i want a demo this time because i didn't buy KOTOR till about a year after it was realised and because there wasn't a demo i didn't know that the game was so good

i want a demo to get a feel for the game, see what they have done to upgrade it and see if it has been done in a good way

i hope they make a demo, a preset one so to speak. make it have nothing to do with the game, force you to use a 'generic' character too. just so you can mess around.

I would prefer that they release the game on time as to making a demo. If they make the demo after the game comes out then that will be energy diverted from patches. While a demo might be good to those not familiar with KOTOR, they don't matter for people like me who will pre-order the game within a month of now. All they do for us is make us less likely to have patches and more likely to have the game delayed. No matter how good this game is it will have patches as no game is perfect.

I would prefer that they release the game on time as to making a demo. If they make the demo after the game comes out then that will be energy diverted from patches. While a demo might be good to those not familiar with KOTOR, they don't matter for people like me who will pre-order the game within a month of now. All they do for us is make us less likely to have patches and more likely to have the game delayed. No matter how good this game is it will have patches as no game is perfect.

They could just release the E3 demo thats already been made.

 

Cheers!

Maybe that would reveal too much information.

Maybe that would reveal too much information.

No the demo didn't have anything to do with the storyline of KOTOR 2 it was generic in nature for that very reason.

 

Cheers!

Then why show it as a KOTOR demo?

They could release it as tech demo to show the new things they've added, like force powers and abilities.

i want a demo this time because i didn't buy KOTOR till about a year after it was realised and because there wasn't a demo i didn't know that the game was so good

I got quite lucky and managed to play the x-box version on a demo machine in a shop (HMV Preston) for a significant time.

I would probably not have played KotOR unless it had been sent to me for free. A demo goes a long way of telling me if I want the full game or not.

Then why show it as a KOTOR demo?

So you can see how the game plays.

 

You don't need to have the demo relate in anyway to the story to make it a KOTOR demo.

 

 

A lot of demos for games such as Half-Life 2 and whatnot have no bearing on the story.

I read reviews to figure out if I'm going to buy a game.

I just rent the game from the local rental store and see if I like it before I purchase it.

I'd like to hear the devs take on this. Is this even a remote possibility?

I'd like to hear the devs take on this. Is this even a remote possibility?

It's probably all up to LA.

Is what even possible?

I think he's talking about a demo to KOTOR II.

John might just be trying to pull our legs

I just buy crap at random, so I don't care if I buy crap, but I don't want this to be crap!

There are pro's and con's to releasing demos. The choice in this case won't be Obsidian's but more likely will be Lucas Art's opinion.

Thanks, Hydrogen, that's pretty much what I assumed.

 

Given that LA already has a "demo" out in the form of KoTOR I, I wouldn't expect to see anything but preview clips for KoTOR II. Marketing would recommend to anyone looking for a demo to simply "Buy a copy of KoTOR I. The engine is essentially the same, but there will be a different story...."

I think a demo for KotOR2 would be way to much work and end up a poor example of how the game actually is.

 

 

TripleRRR

just release the e3 demo on the offical site and on the oxm demo disk

i hope they make a demo, a preset one so to speak. make it have nothing to do with the game, force you to use a 'generic' character too. just so you can mess around.

I liked the Half-Life: Uplink demo that they released.....had nothing to do with the actual plot, so it spoiled nothing.