The Official GGD Guitar Hero II Leaderboard Thread

So it's out. I went to Fry's today, went straight to where the big crowd was and picked it up. My long nightmare of waiting to play Guitar Hero II comes to an end today (well, tonight since I'm at work now). On the way home, I got to thinking about how awesome it is that Guitar Hero now has an online leaderboard (too bad no true online - bah!) and how that might tie into our little group here in General Games. I know of at least a half dozen people that are buying the game today, and based on the crowd I saw at Fry's, there are going to be plenty more than that. I saw Vader's thread on Metal Gear Online, and I thought it would be a good idea to have a few community-based threads around certain games.

A few interesting tidbits about the game that I didn't know:

You can play co-op with one person using the guitar and the other using a controller. Not sure how I feel about this yet. It could be too easy. Or lame. Or both. Still, at least you can get some of the co-op achievements without having to dish out for another guitar.

The expansion jack on the bottom of the guitar is for an effects pedal. Yay!

The guitar has a cord (boo! lame! hiss!), but has the same breakaway cord you'll remember from the original Xbox controller. Kinda makes you wonder if the game wasn't in production for the Xbox first, y'know?

Achievements! Sweet holy gracious achievements designed to drive the ordinary man mad. I'm ashamed to admit this, but even if I had this already for the PS2, I'd re-buy it for the downloadable content and the achievements.

So here's the deal:

Add your Xbox Live tag if you want to have your scores (which will be verified!) listed in the General Games leaderboard, and then get to shredding fools! Scores will be updated nightly or as often as need be. 

And I'll tell you right now: None of you are going to take me down in "Message In A Bottle." None of you.

Oh yes, count me in on this!  The tag is Super Dave, of course.

Now I need to head down to the store and get my copy.  I already had the PS2 version, but with achievements, leaderboards, and downloads, all of my future Guitar Hero rocking will be done on my 360.

I don't have my retail copy yet, but I preordered it, so it should be along shortly. Put me down as Edward Appleby. Are we listing leaderboards for specific songs? Or career scores? If we do specific songs, it's going to be a LOOOOOOOONG list.AlexN

Right on, man.

I was planning on doing the whole shebang (what's that 70 some-odd songs?) with the top ten listed. Mainly because some people are going to have their favorites that they do better at than others. But yeah, it'll be a long list. I better reserve a couple posts here in the thread before it gets any bigger.

Official Leaderboard

A few notes: The letter next to the name denotes the difficulty the score was obtained on. For example, an "H" next to the score means Hard, and X is for Expert, and so on.

4-10-07 Update: Colored font, larger font on song titles, top 5 now top ten, new players added, career leaderboard added.

4-25-07 Update: Placed career leaderboard at the top, added italics and bold to career leaderboard top three, grouped tiers 1 and 2 with career leaderboard, grouped tiers 3-5 together, grouped tiers 6-8 together, new players added

4-27-07 Update: Moved the downloadable songs to the post below the bonus songs listing. Now it's got its own section to populate. Whee.

All Songs Career Leaderboard

1- Slunks 20,207,670

2- Edward Appleby 18,821,416

3- FourSerioux 17,711,786

4- II AxxesS II 17627284

5- Phenom7519 15272070

6- Darrogamer06 1216443

7- PixelatedMess 11602328

8- Caddy0688 11531602

9- MrCHUPON 11174992

10- Covenant342 10708999

1. Opening Licks

Cheap Trick - "Surrender"

1- Slunks 306207X Ranked 24

2- II AxxesS II 294517X Ranked 212

3- Edward Appleby 291001X Ranked 394

4- Conanfan 288253X Ranked 522

5- FourSerioux 265692X

6- N3RD ALERT 261767

7- Purassic Jark 257179X

8- Phenom7519 242727H

9- Caddy 0688 234630X

10- Shoun2507 234346X

Toadies - "Possum Kingdom"

1- II AxxesS II 332290X Ranked 160

2- Edward Appleby 327836X Ranked 278

3- FourSerioux 314780X Ranked 499

4- Slunks 310640X Ranked 626

5- N3RD ALERT 288838H

6- MrCHUP0N 276238X

7- Purassic Jark 274440H

8- Darrogamer06 264685H

9- Caddy0688 251378H

10- Phenom7519 248860H

Nirvana - "Heart-Shaped Box"

1- Slunks 324154X Ranked 66

2- Edward Appleby 318465X Ranked 329

3- II AxxesS II 315970 Ranked 419

4- FourSerioux 312770X Ranked 838

5- Phenom7519 310434X

6- N3RD ALERT 298394X

7- Conanfan 280669X

8- Caddy0688 270595X

9- MrCHUP0N 250442X

10- Covenant342 244694X

Rancid - "Salvation"

1- II AxxesS II 214601X Ranked 116

2- Edward Appleby 203961X Ranked 423

3- Slunks 203602X Ranked 431

4- Phenom7519 190368H Ranked 866

5- FourSerioux 178043H

6- MrCHUP0N 177692X

7- Shoun2507 173388H

8- Darrogamer06 171046H

9- Conanfan 166962H

10- N3RD ALERT 166632H

Kiss - "Strutter"

1- Slunks 256043X Ranked 361

2- Edward Appleby 234581X Ranked 909

3- FourSerioux 212918X

4- II AxxesS II 198224H

5 - MrCHUP0N 197070X

6- Conanfan 190631X

7- Phenom7519 188355X

8- Purassic Jark 186212H

9- Caddy0688 182842H

10- N3RD ALERT 177014H

Motley Crue - "Shout At The Devil" (Encore)

1- Slunks 193851X Ranked 50

2- Edward Appleby 181835X Ranked 252

3- II AxxesS II 167864X

4- FourSerioux 166484X

5- Darrogamer06 164224H

6- Phenom7519 156816H

7- MrCHUP0N 152715X

8- Caddy0688 137170H

9- peyo670 134701H

10- Purassic Jark 132526H

2. Amp Warmers

Danzig - "Mother"

1- II AxxesS II 199062H Ranked 356

2- FourSerioux 188248X

3- Edward Appleby 188160X

4- Slunks 183951X

5- N3RD ALERT 176735H

6- Phenom7519 170457X

7- MrCHUP0N 159869X

8- Shoun2507 158034X

9- Conanfan 150693H

10- Caddy0688 149937H

Pearl Jam - "Life Wasted"

1- Edward Appleby 264549X Ranked 286

2- II AxxesS II 255801X Ranked 443

3- Slunks 246457X Ranked 896

4- MrCHUP0N 214179X

5- FourSerioux 214074X

6- Phenom7519 205503X

7- PixelatedMess 199510M

8- Caddy0688 193758H

9- N3RD ALERT 188849X

10- Shoun2507 182129H

Warrant - "Cherry Pie"

1- Slunks 171942X Ranked 215

2- II AxxesS II 170527X Ranked 196

3- Edward Appleby 160598X Ranked 848

4- MrCHUP0N 157137X

5- Caddy0688 152364H

6- FourSerioux 151125X

7- N3RD ALERT 146915H

8- Phenom7519 144272X

9- Purassic Jark 129826H

10- PixelatedMess 126807M

Wolfmother - "Woman"

1- Slunks 238214X Ranked 27

2- FourSerioux 215357X Ranked 220

3- II AxxesS II 200716X Ranked 610

4- Edward Appleby 197895X Ranked 841

5- MrCHUP0N 184157X

6- N3RD ALERT 163179H

7- Conanfan 157683H

8- Purassic Jark 154893H

9- Phenom7519 150888H

10 - Caddy0688 149250H

Van Halen - "You Really Got Me"

1- Slunks 151109X Ranked 156

2- II AxxesS II 136915X Ranked 658

3- Caddy0688 134777 Ranked 997

4- Edward Appleby 134697X

5- MrCHUP0N 124332X

6- N3RD ALERT 116746H

7- Phenom7519 113619H

8- FourSerioux 113579H

9- Shoun2507 102882H

10- Covenant342 102680H

Spinal Tap - "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" (Encore)

1- Slunks 215029X Ranked 37

2- II AxxesS II 172173X Ranked 240

3- Edward Appleby 162679X Ranked 477

4- FourSerioux 150164X Ranked864

5- N3RD ALERT 127629H

6- MrCHUP0N 119085X

7- Conanfan 117107H

8- Darrogamer06 110543H

9- Phenom7519 107711H

10- Caddy0688 102392H

2- MrCHUP0N 264720X Ranked 640

3- Edward Appleby 259768X

4- Slunks 258680X

Bonus Song Leaderboard

"Raw Dog"

1- Slunks - 293795X

2- Edward Appleby - 223881H

3-Covenant342 - 155455X

4-Phenom7519 - 147743H

5-PixelateMess - 129463M

6-Caddy0688 - 118859X

7-Purassic Jark - 112861H

8-EazyB - 99500M

9-plastiqu - 70236M

10-Mr Blackley - 55599M

"Arterial Black"

1- Slunks - 244657X

2-Edward Appleby - 175307H

3-Phenom7519 - 138738H

4-PixelatedMess - 133946M

5-EazyB - 129964M

6-Covenant342 - 121474X

7-Caddy0688 - 115183X

8-Cononfan - 102030H

9-plastique - 79535M

10-Mr Blackley - 74628M

"Collide"

1-Slunks - 251197X

2-Edward Appleby - 203253X

3-PixelatedMess - 132716M

4-EazyB - 131894M

5-Phenom7519 - 125227H

6-Caddy0688 - 122563X

7-Covenant342 - 98373H

8-Mr Blackley - 77701M

9-plastique - 76120M

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"Drink Up"

1-Slunks - 142815X

2-Edward Appleby -133424H

3-PixelatedMess - 86086M

4-Caddy0688 - 73153X

5-Covenant342 - 62769H

6-Phenom7519 - 57191H

7-EazyB - 39135M

8-Mr Blackley - 30404M

9-plastique - 29222M

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"Elephant Bones"

1-Slunks - 177102X

2-Edward Appleby - 163614H

3-Phenom7519 - 135642H

4-PixelatedMess - 117373M

5-Covenant342 - 105201X

6-zayas81 - 95518M

7-EazyB - 94064M

8-Caddy0688 - 76991X

9-Mr Blackley - 73203M

10-plastique - 40015M

"Fall of Pangea"

1-Slunks - 449590X

2-Edward Appleby - 380773X

3-Phenom7519 - 328202H

4-PixelatedMess - 254840M

5-EazyB - 226074M

6-Caddy0688 - 212959X

7-plastique - 179419M

8-Covenant342 - 163465X

9-Mr Blackley - 151548M

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"FTK"

1-Slunks - 219744X

2-Edward Appleby -205786H

3-Phenom7519 - 157708H

4-PixelatedMess - 156258M

5-Covenant342 - 132046H

6-zayas81 - 106613M

7-REG1 - 104914M

8-EazyB - 96104M

9-plastique - 88721M

10-Mr Blackley - 86462M

"Gemini"

1-Slunks - 214001X

2-Edward Appleby - 173577H

3-Phenom7519 - 133279H

4-PixelatedMess - 123026M

5-EazyB - 115919M

6-Covenant342 - 99104H

7-zayas81 - 91484M

8-Mr Blackley - 64001M

9-Caddy0688 - 62637X

10-plastique - 54912M

"Kicked To The Curb"

1-Slunks - 331787X

2-Edward Appleby -325360X

3-Phenom7519 - 280980X

4-Caddy0688 - 184478X

5-Covenant342 - 151535M

6-PIxelatedMess - 152279M

7-plastique - 140998M

8-EazyB - 132980M

9-Mr Blackley - 72895M

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"Push Push (Lady Lightning)

1-Slunks - 265306X

2-Edward Appleby -197480H

3-PixelatedMess - 152091M

4-EazyB - 139625M

5-Phenom7519 - 136132H

6-Covenant342 - 122767X

7-REG1 - 120039M

8-Caddy0688 - 98869X

9-plastique - 96879M

10-peyo670 - 71064H

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Since it looks like we'll need space to eventually shove in all the downloaded tracks, I say we use this now useless post to do so. Without further ado:

The "HolySweetJesusWhatAFriggingRipoff
ButIDownloaded ThemAnyway" Leaderboard

"Ace of Spades"

1.-Slunks - 203606X 

2-Edward Appleby - 189935X

3-Phenom7519 - 111614X

4-Covenant342 - 77518X

5-Mr Blackley - 48006H

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"Bark At the Moon"

1-Slunks - 378765X

2-Edward Appleby - 180454H

3-Phenaom7519 - 155370X

4-Covenant342 - 103036X

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"Frankenstein"

1-Edward Appleby - 171551X

2-Covenant342 - 125375X

3-Phenom7519 - 114396X

4-Mr. Blackley - 45266H

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"Hey You"

1-Edward Appleby - 221356X

2-Phenom7519 - 203117X

3-Super Dave - 182412X

4-Covenant342 - 146471X

5-Mr Blackley - 96082H

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"Higher Ground"

1-Edward Appleby - 254609X

2-Phenom7519 - 196923X

3-Covenant342 - 157748X

4-Zayas81 - 100414M

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"Infected"

1-Edward Appleby - 312935X

2-Phenom7519 - 310264X

3-Covenant342 - 208732X

4-Mr Blackley - 143051M

5-Zayas81 - 134888M

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"Killer Queen"

1-Edward Appleby - 130001X

2-Phenom7519 - 103819X

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"Stellar"

1-Phenom7519 - 187006X

2-Edward Appleby - 171504X

3-Covenant342 - 89251X

4-Zayas81 - 86971M

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1-Edward Appleby - 190568X

2-Phenom7519 - 166268X

3-Covenant342 - 143874X

4-Mr Blackley - 101143M

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74 by default. And yeah, let's not forget the downloadable songs. Those'll start to cut into some space as well.AlexN

Crikey! Forgot all about those.

That's gonna put the number above a hundred. Dang, this is gonna be carpal tunnel-inducing. Totally worth it, though.

Man, if I had a 360 I would be all over this. I just picked up the PS2 version of Guitar Hero 2 the other day and I'm lovin' it! I've enjoyed playing pretty much every song on the list - with the exception being that terrible song called "girlfriend". Seriously, whoever put that in the track listing needs to be shot.

One of the things that has surprised me about the game is just how hard it is. I've finished every track on normal difficulty and I figured "Hey, I'm goin' straight to Expert!" Bad, bad idea. Some of those songs are crazy hard! Free Bird is borderline impossbile. I'd be shocked if anyone has 5 Starred that on Expert.

So far, my favorite track is "Heart Shaped Box" by Nirvana which I was able to 5 Star on normal difficulty. It kinda feels like the song was made for Guitar Hero. Which is cool. :)

I picked up my copy today, put me down for some serious rock.Shoun

What's your Gametag, man? I seem to remember it being the same as your Gamespot name, but I wasn't 100% on it.

There should be one for Killing in the name of - since that's the song you can get the highest score on (in my experience). I don't want to brag (read: I really really do), but I got about 4,5 million points in the PS2 version on Killing in the name of (on Expert)...

yeah I'm pretty awesome 

[QUOTE="Shoun"]I picked up my copy today, put me down for some serious rock.Shame-usBlackley

What's your Gametag, man? I seem to remember it being the same as your Gamespot name, but I wasn't 100% on it.

it's in his sig :P

i'm a total noob to the guitar hero franchise, but i picked it up for my 360 today anyway....so i'd rather not have my name listed in the scores, but i'll check here anyways to see how i stack up against the rest of you guys....

If anybody can play Jordan on expert please link vids, that would be awesome, I'm trying to learn but can't get it at all.

Somebody buy me the 360 version. PPPLEEEAASSSEEEEE. ;)

Cool idea though for this list. Seems like a lot of work, but fun as well. 

If anybody can play Jordan on expert please link vids, that would be awesome, I'm trying to learn but can't get it at all.

HiResDes

Put me down as danmp18.  This will be the first version of the game that I'll own, but I will get better at it.  I should have the game by the end of the weekend.

Great idea Shame-us.  Let's shred!!

[QUOTE="HiResDes"]

If anybody can play Jordan on expert please link vids, that would be awesome, I'm trying to learn but can't get it at all.

Lockedge

Dude thanks a bunch for the tips and that vid, I'm gonna try and tackle this on the 360 version, but I couldn't get it on the PS2 at all.

Okay, I'm going to be putting up the first numbers tonight.

After studying the leaderboards a bit, I've found that it doesn't differentiate which difficulty you're playing on. In other words, you could have been struggling through Freebird on Hard and getting your butt kicked by someone on Medium who is more competent at the song. However, due to the increased notes, chords and speed of the bar, the higher difficulties have the potential for waaaaaay higher scores than those below them. But then again, this is a game where you're never really going to get better until you push yourself out of your comfort zone, and it isn't like a good score gets erased when you go to the next level - it stays until you beat it regardless of the difficulty.

The lack of having to put up all the different difficulties will make this much easier to tack down daily.  

EDIT: Also, be SURE to spell your gamertag EXACTLY as it appears on Live. It's going to be hard enough to track all of you down on there as it is.

Oh yeah - my ******* hand HURTS. Like, bad. Like, hold it to your chest and talk to it gently bad. Like, Luke in Empire bad. Like, arthritic old bastard bad. And STILL I say it's worth it. Totally dig the new songs. I never realized how bad I missed Tom Morello's hammering riffs until I played "Killing In The Name." "War Pigs" is frigging brilliant, and I totally went crosseyed towards the end of "Freebird." I also like the Rancid tune. "Carry On Wayward Son" doesn't hold up as well as Boston's "More Than A Feeling" did, but it does the job. The Foo Fighters' "Monkey Wrench" kicks ass as well.

I totally hope Pantera's "Cowboys From Hell" makes the download list. I'm not a huge Pantera fan to begin with, but there's something about playing that song that just fits hand in glove with Guitar Hero. "You see us coming and you all together run for COVER!"

The only issue I've had so far is the mic inlet on the guitar is too loose, which means I have to hold it to be able to hear messages or chat. I'm probably going to exchange it once Fry's gets more copies in.

Oh yeah - my ******* hand HURTS. Like, bad. Like, hold it to your chest and talk to it gently bad. Like, Luke in Empire bad. Like, arthritic old bastard bad. And STILL I say it's worth it...

Shame-usBlackley

Shame-us, I don't know how you're going to get all of the info from the game to this thread!  The leaderboards are kind of a fluid thing, so maybe we should have a deadline so that we know when we have to finish the song to be on the leaderboards?  That would mean less updating for you.

Another thing to consider is to take photos of all the leaderboards, so you wouldn't have to type all of those numbers in.  Just put everyone here on your friends list, and voila.  You might be able to accomplish this by creating a new XBL Silver membership and using that gamertag only to add friends that are here in this thread (including Mr Blackley).  Then it would be just a matter of taking and uploading a bunch of digital photos.

Shame-us, I don't know how you're going to get all of the info from the game to this thread!  The leaderboards are kind of a fluid thing, so maybe we should have a deadline so that we know when we have to finish the song to be on the leaderboards?  That would mean less updating for you.

Another thing to consider is to take photos of all the leaderboards, so you wouldn't have to type all of those numbers in.  Just put everyone here on your friends list, and voila.  You might be able to accomplish this by creating a new XBL Silver membership and using that gamertag only to add friends that are here in this thread (including Mr Blackley).  Then it would be just a matter of taking and uploading a bunch of digital photos.

ArchieGates

Yep. Since the leaderboard isn't public and can't be accessed through Xbox.com, it would literally take forever to get the scores pulled.

So here's the dealio. You guys are going to get a Friend Request from Mr Blackley. You don't have to keep me on there or anything, just boot me off once you see your scores posted and I'll send them out again as needed for updates. The Friends List option is going to make this much, much easier to do.

So here's the interested parties so far whose tags I HAVE:

Super Dave (Archie)

Edward Appleby (Alex)

Caddy0688 (Same)

Danmp18 (Same)

CrankyOld Gamer (Same)

Shoun2507 (Shoun)

Purassic Jark (Korubi)

Archangel (Same)

plastique (axilia)

Covenant342 (Same)

EazyB (Same)

I'm shooting out the friends requests now, and I'll update fast once I've gotten them. This will also allow you to check my scores so you know I'm not pulling any crap (not that I would, well....maybe). :P

If you want in, and you DO NOT see your name above, I need your tag. Good shreddin' fellas. I'm putting up the people that I have on my list right now. Can't wait to see what happens.

They have some cool stuff about guitar hero on Gamealmighty.com!

http://www.gamealmighty.com/nc/video-view/video/Elite_Beaten_Agents_Mel_Gibson_Edition/