What demo do you download over and over again.

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#1  Edited By Ninja

I dont know about anybosy else, but in this era of downloadable demos and expensive enough games, I often fall in love with some game demos but for some reason dont end up buying the game. Even for same games the demo is fun but you know the game wouldnt be, like the superman returns demo, its quite fun but its obviously a crappy game.
 
I mean I own more than 40 next gen games but that doesn't mean I have the budget to buy anything or the space so sometimes I would rather download the demo than buy it now at $20 from amazon. I would like to know if anybody else is in the same boat and what demo you sometimes find youself downloading again every six months. 
 
For me the stand outs are: 
Amped 3 (Xbox 360) You get a whole mountain face to snow board and a glider, awesome!
LOTR: Battles for middle-earth II (Xbox 360) It runs better than my PC version and the console cortrols were great
Call of Duty 2 (Xbox 360) Its a great demo, highlighting the best of the game, also gives me 360 launch fever all over again.
Civilisation Revolution (Xbox 360) Fun demo, dont think I'd play the whole game
Lost Planet (Xbox 360) There was something about this demo when It came out at E3 2006.
 
What about anybody else, similiar opinion?

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#2  Edited By EVO

I probably spent more time with the Skate demo than I did with the actual career mode That skate park is still my favourite spot in the game, and the demo gave you 30 minutes to play.

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#3  Edited By Linkyshinks

I have never downloaded a demo repeatedly like you. If a games good I will opt to buy the game, and delete the demo.

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#4  Edited By Ninja
@Linkyshinks said:
" I have never downloaded a demo repeatedly like you. If a games good I will opt to buy the game, and delete the demo. "
Yeah but don't you think that sometimes the demo is fun but you know that the game as a whole wont be worth the money?
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#5  Edited By penguindust
@Ninja said:
" @Linkyshinks said:
" I have never downloaded a demo repeatedly like you. If a games good I will opt to buy the game, and delete the demo. "
Yeah but don't you think that sometimes the demo is fun but you know that the game as a whole wont be worth the money? "
I can see that point.  Most of the time, like Linkyshinks I buy the game, but there have been occasions where I had my fill of the game with the demo and don't need anymore.  Puzzle games and the recent influx of "tower defense" games fall into that category.   But, I must add that I've never redownloaded a demo once I've dumped it.  There is just so much content available on the 360 and PSN that I rarely have time to go back and replay old demos when there are a bunch of new ones I've yet to experience.
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#6  Edited By Griddler

Killzone 2 is one that I keep downloading and need to buy

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#7  Edited By noiz
@EVO: Same here. I played the skate demo a ton. By the time I got around to the full game the other stuff just didn't grab me and I barely played it.
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#8  Edited By Lunarbunny

I played the Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising demo over and over. Novalogic realized their mistake after a while and ended the demo's online access :(

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#9  Edited By DerekDanahy

I played the Wanted: Weapons of Fate demo at least 5 times, but never bought it after the gloomy reviews.

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 Back in the day the Tony Hawk games had great demos. Never bought any of those games but played the demos to death.

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#11  Edited By SoulEdgeSlayer
@SuperfluousMoniker said:
"  Back in the day the Tony Hawk games had great demos. Never bought any of those games but played the demos to death. "
I did as well. Also, I got a demo for Metal Arms: Glitch in the System on disc at a Software Etc that I played the heck out of. 
 
More recently, though, I think I played the Crackdown demo more than any other 360 demo. Of course, I ended up buying and loving that game.
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#12  Edited By Absurd

I played a ton of the Aggressive Inline demo back in the day.

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#13  Edited By Damian
@Ninja said:
Civilisation Revolution (Xbox 360) Fun demo, dont think I'd play the whole game "
I agree here. I'd probably have played it more if I hadn't bought it.
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#14  Edited By xyzygy

The Half Life 1 demo was the greatest thing ever. It actually scared me as a 12 year old. And, it was totally unique - the demo area wasn't even included in the actual HL game. Epic.

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#15  Edited By Ninja
@xyzygy said:
" The Half Life 1 demo was the greatest thing ever. It actually scared me as a 12 year old. And, it was totally unique - the demo area wasn't even included in the actual HL game. Epic. "
Yeah man those demos are the best. Like the first timeshift demo that is nothing like how the game ended up.
 
I remember the demo for the original Star Wars Battlefront. It came with the official playstation 2 mag. It was way better than the game turned out because the final product was too balanced... well alot more balanced than the demo. In the demo you were a killing machine!
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#16  Edited By manurok1

I don't really download demos multiple times. The only demos I have redownloaded have been the Mirror's Edge demo (xbox live) and the Peggle demo (Steam). Mirror's edge just for the experiance it offers despite the poor final game and peggle because it is so addictive and I don't actually own the game.

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I don't download the game over and over.

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#18  Edited By Scooper

A game called Gravatation on the Net Yaroze or whatever it was called. It wasn't a demo really but it was on a demo disc. One of my favourite games ever, me and my mate used to play that all day.

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#19  Edited By Pazy

While I havent downloaded it over and over again I tend to keep demo's of quick games that I can play for 5 minutes. I had the Perfect Dark Zero Demo on my 360 for a year and half so I could play a bot match for 2/3 minutes before I left.

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#20  Edited By tebbit
@Pazy said:
" While I havent downloaded it over and over again I tend to keep demo's of quick games that I can play for 5 minutes. I had the Perfect Dark Zero Demo on my 360 for a year and half so I could play a bot match for 2/3 minutes before I left. "
OH MY GOD. I remember that game. It was so awesome. 
 
Did you have the special demo disk they had once, and it had like 20 net yaroze games on it. 
ahhhhhhhhhh memories.
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#21  Edited By MKHavoc

I remember playing the Crackdown demo a lot before the game came out.  They only let play for 5 minutes at a time which is prbably why I was able to still enjoy the game after I bought it.

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#22  Edited By Ninja
@MKHavoc said:
" I remember playing the Crackdown demo a lot before the game came out.  They only let play for 5 minutes at a time which is prbably why I was able to still enjoy the game after I bought it. "
Yeah! I thought crackdown was awesome too actually. I remember when that demo came out, you ended up playing it with almost everybody on your friends list!
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#23  Edited By droop

 Soldier of Fortune 2 MP Demo. Played so much sniper wars back in the day :D

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#24  Edited By Bigandtasty

I suppose the demo I have played the most (and still haven't bought the full game) is RE5.
 
My friends used to play the Halo 1 demo constantly online (the demo allowed for online play on Blood Gulch only).

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#25  Edited By Seraphim2150

Stranglehold - now i feel ashamed

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#26  Edited By Valames

It would be the Banjo Nut and Bolts demo for me. I keep downloading it because the game is only $20 and I am trying to make myself like it because everyone I talk to seems to love it, but I just can't.

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#27  Edited By Pie

Iron man but they took it down I think

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#28  Edited By zyn

Before Resident Evil 5 was released, I went to all my friend's houses and downloaded the demo on their Xbox 360's.  I couldn't get enough of the game.

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#29  Edited By Lestater

Sonic: Unleashed; the demo lets you play the first level, the only good one.

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#30  Edited By iiNF3RNo

the orange box, shadowrun, bioshock, many more cant think of them right now

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#31  Edited By damnboyadvance

I've never downloaded demoes repeatedly. If you like it so much, it would be better in the interest of time to buy the actual game.

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#32  Edited By sjschmidt93

I probably played the Burnout Paradise demo for atleast 10 hours before the game came out.

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#33  Edited By natetodamax

Why would you download a demo more than once?

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#34  Edited By rjayb89

Dead Rising demo, for personal reasons.

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#35  Edited By TheMustacheHero

This is what I usually do with my 360, just download new demos and play them every time I turn on my 360 and then after I'm done with it I turn my 360 off... I havn't bought a 360 game in months.

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#36  Edited By badsmalltalker

The bioshock demo, I played the full game but I just love the very beginning so much.
 
I think i've probably downloaded it about 4 times.
-The first time
-When my family got our first HDTV to see how it looked
-When i got a surround sound set for dorm room and wanted to hear how it sounded
-When I got to go home and try it with 1080p and 5.1 surround sound

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#37  Edited By jonnyboy

GH: Aerosmith. The demo is still on my 360 and Ive owned that game TWICE. The problem with that demo is that all the best songs are on it. There are only two reasons I owned the full game, firstly it was a cheap way to get a few points quickly, secondly to play "She sells sanctuary". 
 
Stick with the demo.

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#38  Edited By jim_dandy
@SJSchmidt93 said:
" I probably played the Burnout Paradise demo for atleast 10 hours before the game came out. "
 
For some reason I never bought it. Just played the demo over and over.
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#39  Edited By tmthomsen
@Linkyshinks said:
" I have never downloaded a demo repeatedly like you. If a games good I will opt to buy the game, and delete the demo. "
Same.
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#40  Edited By Black_Raven

I played the Halo PC online demo a lot.

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#41  Edited By MikkaQ

I had more fun with the Stranglehold demo than the full game. Could beat that shit on top difficulty, couldn't even try with the game haha.

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#42  Edited By MeierTheRed

I only download a demo once.

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#43  Edited By zombie2011

The Halo Wars demo was great it had a ton of content on it. When the game finally came out and i bought it i was fucking really good at it, just because i had played the demo so many times.

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#44  Edited By Novyx

Bionic Commando Rearmed. Everyone raves about it. I don't get it. I've downloaded it 4 times now, trying to figure out what I'm missing that makes it amazing.

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#45  Edited By citizenkane

None.  There are too many other full games I want to play than to go back ad keep playing demos over and over again.

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#46  Edited By BigBoss1911
@Black_Raven said:
" I played the Halo PC online demo a lot. "
same
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#47  Edited By ysselzor

pure had an amazing demo and red faction guerrilla but both of those games i lost intrest in pretty fast when i played the full games

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#48  Edited By misterpope

Dead Rising. Gives you some zombie goodness with out the hassle of that game's stupid japanese-ness.