Brad Takes On The Darkness

@DjCmeP said:

So..Patrick just finished the game and he doesn't remember how to beat the boss...riiight...

It's the "Patrick looooves Jurassic Park" story all over again, where he QL's the Telltale game, brags about having extensive knowledge about everything Jurassic Park movie related, and then can't remember main character's names, basic plot details etc.

@VinceNotVance said:

"I don’t want to hear you talking about food anymore. Just eat me. Just fucking eat me."

(Obviously I'm talking about eating hearts. The hearts are telling the Darkness to eat them.)

You never stop thinking about getting them ladies do you? You suave fucker.

I think Brad is autistic.

@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.

@AcidBrandon18 said:

I think Brad is autistic.

If that were the case the game would have been finished in the two hours allotted.

I got to the boat part in 08' and stopped playing the game. It would be nice to see the end of the game(without searching it from youtube) but seeing as how annoying this video was and I'm not sure if I want to see more of these guys playing the game...I guess I'll just have to live without knowing how it ends.

Undying holds up in its own way. It's still a fantastic game, though the eternal autumn is still kind of a slog.

@AcidBrandon18 said:

I think Brad is autistic.

You have no comprehension of the concept autism.

@Rawrnosaurous said:

@Superfriend said:

Oh god. That thing right there embodies everything that is wrong with audiences these days:

"I want to finish this story, so let´s jump around and talk over a story moment. Why can´t I go on? Maybe I just have to listen to the guy. Can somebody explain what´s going on, I´ve been busy jumping around not paying attention. Hey, why don´t we jump into that hole and do the whole thing over, because we don´t like to pay attention."

You remember how games used to be about paying some fucking attention? Well, I guess the times have changed.

Pretty much this, granted brad hadn't played the game in a long time so I can't be angry over the fact that he didn't remember how to play the game at all or what to do, but patrick just finished this game a couple months ago and he was less help than dave.

I don't understand how this means times have changed, though. The game required paying attention, they didn't, they failed. Just as always. They didn't do any better here than they would have in Doom.

Ooh, surprise content!

... Ooh, people bitching about Brad and Patrick!

EDIT: Okay, yeah, this isn't their finest moment.

Patrick is like a little kid sitting behind you in the theatre, kicking your chair. Then you turn around to tell him to stop, but a burly lady with a bomb for a head tells you that you can't complain, even though you're wearing the gold medal that you bought from her last April. I think I'm onto something here guys.

Jesus christ Brad is fucking bad at shooting.

I almost forgot how painful it is watching brad play games.

I love how Patrick and Dave just talk about random stuff, ignoring Brad's whimpers about not understanding anything.

In these type of videos, someone should always have a FAQ open as a requirement. Seriously it would save an hour of being lost and dying a million times. Just a suggestion.

@Smokey_Earhole: You're right. Brad is suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder.

@mbr2: U Mad Bro?

Looks like if Brad is using a controller for the first time :p

@DaveMagic said:

In these type of videos, someone should always have a FAQ open as a requirement. Seriously it would save an hour of being lost and dying a million times. Just a suggestion.

But then why would you want to watch the vid? What y'all fail to realize is that watching these guys be all pro at playing a game would be INCREDIBLY BORING. This whole thing of them screwing up and clowning around and having a good time and dying a lot and laughing about it is the whole point of the site!

Loosen up people, jeez.

@CosmicQueso said:

@DaveMagic said:

In these type of videos, someone should always have a FAQ open as a requirement. Seriously it would save an hour of being lost and dying a million times. Just a suggestion.

But then why would you want to watch the vid? What y'all fail to realize is that watching these guys be all pro at playing a game would be INCREDIBLY BORING. This whole thing of them screwing up and clowning around and having a good time and dying a lot and laughing about it is the whole point of the site!

Loosen up people, jeez.

YALL, get me sum fried chicken, mmmmm finger lickin good, the south for life.....

@mbr2: Hey! I said something mean about Patrick. Don't I get one too?

Oh Brad, you such a herpa derpa some times lol.

Fuck the haters.

@CosmicQueso said:

@DaveMagic said:

In these type of videos, someone should always have a FAQ open as a requirement. Seriously it would save an hour of being lost and dying a million times. Just a suggestion.

But then why would you want to watch the vid? What y'all fail to realize is that watching these guys be all pro at playing a game would be INCREDIBLY BORING. This whole thing of them screwing up and clowning around and having a good time and dying a lot and laughing about it is the whole point of the site!

Loosen up people, jeez.

The problem here wasn't that people were goofing around, the problem was that Brad was very clearly struggling and no help was offered. The chat was "screaming" how to play, and Patrick never thought to look at the chat and provide help. Remember; the goal of this video was to get Brad to the ending so he'd be prepared for The Darkness 2. Patrick I can understand droning but considering Dave does Random PC Game with Vinny, you would think he'd be aware just how critical the chat can be to solving gameplay problems and making progress.

Bottom line there was a support structure in place and absolutely nobody thought it'd be a good idea to help their co-worker out. There were points five, ten minutes in the video where I was getting angry at Dave and Patrick because they absolutely refused to shut up about their Klingons and help Brad.

@CosmicQueso said:

@DaveMagic said:

In these type of videos, someone should always have a FAQ open as a requirement. Seriously it would save an hour of being lost and dying a million times. Just a suggestion.

But then why would you want to watch the vid? What y'all fail to realize is that watching these guys be all pro at playing a game would be INCREDIBLY BORING. This whole thing of them screwing up and clowning around and having a good time and dying a lot and laughing about it is the whole point of the site!

Loosen up people, jeez.

But didn't you know that everyone here is a pro at every game ever?!

We're not here for skill people, we're here for entertainment.

While people are probably a little more vocal about it than is necessary, it is a little frustrating watching them stumble through playing the game and grasp basic concepts, as well as talk over pretty important story beats. I like the videos they produce normally and I'm going to watch this all the way through, but I cop to the fact that it can be a bit of a grind on the nerves sometimes.

this has been a great week to be a subscriber

@NoelVeiga said:

I don't understand how this means times have changed, though. The game required paying attention, they didn't, they failed. Just as always. They didn't do any better here than they would have in Doom.

Well, times have changed, since The Darkness was released in 2007 and back then already kinda felt like a relic from the last generation. It does so even more now. This is not a bad thing, games were just a little different back then. You had to pay a little attention and the games wouldn´t hit you in the head with big fat arrows that said "FOLLOW THIS DUDE" all the time. Also, a lot of games used to be slower paced. Just compare a modern FPS to The Darkness or Riddick. Yeah, not a fair comparison, since they are not really traditional shooters but still. We live in a world where people will actively start breaking the game for themselves by dicking around and not paying attention if it slows down just for a few minutes.

Oh wow, motion blur.

@SlickWillyJJ said:

@mbr2: Hey! I said something mean about Patrick. Don't I get one too?

Nah, only the cool kids die in a fire / get to kill themselves :D

The Ultima series had space travel as well.

People make mostly reasonable points about what was wrong with the video and you decided to tell them off with the lamest comebacks ever. Nice.

I played The Darkness and this was actually pretty nostalgic for me. That's how long this generation of consoles has been going on.

Also, I like the lighting the Giant Bomb guys used here. Perfect for the game they were playing.

yeah the ww1 part gave me 2007 nostalgia

When did GB turn into a place for fucking whiny little assholes. Wahhhh I dont like Patrick, Wahhhh Brad isnt good at games, Wahhhh stop talking so I can hear this shitty videogame story.

Kinda impressive that Brad managed to die on that tank "Boss".

@Bourbon_Warrior: Sayyy... aren't you whining about the whiners?

@AMReese said:

@Bourbon_Warrior: Sayyy... aren't you whining about the whiners?

Yes

@Bourbon_Warrior: Everyone loves hypocrites!

@Bourbon_Warrior: Not just GB, man, the internet in general. The greatest information and entertainment delivery system invented by man to date and it's infested with spoiled assholes who need to gain some serious perspective.

I personally gave up trying to fight it a long time ago. Now I just shake my head and move on.

This may be the worst thing Whiskey Media has ever produced, WOW, I wanted to rip my ears off listening to Dave and Patrick talk so much shit. Seriously guys WTF.

Oh brother, it's getting predictable which videos people complain about.

Nevertheless, great video guys. Never finished this myself so seeing some late game content was nice.

People don't complain anywhere near as much when the crew just plays badly. Sure, enough people are pretty damned vocal about it when the vast majority couldn't care less.

The problem is when you go into a game wilfully ignorant and then either talk shit about the game as it's the game's fault that you didn't bother to look up basic mechanics or were dicking around too much to see the on-screen text telling you exactly what to do/where to go.

The former can be amusing. The latter is just so f*cking frustrating to watch for a lot of people on this site.

So ostensibly the entire idea behind this video was Patrick's, what with The Darkness 2 coming out soon and a good chance for Brad to see the end of the game, fine, good concept. I feel bad for Brad though, considering he hasn't touched the game in nearly five years, it's no surprise he hit some snags and was lost for what looks like a good 50% of the time. The problem lies in the fact that once he hit those walls, he was left completely high and dry by the people around him.

I don't hate Patrick, Dave or Brad, but that video was frustrating to watch. It didn't seem like anyone was particularly interested in getting Brad any progress in the game, or reflecting on how the first game is different from the sequel (what evolved, what outright changed, etc). Brad's impatience seemed to almost be born of frustration in being abandoned to flail through a game he barely remembers.

At least when Brad was dying again and again in any of the Breaking Brad videos, he seemed to actually want to be playing.

Blame cannot be put on any one member of the GB staff, this simply wasn't terribly good content, and while I've watched the whole thing through once, unlike most of the subscriber-exclusive content, I will not be revisiting to watch it again.

@Superfriend said:

@NoelVeiga said:

I don't understand how this means times have changed, though. The game required paying attention, they didn't, they failed. Just as always. They didn't do any better here than they would have in Doom.

Well, times have changed, since The Darkness was released in 2007 and back then already kinda felt like a relic from the last generation. It does so even more now. This is not a bad thing, games were just a little different back then. You had to pay a little attention and the games wouldn´t hit you in the head with big fat arrows that said "FOLLOW THIS DUDE" all the time. Also, a lot of games used to be slower paced. Just compare a modern FPS to The Darkness or Riddick. Yeah, not a fair comparison, since they are not really traditional shooters but still. We live in a world where people will actively start breaking the game for themselves by dicking around and not paying attention if it slows down just for a few minutes.

Wait, so when people say "games used to be better before" they mean 2007?

You're just trying to make me feel old now.

For the record, I don't think this is true. Just because Modern Warfare is popular doesn't mean that all shooters out there are just like Modern Warfare. Some things in their model have stuck, others haven't. The trick here is that people have come to think that "FPS" only means "action FPS in the vein of Call of Duty". When something like Bioshock or Dead Island comes around, people now call them "RPGs", which is kinda ridiculous, really.

Also, I'm pretty sure the guy's reactions were more of a product of a Friday afternoon than of any influence of games on them. They just didn't care about the game at all, which made for a rather boring video. If your take on this was correct, then we'd have to give it to all the researchers who say that games make you violent. After all, if five years of Call of Duty could turn you into an ADD-ridden goldfish, I'm pretty sure it could also make you stab your landlord in the eye.

wow a lot of immature babies on here complaining about brad, especially considering he hasn't played the damn game in 5 years.

@Greebman said:

yeah the ww1 part gave me 2007 nostalgia

Same here!

Oh hey look. This is what Darkness 2 should've been...instead of the turd it actually became.

Also people really need to lay off Brad and the others. Quit taking shit so seriously.

@NoelVeiga said:

@Superfriend said:

@NoelVeiga said:

I don't understand how this means times have changed, though. The game required paying attention, they didn't, they failed. Just as always. They didn't do any better here than they would have in Doom.

Well, times have changed, since The Darkness was released in 2007 and back then already kinda felt like a relic from the last generation. It does so even more now. This is not a bad thing, games were just a little different back then. You had to pay a little attention and the games wouldn´t hit you in the head with big fat arrows that said "FOLLOW THIS DUDE" all the time. Also, a lot of games used to be slower paced. Just compare a modern FPS to The Darkness or Riddick. Yeah, not a fair comparison, since they are not really traditional shooters but still. We live in a world where people will actively start breaking the game for themselves by dicking around and not paying attention if it slows down just for a few minutes.

Wait, so when people say "games used to be better before" they mean 2007?

You're just trying to make me feel old now.

For the record, I don't think this is true. Just because Modern Warfare is popular doesn't mean that all shooters out there are just like Modern Warfare. Some things in their model have stuck, others haven't. The trick here is that people have come to think that "FPS" only means "action FPS in the vein of Call of Duty". When something like Bioshock or Dead Island comes around, people now call them "RPGs", which is kinda ridiculous, really.

Also, I'm pretty sure the guy's reactions were more of a product of a Friday afternoon than of any influence of games on them. They just didn't care about the game at all, which made for a rather boring video. If your take on this was correct, then we'd have to give it to all the researchers who say that games make you violent. After all, if five years of Call of Duty could turn you into an ADD-ridden goldfish, I'm pretty sure it could also make you stab your landlord in the eye.

Yeah, there are still FPS games that take their time and let you soak in the world, not just funnel you quickly down this awesome tube of explosions. A good example of this is Metro 2033. That game is a gem. Really looking forward to the sequel.

I literally just finished this game 2 hours ago. There's really nothing wrong with the feel of the shooting. There's a weird auto-aim system (which I pumped up to full as I couldn't bother being precise), but apart from that it's FINE. However the overall movement and feel of the game is quite slow.

Also, Brad is terrible at games. Trying the same tactics over and over and over again for the same failed results clearly isn't the way to be doing things! When you notice enemies come back to life once shot down and that you need to devour the heart to properly take them out, why would you play SLOWER?

And another also, why the fuck are you playing a game for the story if you are so impatient at all the story bits?! It's fucking ludicrous that you can't seem to stand still for a second when there's exposition because you just want to finish a game you have just re-started FOR THE STORY!

Patrick not helping out at the boss fight was incredibly dickish, especially having only played the game a matter of months ago, you can't have forgotten that much...

@DjCmeP said:

I got to the boat part in 08' and stopped playing the game. It would be nice to see the end of the game(without searching it from youtube) but seeing as how annoying this video was and I'm not sure if I want to see more of these guys playing the game...I guess I'll just have to live without knowing how it ends.

I can tell you, still fresh for me. Although you're really right at the end. At worst another hour left.

So...