Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming

• OrgunDonor@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, not advertised as a demo but any beta you get access to as a preorder bonus and it is close to release, I consider more of a paid demo. Has become less common now though.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Zone of the Enders series is most remembered for ZoE1 being the game everyone bought to play the MGS2 demo.

  And the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro games on the PS1 tended to have the demo for the latest of the other unlocked with a button sequence on the main menu.

  I want to say Final Fantasy also did that nonsense with one or more of their numbered installments?

  And all of that forgets that, in the days prior to the internet (or, the internet arriving on consoles), it was very popular to subscribe to a magazine to get a monthly demo disc.

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Haha I absolutely bought ZoE1 to get the mgs2 demo.

    I then forced myself to play ZoE.

    I remember telling everyone I liked it. But at my age, I can’t remember if I actually did.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ZoE1 had moments of genius broken up by horrendous gameplay. It was very obvious they were trying to do classic “I don’t want to fight in this war. I just want to protect innocents” Gundam but also needed to have gameplay and challenges which just led to massive ludonarrative dissonance and REALLY annoying rating systems. The game itself was “fine” but suffered horribly from the re-release that added achievements to getting S ranks. Also the ending is some of the biggest blue balls in all of gaming.

      Whereaas ZoE2 was a more modern (for the time) mecha in that you are a jaded and grizzled ex-soldier (Dingo Egret!) who knows he has lost his humanity long ago but is trying to regain it by being a protector instead of a killer. So you get to rock Jehuty in all its glory as you feel like The White Devil himself as you single-handedly win what feel like musou scale battles.

      The PC (probably also PS4?) re-release also had a VR mode that I tried once that was really cool but also fairly “weird”. Not so much disorienting as just very clearly not a game designed for first person views outside of codec calls.

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• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was randomly up at 4, shouldn’t have been on my phone at all. Word salad.

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