Whats a game you've only played the demo of, and why?

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IamQ

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I don't know how to word this, but this came from me realizing that I've probably played about 10 hours of the red faction guerilla demo and never bought the game. I just loved carefully destroying buildings. I never bought it just cuz the demo was enough. I didn't care about doing the same to different envoierments.

Excuse the spelling, second language
 

Zhukov

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Well, usually if I play the demo and then don't buy the game it's because the demo did not impress. I imagine that's not uncommon.

Gravity Rush 2 and Neir Automata would be the most recent instances of demos failing to impress me. Demos in general are something of an endangered species these days.

As a kid I used to play demos all the time because I couldn't afford to buy the full games.
 

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Zhukov pretty much nailed it in the first post. If I play a demo and it does nothing for me, then I won't buy the game. I have written in the past (if anyone pays any attention to what I have to say) about how I played the Overwatch beta for less than one match before deciding it wasn't for me. More recently, Ghost Recon: Wildlands. That totslly failed to engage with me so I didn't stick with it for long after the intro.

To be fair, it can backfire on me too, I wasn't blown away by the Batman Arkham Asylum demo and wasn't going to buy it. Only the glowing reviews convinced me to get it (back when I had more time to play games) and thankfully it was better than the demo painted it to be.
 

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glenmartinez said:
I Played the demo of Fallout 4 and found no major changes from the old series of fallout. I like this concept of playing the demo version before buying the game to know the original scene in the game. Recently, one of my friends was searching for the shooter game and he came across [suspicious link] site which provides a demo video of each game available on the site. Just after playing the demo of Overwatch game he immediately decided to buy it without wasting any time.
I call shenanigans. There is no demo version of Fallout 4, nor Overwatch (beta doesn't count).
 

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Demos really are few and far between these days. It's a real shame, but LP's have pretty much resolved them. Although it's not the same as actually playing it yourself.

Last demo I played was actually a recent one: the new doom. My laptop just couldn't quite handle it. It was fine on lower settings getting 40-50 FPS, but I could hear my laptop straining at running it. I preferred the gameplay of The Brutal Doom/Project Brutality any way, which Doom 2016 definitely took inspiration from.
 

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I played the demos of Brothers and the Back to the Future game one night I was binging free samples on the PS3.
 

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It's been a long time since I've played a demo for any game. I do remember often not getting games for demos I played, though. Generally, it was because the demo wasn't fun, but occasionally it was because the demo didn't impress me as much as some other ones I played at the same time, leading me to buy another game and forget the otherwise decent one (e.g. Crysis). There's also been a few cases where I didn't get a game because of the demo, but I did later pick it up because of so many recommendations (this happened with Half-Life 2).
 

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On the subject of Fallout 4 (which I mentioned above) and the recent lack of game demos in general, it's probably because making a demo of an open-world game is basically impossible. Because how much of the game world do you include in the demo? All of it? Half of it? Quarter of it?

The prevalence and popularity of open-world games is very likely a contributing factor in the lack of game demos in recent times.
 

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Recettear. I only played the demo because I realized how many times I have started games of that genre, and never finished after a while (and I felt I would reach that point pretty soon).

Etrian Odyssey IV. The demo was ok; but it didn't hook me on the gameplay.

Bravely Default. I probably wasn't in the mood. I went afterwards to replay the Final Fantasy III and IV remakes for the DS instead (and finally finish them).

It isn't like demos don't work on me. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, and Final Fantasy XV are games where I played the demo, and later on bought the game.
 

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Most recently Doom. I REALLY didn't like it. Well, I didn't $60 like it. I liked it enough to get it when it goes on sale.
 

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Recently: Puyo-Puyo Tetris. I downloaded the demo from the Japanese eShop like a smart-ass and was super smarmy about it when the April direct happened but while I enjoyed the Puyo-Puyo bits, it just hasn't clicked for me. I might get it in a couple of weeks though because I like the keychain and I like Puyo-Puyo.

Much less recently, IQ: Intelligence Qube. This was a puzzle game for the PSX wherein you play as a human suffering from the effects of some bad acid, the hallucinations of which manifesting as giant steel cubes clanking in unison slowly towards you threatening to crush you. Your player can lay mines which wipe out those blocks though and special green blocks can wipe out multiple blocks. Wiping out all of the blocks causes the voice of God to praise you and possibly even slap some extra space onto the play field. I never bought this game because I was a job-less child when it launched and Betsy Devos wasn't around to secure me a job in a mine so I had no control over what games I had. I can't really buy it NOW because of a number of reasons, the most pressing being that IQ is a difficult game to find but unlike Eggs of Steel, the price of IQ is...actually it's not as high as I thought...but it's still higher than I'm willing to spend at the moment.
 

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WET - The gameplay just felt like a weaker version of Stranglehold and Max Payne, the implementation of QTES were awful, and I found Rubi boring and unlikeable. A sequel was in the works, but the developers quietly shelved the project. Good riddance.

Super Mario 3D World - Felt like more of the same, just on the Wii U. I do find it odd they never put in Daisy.

Dante's Inferno - Bayonetta spoiled me, and DI just felt like another God of War knockoff without much to separate from the rest of the crowd. I was more of a DMC type of player.

Legend of Korra- From the demo alone, I could tell the game was done cheaply, so I avoided like the plague.

Xenogears - Even during the PS1 era, I was never that big in to RPGs.

MediEvil - I forgot to get them, because I got swept in to the hype of the PS2.

Brutal Legend - I was tired of seeing Black Jack, so I held no interest in the game.
 

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I can think of two demos that really discouraged me from buying their games.

Mass Effect: The game play was OK. While playing it, I realized that the game developers weren't be able to keep their promise on making your choices count throughout three games. A lot of people are going to be disappointed when they realize that.

The second game I forgot the title, but it was a WWII Call of Duty/Battlefield-type game. It was so realistic, I felt something like PTSD after playing it. I realized that I would not like playing these kind of games. Which is ironic, because I am a fan of FPS. It have to have some kind of fantastical element to them. I have to be shooting monsters or aliens.

I actually miss demos. However, it is understandable that I haven't played any recent demos. I am still playing the previous generation of games. I am slowly coming around to this generation of consoles. They are slowly building up a library of new titles.
 

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ARK Survival Evolved. I downloaded a free 24 hour trial or something like that and set out to give it a try. Every time I would spawn there would be another player waiting there to club me over the head until I was dead. Eventually I made good my escape and found myself entering into a strange beam of light where I instantly became trapped. I gave up after that and never purchased the game or played out the rest of my 24 hour free trial.