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[quote=Gamespot]When the first Guitar Hero came out in 2005, a running joke inside its fanbase was the hypothetical inclusion of infamous power-metal group DragonForce in an upcoming installment of Activision's popular rhythm-game franchise. Though the idea was initially brushed off as preposterous, Activision up and did just that with Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and Wii last November. It now appears that the British headbangers are the subject of a new Guinness World Record.
Heralding the arrival of the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008 this week, its editors held a contest in New York City that pitted the planet's top Guitar Hero players against each other. Winning the event was 16-year-old Chris Chike of Rochester, Minnesota, who captured the record for "Highest Score for a Single Song on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock" by thrashing his way to a 97 percent completion rate and 840,647 points in DragonForce's "Through the Fire and Flames" on expert difficulty.
The Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition is presided over by Twin Galaxies, subject of 2007's critically acclaimed King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Gamers who think they have a record on their hands are encouraged to visit Guinness World Record's Web site to learn how to submit their score. Chike's record-setting performance can been seen on YouTube.
i wonder what the world record cpm (cheetos per minute) is
Oh *** who knows.
I know the guy who is ranked 17th in the world on wii version
97%? Not that exciting. Pretty lame in fact.
[quote=muffla;828369]I know the guy who is ranked 17th in the world on wii versionThis is not something to brag about, dude.
doesn't make it interesting or neat.
Yeah, I'll disagree.
pft.
i got like.
a 100% on that song.
on expert.
without using my hands.
without touching the ground.
[quote=Vampiro V. Empire;828398]97%? Not that exciting. Pretty lame in fact.
Bit harsh.
It's kinda funny cuz he criticizes this guy, yet I remember reading a post of his saying he sucks at GH III.
Oh man.
why does no one use the guitar hero blog!?
oh and yeah I agree, 97% doesn't impress me much.
Because the GH blog doesn't get as much attention as General Gaming.
If someone wants to move it idc.
pft, i got 110% on it using my phallus to hold down the fret buttons while strumming with my balls
[quote=Roger Smith;828539]It's kinda funny cuz he criticizes this guy, yet I remember reading a post of his saying he sucks at GH III.
Can still be a critic, even if you suck *** at something. THINK EPIC MOVIE SUCKED ***? WHY DON'T YOU MAKE A MOVIE, *******!!!!! How is this the world record, anyway? Youtube has a lot of videos where kids are getting 98%. Pour exampl
It's a world record for the points, not the %.
[quote]It's kinda funny cuz he criticizes this guy, yet I remember reading a post of his saying he sucks at GH III.
Yeah, GH3. Pretty sure he's awwwright at GH2, though.
[QUOTE=The X;828562] How is this the world record, anyway? Youtube has a lot of videos where kids are getting 98%. Pour exampl
Good thing you completely missed the point. I'm sure you can backtrack and find it, though.
The percentage isn't the score, the score is.
OH SNAP, BACK UP! MAYBE WE SHOULD FUSE TOGETHER AND CREATE RAZO THE NEGOTIATING MYSTERY AGAIN! THEIR COMBINED POWERS MAY BE TOO MUCH FOR USE TO HANDLE SEPARATED! WHAT SAY YOU ROGER?
[QUOTE=The X;828562]? Youtube has a lot of videos where kids are getting 98%. Pour exampl
I saw this on TMZ the other day. I am pretty impressed. It's a very overcharted song, and it's hard to get that many notes. And 97% isn't bad on a song like that. I am waiting for HellAshes from ScoreHero to get 100% though. He did it first with Jordan, he'll do it first with TTFAF.
97 on expert mode on that song is impressive.
Seriously, dude. Wow. You're telling me I can't criticize something because I can't do any better? Come back when you've never done anything similar. Until then, wow.
He did a good job, sure, whatever. But it's not that impressive for a world record. In fact, quite lame.
Have you seen a higher score?
Haven't cared to look! Just sayin', for a world record I expect at least 99%.
I beat throught the fire and fames by dragonforce and I got a 85% on the song. :) thats still pretty good.
[quote=Vampiro V. Empire;829561]Haven't cared to look! Just sayin', for a world record I expect at least 99%.
I completely get what you're saying, but for Through the Fire and Flames, 97% will get you a crazy score. I think on Expert there's somewhere around 3500 - 3800 notes.
Oh I realise that. Like I said, it's impressive as an achievement, just not a world record.
You put too much weight in the percentage and not the score, which is what they're judging it on. 2% doesn't mean a thing when you compare the scores of someone going for a high score and someone going for a high percentage. L2P
Score could've been higher too.
How high should it have been for a score that's supposed to be produced on demand?
Dude, who even ****ing cares anymore? idk, really high or something
Not you, you don't care about anything. Because you're so fucking hardcore.
or you just care too much.
relative to the record. world record = super ****ing high
drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
YES, which happens to be what he set. So you're saying he should have got a high score relative to the nonexistent high score which his performance then became. Unless you're saying he should try to better his score, in which case you're admitting his score is high, when you earlier said you weren't impressed.
duuuuuuuuuuuur yourself.
[quote=Vampiro V. Empire;831551]relative to the record. world record = super ****ing high
drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Uhh, no. The world record is simply the highest, even by the smallest margin. For someone who doesn't care about anything you're pretty committed to letting everyone know that you don't care about some guy's world record for a game you don't care about. YOU'RE SO ALOOF.
I'm saying for a world record the record itself isn't all that impressive. When I hear world record I tend to think it's something that will blow me away. Like going from one side of america to the other doing cartwheels. This record, however, shouldn't be standing for too long at all.
why we're still going on about this ****... who ****ing knows.
[quote=Vampiro V. Empire;831558]I don't care, but I'll keep going if you guys do. You should know that by now. Though are you seriously saying you give a **** about this topic? I'd be slightly surprised and saddened if you do.
You'd be saddened, but you don't care.
Just ignore Vamp. He wants attention.
In before his "ha ha oh wow" catchphrase
What, I can't say I don't find it impressive as a world record? I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Why get defensive over that?
Ugh, I'm not getting defensive over anything. How impressed you are has nothing to do with whether the record stands or not, because you clearly seem to think the world record has to be, and I quote, "super ****ing high". There's a disconnect between your opinion and the definition.
We responded because your opinion was based on an irrelevent metric.
I don't understand how, exactly, you don't find this "impressive," Vamp. He's the best at Guitar Hero, he has the record for nearly every song on Score Hero. You know the saying, "There's always someone better?" Well, sorry, but Chris Chike here just proved that, when it comes to Guitar Hero, there's NOBODY, out of millions of people that play this game, that is better. Sure, you can say, "Oh, it's just (Guitar Hero/a video game)," but, again, out of millions of people, he's the best. I think you're just being completely stubborn and probably a tad jealous.