This was his personal Guitar Hero golden age sitting in his bedroom, downloading bootleg files, playing through them with Slash. Suddenly the ceiling of what was possible in this game got a lot higher. So, around 2011, he turned to the underground, where he first met the mad scientists who were cooking up truly demonic note charts that were only playable on a cracked PC copy of Guitar Hero 3.
Music games, as a mainstream concern, were no more, and a nation's worth of Rock Band drums and DJ Hero turntables were moved to basements, attics, and junkyards.Īcai, unlike most of us, never stopped loving Guitar Hero, and he was determined to find a way to keep playing, and keep challenging himself, any way he could. America fell out of love with Guitar Hero about as quickly as it was initially seduced, and Activision put the name out to pasture after the soft sales of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, and the entirely unnecessary triptych of band-specific spinoffs for Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Metallica (remember those?). Of course, we now know just how unsustainable those franchises ended up being. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and it felt like the momentum was never going to give out. Everyone started hoarding plastic instruments, every game store started up local and regional tournaments, a 16-year old named Blake from North Carolina dropped out of school to play the game full-time. Music game mania hit its fever pitch in 2007, with the dual release of Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band. I looked down to see that the clip I was watching had been viewed over 500,000 times. You have to conquer "Soulless 4" the hard way. There is no poison-arrow cheese in Guitar Hero. Acai's craft might not require the monk-like asceticism necessary to conquer a nation's worth of bosses in Dark Souls without ever being hit, but it is also truer, and less exploitable. There are plenty of colossal videogame feats documented on YouTube, but this was a new threshold for me. And somehow, Acai nailed 100 percent of the notes. Instead, it was created by a diehard member of the Guitar Hero community and plays out like a ROM hack designed specifically to break the hearts (or fingers) of anyone who comes near it.
The song is called "Soulless 4." It's over 10 minutes long, and has never been released commercially in any capacity. A note chart that dwarfed everything I ever accomplished in my peak Guitar Hero days.
A note chart that seemed to sunder the physical limits of human dexterity.
Acaiīut the suspicion wore off almost immediately as I witnessed Acai tear his way through an utterly astonishing note chart. There were people making their own songs specifically to be the hardest, and fastest thing possible, to really push players to their limits.
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