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Breaking Brad

Breaking Brad: Breaking Brad: Demon's Souls: Part 01

A new hero rises and seeks to test his iron against the world of Souls. And this time, it's Brad!

Can we break Brad Shoemaker's will and send him packing? We put him up against some difficult video games to find out.

Jan. 15 2014

Cast: Brad, Vinny

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Demon's Souls

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Not gonna lie, I'm getting a little Souls fatigue but since I've never played this game I'll definitely be watching it.

Edit: Well after watching it, I'm actively hoping Brad dies a ton so he stops using magic as a crutch.

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So much melodrama every time more than one shitty enemy shows up.

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Fantastic! Looking forward to the continuing frustration adventure.

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Brad! Take some chances! You are supposed to die! You're beating around the bush way too much here.

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Not a huge fan of watching a Mage playthrough of Demon's Souls, but god damn am I a fan of Demon's Souls. Will watch all of this, to see if Brad will actually beat this whole game.

But srsly guys, magic in Demon's Souls makes this game into a game that just doesn't control well and has bad camera angles... because it totally erases the challenge of the game. Didn't try magic in Dark Souls, due to my experience with Demon's Souls... was it more of the same?

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I want part two naaao!

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@efesell: They said there was NOoption when there clearly is. It isn't easy or fun but there is an option to farm healing items in Dark Souls.

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Love Brad playing demons souls.

But he is totally cheezing the game as a spell caster. Spell casters in demons souls is so overpowered compared to dark souls.

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Demon Souls! So excited to see Brad play. Personally, I still prefer it to Dark Souls (but I won't lie... I am so ready for Dark Souls II!)

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Oh man, I remember that. I was there live when that went down. Such a good time! I think #teambrad actually trended on twitter that night.

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Not a huge fan of watching a Mage playthrough of Demon's Souls, but god damn am I a fan of Demon's Souls. Will watch all of this, to see if Brad will actually beat this whole game.

But srsly guys, magic in Demon's Souls makes this game into a game that just doesn't control well and has bad camera angles... because it totally erases the challenge of the game. Didn't try magic in Dark Souls, due to my experience with Demon's Souls... was it more of the same?

I personally felt for the most part magic was more balanced in Dark Souls, except for the pyromancer, which hands down has the best spells in the game.

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Brad you need to grow a pair. You have the V Bomb watching over you! He's silently judging you.

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This is a really strange run. Brad is doing really good… but he seems completely afraid of any kind of setback or failure, but yet he feels bad about using a powerful class…

Brad, my advice would be to stop feeling guilty over your class, and take advantage of it in order to be a little more brazen in your playstyle.

Either way, this was a great video. Would watch more.

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Hmm. Brad's personality + a hellish game. This will be interesting.

I mean. This is harderthan Dark Souls.

Vinny in the backseat is probably a good idea. We don't want to get mired in details.

I will like to see if they stumble into some of the mistakes you can make in the game.

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@m2cks said:

@chokomofo said:

Not a huge fan of watching a Mage playthrough of Demon's Souls, but god damn am I a fan of Demon's Souls. Will watch all of this, to see if Brad will actually beat this whole game.

But srsly guys, magic in Demon's Souls makes this game into a game that just doesn't control well and has bad camera angles... because it totally erases the challenge of the game. Didn't try magic in Dark Souls, due to my experience with Demon's Souls... was it more of the same?

I personally felt for the most part magic was more balanced in Dark Souls, except for the pyromancer, which hands down has the best spells in the game.


Crystal Soul Spear begs to differ

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I know most people know this, but you can beat the tutorial boss and the result is hilarious. Jump to 2:25.

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The whole thing with Vinny egging him to run up to the dragons was great.

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Super awesome. I've been playing the game on and off for the past few months now, but I can't get past a certain point towards the beginning, so this will be really helpful.

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Brad should totally play more as a melee character. This game isn't as hard as everyone makes it out to be and melee is much more satisfying (and therefore more fun).

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calling it now, brad kills vinny at the maneater boss

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So that was surprisingly more entertaining than I expected, I think I might watch the rest if he does more.

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In hex, pretty sure E+D=17.

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Man, some of you guys need to pull the stick outta your ass.

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Watching this made me realize why I get so frustrated watching Brad play. He got the memory of a goldfish, the peripheral vision of an eighty year old man, OCD to rival Sheldon Cooper and the sense of direction of my mother :P

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This and Spelunkin best things on GB. Scoops should have stuck his Dark Souls run on here.

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Hahaha, Vinny is such a troll. It's great! I hope this series continues through the whole game.

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Really enjoying this so far. I thought Ian and Rorie did a good job as the sit-in dudes for LOLS, but Vinny is incredible. It's really never quite apparent whether he's being honest or not. Already he's built up a deep sense of suspicion and mistrust from young Bradley, but yet has been proven to be helpful whenever he's trusted. And that "giant shield" moment was incredible.

@yumtoast said:

In the beginning Vinny jokes that his advice will all be wrong, like "A + D = 17"

Does Vinny know that A + D actually does equal 17 in hexadecimal? Or was that pure luck?

Oh man I didn't even consider that. Nice.

@randiolo said:

This is super interesting to me because vinny is an italian that plays with passion and fury, brad is a mathimatical robot that malfunctions on occation, to see the difference in approach will be great to see.

Again, one of the best comments on the site.

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04:42 But... A+D does equal 17 (in hexadecimal). I'm impressed, Vinny knows his stuff!

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That's a big shield.

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Oh man, I hope they make a lot of videos for Dark Souls 2.

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Vinny is infinitely entertaining.

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Demon's Souls: the 614 mitzvah.

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OH BOY 20 HOURS OF BRAD SPAMMING MAGIC.

WOOH.

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looked like Mark Coleman when slide all the way male, haha.

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Man this was a wonderful feature! Time for a rewatch methinks.

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If I had only known how powerful the royal was starting off...but I probably wouldn't have used that class because of it.

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Oh man, I can watch/listen to Brad and Vinny play Dark Souls or Demon's Souls game ANYTIME! Thanks guys!

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It's been years, and I still can't believe they make you do that dragon bit before the first boss.

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I love Vinny's ambiguous advice.

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Does Brad have false teeth? I've only noticed it in these night vision type facecams but something seems off. Maybe it's a white balance thing.

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Watching this while playing Bloodborne... It's a good time. Good way to ease these loading times!

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I forgot how awesome the starting cutscene of Demon's Souls is.

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Two years late to the party, but I'm gonna enjoy this.

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Alright let's see what this is all about.

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i like how vinny tricked brad into not attacking the chains