[General Discussion] More, MOOOOOOORE

Well, as far as "being so impressed with it I just HAD to go out and buy it" goes, I remember the warez version of Imperium Galactica 2 having that affect on me. Sure, it had the cutscenes, voices, and music cut out, but even then I was just blown away (I had never really played a "4x" strategy game like that before, and Master of Orion never interested me for some reason), and ended up buying the game with a friend as soon as I had a chance to get to the store.

I also was really hyped on the Battlefield 2 demo for a long while. My coworkers at the time were all really getting excited for the game since it was first announced, so of course we all jumped on playing the demo as soon as it was released and played it to death. I also got a few GFFers interested in the game that way. After a while I got the full game, but I still ended up playing the demo fairly heavily since everyone else I had showed the demo to was still playing it (and they were too cheap to buy the full version).

Also, while I wasn't blown away by it, I ended up really liking Halo much better than I thought I would from the demo that was on some demo disc a year after the Xbox was released (which is about when I got mine), enough that I went out and got the game later...albiet I waited for a deal since I'm such a huge budget shopper.

Jam it back in, in the dark.