PS3 Demos

[kane_magus]

I took a break from FFXIII to try a few of the demos I downloaded a while back but never got around to playing until now. A few of them are interesting enough that they have me considering getting the full games. These are Trine, Folklore, and Valkyria Chronicles. These were all interesting in their own way and have me intrigued. Not sure if I'll actually get any of the games listed in this post any time soon, but these are the three I'd be most likely to get at some point.

The Ratchet and Clank demos were pretty cool for what they were (the Clank demo more so than the Ratchet one), but I think I may take a pass on those nonetheless, mainly because I haven't played any of the earlier games in the series either.

Infamous, similarly, seemed fairly interesting, kind of, but not enough so that I'm wanting to rush out and get the full game.

Lastly, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. So far, what I've played of it, the demo just sucks. I die a lot, even on easy, and it's not a very fun experience at all. Yet, I'm reading a lot on GameFAQs forums and such that the demo isn't a very good representation of the full game. I've heard good things about the second game as well, but I feel like I'd want to play the first one before going into the second one. But after the demo, I just don't know. It seemed really combat heavy, and it was rather frustrating.

For anyone who has played the full versions of these games, particularly Uncharted, how do the full games stack up? Do the demos do them proper justice, or do they just not showcase the full majesty of the full games? Or, on the flip side, are there horrible flaws in the full games that aren't apparent in the demos?

Comments

[spate.livejournal.com]

Uncharted plays a lot like an Indiana Jones adventure, so yeah, the combat is a core mechanic. (The other thing to keep in mind is that the combat does take a while to get the hang of; by the time you're done the demo, you're only just starting to get the timing down..) I found the demo to really under-represent the amount of combat in the game. Basically, they took a 'lull' section of the game about half an hour in, just as they're introducing you to combat, and made that the demo.

At the time I bought the game, it felt like a bit of a bait and switch, but it's such a good game that I got over my initial prejudice against that style of gameplay pretty quickly.

As for Uncharted 2, it's awesome. The single player story is kind of all over the place at the start (it suffers from pacing issues and weird chapter stops.. partially due to trying to tell the first part of the story with flashbacks) but it's still some of the best stuff out there. They rebalanced the combat, the engine looks fantastic, the dialogue, the acting.. it's still a masterpiece no matter how you look at it.

I'd recommend playing them both, although I don't think you'll ever look at the first one again after playing the second. They really gave things a real polishing in the second..