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Forum Meta => Archive => Arts and Entertainment Archive => Topic started by: Bara on December 17, 2007, 08:53:44 PM

Title: Demos
Post by: Bara on December 17, 2007, 08:53:44 PM
Where do you go to get your Demos? i go to 3D gamers. best place.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Osamafune on December 17, 2007, 08:54:52 PM
I don't really bother with demos.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Bara on December 17, 2007, 08:55:38 PM
damn, didnt know somebody would respond that quick...

why?
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Osamafune on December 17, 2007, 09:01:03 PM
I usually don't need them to determine whether or not I would like the game.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Bara on December 17, 2007, 09:04:19 PM
sometimes i cant buy the game, so i play the demo until i can. by then, i am usally for it or niot.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Osamafune on December 17, 2007, 09:18:11 PM
I guess I have more patience, because I can usually wait.

But the wait for Christmas when I'm expecting to get Call of Duty 4 is killing me... :'(
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Bara on December 17, 2007, 09:21:26 PM
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you suck.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Of Crazed on December 18, 2007, 07:20:22 PM
Steam.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Bara on December 18, 2007, 08:26:44 PM
Steam is water, evaporated into a gas.

i think.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Delfos on December 18, 2007, 09:39:05 PM
Gamespot

Last Demo was TimeShift, seems interesting, you can mess with time, like stop it, make it slow motion, or backwards, while you're free to run around and kill people.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Bara on December 18, 2007, 09:47:24 PM
i heard about that.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Delfos on December 18, 2007, 10:20:36 PM
I actually hate Steam, don't fall on that, they give EVERYTHING! for a price. The only good thing is free weekends of some blocked game.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Bara on December 18, 2007, 10:22:46 PM
i see.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Myroria on December 22, 2007, 01:26:29 AM
I just download the full game. In a matter of hours I get the entire game, for free.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Delfos on December 22, 2007, 02:19:49 PM
Before I use that marvelous ability, I normally check demos of games I don't know.
"Hey, seems a good game, but before I waste my time and Internet channel on such a large game (every game now go from 1GB to 8GB), let me test the demo, if it's fun I might aid violating their patent rights.
Well, games nowadays, specially the multiplayer ones, have another way so that you don't access the good stuff. Like Battlefield franchise, if you don't have an original, you can still play either sp or mp, but not the ranked ones...not the good stuff. There's so much difference between legal Battlefield and the other one that buying battlefield is totally worth it.

If I had played SimCity Societies Demo, or Bioshock, I might haven't bought the game.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Myroria on December 22, 2007, 04:52:23 PM
I wouldn't waste my time downloading Battlefield. Only a select few FPSs are good, and Battlefield is most certainly NOT one of them.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Delfos on December 22, 2007, 05:20:37 PM
It seems you didn't get the example.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Myroria on December 22, 2007, 07:03:53 PM
Oh, I did get the example, it was just hard to decipher from your block of pure letters.

If you don't like it when you download it, just get rid of it. It's not like you didn't do other things while you were downloading; you wouldn't be wasting any time if you got rid of it.

And taking the developer's money? Please. Developers get like, 3% of their money anyway. The rest goes to their publisher and the middleman, both of whom are most of the time enormous companies who don't need anymore. So it gets blown out of proportion and people think we're committing murder or some shit for turning 3% to 0.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Delfos on December 22, 2007, 09:11:55 PM
You sound so communist.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Myroria on December 22, 2007, 11:14:10 PM
Laissez-faire capitalism, which I agree with, is about giving everyone fair competition - similar to communism in sound, but in reality much different. It involves the only economic law being that restricting predator corporations to create monopolies. Communism, on the other hand, involves spreading the money around equally, which completely destroys the essence of "competition".

Am I skeptical of big companies? Of course. That doesn't make me a communist, because, heh, if it did, everyone besides CEOs would be communist.

And I thought you hippies insisted on it being called socialism?
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Delfos on December 23, 2007, 12:15:00 AM
I remember you criticizing European competition laws, now you're defending competition laws? I don't want to call you something offending, but you're always insisting I'm an hippie, at least hippies aren't hypocrite.

Am I skeptical of you? Of course. That doesn't make me a communist/hippie, because, heh, if it did, everyone besides you would be a communist/hippie.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Myroria on December 23, 2007, 01:15:02 AM
Your latter analogy was non-sensical and fallacious. It simply, isn't an insult.

And, I don't recall ever criticizing European competition laws. Ever. If I did, I sure would like a quote so I could either renounce myself or see your misinterpretation.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Bender1968 on December 24, 2007, 11:16:25 AM
Demos are great from drawing you in, but I've played a lot of demos only to find out the game itself sucks.  I'd prefer to read the reviews on the gamer sites and then see.
Title: Re: Demos
Post by: Bara on December 31, 2007, 05:41:26 PM
you know, it was funny to watch Garth and Delf agure.