YES, I played The Darkness on my friends PS3..........................................2 hours later I was at Best Buy getting a PS3, The Darkness and Uncharted. So, a demo actually convinced me to buy the system I needed to play the game.
Most demos talk me out of games I'm on the fence of buying. Mirror's Edge for example; I didn't know if I was going to enjoy the type of game it was and when I played the demo, I was right.
There's a few XBLA games where the demo convinced me to buy the game, like Braid, Castle Crashers, N+, and Keflings. Oddly enough, I wound up liking the demo better than each of those games On the flip side, I didn't like the demo to Half-Life 2 but caved in a couple months later and bought it anyway, and now it's in my all-time top ten One demo in particular has me on the fence right now. I was going to buy MGS4 for sure but the demo gave me second thoughts. I've always had a love-hate thing going on with the MGS games and the demo seemed to bring back more memories of things I don't like about the series than do like, so I haven't decided yet if I'll give it a go or not.
I don't need a demo to get excited about a game, but I always buy games whose demos impress me. A good demo can turn a game that wasn't on my radar into a must-buy for me. In the old days I spent a hundred bucks a year subscribing to the official mags of MS and Sony primarily so I could play demos.
Yeah Lord Of The Rings Conquest....thats the first demo i really enjoyed so i bought the game regardless of the reviews.....and im glad i did.
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LOL me 2 it has that same Battlefront mentality not to difficult but yet your always like 1 more game plz. Screw the reviews I love the game and its so easy to join servers. Im gonna buy it.
Quite a number, I was a late-comer to this internet craze. Whilst everyone else was going broadband, I was just about getting one of those screaming 56k modems that took forever to log on. Most recent one was Valkyria Chronicles, but the first one was Discworld II: Missing Presumed. This was back when you got demos with magazines.
Definitely. I mean, that's what they're for, right? There's been games I was first interested in, then played the demo and decided not to get it anymore. This has also been the other way around in which I ended up buying it because the demo was so great.
One of the first "demo" (called shareware back then) games I played on a PC convinced me to buy it. I played Doom Shareware and after 10 min I knew I would have to buy that game. I had the same feeling when I plaed the sharewar version of Duke Nukem 3d.
(** If you want to try my game "Exhaust" for Xbox Live Arcade the demo is HERE)
I honestly think game companies would be better off NOT releasing demos. Sometimes demos can work to convince the potential buyer (I played the Two Worlds demo, thought it sucked for 10 minutes but after giving it a try for over an hour I got hooked and bought it).
But honestly, I would rather buy a game off the shelf without knowing much about it except the screenshots on the back. It makes me more excited to pop it in the console and try it out. Demos can sometimes be a turn off to a game at first and since you didn't spend money to get it, you just think 'whatever I'm not really liking it right now so forget it', but if you buy a game you kind of force yourself to go through it and alot of the times you will be glad you did.
Other than that, renting games would make me buy them in the older days.
Definately. Most of the time I pretty much know what games I'll want to get ahead of time but sometimes I'll see a demo pop-up for a game that wasn't on my radar and it'll impress me enough to want to buy it.
Sort of. What usually convinces me to buy a game is borrowing it from a friend for like a day or so then I usually go out and buy that game. I don't think an actual demo has made me go buy a game.
The original Tony Hawks demo on PS1 certainly convinced me to buy the full game the next day, and stands out as I would never have considered the game otherwise. It was almost a standalone game in itself. Demos are part of what helps me make a decision but rarely the sole reason for a purchase.
Huh. Y'know, now that I think about, the only demo that's affected me is the FEAR one, cause im OK with the scares but action is just more my thing really.
Yes, a demo has convinced me to buy a game on 2 occasions.
Oh, there was also another PS1 demo that helped me find a game but I never bought it, I only rented it. I want to say Freedom Fighters but that's not true. It was a 2 player game that let you pick 4 different people. They fight and use weapons and whatnot. My memory of it is fuzzy but I do remember there was a big guy, the first level you could get hit by cars and the second level was on a train. Whenere I find it I forget about it again.:x
Yes. Crackdown - even just seeing someone else playing the demo convinced me to get that. Too Human - I was looking for a Diablo style game and knew nothing about TH before the demo. Tried it and convinced me to buy it and I've thoroughly enjoyed it Put me off? Monster Madness
burnout paradise demo. before that demo i never played a burnout game and didnt really care to, but after tryin that demo i bolted to gamestop and got it. Same thing for Valkyria Chronicles
I honestly think game companies would be better off NOT releasing demos. Sometimes demos can work to convince the potential buyer (I played the Two Worlds demo, thought it sucked for 10 minutes but after giving it a try for over an hour I got hooked and bought it).
But honestly, I would rather buy a game off the shelf without knowing much about it except the screenshots on the back. It makes me more excited to pop it in the console and try it out. Demos can sometimes be a turn off to a game at first and since you didn't spend money to get it, you just think 'whatever I'm not really liking it right now so forget it', but if you buy a game you kind of force yourself to go through it and alot of the times you will be glad you did.
Other than that, renting games would make me buy them in the older days.
I bought Final Fantasy X and it had a bonus dvd with it. On it was a video of Kingdom Hearts, not playable but the video alone made me buy it on release day!!
Probably 1 of only 3 games that i bought full-price on day of release!!:shock:
are there any full length games for download for the PS3, or or they all demo's. my PS3 is not hooked to my internet yet and was wondering if i really need to. im old skool, i still like asteroids and ms pacman stuff and i cant find anything like those...are there any out there?
Strangely, not a single demo has persuaded me to buy a video game. I almost always have been able to decide whether a game is good for me or not by looking at its gameplay and overall concept.
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