As the title suggests. What is your favourite playable game demo? For me, that choice is easy - I really, really love the Halloween and Christmas demos of LocoRoco. Not only is that game absolutely amazing (Vita sequel please Sony), those two demos were almost DLC level of quality, with a remix of graphics, music, and gameplay elements - and all of it was absolutely free. Finding all the flowers within the levels was quite tricky, and I am sure if the game was released to day we would have to pay money for those extra levels.
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Best playable demos
- Thread starter vladdamad
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TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
Crackdown demo was amazing
minor effort
Banned
I'm not sure if it's the best, but for me there was nothing quite like the Final Fantasy VII demo bundled with Tobal No. 1.
Weeks of waiting just to spend $50 on a game I really didn't want just to get the demo.
The 90s were a different time.
Weeks of waiting just to spend $50 on a game I really didn't want just to get the demo.
The 90s were a different time.
Infernal Monkey
Member
Flippin' over the hills off the track kept me entertained for a billion years.
ElbowRocket
Member
Sin on PC (1998 I think)
"Thats nothing, last week I shot this cop in the head, hehe he never even saw it coming"
"Thats nothing, last week I shot this cop in the head, hehe he never even saw it coming"
AwesomePossum
Member
FFX-2 demo got me to buy the game. I think I played the demo more than I played the game though to be honest.
Doug Heffernan
Member
Project Gotham 4 had a pretty robust demo.
SkoomaSuckinSwit
Member
MotoGP Xbox Live Starter disk demo.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Bioshock's demo probably sold a million copies of that game.
krimsoncharge
Member
MGS 2 demo.
Monochromaticx
Member
BULLETSTORM!!!!!
I have spent many many hours on that demo competing on the friends scoreboard. Fun times.
I have spent many many hours on that demo competing on the friends scoreboard. Fun times.
DagnastyEp
Member
The Mass Effect 3 demo was amazing. About 1 hour of single player story content, plus 2 multiplayer maps, a couple different character classes. I probably sunk at least 10 hours into the MP part of the demo...
Napalm_Frank
Member
This+MGS1 demo.
FrontalMonk
Banned
as far as demos go, my favorite demos were for MGS2 and for Tecmo's Deception II. I note the latter mainly because I loved it enough to buy the game even though I had never heard of it before I popped it in the demo disc. I must have killed Daar the Peasant dozens of times trying to find different ways to combo the traps together.
If you want to go back though, my personal favorite was Doom shareware. It wasn't a "demo", but it was cut from that same sort of cloth, and getting a third of an entire game was awesome. Most people I knew at the time never even played episodes 2 or 3 but they loved them some Doom, all the same.
If you want to go back though, my personal favorite was Doom shareware. It wasn't a "demo", but it was cut from that same sort of cloth, and getting a third of an entire game was awesome. Most people I knew at the time never even played episodes 2 or 3 but they loved them some Doom, all the same.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Bioshock's demo was better than the full game.
Mr_Pooriya
Member
Destruction Derby demo on PSX.
I probably spent 20h playing that demo.
I probably spent 20h playing that demo.
Explain?
This. Played the demo for an entire summer.
Oh god this. Or 2003s rather..
Acquiescence
Member
I know the demo for Heavy Rain sold a lot of copies. It was a brilliant showcase of what the game was about and how it played, while luring the player into its mystery at the same time.
Soul Sacrifice, just for sheer content.
Bust-a-Groove. There wasn't much to it, but I played it relentlessly, so much so that I was begging for the full game weeks before its release.
Soul Sacrifice, just for sheer content.
Bust-a-Groove. There wasn't much to it, but I played it relentlessly, so much so that I was begging for the full game weeks before its release.
DagnastyEp
Member
Absolutely, I remember playing warehouse hundreds of times. I'm not sure where that demo disk came from (system pack in?), but I definately played the hell out of it.
ExitPlanetDust
Member
Resident Evil 2 & Metal Gear Solid on PS1.
I think I played those two demos more than the actual games.
I think I played those two demos more than the actual games.
yup, played that thing for years before I got the actual game
Fallout-NL
Member
Because it held the promise of a game that was going to be even better than the demo, which was merely the beginning. Sadly, the full game outstayed its welcome by about 5 or 6 hours. It was a fantastic game, but going by the demo, it could have been even better I guess.
I would like to second Destruction Derby and add Duke Nukem and Quake shareware.
Supa Necta
Banned
Timesplitters 2
Rocky_Balboa
Member
Somehow Lost Planet demo has made the biggest impression for me. It felt so nextgen.
UnluckyKate
Member
Flippin' over the hills off the track kept me entertained for a billion years.
OUCH the nostalagia train
PierrePressure
Neo Member
And on PS1. Longest time I've ever spent with a demo.
velociraptor
Junior Member
Resident Evil 5
Bioshock
Heavy Rain
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Rising
Bioshock
Heavy Rain
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Rising