Most time spent on a single demo?

[Ace Modder]

What dmeo have all played the most, to it;s near death?

For me it was the original Worms, came on a floppy disk with 2 preset maps, and me and my mates used to play it after school 4players round my PC.

We spent about 4-6 weeks night after night playing worms DEMO.

by the time the full game was releases I bought the game and by then we were bored of it, so it was played for about a week and never went back to it lol

and demo doesn't mean SHAREWARE Doom or Quake btw

 

[KNiVES]

Crysis demo had an awful lot of playtime from me, about 15-20 hours' worth so far. The most played demo ever was Unreal Tournament 99.

On the consoles side of things, I spent a hideous amount of time on the Resident Evil 2 pre-release demo, as well as Metal Gear Solid. Those two clocked up 50 hours easily, despite Resident Evil 2 getting a 10 minute timer limit before the demo ended, and Metal Gear Solid only ending at the DARPA chief introduction.

 

[Random_23]

Never played demo's until late. My old system 3400+ 6600GT and 1GIG 3200 wouldnt have dont most any justice. My new system however 6850C2D 8800 GTX etc runs all/most fine. Im really enjoying playing with Crysis atm and some settings/tweaks for that happy medium. I did play quake war's which was a little dry tbh. Most of my friends are playing TF2 but I dont have it. Gonna get Gear's of war and Crysis instead I think

 

[Random_23]

Metal gear solid. Thats a game I not played for some time! Metal gear solid 1 and 2 were great, I never got around to playing 3 though >.< what was it like any idea's ?

 

[Ross1234]

world in conflict

 

[Dark88]

depends if it's a multiplayer or singleplayer demo tbh

 

[Tute]

The UT3 demo has clocked up a LOT of hours for me. I don't tend to keep demos for very long though - I just play them until I decide if I want the real game or not and then they normally get uninstalled.

 

[LizardKing]

The original GTA game, think it was limited to 3minutes or something like that and youd have to start again
Those 3 minutes were spent recklessly trying to get the wanted level to max!
Probably more fun than the whole game

 

[Borden]

COD2 for me. I was poor and couldn't afford the full game

I don't want to play the crysis demo oterwise i'll end up using the sandbox editor and end up ruining the alien surprises etc in the final release.

 

[no_1_dave]

Crysis MP Beta (if it counts)
UT3 Demo
Crysis Demo

 

[WarBird]

bf2

 

[Zogger]

probably Trackmania Sunrise, which I pre-ordered after the demo. Unfortunately they put so much replayability (including the track editor) in the demo that barely anyone played the full game.

 

[Dano]

BF1942, spent hours on it, mostly looking for decent games on my 56k connection

 

[modo77]

Probably the two crysis demos and BF2

 

[gurusan]

been playing the UT3 demo a bit.
Hated it at first but now I love it.

 

[mixmasteral21]

Original Unreal Tournament demo and Carmageddon

 

[Agent0range]

BF2 MP Demo and MOHAA (not sure why but I loved replaying the demo countless times)

 

[Sniper123]

Star Trek Armada II

Played the demo online for well over a year till I brought the game.

Good times...

 

[HangTime]

Do shareware versions count? I lost many hours over several months (year?) to Moraff's Dungeon, a tile based RPG.

As far as proper demos goes, Carmegeddon Splat Pack has gotta be right up there. Spent quite a while playing that, although it was only one level, the game is so open-ended that every race was different. Carmageddon 2 (after applying the timelimit hack) and GTA also received a lot of playtime.

For multiplayer, I played a fair bit of UT and Q3A. Haven't really played many demos for longer than a couple of days this decade though.

 

[bledd]

doom 1 shareware