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  • Fucking love Dara O'Brien, also sounds like he needs an 'Unlock All Songs' cheat.

  • Mississippi queen by Mountain is a fucking awesome song.

  • There are way too many simulator games like farming... the joys of shipping, freight, bus and truck driving!

  • Mountain rule!

  • An "adult" man sitting in a dark room without a woman but with a pad and killing natzis?

    Wow... too much for me, a normal life-having guy

  • @DJVarmian Brooker is married with said wife expecting their first child. So, video games are not just for loners. (Granted, most adult gamers are.)

  • That Fact that O'Brien is a noob in games doesn't mean that games are bad.

  • He's not saying games are bad, he's a comedian, he's come up with a funny point, and made a joke about it. When he said this at a live show I was at of his, he got 2 thousand young people applauding and laughing. Maybe you should try cracking a smile...

  • Using Dara O'Brien's logic and his examples, if he was reading a book, he would only get to the first page, because he can't read well enough.

  • @WeHaveExplosive No, he's talking about having a choice - we all have a choice with a book, to read it the traditional way or skip forward (like if a section is boring, or we've read ti before) - games should have that choice. It wouldn't negate the option of the traditional, unlocking structure. Unless the player is an idiot with no willpower or self-awareness

  • @Greengiant223 Man, I can't even remember what I said now, but books and games are two different media formats and are structured very differently. What applies to one, does not necessarily (or can't) carry over to the other, and if you find it necessary to skip parts, you're spoiling the narrative element of both. He sounds like he needs to play more passive games.

  • I think Dara O'Brien doesn't understand video game. A game that you can breeze through will not result in you seeing it all and thinking 'oh my, that was jolly nice', it will be boring as shit. It is necessary for a game to be challenging, if it's too hard, practice, get better. Half the fun is overcoming the obstacle, if O'Brien had spent the time to beat that level it would have been an much richer and more rewarding experience. Games are about more than just the story.

  • @shino13i Thing your forgetting is he's a older gamer. He doesn't have time to practice all day and he's married. He said that about Rock Band and he's right in quickplay mode he should have access to all the songs he wants. He's laughing at himself because he can't get further in GTA.

  • this Dara O'Brien has RARELY been confronted by a book and denied further reading.

    Rarely?

    hahaha.

  • Holy shit, that funny guy actually pronounced Belić right!

  • The fact that both Dara and Brooker are gamers makes me smile oh so much. Shame people aren't used to Brooker actually talking about something he likes XD

  • Is it bad that i have a massive grin on my face every time i see ff7? :P (Yeah im a geek)

  • The only Sim game I've got is ShipSim2008 and there's something really fun about it even though levels can become very long and you're not doing much most the time.

  • why does this guy constantly mention hitler?

  • @opethian23 Because we're British.

  • @opethian23 Because Hitler is a fun name to say.

  • Who HASN'T heard of "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain? It's even been played on The Simpsons!

  • TBF to Dara, if you've seen 11% of Gears Of War, there's no point bothering with the other 89% and two games. It's all the same old shit...

  • Feels like Dara has not played games until he was asked to talk about them on this show...then somebody threw him some games to play.

  • @Innukii Not at all. What he's saying is just lifted ver batim from his standup routine. I'm sure he doesn't really suck at the games.

  • @WalterLiddy Ver batim? Not familiar with this term and not afraid to ask or google.

    You what leading optical brand in the world?

    Sucking at games are not sucking at games. So long as he enjoys them.

  • 1/4 speed dara o'briain and he becomes the typical drunk irishman

  • 00:03 so funny!!!!!!!!

  • Who obeys traffic laws in GTA? That guy is a noob

  • @RFID666 you're a noob for not understanding comedy

  • Hitler hated plans and planning, a notoriously lazy dictator.

  • it's smells you, not sees you dara

  • Do ya knorw whats behoind doowr number 2? ITS ANUTHER FECKIN DOOWR!

    (Typing Irish accent)

  • This guys after the AVGN's job! XD

  • @paschen2219 You came here from TL didnt you? :P

  • @paschen2219 he is right though 

  • @paschen2219 you mad bro?

  • I live in stoke!

  • @joshhuntman Atleast they have Staffordshire Oatcakes.

  • Wow, this is the first time i saw Dara O'Briain so rarely say "fuck". That fucker.

  • But then you'd probably run me over whilst shooting at me with a mac 10 cos you learnt it on GTA4 instead of going to school. You know that game started with a shitty look down view that made you sick after a while and your character fired dots at people.

  • You'll give a fuck when I Jet Li your young ass with moves I learnt from International Karate plus in 1988.

  • Dara O Briain makes a pretty good point, he bought the game so he should be allowed to do whatever level he wants lol

  • @MadSkeelz16 Nope, that's not how games work, if he wants that sort of system, he should try a different hobby.

  • 7.43 - them were days lad, when you couln't even have a fucking diagonal line on a game without it looking like a staircase.You kids dont know you're fucking born nowadays.

  • @26wordy alright old timer, no-one gives a fuck !!

  • So funny, dying with the manhattan skyline in the distance. MY DREAAM,  ARGHHH!!

  • Dara must be a retard ever cnut knows you can just fly through the toll booth in a half decent car and beat the flashing circle of law before it knows what the fucks going on, dont they?

  • I have to play another fucking game where you can slow down time I'll scream.

    Charlies so right about the boring dialogues though, ' hey motormouth I've now got a sniper rifles muzzle pressed against your retina and you're still droning on as if nothings amiss, I'll have a walk round then come back and bounce near you if you're still talking then," I love the games where you can kill these characters even if it means you'll have to listen right from the start.

  • Wait a minute... Dara o Brian's comments sound a lot like those of yahtzee of zero punctuation...

  • This is Kurt. He's a dad of 3...

    BANG!

    That's Christmas fucked for your kids!

  • Dara must be a quitter then, a guy who gives up easily. A level is too hard and he bottles it. No patience. Gotta have patience.

  • I disagree with Dara O'Brien, it is a valid point about Guitar Hero, but that is a flaw in the game itself. The whole point of the games is the challenge and the satisfaction of the completion of it. It's like saying "I don't like watching films because you can't watch it without watching the whole two hours." The games he uses as examples is not the case with most games. Not all games make you grind.

  • @UnworthyFun In Guitar Hero and Rock Band you can enter a cheat code to unlock all songs. All it takes is a google search to find out, the devs obviously considered the point Dara made so there isn't a flaw.

  • @DBZdrawing which makes his whole argument pointless then.

  • @UnworthyFun You fail for trying to argue reason....with a COMEDIAN.

  • @grunnyyk2 I don't think I do fail with a COMEDIAN. Why does he being a comedian have anything to do with video games? You fail at trying to make a valid point. Thank you.

  • @UnworthyFun It's not like saying that with movies at all. It's exactly like he says - it's like someone asking you questions at the end of each scene of a movie, and if you don't get it right, then you don't 'deserve' to see the rest, even if you've paid for it.

    Games should have an option which allows you to skip forward to any point, just like you can with a book, CD or movie. It should be my choice if I want to play it the traditional way or select particular moments

  • @Greengiant223 But it would ruin all satisfaction and undermine the point of a game. It is to challenge you in a way that entertains or passes time. Anyway, there is a wide selection of games from casual to hardcore markets and a lot of these games let you skip to any point in the game. I just feel that games are indeed a challenging medium because it is so different to a book or a film. Games by their very definition need to have some sort of objective.

  • @UnworthyFun Yeah I agree, but I'm taking a second option to let you skip parts that are frustratingly difficult. But then every game has cheats anyway, so whatever. Good chat, I'm off to play some lovely games!

  • @Greengiant223 I also feel that he has not given the games enough time. Like watching a film, you will spot things you did not see before or notice something different. Like this, games will really reward players for learning the game well, if Dara were to stick with something like Gears of War and took some time with it, he would have come away feeling more satisfied.

  • @UnworthyFun Yeah again I agree, and as I said below cheats are usually available if worst comes to worst. I just remember some games in which, try as I might, I couldn't get past a certain point and no available cheats could help. Oh well, there are worse things in life

  • @Greengiant223 Also, in order for a film or book to make sense or to get the best out of them, you need to start from the beginning and finish at the end. Otherwise they do not make sense. Why would you want to play a "game" that you have completed before you have started? People do not ask questions about themes in a game. In a game, you master the game's mechanics in order to have fun.

  • yay portal!!!

  • Even the background music is pretty good :)

  • i love him and i like the comment about making up backstorys but that only worked in the slow paced games of yester year

  • oh Dara - ever heard of cheats???

  • Whine more, Dara. The game isn't going to hand you shit, you have to be able to learn and get better.

  • @SubaruOfTheTriad You sound sad. You seem to be making out that gaming is a hardcore activity.

  • @Omnilegence I'm not. Not sure how you got that out of the comment - the point is that all games have a learning curve of some kind, and to whine about "waaah games suck because I can't beat this part and I want to play the rest" is just a bit sad.

  • @SubaruOfTheTriad Apologies if I misinterpreted your comment and falsey accused you of being something you are not, imagining what a nerdy egoic computer champ would say led me to see a certain resemblance in your comment. In honesty Dara does strike me as one of those rare people that refuses to ever master a game to an apprciable degree. I would argue he wasn't whining so much as ranting, he didn't appear to be taking it seriously.

  • @Omnilegence =P Be careful, you're applying the negative stereotype the media sees gamers with (as Brooker mentions).

    And yeah, in hindsight, and given TheRealBarnez's reply to me, it does look more like the guy is sort of taking that stance in a kind of loose way (although it's difficult to tell really, because I have seen people make that complaint before with full seriousness).

    Besides, his example is silly. What kind of jerk skips to the end of a book without reading it XD

  • @SubaruOfTheTriad FYI, he's taking the piss. The GTA Vid gives that away.

  • That's what cheats are for, Dara.

  • The Nazi's sweethart back home disliked this.

    I cant believe i just made a joke about the number of dislikes. what have i become.

  • This is a great piece of gaming related TV; This is because Charlie Brooker obviously knows and loves his games. It didn't surprise me when I found out he used to write for a PC gaming mag/web-site back in the day.

  • what is the tune playing in the background starting at 1:04mins??

  • @hanwell42 Someone Great by LCD Soundsystem. Great tune.

  • Oh good God I want this, I want a weekly discussion show including various celebs that just sit down and discuss video games, give me this BBC and I will happily pay my Tv licence for eternity.

  • Not sure Dara really got into the spirit of GTA, he might be the only player ever to stop at that toll booth which exists only to make crossing the bridge a little more interesting as you leave the cops in your dust.

  • It's Yeah Yeah Yeahs, not *the* Yeah Yeah Yeahs, also suck less and your point might have more impact.

  • whats the name of the song playing at 1.16?!!

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  • i hope stoke isnt this depressing

  • @jackchrisevans

    stoke is depressing but theres far worse places

  • wow dara o briain sucks at video games

  • @kingofburnttoast

    He really is

  • @kingofburnttoast  maybe he should suck the producer's cock!!!?? lol

  • @kingofburnttoast But hey, he has a life.

  • @kingofburnttoast Can't expect much for video games at Dara's age, though, he didn't really have the advantage of growing up with these kinds of controllers, I just think it's awesome that he plays them at all. XD

  • there's another fucking door!

  • I think Brooker made a point at the start that he didn't mean to. Nazis are the gaming world's punching bag just ahead of North Korea. Nazis certianly arn't the good guys, but it would be interesting if games tried to humanize the people you are murdering. I try to think of them as just German soliders, not Nazi fucks who deserve to die via axe to the anus.

  • @vault101reject i was about to rip apart your comment but you seem to be a fan of fallout which instead makes you unbelievably amazing.

  • Can't believe someone as smart as dara plays gears of War. Christ almighty, Dara. Give yourself some credit.

  • LOVE THE SHOW MAKE-UP , HATE THE PRESENTER

  • @bealerDSB Just above your left shift key and beneath your tab key, mate. Press it.

  • @451harri I FELT LIKE SHOUTING : WHO YOU, YTUBE POLICE ?

  • @bealerDSB YES

  • why is he talking so much about the Wolfenstien remake. and he never mentioned Half Life in his fps run down... grave omission... just had to nerd out

  • @redbeaver

    because Brooker is a moany man... watching Brooker say "Half Life is teh win" for 5 minutes would be boring and unentertaining.

  • whats wrong with Weezer, eh, Dara?

  • lol i used to live in stoke

  • Woah woah woah. Dara O'Brian doesn't like "Mississipi Queen" by Mountain? Hell, I've never heard of Mountain, yet that song is GOLD!

  • whether or not dara o briain sucks at games, its still a good point. other media doesnt stop us from playing it. video games should have a normal version, and a handicapped version, for people whgo dont want to wait.

  • @wimpylassiter2336 yer, but to be fair, the whole point of games is to challenge the player, It's like saying "I wish in films, you knew the ending straight away." This is why people play games, and I don't understand why it is a problem, everything would be boring, if we unlocked all the content.

  • The berserker is a female monster. Yeah, I know what you are thinking lol.

  • who sits in traffic on gta??? haha. stick to comedy dara lol

  • I'm pretty sure 90% of people got stuck on that bit with the "fucker and the door".

  • Ah the guitar hero and rock band thing is so true.

  • Dara O'Briain confirmed for casual.

  • Dara O'Brien actually sucks balls here

  • How has Dara never heard Mississippi Queen by Mountain?

  • Arm chair Hitler it is then.

  • Mention roome total war! that game is the best strategy game ever!

  • im a woman, ive got to manhatten....... :)

  • They are never consitant with bleeping on Charlie's shows. Dara said Fuck without a bleep, but Charlie got sensored.

  • 89% of Gears of War I never saw, all because of that fucker and the door- lmao! We got stuck on that bit caus we couldn't figure out how to kill him for ages

  • @MitchRaf LOL. I feel pretty lucky then. I saw this before I got the game, which was yestorday lol. I imagine it would have taken me a while to figure out. I found it pretty easy to be honest. :P Only died twice. I love to imagine what O'Brian would have been like if he did manage to get through the third door and realized it still wasn't over haha!

  • @renoo27 You only just bought it yesterday? I was talking like 5 years ago, I'm waiting for Gears of War 3 now so I can see how badly we get raped on that instead.

  • "its like living in stoke" LMFAO IM FROM THERE

  • @kinglynx I live there aswell

  • Dara would have loved sniper battles online!

  • TAKE A FUCKING CAB DARA!

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  • @LukaRaPtoR Despite the fact that he probably grew up in the generation where EVERYONE had heard of the Beastie Boys -_-

  • @kingofcrime87 hmm yea true but that was besides the point really. My point is that he just seems to be trying to desperately connect with a young audience and its tragic.

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  • @LukaRaPtoR Uh, He's younger than any of the actual members of the Beastie Boys.

    But good music is only for young people, right? yeah, fuck off, Dara, you highly successful comedian, you obviously just want to grab that young audience who you already had LONG before you brought up games or their hip young cutting-edge bands that started just 33 years ago! Don't try to deny it, you Irish bastard! this one person on Youtube believes you're just a fake for no good reason!

  • @451harri "But good music is only for young people, right?" Did I say that? No I didnt. You fuck off. 

  • @451harri "If you buy a Klaxons album..." Yea alright I get it, your in touch with modern music. I GET IT. What you don't get is that the Klaxons are shit.

  • @LukaRaPtoR Ah, ok, I never realised I was dealing with someone who confused opinion with fact. Very well.

  • @451harri Didnt you? Oh well, I guess it beats putting words into peoples mouths.

  • @LukaRaPtoR Not really - at least that still leaves the possibility of reason and logic. Good god, shall we stop this before we make thumping great dicks of ourselves?

  • @451harri lol yes please

  • @451harri anyway i think i must have been pissed off or something when I put that other comment in 2 months ago. I must say I am guilty of doing that sometimes. I must stop it.

  • @LukaRaPtoR Well It was twice as foolish of me to take issue with your comment. I apologize for my lunkheaded responses.

  • Dara O'Brian follows traffic laws in GTA! LOLOLOLOL

  • Final Fantasy. So many, many hours of my life....

  • "... that I didn't want to spend with Wheezer!" :-D

  • ...does Dara not realise following traffic regulations in a GTA game is a pretty bad idea? I agree that games being too hard is annoying though. They should all have the option to skip levels if they're too hard, or just all have difficulty settings. But then, I never found GTA IV hard enough for that to be necessary.

  • Has Dara never heard of online walkthroughs? Jeez.

  • Walk, Dara, walk! The beserker is blind! She can only hear you if you run!

  • Lol. I found Wolfenstein to have a lot of exciting moments myself.

  • This is Hening he's got a sweetheart back at home who's going to......be missing him!

  • I agree with everything he mentioned about Rock Band... except what he said isn't true. You can just hop into quickplay mode and do your thing from the get-go, lol.

  • @tchalstrom except without the unlock code what he says is true...

  • ahhaha i do the exact same thing in front of NPCs. needless fannying around with the movement controls ftw

  • Lol I live in stoke... its not all bad really, apart from the hordes of chavs & immigrants

  • @benzilabane lol, I wondered why you Fav'ed this. haha. Stoke.

  • You can tell all of us who watch Brooker are a lot older than the average game player - we can spell, punctuate, don't say lol or rofl and don't spend half our posts calling each other gays or bitches or passing lewd comments about other people's mothers. No wonder we're shit at playing games!

  • @sunbeam11 Lol.

  • @sunbeam11 Oi, I watch Brooker, use all those abbreviations, make lewd comments about people's mothers, I'm 15 and I'm still shit at playing these games.

  • @ciarandoughty SO DO I... except i'm 12.....

  • @sunbeam11 im sixteen and shit at games, but i do do all the other things you pointed out

  • @sunbeam11

    A large part of this "avergage gamers" are over thirty and up, so it is not only young people who play.

    I am in my twenies and gaming and watching Charlie Brooker. You will see no "lol" in my comments. You only see the comments of those who write them.

  • @sunbeam11 People who do that aren't gamers, they're cretins.

  • @sunbeam11

    Gaahhh, I wish more 15 year olds watched Brooker. I am, and do. Mind you if they start with 10 O'Clock live it might put them off FOREVER.

  • @sunbeam11 Excuse me, I'm greatly offended by this. I'm 16, play loads of videogames, and only use lol/rofl and other such text-language in texts, (or because eventually writing haha gets old). I can spell and manage to use decent English when I type. I don't go around calling people gay or making mum jokes as an argument.

    A lot of the a-holes on videogames are actually mid twenties-ish. Old enough to know better but young enough to get away with it.

  • Why doesn't Dara O'brien just look up some cheats for fuck's sake?!

  • Dara, its grand theft auto, you over take the other drivers, you drive through the toll bridge. Heck, kill the guy at the tool bridge if you want, Then out run the police.

  • @woooody316 you know what if I was the host of mock the week i think could live with been shit at games

  • @woooody316 1. Get a gun

    2.Kill everyone

    3.?????

    4.Profit

  • Dara's Gears of War woes echo mine so simliarly that its almost frigtening.

  • There's another fucking door!

  • I fully agree with Dara. If I fail at a task, no matter how simple, more than a couple of times I get really fed up and end up giving up on the entire game. I like the games in which you can skip a level if you've attempted it a stupid amount of times, even though it does make you feel incredibly dumb that you CAN achieve all the 'harder' levels.

    Gaming is a tough life!

  • @BradleySherwoodFan Then you suck. I've not found a game difficult enough to make me give up on it and I typically play games on the hardest difficulty.

  • @lychanking ...Good for you?

  • dara, i like you, you're a funny man. but you're shit at games. come round, i'll help you out on GTA

  • @jaydiddley "come round, I’ll help you out on GTA" why does that make me think of Stefan king’s misery.