9 Video Game Hard Modes That Were WAY Too Easy

9. Guitar Hero

The difference between Guitar Hero's difficulty settings is fairly straightforward. Easy only uses 3 of 5 buttons, Medium uses 4, Hard uses all 5, and Expert adds notes and chords designed to be more difficult for players to wrap their fingers around.

Yes, the whole point of Guitar Hero is to offer people who don't necessarily play an instrument an opportunity to get a few heads banging, but a mode labelled "Expert" in what equates to a guitar simulator perhaps could have offered something more akin to playing an actual guitar.

After all, anyone who has had even a passing acquaintance with playing a real guitar tends to find Guitar Hero's Expert mode pretty straightforward.

While there are certainly more than a few people out there unable to perform the dexterity of the digits that Guitar Hero's Expert mode demands, it really doesn't take an expert to master.

Still, let's not be too hard on Guitar Hero. After all, without it, we'd never have been given the opportunity to outperform the Devil himself in a guitar duel.