
Ninja Gaiden 2 'demo' hits Xbox Live, just a video
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Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 3:06PM DonaldMick said
Disappointment of the year 2008 CONFIRMED
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 6:16PM (Unverified) said
Saying confirmed to things officially lame CONFIRMED.
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Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 3:10PM ThornedVenom said
Well, "demo" IS an abbreviation for "demonstration"...
CURSES!
CURSES!
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 6:14PM (Unverified) said
Back in the old 8-bit days and right through to early PC days we had a distinction between demo, and playable-demo.
While that is indeed a video, it could have legitimately been a non playable demo. Although for it to be that it would have had to have been the 360 playing the game by itself not a pre-recorded rendering.
Think of the screens in the arcade where the you get an AI-AI fight every 30 seconds. When a cover disk used to say demo, there was a good chance that's all it was.
You don't know how good you've got it nowadays when people will routinely give away playable content of any kind. grumble, grumble...
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While that is indeed a video, it could have legitimately been a non playable demo. Although for it to be that it would have had to have been the 360 playing the game by itself not a pre-recorded rendering.
Think of the screens in the arcade where the you get an AI-AI fight every 30 seconds. When a cover disk used to say demo, there was a good chance that's all it was.
You don't know how good you've got it nowadays when people will routinely give away playable content of any kind. grumble, grumble...
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 3:17PM Gregorius said
Lame
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 3:18PM FredFredrickson said
What a lame bit of bait & switch. Sure, you got hundreds (thousands?) of people to download the video and "try" it, but how many came away pissed off about seeing a video of a game they expected to play?
I have yet to see the "demo" though... will probably download to try it out, as everyone seems to think the world of this game.
I have yet to see the "demo" though... will probably download to try it out, as everyone seems to think the world of this game.
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 3:27PM (Unverified) said
They were like, "j/k lololololol"
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 3:27PM (Unverified) said
HA! A friend of mine just called me about this. Man was positively livid. While the naming concatenation is unfortunately misleading, ThornedVenom is right, they probably just meant "demonstration".
Alas, I was hoping to try out the very berserker barrage-esqe claw weapons in a demo.
Alas, I was hoping to try out the very berserker barrage-esqe claw weapons in a demo.
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 3:47PM (Unverified) said
I just found this out 5 minutes ago and came here to complain to anybody who would listen.
Bastards!!! Don't call it a Demo unless it's playable. If it's a video.... label it Video, damnit.
Well, now that I got that out of my system...I can't wait for this game!
Bastards!!! Don't call it a Demo unless it's playable. If it's a video.... label it Video, damnit.
Well, now that I got that out of my system...I can't wait for this game!
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 3:59PM mirage said
The naming convention is a pretty weak excuse the the video above the "demo" is also a video of someone playing a demo level. Why not call them both videos???
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 4:19PM BIGGEN said
makes sense tho. a demo now would be way too soon for a game coming out in june. still, i want blood and decapitations, and i want them now....
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 4:31PM waynski1457 said
thats bs!! give me the demo! my thirst for blood has gone unquenched!
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 5:03PM Trojan said
LAME!
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 5:06PM OMGOMG said
Bringing It Home, indeed...
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 5:53PM embassy said
ungrateful little monkeys!
:shakes fist:
:shakes fist:
Posted: Feb 22nd 2008 6:37PM (Unverified) said
Right now two people at Microsoft are laughing their asses off...
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