Bethesda Says No Demo for Fallout 3

pffffft

Fuck demos, just torrent the god damn game and see if you like it. Demos are complete wastes of developer time. They should be making patches/addons/whole actual games instead. It's easy, it's fast, considering all demos end up weighing 30% of the total size and torrents generally being very fast compared to download services,

Not that I need convincing for Fallout 3 anyway.

Some games need demos, others not. Fallout 3 doesn't.

I agree, however, let's consider some games with demos recently:

Crackdown had a demo, limited time based, and it was so much fun because it felt like an arcade game, a friend of mine and I would "compete" to get the highest "score" in crackdown.

Personally, I think crackdown is a rare game where the demo helped sell copies because it showed the game was better than expected.

That said, fallout 3 strikes me as a more story driven game than score driven, therefore it wouldn't really work that way and show off the real game.

The latest burnout game wasn't great, but its demo was even worse for this reason. The demo ruined their one selling point of this game, "free roaming". (which turned out to be bad from a gameplay perspective, because it made the game more tedious and confusing, compared to burnout revenge, but that's an aside anyways) The burnout demo was flawed because it made the game feel restrictive and blah.

I bought the original Fallout due to the demo that was released. Despite being restricted to an area that wasn't even in the final game, I thought it gave a good overview of the game mechanics and interaction.

Yeah right...

There won't be a demo because they don't want us to see how badly their engine performs and how buggy their game is before they get our money. Just like with Oblivion.

I'm not convinced this is going to be any good. They already said you can beat the game if you play it as a straight fps. The combat will be like mass effect, where they couldn't decide if they wanted to be gears in space or make it more tactical. What ends up happening is they both end up failing.

No demo, no sale.

Mattplays.com to the rescue!

they don't want to put the whole game in a demo probably for piracy reasons but without a demo, people will pirate it anyways just as easily to try it out

Duh, you buy it or not! ughhh. Make a demo after you release it you fools.

Duh, Triple A games don't need demos. In fact, I think demos tend to reduce sales. Plus, you could never understand how cool an open world is if its not ... you know... open, and they can't do that in a demo. If you don't believe the story play Fallout. If you don't trust the graphics, play Oblivion with a bunch of mods and just think portable nuke.