10 Demos That Made You AVOID Video Games

10. Forspoken

Developed by Luminous Productions and published by Square Enix, footage from Forspoken was heavily leveraged by Sony in ads for the PlayStation 5. The rich envrionments, lightning fast parkour, and robust spell effects seemed perfect to show off the PS5's prowess. Despite taking a while to arrive, it remained one of the console's most hyped upcoming releases.

Until a cinematic trailer dropped showing off the game's story.

The writing was... well... bad. Soon the entire Internet was mocking the dialogue between protagonist Frey and her dry-witted talking cuff.

The playable demo alleviated some of those concerns. No, the writing didn't magically improve, but insufferable banter between the protagonist and her cuff wasn't nearly as prevalent as expected.

Unfortunately, hype for the game took two steps forward and one step back. While peoples' concerns over the dialogue were tempered, the game itself was just fine. Graphics weren't as advertised - it's the video game industry, what else is new? - and gameplay was just OK. There wasn't anything bad about it, but it fell far short of the hype that had been generated by Sony.

The damage done, you can already find new copies of the game discounted just weeks after release.