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At least it isn’t worse – and with the excellent fret board improvement, Guitar Hero Live makes up for its problems elsewhere in substantial, meaningful ways. With the renewed focus lying purely on the guitar, it’s a shame there isn’t more of a convincing feel to the device. It lacks any real weight, and feels as cheap as any Guitar Hero instrument ever has. My only real issue with the new instrument is that it feels familiar in some wrong ways as well. I love playing music in Guitar Hero Live as much as I did the first time I ever played Guitar Hero. And it means I am learning Guitar Hero again for the first time in 10 years. The new guitar design makes pressing the fret keys feel more like playing an actual guitar – rapidly moving my fingers up and down and across a small space approximates hitting actual D, C, E, and power chords in an excellent way.
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I know what I’m seeing, and I know how to press these buttons – and I am struggling. Things get really complex when the note track starts mixing black and white, holding the top buttons together, and creating button combinations of three. I cranked up the difficulty to hard, skipping the middleground, and was paralyzed by the possible combinations. On the easiest difficulty, it’s all almost entirely black notes on the one-two-three frets. Also, the different textures on the black/white columns let you know where your fingers are set so you don't have to look at your hand if a finger slips. Guitar Hero Live’s guitar uses just the top three frets, divided down the middle to create one button on the inside, and another on the outside of each fret. Guitar Hero Live eliminates this issue entirely. A sudden orange after a string of reds, blues, and yellows could break your rhythm. Black automatically means the three buttons on the inside, limiting how the note track can psych you out. The binary color scheme simplifies the way your brain interprets the iconography on-screen – you’re seeing in twos and thinking in threes. But it all makes sense, both from a psychological perspective, and in terms of making Guitar Hero feel like a new game again. Not only are the colors we’ve relied on for so long completely replaced, but the instrument includes an additional button – and all of this in a new, tighter location. It’s a strange mental undertaking to rethink Guitar Hero in this way. The buttons on the inside of the fret board are labeled black, and the outside frets are labeled white. The six buttons are then divided in a binary black/white, rather than singular colors. Guitar Hero Live’s guitar uses just the top three frets, divided down the middle to create one button on the inside, and another on the outside of each fret. Official Guitar Hero/Rock Band Instrument Compatibility Chart WIRED. Green, red, yellow, blue, and orange buttons, each set to a single slot on the fret board, are a thing of the past. Guitar Hero Live abandons the series’ usual five-fret, five-color system for creating chords.