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Are there any franchises that you would WANT to be 'annualized'? [roundtable]
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08/18/12, 22:50 Edited: 08/18/12, 22:52
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@JargonI talked to EA about doing this with a NASCAR game. They told me (like other sports have Player's Associations) that there needs to be an individual contract with EVERYTHING. Drivers, sponsors, teams, tracks, announcers, etc. Just, crazy. I was like "could you guys release, like, NASCAR Wii, and just have a subscription, or something, or a downloadable year every year? We could get new paint schemes, drivers, any changes, whatever. We'd have to buy one disc, saving you guys money on production, and then we could still pay, I dunno, $20 or something for all of the new stuff." One lady really liked my idea, and demanded I gave my email address to her. I never heard from her again. As with football though, yeah, NFLPA is only good for like one year, I think. You wouldn't be able to have any College guys in there at all, neither name or likeness. Heck, Tecmo Super Bowl III didn't have ANY Rookies named in it. WR Niners (JJ Stokes), anyone? @WrathOfSamus777@PaperclypAre you guys even sports fans though? For someone who ISN'T a sports fan first (not a "sports game fan"), it doesn't make any sense to them. By that token, I feel that the opinions of people who AREN'T sports fans towards sports games don't matter. I mean, you wouldn't/don't understand. Just like I'm severely unqualified to talk about FPS games, those who aren't familiar with sports have no right to tell me how the backup linebackers don't matter. To a sports fan (a REAL sports fan who unquestionably buys a "new" sports game each and every year), these things matter. |
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@WrathOfSamus777Well.. I dunno, thats kind of a weird approach. With that, you'll always be waiting, ya know? If you're SET on doing that, you should hop in somewhere, and just skip a year. If you're always holding out for the best, I mean, you're never gonna buy anything, like you aren't. But what if you choose the wrong year? What if you were staggering your Madden purchases and you ended up with 04 and 06? That means you would've missed out on 05, probably the best one theres been, and you'll also miss out on 07, another great one. 08 was kinda stinky. Me, I just buy everything. Its not that much, and unlike you (and a lot of people here), I AM a sports junkie. I watch every Bills game, every football game I can, I go to games, I study rosters, I go to training camp, I buy jerseys. You know..stuff like that! I hear ya though. |
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Absolutely I'm a sports fan. I watch an embarrassing amount of football and basketball especially.
The idea of yearly installments are a joke for those games, particularly Madden and NCAA. They don't fix (what I consider to be) fatal flaws in the games. The secondary play in NCAA for instance is just irritating as hell. There's no vertical component to the passing. If you've got a guy wide open in a gap in the zone with a linebacker splitting the distance between the QB and the receiver, it's risky to throw it to that player (who's seriously WIDE OPEN) because your QB will chuck it right to him. Try to put some touch on the ball and you'll just lob it up for anyone.
Similar issues with deep passing, with corners or safeties covering one guy (not looking at the QB), you've got a guy wide open down the sidelines, but somehow the DB uses ESP the second the ball leaves the QB's hands and, with incredible recovery speed, will get there in time to break up the pass or pick it off.
Not to mention they still haven't fixed mario running, something 2K had solved years ago.
There's no incentive for EA to improve how their football games actually play. They sell like hotcakes if they keep it mostly exactly the same, throw in some gimmicky follow the star from high school on up mode and call it a day.
It really sucks. Give a talented developer like two or three years to make a brand new football game, then I would be excited.
Now, the NBA 2K series has been damn good in recent years, but I still think they're just making marginal improvements at this point. If they'd charge you $15 or something for a yearly roster update, skip a year or two to really improve their engine, and I'd be WAY more likely to buy their games.
Unfortunately for me I'm in the minority. People get caught up in the before the season starts hype, buy their yearly edition as a part of that, and we get these boring updates every year. |
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@StephenOh. @gtarrantNew levels have already come in DLC format in Super Mario Advance 4, and DLC levels are planned to happen for NEW Super Mario Bros. 2 - and probably for NEW Super Mario Bros. U as well. Never say never! @kriswrightOh ha ha, Animal Crossing. I get'cha. You know what needs to *stop* getting annualized? Sonic. But that's SEGA, not Nintendo. |
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