Boring is Worse than Bad

I'm really struggeling with Final Fantasy 4, the game is just dull.  This made me realise something and that is that a boring game is way WAY worse than a bad one.

Let's take a truly shitty example of a game

It's pretty much accepted by anyone with any kind of taste in anything ever that Silent Hill: Homecoming is an absolutely shitty game.  This game truly has nothing good going for it to the point where it becomes offensively bad but when a game reaches this level of shittyness there is still some entertainment to be had.

Get a friend round and play a shitty game together and you can both sit there just raging at it and that can be sort of fun in a strange kind of way.  Then when you're done you can hop onto your computer and have a giant bitching session with thousands of people about how much Tomm Hulett is a piece of shit.  Then when you're done with that, you can go to YouTube and be entertained by other people that you don't know raging about how shitty the game is, all with this smug sense of satisfaction because there are literally thousands of people who agree with you about how shitty this game is.

But then you have something like Final Fantasy 4.  Final Fantasy 4 is fine, it's not mechanically broken in any way and nothing about it really sticks out and just sucks.  The graphics are fine, the story is fine and the gameplay is fine, but at the same time it's not really all that fun either and that's the problem.  Final Fantasy 4 is BORING and this is way worse than being shitty.  At least with Silent Hill I can go on a tirade but I can't rage about FF4 because it's fine, it's just dull.

A bad game can almost be fun to play because sometimes you really want to see just how shitty it really gets (E.g. Heavy Rain) but a boring game really is just an absolute chore to play.  If I wasn't streaming it for charity I would have put it down by now.

Come enjoy the FF stream tonight!
www.twitch.tv/taurinensis