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[rkofan87]

Every. Single. One.

this 1000%

 

[ShirAhava]

I bought way more games when demos were a thing

 

[THE DUCK]

I sure have. Lots of JRPGs, like Dragon Quest VII, for example. Games like that will often be light on gameplay the first couple hours, as they use that time for world building and mood setting. That would make for a terrible demo.

There are games that you start off limited, but pays off as you unlock abilities.

Then there are games that just start off poorly, but end up being better later on like Wolfenstein.

Ahh, I can see that. For me, any game that starts with an hour of story isn't for me the whole way. For games like wolfenstein, I enjoy them from the get go.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Every. Single. One.

false, I wouldnt have bought deathloop.

 

[TheMay30thMan]

false, I wouldnt have bought deathloop.

You wouldn't have preferred to save the money? Do you think the publisher's wallet matters more than your own?

 

[Diddy X]

A demo requires time and money they are not willing to spend.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

You wouldn't have preferred to save the money? Do you think the publisher's wallet matters more than your own?

But thats not the title of this post. I disagree with the title.

Demos would help gamers avoid duds.
I agree with this statement^^.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Game demos were at their absolute peak during the PS2 era. While now, demos are something that happens infrequently at best, in those days, developers were all too fond of releasing dedicated vertical slices of upcoming games well before their releases- and people collected those demo disks and played them endlessly.

Here, we're going to talk about a few demos for PS2 games that we just couldn't stop playing.

The ICO and mgs2 demos I played like a dozen of times each one.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Demos were the coolest. As a teen with no means to get new games on my own I really liked diving into demos discs.

Also some demos were really cool, like the Half-Life one where they did a whole new level just to show off the game.