It is common practice for developers to release a demo of their game to hype up their product before the full release.
But, are demos good for the game itself?
A prime example of this is Resistance: Fall of Man gamers everywhere were on forums posting about how the demo had left them unsatisfied.
The same can go for Uncharted: Drakes Fortune.
But when the game was released gamers and editors alike were raving.
Demos can give the gamer a few minutes to bite their teeth into the game play mechanics of the product, and there in lies the problem.
Developers give you the bar bones experience when releasing demos. There is no depth to a game without a story, nothing that makes you want to keep playing for any extended period of time.
After a demo for the Free Radical FPS, HAZE was released in early May, the game as a whole has been mocked by gamers as another average shoot-em-up. Take a look at the top First Person Shooters in the recent years, do you see anything revolutionary?
What makes a game great is the story, and too many gamers are forgetting what made games like Final Fantasy, Shadow of Colossus, and Halo so epic, the writing which pulls you in and makes you care about what your doing.
Imagine your favorite game without the story and tell me if you would still enjoy it.
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Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Do you work at Free Radical.
I do agree with you. However, there is a problem with Haze's story, and that's that Free Radical basically spoiled Haze's story. Still, I'm looking forward to the game, and I really hope the final game doesn't disappoint.
Actually there are many aspects to the story that have yet to be uncovered. Telling both sides was a good idea because it made the gamer aware that they would be able to play 2 dynamic sides, which is one of their selling points.
There are many secrets yet to be uncovered. ;)
If I was management for a game company I'd strongly advise them not to put out demos as bad as the Haze demo. That would be my only standards.
yea i was gona purchase the game..that is until i played the demo. It just felt so average. What there was of the dialogue and...story telling was very average. Very dissapointed. Ill have to hire it.