Were there any game demos you avoided or didn't like

grkpektis

I am not FPS fan so I didn't play socom 4 or GoW 3 (fear 3 looked good but I din't get a chance to play it) and the submarine game for the 3ds didn't really interest me. I thought gunstringer was really disappointing because I love twisted pixel games. I really liked the darkness 2 demo but some parts were just hard to watch. Spoiler alert!!! The main character gets his hands crucified and rips out the spikes and shoves one into a guys head.

Shayde

HAHA The SW:TOR demo avoided me. Tried getting into that for three days.

It's not a tumor

Nitpick: Gears isn't an FPS. It's Third Person. :P

I also avoided the Old Republic demo after seeing the line. And the Nintendo booth.

grkpektis

It's not a tumor wrote: »

Nitpick: Gears isn't an FPS. It's Third Person. :P

I also avoided the Old Republic demo after seeing the line. And the Nintendo booth.

Did you try the ign booth. They had 2 3ds games and there weren't that many people on line. I got a chance to play SWTOR once but I tried to play it 2 more times (with different classes) and couldn't.

It's not a tumor

grkpektis wrote: »

It's not a tumor wrote: »

Nitpick: Gears isn't an FPS. It's Third Person. :P

I also avoided the Old Republic demo after seeing the line. And the Nintendo booth.

Did you try the ign booth. They had 2 3ds games and there weren't that many people on line. I got a chance to play SWTOR once but I tried to play it 2 more times (with different classes) and couldn't.

I wound up going to the Capcom booth to play the 3DS. Took about 20 minutes to get in.

Lindsay Lohan

The only demo that sticks out as being unimpressive was the face shooting game on the 3DS. It was my first hands on with the system and initially left me unimpressed.

Later I played Resident Evil at the Capcom booth and started to get back on board. Sunday I played Nintendogs and was sold - it's again a system selling title for me, it's so nice looking in 3D.

Wraith260

i wouldn't say there was anything that i actively avoided, but yeah there were a few demos that i had little to no interest in trying out(especially if you had to wait in line).

after trying ABP at last years PAX East i've realised(unsurprisingly) that MMOs are not best suited to be shown at this kind of even. on the other hand though, the inclusion of Dragon Nest has alerted me to the product and made me curious enough to check out it once i get back home.

as for the variety of shooters shown(though in context the genre wasn't over represented), none grabbed my attention, whether they be new IPs or established series.

but see that kinda sums up the point of coming to PAX for me. its not really about getting hands on time with the big hitters, no matter how much i want to play them when i plan the trip. once i'm on the expo floor what really grabs my attention is the indie games. and not just the(very limited) showcase section, but any of those smaller booths showing if titles that are new, not based off an existing IP(ie not sequels/licensed games).

a great example would be one of the games that wowed me last year. All Heroes Die!. a great concept, an equally impressive demo and a compelling sales pitch(buy the beta for $5 and you get every update for free). some of you know how this story is going, for those that don't a highlight of thise years PAX East was the 'Death of an Indie Studio' panel which was a talk/lecture and Q&A hosted by the founder(and destroyer) of MacGuffin Games the studio behind All Heroes Die!. and as strange as it may seem that is just one of the extra amazing things about PAX. without it i wouldn't have know about the game at all, never mind have had the chance to follow its entire development/lifespan.

so yeah to try and be even slightly on topic, avoided the big hitters, games i know i'll buy and games i don't think are suited to expo floor demos. though on that note i did make a point of checking out the Deus Ex panel and loved it. am looking forward to it even more now and it was already a guaranteed purchase for me.

Zombiewski

Didn't care for Vindictus, but I did like Nexon's other MMO, Dragon's Nest. I had no clue what I was doing in either, but I had lots of fun with the latter.

The 3DS demo left me unimpressed, but to be fair I only played the one tech demo where you shot the targets and dragon. I am interested in more games like that, though, where you place a reference point on a table and can move around it.

My friends and I all tried Kinect and it didn't work for any of us. Maybe it was the space? But it was our first time with Kinect, and it didn't exactly make us rush out and buy one.

ottoman673

Homefront.

so much, that i cancelled my preorder over amazon 5 minutes after walking away from it.

it's not that it's bad, per se... it's just the "modern combat OH SHIT LETS PLAY LIKE COD thing" is really reminding me of the days where i used to bitch about having too many WW2 shooters. now, i understand the draw of Homefront is the story, but why sit around for a story thats awesome if i'm not enjoying myself while playing the game?

_Cowsvils_

Honestly, Ogres Must Die was kinda meh for me. It just didn't tickle my fancy in any way shape or form. Also, I thought continually having to move the thumbsticks for Warp was pretty lame.

Other than that no complaints really.

Lindsay Lohan

I just thought of my worst - DOA for the 3DS. It seemed very rushed, the 3d was less than spectacular and was just overall no fun at all.

Psquare75

I avoided Old Republic simply due to line length. The setup looked pretty sweet though.

zepherin

If the line was longer than an hour or the game was coming out within a couple of months.

Regiment

I avoided all of the demos because I hate waiting in lines if it can be avoided, and I can download demos eventually. I kind of wanted to see Portal 2 and Duke Nukem, though. I should have rationed some time - I could have been more efficient in Bandland.

UEAKCrash

I was pretty disappointed with Duke Nukem Forever. Not that well made from what I could tell. Lots of weird bugs and issues with it.

Deefuzz

I didn't care for SOCOM 4 but I have never played a SOCOM game before so maybe that has something to do with it.

Star Wars kept avoiding me, it was impossible to get in unless I wanted to dedicate my entire day to waiting in line.

I avoided Child of Eden, I really wanted to try it, but I didn't want to be on stage in front of people

I also avoided Gears 3, because I don't really play that for the multiplayer.

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UEAKCrash wrote: »

I was pretty disappointed with Duke Nukem Forever. Not that well made from what I could tell. Lots of weird bugs and issues with it.

I was disappointed that it was so average but it was really about what I expected for being in development hell for 12 years.

Grundlestiltskin

I ended up playing games that I could realistically wait in line for, whether I'd heard of them or had any interest or not.

Really enjoyed Vindictus, Gatling Gears, Firefall, and Shoot Many Robots.

Wasn't a huge fan of some Dungeon something game I can't remember the name of, I couldn't figure out what the hell I was supposed to do. When you've been gaming for 20 years, that's a bad sign.

I didn't get to PLAY SW:TOR but watched a lot of gameplay on the bigscreens. The game looked beautiful, but I felt my interest waning when I watched a group whale on one target for 5 minutes and combat just looked slow and boring.

territoires

UEAKCrash wrote: »

I was pretty disappointed with Duke Nukem Forever. Not that well made from what I could tell. Lots of weird bugs and issues with it.

Seconded. It was the only game I can recall actually queuing a long time to play, and it changed me from a 'buy on day of purchase' to 'wait until it's $20'.

The game is funny, the bro-humour is heavy, but the actual aiming just seemed abysmal. I chose to play it on hardest difficulty because I wanted to get the best challenge out of it in my limited window, and I found that I just could not ever get the target reticle where I wanted it to be. No sensitivity adjustment was bad.

UEAKCrash

territoires wrote: »

No sensitivity adjustment was bad.

Oh my god this. It was so terrible on the 360 controller with the sensitivity they had it set to. It was impossible for me to be accurate with it by any means.

Oldmangloom315

I talked to the 2k staffers about the sensativity...they said it'll be adjustable in the final version but they didn't have it on the demo there. Not sure if you guys noticed, but they were running dev kits.

I didn't mind the game so much. The auto-aim function did some weird things on me. I hate that feature anyway.

I played GoW3 MP. Nothing new here. Dragon's Nest was fun, kinda reminded me of PSO. I think it'll be worth it since its free to play. Vindictus was kind of Dynasty Warriors-esque to me...not too bad though.

I played Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D and it wasn't bad. Usual RE controls. My thumb kept slipping off of the stick though, thats a 3DS issue though.

Didn't really get to play anything else. Firefall looked cool as did The Old Republic.

Onmitsu

I found Dragon Nest to be surprisingy fun and charming for a freemium game, but Vindictus was really bad, imo. I beat the entire demo by spamming the left click button and nothing else.

OcTavius12

Shayde wrote: »

HAHA The SW:TOR demo avoided me. Tried getting into that for three days.

for real dude i reeeally wanted to play it but 6 hr wait? no thanks

i got a sith and a jedi shirt at least