I just finished participating in the Guitar Hero III bracket of the Fragolympics Summer 2008. Twelve gaming communities were invited to participate in the event which spans six weeks and includes four different games with various competitions within each one. My community showed incredibly bad judgment by selecting yours truly to wield the not so lethal plastic guitar shaped controller. It was a weapon of destruction for my opponent but not so much for me unfortunately.
Our round was played on medium difficulty with each of us selecting two songs and then also playing one random predetermined song. I actually went temporarily blind this morning and was forced to play the songs by memory so taking that into consideration, I really didn’t do too bad. Ok, so maybe that’s a lie but I did go outside for a bit and look directly at the sun so I really couldn’t see that well. Ok, that’s a lie too but whatever. If you would like to see me go down in a blaze filled with absolutely no glory, I screen capped the entire experience for your sadistic pleasure. We didn’t have our mics plugged in so while there wasn’t any actual communication, I took the liberty of adding what I thought my opponent was thinking. Seriously, what a jerk.
I would like to take a moment to tell everybody that once I was at a bar and I participated in a Guitar Hero competition and I totally won. I even got a t-shirt. Yup. I am now going to go find that t-shirt, play Rock You Like a Hurricane at an ear-shattering volume, and sob hysterically until I feel better. If nobody hears from me the next few days, feel free to send out a search party. Just make sure they have plenty of tissues.
Posted by Cayote on July 17, 2008 at 2:34 pm
You Rock My World!
Posted by Zoom on July 17, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Aw so close bs!!
Posted by AlgebraCow on July 17, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Awww. Come on Bs. He’s a nice kid
Posted by bs angel on July 17, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I know he’s nice. I sent him a good game message immediately after playing, and also sent him an email thanking him for the games and wishing him luck in the remainder of the tournament. :)
I think some of the humor perhaps got lost in translation. The jerk comment was supposed to be funny because I said we didn’t talk while we played, so those comments were made by me, not him. Could just be I thought it was funny when it really wasn’t, much like every other article on my blog. LOL, … See? I just did it again.
Posted by hardcorekoala on July 17, 2008 at 3:45 pm
You did great, it was insanely close the whole match. But I had my secret weapon, Star power paths :)
http://www.scorehero.com
Search the forums and it could help you in future competitions.
Posted by bs angel on July 17, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Good advice, thanks for the link.
I was proud of how I did for one of the songs you selected (Impulse). I haven’t played that song before (I’m assuming it’s a purchased one from the store?) so I went in completely blind on that. I was just happy as a clam that I 100%-ed it!
You did great and definitely deserved the win. I peeked at your achievements after our match and saw that you have completed Through the Fire and Flames on Expert and also five starred everything on Expert as well. I bow down to your GH superiority. :)
Posted by Soulofaqua on July 17, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Ahh poor BS Angel. Look at the bright side, Next up is Halo 3! Surely you will be better at that xD. Also I just borrowed GH On Tourette from my work…. I’ve been forumfrolicking and playing duelmode ever since. I so want to play I’m not your gameboy!
Posted by Ragingterror on July 17, 2008 at 8:12 pm
^^^ Yeah, as long as there aren’t any team-based matches…
Posted by Crazyeye0 on July 17, 2008 at 11:48 pm
^Lol!^
Speaking of H£ team based games, are there still plans for a “Hawtymcbloggy night” as discussed in the Legendary night thread?
Posted by Crazyeye0 on July 17, 2008 at 11:49 pm
^Sorry, I must of hit shift for some reason when I pressed3^
Posted by Diablo Raul on July 18, 2008 at 4:49 am
You’re both better then I am at the game so I bow down to both your superior skills.
Posted by AusQB on July 18, 2008 at 8:23 am
What’s Guitar Hero?
Posted by Locke on July 18, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Angel!
You did awesome!
I just got my ass handed to me by MCmaniacDBR. He didn’t miss a single note the entire match. He may have captured it to, so the next GH video out you see might be Locke getting pwndizzled.
Not only was he a great player, he was SO cool afterward. We played a Co-Op match to wash off the beating he gave me.
All in all, awesome experience.
Good Game MCmaniacDBR, good game.
Posted by thecanvasgrey on July 20, 2008 at 9:52 am
It’s not whether you win or lose (even tho winning IS better), truly it is getting to play the game. I wish everyone would play and lose with such dignity, you BOTH rock!
Posted by - The Cavegirls on July 23, 2008 at 2:12 am
[...] but the guitarist who knew how to use their star power wisely seemed to come out ahead. Check out bs angel’s blog entry about her guitar hero match to see just how close these matches really [...]
Posted by MCmaniacDBR on July 23, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Hahaha yea it was fun locke, nope I didn’t record our game but I did record all of the finals except for Cliffs of Dover!
Check out my youtube page if you’d like!
http://www.youtube.com/MCmaniacDBR