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Breaking Brad

Breaking Brad: Breaking Brad: Call of Duty 4's Mile High Club - Part 1

Brad storms an airliner to bring down one of the world's most dangerous men: Bathroom Guy.

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

Dec. 6 2011

Cast: Jeff, Ryan, Brad

Posted by: Drew

188 Comments

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@Nethlem: @Nethlem said:

@Baillie said:

Lmao, I wanted to steal that from someone.

Anyway, I can't believe that this isn't done in 1 part, seriously. It's easy!

EDIT: Wow, 2 hours worth. That really is pulling a brad.

I haven't played MW3 yet but this looks piss easy (at least to me if i would play it with a mouse) and it's just painfull to watch :/

The point is he's not playing with a mouse. The difference between mouse and controller is noticeable on most game, and gigantic for challenges like this where you need every bit of precision you can get. 
 
So maybe it's not too bad on PC, but on console? I'll stick to PCs for my shooters.
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@Renachan said:

@Nethlem: @Nethlem said:

@Baillie said:

Lmao, I wanted to steal that from someone.

Anyway, I can't believe that this isn't done in 1 part, seriously. It's easy!

EDIT: Wow, 2 hours worth. That really is pulling a brad.

I haven't played MW3 yet but this looks piss easy (at least to me if i would play it with a mouse) and it's just painfull to watch :/

The point is he's not playing with a mouse. The difference between mouse and controller is noticeable on most game, and gigantic for challenges like this where you need every bit of precision you can get. So maybe it's not too bad on PC, but on console? I'll stick to PCs for my shooters.

Just to clarify, I've never played this on a PC. X360, just like Brad.

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Edited By planetary

Let me re-introduce you two. Tango, meet Brad. Brad, meet Tango.

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This is painful, but somehow I can't stop watching...

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can even brad pull a brad so fast that even he cant pull it

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This was painful to watch. Pull'n a brad.

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As others have said, this is so painful to watch!

I remember having such a hard time beating this on Hardened.

And Norm gave the best advice (at least in this part).

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I really want to watch all 2 hours of this, but I've done this achievement when the game came out and I don't think I could stand screaming at the for Brad to do things. Fuck.

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Hmm, I wonder if some of those guns the guys are dropping RELOAD FASTER

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this is some nails on the chalkboard stuff. my subscription money hard at work!

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One of the most frustrating things I have ever watched. I had to stop 36 minutes in. How Brad ever finishes games is beyond me. I have never seen someone make the same mistakes that many times plus his stupid overreactionary yelling was rage inducing. Please never waste time making a video of this type again.

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It's very frustrating seeing Brad shooting the bathroom guy. USE YOUR GODDAMN KNIFE! He's a freebie, run to him and knife him! When I did this every bullet in a mag counted cause you could only really reload once, when the plane explodes open. If I remember correctly I switched to a P90 on the ground before that even happens after emptying my MP5. I don't know if I can watch all of this, he doesn't seem to learn and just does the same thing over and over again.

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This is awesome! Seriously, I love these, not going to lie! IBIB.

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I think this particular series of videos should be renamed: "Screaming at Breaking Brad" instead.

I remember sprinting forward as soon as the loading screen switches over to actual gameplay, even when it's doing that transition, fade in from black, thing, and by the time I could actually see the game I'd already stabbed the toilet guy, then I'd immediately shift slightly right so that the next guy can't see me until I hastily pop out and kill him too when I'm much further forward than just shooting him from further back and making the enemy aware of me sooner, sprint into the left room, throw a flashbang over the back of the chairs, hug the right wall, the flashbang is aimed near the area leading to the next section. Then the next 4 or 5 guys are easy pickings due to flashbang I'd just thrown. Very, very quickly switch to a pistol and hope for a P90 to pick up, hopefully find a second P90 to dual wield with then sprint onwards, quickly move on and pop-in-pop-out regardless of if I found a P90. etc, etc...

I did this so many times that I can remember the exact process. And to be honest, after doing the entire campaign on Veteran this wasn't as hard, at the time, as it could've been for someone who hadn't touched Veteran at all beforehand.

By the end of it, after 45 minutes of trying I'd finally gotten to the point where the last attempt, while there was a lot of luck and I sprinted the last room, I had 7 secs to spare on my final successful attempt.

Once you get into that last room and you've talked to the hostage the remaining bad guys don't matter and you're finished.

I bet if I went back and tried it again I would suck due to lack of practice and being used to how the players/controls move and work.

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"real measurements", Ohh ryan, if you only knew how far behind the US is on measurements :)

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I feel sorry for you brad :(

But this was entertaining, cannot wait for part 2 :D

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@amir90 said:

"real measurements", Ohh ryan, if you only knew how far behind the US is on measurements :)

well, American scientists do use celsius

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Frustrating when the guys don't thing about how the view of the bathroom guy is.. he CAN'T see you if you stick to the left.. he has more time to see you if you keep to the right. Also, instead of looking away when throwing a flash grenade, step to the side..... anyway, since this was so long time ago I kinda know how this will end :)

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This took me a solid afternoon to get one of the best achievements I have, wish it was recorded as video felt epic when I did it.

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Its nice being a premium member. This was worth it!

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@ultra2extreme: Yea, it took me a long time for this one as well. I had just enough achievement points that when I obtained this achievement, it was my 50,000 gamer score. It felt even more epic considering that. This is one I'm pretty proud of.

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@Baillie: @Baillie said:

I can't believe that this isn't done in 1 part, seriously. It's easy!

It's easy? Seriously? Congrats on being "that guy." It's not impossible, but it certainly isn't easy.

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@Lifendz said:

@Baillie: @Baillie said:

I can't believe that this isn't done in 1 part, seriously. It's easy!

It's easy? Seriously? Congrats on being "that guy." It's not impossible, but it certainly isn't easy.

Well, if you've played the game on veteran, and then got to this part, it's not 'hard'. It's just about learning what to do, and it certainly shouldn't take well over 2 hours! 
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"I can see what people meant when they said this is basically a puzzle game". Yes Brad, every game that is difficult is a puzzle game.

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I just upgraded to premium, first video ima watch!!!!

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"Jesus fuck."

Jesus fuck indeed Brad, jesus fuck indeed.

This is so entertaining though.

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Team Brad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Never Forget 9-14-12 #TeamBrad

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Now I feel like I have to watch through these and see Brad's humble beginnings...

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I dont think any other game can break Brad more than this

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I feel this would have been less psychologically damaging if he'd watched a youtube video or 18 first and copied them, so I'm glad he didn't >:)

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I love this.

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This is nothing. Next Breaking Brad should be the 'No Fighting In The War Room' hallway on Veteran.

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Starting to watch these older videos for the first time. 3 hours for a mission that has a timer of one minute? Man, here we go!

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According to a Call of Duty wiki, Mile High Club was the first mission the devs completed. But then it didn't fit in with the rest of the game so it was put in as an epilogue?

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"Tango Down in Sector 1 Alpha."

Haven't seen this since the live stream i think, i don't remember this early part before Brad learned to knife the dude in the bathroom.

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