5 Most Boring Video Games Ever
Since the dawn of the Atari, developers have striven for realistic gaming: titles that mimic real-world situations. Problem is, not everyone's life is like Solid Snake's, and sometimes replicating virtual reality gets a tad too realistic. For every pulse-pounding 'Grand Theft Auto' or mind-expanding 'Katamari,' there are yawn-inducing titles like 'Walk It Out.' Games are for escapism, we say, not for reenacting the monotony we experience when we put the controllers down. Last week, Kotaku wrote about Konami's new 'Walk It Out' title, a game that is about, well, walking. (To be fair, players do have to walk to a rhythm.) With a soundtrack of over 100 songs, Konami is trying to ensure that pretending to amble around the world is more fun than actually going for a walk -- which, hopefully, individuals would prefer to passing through pixelated parks.
Congrats to Konami for utilizing the fitness aspect of the Wii, but going for a stroll feels awfully boring. While the first major video game depicted nothing but a paddle and a ball, creators still prove that everyday, mundane activities make it onto the shelves more often than we'd like. Here's a look at some of the most boring, too-realistic, pointless video games we've played.
Putting players in first-person situations is one of the most popular narrative devices in video games, and a French video game developer, working for a British distributor, has done just that with his latest digital adventure. Typically, this would not draw much fanfare but his game topic is startling to some: a first-person experience of 
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