Why do we call them AAAs?

[Shashakiro]

Originally Posted by rushyrulz

I AAA'd some songs on Guitar Hero. =P

I call BS.

Let's see some screenshots of your optimal scores in GH. It's SO MUCH HARDER to get optimal score in a GH chart than to AAAA **** it SM it's not even funny.

[Izzy]

How do you know its not on easy. He just said a song.

[Shashakiro]

even on easy it's really really hard >_>

he probably meant FC, honestly

[.Holy]

I actually never knew why we called them AAA's.... This was kind of a useful topic.

[LJRoX]

IMO, I think it's much more harder to even FC a song in GH on Expert (hyperspeed or not).

Even with a lot of practice, you'll start FC'ing them right after 12391239X plays.


In my opinion, at the least.

[ledwix]

Originally Posted by Villiex

Yeah, I always thought the Marvelous thing was dumb. Let's make something better than Perfect and call it Marvelous, because Marvelous is so much better than Perfect...

But yeah, there are AAAAs in Stepmania. There are still AAAs though. It's just not as good as being Perfect. According to Stepmania, anyway.

Marvelous is necessary. There has to be some timing window smaller than 0.045, because people are better than that. If 0.045 were the smallest timing window, there would be too much ambiguity within AAA scores. Vertex Beta AAAA and 100 perfect AAA would be considered the same skill level, since there would be no way to differentiate. 0.0225 is pretty much small enough, because AAAA's are very rare in SM, and there's hardly any ambiguity. Not that many people spend a lot of time playing songs they can AAAA. So while the name "marvelous" doesn't sound superior to "perfect," it's pretty much necessary.

[25thhour]

An AAA on Guitar Hero means getting the MAXIMUM possible score, that means using star power at the best times, whammying on EVERY SINGLE long note as fast as you can.

Insanely hard because someone can almost always whammy faster than you.

[lvlaple]

Since clearly no-one in this topic plays GH other than Shashakiro...

You can't "whammy faster" - you do or you don't.
It's also not just using SP at the right time, it's using it exactly as you hit a note and intentionally hitting that note late, then hitting the last note in the SP early. That way you get an "extra" note in the SP and a better score. Try doing that four or more times in a song.

[sarahxjane]

I never really wondered if the term 'AAA' stood for anything or not.
It is a strange term though, no?
I mean, FC is Full Combo and it makes perfect sense.

There isn't a real reason for why a perfect score was termed AAA.

Wikipedia, as trustworthy as the site may be, says this:

AAA or Triple-A may just mean something that is high quality, premier, or excellent.

Absolute Arrow Accuracy sounds all right with me.

[rushyrulz]

lol everyone's pouncing on me about GH AAA. I was simply saying that the 'general term' for a perfect score isn't AAA. You don't see a pitcher after pitching a no-hitter saying 'I PITCHED A AAA!' You don't see 'AAA' after you kill a guy without taking any hits in Mortal Kombat.

[LLaMaSaUceYup]

It's your grade.
:0
AAAAA

[25thhour]

Originally Posted by lvlaple

Since clearly no-one in this topic plays GH other than Shashakiro...

Oh, And by the way I do play Guitar Hero. I own them all but Aerosmith, Rock the 80s, and #4.

Aerosmith is scheduled to be released in my town on June 29th 2008.

[T3hDDRKid]

I was wondering just recently where the term blackflag came from. Does anybody know?

[SeanFury]

Actually, in GH, whammying fast doesn't do anything. There's a speed that it stops raising your star power at.

[LJRoX]

Originally Posted by T3hDDRKid

I was wondering just recently where the term blackflag came from. Does anybody know?

Idk, I think of it as, capturing the flag, but with an impurity in it, that is to say, a good within all the perfects.

[Skelogon]

i cant think of anyway of relating blackflag to 1 good and the rest perfect