Hello

I got question about demo version of Fallout 4. I`m worried that this game will not work well on my PC and want to check it before buying the game.

Lol so do LOTS of people, not gonna happen though.

I'm sorry to say that there has never been a demo available for a fallout game, and there has been no word (that I'm aware of) of there going to be a demo of Fo4.

Steam refund system gives you two hours to try it

Steam has a 2 hour game time and owning the game less than two weeks Refund policy. That is likely as close to a demo you will get.

If you meet the minimum specs fully, you should be fine.

If you don't, well, you are taking a risk, or decide within 2 hrs.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

This will help you.

Closest thing you got is steam refund.


Demos are dead, replaced by betas that aren't actually betas but intact timed demos. But that only worked for multi-player games.

There was for the original fallout 1 the fallout gang thing where you were at a farm, but the newer fallout games none of them had demo's at least for pc no clue about consoles.

Wishful thinking. Besides that's why they specifically release minimum & recommended specs. There's also this site: http://systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

I can't remember ever seeing a demo for a huge open world AAA rpg, it's strange just how many people I've seen requesting a demo of Fallout 4.

Daggerfall Had a Demo.

But Youtube didn't exist back then to give gameplay video of upcoming games. All we had to go on back then was magazines and demos. It takes time to create a demo and it is much easier now to just show a video of the game than program a tiny version of the game and waste time that would be better spent on other more important things.

Most people don't understand how much work it is just to make a demo version of a game, plus studies have shown that it doesn't make a very significant difference in sales to justify even making a demo. A demo isn't happening, demos are a thing of the past for almost all games.

Surely there has to be another game out at the moment that has about the same requirements.. Wouldn't that work as a sort of test? I just went to Can You Run it!. It laughed at me and called me hurtful names.

I think Erzherzoghans was responding to the post directly before his: "I can't remember ever seeing a demo for a huge open world AAA rpg."

Maybe so, but Arcanum had a demo and it is a huge open world rpg for its time. Not sure if it is an AAA game, but it did make $8.8 million. There is also the Final Fantasy demos.

Will he/she be able to get money back on his/her bank account? VAC bans and gifts won't allow steam refunds. And don't you think 2hours too little to know if the game crashes after 2hours playthrough?

Don't know how long it takes to get steam refund or which countries are allowed but here is the policy.

http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds

There should be a demo, I don't understand why they don't do one, it would only get more people to buy the game. They said they couldn't in the past becase their games are open world but the start of oblivion was in a sewer, and skyrim was in an instanced town, and now fallout 4 starts in its own instanced town, why can't those parts be demos?

False.

Demos hurt game sales.

This Extra Credits vid explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QM6LoaqEnY

Maybe you didn't read the thread before you replied. Lots of reasons were explained.

For everyone joining the thread, here's a recap of the points that have been made.

"demo" = "downloadable, playable demo"

- Demos basically don't exist anymore
- Some games do have betas
- It used to be demos and magazines were primary source of game info for buy decision
- Now, demos don't sell games anymore, the cost/time to create them isn't worth it
- Creating demos costs too much time that could be spent on the game itself
- System requirements tell you if you can play the game or not
- Prior to launch, developers now release gameplay videos to show you the game
- YouTubers post a zillion videos of a game post launch

To which I'll add, if you really must actually play a game before you buy, try it a friend's house.

This.

Demos are a thing of the past, unfortunately. If you want to play the game without risking money on it, either get an account on Gamefly (there's a cheap monthly fee) and include Fallout 4 into your queue so it'll be shipped to your house, or go to a friend's house and play their copy of the game.

There will be no Demo version for Fallout 4. !!!

Bethesda will not offer a demo version of its upcoming RPG Fallout 4, the developer has confirmed.

Writing on Twitter, marketing executive Pete Hines explained why that won't happen. "No demo," he said to a fan who asked about it. "Not possible to cut up the game into a small piece."

Source: https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/658804433346764800

This probably could have been left dead lol

yes, I know...it doesn't matter anymore, as it seems. lol