Dara O'Briain likes the old ways of gaming
Comedian Dara O’Briain makes his living from being funny. Like most stand up comics, his humour is based on factual anomalies in the world, or other things that irritate him. In his most recent performance, now available on DVD, he addresses the modern advancements in the gaming industry.
Not only does he touch on his negative views of several of the more modern games, he professes his love for the old style of gun fights and all out bedlam from the classic shooters. In this particular skit, he berates the “crouch” button, one of the advancements for modern fighting games that simply did not exist in retro games of yesteryear. He states: ”This is gaming: Oh my god, I’m in a gun battle. Which one of these [buttons] isn’t crouch?”
He goes on to lament about unlocking content in games whereas the games of old were more straightforward and the controls, in general, were less complicated to master. You can see his interview on Gameswipe, or purchase his new DVD This is the Show in stores today.
Dara O Briain – Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe
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