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The Most Boring Game of the Year

Playing Demon’s Souls makes me a boring person.

by Chris Dahlen.

I've been playing the game. A lot. And I love it. A lot. The other night I spent hours with it, and in those hours, all I did was farm the same sections again and again, futz around with my gear, gain a few soul levels, and kill one Vanguard demon - and I killed him by shooting about fifty arrows into his forehead while he just stood there scratching himself.

If you’d been sitting there watching me, you would have been screamingly, knuckle-suckingly bored. In fact, my wife kept walking by and asking, “Weren’t you here before? Didn’t you kill that thing before? Didn’t you kill all those things?” Yessiree I did, but they didn’t drop the large sharpstone I need for my +5 Falchion. And so I’ve gotta kill ‘em again.

Demon’s Souls is excruciatingly dull to anybody who doesn’t play Demon’s Souls. It’s slow and gruelling - difficult, sure, but not in a thrilling way. In fact, people who tell you that it’s hard just aren’t being boring enough about it; they probably keep rushing in and getting clocked, while anyone with monk-like patience could beat this thing in a year or so. Even its coolest feature – that other players can pop into your game, to give you hints or help or plain old grief you – is really only useful because it pens you in with other gamers who are just as dull as you are. We are all boring together.

But here’s the dilemma. I don’t just like to play games. I like to write about them. I do it for this column, but I also like to talk online with all the other game bloggers out there, who are daily churning their experiences into fascinating, idea-rich copy. Over the last couple years, a whole gang of game bloggers has come together into something referred to – ironically? – as the “brainysphere”. Some of the members are hot-shot published writers, some are just starting their first blog, and some of them stick to short bursts on Twitter and Tumblr. But all of us love to write about games.

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The game itself is not boring.

I agree that for other people, it's a bore to watch.
But, for the player itself, it's a fucking blast.

his gaming review skill will not leaf forward with that attitude.

Uh-oh... don't let Mr. Koebke see this...

But he LIKES the game. I can't see the problem here folks.

Edit: Or is the beer playing tricks on me again?

I have read his entire article and even though I understand that he actually likes  the game, I still don't agree with the flame-bait title to his article.

Also I feel for some reason, his words of praise for the game appear grudgingly.

Perhaps the way I feel about this article is best summed up by the comment left by this user below his article on Edge online

I don`t want to comment this, but I have to. I can mention a lot of games which is boring to watch for people that don`t play the game; gears, halo, gta. My girlfriend don`t like hardcore games. Maybe she swings the wiimote with me sometimes, but she could watch me play Demon`s Soul`s from the beginning to the end. And here`s why:
The game is artistic.
The game has no good and evil simple story.
The characters are mysterious and nothing typical.
And it`s damned exciting fighting enemies because they are hard as hell.

Of course it`s boring firing 150 arrows killing the dragon, BUT you HAVE to do it to kill it. That is exciting. It just tells you what this dragon bastard demands for being downed. Boring?

The really funny thing is what this blogger says at the end:

"Sure, I could praise the aesthetics: the game has atmosphere to spare and deftly uses it to rachet up the tension. The voice acting would chill Dickens. The walls would scare off mold. And the sound design is hollow, haunted and mostly music free, because music would make you feel safe. But that’s just garnish for the gameplay. By demanding your twitches and your tactics, by keeping you alert in even the most familiar passages, and by demanding and rewarding your total focus, it lures you into a state of serene concentration and sustains it for hours at a stretch. It’s not “flow”, because flow implies progress; it’s more like tantric sex with a slide rule. I don’t know how else to put it."

Is this boring to watch?
Yes, if you don`t like fantasy and games that developers puts their soul in to create more than gameplay.
But this game has it all. At least for me.

A little note at the end:
This game is a very good example to see the difference between eastern and western games.
Soul and no soul.

"Garl Vinland, go forth."

*Shivers*

i can see where this guys is coming from. but for me, its one of the best rpg's of the year. the 50+ hours i spent in this game should be telling. anyway, i agree that from outside the game may seem boring, but put yourself in the players' shoes and you will be mesmerized in how awesome the game really is....

overall, it is a clever way to review the game, i just don't like what he put in the title, maybe if he threw a little irony in the title just like the rest of his review, then i would love the review more. nice review though! =]

playing dose not equal watching. He should just tell his wife to mind her own business.............please..............sorry.................your hair looks great today honey..................

the game is boring to watch, but damn you can spend hours in the same spot Farming. Love the game