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I bought Uncharted: Drake's Fortune because of its demo. Other than that, I can't remember any other games.



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trunkswd said:

Ninja Gaiden demo made me buy the game and I loved every second of it.

Too Human. I'll let you guess if I bought it or said no way.

I bet you bought it.  Right? No? Oh. lol

 

You remeinded me of Ninja Gaiden, except I add the opposite experience (kinda).  Played the demo and loved it, bought it, but I couldn't handle the difficulty of the game, ended up selling it.



Platinums: Red Dead Redemption, Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet, Terminator Salvation, Uncharted 1, inFamous Second Son, Rocket League

All the time, although most of the time a demo just confirms that it's not really my cup of tea.

Bought because of demo:
- Space invaders infinity gene
- Enslaved
- Majin and the forsaken kingdom
- Catherine
- Rayman origins (on to purchase list after demo)

Interested in but not bought because of demo
- Forza 3
- Driver San Francisco
- Limbo
- Minecraft

Didn't help either way
- Forza 4



Games I bought because of the demo :

  • inFamous
  • Killzone 2
  • Yakuza 3


Games I didn't buy because of the demo :

 

  • Bulletstorm
  • Dragon Age II
  • Lego Harry Potter


Mass Effect 2!!

It was completely out of my radar. But when I played the Demo......OMG! Now it's one of my favs of this Gen.

And this is because i HATE sci-fi settings...it really turns me out. Actually I never saw more than half of a Star Wars movie.



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I was put off buying Halo Reach, Mass Effect 2 and Sonic Generations because of the demo.

The Forza 4 demo made me want to buy the game but I haven't picked it up yet, the MGS4 demo was AMAZING but I knew I was going to buy that game anyway.



Yes. I bought Valkyria Chronicles and Mass Effect 2 after enjoying the demos. I also bought Assassin's Creed 2 after using a free one hour trial of the game on PSN (after the PSN outrage when everyone had a free month of PSN+). I did not buy Killzone 3 after playing it's demo though. I thought it sucked.



Cirio said:
Yes. I bought Valkyria Chronicles and Mass Effect 2 after enjoying the demos. I also bought Assassin's Creed 2 after using a free one hour trial of the game on PSN (after the PSN outrage when everyone had a free month of PSN+). I did not buy Killzone 3 after playing it's demo though. I thought it sucked.


Ah yes this too!  I played the demo and just did not like it at all, and that is coming from someone that platinumed KZ2



Platinums: Red Dead Redemption, Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet, Terminator Salvation, Uncharted 1, inFamous Second Son, Rocket League

I bought Dragon Quest VIII for the FFXII demo XD. Not what your asking

I didn't initially buy valkyria chronicles because the demo was boring. Pretty but boring. So I put it off until I got it for like 15 dollars used. And I liked it a lot.

I bought FFVIII and FFVII because of the demo, on PC XD.



Sometimes a demo doesn't do a game much justice. A game I was hyped and excited for was Bayonetta and the demo truly sucked on 360 so I decided to pass on it. The game still got great reviews so eventually I went ahead and rented it from gamefly several months later. The rental totally blew me away so I bought the rental.