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Breaking Brad

Breaking Brad: Breaking Brad: Doom II Ultra-Violence - Part 1

Brad descends into his own personal Hell-Earth and attempts to cleanse it with a shotgun.

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

Apr. 3 2012

Cast: Jeff, Ryan, Brad

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Doom II: Hell on Earth

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Great, missed this when it was live =)

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IDDQD

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First! Oh and when do we actually see a broken Brad?

Edit: Damn

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You break Brad you buy him.

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Woot

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@Yodzilla said:

You break Brad you buy him.

Haha.

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Oh, fuck yes. I didn't get to watch this live and this is EXACTLY what I want to be watching while I'm working today. Thanks, Drew!

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This is perfect background material for this evening's Trackmania.

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I'm split right now. On one hand I'm happy this exists, on the other I'm pissed-off that I will only get a chance to watch this at 12:00 am tonight.

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Getting some popcorn, gonna enjoy this.

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HELL FUCKING YES

(pun not intended)

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Brad will never bend, never Break!

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The PC version looks so much better ...

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This looks awful without a mouse.

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Excellent, I needed a valid distraction.

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YES!

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Multiple parts? This is gonna be good!!

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It's actually impossible to beat the game on Nightmare, because there's a level that you can't clear until you defeat all the enemies, and since they respawn in Nightmare you're kind of screwed forever.

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@Canteu said:

This looks awful without a mouse.

Doom was never played with a mouse (at least, the mouse support it had was terrible - it was used for movement rather than aiming, it kinda worked for looking left and right, but moving the mouse up and down made you walk forwards and backwards, which was not exactly comfortable), it was played with the arrow keys on the keyboard.
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May I request a Breaking Brad, Dark Souls edition?

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YAY, this is gonna be sweet

EDIT: I'm going crazy watching all of them not getting where they need to go. Stop running away from that button! That's the way!

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@depecheload said:

It's actually impossible to beat the game on Nightmare, because there's a level that you can't clear until you defeat all the enemies, and since they respawn in Nightmare you're kind of screwed forever.

That is incorrect.

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Sweet. Missed most of it when it was life.

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Thank you Brad. This is great.

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Sorry, but why is brad playing doom on a 360 instead of a PC?

(Sorry if it's obvious and I'm just not getting it.)

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Doom on an xbox? Fucking Giant Bomb.

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Thanks for this. :)

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@Midjet said:

Sorry, but why is brad playing doom on a 360 instead of a PC?

(Sorry if it's obvious and I'm just not getting it.)

Because there is an achievement for beating it on Ultra Violent. Doom for MS-DOS does not have that. Haven't all Breaking Brads so far been about getting one of the hardest achievements to get in their respective games?
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when was this live?

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Alright, I've got my coffee, I've got a free day ahead of me, and I missed this on Friday. I'm in.

EDIT: I forgot that pre-millenial FPS' make me crazy motion sick.

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Sure, why not.

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Yay finally!

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@fisk0 said:

@Canteu said:

This looks awful without a mouse.

Doom was never played with a mouse (at least, the mouse support it had was terrible - it was used for movement rather than aiming, it kinda worked for looking left and right, but moving the mouse up and down made you walk forwards and backwards, which was not exactly comfortable), it was played with the arrow keys on the keyboard.

Yeah, I did all my Dooming back in the day on a Gravis gamepad.

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When was this live?

I always miss the live events.

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They should do one where Brad grinds out Seriously 3.0 over 17 million hours. Think of all the content!

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Great watching Brads face reactions while playing. Great placements as well :D One of the best uses of the tricaster yet?

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@PolygonSlayer said:

Great watching Brads face reactions while playing. Great placements as well :D One of the best uses of the tricaster yet?

Agreed. Whoever thought to place him over the Doom marine's face needs a pay raise.

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@evanbower said:

Alright, I've got my coffee, I've got a free day ahead of me, and I miss this on Friday. I'm in.

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There a lot of sound effects in this that sound like Diablo sound effects. Similar settings and all that, or something more insidious? (Daemonic?!)

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Why is there such an outrage about it being played on a 360 over the PC? The PC didn't exactly have the best control method.

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@Brad said:

@fisk0 said:

@Canteu said:

This looks awful without a mouse.

Doom was never played with a mouse (at least, the mouse support it had was terrible - it was used for movement rather than aiming, it kinda worked for looking left and right, but moving the mouse up and down made you walk forwards and backwards, which was not exactly comfortable), it was played with the arrow keys on the keyboard.

Yeah, I did all my Dooming back in the day on a Gravis gamepad.

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That worked too, and the 360 controller maps perfectly to games that supported it using DosBox.
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@jakkblades said:

There a lot of sound effects in this that sound like Diablo sound effects. Similar settings and all that, or something more insidious? (Daemonic?!)

Probably a common royalty free stock sound library.
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I missed chunks of this on Friday so it's good this is up now.

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@fisk0: @fisk0 said:

@jakkblades said:

There a lot of sound effects in this that sound like Diablo sound effects. Similar settings and all that, or something more insidious? (Daemonic?!)

Probably a common royalty free stock sound library.

Yeah, they both have so many enemy types it would make sense they'd use a lot of stock sounds.

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@jrlyon said:

Thank you Brad. This is great.

I second this.

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I feel like Brad is breaking himself with that sensitivity setting.

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Oh man. It's about time. I miss live shows too frequently due to this thing called sleep and a job.

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Breaking Brad continues to be my favourite stuff

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I really wish he played some Nightmare, constantly spawning enemies and all.

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Man I wish Id would just make a real Doom sequel at long last in the vein of Painkiller and Serious Sam but with the same massive budget they would reserve for garbage like Rage.