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Darkly
Feb 4, 2008, 06:19 PM
Is it just me or do the 'trial' games seem to be incredibly short and unfufilling.

Comparing them to the free full game demos, they really annoy me. The full game demos usually place you in the middle of the game, so its fully underway and it entices you to follow up and buy the game.

However, with arcade games you get like a 5 minute( if that) play into the opening of the game. most of it is the training sections anyway. So instead of it giving you a quick tutorial and hopping you in for a couple decent levels, it plonks you on level 1 or whatever and shortly into it cuts you out and tells you to purchase the game.

That was a messy paragraph but the point is that i feel like i have hardly enough time to decide if these games are worth buying or not.

MrNomad
Feb 5, 2008, 03:27 PM
I know what you mean sometimes. For games like streets of rage 2, you dont need to play a demo though, you know the kickassiness thats in store for you http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif but to be on topic, yeah demo of arcades can feel alittle stale sometimes. I think the one exception for me is castlevania SOTN

Anduril
Feb 5, 2008, 03:31 PM
If I'm interested in a 360 Arcade game I just get the demo to test out basic game mechanics, and if I'm really interested in it I look it up on the Web, if I like what I find I buy it, if not I just delete it. One thing I'm glad about though is that Arcade Demos don't show up as incomplete games on you GP score anymore.

Otis_Kat
Feb 5, 2008, 04:30 PM
On 2008-02-05 12:31, Anduril wrote:
One thing I'm glad about though is that Arcade Demos don't show up as incomplete games on you GP score anymore.

Unfortunately it isn't retroactive. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_disapprove.gif

Jaspaller
Feb 5, 2008, 05:43 PM
On 2008-02-05 13:30, Otis_Kat wrote:

On 2008-02-05 12:31, Anduril wrote:
One thing I'm glad about though is that Arcade Demos don't show up as incomplete games on you GP score anymore.

Unfortunately it isn't retroactive. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_disapprove.gif



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