Xbox 360 Fanboy

Definately, wish they'd done that with Bioshock so that the game intro came as a surprise on release date. Sure other people have their own examples aswell.
Also, this game looks pretty sweet, will be checking out the demo in August!

Valve did this way back with Half-Life. They made a demo that was brand new content.

For the record it was called Half Life: Uplink

So wait and buy it when it gets cheaper? Or used at some point? Or get some service like Gamefly?

From your post it sounds like you've never played a non-RPG single-player only game before and never will...

wait... I thought there was giong to be online multiplayer... wow, I was really excited for this game. But now, not so much, now that I know there won't be any multi. It will be worth a buy if the price lowers though. Kinda like assassins creed, right?

Action genre games usually don't have that much of a value compared to others. There has to be something I really want out of the game to spend 60 dollars on. I love Star Wars and the concepts behind this game, but for the 20 hours of gameplay I'll likely receive from this it doesn't seem worth the price. LucasArts said 40ish to follow all the plot lines, that's pretty weak. I was looking forward to seeing this display of technology used in player on player combat, perhaps with around 8-16 players. I typically rent hack n slash or action games because of the lack in value for me.

I'll probably just rent the game for a while or wait till Circuit City has it on sale for 39.99 a few weeks after launch. I doubt I will consider purchasing it because I don’t like being blatantly lied to just so they can make a sale. There is no future for this game either, with the team being dissolved after development of the game was nearly complete. So to recap, LucasArts quietly hacks multiplayer from 360/PS3 to save money, fires off their most influential and seasoned developers for the title to do just the same, and finally splits the player experience up across the consoles in an attempt to get current gen console owners to buy the game twice to experience a flimsy dual mode on the PS2, Wii or DS. Seriously, dual mode was all they could come up with, must have taken them seconds to whip that up. Yeah I’d rather not hand them any of my hard earned cash or rather my singular number to reflect on their retail sales chart numbers. I was shocked by LucasArts willingness to innovate, bring depth to a shallow franchise, and attempt to make the game the best it could be. The shock was warranted, and I can’t trust their game to be anything more than a lot of flash and no substance now, whereas before they lied to me I’d be willing to take the risk and buy any edition they tossed at me day one.

Here’s hoping Star Wars: Battlefront III will be incredible and that enough of the gaming public can hear how the Force Unleashed stands now, it may cause a spring delay and the so called multiplayer they were maybe probably might have been working on to be added in. I was really looking forward to that next game that could impress me more than Shadowrun online, I thought this might be it.

By the way, there is only so much fun one can have running and killing, running and killing, all against the same tired AI. Add the human element in there and things change fast, because they don't work on logic or reason and are difficult to predict.

I buy plenty of single player platformers, 2d scrolling shooters, 2d action adventure games like Castlevania, puzzle games, and any combinations of the above 2d or not.

Would you buy a fighter at full price if you couldn't challenge a human opponent?

Sand-box games and action games suffer from sever repetition, limited gameplay elements and an illusion of freedom than any grade school child could see passed. These sorts of games intrigue one at first, but end up being nothing like one expects and become tired and boring before one feels the least bit confident about their purchase.

That's because a free loaf of bread can taste as good as a paid for steak to many.

By the way, the Xbox version of Jedi Knight II actually included the demo level whereas the PC version lacked it. Didn't matter though, because PC was where the online multiplayer was at.

:(

Somebody else posted this when I asked the same question.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/24/aol-makes-big-budget-cuts-across-blogs/

yah that is kind of strange. its funny though, usually i read the article and think "i bet that ..whoever.. wrote that post." and when i go and check i'm usually right. everyone definitely has their own little idiosyncrasies when they post.