Demos that did more harm than good?

[Deathninja19]

Reading all of the comments about the new Duke Nukem demo it's evident that it's dampened the hype around game.

Recently the Infamous 2 demo has done this for me, I can tell it's good game but for some reason the movements made me feel motion sick and the prospect of a whole game of that just turns my stomach.

Now I don't want this thread to be about Duke what I do want to know is; has there been a demo that absolutley wrecked your excitment for a game?

 

[TimeLord]

Mirrors Edge.

The demo made it look like polished mega fun.
The game itself wasn't.

 

[Gabanuka]

I loved the Infamous 2 demo myself. So getting that game.

The worst a demo can do is get people hyped for a game thats shit (see mirrors edge) if the demo is shit then the game probably will be so if anything it helps people see past the hype.

 

[T-Bone24]

The Fable 3 demo was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring. I still want to play it, because I enjoyed Fable 2, so I guess I'm lucky that I'm getting it off a friend for £10.

 

[Continuity]

plenty in the past (cant think of any examples now), I think this is why most games don't have demos these days.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

In before Brütal Legend, hopefully. That would certainly be my choice were it not for the fact that I actually quite enjoyed the stage battles and the multiplayer.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Don't get the hate for Mirror's Edge. I thought it was brilliant.

Me too, but that's a discussion for another thread, I think.

I understand that the demo for Uncharted 1 is cursed or some such, but I have not played it myself.

 

[Mr. 47]

I played the inFAMOUS demo before I owned the system at a local walmart and thought it was crap. I got the system a year or so later, forgot about the shit demo, and bought the game. It is probably my favorite game on the system, and I wouldn't have bought it if I had remembered about the demo.

 

[Haydyn]

I would have to say the Dragon Age 2 demo. It got me all hyped up for a sequel to DA: O with more kickass moves, but in the end it just felt like Dragon Age with half the material cut and dumbed down to the button masher crowd. It also didn't help that every female character had a giant rack. As a straight male, even with all my progress moving away from the sweaty nerd stereotype, even I fell victim to DA2's flesh sacks.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Dungeon Siege for me. I was interested in the game, but then I played the demo. I'll give it a rent later on.

 

[Echo Delta]

Dragon Age II demo certainly damaged the hype of the game... at least that was the consensus amongst me and my mates

 

[thenamelessloser]

Demo of Dragon Age 2 made me think that the cutscenes would work fine on the xbox 360 with a standard television.

 

[Deathninja19]

I would have to say the Dragon Age 2 demo. It got me all hyped up for a sequel to DA: O with more kickass moves, but in the end it just felt like Dragon Age with half the material cut and dumbed down to the button masher crowd. It also didn't help that every female character had a giant rack. As a straight male, even with all my progress moving away from the sweaty nerd stereotype, even I fell victim to DA2's flesh sacks.

I agree, it took me months and a sale for me to actually buy it. It's a shame because it is a good game but the demo was really wretched.

 

[josemlopes]

Crackdown 2, the first one was great, the second one was the same but crap because of the day/night system with the zombies and the constant firefight on the streets.

 

[Zac Smith]

Bulletstorm demo did it for me. Trailer made it look awesome, just blow everything and mow everything down. Played the demo and it just felt sooo boring and repetitive, and to me, just bland, even with the skill shots. I was going to pick it up, now I won't even bother

 

[onewheeled]

The demo for Burnout Paradise was absolutely abysmal. In a game that flaunts its open-world design and freedom, it only allowed you to roam a small portion of the map, and gave you something like three events out of the 100+ in the full game. You couldn't shake the feeling that you had a ball and chain on your leg for the entire thing, and it just wasn't fun.

Thank God I bought the full game, though, as that's become my favorite current-gen racing game I've ever played.

 

[Vim-Hogar]

The demo for Freedom Fighters wasn't exactly bad, but it really undersold the game by leaving out half the best gameplay elements and ignoring the story. Most demos at least have a "here's all the cool stuff you didn't get in the demo" screen, but no.

Of course, this wasn't bad for me, since it just meant I was pleasantly surprised when I played the full game. On the other hand, I don't think the game did too well commercially and it doesn't appear to be getting the sequel it deserves. I doubt the lackluster demo was fully responsible for that, but it can't have helped.

 

[veloper]

A shitty demo to a shitty game is just honest advertising, if unintentional.

I can't think of a single demo that poorly represented a genuinely good game.