Like you said the fast strumming parts are like a wall, so timing the star power and just mashing like hell for songs like Knights and Cambodia are a must.
14:08 I actually have beaten the career on expert on controller. There's a trick you can do for fast strumming where you can hold a higher fret and press lower frets and they count as an input on the higher fret. So, for example, you can hold yellow and quickly press green and red to strum a lot faster. I've also just naturally gotten really fast at greens and use 2 fingers to quickly press red whenever possible.
You're a much better guitar hero player than me but your performance on The Flood section is pretty close to what I was able to achieve. Just a mindless cascade of fingers
Pro tip, if you have to fast strum on controller as long as its like yellow blue or orange, you can hold say blue and tap green and red to help strum faster, me and my lottle bro use to be gods at the controller, if its green or red you cant do it though sadly
Casual face reveal lmao. Your channel is sick mate. These vids make me very nostalgic the 360 achievement hunter days. I started with your World At War vid and then watched all the others. Keep it up, this is quality content
I remember getting the 1k notes achievement by playing TTFAF on easy, and unless I'm remembering incorrectly, wasn't there an achievement to beating a song blind on expert? If so, I learned Bulls on Parade to get that one.
Sends me back to when I was forced to learn how to play on Console Controller because the guitar was for my brother lmao. Ended up getting good enough to even 5 start TTFATF by the end of many years of practice. I still play on it from time to time just for fun.
That’s the point of Guitar Hero/Rock Band in the first place. It’s a way to warm-up your fingers before moving on to the real guitar. More fun that way than any other painful finger exercises that make it harder for no reason according to Drew Gooden on RUclips (shoutout to that guy for saying that in his Guitar Hero video) if you’re built differently. It even teaches people that never played a guitar in their life.
Fun fact for non guitar players: Raining Blood is harder on guitar hero than actual guitar
Most, if not all songs in GH games are made artificially more difficult. It's part of the reason why there was a decent amount of players who noticed and jumped ship to RockBand, because they used far more accurate note tracks for those games.
@@vahlok1426 wym raining blood has the same intro as rockband 😂 unless you mean the last solo (it's the best part) but if that's the reason people jumped to rockband idk what to say.
Pretty sure ttfaf is like this as well
@@funnyguy878 I believe tittyfaf is actually harder on guitar, says a lot considering how much of a clusterfuck the guitar hero chart is
@@blanketdtf Playing guitar hero and an actual guitar aren't even comparable, they are two completely different things. Even Herman Li himself can't play ttfaf on GH at all
In terms of skill required, this is genuinely one of the most impressive achievement videos posted thus far haha
oh damn, second to your L4D2 vid maybe ;)
appreciate it, love your videos and congrats on all the success.
you deserve it!
@@JForJackPlaysAppreciate it man, and glad to see your channel growing too!
Love this wholesome shit yeehaw
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In total fairness the raining blood solo at the end, like most Kerry King solos, is absolutely bonkers
you have a very appropriate name!
The whole song is bonkers....
As the legend Kmac put it, "every Kerry King solo sounds like dissonant hell"
It doesn't help that half of it is just going insane on the tremolo which just isn't able to be copied in the game
Honestly kind of weird they never implemented mandatory whammy sections for stuff like that
As a lefty this was perhaps one of a handful of moments in my life where things just worked out 😂
Haha I'm actually a lefty myself but do a lot of things right handed!
Ha! Same here, good times!
@JForJackPlays same. I do all one handed things left handed, all two handed things right handed.
@@SJNaka101 funny, I'm almost always the reverse of that. I do all batting, golfing, and hockey as a lefty, but am mostly a righty in everything else.
Quick tip regarding the Lou fight on Expert:
After your first powerup, Lou gets a huge stream of green notes. If you pulled Whammy from your first powerup, and use it here, you will knock him out with only one powerup, ending the song long before it gets really hard. You can also do this with Broken String if you hit his green, which is a 1 in 5 chance.
If you really are struggling, restart the fight until you both get Whammy and he doesn't get something that makes it borderline impossible for you to get whammy, and you can basically skip the fight.
Why you would skip playing a metal cover of TDWDG is beyond me. Just enjoy the process.
@@Phantom-kc9ly The Devil will give you a hard time beating the game if you don’t do it right away. What’s your point about it?
if he gets broken string that works fine to. if he gets amp, double, or lefty, your just screwed and its a restart
@@Phantom-kc9ly its a good song but its the hardest song in the game and its a boss battle for a reason. its borderline impossible to get through him without taking advantage of his insane note counts. also, there is a dlc OF the song and thats where you can play it to your hearts content. the boss battle is not the place to enjoy the song lmao
@@Ryixxx now fhe only way to play the non bossbattle version is on clone hero. Which is lame.
Man I loved the guitar battles in the game, that's just one thing games like clone hero couldn't ever beat. I feel like if they just released a modern day guitar hero for the PC, added in all the nostalgia bait characters, released some instruments and let modders do the work that copyright wouldn't let them do then that would be all it'd take to make an amazing timeless classic.
I dream of a proper GH reboot but i'm not sure it's ever going to happen :(
Haven't given clone hero a go before, slowly working through the series achievements on xbox only
@@JForJackPlaysIf they had guitar battles on Clone Hero it would be the goat. Deffo worth a play since it's technically the best version of any guitar hero game
That's a matter of personal preference, I'm glad Clone Hero exists, because without it GHWTDE would not have happened, but in many ways it's geared toward the kind of people doing insane FCs of meme charts who prefer the looser timing window reminiscent of GH3 and don't mind the barebones presentation compared to the GH/RB series.
As far as just having a huge collection from each GH/RB game and playing casually on Expert (not usually looking for FCs just maybe five-starring everything) I still think GHWTDE is preferable, but more for entertainment reasons than technical ones. @@VoltiXHD2
If they remade guitar hero, it’s have a battle pass (somehow), god knows how many cosmetics, some probably for sale with real money, and their new guitars/instruments would be SUCH ass.
I feel like Vicarious Visions would have done an incredible Guitar hero remake, considering they worked on the DS games, and the Wii ports, which often had higher ratings than the 360/PS3 versions if I remember correctly. Sadly, Activision merged VV with Blizzard and its probably one of the worst moves in gaming history imo
As a Guitar Hero player myself, seeing somebody who isn’t known for Guitar Hero content absolutely slaughter an achievement hunt for this is awesome!
Appreciate the kind words!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow. Apparently I’m one of those 632 players that got all of the achievements for this game. I had no idea I was part of such a small list. 😮
It's a very rare 100%, good job!
The absolute dedication to get through all this is unreal. Seeing the co-op will be insane
I remember shitting bricks when I got the “meet your maker” achievement lol “beat one of the creators of GH3 at their own game online”
Good times, simple times 💜
I remember getting that. 'twas a good day!
Oh I hate those 'beat the developers' achievements when put in games, because you know at some point it will be impossible to get those achievs when the hype for the game dissipates.
@@casedistortedjust like online achievements when the servers inevitably get deactivated
I also remember getting that achievement lol. what are the fricken odds??
Only played online once, beat my opponent. Then that popped up, and was just thinking "that can't be real." 😂
Good on you, Jack. I've gotten into your channel recently, and you've showed me some games (notably the Guitar Hero franchise), that I've avoided over the years. I'm happy you got this, I can respect the dedication (and in some cases the "what the hell am I doing with myself right now") for this. I've always loved achievements, and as I grow older my urge to collect the lil things gets stronger.
Stay strong man, keep on keeping on, and myself and a ton of other folks will gladly follow you along for the ride, no matter how long it may be.
Ah those are some very kind words! Thank you, means a lot.
I have many more planned and will keep grinding away.
and I'm 100% with you on the urge to collect
Very impressive, it’s always really cool when an achievement hunting channel does something really different, would love to see co-op next.
Thank you, appreciate it!
Yes I'll definitely be trying to get that done asap.
Got some others planned/on the go also
@@JForJackPlaysa shame I no longer have my 360. I used to get 650-700k on ttfaf. Would’ve offered help with COOP
Guitar Hero was my childhood. Playing it after learning a real guitar was something else lmao. Thanks for the upload, homie!
thank you for watching!
Did not expect this today! What an awesome video, Jack!
Congratulations on this one! 🏆
Thought this one might surprise a few people!
Thanks for watching & glad you enjoyed it!
This is probably one of my all time favourite games. Funnily enough I enjoyed playing with the controller, found it a lot easier than the guitar & can remember getting the achievement legit.
you madman.
it is an amazing game for sure
I was the same, one metallica took the longest to beat, but then i actually beat the boss first time after. Ive no idea why one was so difficult for me
Could play expert pretty well most songs, never got past holiday in cambodia though story mode
I used to be bad at rhythm games on a controller, but now after playing a ton of Fortnite Festival I am pretty good.
27:47 At this point, that one Ringo Starr quote can be quite accurate here. "I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!!"
Just found your videos and it's so nice to see these older Xbox games covered, literally bringing back so many childhood memories. Such well made and relaxing content- keep it up dude, you'll easy hit six figure subscribers in no time.
I’ve watched this video like 6 times. I always throw it on while I’m focusing on some work or when I’m trying to chill. Great work on this just wanted to share my appreciation!
Wow thank you very much!
I very much appreciate that you choose to rewatch it.
glad to hear you like it
I, for some reason, learnt guitar hero on lefty flip.
And a few years back, before I could play clone hero properly, I downloaded something called youtube flipper that let you mirror the videos and just loaded up youtube playthroughs of guitar hero songs and played to them.
Good times.
By far one of my most proud completions on the 360. Would happily go through it all again
such an iconic game
well done on the completion!
29:01 I feel your pain brother. Times like that I’d take a brake and walk my dog just to clear my head.
I remember playing through this game on the Wii 15 years ago, then when I got an Xbox 360 and got into achievement hunting, I got stressed out just looking at this achievement list. Thanks for the nostalgia trip! You are seriously impressive at this game, teenager me is in awe.
Appreciate the kind words!
Thank you very much for watching & glad you enjoyed it
I knew as soon as I saw the title that this one was gonna be a true test of will! I can't wait to see ya get the co-op achievements later on.
This game is a bit of a beast, that's for sure!
I've revisted GH3 this year and gotten the gold 20 songs and 5 star all songs on expert. I wish I had bought the music packs and participated in the multiplayer when it was active in 2012. The only multiplayer experience was through GH5 and WOR in 2009-2010 on the Wii. Never had the privilege to play Guitar Hero multiplayer on 360. This was a great video, Jack. Looking forward to watching the co-op portion of this journey.
It was a good time - but it was frustrating on GH3 Online that you could just win by playing any song on easy. You could play separate difficulties of your choice and lose to worse players
What an awesome video, congrats Jack! I was contemplating going back and making an achievement video for a GH game too, I used to adore these games back in the day. I 5 starred all of GH3 expert back in 2010 but sadly never found anyone relatively close to Devon, England to 5 star expert co-op so this sits incomplete on my tag to this day, I'll be super jealous once you mop it up!
Yeah that makes it a really hard completion.
You still in the Devon area?
Could make it happen..
@@JForJackPlays Haha, yeah I still am, North Devon!
@@EffigyXBL I’m in north Devon, Tavistock actually. I can easily do expert but have been longing to do the co-op expert achievements for over 10 years! If you wanna get this done we can definitely arrange something if you want?
I grew up with guitar hero 3 onwards only ever playing with a controller, and personally consider it easier than the few times I've played with a guitar, and watching you struggle with the controller that much was a soul rendering experience.
I still remember playing looking at a mirror to get the left handed achievement 😂
I knew I wasn't alone with that one!
I went and wctually learned left handed, only because my friends were learning the game and it made it fair in versus
I have a glassed entertainment system behind me which I could use to play left-handedly lol. But I have done that back in the day. Either that or I would lay on my back in my bed and play it with my head upside down, looking at the screen and watch as the notes "scroll up" lol
I played upside down hanging my head off my bed. 😂
Fantastic video! You caught me off guard a few times by knowing some of the old tricks. When you were doing left flip, I was thinking "Just use a mirror", seconds later out comes the mirror lol. Also, glad you knew about All Nightmare Long. Didn't get the 750k until that track pack came out too lol. Can't wait to see the next part. Also, makes me want to go back and finish cleaning up achievements for GH3.
My good man the algorithm has chosen you
it would appear so!
Cannot wait until the co-op video! Loved this so much! I have so many great memories playing this game back in the day, and still play today through Clone Hero!
glad you enjoyed it, very happy to hear that! thank you
I was 13/14 when this came out, and I played this non-stop. I could clear any song on expert, and was so proud to have scored 86% on Through the Fire and Flames.
All that being said, I COULD NOT beat the final boss battle. That was just too much, and I have lots of respect to anyone who can beat him on expert
I can beat him, but it took a lot of practice, and when we beat it me and my best friend beat it the same night, we still play, but on clone hero now
Took me fucking weeks.
Use the first power-up as the Whammy on Lou’s set of alt-strumming green notes and you can end the battle immediately to win without struggling. Trust me, try that and you’ll beat the Expert difficulty.
We *NEED* a part two. This acme onto my feed and I love it!
Ironically, Strumming is the Left Joystick, and the Whammy is Right Joystick.
O was Orange, and Select was Star.
L2 green, L1 Red, R1 Yellow, R2 Blue.
(I played it on PS3; Too late to buy a proper guitar, so I did it all on Controller. Was very fun.
It’s not too late now to get a plastic Guitar recently, you can get a new one online. If the prices are too expensive for you, FaceBook Marketplace, Goodwills, and Thrift Stores have the cheapest options. If that’s not available, you’ll have to work for it. But it’s worth giving it a try, it’s more comfortable to use than a standard controller on certain hard songs like Knights Of Cydonia on Expert.
NOTE: If you’re playing Rock Band games on console normally, you can’t use a standard controller for Guitar or Bass. It’s gonna force you to use a plastic Guitar to access it.
This is literally the “number go up” channel with the cross over of RS and achievements. Subbed
interesting that the 750k achievement icon says 1M. it's literally impossible to get 1,000,000 points in singleplayer: the theoretical perfect score on Through the Fire and Flames is 991,934 (played by a bot on PC with uncapped framerate). 1,000,000 was probably possible at some point, but the devs had to continually reduce the difficulty of Flames during development because nobody could pass it
Love these type of videos, only discovered your channel today, great content
You know you played too much GH3 when you can identify the songs just from looking at the notes you have to play with no sound. I remember being TRAUMATIZED trying to do Raining Blood %100 on expert, all the triplets really had their way with me.
I 100%'s this back in 2009 and you're making me want to do it again. I miss this game so much.
I love playing with the regular controller
26:53 Fun Fact: On the All Nightmares Long hard chart on GH3 there is an invisible note that is impossible to hit so the FC for the song is impossible, and this is the only song that has this from what I remember.
I've seen that yeah! Very strange
I've got the high score for both hard and expert on a lot of songs on three GH arcade machines in Liverpool, so I get what you're talking about haha.
which songs are your go to?
So far I've done Stricken, Almost Easy & Lay Down. Think they're the only songs i've played solo there also haha
@@JForJackPlays I mainly play Holiday in Cambodia, Cities on Flames, Black Magic Woman, Sabotage, Bulls on Parade and Cult of Personality and the last time I was there in May I was still at or near the top of most songs on most machines. So if you see Chief on the list then that's me xD
For sure my favourite channel at the moment! Loving the videos, I hope your channel blows up!
Wow thank you so much!
Means a lot to read messages like that so I appreciate it. Got lots more on the go & planned!
@@JForJackPlays happy to hear there's more on the way!! Don't forget me when you hit 1 mil subs in a year's time 😂
I'm one of those nerds that have this 100%. Infact I have all the GH and rockband games 100% completed achievement wise. By far my fav games over the years. These days I play more drums than guitar.
That is crazy. Some of the achievements that I haven't managed yet are the 575k creeping death on GHM & 5* all songs on GHVH. Maybe one day I'll get back to them!
@JForJackPlays I think GHVH is one of the toughest completions out of both RB and GH. GH2 was tricky for the local 2nd player you needed to be very good also. Thanks for the vid as well bro I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane.
@JForJackPlays I think if you can 100% GH3 you have the skills to finish GHM on guitar with dedication. Good luck
You have my respect !
Thank you for this nostalgia trip bro 🙌🏻 great vid and great skills too
LETS GO NEW JFORJACK
RIGHT 🎉!!!
haha thank you!
Great content, glad the algorithm promoted your videos! Well worth a subscribe
thank you very much, appreciate it
NO WAY THIS DOESNT BLOW UP
14:04 Controller player here: I was able to do *most* of Expert with a ps2 control. Funny enough it was "Holiday in Cambodia" that stopped my playthrough because the intro was too fast for me to get through.
"Knights of Cydonia" was possible for me by saving the star power for strumming parts, since your meter increases faster when powered up.
Other songs that I felt were too hard to beat were "Raining Blood" and "One."
Been playing guitar for 2 years and can play everlong in my sleep. Went to a friends house and they were playing guitar hero. I loaded up everlong thinking “No way I’m not gonna play on expert, I play the song on a real guitar I can definitely easily play it on a cheap plastic toy.” …… I failed in 10 seconds
Never underestimate how the game works. Lower difficulties are necessary to warm up and play on a lot before you jump to the higher difficulties right away. Expert is never like playing real guitar on Guitar Hero/Rock Band games. You can’t just expect to be better at Expert because you just “played the song on real guitar before”. The game wants you to practice on the lower difficulties, even every real musician needs to know that once they try it out.
You're so underrated, glad this showed up in my recommended, this right here is good content
That means a lot! Thank you and glad you liked it
Man, I suck too hard at Guitar Hero for this.
Play Rock Band then if Guitar Hero is too hard.
It’s so satisfying getting the hammer ons down on knights of cydonia, but even more satisfying when you can fc the beginning of raining blood
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Iv been rinsing your content since I found your channel recently. Really enjoy your videos man. You've hit a perfect little niche in my brain. Commentary, challenge and edits are great.
Appreciate the kind words very much.
Glad you enjoy them!
Got lots more planned.. lots more painful ones too haha
answering your question in 14:15.. I finished GH3 on expert using a controller.. and Knights of Cydonia was so hard!!
I took the controller with my left hand.. and when the spamming notes begins, I used my right hand, middle finger and index finger swaping to fast! and press the start button when the new notes begin.. like
green spaming > middle and index finger swaping fast (L2) > when the green ends, I pressed start
and swap my fingers to the red button (L1), return the music and middle and index finger swaping fast on L1..
and I did it all the music and this is how I beat the Matt Bellamy in GH3 in the controller UASUHSAUHUSA
Love how calm you are all the way through this on the webcam, I'd lose my shit if I got even half of these achievements.
Another great video! GH3 is definitely one of the hardest games to get 1000G on. I played the game religiously back when it came out and only got to about the 800 mark (helped by a few glitches to unlock the lefty and controller achievements). I was good but a friend of mine was a real GH wizard and we even had some co-op high scores in the top 10 of the global rankings for a few songs - Me playing bass, of course!
Thank you very much.
Yeah this game is such a fun one to play co op with friends.
Which achievements were you missing?
@@JForJackPlays Was missing a lot of the ranked online and the 5-starring every song on co-op achievements. You could only get the co-op one through local play and this was an online friend who I didn't know IRL.
Brilliant video. Absolutely love the honesty regarding the controller achievement lmao
One that I got back then that I believe you can't get anymore is the "Meet your maker" achievement
im ready to see the co op achieves! truly enjoyed this, it brings back memories of the grind!
Im an avid guitar hero player and this is probably one of if not the most entertaining guitar hero video I've seen in a long time. Great stuff man
I love this! Achievement hunting is something I love watching, and guitar hero 3?? My dream combo! Sub instantly
Felt like such an accomplishment in life getting 100% completion on this game :D
i did it 9 years ago, Good times.
Seeing how many buttons you gotta hit on some of these really makes it impressive, good video btw.
Thank you for watching! Glad you liked it
Man, it really sucks that RUclips doesn't let you play the music.
I really wish I could still play this. I still have aps3 and guitar and the games, all I'm missing is the friggin dongle, this video really made me wanna pick it back up
RUclips can allow the music to be played, just be aware of the copyright of the songs that could block the video.
One thing to mention, don’t play PS3 Guitar Hero and Rock Band if the dongles are difficult to get and connect, it’s not worth it. Get the PS2 or Xbox 360 versions instead.
Very impressed. I love this game. The achievement icons are a nice touch 👌
One of the greats from the 360 generation that's for sure!
This will sound quite odd but I've been playing Guitar Hero on PC with a keyboard pretty much exclusively (I'm ashamed to admit I couldn't get into playing it properly with a guitar controller). However, a friend of mine learned to play the game with a proper guitar controller so we played co-op quite a lot, even managed to 100% Mississippi Queen once. Thank you for this trip down memory lane, Guitar Hero 3 was my first game in the series.
To answer your question about playing expert on the standard controller. You need to change your grip to hold the controller in your left hand and twitch hit the buttons with your right. It's not clean by any means but it works with some practice.
Gh3 is my first guitar hero and I still play it till this day and when he said “I don’t know if it’s even possible to complete expert on controller but someone out there probably has” it gave me Vietnam flashbacks because knights of Cydonia was INCREDIBLY HARD I’d just position my controller in a way where I can tap the button really fast at the time I didn’t have a guitar and on offer up they’d be going for like 50-100 dollars
Facebook Marketplace, Goodwills, and Thrift Stores should have the cheapest options of Guitar Hero and Rock Band instruments.
So glad to see your skills in action again 😎
Thank you very much!
Very impressive! One of my all time favorite games on the 360, makes me want to go and try to do it myself lol, congrats!
This is AMAZING! I've been playing GH3 since it first came out, but I never got to use the actual guitar. I always played with the console controller.
Never beat TTFAF on Expert, congrats.
as someone who still plays this game a lot i love videos like this, amazin work :D
I really need to earn that 750k points achievement at some point as well.
Super grats on this achievement; certainly a dedicated skill is required to complete these achievements and you certainly have that.
If you bought the DLC song “All Nightmare Long" by Metallica, it’s your easiest way you can get to get the achievement. If not, Through The Fire And Flames on Expert is your only option on console normally.
oh shit, excited to see a new vid from you! the guitar was so hard for me to play for some reason, so i played with the regular controller instead and ended up loving it lmfao.
thank you!
haha yeah a few people have said that,
I was guitar all the way though!
such a good game
This was one set of achievements I got and I never, ever, ever, EVER want to try to complete again, so I definitely salute you. Meanwhile, I've been sitting with one achievement left in GH: Metallica since that game came out, and that really gets on my nerves. One of these days, I'm gonna finish it.
License transfer was clutch back than. My friends and i all used to do it so we could get each other's games.
14:14 I exclusively play GHIII with a standard controller and there's actually a way to do fast strumming on single notes. Let's say there's a large string of yellow notes, you actually hold down the yellow button (R1/RB) while quickly tapping between the green and red buttons and the game counts it as repeatedly tapping the yellow button. This only works for yellow, blue, and orange because the buttons you alternate between need to be lower frets than the one you're holding. This means that this trick simply does not work on green and red notes. I've been playing this game since 2007 on regular controller across PS2, PS3, and Xbox 360, and yet I still can't beat Expert because of Raining Blood and One. I think I have 5 stars and almost every other song with the standard controller, though. Some of the charts are just so insanely fun on the standard controller, and I'm sad they removed the ability to play with it in the later band focused games, but at least it forced me to get good with the guitar controller as well.
I got GH3 the night it dropped due to winning a GH contest in my local GameStop, and I only just this year got all the achievements. That Big Ol Pile of Wins one took forever, and the 750k on TTFAF was no joke either. Welcome to the club homie B) lol
wow nice work on 750k on ttfaf!
I borrowed my friends copy and release and ended up getting my own a bit later
thank you!
This video was great brought back a lot of memories for me. I’m one of the ones that finished this game 1000G and it took soooooo much time!! When I was first learning the game I remember expert being really rough. If I attempted this again I think the only song that would give me issues would be raining blood! My lord that was so rough to five star!
This is the first video of urs I'm watching and I'm hooked. You make rly good content and I hope u do the co-op trophies
Thank you, that means a lot!
Yes I definitely will, I'm currently working on recording a few games. The rest of GH3 included!
Really good video. Brings me back to the days when TTFAF was the pinnacle of achievement, nowadays we have FCs on grade 20 songs which is something I'm not even close to doing.
FC of TTFAF used to be considered a holy grail, then summer 2008 happened and the Dragonforce pack dropped. How far we've come.
Dude this is just awesome to see!
As a Clone hero player i really wanna point out how difficult playing GH3 on console is compared to playing Clone Hero and you would definitely "look" better and feel like you ARE better if you tested your skills out in that game :) Not being capped on framerate along with all the other QoL changes truly makes for a more spammy experience :b
With that said, keep it up champ. Easy like+sub
Really great video. Used to be obsessed with this game, but played on the ps2 so never was able to achievement hunt. Awesome job.
Glad you enjoyed it, appreciate the kind words!
I played GH1 on ps2! All the rest on 360
@@JForJackPlays Don’t forget GH80s on PS2. No other release for that game.
hm, i had a similar issue with my downloaded content. Downloaded Simpsons and X Men arcade games on my xbox360 back in 2013 from xbox arcade when they were briefly available. Theyre still on my harddrive, but when i play it on a different console using the same hard drive, its only the demo. Im going to try that "License Transfer"
awesome video man, i hope to come back to this game someday once i find a guitar that isn’t broken
eBay, Amazon, Facebook Marketplace, garage sales, goodwills, or thrift stores are you best bets to get the plastic guitars again.
Smash hits had arguably the hardest achievement I've seen: Bloody feet - 5 star Raining Blood on expert+ drums.
Two simple requirements:
1. have a drum kit good enough to even work well with two pedals.
2. be basically a professional drummer who can play double bass on a slayer song.
That game does have ridiculous achievements. The raining blood & play with me guitar achievements are crazy too
14:08 I actually did manage to beat Expert with a standard controller, but it was NOT easy. Like you said the fast strumming parts are like a wall, so timing the star power and just mashing like hell for songs like Knights and Cambodia are a must.
14:08 I actually have beaten the career on expert on controller. There's a trick you can do for fast strumming where you can hold a higher fret and press lower frets and they count as an input on the higher fret. So, for example, you can hold yellow and quickly press green and red to strum a lot faster. I've also just naturally gotten really fast at greens and use 2 fingers to quickly press red whenever possible.
I’m so drunk and kept seeing this on my recommended thank you goat 😅
This was a very nostalgic video to me. Don't know how or why I got recommended this but I'm not complaining :)
glad to hear it!
Another great vid! Careful of those blisters!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You're a much better guitar hero player than me but your performance on The Flood section is pretty close to what I was able to achieve. Just a mindless cascade of fingers
Pro tip, if you have to fast strum on controller as long as its like yellow blue or orange, you can hold say blue and tap green and red to help strum faster, me and my lottle bro use to be gods at the controller, if its green or red you cant do it though sadly
This is friggin awesome, a Rock Band completion would be really cool
Man I've not played Guitar Hero since World Tour. Good times. Great video!
I'd recommend downloading it on PC and giving it a go
World Tour is one I didn't play tooo much. Think i'm going to have to check it out again soon..
and thank you very much! glad you liked it
Pointing a mirror at the tv is EXACTLY what I did to get the lefty achievement too
Some times it just has to be done
Casual face reveal lmao.
Your channel is sick mate. These vids make me very nostalgic the 360 achievement hunter days. I started with your World At War vid and then watched all the others. Keep it up, this is quality content
Appreciate the kind words very much!
Thank you, glad you like them.
I have lots more planned and a few in progress already!
I remember getting the 1k notes achievement by playing TTFAF on easy, and unless I'm remembering incorrectly, wasn't there an achievement to beating a song blind on expert? If so, I learned Bulls on Parade to get that one.
Sends me back to when I was forced to learn how to play on Console Controller because the guitar was for my brother lmao.
Ended up getting good enough to even 5 start TTFATF by the end of many years of practice. I still play on it from time to time just for fun.
That’s the point of Guitar Hero/Rock Band in the first place. It’s a way to warm-up your fingers before moving on to the real guitar. More fun that way than any other painful finger exercises that make it harder for no reason according to Drew Gooden on RUclips (shoutout to that guy for saying that in his Guitar Hero video) if you’re built differently. It even teaches people that never played a guitar in their life.