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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:20AM (Unverified) said

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Bring on more free demos of cool games I say! :)
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:27AM (Unverified) said

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Demos are great however they can also hurt a game's sales. How many times have you played a demo for a game that you were sure you were going to buy and then turned out renting it instead?
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:29AM (Unverified) said

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But that's better for us as consumers, you saved yourself a few quid/dollars/whatever by trying the demo first.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:37AM (Unverified) said

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Absolutely, I have no arguments there. Demos are the best thing since sliced bread and has saved me a lot of money. I was just talking from a business standpoint.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:42AM (Unverified) said

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Personally, I usually won't buy a game unless I know I will like it.
If there is one I'm on the fence about, I'm not gunna buy it untill I play it. So demos cant hurt sales from me, only make them better.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:56PM Jayslacks said

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A good demo won't hurt a game's sales. They always help it. No one would have bought Bioshock without that Demo. I think we should think in opposite terms. How much are games hurt by NOT having a demo? Assassin's Creed did alright, but I know, just from playing it, I would have bought it sooner had there been a demo for me to play.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:27AM (Unverified) said

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Yep more demos please!!
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:27AM (Unverified) said

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The thing is, because of the demo...I didnt buy it. So yeah, thanks Capcom I just saved $60.00 =)
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:54PM (Unverified) said

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the demo was a bit poo,
but my friend bought the full game and its awesome
i wasnt going to buy it after playing the demo, but i will do now.
i hate how demo's usually only show a shit part of the game, like the dmc4 demo. why not show a good bit, so people will base their judgement on that?
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:30AM (Unverified) said

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Any game developer that doesn't want to release a demo for their game gets my suspicion.

I suppose the real question however, out of all those that tried the demo just how many bought the game? Do we have any 360 worldwide sales for DMC4 yet? Has it shifted over a million already?

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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:46AM (Unverified) said

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The demo is what made me the most interested in the game. Without the demo, I probably wouldn't have cared about it at all. That said, I won't be purchasing it either way - the highlight of the demo was supposed to be the boss battle (for me, anyhow), but how the battle went down was so lame that it left a bad taste in my mouth.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:05PM Softserve said

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The demo is basically a really chopped up version of the first level of the game... While I liked the boss battle (despite it being ridiculously easy), it does get much better as you go on.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:02AM (Unverified) said

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Demos dont always work well for new games. I dont think a demo of a game like say Assassins Creed would have worked well but the game is still phenominal, but then you have the Bioshock demo which sealed the deal for me to buy the game. Its just different situations with different games IMO.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 12:57PM Jayslacks said

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I agree about Bioshock, but an Assassin's Creed demo could have been the first mission. Simple, quick, showing off everything.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:15AM (Unverified) said

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I love demos.

The DMC demo made me decide to avoid the game. The Culdcept demo made me want to pick it up.

A bad demo will generally just make me not pre-order and wait for more reviews or even a friend to pick it up. A good demo always seals the deal with a pre-order.

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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:18AM ccc said

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Demos rock, especially the ones that I find myself playing over and over again.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 11:16AM Softserve said

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You have to imagine that 1,000,000 downloads is a good sign of the amount of people interested in it. I mean, if 20,000 people tried it then I might imagine that it wouldn't do quite as well in stores.

I bought the game the other day and I wonder what the big deal about the PS3 install is to begin with... Certainly instant loading would be awesome, but half the time things load instantly in the game and the rest of the time they take like 4 seconds.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 2:43PM (Unverified) said

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You found the boss battle easy? Heh, I lost both times I bought him. He does some charging attack that I can't seem to avoid. Nevertheless, I just found how the battle played out to be quite meh--hover around his head with your grabby-attack and smack him a ton. Sure, I had to avoid some attacks in the latter stages of the battle, but ultimately even when I was raping his face, I had no satisfaction. And god knows face-rape is always satisfying, so something's up.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 9:23PM (Unverified) said

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I personally was extremely disappointed with this demo. Having never played DMC before, this demo really turned me off from a game I probably would've rented had I not played the demo.
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 10:05PM ZeroCorpse said

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In this case, the demo just confirmed that this was a game I DIDN'T want to purchase.

Bleh. Pretty anime hack-n-slasher. `Shallow as Paris Hilton.
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