Breaking Brad: Breaking Brad: Demon's Souls: Part 08

I would have never finished Dark Souls if it wasn't for Vinny, Patrick and Brad. Thanks-you for the motivation.

@pyrodactyl said:

It really isn't. I am partially deaf and I have to use volume normalisation filters in my video player to be able to hear what they are saying, when he goes after lizards he shreaks and growls really loud hurting my ears.

So I can either not listen to what they are saying, or hurting my ears every time he shouts. Great choice...

Freudian slip? :P

@roy42: yeah but he's cute.

also does anyone have an isolated, high quality sample of the crystal lizard sound? I'd love to have it for a textone or something.

Kill that Crystal Lizard to summon Zobek!

@philfancypants: @whatisdelicious: noted

Brad is losing his mind to the crystal lizards. BEST CONTENT ON THE SITE !

Every now and then Brad surprises you with a perfectly timed roll.

What did the Internet do to upset Vinny?

Brad - The (komodo) dragon slayer

I will pay more money to see this twice a week.

Brad's lizard rage is delicious to me.

I doubt I will ever tire of the GOD****'s Brad spews when the Lizards get away :D

I find it a little funny how Brad went from parrying a bunch of stuff like a boss in the first episode, to never parrying and sometimes not even remembering to block in the later episodes.

(I don't generally parry much either since I don't like the risk, but just keep your finger holding the L1 button unless you need to regain some stamina, man!)

I don't understand why Brad waits SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long to heal himself.

@sammo21: And is then inevitably upset when something one-shots him from 25% health.

@roy42: This is the best post ever. Well written, comprehensive and spot on!

I have been thinking exactly this for a long time now.

Its been prevalent in QL's but nowhere has it been more evident than these videos.

You Sir, have been able to sum up my precise thoughts which I have considered posting but cant be bothered to.

Each video is more frustrating to watch because of his crippling self doubt and lack of knowledge, which pops up every 5 minutes in the form of "oh wait, didnt I just..?" "hmmm I dunno", "But I always thought...", "so it turns out...." "yeh but I really wanna..." and "wait, oh I see. No, no, I just didnt want to...."

Its maddening.

And the thing is, I like Brad. I really do. The things that he knows a lot about, he speaks with authority about them. He often makes great arguments and knows when a game sucks. I just wish there were times when I didnt have to witness the process of him acquiring that all that knowledge.

@ash78 said:

That's why this feature is called "Breaking Brad", and not "Brad's Expert Gameplay".

Hey great job Brad and Vinny! Thanks for all the fun stuff you do!

It's not under the Endurance Run video list. Stop it or they'll stop it!

Also, 1:04:30 is the best damn thing.

For one thing, I didn't say he's frustrating to watch because he's not an expert. With all respect to him, Brad is the very last person I would ask for expertise on just about any game. Maybe Starcraft 2.

For another, I don't actually know why this series exists. I mean this particular Breaking Brad. The series was originally Brad bashing his face against a brick wall of a difficult achievement until either the game or he caves. Typically it would be him, because, as I mentioned, his style of play almost never evolves. Then he played Doom 2, and while it still seemed quite hard, the fact that he could save at any time also seemed to take the same level of challenge away from the video, as well as the fact that it was being done in multiple sessions. The segments of the BLLSL were a return to what the series started out as, and then Spelunky and Volgarr were just about him beating the game, the latter being done across multiple sessions and with per-level saving again.

These Demon's Souls videos, though, just feel like him playing a game. A game that punishes you for your mistakes in a fairly severe manner, but nothing specifically excruciatingly hard. Maybe it's the slower pace of the game in general, but really: am I the only person who thinks this is more like Bradley May Cry than it is Breaking Brad?

Yes, it would. Never leave home without your Thief Ring when you go lizard hunting. Also, I found that bow is a lot more reliable than Soul Ray for hitting lizards.

The bad internet is on fucking fire in this comments section.

Best Part - Brad's irrational obsession with the lizards.

Worst Part - Brad's reckless fighting style on the second toughest boss in the game. And, still beating him with relative ease.

Of course, I wasn't level 40 and didn't have any magic. But, the Flamelurker was a royal PIA when I fought him.

@roy42 said:

Yep, this all checks out. Warding pretty clearly says it only reduces physical damage, then he tries to use it take magic shots from the Reaper. Brilliant.

To be fair, there are sometimes gaps of like a week or more between play sessions so he forgets things, but his playstyle is fundamentally weird.

The lizards are admittedly bullshit game design and the worst way to put scarcity in a game, but his unbridled rage at losing some of them seems pretty silly when he basically isn't using anything but Darkmoonstone. Brad's lootlust is kind of terrible. It's really bad when you watch him play terrible games that happen to be loot-based, because he'll be pretty positive about the game despite it being a poor game. I get Vinny's collection habits when it's in service of like, "finding everything in the game", but Brad's addiction to getting useless crafting materials that will never help him is just baffling.

Also, LOL at anyone who tries to out-DPS a boss in Demon's/Dark Souls unless they're wearing the heaviest armour in the game. That first death to Flamelurker when Brad still had a million grasses was completely retarded.

Best part of this series is Vinny making obscure references to Dark Souls. That and really how long Vinny can endure Brad's playing. It should really be called Breaking Vinny, Brad seems to be doing ok.

Brad's obsession with lizards that are dropping items he's never going to use is hilarious.

Brad pays for his greediness.

everything that people find frustrating to watch in this series i find hilarious. there are other games that i cant stand to watch him play, but since i haven't played these games maybe thats why i find it so funny.

still a good feature imho, and everyone psychoanalyzing him isn't going to prove anything, the videos are still entertaining to watch.

And then Brad wen't insane feeding on lizards in the mines.

The End.

*Picks up maybe one of the best rings in the game for PvE* 'meh, doesn't seem that great...'

Wowwwwwwww the 23 minute mark is so infuriating for about 5 minutes, just fucking run up and stunlock the shit out of the reaper ffs!!

How long will it take Brad to complete this? Is it a big game?

I started watching this, Brad took too long and I switched to Jeff Greens Dark Souls stream, I've watched like 80 hours of that and at the pace Brad is releasing Demons souls streams...... well? Should I stop - is it not going to be completed?

Where do I stick my ethernet cable to get this Vinternet?

@mattf87: I could tell you but... You aren't going to like it.

Haha, oh my god the anger... Brad, you lizard crazy man.

Man, Brads breakdown after losing out in the tinklin' lizard olympics was fuckin great! :D Best giantbomb feature for me right now. Bradley Schuhmacher!

Oh man it's so funny watching Brad with that lizard fever.

Brad's so fucking timid its almost maddening... Floogan the queen of grandmothers... I feel bad for Vinny having to sit idly by and watch him fail over and over and over on shit that's actually pretty easy if you just pay attention.

And i love how he has the ring that ups item burden yet doesn't use it when he's over burdened... Sharp as a marble

Lol, he's obsessed with lizard hehehe :)

The watching Brad try to run into seeing what the item did before vinny shut down the stream ... hilarious. Well done - will be posting a thread of other games you should try to break him with ... ones that in quick looks were fun to watch him play oh and thank you for the god hand reff ... ah persona 4 the joy the joy!

I pretty much lost it when Brad said he was going to throw up

As someone who played a pure archer on his first run through this, watching him kill arguably the most important vendor in the game was hard.

EDIT: Good news, Brad! You CAN buy Stones of Ephemeral Eyes from Patches. He should be in the Nex--OH WAIT.

I love Brad, but OMG, this is ridiculously accurate. His aversion to magic is sooooooo annoying. The dumb logic he holds himself to is mind boggling. JUST PLAY HOW YOU WANT AND TAKE YOUR TIME.

I don't remember or care to check which video it is, but since this notification reminded me of this, I might as well also mention here that the Storm Ruler (you know, big sword you use to rend the skies in 4-3) that Brad neglected to use when trying to kill the lizards in 4-3, then stubbornly defended his not using of it by saying that he had it confirmed that it wouldn't work against anything other than the Storm Demon, actually would have worked. Anywhere in the open area of 4-3, the Storm Ruler will send out the shockwave; even against the lizards, though it does such piddly damage that it takes four hits to kill them.

omg why would he attack a lizard to 30%hp and then start chasing another one?? brad... oh brad xD

Breaking Brad: Demon's Souls: Part 09