Not very impressed by GT5 demo

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OK, last post, and then I'm not looking at this thread anymore.

First of all, I am far from "clueless". I follow gaming very diligently, almost to the point where I'm OCD about it. I do not follow racing games too closely because I just don't play them very much. When a demo description basically just says, "This is the GT5 demo", then that's how I perceive it. Not, "This is the GT5 demo minus any kind of good graphics, environments, gameplay, etc. that will be in the final release."

Second of all, the size of the file has nothing to do with anything. I don't care if it's a 5 MB demo or a 300,000 MB demo. If you're going to put the game on display for potential buyers, do whatever you can with that 300 MB, or here's a thought, put another 100 MB worth of content in the demo and make it look better. But don't leave it up to the headline hunters and blog followers to figure out for themselves that this is not really an honest to god demo of the final game. And if you must put something like this out there as a demo, at least let people know what they're looking at. Stop telling me I should have this certain interview or this certain link so that I could be a more informed demo downloader. Are you kidding me? How many people do you think are going to know to do that? Or care for that matter? Despite what a lot of you guys seem to think, the hardcore racing sim enthusiast is ABSOLUTELY NOT the biggest audience for this game. That kind of audience is rarely the biggest group of game buyers unless you're talking about game like Flight Simulator for the PC or something.

Sony is going to advertise the shit out of this game because they want it in as many homes as possible. That's called business. And it's bad business, if you're in the business of selling games, to put out a so called "physics demo" that looks like crap but not let anyone know in the demo description that that's all it is. This has digressed into a discussion about what an idiot everyone thinks I am because I didn't just magically know that this was not a true demo of the game. A simple, "You should check out Prologue because it looks better" would have sufficed here. That doesn't take away the fact that this demo is very poorly represented, whether that was Sony's decision or DP's decision is not important.

I love how sometimes the attitude on this site is, "If you're not going to sing the praises of every game that comes out, then don't post your opinion." You know what fanboys? I'm not on Sony's payroll, I'm not on Microsoft's payroll, and I'm not on Nintendo's payroll. Unless a mod bans me for not liking a game, which I don't think is going to happen, I can say whatever I want about a game. Just because I don't like something or take the demo's description at face value does not mean I'm "clueless". It just means I don't like it. GT5 is probably going to sell a zillion copies whether it deserves to or not. And guess what--when it does, Sony is not going to send you a paycheck based on how many minutes you spent calling me names because I don't like the game. Get a life.