Belated WEmas Celebration!

On February 13th I got together with some mates to finally celebrate WEmas.
Diego managed to borrow Guitar Hero 2 & 3 for his Xbox 360 including two guitar controllers (although the Strat one was broken or something), I provided snack material and booze.
Buler, by the time he had had some booze, refused to let go of my Indy hat and played some Duke Nukem 3D, when he wasn't rocking. Phil pretty much failed despite being more than a decent guitar player, and Tello only gave it a few tries but provided very uplifting feedback when others were playing. Diego was by far the most awesome looking chap of the bunch - have a look for yourself:

 

  

  

...what's better than rocking with booze and the Duke? Exactly.

  

  

  

...yours truly donning the WEmas 08 shirt! Hell yes.

...and the award for Most Epic Rock Pose goes to...

We played through most of GH2's career mode, unlocking the songs on the way ourselves, but with GH3, we decided to just unlock everything by cheat code. The track lists of both games is okay, but not really overwhelming; I had more fun with the original GH's choice of songs.
Diego and me were the only ones to really rock through the games; despite the fact that everyone in our group plays guitar in real life (some less frequently than others) the other ones didn't seem to get along with the concept of the GH controller... so discussions arose whether or not it brings advantages to be able to play guitar in real life. I noticed that if you're familliar with how to play the guitar, you tend to use your pinky effectively, of course. Also, you have more control over what your fingers are doing since the movement required for playing the riffs in GH are similar to actual guitar movements (in a limited way, of course).
On the other hand, it can be a disadvantage to know specific songs. For example: When I was playing Knights Of Cydonia by Muse or When You Were Young by The Killers (ah, when the Killers were still good... ) I always fell into the patterns I knew from playing the song on real life guitar; this way I often played too many notes or got out of beat and stumbled through the next passage.

At about 2 am, Diego requested to try and play Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce on Expert.
Now, some of you might know this song. It's power metal at its best and considered the hardest official GH song, as far as I know. Here's what it looks like when a 9 year old beats it with 95%. On Expert.

Poor fella. You think he's gonna miss his childhood?

Of course, beating this song was, for us normal human beings, out of the question. So Diego offered to try and get the highest percentage during a training mode where the song would never be aborted, no matter how bad you were. Diegos highscore was a whoppin 56%, while I was proud to call 48% my own. It was hilarious and a whole new experience just to see how high you can get - if you can, you should try it just for the heck of it.

I still have Diegos 360 here. I had to give it back to him yesterday, but somehow I forgot. Whoops!