The Evergreen Rhythm Game - History of Osu!
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- čas přidán 19. 03. 2022
- Can a rhythm game become an esport?
The year was 2007, while it may seem like any other year, some pretty big things happened that year: The first iPhone was announced, Tumblr launched to the public, and Barack Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States.
But one event that many people may not know is that 2007 was the year one of, if not the biggest online rhythm game was born, all created by a single man. A game that has withstood the test of time thanks to the contributions of not its single creator, but the constantly growing community throughout the years. That game is known as “Osu!”
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played a bit, nice game, can recommend
lmao
cool
"a bit"
vouch
“6,625 hours on record”
this video is cute, informative, and easy to understand for sure 😁 I hope the tournament scene keeps growing upwards!
ok mate I'll keep that in mind...
lets go sfa
and you'll be the one dominating it xd
late congrats to your fc on sound chimera btw
Ayo it's xooty
to get (your video) called cute by xooty is probably the biggest compliment there is
Props to the Akshon team for risking their mental health by playing rhythm games
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If osu is becoming more mainstream, I'm all for it. There's just so much competitive depth and history for what the game has to offer across all four gamemodes, and within its 15 year history, countless legends have made names for themselves in big ways. Vaxei's tournament dominance, the United States juggernaut, mrekk, WhiteCat, Cookiezi are just few of the many things this game has to offer. Cloud9 also closely follows the community, so there might be a gigantic shake up in the scene in the near future. Great video as always!
Yeah, I see Cloud 9 in the comments of literally every tournament.
Don't forget the content creation side as well
yoo i love your vids dude
osu lazer will make it mainstream
@@cyrilhe1592 and the community
crazy to see this upload now of all times; i'm playing in the world cup for osu!taiko, another osu gamemode, currently! every gamemode has its own history completely separate from 'normal' osu, or osu!standard as most ppl in the community know it. for example, taiko is based on an existing rhythm game, taiko no tatsujin, but unlike the games standard is derived from taiko is VERY popular in japan, and so japan have won the last 9 (i think) taiko world cups without ever looking like losing one and have 9 of the top 10 players by rank, while i don't know too much about the other two modes, osu!catch and osu!mania, but as far as i know they're both dominated by south korea (mania is a bit more complicated once you start talking about different ways to play it, but that's for someone that knows more about the mode to explain)
I believe only 7k is dominated by SK, 4k a lot of countries are good. Japan domination of taiko is unmatched, especially since a lot of the top korean catch players stopped/do not participate in tournaments
yeah, 4key has had brazil win the last 2 years iirc
in terms of individual players i can say _yu68 is the best there's ever been in taiko, literally the kind of player to go a full match without dropping a 100 in like semis of a tourney, seren58 is probably the best there is right now though
once again, can't speak much for other modes in terms of that
Mania is a bit more spread out. South Korea is the best but it's not like they're unbeatable. Nothing like standard or taiko
Catches also pretty spread out but still Asian dominated. At least us Americans have standard
Thanks for dropping by dude. GL in the World Cup
Happy to see a well developed video that seems to be bringing in lots of new players to the osu scene
no way real hurrikate!!!
Hi Hurrikate
hi dad
It’s the real hurrikate
Yo it's the friendly neighborhood slider man
hey I know this game
true
Love your content dude.
hey i know this guy
no way
I think I do too. Should we be friends?
I laughed so hard at 6:48 when they were showing cookiezis plays and they showed his TIMEWARPED MASTERPIECE PLAY LMAO
LOL
LMAO
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i love this game!
my boy ezchamp
Can u play hr?
@@ProofWinter yes...
@seanpulga910 can you play hd? because hd is easy for me
As someone who played in the world cup and frequently plays tournaments, I think the scene still potential to grow, especially with the addition of featured artists it may be easier to get eSports team backing for tournaments that exclusively use songs from these artists. As the biggest hurdle for expansion of the scene is probably the legal/copyright issues.
How can I get my "quote-unquote" "music" (big air quotes) into the hands of the beatmappers and/or players looking for new osu!-worthy tracks?
@@ramseydoon8277 if it gets big enough they'll find it, you can personally ask them to map something. Also to be "osu! Worthy" the music doesn't have to just be good, it has to be easily mappable for the mapping criteria
@@ymir.2 Nah, it just has to be good. I wouldn't consider Frums', Silentroom's or Camellia's songs "easily mappable", but they're still some of the most respected artists on the featured artists lineup.
@@jedel1043 i think the most important criteria for "easily mappable" is a steady bpm. when real people are playing real instruments, the tempo can slide a little over the course of a song just due to human error, and having to manually readjust the bpm/offset throughout a song for it is extreamly annoying and will often turn a mapper off mapping a song. this is why people recommend mapping stuff with midi drums when starting out.
@@jedel1043 I’m not a mapper so I can’t really say why, but there must be a reason why a lot of popular English songs have very little ranked maps
14:19 Just saying, not only Varvalian got into an esports team in Japan, Cloud9 seem to follow the scene closely, so I’d expect a lot of things in future
The only player that would make sense for Cloud9 is vaxei
C9 social media guy definitely plays osu
@@whenisdinner2137 BTMC as a marketing tool too
@@chiffaonosu well that is a good point he's not quite at the level of competition that C9 would probably want also vaxei is arguably bigger when he does stream. Vaxei himself is no slouch when it comes to social media even though he doesn't say a singular word
@@whenisdinner2137 Bro. Have you ever seen faze clan? Almost half of the people they signed are mainly for marketing reasons, and not for competition. Hell, they signed Snoop Dogg. Ed being the biggest face of osu!, It be wise to sign him.
The thing about osu! is that it allows you to create story-driven levels, just like EBA & Ouendan. I wish more people took advantage of that.
Well even if they did, all of use would've likely just disable the background and make it 100% black lol
A lot of people do. The thing is that it's not as popular because people want to play the game at a high-level instead of making pretty Maps
R.I.P. 11t
While still not using it in the same way as the original games, he's an absolute legend among storyboarders in osu!, sad he left us prematurely.
Yeah, just like "MAKE IT FUNKY NOW" beatmap
I've played Osu! occassionally, but never knew there was such a competitive scene around it! Also very impressive seeing what some of these people can do. WubWubWolf clearing that map on a finals stage is just insane.
If you're interested you can watch a bunch of replays of various tournaments. There are a bunch of them on CZcams.
If your curious, you can watch OWC, which is the osu world cup, or watch videos about top players such as their history and more. Its really cool
pls dont use capital O in osu!
@@hidratadop The official way to write the name is with a lowercase o
@@UrMom-qf6db don't care. Osu!
14:19 Varvalian has recently been signed to a JP esports team, so its not too far of a reach
osu has 4 modes, all have their own comunities and tournements too, but the standard mode is definitely the biggest.
shame many don't play mania, taiko and catch their good too.
true
but tbf, osu!standard is fairly original compared to the other 3
@@jerecakes1 catch is completely original
standard is based off a ds game
@@dirt8718 catch isn't original either LOL
@@miwiki6 what's catch based on
4:30 cant believe shroud got interviewed! Didnt know he played osu!
omfg
The craziest thing about osu! is that for 15 years now it has done pretty much nothing but constantly grow faster and faster.
I can’t think of another game that can say that.
counter strike
@@netaars6352 is CS still growing in other countries? It’s all but died in the US
@@EpochIsEpic that is completely untrue
@@MrTriple3D it’s very true that i cannot think of any others. It’s true that osu has done nothing but grow. Do you have some examples of other games that have done the same?
@@EpochIsEpic yes. Counter strike, Classic tetris. league of legends, even mario 64 speedrunning
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The circle circuit that DIO (a well-known tournament organizer and commentator) organized seems like a step towards an eSports scene being made
D I O my beloved
This video brings a smile to my face.
I'm so glad my favourite game is getting featured by an incredible channel like yours, as I've been hoping for someone to cover it for a long time now.
This video is amazing, and keep up the good work
Yes and so much notable osu people in the community makes my heart warm
9:40 i cant believe i made it into an Akshon video
Gigachad
This is really well researched, if it weren't for really minor things I would think this is made by someone who has been in the community for years. You got all the right people
Whose the good looking guy at 0:22? Couldn't be me. ;o
I've been in the community since 2015 and the scene has changed immensely, to the point where now that I don't follow it so closely I don't recognise it haha. I hope to get back into things one day
6:48 "he beat records..." just as masterpiece 3mod plays
Never thought you guys would do a video on Osu, pleasantly surprised :D
I don't want to take full credit from Akshon, but I contributed by suggesting the topic on their discord server
If you have a game scene/community worth to look at , feel free to join their discord channel and write your suggestion! 😃
We also talk broad topics in esports and gaming if you're interested.
What makes me come back to the game is the amazing community. I think I never experienced any toxicity when playing multi, even in tournies (I participated in some amateur 30k tournies). Until recently most multiplayer lobbies were organized through trust, reaching around host and only in the last few years chat bots for auto rotate took over. The mapping scene is also completely community organized and overall just really chill. Love this game and its community, even though I dont really play that much anymore
Really nice seeing established community figures weighing in on this video
This is an amazing channel, you really show how great video games are not just as hobbies but as legitimate sports and pasttimes for people to form communities around and shape lives.
Happy to see another corner of the gaming world that I otherwise wouldn't have known about. Keep up the great work Akshon!
It is quite the hard task to fit the entire history of osu! in such a compact video. Yours and BruhmasterL's videos do a great job of accomplishing this. Very well executed!
I've been playing osu! on and off for 9 years now and the best thing about it is definitely how dedicated the community is. Great video, well researched and written :D
9:40 OH MY GOD THATS ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've personally been playing osu for over 5 years now (on and off) and as of recent I've been logging in at least every other day, though that spot is being taken by some VR rhythm games at the moment, this game is where I've met some amazing people that have helped me out in more ways than you could imagine and I still talk with some of them daily even after years. I hold this game dear to me and I always look forward to new mappers and generations of players, I myself am already seeing changes in how people are able to play, considering how players ranked at 100K and above (The lower the rank the better) are now playing maps that only the top 30K used to play when I was around that rank. It's amazing to see the generations just get more and more naturally gifted over time, though with enough dedication anyone can do what they want. I really appreciate the video that you've posted since it told me about the history of the game, which I had never truly looked into before, it's an eye-opener to realize where everything started. Thanks Akshon ^^
Ah, Akshon Esports. Last time I watched your videos, it was for OWL. Glad you did a video about another of my favourite games!
Fellow osu ow fan
@@licht4808 And Genshin too, I see you're a Hu Tao enthusiast.
This channel never fails to deliever. I love how they can make a well written/edited documentary from shedding the light on some really underrated video games. GREAT JOB!
Nice video, i never expected to see a osu video in this channel lol, i would like to see more mention to new recent players tho, like Whitecat or Mreek, but huge upload!!
The osu tournament scene has been able to grow in spite of the lack of support.
It makes me so happy seeing videos about osu. I’ve only been playing for 2 years or so but man it’s one of the only games I play and I don’t think I’ll stop.
6:50 good to see his masterpiece 3 mods score getting more attention
@@sevendigitosu yeah, its the only hddthr fc so underrated
PepeLaugh
Lowkey a bit sad that OSU!Lazer wasn't mentioned, not unexpected but I kinda wish the "next major update to osu!" which is an experience and a half to be had which only yesterday was given an official video by the OSU! Channel just wasn't mentioned
It's relatively still recent (which also excuses recent top players being excluded too) and the focus of the video is mostly on the competitive side.
Anyway, I'm also looking forward for lazer!
Lazer is looking promising
Whaaw you really made a osu video damn, been playing the game for 8 yrs I'm not good but its hella fun and addicting that I enjoy it more than most competitive games.
did not expect to get an osu video from akshon, really glad we did !
Finally, I've been waiting for someone to make a video on this
Just in case someone is wondering, the song at 2:36 is the instrumental version of Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer
Been playing OSU for a while now, started my official account almost 2 years ago now and I’ve been addicted ever since. Really fun game with such a array of players
I started 2 years ago too. man bring back that day I got acc BOOSTED in some random convert o!mania map, instantly became mania main since then.
My mania motivation from that one day is what make me still want to play lol
happy to see osu has been getting more recognition as the years go by, very well made video!
"based around anime"
*shows a beatmap with a background video which is clearly a touhou fan-animation*
ah yes, anime. totally.
cool that there’s a perspective of osu’s history that concentrated more on the mapping side of things rather than simply the players
not only OWC, other tourneys such a Corsace and Perennial are well-organized - bigger orgs pls have a look at the top players
really well made video, thank you!
Was that One OK Rock playing in the background? Wonderful that an essay on a good rhythm game has some good music, loved the video!
After 8 years of playing it, now I get the most simplified yet accurate version of the explanation :)
I never got myself into osu despite wanting to try multiple times, and this year, because of /r/place, and now your video, I think I will finally give osu a try :)
Share with us your thoughts about the game
@@ProofWinter I just tried it today. I installed it and played 3 songs. First, I was confused : do I have to maintain the key during a slider, or click again at the end ? It wasn't said. I had to google it (and I guessed correctly instinctively, I guess you just have to hold the button and release it right at the end of the slider).
And... well it's nice but it gets hard quickly to follow all those sliders, and the timings in the songs are sometimes... not super intuitive or following what you hear, which I guess just boils down to the talent of the map maker.
I wonder what it feels like to play with a tablet instead of a mouse.
After playing Beat Saber tho, it feels a bit underwhelming. But Beat Saber is unbeatable. It's seriously a blast when you start clearing Expert difficulty songs.
@@Hexalyse it gets much more fun once you start getting the hang of it
@@Hexalyse That's completely normal, I struggle a lot when I first time playing it. and I recommend you to play a maps with the song you like to make it more enjoyable, and since you are familiar with the rythm of the song it will be much easier.
@@hydrafortt yeah, I'm a beat saber player and for sure playing on songs you know well makes it easier, and more enjoyable.
Really cool osu introduction video!
Speaking of making rhythm games esport,
KONAMI is trying hard and launching its BEMANI PRO LEAGUE series, after a long time of hosting KONAMI Arcade Championship (KAC) (also, it's been 10th KAC this year.)
great and informative video, good job!
out of all the things akshon could cover, i never expected osu to be one. damn
I remember playing Elite Beat Agents on Nintendo DS, definitely one of my best gaming memories
Been playing osu! for since like 2009, in my own little corner of the world, and had NO CLUE about the competitive scene being THIS in-depth. Thanks for this!
this video is so nice i see how it could be entertaining to people that don’t play osu or have never heard of it
very cool
Pog, I love this game so much. I've been at air force basic training so I haven't been able to play and I can't wait to get back and play again. I've tried so hard to get better and have gotten so far in one year
its a great game
Aye man best of luck on the Air Force training, you got a bright future ahead!
you training shoes???
Man be bringing his osu skills to the test while shooting down planes
Missed the part where cookiezi comes back every now and then out nowhere and submits some crazy plays and leaves again after a bit.
I like how the community doubts his skill every time he leaves then a couple months after he comes back he just, you know, *breaks the community*
I'm waiting for Everything will freeze [Time Freeze] +HDHR FC
he seems to be playing actively now
I love hearing ONE OK ROCK dreamer in the background of the video! I started listening to the band when I was like 6 years old!!! I've been a Jrock fan and a musician because of JRock since I was about 4 or 5!!! It just makes me so happy to hear the music I love!!
gotta love the bad apple in the background
so true oomfie
It's like a fighting game with the rapid input and quick reflexes but music
Yeah, also was one of the most mechanically challenging games there is because of how simple it is. You click circles but it's taken to the actual extreme of human ability and Beyond.
@@whenisdinner2137 ^, the difficulty of the game is determined by the creator's imagination (and game limits ofc kek)
This is just what i needed :)
very informative and well made video!
God makes my day to see you talking about this. 7 Year KB+M vet and can say this is my fav game and no matter how much I try to quite I can't. I'm also a 8 year melee player so yeah this game is gas
good taste brother
W taste
This is the last game I was thinking would be on this channel and I'm all for it.
been playing since 2013 and i’ve taken breaks here and there but i still love the game, it’s crazy to see how far it’s come i might get back into it
this is the first I have ever heard of this game. Great video.
Osu's release was greater than Obama's campaign
this is cool but do you guys know that niko fced perditus paradisus with dt in 2011
dude
i am just doing my part and spreading awareness
@@noehru as you should
send replay
so cool to see one of my favorite games on such a mainstream channel
gg that was really stinking good and the pishifat coming in was awesome
honestly i just play osu for fun and as warm ups before playing other games lol. i didn't know the "serious" scene is this huge lol
Crazy, downloaded it 2 hours ago!
welcome & good luck at you jouney in osu!game
he's gonna get addicted
@@clara4738 yeah, not likely
I started playing last year , coming up on my one year anniversary in about 4-5 months! About to hit 5digits and I'm very happy and eager to continue playing and hopefully one day I get to play with all these names mentioned and just have fun! This is not an addiction I'm recovering from anytime soon so I hope to enjoy it as much as possible.
Love the pishifat b-roll when talking about mapping haha
This is an awesome video that shows people more about the competetive side of osu! I think when people see this game for the first time they just see it as an indie game that has some crazy good people playing it and doesnt expect it to have tournament potential. Thank you for making this video
the biggest roadblock to becoming a "legitimate" esport is the amount of unlicensed music. Not very many companies are going to risk their reputation sponsoring a game that survives because a lot of music labels haven't filed a big takedown, yet.
That and the scoring system is god awful and makes no sense competitively to anyone who plays other big rhythm games
Doesn't tournament use different scoring system?
@@Kellexyz even ScoreV2 that some tourneys like OWC use (most smaller tourneys used v1 while I was still an active player) is still pretty flawed in that highest combo is still heavily overweighted. Most other big rhythm games use a scoring system that is based solely on accuracy/timing
@@sunnysanch.1408 right, but standard is half aim, half rhythm. Combo is a huge part of it as well as accuracy
@@dirt8718 ScoreV1 is a simple combo based multiplier and ScoreV2 I believe is a 1,000,000 point maximum score with 70% based on combo and 30% based on accuracy. I would personally like to see score based 100% on accuracy like the other big rhythm games that I play.
@@sunnysanch.1408 Well that's never gonna happen. Talking combo completely out of the equation will change how standard is played
Thanks I started playing osu! in like november 2021 and it's good to know history of it ^^
Osu man. I really did love playing osu.
But also it really showed me a bunch of songs i never even heard of. But also helped me find touhou and bring me back to it.
r/place brought me here.
Well i'm some noname 5 digit, but whatever. I started to play this game in march of 2015 and i'm probably went right in the most cool time of osu life, because i started to play when old legends played this game yet and inspired me (such as WWW, Azer, Rrtyui, Cookiezi, Rustbell, Angelsilm, Rafis, Kynan, HappyStick, _Index, Rucker, Xilver and so on) and i went right in time when Aspire maps started to grow, this game give me a lot of fun and access to a pretty huge community, and also this game introduced LapFox Trax's music for me (and today it's my most favorite and exemplary artist for my entire life, (s)he inspired me a lot) and just in general this game gives me a lot of music and artists, who i listen to now and know about them. It's surprisingly how such a simple and repeating game has a such big history and community within and around it, i'm so thankfully for all mappers, who create all those beautiful maps, you all literally an artists (and of course guys who making storyboards too, y'all are chads). They inspired me too, so after 7 years of playing i started to make my own maps :D And now we're going into new era of osu! AKA Osu!Lazer, so hope to continue this history of osu with all of you together further, high respect to all chads, mappers, pro-players, streamers and content-makers who sharing the positive energy with others and help them to live and be fine, to all informatic channels, which sharing many stories and useful information with us, all kindly and respectful players, community and game, which gives me a lot of fun and new artists and inspirations, and of course to our main chad Peppy, thanks to you for all of this. :) I'm so happy to see how much popular it becomes today now.
Damn i playing this game almost half of my life, holly molly, osu is a part of my life and history of my life and this world around me.
The nostalgia, oh boi, I was so bad at Osu, but I loved to play it, but I was very 9ut of the community, so it's very interesting to see it's history now!
I have witnessed various games in my lifetime that grew to be massive e-sports like DOTA and League. The thing is, I can definitely see Osu becoming an e-sport. Team matches have clearly defined win conditions and high stress situations. Some level of tactics is involved too such as what map to pick or who's the player to send in for this certain map. The game has so many different playstyles and almost no one can master all of them. E-sport teams can definitely be built with different people having different playstyles. That is one of the factors of a game becoming a massive e-sport. It has to have enough variety in it's playstyle and players to be interesting to a lot of people.
Shit now I want to play osu again
This could very well be a E-sport that I could get into… but DAMN it’s a brutally hard game!
the initial learning curve is pretty crazy, even for a rhythm game, but if you wanna get into it just play easy levels of some of your favourite songs until it starts making more sense :)
my friend took 2 months to get to 4 star mania when i needed 5 months lmao
a little tip, dont stop playing daily
@@KayShawn_Maybor thx for the tips.
The learning curve is steeper than Mount Everest.
@@Dullsonic3 well... Don't play EVERY day. Taking breaks is just as important. It's like weightlifting. It's during these breaks that you allow your muscles (in osu's case, muscle memory) to rest and rebuild to become stronger for the next time you weightlift (play osu).
i have been waiting for this very moment for years.
Never expected osu to get a video on this channel
Somehow I had no idea Osu was just the clone hero equivalent for Elite beat agents
A lot of people can't recognize it because of how much it evolved in terms of mapping. Osu standard nowadays is 1000X more ergonomically friendly to a mouse player than Elite beat agents was
I remember back in 2012 or so, tons of League of Legends players/streamers played Osu while in queue for a game. I thought that it would help me get sick at League so I downloaded it. Super fun game! There's some anime theme that I loved which I played all the time but I have no idea what it was anymore :( also used to play To Zanarkand constantly lol
This video like barely scratches the history of osu
Cool osu vid, osu is my first PC Rhythm game and introduce me more other rhythm game because of the song lol. also, if wanna talk about more competitive rhythm game, I'm suggest to look at bemani pro league
I was expecting a bit on how some FPS pros use Osu to practice their coordination.
the osu world cup should be watched by the entire gaming community imo.
It does get bigger every year though. That's cool
I've started in 2016 and was really into it for an year or so.
I encourage anyone to install it, download a few songs you like whose beatmaps are there and give it a go. It changes the way you once perceived that song.
I never thought about Osu having a world cup, but now that I know that I'll definitely mark in my calendar to catch the next one.