This question concerns Brad's upcoming fight against George in Deadly Premonition, for those who don't want to read the text below.

A few days ago, I posted a topic asking the Giant Bomb audience how well they thought Brad would perform against Thomas. Four out of five respondents thought he'd struggle or die, but he persevered and did neither, taking Thomas out slowly and successfully.

That poll fascinated me, so I can't help but ask the same question for George, who Brad is almost certainly a few episodes away from fighting. The crazed sheriff might only be slightly harder than Thomas, once you figure out how to press B to dodge the infinite axes and determine how to damage him. Watching is one thing, however, and playing is another. Will Brad figure out and defeat George as easily as Vinny did?

For fun, I've added an option for optimists who think Brad will really shine here and outperform Vinny in this battle. For the record, Vinny got hit by axes twice for minor damage.

I think Brad will pull through successfully again, but I think he'll take a little more damage than Vinny. What I think isn't important, though. What are your thoughts on this upcoming confrontation of Federal Agent vs. First Degree Murderer?

Brad is going to get worked.

Depends on whether he uses the magnum or not. I'm unsure if he will, seeing as he was so unimpressed by it earlier for no real reason. Form 2 takes quite a lot of bullets if you stick to the submachine gun, which he may end up doing. I've had to skip over Brad's last few wallcrawler encounters for similar reasons.
 
George can really mess you up quick, too. I fought him once and he hit me with a single blow that took off the -vast- majority of my previously full health, though I can't recall if that was on medium or hard. Likely medium, seeing as I killed him very quickly on hard with the shotgun, which you can hit him with easily every time he pulls back to start throwing an axe. Medium was a much more drawn out fight, so I'd say it happened there, which means he's capable of doing it to Brad.

I think he did as well or even better than Vinny when he fought Thomas. He'll probably have no problem defeating George.

 The crazed sheriff might only be slightly harder than Thomas, once you figure out how to press B to dodge the infinite axes and determine how to damage him. Watching is one thing, however, and playing is another. Will Brad figure out and defeat George as easily as Vinny did?

Brad clearly doesn't pay any attention to how quickly guns kill things.  He killed 5 or 6 guys with the sheriff custom before finally giving into Ryan incessantly telling him that it is better than the first pistol.

 @mutha3 said:

" You call  VJ-36 ''beating George easily'' ?  That fight took 15 minutes longer then it should have. "

Seriously, some people...

The problem with the fight is not that it's hard, it's just an unnatural routine. It might take long to figure out that routine, but he'll beat it no doubt.
Might have to take a health kit or two if he's too aggressive during his sweeps.

Stop making these kind of topics. The first one was stupid and this is no exception. Just watch the endurance run.

" Stop making these kind of topics. The first one was stupid and this is no exception. Just watch the endurance run. "

Love how we have ended up simply analysis Brad's performances as a gamer now. 

I don't think he'll take more damage but I do think the fight will take him longer because he's not as good with the manual aiming.

BR seems to be having only serious trouble with the crowds...and the wall ladies, though that has since been amended. It's pretty obvious how to beat the last few bosses, so if they do have trouble, I'll be disappointed.
 

100 bucks says brad dies going up the tower

I say he's either going to die or struggle. Who knows, maybe the final form's trick will get him?

He's going to struggle, I think it'll take him and Ryan a while to figure out how to hurt George. I think Brad isn't patient enough to fight George better than Vinny did.

Today's video answers this question definitively. Spoiler'd for anyone who hasn't viewed it yet:
 

Yep, he died.  Could have been worse, but I think it's safe to say Vinny put Brad's performance here to shame.  I don't even agree Brad was doing better than Vinny at first.  Strategically, Vinny was doing better the whole way through.  Figured out to shoot the back faster, figured out the need to take advantage of George's idle pose faster, always took advantage of it while Brad kept being absent-minded and forgetting to, used weapons besides the infinite SMG. 
 
As for the final boss fight, obviously, Brad will perform more poorly than Vinny.  But I doubt he'll have too much trouble with the first form.  Didn't seem like it was too hard to keep from taking damage there.  Second form might give him some trouble with the 4-button quicktime events, but I think he'll do okay.  Maybe, maybe not.  It's the final form he might have some trouble with.  I think he'll be terrible at actively dodging the flames properly, and he might be a little sluggish in taking his opportunities to shoot at the doll, at least at first (just as he was sluggish about shooting George's back at times).

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Yep, he died.  Could have been worse, but I think it's safe to say Vinny put Brad's performance here to shame.  I don't even agree Brad was doing better than Vinny at first.  Strategically, Vinny was doing better the whole way through.  Figured out to shoot the back faster, figured out the need to take advantage of George's idle pose faster, always took advantage of it while Brad kept being absent-minded and forgetting to, used weapons besides the infinite SMG. 
 
As for the final boss fight, obviously, Brad will perform more poorly than Vinny.  But I doubt he'll have too much trouble with the first form.  Didn't seem like it was too hard to keep from taking damage there.  Second form might give him some trouble with the 4-button quicktime events, but I think he'll do okay.  Maybe, maybe not.  It's the final form he might have some trouble with.  I think he'll be terrible at actively dodging the flames properly, and he might be a little sluggish in taking his opportunities to shoot at the doll, at least at first (just as he was sluggish about shooting George's back at times).

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