Is Through the Fire and Flames the hardest song Guitar Hero?

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In my opinion, The Devil Went Down to Georgia is ten times harder. Sure Through The Fire And Flames is a challenging song but it's not VERY hard. To me, Jordan and The Devil Went Down To Georgia are much harder. Everyone only says "It's the hardest song ever!" just because of the beginning but the rest is easy. I just don't see why everyone thinks it's so hard?

Edited April 22, 2010 by Afro Ninja

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Everyone only says "It's the hardest song ever!" just because of the beginning.

To me you just answered your own question right there. Because the way I see it, the people who say that are talking about passing the song. And most people that are saying that aren't the top players of the game.

The beginning of Through the Fire and Flames is the challenge. In order to do good on it you pretty much have to learn to tap or you will barely scrape through it. Also, it's the beginning of the song so you don't have star power to bail you out if you're not good at it. But then I agree with you that the rest is not that tough at all. And by the time the solo comes (which isn't too hard), you'll most likely have star power again to get through it if you're not that good.

Then with Jordan, it's pretty much the opposite. Only hard part is the solo. But there's so much star power in the song that by the time the solo comes you can pretty much scrape your way through.

The Devil Went Down to Georgia is a little different. It's got crazy tough solos but nothing too bad that I can't barely get through without star power. Still close to being tougher than TTFAF in terms of passing the song, but once again you should have star power by the time the solos come.

Now, in terms of FC'ing the songs it's definitely in that order, IMO.

DWDTG > Jordan > TTFAF

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I personally think it's because TDWDTG is a DLC song, and TTFAF is on disc.

There are a lot of 360 players that don't have xbox live, so even though it is free, they can't get it.

Also, PS2 players don't even have the option of getting it.

I agree though, TDWDTG is way harder than TTFAF. I didn't get xbl and TDWDTG until way after I stopped playing Guitar Hero, so i'll admit i've actually never beaten it.

I have beaten TTFAF though, even if it was only a 4 star.

The intro was actually the first thing I tapped in any GH game ever. The second was the solo in You Really Got Me on GH2.

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I can't tap for shit! I just suck at using two hands, I'm so much better with one hand. I never use two hands.

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TTFAF is the hardest on disc song. Thats why.

Personally i'm going to have to disagree.

DWDTG of course I agree with, however Jordan and TTFAF should swap. Jordan is very hard, but it only has the solo going for it. The solo lasts about 40 seconds and the rest of the song isn't too bad (save for Bridge). It's also only 4 minutes long. The GH2 engine is very tight, however if you learn to tap B (and C) then it's pretty hard to be going to fast. If you learnt to tap it, then you shouldn't be going too slow anyway.

TTFAF on the other hand, while nothing is quite as hard as Solo C (Solo B is a simple pattern, just fast), it goes for 7 minutes, you could choke ANYWHERE, there's no easy bit about the song, and even after the solo you can to contend with a 26.6NPS zig-zag then some odd strumming near the end. Bridge 1 is a very awkward pattern, Bridge 2 has retarded strumming, What The...? Is insanely fast trills and scales combined and Twin Solo has two sets of triplets, one of them straight from strumming. So IMO TTFAF is harder because of it's length and because there's alot more stuff to learn.

Edited April 22, 2010 by Lordvader178

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Oops, I meant to say DWDTG > TTFAF > Jordan.

I even looked at scorehero to see how many FC's of each there were. I was debating what was harder between the two and I guess I forgot to switch em up in my post.

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TDWDTG is harder in my opinion. But some people can't beat slow ride on expert and think One is hard as hell or Raining Blood.. It's just a matter of opinion so don't take it so personally. Not many people even download the free songs available for the Guitar Hero games.

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I'm guessing they'd say it is because it IS for them. I'd go with you with TDWDTG. Those crazy strums screw me up.

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I still fail in the intro sometimes, cos I cannot learn to tap full speed for some reason. But the order I passed them was TTFAF 6 months after touching a guitar for the first time - DWDTG a few weeks later, then jordan a year or so after that. Really dislike gh2, probably mostly cos I started out with gh3.

As for amount of tries on each song, I probably did most on ttfaf cos of failing out instantly - but then only 2 tries after I beat the intro. Jordan I failed so many times I just gave up for a while. Also I really dislike GH2, which made Jordan much harder than it probably is. And the least effort was put into dwdtg (only took me 9-10 tries before passing it).

So based on that in terms of difficulty for me, I'd say (most difficult to easiest): Jordan - TTFAF - DWDTG. FCing is never gonna happen on any of em, so I'm only talking about passing. If Jordan too was on GH3, it would probably be the easiest.

Edited May 4, 2010 by Nirumano

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Jordan is the hardest GH song ever but then again GHII was the hardest GH game

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I still think Jordan is the hardest GH song to date. I managed to beat it, but it took a lot of practise. I'd say Devil Went Down to Georgia comes in at a close second, and Through the Fire and Flames sits at third in my books; yes, the beginning is can be tricky, but the rest of the song is fairly painless (in a non-chronic arthritis sort of way). I found DWDTG to be a lot more difficult than TTFaF just because that song gets progressively harder, while TTFaF gets progressively easier (in my opinion).

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Well for starters, DWDTG is DLC. Secondly, TTFAF is the last song in career mode. Finally, it's also the final song in the bonus menu that all the pubescent kids used a cheat to unlock. They see the song's name, hear its (un)epicness, play it, fail, throw a tantrum, realize the song is hard. DWDTG is never considered hard for those who haven't downloaded it because if you passed RaBl and you play Lou in Career mode, there's not much of a challenge until AFTER you kill Lou

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I beat Devil went down to georgia several times (30+ or so) before I managed to beat through fire in the flames. I even managed to 4 star all of the other Dragonforce songs before I beat through fire and the flames. It's not that it's hard just did not want to take the time to learn the intro, because i thought it would take forever. Then I actually got up to full speed on it in about 2 days of casual practice.

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I still think Jordan is the hardest GH song to date. I managed to beat it, but it took a lot of practise. I'd say Devil Went Down to Georgia comes in at a close second, and Through the Fire and Flames sits at third in my books; yes, the beginning is can be tricky, but the rest of the song is fairly painless (in a non-chronic arthritis sort of way). I found DWDTG to be a lot more difficult than TTFaF just because that song gets progressively harder, while TTFaF gets progressively easier (in my opinion).

1. Jordan

2. Six

3. DWDTG

4. TTFAF

I think Six is alot harder to pass than TTFAF. Six is a mindfuck.

This is for passing. I dunno what I was saying about DWDTG being harder to pass.

Edited June 13, 2010 by Lordvader178

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1. Jordan

2. DWDTG

3. Six

4. TTFAF

I think Six is alot harder to pass than TTFAF. Six is a mindfuck.

This is for passing. I dunno what I was saying about DWDTG being harder to pass.

Well on Six it's much easier to bullshit your way through the song. However, I do agree, it is a mindfuck, especially the intro

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i think jordan is the hardest song to beat. its on the gh2 engine, for one, and the solo is crazy fast. it will take anybody who plays on expert a good 20 minutes to learn how to tap or pass the ttfaf intro, but it will take a true gh veteran to go through solo b and c with a full bar of sp.

ttfaf is really overrated by a bunch of gh3 dragonforce fanboys from the wii and ps3 that have never touched gh2 before. it pisses me off.

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