And the world can now believe again.

UniComp

god they love cowboy shirts!

SaintEmpire

its sad.... but I also watched for the cleavage at the end.

USMarty

Really? This is news?

sc00t420

imagine if he spent all this time learning to play a real guitar!

pine22

well at least nobody can say he cheated, also, why the obscenely small text box?
was I being a bad boy today?

tonka_92

You could see it in the swagger near the end. Another instance of his record being usurped, and this guy is going to screaming into Billy Mitchell territory. And then his face will be plastered all over bottles of Guitar Hero hot sauce.

TitillatedOcelot

...I just went straight to the end because it promised cleavage.

akumaserge

What do you mean "all while on summer vacation"? It's not like playing video games is work! What a tool.

stradric

@Ravenhood:

Screw Twin Galaxies

LittleBigPlaneteer

I'd probably be more impressed with these attempts and the song as a whole if it was done in GH2's engine where hammer-ons and pull-offs actually worked like they supposed to instead of having a timing window a mile long.

Burguois, Teabagger of Olde

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Oh? I wasn't aware of that. Impressive. It makes complete sense, too. If you're serious about a particular hobby, why not pursue a career with it?

YHWHMystic

Zack Kim, 'nuff said. He could do that shit with two REAL guitars at the same time.

PsycheE

So, Guinness needs numerous witnesses in the room when a record is set? Even though they have the video footage viewed by millions on YouTube?

...

This is why Twin Galaxies will always be the best place for video gaming records.

Ravenhood

@YHWHMystic:

He can play a real guitar too.

LittleBigPlaneteer

this is impressive why?

Lombax

Why is the text box so small? lol

Anyway, Chike is the man. He's quite talented and I'm sure he'll have quite the future ahead of him, whether it be with games or elsewhere.

LittleBigPlaneteer

@YHWHMystic: *braces self for silly remarks about brutal killing sprees*

YHWHMystic

@CaptLtrl: I think it's time to make him play an actual instrument an earn a decent living. Seriously, if you're willing to put so much effort into learning to master a videogame, you might as well use those skills in the real world.

YHWHMystic

Instead of advocating duct tape for the little kid, how about suggesting he play outside instead of learning how to be a infamous "celebrity" from his big brother?

EnglishC6H6

why is the comment box so small?

dh4645

I think it's time for this guy to move onto a rhythm game with a bit more challenge, like Pop'n or IIDX.

Still very impressive, but not even close to anything the top tier songs in those games offer.

CaptLtrl

Need more video of the mom.

They seriously put out a "press release" for this, complete with arrogant quotes? What a douchebag.

KaneRobot

@screenfan: If you read, he needed witnesses for it to be "official".

If I were him, I would have paused the game to back hand those 2 little turds who obviously don't know when to sit down and shut up. The only time he really misses is when one of those little brats starts moving around or talking real loud.

I_Hate_This_Place

too bad he didnt perfect it this time... i suppose his next goal should be perfect with a room full of people......

@Omnimon:

Likewise people do hammer on's and strum with there elbows to achieve some songs 100%. Also you can trigger special with the select button.....

ShaggyB

@Spoony:

Naw, that's just what happens when you film a television screen with a cheap camera.

Trilocaine

he looks so pleased too...

Ackers

Really? I couldn't care less about the first time this guy did it.

One of the most underwhelming Guinness Records I have seen.

RtFusion

Why the fuck is his family there?
Also: Silence is golden, duct tape is silver.

screenfan

The little kid doesn't seem to understand why he has to be quiet while the whole family watches someone play GH3 :D

Dantarion

@Slothboy: You're a robot Michael!

Rocci1212

This is getting re-goddam-diculous.

foxhound417

Seriously, who cares? It's just a game. Everyone's going a bit over-the-top with this.

PC+Mac Coexist

Yikes, this is awkward.

modulus

That poor tv it's been played so much you can't even see half the screen properly anymore

Spoony

@BigSt3ph3n:
well aren't you O G D. :p

Maudite

Dear Kotaku,

Sorry about my previous comments, I have fail to maintain my maturity level and I will self punish myself by not commenting on this website till Saints Row 2 hits stores.

Sincerely,
TheTimeisback

TheTimeisback

Poor family. You just know the parents have basically said; "Now go on, support your brother just this once."

XanderSan

man... i still can't pass it on expert =(

sigh.

but yeah, that's pretty hardcore concentration right there. must suck to like miss a note though at the very end and have to start all over again (or screw up star power activation, etc.)

phrequency

I'm watching in hopes of aforementioned cleavage.

GiantEnemyCrab

@Omnimon:

it's called tapping.
you can do this on certain parts of certain songs.

i know with rock back the rectangle is a little bit smaller than normal, so you know its one you can tap after strumming the note before it.

dh4645

Two of my friends are guitar-playing experts, but they suck at rhythm-based games. Go figure.

YHWHMystic

wow, that's 10 minutes of my life i wish i had back.

First2Die

That guy can press buttons in the correct order.

Boy, can he press buttons in the right order.

But who are we to judge? I beat the Guinness Record for Most Self Inflicted Head Kicks in One Minute...so not me!

Krondonian

@feistygirl: It was him. It even mentions it in the article.

I wonder why he went to the cheat menu. It it was to show he wasn't using cheats, then why didn't the camera focus on the screen? Not that I think he's using cheats at all, just curious.

I_Hate_This_Place

Is anyone else seeing this and feel like it's so lame as well as hard to watch?

goldwings

That's the general reaction I get from my family whenever I show them anything gaming related.

"Oh, that's cool. I guess"

Digital-Moth

Pardon my ignorance, but how does one 'strum' the note when both hands are on the neck of the guitar?

Omnimon

His mom loves the cleavage.

And gotta love how dragonforce blew up after this crap game. :)

I remember jamming to DF about 3 years ago...when i had my amazing hair.

BigSt3ph3n

zzzz

darktorns

@feistygirl:

Yeah, this is the same kid.

Two years from now, no one will remember this, or the name "Chris Chike".

jello44

Uh oh...coming soon, to a theater near you:

KING OF PLASTIC GUITARS: A FIST FULL OF STARPOWER!

Watch out, Billy Mitchell!

alzheimers

He's doomed to fail ultimately though, as unless he 100%s it with witnesses whoever does that first will take the record for good.

NunianVonFuch

After we have a DNA test to prove he is indeed human, then I will believe it.

TheTog

Didn't somebody recently get 100% on this song a few months back? I could swear I saw a video of it on Youtube???

FeistyGirl

i can just hear that kid that dropped out of highschool to play GH, with the sounds of *fap fap fap* comming from his room as he watches this...

Ctsephy

Wow, what a dynamic individual. He almost cracked a smile at one point. I bet he's the life of the party.

No wonder he can play so well. He is a robot.

Slothboy

Usually it's nice to edit videos like that? Maybe trim some of the useless footage off of each end?

Blinklink11

This makes me think of the Twilight Zone movie. Imagine Chris Chike as the creepy kid with the powers, and everyone else as his kidnapped family that has to do whatever he wants. Creepy.

Benzak

guinness record?? that is so lame....

Kazesama

haha nice

dh4645

BTW I don't play guitar games, they suck.

Gam3r

Look at the friggin size of that TV and how close he is sitting... unfair advantage!

Gam3r

@Nexus6: GH3's version is deliberately hard. I can actually play guitar and there's absolutely no way it's even approaching the level of difficulty displayed in GH3.

A lot of the solos are creative use of whammy/effects, for example, and not the note-mashing it would seem from the GH3 note charts.

Burguois, Teabagger of Olde

Skip to about 9:38 and that's all the video you need right there.

I'd Dragonforce her.

Tyber_Zann

That's pretty cool. I thought he would get 100% again. But really, why is there so much hate going around? It's not like he's part of Guinness and made this record come into existence.

HoxtonHero

@SAKY: It's definitely pretty huge in GH3. Not too sure about Rock Band.

It's pretty apparant in songs like when you were young or the the Halo song, all you have to do is have the note pressed down and it will automatically play a hammer-on.

It's pretty ridiculous, and it teaches pretty bad habits. I imagine someone moving from GH3 to GH2 would get absolutely destroyed by any song that features hammer-ons as the timing is much more tight and you actually have to time them properly instead of just holding down the key.

Burguois, Teabagger of Olde

@Nexus6: Let's see you do it if it's so unimpressive. Scumbag.

Dalren

It's not a Guitar Hero high-score post on the internet without at least 3 or 4 people trying to diminish the guy's achievement.

I fail to see how this isn't impressive at all, simply because it's 'not a real guitar'. That'd be like someone playing Call of Duty, killing 5 people in, say, as many shots, and having say, "LOL. If he killed those people with a real gun i'd be impressed. This... not so much."

PSOCecil

lol @ haters commenting in the forums. with a registered account. on a gaming blog.

mysonsnameisnova

LOL. If he played that on a real guitar i'd be impressed. This... not so much.

Nexus6

@Scott3D:

It's the same exact game, I fail to see how it's "better".

jello44

@NunianVonFuch: He won't have failed. Maybe in the eyes of guiness, but he's still technically the first person to get 100% on the song.

Dalren

Why would you play this on 360? Buy it for PS3, so much better

Scott3D

lol. The video is now GFW Radio video.

Morpork

@Kazesama: If it's so lame, let's see you do it.

Dalren

@pine22: Imagine you were the first person to ever make a comment along those lines! (hint: you aren't)

TitillatedOcelot

@Omnimon: strums with the elbow I think.

Looking at this, it's obvious that songs like that are intentianlly "stupid hard". Once the best players can complete this song %100 and obtain the highest possible score, what then. I can't see these games getting harder than that.

@Burguois, Teabagger of Olde: that might explain RB also, I always seem to hit notes while thingk "no way I hit that on time".

Good for this kid, too bad the family doesn't seem to care much. "Ok, I have to go home now."

SAKY

@sc00t420:

Hi, you must be new

LittleBigPlaneteer

I think that for a brief moment there was the wrong vid up there because I just listened to 47 min of them talking about spore and some candy. Only now to see a smaller, 5min clip up at the top.

Kotaku... I want those 47 min of my life back!

>_<

hondo

@VicViper: Yeah eh! Why would someone play guitar hero when they could just as easily spend decades mastering real guitar in order to get sex and cash!>!

dowingba

@tzaketh: he's half and half. he said it a while back.. your educated guess was funny though.

@PSOCecil: thank you. people love bragging about other genres of games. this kid does something few can humanly do... and he gets hate? stop being such a bunch of HYPOCRITES!!!!

zanzibarlegend

"I knew I would get my world record title back. I have already scored 100% on the song; millions of people have seen on Youtube, but it wasn't official for Guinness because I didn't have multiple witnesses in the room. Now it is official! I am THE Guitar Hero record holder for 2008!"

He never said that. That sounds so made up the reporter.

hoopesk2

@Slothboy:

I prefer his attitude to say... someone jumping around and screaming and making an idiot out of themselves.

He seemed pretty collected and modest to me, which is good in my books.

siempre

@tzaketh:

Chike is actually an alien. He crashed in that family's backyard some 13 years ago. That explains his super human abilities at GH. Once he finds out his true powers he will go on to save our planet. Only to be constantly attacked by his nemesis Flex Cougar who somehow obtained radioactive shards of Chike's home planet, the kids only weakness.

From Guitar Hero to Super Hero!

LittleBigPlaneteer

Not meant as a snipe, but couldn't this guy get a lot more sex and cash if he could play a real guitar nearly as well?

Being a rock god or Billy Mitchell, what story would prefer carved on your grave?

VicViper

everytime I see info on how someone is awesome at GH, I think back to the South Park eps. with that fat kid playing air guitar and all you hear are plastic switches.

It is awesome to be in Guinness, but when you can play a real guitar and AS WELL AS the guitarist who plays the actual song, then color me impressed.

golddbz2000

@Gam3r: The nutrition facts on a pack of gum are more enlightening than you.

Kenji-sama

Did anyone notice that Chris doesn't exactly, um... look like the full biological child of anyone in that room?

Either he's adopted, or that hawt Mom has got some splainin' to do.

tzaketh

Some people just need to get a life.

AltonPanoptes

@I_Hate_This_Place:

He went to the cheat menu to turn on hyperspeed. I guess it's easier with the notes spaced out a little more. The higher speed doesn't really matter because he's probably memorized this song by now.

Ausl0

@Mobus: Real guitar playing is useless without a real band backing you up. And even then it's only useful if you make it big, which isn't purely related to skill.

Dalren

Now imagine if he got the RROD half way through that song... No compensation from Microsoft would repay that, that's for sure =P

Iarwain

He didn't seem very excited.

Apocalypse15

@hondo:

yea the wrong video was up! omg 47 minute unrelated video :(
kept waiting and waiting and waiting for it...
47 min later.. f you guys.

just kidding, i still love you ;)

darkslide

the kid is black but his family is white?

eddienoteddy

Um. That's awesome and all, but the lack of enthusiasm by everyone, including the guy himself, is just...creepy. You'd think they'd clap or cheer or SOMETHING after he finished. Instead, they all start immediately leaving. And the guy doesn't even smile ONCE.

As others have said: Real Guitar. He's got skill, apply it to something useful that people will actually care about, including yourself.

Mobus

Boy does he make the game look fun.

GrapenutsRobot

@Lightman:

"I can think of a few things in the world more boring than watching a kid play guitar hero...like paper being made, or cutting my fingernails."

Or reading your comments.....

LittleBigPlaneteer

Are you sure he's human?

Abyss123

I might not usually watch these Guitar Hero vids, but "Nice camera work at the end there, Mom. Way to accentuate the cleavage" means I surely will watch this one. To the very end!

Pudgey

I can think of a few things in the world more boring than watching a kid play guitar hero...like paper being made, or cutting my fingernails.

Lightman

@shadow763: You're the pathetic one, making sad judgements on people you don't even know. You are what is wrong with society when it comes to gaming, honestly.

Dalren

South parks spoof on the whole guitar hero phenomenon is dead on. How lame is someone to spend so much of their sad life so they can record it. I skipped to the end for boobs, and that is really whats it all about. :P

I just imagine people hearing someone tap out a song on a plastic guitar and say, "oh man, i love that song". Plastic instruments FTW I guess.

shadow763

The guy sitting on the chair at the back (who I can only assume is his father) looks thoroughly unimpressed with the whole affair.

Darragh

@alzheimers: Awesome reference :) :)

sherv

This makes you never wanna play this game again hehe

That's his family? Is he adopted?

Orionsaint

@YHWHMystic:

That works too.

CaptLtrl

@dowingba:

Um yeah, because all guitar masters are over 50.

I imagine the insane amount of time he put into playing a song on a plastic guitar on a level that the band's own guitarist claims is more difficult than playing the actual song, couldn't have been applied to learning to play a real instrument.

When nobody cares about GHIII in a few months, will it really be worth it? Yeah the sponsorship might be a cool gig perhaps, but it seems like he's wasting a level of commitment and possibly talent on something that will inevitably be discarded.

VicViper

The little kids made the video watchable. Otherwise, I was praying for the Rick Roll to kick in at five minutes.

TrueCrime

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Don't worry, I'll try to make them as dickish as yours in the future.

Lightman

@Kenji-sama:
I wasn't trying to enlighten anyone dude. I was just stating my opinion... Get a clue.

Gam3r

Hard to watch the video when the girl in the back is so hot

thistimeXitswar

@Dalren: Yeah almost as useless as this...

slikz21

Why are people such losers that they have to belittle a guy for being amazing at a video game? "He has no life."

I think taking the time out of your day to tell somebody else how lifeless they are shows that you are pretty lifeless yourself. If you don't care then move the fuck on, stop wasting comment space and making yourself look like a fool.

I don't really find watching him play to be all that entertaining myself, but I'm not going to go out of my way to put the guy down because of what he enjoys doing with his time.

DirtySyko

Yeah, i agree that seeing an outtake reel would be worth the time to watch it. This though, i would rather brush my teeth again then watch it.

Slartibartfast

"but I birthed him"

disgusting

bebop4one

At least Chris is well rounded. I believe I read somewhere that he is also an excellent student, which proves that the one dude who dropped out of school to play truly is retarded.

Knoxximus (360/PSN)

well done.

akashhhhh

You can see how awkward his family feels when it's over they all walk out completely confused.

Murderdolls

Twin Galaxies and The Guinness book of records are affiliated. What goes in Twin Galaxies goes in The Guinness

Rob_Velocity

LAME!

BONERJAM

@kylo4: i feel the same way
i play quite alot of guitar hero as well, and there is a huge difference in being able to play from sight read,and from being able to play from memory.
surely people like guinness should take note of that...

deafwish

On a site about gaming, bashing a guy for, you know, gaming, seems kind of hypocritical.

kylo4

This is ridiculous. I love GH and RB, but it seems crazy to me that this guy can get a Guiness record for playing a dumbed-down recreation of a song that didn't win its actual guitarist any world records.

TheHeartless

that chair looks oh so comfy.

canceric09

Lol at the boobs at the end.

Kenny

some jealous mofo's in here..

_MJ_

@Dalren:
You know that you are also making jusgement on him and you don't know him do you? So...WTF?

umaxyome

Whenever I hear about TTFAF, I just think of this XKCD comic:
[xkcd.com]

Chanthas

Wow, you guys are harsh. Sure, in the broad scheme of human accomplishment, being really good at Guitar Hero ranks fairly low. But this guy seems to enjoy it. And hey, if it weren't for this game, he'd be just another schlub.

Cam_Ras

I love all the people who come to a gaming site and watch a video about someone who's really good at a video game, then say, "Why would anyone care? Why is that impressive? Yawn."
Even if you really are 14, it's okay to say, "Wow, I wish I could do that!" Really. Someone might say, "your a fag," but it would just be another person like you who thinks he's cooler than he really is, so who cares?

alejo699

My mother never bragged when I was ranked 1st at UT instagib.I guess it's not as cool as a plastic guitar toy.

Grosolank

@Squirrelbot3000: Also, this is in fact the guy who hit 100% earlier.

Malyonsus

@KRayGolf: I'm not sure if you're joking, but let's say you are.

Sure, maybe there are better things to be doing, but in his defense, there are many people who record themselves playing guitar hero (at least Chris is actually good at it), and there are many people who break stupid world records (let's go with most skips of a stone on a pond for an off-the-cuff example)

Malyonsus

I just love how everyone erupted in cheers and carried him off on their shoulders, proud of what he's achieved.

Oops, sorry, that was in a different reality.

1. When you hit 100% I'll be more impressed.

2. When you have a life doing something productive and not worrying about some silly record no one's going to remember three months from now, I'll respect you as a human being.

Squirrelbot3000

Congratulations, you look so pumped up to be the only person to actually want to video tape themselves playing Guitar Hero for a "World Record"

Now go out a get a job, hippie

KRayGolf

Does anyone remember what killed DDR? It was people who took it way too seriously (and they still play DDR like it's a gold medal).

Here's the deal though, GH, DDR, Sing Star all all party games. Meaning they are good to use at with gatherings of people to make yourself look like an ass, but have a good time. It's a lot like Taboo, the game of unspeakable fun. What this game did was, in essence, saying he was the world's fucking best in Taboo.

Why do we have a group of people that think video games like this constitute real talent? Did people brag about sub-5 second 11 meter dashes with Nintendo's Track and Field with Power Pad peripheral?

otakujpop

I hate watching people play games without participating...especially if it's this game. God that must've been boring for them to watch all the way through.

Now go do it on a real Guitar if you think you're so special.

DavidFU

Guinness Record? Or Fag? You decide... lol One of the stupidest world records, just as bad as greatest number of spoons a boy can stick to his face...

VirgoKnight

lol... I wonder how much he had to pay his family to stay in the room for the whole song... they did not seem impressedXD

And I wonder how much he beat that little kid for distracting him in the middle of his important video game playing lol...

Bluesnow222

The headline should read, "Chris Chike Proves Once and For All that His Penis is Bigger"

AllHailShake

@Burguois, Teabagger of Olde: He also got 100% on Jordan which has just as much random hammer ons and pull offs, so technically he probably would have eventually got 100% on TTFAF if it was on GH2.

jmill87

I thought nobody cared about his score, we were just shocked when he pulled off 100%.

Of course there's the fact that all of us have no doubt tried for the Tetris world record (or something similar) as kids and got not appreciation so there might just be some bitterness. That or we've moved on from going for high scores.

TrjnRabbit

So he can be the record holder for 2008 even though the year isn't over yet? I suppose that means it goes into a print edition and can't be updated?

klew

how can that be a world record score if he misses like 3 times? (I skipped most of the vid...)

icegoat

Good on him for reclaiming the title. Now if only he can coax them to stand about while he goes for another 100% and MAX-E-MUM SCOREAGE.

Kinda bored after he started missing, but I persevered: to see the final result, to see if anyone moved at all (besides the little ones), and to see this alleged cleavage. In the end all I can say is that this video is very true to life. It's exactly what would happen if I tried to show some of my family a video game.

Gentlemen. You can spend time playing games, or spend time playing THE game. An engendered decision some of us face daily. The choice is yours, and yours alone.

Turhaya

@Exx0dus: Nope, this is legit.

Dalren

He's obviously playing with the no-strum cheat, so why give him any amount of fame? having to actually hit the notes is seven-tenths of the difficulty of that song. I mean you watch him go into the cheat menu...

I'm again disappointed in the inept journalism of Kotaku for not being savvy enough to even notice this. Comb through YouTube sometime, there're a thousand people with these kind of videos.

The few people who can -legitimately- even pass this song, regardless of score, deserve way more accolade than this douche.

Exx0dus

Ah the green monster rears it's head all over this one. Why are people so jealous of people that have talent, practice, and get good. I'd be curious to ask what you do with your freetime? Or is it that you are jealous you don't have such freetime?

Way to go man.. now do it again with out the little kids jibberin'.

Freetime000

yawn... that video cries out for more cleavage.

citykids

@Exx0dus:

What are you talking about? No-strum cheat? I don't even think that exists. All he has on is hyperspeed.

Ausl0

If you can do that in guitar hero, you need to get a life.......

Cheroro

@FeistyGirl:

+ Watch video

Import98

You know that hot chick in the back? The one that's his sister or cousin? Well, if she's 18 (or older), I'd storm her burning fields!

Zero_Beat

What does a Guinness world record holder have to do to get an HDTV?

KillfaceJenkins

HAHAH oh it was the same kid nm. i noticed the room he was playing in. But how is the a World Record reclaim if he did worse in this one and already scored a 100% a while back?.... wtf?

King Seafoam

Wait... I saw a video where someone scored a 100%... was that a fake?...

King Seafoam

+ Watch video

physalis925

Haven't played GH2 in a year as sucking on a real guitar is easier and less stressful.

Crowbot

Hahaha, I actually truly laughed when he stood up and all you see is this tiny plastic guitar strapped to him as if to secretly mock him and his time spent on this game. Almost the same effect as seeing a really fat guy play acoustic guitar and reach way out in front just to strum.

Zenrick2.0

@King Seafoam: Guinness has standards that you have to meet in order to verify that a record isn't a fake. Just a video of the event without alerting Guinness about it beforehand wouldn't fit the bill.

Carl Everett's Fossil Collection

@King Seafoam: He full combed the song BUT Guiness will not accept that because it was done with hyper speed which they consider a cheat. Also there must be a guiness douche around to make sure everything is legit... totally gay.. as good as the kid is... his Xbox Live score should be enough proof!

JustOneFix

You're the man now dog! Punch the keys for Gods sake!

JustOneFix

That's my boy!

JustOneFix

Why the fuck did I watch the whole thing????

Oldschool60

He got a good 97%, but the cleavage at the end deserves an excellent 98%, at least.

togovero

@dowingba: And on the other hand Guitar Hero has only existed for...what, 3 years now? So this guy has been playing Guitar Hero for a maximum of 3 years.

dowingba

@VicViper: Well I'm maybe a 100th as good at guitar as the Dragonforce folks, who are, in my opinion, just on the cusp of guitar mastery. And I've been playing for 13-14 years. Then again, I don't play guitar for reasons such as "cash" and "chicks".

dowingba

you have to admit... what he did there takes some serious skills.

if they did that much of an intro before each time he tried it... thats pretty crazy.. unless he did it in his first few tries.

joeloliol