I completely understand why the era of the print magazine and demo disc scene is a thing of the past, but the feeling of being with a buddy or two, flicking through the pages of the magazine, dealing out spurious rumours about the games inside while replaying the demo disc level of a game like it was the whole thing will always be a great time in my brain space.The realization hit me over the weekend as I was playing an excellent demo for the upcoming System Shock remake: I sure am playing a lot of demos these days, and they're often very good. Those UK PS1 magazines with discs were pricy, especially considering that Blockbuster had rental games competing against them. Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Lemmings 2 and Skidmarks were the standout ones that I played so much I lose track to whether I ever owned the games or just had the demos.īy the time of Doom and the sudden growth of shareware, I had access to too many ways of getting games (all highly above board, definitely legal, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more) that demos seemed unnecessary, especially as a budget game was often now less than the price of two magazines. Once the Amiga came out the Amiga Format demo discs were such a feature for me while I still had no finances to just buy games as I wanted them. These would run until the machine switched off, so we would play the heck out of whatever it was, knowing that we'd not ever bother to type it all out again.
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Me and my cousin used to get a Spectrum magazine that was on the cheaper side of things and instead of a demo disc/cassette it would have a lump of code to type in to programme a simple game or level. I honestly regretted picking Oblivion over it.Īh, it's nice to hear all the love for the golden years of demos. I remember going to the Gamespot forums and asking which game I should buy, and the response was overwhelming Oblivion. It came out around the same time as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. In addition to the interactive environments, it was a lot of fun. I was interesting because it had a per-match leveling system, almost like a MOBA, where you would pick your abilities from a skill tree as the match went on. They also put out a multiplayer beta before the game came out that I played for as long as I could. There were spikes on walls, barrels you could drop, and pits to kick guys into so it made replaying the demo worth it to mess around and see how everything interacted. I had multiple classes to choose from (melee, archer, and mage I believe) and the big deal at the time was the interactivity of the fighting. I am not sure if it was the most, but I replayed the demo for Dark Messiah of Might & Magic a lot. Today games are cheap enough or given for free, with the caveat of paying as you go so ehh.įinally, not much demos today, but I enjoyed PT somewhat, all those play for 10 hours things, which are essentially the game for me cause I wasn't gonna buy it anyway, but if I played for 10 I might get it on sale.
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Money and games were harder to get back then so it was nice to have a free selection with time-limited as well. It was an older red armageddon.ĭemos on Xbox 360: Just pure fun going into a short slice of beautiful-looking games at the time for free. Reminded me of a really good dbz game slamming people into mountains and seeing dust and buildings crumble to the ground. Loved when the devs used all their tools to make something special. Xbox magazine: Otogi demo blew me away with the destructibility of levels saved to the underutilized hard drive. Didn't know that the game was essentially somewhat hacked to look that way. Didn't get why people loved Mario 64 so much graphics-wise as I thought this game looked better on a weaker system. :P) Crash bandicoot 2, made me get the game but played the level over and over, graphics at the time were unheard of. Had no idea the actual game was kinda short but would get better and better story-wise for what I was looking for. I know people think it's overrated and the plot is anime bull crap, but at the time it blew me away with the level of voice acting, acting, plot, conspiracies, and graphics.
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Playstation pizza hut: MGS (first got into the series cause of it. Loved playing swirls, power stone (missed my bus ride a lot playing that in the morning), sonic Anyway, enough waxing nostalgic like a grumpy old mare, to answer your question.ĭreamcast demo disc. Otherwise, those sprite rpg's look bad in pictures but the story draws you. That said, most of said people had a log of games less varied than I expected, with it mostly consisting of sports titles and a shooter here and there, so I was a minority in the demo camp since it allowed me to try out the genre's I never knew I'd like. I was shocked to learn during the internet age, that most people hate em or avoid em and don't care that they are gone.
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