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Breaking Brad

Breaking Brad: Breaking Brad: Geometry Wars: Survived 1,000,000

On the hunt for geometric nirvana, Brad finds himself naked in the middle of the desert.

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

Oct. 28 2011

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Patrick

Posted by: Drew

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Yehaa geometry wars ;)

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Was that shit a motherfuckin' documentary?

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Loved it.

I hope you guys get your TriCaster back soon, but it was really fun to watch even without seeing the pressure (or should I say FEAR) in Brad's eyes. ;)

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4:21 in and I have no clue whats going on anymore.

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Naked in the middle of the dessert, huh? Hope it's a banana split.

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Yes! I am glad they did this

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I already love this video, just because of the title. :D

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Mass Effect 2 on Xbox 360. Play the Collector Ship (first one) level on Insanity with vanguard. Goood luck!

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Now let's see Brad survive Dead Rising's 7 Day survivor achievement.

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This is... hypnotic.

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@sergeantz: Awesome

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Jesus... I'm white-knuckling it here, guys.

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Did Brad ever unlock the Kid in Super Meat Boy? Because I think Brad needs to unlock the Kid in Super Meat Boy.
 
That, or score a point in Desert Bus.

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Not sure if they really are reading these comments for suggestions, but I think a good one would be Mile High Club from CoD4 if Brad/some other duder doesn't have that achievement. I'll think of some more later.

edit: perhaps a SC2 related achievement? Like beating two AIs on Insane?

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Play Turok on PS2. It's torture.

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Heisenbrad's gonna cook'em

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Should do the 7 Day Survivor achievement from Dead Rising next.

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I had to fast forward, damn giantbomb likes to make these premium videos loooooong. I got stuff to do goddamn.

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I just got this achievement a few months ago even though I had the game since release. It's easier if you play at it for 3 days or something just to practice then it gets easier.

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I'm glad I'm not an achievement/trophy hungry monster. If I were, I'd be destroyed. I'm way too determined and stubborn to give up on something when I've set myself to do it.

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I remember sitting trying to get this achievment back in the day, my best run was a little above 950k I almost cried and never have been able to get it.

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I love, love, LOVE Brad's hunger for achievments and the videos which result from that.

Thanks, keep'em coming

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I really don't like this game. Difficult game like SMB is one thing, but to die because I can't see where I am because of all the damn effects and other shit on the screen is really frustrating.

Maybe my eyes are just fucked or something.

EDIT: Decided to give this another try... I've got a newfound respect for Brad. He might suck at some games that I excel at, but that holds true the other way around as well. I barely got past 10k with 1 life when I tried just now.

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Tempted to buy this game now. Great...

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I love me some Bratrick tension. Either duke it out or make out already.

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Achievement race feature sounds great.

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Man, this video sure was messed up when it streamed live. It was like watching a bunch of colored shapes move around for an hour and a half. Now I can... oh.

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@MrKlorox said:

I love me some Bratrick tension. Either duke it out or make out already.

This.

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@CarlSmith said:

Mass Effect 2 on Xbox 360. Play the Collector Ship (first one) level on Insanity with vanguard. Goood luck!

I did that (well, the entire game) with an Infiltrator. It was hard, but not stupid hard.

I think the perfect game for this is Super Meat Boy. Not only is the Brad/Vinny Quicklook for that game one of the best things this site has ever produced, but it is exactly the kind of game for a challenge like this. As for the specific challenge, I don't know, maybe finish all the dark world levels of The Rapture.

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In terms of achievement suggestions, you should do the Super Meat Boy "do a whole world without dying" on PC. Those are pretty brutal..

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@gkhan said:

@CarlSmith said:

Mass Effect 2 on Xbox 360. Play the Collector Ship (first one) level on Insanity with vanguard. Goood luck!

I did that (well, the entire game) with an Infiltrator. It was hard, but not stupid hard.

I think the perfect game for this is Super Meat Boy. Not only is the Brad/Vinny Quicklook for that game one of the best things this site has ever produced, but it is exactly the kind of game for a challenge like this. As for the specific challenge, I don't know, maybe finish all the dark world levels of The Rapture.

Me to! The thing with the Vanguard is that you can't take cover because the harbringers will kill you. So you need to throw yourself into the fight to survive, which is awesome and mad hard! But fun! Rest of the game is not that hard.

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I wanna see Bradley Wrestle a Bear.

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He should play Tetris on endless and he HAS to get over 1,000,000 points.

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Play Super Meat Boy "Four Letter Word" level.

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I think this still is a pretty amazing theme:

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@CarlSmith said:

@gkhan said:

@CarlSmith said:

Mass Effect 2 on Xbox 360. Play the Collector Ship (first one) level on Insanity with vanguard. Goood luck!

I did that (well, the entire game) with an Infiltrator. It was hard, but not stupid hard.

I think the perfect game for this is Super Meat Boy. Not only is the Brad/Vinny Quicklook for that game one of the best things this site has ever produced, but it is exactly the kind of game for a challenge like this. As for the specific challenge, I don't know, maybe finish all the dark world levels of The Rapture.

Me to! The thing with the Vanguard is that you can't take cover because the harbringers will kill you. So you need to throw yourself into the fight to survive, which is awesome and mad hard! But fun! Rest of the game is not that hard.

In the last five minutes I've been having serious flashbacks to that level on Insanity, and I'm starting to remember all the times I started over, and I didn't even play as a vanguard. That god-damn Praetorian fight was fucking insane. I'm starting to think that maybe that level was harder than I remembered, and that I'm better at games than I give myself credit for :)

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@beatlebrainiac said:

Not sure if they really are reading these comments for suggestions, but I think a good one would be Mile High Club from CoD4 if Brad/some other duder doesn't have that achievement. I'll think of some more later.

edit: perhaps a SC2 related achievement? Like beating two AIs on Insane?

Probably the achievement I'm most proud of on the 360. For reference:

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Ugh, I'm missing that achievement and the 10x multiplier.  There was a time when I was decent on the leaderboards, I'm sure that score has been demolished since I last checked.

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AMAZING idea for a segment. You guys have been killing it since you ditched the regular Happy Hour. And I second the ME2 Insanity Vanguard suggestion - that was my fave game of this generation until I tried to take my Vanguard through an Insanity playthrough. Then I hated everyone at Bioware and possibly the rest of the planet.

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Did this when I was 16. Don't think I could ever do this again...

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Love the Dead Rising: 7 Day Survivor achievement suggestion, but that would probably take way too much time to do. The Mile High Club achievement seems like a more realistic attempt.

What happened to some Robotron play? :(

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The second half of this video feels almost nostalgic to the Game Room videos. Just talking about random things while playing an arcade game... I want more!

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Halo Reach's "If They Came To Here Me Beg" achievement might be a good Breaking Brad. You can get it at the very beginning of the The Pillar of Autumn mission in single player. You have to jump off this huge cliff and assassinate an Elite below from the air. If you don't your body smashes on the rocks and all the grunts laugh. It took me a while to do and it nearly broke me.

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Well just watching this increased my Geometry Wars score... Very first game after loading it up I set my high score. Shortly after that I got my next scoring achievement. I'm nowhere near a million though.

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If this isn't limited to games that give out achievements - then I'd like to see Brad play some VVVVVV. Getting all the trinkets isn't that hard, so he might even succeed. Followed by some gravitron or no death run if he didn't get enough.

SMB has some great stuff to try as well. My personal nemesis is cotton alley - would love to see if Brad can manage that.

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Epilepsi, always the best way to have fun!

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I think my high score in Geometry Wars is just over 30 million. I realized when I got to that point, that it was just a grueling endurance challenge and I didn't want to do it anymore so I suicided nine times and turned the game off, never to play for a high score again.