Through The Fire and Flames - DragonForce
It finally happened. TTFAF FC, nearly 12 years after playing this song for the first time. GH3 FGFC. 70/70. This is my best FC.
After my heartbreaking choke at 3711 notes, I knew I had to keep playing this song until I FC'd it. Immediately after I uploaded that video, I started up a Twitch stream to grind this song for a live audience. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to FC it on stream, but I was able to get multiple 3,000+ note streak runs and a few runs up to the snake. I had a ton of fun interacting with you guys in real time. Give me a follow over on Twitch to catch my occasional live streams: / awisemoose
For a long time, I thought I would never be able to FC this song. I remember the day in 2008 when iamchris4life got the first ever FC of this song, and I thought it was the greatest thing ever done in this game (which it was, at the time). Everybody knows Through The Fire and Flames. It is infamous for how difficult it is, and everybody who has ever played this game wanted to at least be able to pass this song, let alone get 5 stars, let alone hit 100% of the notes on expert. FCing TTFAF is every GH player's dream, and I just accomplished it.
By today's standards in the year 2019, this FC is pretty entry-level for top-tier players. In recent years, I purposefully stayed away from playing this song on GH3PC and Clone Hero because I really wanted my first FC of this song to be on console. FCing this song on GH3PC or Clone Hero is much easier due to having 100's or 1,000's of frames instead of just 60, and Clone Hero has a much more lenient engine. An FC of TTFAF on Clone Hero isn't even close to the difficulty of FCing TTFAF on console. Also, since I like going for high scores to post on Scorehero, I kinda needed to FC this on original hardware so the score would be legit.
All in all, I've probably played this song thousands of times over the years- gradually improving over time, reaching new skill ceilings. There was a time where I was extremely excited that I was able to hit over 700K. There was a time where I my high score was 823K. There was a long period of time where my highest score was 940K. And now here we are. I'm extremely happy that I was finally able to FC this song, and I have loads of clips of me missing in various areas. I could probably make a small montage of the worst misses if you guys want to see them.
Anyways, this leaves me at 658/660 songs FC'd for the Full Series FC. All I have left is the Smash Hits version of TTFAF and I'm The One on GH Van Halen. I'm leaning toward TTFAF happening before I'm The One tbh, but I'll have to get to work and see what I can get done.
One last thing- major shoutouts to the following people for showing up in my stream the other night, cheering me on, sharing tips, and just for being some good friends in the small community of people who still play and squeeze GH games:
JoelD77:
/ @joeld77
Jilde:
/ jilde0616
KingInferno93:
/ kinginferno93
Tanner:
/ thetanman1234543
Bones:
/ theabominated
Oh, and if you wanna see me breaking my GH3 disc, here's the link to that. I've made it unlisted now that this vid is out:
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My Scores:
www.scorehero.com/scores.php?...