Brad Takes On The Darkness

Watching this video in 2020 and realizing most of the people they talked about dying have died.

One of My fav game last gen and possibly the best atmosphere in a video game ever. Shame how brad rubs it off. it also looked astonishing when it came out and still does

It's pretty painful that brad ends up bitching that the game hadn't been indicating how to get through that fight when it literally takes control away from him and has Jenny say "You can't fight it." "Find another way." "Fighting makes it stronger." while he continued to do nothing but try to fight it and wrestle for patrick's attention over their talk of "the klingon".

It's not the game's fault, it's on GB for ignoring the game straight up SAYING the solution multiple times per life and them ignoring it. They complain so much about the homogenization of shooters post-MW2, but then don't make the effort to engage with shooters from this early part of the generation that actually tried a lot of different things.

i love how patrick bails halfway through that vincent price voice bit.

I really, really have to stop watching Brad play videogames.

Smoke machine, lighting, finish a game?

I'm on board!

It's a pet peeve of mine when people jump around and stuff during in-game story stuff like that. Just put your controller down and pretend like it's a cut scene with one camera angle if it bothers you that much to be patient for two minutes.

GAG ME WITH A SPOON.

JASON TAKES MANHATTAN!

An hour in, I had a few problems one was when Brad was actually asking the other two for help there was a slight pause and then they continued to talk about Klingon's without any help to Brad. The other was when Brad was trying to skip the story stuff when that was what they said in the video that they were playing to see the story play out. I was alright with them talking about films because I found that interesting but they seriously needed to stop everytime Brad was asking for help. They started doing that in the latter half of the hour which is good.

Ugh. I'm gonna' say, the Klingon talk got really annoying really quickly. But then, so did Brad trying to run past all the story parts, which are the most interesting bit of The Darkness. There was some poetic justice to Dave inadvertently forcing him to watch that dialogue again.

Only just picked up that it's Mike Starr voicing Butcher Joyce.

Undying is installed on my computer right now. It absolutely holds up. Time for another random pc game!

Man, if i don't see a working script for "The Klingon" by the end of the year i'll be sorely disapointed.

I don't even care about the poor playing, why do we have to shit on games constantly that are like 4 years old? Fuck man, call of duty 4 came out in 2007, that game is practically the same shooter we're still playing today online. Game development hasn't changed THAT much. I hear it constantly in videos and podcasts. It would sound differently if a 19 year old was wanting to take dumps on games for being half a decade old, but guys that started on nes(like me) or atari? Come on. You're also playing the hardest parts of a video game years after last touching it with about as much patience as a shark on a bloodied victim, of course it's going to feel crappy. 
 
I don't know, Brad seems better than this. Maybe it's just the atmosphere of other guys spamtalking by you as you die and being filmed. I wanted to play this again before Darkness II but meh, there are soooo many games I need to play new and old, no reason to go back to this.

@takua108 said:

Anyone who talks shit about these videos is so so dumb. Just have fun and fucking watch them, Jesus Christ.

What's gotten into this community.

A darkness has seeped into this community..

But seriously, I love these videos, I for one can't have enough of any of the top men at Giant Bomb. I'd watch them scrub floors and it'd still entertain my pants off.

Watching Brad playing a video game is the ultimate gem of Giant Bomb. Money well spent!

man has long since asked "is that a dude? no. it's a trash can."

@DeadPan said:

@ItsAJackal said:

Dear Brad,

Please learn how to play video games.

Thanks,

Community

You fucking child

Everyone needs to stop acting like children or if they can't. Fuck off and leave the site to the people who actually care and like the product

lol yes, because with that response you are clearly showing how the community should be acting

It supposed to be like an endurance for Brad, but really the endurance is on the viewer.

Guys! I basically watched this as a Dave & Patrick podcast with cuts to Brad playing The Darkness. And I had a pretty decent time. I get why you're bummed out because you were hoping for the actual gameplay to be more interesting, and it was pretty boring and occasionally pretty frustrating (which is why most of LOLS has been games like Halo.) But the conversation Dave and Patrick had was actually pretty entertaining, and the original idea was vague enough to simply serve as a springboard for conversation all the same.

I don't mean to white-knight here, but let's not get hyperbolic as to this being some kind of dark spot on Giant Bomb's video history or even one of the worst videos of the month. I found it more interesting than most of the Quick Looks so far this month. If they decide to finish the game on-camera (it sounds like Brad's probably finished over President's Day weekend) I will watch it.

@Nerolus: Only the right side eats the hearts. The left side fights over it sometimes, but never gets one. That's why, in the idle animations, the right one messes with the left one a lot. It's a kind of big brother / little brother relationship going on between them. It adds to the personality of the demons.

@PropaneJoe: Treating them like a bunch of kids that need to be mothered is "white knighting". Do you think anyone has said anything in these comments without thinking they're talking about real people? Of course not.

No final goodbye or Captain Midnight. Well Shit.

Brad sucks at most games. What an inspirational story.

This game really fucks with my OCD. I feel like the right demonhead snake thing eats WAY more human hearts than the left one.

Anyone who talks shit about these videos is so so dumb. Just have fun and fucking watch them, Jesus Christ.

What's gotten into this community.

Man, remember when you used to have to take cover to avoid bullets?
Brad doesn't.

@ItsAJackal said:

Dear Brad,

Please learn how to play video games.

Thanks,

Community

You fucking child

Everyone needs to stop acting like children or if they can't. Fuck off and leave the site to the people who actually care and like the product

I must say that I had high hopes for this video: I wanted my GF to see how awesome and sad the ending is.

This video should've been perfect: 1 part Breaking Brad, 1 part LOLS: But this clearly went off the rails.

It seems the game was on hard so that explains why Brad kept dying. I don't blame him for not knowing or discovering or remembering every thing, it happens after revisiting a game after 4.5 years.

But goddamnit Patrick and Dave seriously failed Brad during this video. It was clear that he needed guidance and they kept yammering on about stupid Kilgon movie shit. If Brad was supposed to see the game for its story, this environment wasn't suitable in any way.

Hell there shouldn't of been any video in this case and Brad would've been able to see the story, look up a FAQ, and explore every nook and cranny and we would've been spared seeing two hours of Brad being frustrated while his co-pilots sit there not giving a shit.

Man I forgot what a great looking game The Darkness was, it holds up pretty well.

@AMReese:So approaching criticism with the perspective that you are talking to real people is "white knighting". Am I allowed to go against the tide in any way which won't be lazily labelled "white knighting"?

no captain midnight...

Wow, I gave up in WW1. Nowhere close.

In honor of Patrick's Quote at 1:57:00

@NoelVeiga: If you went into Doom for the express purpose of getting the story and finding out what happens in the next installment and then proceed to get bored and not want to pay attention to the story your ruining it.

@Jumanji said:

The indifference by the couch guys to the audio issues is a good example of what's wrong with the sloppy mentality behind of the production of this particular video.

I actually found the whole thing rather charming - GB has proven they can do polished high level video, and they're also not afraid to just turn on the cameras and see what the hell happens. And yeah, sometimes, what the hell happens doesn't quite work out right.

If this event had been a fully scheduled production, with full tech crew, fully prepared on the back end and edited for pacing and other issues, then I think "sloppy" would be an appropriate criticism. But it had all the hallmarks of a last minute decision, a "hey, I think people would find this cool" sort of thing that makes GB so endearing.

You can't get it both ways - if you want polished video all the time, you have to lose the spontaneity that makes this website stand out from many of the other websites. (Because, I don't care how good you are - you can't be polished and spontaneous all the time. It's the nature of the art - even the best improv actors have bad nights. I'm surprised and pleased GB and the other Whiskey Media properties manage to do as well as they do as is.) I'm quite prepared to accept bad camera shots, bad audio, bad colour balance, bad dialogue, and all the things that come from live unplanned streams to get the spontaneous, "real" feeling that is almost impossible to produce any other way.

JGH

Didn't find Patrick or Dave funny? "You should give more focus to the game than irreverent conversation" would be sufficient feedback. You wanted to see how the story unfolds in the last part of The Darkness? Uh... what? If that's the case, why wouldn't you just play the game? From the start? Or watch a Let's Play? I mean, when has one-off GB video content EVER given focus to a game's narrative? This isn't a reasonable request.

@GalacticPunt said:

@Brad said:

I just finished the game today and hey, turns out that save was on hard. Oops!

I'm about halfway through, and still enjoying this video. I come for yuks, not for flawless speedruns.

YUP! Me too! lol

@Brad said:

I just finished the game today and hey, turns out that save was on hard. Oops!

I'm about halfway through, and still enjoying this video. I come for yuks, not for flawless speedruns.

@Vitor said:

And honestly, who cares how well Brad plays games?

*slowly raises hand?*

@Frumpa said:

@depecheload said:

@Vitor said:

I mean, when more than half the comments are people COMPLAINING about the content of the video, you're clearly fucking up.

I would venture that, at tops, a THIRD of the people who visit this site (or any site) even leave comments. And people are always more likely to leave a comment if they're pissy than if they're happy. So I wouldn't say that's and accurate measutre of anything.

If I wanted to watch someone play a video game, I'd go to YoutTube, I come here for all the insanity around it.

Agree totally with you sir. There is'nt a more entertaining site on the net and i'm more than happy - certainly worth 5 bucks a month. This team is really quite small for the quality content they more-often-than-not come up with. A bunch of you folks need to hose the sand out of your vaginas.

That's the reason I subscribe and I agree also.

And I never meant 50% of all comments on the site. But if you see the first few pages of comments on this video, that numbers wasn't far off when I first watched it.

The good content far outweighs the bad. But that doesn't mean we aren't allowed to criticize when there's clearly room for improvement.

Now, calling Brad and Patrick names and generally being a dick is not the way to go about it. And honestly, who cares how well Brad plays games? I've had to try and explain games to friends while playing and it is hard. That being said, they need to start opening the manual and reading it through briefly before any run through of a game, especially the older ones. I don't see how that would have a negative affect on the content at all. And it would certainly silence a lot of the screaming that goes on in the comments regarding any misinformation/mistakes made.

This is what they do - free-form, personality-driven video game content.

I swear to god Brad has early onset dementia.

Man, vocal minority.

I thought this was a cool video, the first 25% was a bit tedious as they didn't really remember how to play but once brad got in a groove it was fine. It gave me a cool look at a game I would have never picked up. Sucks to hear @Brad finished it, would have loved a part 2 of this video. I guess now I'll have to play it for myself now, hah.

@Undeadpool said:

But it DOES never fail to make me cackle at the number of people who apparently just want a silent, deathless speed run.

Hahah indeed! If they got exactly what they wanted, Giantbomb would just be Gametrailers or IGN. I don't know about the rest of you all, but I handed money over to Giantbomb for the expressed purposes of them screwing up and having fun on camera. You can't force good improv either, or you'll get exactly what you deserve.

The loud minority will be the loud minority though. Different strokes to move the world.

Keep getting killed Brad, most of us love you for it.

@mrfluke: Cannot wait for the next BLLSL. Man, good times. It's so good.

@Frumpa said:

@depecheload said:

@Vitor said:

I mean, when more than half the comments are people COMPLAINING about the content of the video, you're clearly fucking up.

I would venture that, at tops, a THIRD of the people who visit this site (or any site) even leave comments. And people are always more likely to leave a comment if they're pissy than if they're happy. So I wouldn't say that's and accurate measutre of anything.

If I wanted to watch someone play a video game, I'd go to YoutTube, I come here for all the insanity around it.

Agree totally with you sir. There is'nt a more entertaining site on the net and i'm more than happy - certainly worth 5 bucks a month. This team is really quite small for the quality content they more-often-than-not come up with. A bunch of you folks need to hose the sand out of your vaginas.

A third is even shooting preeeeeeeeetty high. If you look at how many registered users they have (around 85K) and then look at the comment sections, you realize how few people actually comment. And that doesn't even factor in the number of people who don't even have accounts registered.

But it DOES never fail to make me cackle at the number of people who apparently just want a silent, deathless speed run.

@Brad said:

I just finished the game today and hey, turns out that save was on hard. Oops!

@Brad said:

I just finished the game today and hey, turns out that save was on hard. Oops!

It seemed like you were getting killed a lot faster than I expected. Can we expect to hear your thoughts about the game/story on the bombcast this week?