10 Rhythm Game Scores That Were Ahead of Their Time 

apparently every one had an fgsky setup in the early 2010s

The osu! community will never forget the HDHR fc on freedom dive

Love the reactions to WinDEU at 7:12 "I would give my soul for that score" "Do you want some heroin or something?"

It's literally impossible to make this type of video without cookiezi freedom dive HDHR. This play was legendary and still awes players to this day

Etienne: “I don’t say it very much but I stream on Twitch” Also Etienne: Community post every day about streaming

Additional note about Pro Keys: When an instrument is played using the keyboard (Keys, Pro Keys, Guitar or Bass), it uses a different window of timing - one that is **even **_tighter_**** than the other instruments. Pro Keys is already a massive learning curve, but the altered timing window makes Roundabout's Gtr Break require even more precision than what would be expected.

My scores are ahead of my time, but due to inconsistency I held back. Cool video tho

Hey man just want to thanks for what you do, on behalf of the entire rhythm game community. Your content is incredible and it is the reason why I got back into rhythm games after not playing for years. I’m sure your content hyped up other rhythm gamers/ex rhythm gamers. Keep up the good work man. You have the most underrated RU-vid channel out there. While I don’t think you will ever “take off” due to the small size of the community, we all love your videos and really appreciate your hard work. Cheers man

"easily one of the best hr plays of its time" literally the pp record by a mile LOL

Really glad to see Pro Keys on here finally! Jarod’s dominance over pro keys is still unparalleled. He was by far and away the best and I never felt like I could come close to the amount of skill he had. Even Guitar Break was so beyond me. Absolutely insane.

Jarod’s “ahead of time” is 40 years in the future

3:40 DUUDE HOW DOES HE TAP LIKE THAT LOL, HIS SHOULDERS AND FOREARMS ARE BURNIIING HOLY SHIT

Virgin meme song Chad roundabout pro keys

Yooooooooo, hearing you mention anobody and BlueMystic brought back so many good memories. So many crazy scores back then from members of the ODI community. Thaor - St.Scarhand AAA, Death Piano A, WookE - Jammin FC, Blur 1g AA, LBS AA, Tyler - Gigadelic 3miss AA, The Final Conflict Edit, Insane Cultists Edit 3p AAA Bahamut-X AAA zl and so many more. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Etienne!

Hell yeah, the bluemystic score. Was hoping to find that in there. All these other scores are sick too. Great vid mang.

whenever I see you post one of these videos it makes me happy

For the ITG and DDR scores you mentioned, I think you confused "ahead of their time" with "amazing unique achievement". These scores are very niche and would likely not be attempted by anyone before or since. No one really played 1x at a high level by the time ITG came out other than Pickles, and no one plays doubles, much less stealth AAAing doubles charts. A better Bloodrush score to have mentioned would have been Kevbo's 25 Excellent run from Dec 28, 2006. He later would get 5e on March 23, 2007. Both scores are so impressive still today, and doubly so back when most players couldn't dream of being consistent on 12s and above. A better DDR stealth score would have been one you mentioned previously, which is BlueMystic's AAAs on many of the old 10s on DDR Extreme. Or perhaps JSB or the early to mid-2000s players' runs on Legend Road. I know you just did a LR video though. That said, this was a nice tribute to some excellent play.

Glad you included WATN from Homer. His domination of RB3 drums in the early 2010s was insane. No clue how he did it.

see also: every single mad matt score from the tachyon beta era

Keyboards in any rhythm game: *My time has come.*

Always love to see Jarod being mentioned, he's such an underrated and talented rhythm game player. He's an unmatched god of not only keys but drums too, pumping up dozens and dozens of achievements on both instruments that most people could only dream of.

good video as always king, gotta make a 2nd part with cookie's Yomi Yori HD choke in it

no jhlee :( ascension dt and blue zenith were leagues ahead of their time, at least i think lol Edit: also lama FC

i miss you playing stepmania 3.95

Cookiezi's kokou no sousei is legendary and this can be included i guess?

Taichi's 95.9% FC on machinegun psystyle (5th hardest ranked map) for beat saber O.O He got it in a tournament 4 months ago with no fail on, so the score never submitted- but no one has gotten even remotely close since then, #1 now on it is like 95.3% The difference between 95% and 96% is literally insane, if you've ever played beat saber you'd know. WAYYY ahead of its time and probably still one of the most impressive things done in that game

From osu! there's also a few more cool scores like Bikko's Helix FC and other crazy acc scores, and Shige's Yomi Yori and Kegare plays, GN's TAG4 stuff, but I understand there needs to be room for other rhythm games and I think the Freedom Dive placement is above these anyways, great list. :) EDIT: Also a insane score that I think people kinda forget exists is Shige's Furioso Melodia HDHR FC, that's honestly still wild RN and I have no idea when that's getting sniped or having a score set close to it.

Do you ever think you'll release a video explaining some sm terminology? On the sm score progression videos there's some terms I don't understand, and I'm sure I'm not the only one

I didn't even know Pro Keys was a thing. Gonna use that to learn how to play the organ solo in Roundabout, thanks!

If there's ever a sequel to this, one score I recommend is TheDrumFreak109's FC of Hot For Teacher Expert+ Drums. It was done on PS2 GH:VH with potato quality, but the FC was uncontested for so long that it took *EIGHT YEARS* for a second person to do it (specifically, Nolan "dayzeed/slashno)". It's the largest gap in time between a first and second FC in the Guitar Hero franchise that I know of.

watching these vids secretly hoping I show up in them 😔 loving that someone high quality covers rhythm games tho

I want to be a top player on any game

BucketBlue was also in contention for the first Soulless 3 FC

just a question, do you make these type of videos (underrated scores, ahead of the time scores) when you have enough scores or when you feel like you want to?

happyf333tz' Vertex^2's quad is a good example also for osu! Cookiezi's Raijin no Hidariude DT FC, rrtyui's Killer Song HDDT FC and Cookiezi's Kokou no Sousei play are also great moments in the earlier history of the game that were unmatched for years

Do you think you can do a video about Groove Coaster or Taiko Drum Master? I feel like those games don't get much attention as they should.

With YARG now avaible I can't wait to see the custom charts for pro keys

ayy, Last Journey Home. what a score, will always remember the weeks of spam I got after he did that lol

please make more of these omg

you should do mad matt's scarlet tempest 1.1 pass on stomperz

First image material s rank was insane too. I don't think any of us will forget that

I remember there being a video of Dolce getting MAX-1 on Limited [a] back in Empress AC (2008) and the Great wasn't even in the janky end-jack section. This was back when virtually fucking NOTHING was MAX-0'd in IIDX other than L7 and some of the more straight-forward 7K. I guess the vid/channel that hosted the vid got nuked so RIP

Expecting to see Thaor's AAA on Fury of the Storm in the next video OkayChamp

Vaxei, Cookiezi, rrtyui, WhiteCat. Sucktarks, mathi, idke, -GN, ThePoon, Beasttrollmc, WubWoofWolf, Rafis. Man these people are sweaty.

3:21 got a chuckle out of me

Dude these Box Screen Monitors are giving me flashbacks

Ever thought about making a video on something like thr most nostalgic similes from early days of stepmania?

Cool video

Tfw not a single BMS score from 2012-2016 which has scores not even todays best (jakads and y.s) can not beat

Do you do chart posting with your Twitch?

derbigugelhupf's what a horrible night to have a curse drum gold star was probably much more worthy than you remember back then

Needs some piguy in here! Great video nevertheless!

my desire to go is dangerously high

I love how much love bluemystic has been getting lately. He was an OG GOAT in his days. That another planet is an AAAA for all intents and purposes lol. That perfect was dumb af. Also kobayan was a doubles God and still is. They way he moves is so freakish. And WinDEU and Chris? They're good at everything they touch lol. All that needs to be said 😎

Unfortunate that you are not aware of ExGon's presence

You should cover some beatsaber players/beatsaber plays

Yes.

I feel like abcd’s hard clear on end time should be here

Love how he says ‘octave’ like ‘octane’

Are we getting a player analysis: Schmooey next?

can you try to scour the internet for Kevin's aka Kevbo aka MegamanX , video of the first FEC on Vertex 2, PYK Charles aka Mudkyp had it on his page a long time ago but is no longer there. now THAT score was ahead of it's time as it was probably more than 10 years ago now

Plays ahead of his time : any 2014 cookiezi scores

now Chhris FC'ed the chart again on Flash's cab.

5:58 and to think there’s a pro fbfc of roundabout *with pro keys* aa.

3:46 POV: your essay is due in 1 minute and you havent typed anything

genesis o2 scores from the stone age when

what about azer's united HDHR fc? that play sparked a ton of people back in its day, and it was the highest HDHR pp record at the time

What about quadruple kick demo ii is played by a person or is just a bot?

I miss Stepmania 3.9 man

didn't cookiezi have a lot of 8* fc chokes when there wasn't even a ranked 8*

What about shigetora made of fire dt

you can just make another video like this one and fill it with exgon's scores

Wheres my Giant Pacific Vibro score 97?

I thought jhlee was in that video with stepmania stream 2015 scores

guitar hero phenom i watched his vids all the time way way back *damn feel old* to the RB channels... good times to TheEcstacy & ciji thornton or StarSlay3r who also were prominent just the vibe back then was more chill (kinda) as with RU-vid's general vibe also was different (miss it so fucking much) i miss GH series wish i kept the guitars (dunno where i'd put them) to played the games so much to wish i ain't drop osu! in 2012 & 2013 on my shit laptop, mid 2000's rhythm gamers fucking chads! and DDR players fucking respect to them i was too shy to play it in public the few times i had the chance smh

nicce outro

Pog

Ok so when is mrekk rhythm game Anomalies

look at karthy's blue zenith, badeus c-type and even whitecats black rover 3mod fc on the extra diff, it has other fcs now, yes, but that was the FIRST one, and that play basically changed what was impossible (the fc). Whitecat also made it from a play that you would use as proof that someone is cheating to a real score. also hdhr freedom dive from shige and his tool assisted speedcore unsubmitted run (vaxei has beaten that score though)

Why isn't jhlee's the empress there? :(

Where'd your Twitter go?

bruh why Astrella not getting any love on his 600 pp play on Sacrament :(

Is 5 star passes in mania good

AquaFPS at 7:10?

DANNY JOHNSON

15:03 its 222.22 BPM

3:19 just glossing over the fact that you were the replicator in question 💀

Story of Angelsim (firebat92) ???

Midnight poppy land

Basically every cookiezi score

3:00 Now flip that and I can do it *coughs in osu! mania*

Tobegh3 universes fc bro cmon

react to aetrna, hes miles ahead of our time

oxycodone or rustbell

inb4 geometry dash comments (fun fact, its not a rhythm game)

Isn't this underated score 6

Yeet?

Where were you when 8ch fell

and then jarod FCed it in band w/ pro drums and pro bass lol

What the fuck ggamerman sounds kind of like me