Pariah MP Demo Friday

Cheers to these guys for actually releasing a pre-release demo! Though I have yet to play the game, my respect for these guys has just increased dramatically.

This day in age, a developer not releasing a demo only indicates to me that they are not extremely proud of their work and are hoping it sells better on blind hype. A poor decision if you ask me. Yay for demos!!!!

Singleplayer demo please.

Well the thread was from an IGN Insider so I'll just give you the content of his post:

-It definitely feels "consolized"
-Joystick controls are mapped as defaults. Never seen that in a FPS before.
-Auto aim is on by default.
-AI is dumb as bricks. They hide but suddenly decide to just charge you for no reason.
-Grenade explosions black out the whole screen. Most likely a bug
-Insert coin? WTF? (Yes, the loading screen does actually say "Insert coin")

http://www.pariah.com/ does not take me to the game. :(

You know, I'm really getting tired of good games that get hampered due to the fact that the developer didn't take the time to make the game FEEL like a PC game (or a real console game). Too many games lately are simply suffering extensively from that "ported" feel (Project Snowblind and Brothers in Arms being one of the ones that I think could've been far better had the developers spent more time defining the game for its individual platforms).

Look what ID did with DOOM 3; they made the PC version themselves, and handed the console version to another developer, and in the end both games turned on fantastic for their platforms (I'm talking from a perspective of what the game was supposed to be; no fanboy/hateboy input).

There really is NO excuse for a bad port job outside of the "more buyers, more money, less work" idealogy that developers (or publishers) are employing lately.

Looks like the Pariah singleplayer demo is on the newest edition of Maximum PC. Anyone have this issue to confirm? Information on this was found here :

http://www.pariahgame.de/fusion_forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=4&thread_id=58

Under the Singleplayer PC Demo section.

Yes - a few people over at IGN have been playing the demo from Maximum PC and they were VERY unimpressed by it.