No Skyrim Demo Planned [Jul 14, 2011, 09:22 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A video interview posted a couple of days back talks with Craig Lafferty at E3 about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the next installment in Bethesda's epic role-playing series. The discussion covers a few general topics, and along the way Craig admits there will be no playable demo: "No, we won't be doing a demo. With a game of this size and complexity, it's really hard to do a demo that represents the game, you know, truly. And we have to... and you know, it would be a giant demo as well, so we won't be doing a demo." Thanks Eurogamer.
Yes, that couldn't be more wrong. A quick google search shows that EVERY previous Elder Scrolls game has had a demo.
I think you need to do that search again. Morrowind and Oblivion did not have demos.
In any case, I don't think Bethesda's RPGs really need demos. They all have the same strengths and weaknesses:
Strengths:
1) Huge, detailed world to explore.
2) Lots of things to do.
3) Nice graphics (from a distance).
Weaknesses:
1) Poor balancing.
2) Poor writing.
3) Lack of actual role-playing.
The only significant difference between games is the settings. I enjoyed Morrowind more than Oblivion because the setting was more interesting. There was a bit more role-playing as well but not enough to really qualify as a good RPG.
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