Demos from TGS:2k6 - Bounty Hounds and Ape Escape Racing

[FurryCurry]

Well not really a slew but for the time being, here's Ape Escape racing.
http://www.pspfanboy.com/2006/09/25/tgs-06-ape-escape-downloadable-demo/

Let's hope the rest appear soon (like RR2, MHF2, etc).
http://www.pspfanboy.com/2006/09/20/downloads-spotted-at-tokyo-game-show/

UPDATE:

B-b-b-b-bounty Hounds!
http://www.pspfanboy.com/2006/09/30/bounty-hounds-playable-demo/

[Roufuss]

Ape Escape Racing? Why does Sony have to keep fucking up that series with so many shitty spinoff's :(

[FurryCurry]

It's so shitty. It looks and plays like a lifeless racer. I've never played a kart racer that looked and felt this boring. I hope this is an early build (but like I care about it anyway).

[doubledown]

Neat....will these be accessible going through the PSP site where it makes life easy for people to copy these?

[Ender]

Bounty Hounds is fucking great. Just saying.

[jkam]

Grabbed the demo...hopefully there will be more up later. I still don't understand why Sony isn't just hosting all of these for download. I just got a Killzone UMD and Gangs of London UMD...which seems like a waste.

[FurryCurry]

Neat....will these be accessible going through the PSP site where it makes life easy for people to copy these?
This and any future demos from TGS are probably going to come from the people who went to TGS and kept the demos on their Memory Sticks, much like this one.

Grabbed the demo...hopefully there will be more up later. I still don't understand why Sony isn't just hosting all of these for download. I just got a Killzone UMD and Gangs of London UMD...which seems like a waste.
Yeah downloadables are the way to go. I would assume it's cheaper too.

OK I replayed the demo when I wasn't falling asleep. It's not shitty but it's still kinda uninspired although putting your legs/arms together to speed up or spreading them out to brake and power slide or leaning on one side is pretty cool. Other than that it's still *yawn*.

[RelentlessRolento]

hmmm... i want a hand at bounty hounds.

[I AM WILLIAM H. MACY]

Ape Escape Racing? Why does Sony have to keep fucking up that series with so many shitty spinoff's :(
QFT

[whoknows]

hmmm... i want a hand at bounty hounds.
Same here, I keep almost buying it and then not buying it. If I played the demo then I could decide if I should get it or not.

[CrimsonPaw]

Same here, I keep almost buying it and then not buying it. If I played the demo then I could decide if I should get it or not.
^^^ Hello SONY!!!^^^ Wouldn't take much to get the chance to make more $$

Seriously though, I thought about picking up BH too just because Ender keeps praising it. It'd be damn nice to get a demo and see if I like it (I picked up MG Ac!d 2 because everyone praised it and really didn't care for it) and wanna shell out the money.

[yukine]

Sony should learn from Microsoft, it's been proven to help sales if you let the public check out a demo prior to releasing the game to retail.

[The Mana Knight]

Grabbed the demo...hopefully there will be more up later. I still don't understand why Sony isn't just hosting all of these for download. I just got a Killzone UMD and Gangs of London UMD...which seems like a waste.Well, they do UMD for we don't have to use up our memory stick space. I only have a 512MB one, sto I cannot hold many demos. When I compared the World Tour Soccer 06 demo from UMD to downloadable, the downloadable one was stripped down and basically had nothing, while the UMD version was a pretty large demo.

I'm going to download the games. I still love every Ape Escape (even the spin-offs) so I gotta try it.

[yukine]

Need Firmare 2.81? Eh, I guess I'll pass.

[The Mana Knight]

I just played the Ape Escape racing demo. IMO, it rocked.

[M3wThr33]

Sony should learn from Microsoft, it's been proven to help sales if you let the public check out a demo prior to releasing the game to retail.

Yeah. And they should start bundling monthly demo discs with their official magazines like Sony has DONE SINCE THE PLAYSTATION 1, tard.

[CrimsonPaw]

Yeah. And they should start bundling monthly demo discs with their official magazines like Sony has DONE SINCE THE PLAYSTATION 1, tard.
Wow, way to be a cockstain. I believe he was saying that they should allow downloadable demos like XBL offers their subscribers. Thanks for being a dickhead though, it's nice to see that it's still the in thing to be an asshat.

[Michaellvortega]

Yeah. And they should start bundling monthly demo discs with their official magazines like Sony has DONE SINCE THE PLAYSTATION 1, tard.

Booooooooooooo

[M3wThr33]

He's acting like Microsoft were the first people to ever offer demos.

[-Never4ever-]

He's acting like Microsoft were the first people to ever offer demos.

Again, he was referencing M$'s XBLM strategy; a service where we can download demos for FREE. Buying magazines for something that should be outright free in the first place sucks.

Guess you're the "tard" this time around. :roll:

[darkchild81]

Ape Escape wasn't that fun, (besides the disco ball thing) but free demos rock!

[CrimsonPaw]

I believe if you take the MS mention and tie it to the thread title (downloadable demos) you'll see that he was stating how MS has downloadable demos. Granted it could have been a bit clearer, but I highly doubt he was saying MS initiated the demo scene (which I would actually crown the PC for this act).

Either way, I think we'll start to see more DL demos once the PS3 comes out and Sony initiates their online marketplace presence.

[FurryCurry]

Bounty Hounds demo is up...

Post Demo Thoughts:

I think that I'll really dig the full version. The Camera is lame but I've seen worse and it seems like you'll have time to get away from enemies and get a better line of sight. The controls are easy to figure out (not so much the force field and weapon combos) and the enemies really do seem different. Granted, the bazooka and mace (damn what a sweet fucking mace) destroy everything in 2 hits it seems, I'm sure there are much harder foes and cooler weapons. Sound effects are ok and the music (same looping track everywhere; the limitations of downloadables I guess) is alright too.

I'll just wait for a price drop or sequel. I had more fun playing this than Monster Hunter (feels too sluggish for me).

OH BY THE WAY

If you've noticed, some enemies fall over and stay on the ground after death, you can run over to them and hit L to bring up a menu to take weapons and armor from them. I've grabbed the flamethrowing gattling gun (flamethrower). It was alright but I missed my bazooka bad. EDIT: I've also seen, boots, a helment, chest armor, and this weird shuriken like weapon that does quick damage.

[darkchild81]

2 demos within a week?! \(^o^)/

[I AM WILLIAM H. MACY]

Wow both are awful

Ape Escape is just very dull and Bounty Hounds is just killing the same enemies over and over again, with the same two weapons. Yawn.

[FurryCurry]

Wow both are awful

Ape Escape is just very dull and Bounty Hounds is just killing the same enemies over and over again, with the same two weapons. Yawn.

In the demos' defense...

Ape Escape isn't finished yet (but I don't think it holds any promise) and Bounty Hounds has 4 weapons and you can pick up more from fallen foes as well as try out the triangle/x weapon combos for special attacks. Plus it's obviously a Game Sharing demo of Bounty Hounds which is only for you to get a taste.

[darkchild81]

I know they aren't great but they're FREE. :)