Beta Rocks Live

Betasim recently picked up a guitar-only pack of Guitar Hero: World Tour (meaning, game and guitar only; no drums or mic). She recently beat the tour, and has since grown tired of breaking her own high scores. Therefore, she has taken her game online, to see where she stands.

Now, let it be known that Beta does not have an Xbox Live account, let alone a Gold one. I, however, do, so last night there was a chick rocker online with the name Alphasim, besting comers left and right. She played versus for awhile, including four or so times against one guy, who she about doubled the score of while on normal difficulty, with him on easy. She eventually went to hard to try and even things out, but it didn’t help. She also played a few team matches, and one guy she played with was fantastic. He was hitting almost all his notes on expert… I was impressed. Finally she joined an impromptu band. She played three songs with them (another guitarist and a singer) when her turn came to pick the song. I suggested she pick something hard to sing, just to be mean, and lo and behold, she did. Hell, the song she picked wasn’t even in English! She picked Escuela de Calor, and it was to no ones surprise that the singer quit mid way through the song. Beta commented that she felt terrible. I think she did, anyway… she was laughing so hard it was difficult to tell what she was saying.

She joined another band and played a round with them, until they sat at the ‘post gig’ screen for over four minutes. She bailed on them to go try the battle mode. Neither of us knew anything about this so she was going in blind. She lasted all of about two and a half minutes before she was blitzed to death by her opponent. Finally she wrapped up her night playing one more gig with some random schmoe who picked a Tool song, which makes her happy all the live-long day. Swear words were uttered by her through most of the song (all of which were directed at her opponent), after which she called it a night. I think that this was karma getting back at her for Escuela de Calor, personally.

Here’s the part that worries me. Beta played for over an hour, and did pretty well. I, however, am pathetic. I struggle to complete most songs on easy, and can’t even think of going to normal. I’m worried that the people she played against and with are going to want to play again, only they’re going to come to me looking for competition. I want nothing to do with playing this thing online, but now it looks like I do.

*sigh* I’ve got to get Beta her own Live account.