whirlingdervish
Brahmin Cavalry Commander
then there are two different Fallout 3s that they are using for demo purposes.
One is the version that they were showing to people long before the game was ever done.
If it wasn't "finished" at that time, then it wasn't the full game.
(much like the quake 2 demo, that was released to the public and included the full q2 engine, but only the first unit worth of content)
If all of the resources are there but you can't access them in the "full game" that people are now getting access to (and will be on the e-3 floor) then it's also a shortened version of the game by whatever artificial means they use to keep people out of those areas and away from certain content.
It makes little difference how they keep people out of these areas, since they could do it by not including that content or by imposing walls through custom code or by physically telling them not to go there irl.
None of this changes the fact that they have been showing 2 effectively shortened versions of the game.
My point was that they already made a demo, in the form of the version they were showing to the press all this year (which we know is not the whole game), not that we should all get to download the complete game that they are letting the press actually play in a limitted fashion, as a demo.
I was also making it obvious that they could have made a demo for mass release and have chosen not to.
BTW, I've been writing code in c++, various forms of basic, and java for years now, in addition to modding 3d engines and making maps, models, textures and other content for them in my free time, and I have a very good understanding of how games exist as programs.
One is the version that they were showing to people long before the game was ever done.
If it wasn't "finished" at that time, then it wasn't the full game.
(much like the quake 2 demo, that was released to the public and included the full q2 engine, but only the first unit worth of content)
If all of the resources are there but you can't access them in the "full game" that people are now getting access to (and will be on the e-3 floor) then it's also a shortened version of the game by whatever artificial means they use to keep people out of those areas and away from certain content.
It makes little difference how they keep people out of these areas, since they could do it by not including that content or by imposing walls through custom code or by physically telling them not to go there irl.
None of this changes the fact that they have been showing 2 effectively shortened versions of the game.
My point was that they already made a demo, in the form of the version they were showing to the press all this year (which we know is not the whole game), not that we should all get to download the complete game that they are letting the press actually play in a limitted fashion, as a demo.
I was also making it obvious that they could have made a demo for mass release and have chosen not to.
BTW, I've been writing code in c++, various forms of basic, and java for years now, in addition to modding 3d engines and making maps, models, textures and other content for them in my free time, and I have a very good understanding of how games exist as programs.