Are they going to release a demo later? : V

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:23 am

I'm just curious and would like to see a demo of Skyrim at Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Anyone heard of a demo coming? By atumn or late summer maybe?

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:18 pm

Yeah, a playable one

no, i havent heard of any demo's

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:52 pm

No, they aren't.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:59 pm

Probably not, at least not before launch. I do believe demos should be made available for all games though. Bioware managed to make one that even imports data to the real game, so I don't see any more excuse for "This game wouldn't work as a demo".

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:27 am

Making a playable demo of an Elder Scrolls is simply impossible.

What do you include, a dungeon? To show combat? Elder Scrolls is not only combat.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:25 am

No, they aren't.

Nooooooo! I want to play a demo of the game.

Very well, I guess that will make the full game more exciting.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:40 pm

Making a playable demo of an Elder Scrolls is simply impossible.

What do you include, a dungeon? To show combat? Elder Scrolls is not only combat.

Yeah, it's kinda pointless. They did it for Daggerfall though.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:33 am

How do you make a demo of a game with almost limitless possibilitys and a huge map you'd have to restrict someone to a city or similar in which they could still have hours of gameplay so there is a problem there especially if a quest asks them to leave the city but they can't the idea to make a demo is almost as much work as making a city in the game

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:36 pm

no

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:03 am

Pete confirmed there will be no public demo.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:10 am

I doubt very much that Bethesda will put out a Playable Demo. Unless they change their whole approach and put out something like the 'escape from prison' section. _{Which they won't.}

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:48 pm

They could be tweaking dynamics till the very end...

Bethesda has built up enough street cred that they don't need to release a demo to convince gamers their game will be good. Gamers have faith at this point. Well earned faith

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:31 pm

Pete confirmed there will be no public demo.

Source?? Not that I don't believe you, but it would be nice so everyone knows

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:15 am

A physics demo could actually be fun. A room with different random stuff. The player with a sword and a fireball spell. GO.. But i agree that a normal demo would never work and the programming would take to much time away from the actual game. !

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:52 am

Source?? Not that I don't believe you, but it would be nice so everyone knows

I'm on my phone and don't know how to link to twitter. I assure you it's on his twitter feed though.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:17 am

Yeah, it's kinda pointless. They did it for Daggerfall though.

Daggerfall was much easier since they had generated locations. The first demo was a sealed dungeon which I sunk a lot of time in to, the second put you on a small island so you really did get a good feel for the game itself. However now that Bethesda relies more on hand crafted locations a demo would be difficult to accomplish.