OK... so there will be many assumptions here but Id like to think that they are justified.
So EA... when someone takes the time, in the PC gaming world, to go and download a large 1.7 gig demo of a game that is so far exclusive to the PC, it might be safe to assume that said person probably already knows what the demo is about and theres a good chance that said person has already seen 1 if not many commercials on this demo.
I have been waiting for Crysis for many moons and been eager to get the SP demo for just a taste. And friday I got that taste.
...
Of course there is always something...
So now i have this great demo installed (pretty quickly at that) and I sit down to play the game.
First up, animated BINK movie, company logos.
EA
CRYTEK
NVIDIA
INTEL
PIZZA HUT
You can't skip them... as annoying as they are, I can forgive that quick product placement.
But then... the real crap kicks in.
"Lets play the extended 3 minute movie trailer we released several months back before you get to the main menu. But to make sure that they totally absorb the full awesomeness of how great this game is we need to make sure they can't skip it at all."
Now, we've all seen this before in games where they have a short advert at the END of the demo to give you a taste of whats to come so you get more incentive to buy it, but come on... is this necessary? This trailer is months old, no in game footage, and you CANT SKIP THE FUCKING THING????
Weak... very weak...I got the demo because Ive ALREADY seen the trailers and read the articles and wanted to try this game (and will probably buy very soon). For the love of God, LET ME SKIP THE DAMN TRAILERS!!!!!
On a side note... this demo was awesome to play so far. Graphics are freaking amazing. The atmosphere is wonderful. Cant wait to buy it and bitch some more about unnecessary things.
I concur with all of this. Sitting through all that crap actually killed my desire to play the game, I simply wasn't interested by the time it came to playing the thing.
Nothing more that I hate, believe me. Sometimes I just sit there slamming my ESC key yelling "NO I DON'T CARE STOP IT I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GAME WHY DON'T YOU DIIIIIIIEEEEEEE"
Destructoid is an open discussion community. You don't need to "audition" to post a comment - just speak your mind. We respect differing opinions on the site, so have at it. Be smart, funny, insightful, clueless, or cute -- but back it up with substance. Keep your cool, keep it fun. We only ask that you act respectfully and above all: don't be a troll and ruin it for everyone else. Don't bring down gamers or we'll, you know, gently shoot you in the face and stuff you into a flaming mailbox. Each comment is your opportuntity to make this community awesomer. Is that even a word?
Avoiding the banhammer only requires common sense: spamming, trolling, racism, NSFW stuff, and other forms of sucking will not be tolerated. If anyone is griefing please report abuse. Be good. Don't suck!
Destructoid is an independently-run publication forged by our love of video games and the gaming community's need of accountable enthusiast press living the dream since March 16, 2006
Drbad asH's blog
follow this blog
subscribe via RSS
send message
invite to meetup+play
I concur with all of this. Sitting through all that crap actually killed my desire to play the game, I simply wasn't interested by the time it came to playing the thing.
Classic EA marketing tactics
Nothing more that I hate, believe me. Sometimes I just sit there slamming my ESC key yelling "NO I DON'T CARE STOP IT I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GAME WHY DON'T YOU DIIIIIIIEEEEEEE"
Oh! Lets bitch about the pointless things that don't even matter! Because two minutes of trailer will totally kill the game!
launch the game with the Benchmark .bat files to skip the front end and go straight to the menu ... lolololcopter.