Beatles - Gold Stars - Come on already!

[deadpool247]

I agree -- getting Gold stars on Bass is pretty tough to do, unless you have at least one other player in the band.

That being said, I did get Gold stars on "The End" (and a perfect, too) the first time I played that.

[just-a-bassist]

If you're sweating gold stars, you're a die-hard player. Might as well go all the way and figure out a better OD path.

I'm less sweating gold stars as I am sweating Achievements. I'm a completionist with it comes to my Xbox games...

I played some bass last night. I got some. Some I thought I would get but I didnt.

But I dont care.

Its about playing the game, not adding 20 points to your e-peen

I don't care about comparing my gamerpoints to anyone else, so keep your e-peen comments to yourself. As I said a moment ago, I'm simply a completionist when it comes to games...

When achievements are put into a game but then there's no QA done to ensure they are accessible for ANY player (even someone who is a solo, Expert bassist in rhythm games), it screams of "we aren't really paying attention to all parts of our game"... and that's what I'm here asking for a response on (not just from users, but a developer taking a moment to speak to their level of thoroughness on Bass issues would be nice)...

[T-Hybrid]

I feel fine might just be impossible, I haven't seen anyone gold star it yet.

It's been gold-starred on all four instruments. The cut-offs are "high" because the Beatles songs are typically short and thus there's less room to bounce back from a miss.

When achievements are put into a game but then there's no QA done to ensure they are accessible for ANY player

They are accessible to any player. I myself have all 4 Gold star Achievements. It just takes *shockhorror* skill to get them.

Isn't that the point of Achievements? The feeling of "achieveing" something? Or should we just get 1000 points for turning the game on?

(not just from users, but a developer taking a moment to speak to their level of thoroughness on Bass issues would be nice)...

This is nothing new though. Bass has ALWAYS been trickier to GS because there's fewer notes than your typical guitar part...and you don't get the Solo bonuses like Guitar does. There's also the fact that if you miss a single note you lose tons of points because you're mulitplier has to climb all the way back to x6.

Bass is generally considered the "easier" string instrument. Thus it's offset by being slightly harder to GS. It's called balancing the game.

[Ehfahq]

I don't care about comparing my gamerpoints to anyone else, so keep your e-peen comments to yourself. As I said a moment ago, I'm simply a completionist when it comes to games...

I wasnt responding to you. I simply posting my opinion. If you dont want people to post thier thoughts, dont start threads.

[ThePaska]

It's been gold-starred on all four instruments. The cut-offs are "high" because the Beatles songs are typically short and thus there's less room to bounce back from a miss.

Do you have proof of this? In all my searching I have found no one that has actually gold starred it on Bass, and people have seemed to have stretched out the point totals as much as possible.

[Sargehalo51]

granted im sure you most likely simply meant getting 100 with a perfect path and no over strumming but its worth pointing out the two are seperate with regards to skill

I would have to say that, in my personal opinion, any song, on any instrument, where the player get 100% of the notes (no over strums or over hits), and ends the song with no available energy left, should definatly be getting gold stars, no exceptions.

I have always thought that the RB system for gold stars was broken or set to high in regards to this, especially when it comes to bass.

[lotr rocks 0]

i got 100% FC of I wanna be your man on expert bass, and I didn't gold-star.... Looked on hiscores and im only 4000 points behind the #1 rank

its pretty dumb

[Blacklight21]

I would have to say that, in my personal opinion, any song, on any instrument, where the player get 100% of the notes (no over strums or over hits), and ends the song with no available energy left, should definatly be getting gold stars, no exceptions.

I have always thought that the RB system for gold stars was broken or set to high in regards to this, especially when it comes to bass.

I agree with this.

I would take it even a step futher and say you shouldn't even have to use overdrive to get gold stars. Overdrive should just be a bonus not a requirement.

[satchmo3350]

yeah i actually have done perfctly on a few songs on expert bass and gotten 100% with bass too. I guess for those songs you have to just use the beatlemania at the perfect times

[JackBNimble]

I to have FC'd a few songs aswell as used up all my overdrive and still not gold stared a few songs.Obviously I used up my overdrive in the wrong sections of some of these songs , but it's still lame when this happens.

I feel they have raised the bar for gold stars here to add difficulty to an easier then usual game.