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Bradley May Cry: Part 04

Brad stares deep into the heart of Devil May Cry, but what happens when it stares back?

Jun. 28 2013

Cast: Vinny

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Devil May Cry

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@meatball: I'd go as far as to say that DMC3 has the hardest "Normal" difficulty I've ever played. Well, along with Ninja Gaiden Black.

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@sammo21 said:

Anyone think the new DMC is pretty easy? Compared to past Devil May Cry games I thought it was, at least going off of normal. While you could easily beat a DMC game on normal before I felt they at least provided some challenge compared to other games normal mode these days (aka, normal is mostly easy now).

It was okay but a couple of difficulty spikes like the big guys before the succubus. But I suck at collecting things and always end up not fully leveled my character up being stuck with a small health bar etc. Same happened with Bioshock Infinite with me.

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Brad's reactions are priceless. I love when he gets super mad

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I don't understand why everyone thinks DMC3 is super hard. I had way more of a difficult time with DMC1. I couldn't even play much of it on normal. Whereas on DMC3, I beat the original version on normal without much issue. Weird.

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@golguin: The original DMC3 was a lot harder on Normal than the SE which is the version in the HD remake. Plus you can have infinite continues in Gold Orb mode.

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A two room hallway turned into the Lost Woods!

"Inside the gelatinous monster, you'll find a lava spider. Don't kill him just yet! You're gonna wanna power up your devil juice" Because video games.

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I had to go to bed as I had an early shift last night and only saw some of this. Brad screaming FUCKING DIIIIIIIEEEEE! At Griffon was pretty funny.

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Bought a subscription so I can watch these videos while I eat dinner! YEAH! :D

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@racasdorph said:

Bought a subscription so I can watch these videos while I eat dinner! YEAH! :D

Welcome to the best videos on Giant Bomb!

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@supamon said:

How about doing some hack and slash in a hack and slash game Brad?

Props to Vinny for being ever so patient, supportive and light-hearted.

seriously this is kind of messed up. I had NO IDEA you could play DMC this wrong.

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@deburgo said:

@supamon said:

How about doing some hack and slash in a hack and slash game Brad?

Props to Vinny for being ever so patient, supportive and light-hearted.

seriously this is kind of messed up. I had NO IDEA you could play DMC this wrong.

DMC is known for its all grande launcher action game play. Haven't you seen the youtube videos of all those sick grenade launcher combos that only use the grenade launcher?

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@deburgo said:

@supamon said:

How about doing some hack and slash in a hack and slash game Brad?

Props to Vinny for being ever so patient, supportive and light-hearted.

seriously this is kind of messed up. I had NO IDEA you could play DMC this wrong.

You mean DMC isn't a third person shooter?

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Let's see, we've got soda, purple stuff, ooooh DEVIL JUICE!

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Oh man, Brad gets mad.

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Bought a subscription so I can watch these videos while I eat dinner! YEAH! :D

GOOD JOB!

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My ears are bleeding. Thanks Brad!

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@curufinwe: Yes but at the same time only the us version was that hard. Pal and Jp ones were pretty easy from the beginning .

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@deburgo said:

@supamon said:

How about doing some hack and slash in a hack and slash game Brad?

Props to Vinny for being ever so patient, supportive and light-hearted.

seriously this is kind of messed up. I had NO IDEA you could play DMC this wrong.

You mean DMC isn't a third person shooter?

Yeah, I was wondering why Brad plays this like a shooter with melee components instead of the other way around. Even Brad's experience with DmC should've taught him that much.

At the same time, it's kinda amazing to see someone brute force this game.

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Oh, Brad.

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Who's that super-tired Giant Bomber?

It it it it's Brad.

You may have seen a super-tired Giant Bomber, a tad less than Brad.

B is for the Bananamouth; that's just the start of his week.

R is for the resplendent rose that's resting on his cheek.

A is for the alleged accreditation he's accrued.

D's dang sure for his dreaminess, "cor wot" he's a hell of a dude.

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"fuuuuuucking! die! " was my favorite part.

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please stop using grenade launcher and air raid...

please

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Good stuff!

Two months in between segments is too long though. Watching Brad basically starting from scratch everytime can be somewhat tedious at times and it also doesn't do the game proper justice. Many of Brad's complaints stem from the fact that he never even got the chance to become good at this game. Him jumping around, not knowing what to do, randomly trying out buttons, often also worsens the camera issues the game undeniably has. Because normally, you learn to deal with those issues rather well to the point where they are hardly bothersome anymore. Your playstyle just adapts to the camera system and Brad hasn't reached that point yet.

Agree. I appreciate the fact that Brad even remembered this feature once his DOTA addiction set in, but 2 months is a while. If I wait that long in-between sessions, I would have to start over. Got to commit doing one every 1-2 weeks, like BioForge.

At least I can watch this; I do not know a thing about DOTA.

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I don't really care about Bradley May Cry, but if it was Bradley: Prepare to Die Edition, oh yes, I can get behind that idea.

I can get behind that too!

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Oh man! I hope they start recording more 60fps video like this. It looks great.

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Bradley, put the grenade launcher away or I'm taking it away.

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I swear that I beat this game back in the day, it was one of the first PS2 "Greatest Hits" titles I bought; yet I can remember none of this, not even vaguely.

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This is awesome premium stuff

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I was really enjoying Vinny sing at the start :p

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@golguin said:

@arbitrarywater said:

@golguin said:

I hate to be that guy, but Brad is really bad. He shouldn't be this bad at the game since he beat DmC, but I guess that's a testament to how little you need to know to beat DmC compared to the main series.

If he reaches DMC3 there is no way he'd get out of the first tutorial boss fight. Actually, will he be doing the true DMC3 or the easy special edition version?

I think my favorite part is that he's brute forcing his way through the game despite this incompetence, but what do you expect when they haven't played it for two months? It'd be funny watching him try to play DMC 3, that's for sure. I don't expect he'd get past Cerberus.

Greg Kasavin reviewed DMC3 for Gamespot and even he couldn't beat Cerberus without a huge amount of effort. I remember that the review was late because he couldn't get past that boss fight.

EDIT: Here we go. In the video review Greg says it took him 2 days to get past the 2nd level. The same 15 minutes over the course of 2 days.

http://www.gamespot.com/devil-may-cry-3-dantes-awakening/videos/devil-may-cry-3-dantes-awakening-video-review-6119386/

I bet this compilation has the Special edition not the original one. That one's way, way easier.

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Holy shit, what has happened to GiantBomb's low video quality? It used to be nearly as good as high but now it's fucking unwatchable.

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I don't know what changed "behind the scenes" but videos seem to run at like ~60 FPS! It's fucking awesome and I hope it can stay that way!

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"Breaking Brad" is the wrong tense. This video proves it's "Broken Brad".

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@edmundus said:

@cptbedlam: To be fair, on normal difficulty grenade roll+air raid destroys most things.

How I beat the entire second game. Fire rocket. Roll out of enemy fire. Repeat until everything was dead. Honestly Brad's strategy is kind of boring to watch, but it really works most of the time. He should dodge a lot more, but what he's doing is a viable strategy.

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That ending of the battle against the giant bird was fantastic. Like a Dragonball Z amount of yelling

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The biggest problem with Brad playing this game on camera is that he is a giant pussy. It's like, because the dodge/air dodge isn't as "get out of any situation for free" as in the new DmC, he just wusses out and never uses melee (at least in this stream).

And he's still way too conservative with activating the Devil Trigger. It's like he hates life gain!

Also, when Brad restarted the blob boss, he screwed himself out of a bunch of red orbs by skipping the shadow Dante or anything in the one hallway. I know he wants to keep the stream moving, but seriously, grind for some red orbs sometimes, because he could certainly use the extra help.

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FUCKING DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

That was unbelievably funny.

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I'm hard to frustrate when watching something, but it's really bizarre to me the way that Brad never seems to grasp the R1 + forward/backward + Triangle thing. That's like, every attack in the game that's not button button button or button button, pause, button. It's not complicated.

I always thought the ease of executing impressive, stylish combos was part of the series' appeal, but apparently I was wrong.