{"id":757,"date":"2010-02-25T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2011-01-12T22:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T05:07:21","slug":"darksiders-demo-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/darksiders-demo-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Darksiders Demo Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5286\/5350688339_f893f0b3e1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-758\" title=\"darksiders-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5286\/5350688339_f893f0b3e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been thinking of playing Darksiders since it released because the trailers looked pretty fun. So, when they released a demo for Darksiders this morning on Xbox Live Marketplace I was pretty pumped to see how it is.\u00a0 After spending 20 minutes with the demo I quickly found that it is not for me.\u00a0 The game looks great and the fighting seems pretty fun, and I can even live with the little platforming elements even though they are not my favorite.\u00a0 What bugs me is that I have no idea where I&#8217;m suppose to go next. At first it seemed pretty straightforward and linear, but I got to this large balcony that only has two ways off it.\u00a0 Through a door that seems to lead to a dead end or to jump the the area below which is where I just came from.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve played plenty of video games that generally, even when where to go next is not obvious, I can figure out where I&#8217;m suppose to be going.\u00a0 After running around for 5 minutes I got frustrated and turned it off. I don&#8217;t need a big glowing door or anything but after running around for a few minutes the game should be smart enough to give me a hint or something.\u00a0 With all the fun games out that I&#8217;ve still yet to play Darksiders is getting a pass because I just don&#8217;t have the patience to deal with the demo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking of playing Darksiders since it released because the trailers looked pretty fun. So, when they released a demo for Darksiders this morning on Xbox Live Marketplace I was pretty pumped to see how it is.\u00a0 After spending 20 minutes with the demo I quickly found that it is not for me.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,97],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-darksiders","tag-demo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}