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Breaking Brad

Breaking Brad: Breaking Brad: Demon's Souls: Part 04

Brad is just about done with the Demon's Souls tutorial and ready to start playing for real!

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

Jan. 29 2014

Cast: Brad, Vinny

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Demon's Souls

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this series needs to be renamed to "Breaking Brad: Vinny Trolls"

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@groin:

@groin said:

@demoskinos said:

Couple of things I wish he would realize. He seems adamant on wanting to use a melee build but keeps putting points stupidly into magic. I get that that sword is a pretty decent starting weapon but unless you're comitting to the cause and going to actually double down on magic and really go for a magic build he should stop putting in points otherwise he is going to have a damn time having enough STR or DEX to wear any sort of decent armor beyond light mage clothes.

Strength and Dexterity do not affect which armor you can wear. Endurance is the stat to increase if you want to wear heavier armor.

Also that Crescent Falcion he's using scales purely with magic

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what! that boss took me and my buddy forever! Is everyone in this level weaker against magic or something? We're trying out a dexterity build and we do almost no damage to everything in the level.

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Oh man, it felt so good to watch him tear up the Adjudicator after all the trouble he had before.

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This series of videos has got me back into DS in a major way, I forgot how much I love this game.

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Vinny "Bust Downs" Caravella

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@mano521: try using that Mail Breaker you got in 1-1 ;) but yeah, pretty much every enemy in that level is weak against magic and piercing attacks...

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Man, why does everyone start breaking around the 40-50 minute mark. :(

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Vinny is a great troll.

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@kerse said:

@brad Don't worry about leveling up too quick, there's nothing that costs more as you level up. And honestly in Dark Souls, you don't want to spend souls removing sins anyways, unless you accidentally hit a shopkeeper or something, but that's pretty easy to avoid. Just if you get invaded remember that some people will try and bait you into hitting them, so just run away from that room if it they go near the npcs.

I'm pretty sure the only other thing sin does is allow darkmoon blades to invade you, and you'll be getting invaded anyways so it doesn't change much, so yeah only if you accidentally hit someone.

Also I don't know if anyone has told you, but guard break reduction reduces the amount of stamina you lose when you block hits, personally I think upgrading the shield is one of the most important things to do, maybe not all the way maxed out, but at least getting it halfway will help out a lot.

I knew that Guard Break Reduction affected staggering but I had no idea that it reduced stamina losses from blocked strikes. Thanks!

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I can't watch these because I would have a hard time watching Brad play a game that I like and am familiar with, but the existence of these videos did inspire me to replay Demon's Souls myself. Turns out, it's still great. Not hard to go back to from dark souls either.

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Just watching these videos makes me realize how incredibly intimidating this game seems.

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Drinking game: Watch part 1 and take a shot every time Brad says, "So it's like Dark Souls", any variation on that sentence, and anytime he just references the fact that he has in fact played Dark Souls.

Also, Demon's Souls is not like Dark Souls. Dark Souls is like Demon's Souls.

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@authenticm said:

@brad Awesome brad ! However, stop dumping points into Magic and get your Strength to 16 so you can equip the Dark Silver Shield found in 5-3, as it's the best in the game when upgraded to +5 with Colorless Souls.

Firstly, Colorless demons require messing with world tendency which I doubt Brad will do so a non upgraded Dark Silver Shield has terrible guard break reduction. Secondly, I would take the Knight's Shield or the Steel Shield over the Dark SIlver as its only advantage is 100 percent magic resistance but magic is easy enough to dodge and physical attacks are more common which is where the much higher guard break reduction of the shields I mentioned comes in. Honestly Brad will be fine with the Heater Shield he has now as long as he keeps upgrading it.

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Am I crazy or did Vinny whistle a MGS theme at the 20minute mark?

Better question: Did you continue whistling the theme? I know I did! :D Such a great song to whistle.

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Brad, please stop feeling guilty about using the wand! You don't need Vinny's permission, or anyone's! Who are you trying to impress, the backseat gamers on this thread? You need all the weapons at your disposal.

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So we can pop multiple souls at once in dark souls 2? :p

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Somebody really needs to debunk this whole "Miracles are only heals" stigma nonsense...

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Omg, I did this part with an axe on my first play through,lizard guys took forever to kill. The bow was pretty useful though.

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If i never hear bladestone again itll be too soon, spent too many hours farming for pure bladestone....never got it

Also i love how Vinny is in it for the long cons

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@peritus said:

So we can pop multiple souls at once in dark souls 2? :p

NDA VIOLATION ALERT. You're all going to Dark Souls County Jail.

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@lanechanger said:

Am I crazy or did Vinny whistle a MGS theme at the 20minute mark?

Better question: Did you continue whistling the theme? I know I did! :D Such a great song to whistle.

One of the best game themes!

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I know I'm late to this party, but holy shit guys, when he wouldn't just warp back at the end with all those souls in favor of pushing forward into completely unexplored territory with new enemies had me literally screaming at my monitor. You're stressing me the fuck out Brad!

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@vinny Trolling @brad Is the best part of this entire serious.

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The only thing bothering me so far is how Brad hasn't checked out any of the other spells available to him, either miracles or otherwise. He's wasting his potential to be the best wizard he can be.

Umbasa.

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Vinny is the true Demon's Souls.

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Brad, please stop feeling guilty about using the wand! You don't need Vinny's permission, or anyone's! Who are you trying to impress, the backseat gamers on this thread? You need all the weapons at your disposal.

seriously

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Brad plays Souls as timid as a grandmother.

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There should be a "choke Brad" button that I can push....XD

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Ha! I'm really loving this series.

Brad just does stuff I'd never think of. Looking through the fog door with the spyglass and actually just seeing the Armor Spider waiting for you? Inspired.