Quick Look: NES Remix 2

I'm convinced Brad is bad at games on purpose to make the internet mad.

nice to see Brad's NES Remix endurance run agenda back on the site

@wapostyle said:

It would certainly explain a lot. I know every time he says "you gotta be kidding/joking me" I'm thinking the same thing... just probably not for the same reasons as he is. :p

It is funny to watch him rage though, especially if Vinny is around to make light of it. ^_^

I'm starting to think this may be the case.

Roses are red. Violets are blue. I'm on prescription muscle relaxers because of a muscle spasm in my neck and this was still stressful to watch.

Don't forget that his greatest console of all time went to snes.

Yup, Brad is still bad at video games.

The last ten minutes of the Youtube version of this are cut off.

I don't consider myself great at difficult games, so it always surprises me whenever people say Punch-out was a very difficult game. By the time I was 7 or 8 years old I could already get to and beat Mike Tyson on a regular basis with no losses. Around the same time I had 2 save games on Super Punch-out both with 16-0 records.

I guess everyone had their own bread and butter back then. Mine was just Punch-out, hell even going back to it decades later I still had all the patterns etched into my brain. But just like Brad said input lag kills a lot of these older games as for the most part you had to be nearly frame perfect in your execution, where as today not so much.

Why does Brad play videogames? I have to stop watching quick looks with him playing because I can't stand his yelling and swearing sometimes.

@grantheaslip: He was using the analog stick for the first half of the QL. He switched to the D-pad and everything worked better. I can't play these types of games worth a damn without a D-pad either.

Nah, it's a problem regardless. The game feels like hot shit and was outdated in no time. You're welcome to enjoy it but there's no reason to play it over many of its superior sequels.

"Brad" "Shoemaker" says that he knew about "Nintendo" before this quicklook. but this video clearly shows the opposite is true..

"Brad" "Shoemaker"... can we trust him? with our games? with our souls... with our "hats"?

Just what happened to confident "I can do it, that damn bathroom guy won't stop me!" Brad?

Nowadays it's mostly just "This isn't gonna happen." Too much negativity, dude.

Like Yoshi's Island.

Brad is shocked to learn that old games have different physics.

Loving announcer Vinny, too,

But lol at how this video is the undeniable proof that "Brad sucks at video games".

It was kind of funny to hear brad say "I forgot how terribly this game plays", when he was having trouble getting a handle on Metroid's controls.

We love you Brad.

I don't believe brad has ever beaten a video game. Nope nope I just can't believe it

Take a shot everytime Brad blames something other than himself for a mistake.

Brad Excusemaker

@sqrabbit said:

Wait... what? Why?

I fully admit that this video made me angry at times, but I also realize having to play those games with the Wii U controller must kind of suck, so I'm willing to cut some slack as far as his performance.

Kirby is a fine game but you people saying it's the best game on the list can go take a fucking walk. It's certainly better than Kid Icarus, but for christsake Mario 3, Metroid, Zelda 2 and Punch Out are in here. Show proper respect. And man I want to go play Zelda 2 right now.

Not going to lie, I'm getting some serious DSP vibes from Brad in this video.

I don't think that happened. He switched to looking at the screen on the gamepad because he noticed the TV had some delay.

Okay, good. I should have known that was too insane to be true.

At least Brad doesn't have an irrational and obsessive hate-crush on Hideo Kojima… that we know about.

You shall not speak of the name of the despicable one.

#teamkwo

Brad is Brad at NES games. For 55 minutes.

Oh Brad. I know the controls were bad but... man.

This is a new form of marketing where so much frustration is built in the viewer that it turns to spite, and they buy the game to prove their own superiority to nobody but themselves.

Everything except the remix stages is laughable. It's pretty much a collection of demos.

Also, Brad is bad at video games.

"NES Remix games skipped 3DS because they needed Wii U's power, dev says"

Really?

It is like the anti Vinny mac gif.

Brad "King of Video Games" Shoemaker

Brad's awful game-playing and constant blaming has gone from entertaining to just straight-up annoying.

No respect for Wario's Woods.

This takes me back to the Shadow of the Colossus HD QL. Brad times.

Kirby's Adventure 4LYF!

@def said:

Yeah, I feel like Brad (and way more Jeff) really have problems grasping that this product pretty much exists to maybe rope some of the younger generation into playing NES games that came out before they were born. I'm sure Nintendo would love it if after playing NES Remix, some young teenager wants to actually buy Metroid or something off of the Virtual Console.

So yeah, it's no surprise that the challenges are pretty tutorial-y. I'll agree that maybe the remix challenges could go a little crazier instead of repeatedly using a small bag of tricks (black and white silhouette, make levels dark, etc.).

Also, Brad is a monster for having never played Kirby's Adventure on the NES. I went back and played it for the first time on the Wii's Virtual Console, and it 100% holds up. It's a solid Kirby game.

I don't understand your language.

Lol the top spikes probably were just added there and not really in the real game.

Kojima World Order!

Brad playing Kirby....

Thank god they kicked out the overly jaded Jeff Gerstmann for this.

Edit: That said, holy shit this remix 2 deserves getting actual shit. "Enter the door that lies ahead" ? Are you fucking kidding me?

At least Remix 1 did something that resembles a "hack" ie, the screen zooms out continuously or everything is silhouetted. Jeff was wrong to criticize Remix 1 but Remix 2 looks unimaginative and stupid-easy.

Edit edit: Well I guess I shoulda kept watching. Whoops. Why would this game gate the "remix" content and force you to play through tiny slices of normal games? Seems dumb!

Oh, yeah, I like his recuts.

This seems decent, I might grab this at some point.