It appears that EA Sports has gotten over its initial growing pains when moving from last-generation consoles to the HD era. There's no doubt that the inaugural batch of sports games had its fair share of bugs, hitches and inaccuracies but with every passing season EA Sports has been able to up its game for each release in its large stable of titles.
GamingLives mourns the decline of socialising in online games and explores why.
" If an individual wants to include a social side to their gaming, they must now do so in dedicated communities, gaming clans and guilds, or by restricting themselves to their own friendship groups. No longer can it be found in our everyday experiences of the games we play online."
The reason why no one chats in-game anymore is because of three types of people:
1) The assholes that take the game too seriously and insult anyone that's better or worse than them,
2) The trolls that do nothing but teamkill or play loud, obnoxious music through the mic, and
3) The prepubescent snot-nosed children that are a mix of everything above.
If gamers actually had respect for one another and did their best to keep a clean competitive online environment, then maybe more people would be willing to plug their mics in. The odds of that ever happening, though? Slim. Very slim. It's a fact that being an anonymous entity online gives people a scapegoat to be immature; it gives them a mask to hide behind, and it's common for gamers to abuse that anonymity. Half of the stuff gamers say to each other while playing a game, they would never say face-to-face. Try going up to a random person at a gas station or shopping mall and call them a "d***-sucking f***** n*****" or talk about their mother. Odds are they'd deck you in an instant. But online? There's nothing they can do. It's essentially a Get Out Of Jail Free card.
It's a sad reality, but that's just the way it is -- and as much as we want it to change, it probably never will.
TGC writes: There are those that like to argue whether you are a Fifa gamer or a Pro Evolution Soccer gamer. I’m going to take it one step further and say your either a football gamer or a non football gamer. The fact of the matter is a new game comes out every year with possibly the slightest difference from the previous game and they release it onto the shelves in quantities thinking that they’ve made something new and improved. I really think they should hold a prize for anyone who can spot the difference between FIFA 09 and FIFA10 because I’m really struggling.
I use to buy every sports game I was interested in madden,MLB,nba and wwe along few others and I remember buying playing for few days than thinking why I paid full price for this. Than one year about 4 years ago I said no more and I have never bought another sports game at launch sometimes I do buy me when they $20 on craiglist of sale but that's barely
IMO sports games don't do enough to justify a fully price and that's just my opinion
If 2k can sell nfl 2k5 for $19.99 and make a profit than why are games today with less content are selling for full 60? No wonder why EA ran to nfl and bought the exclusive rights
FIFA
Nfl
Nba
MLB
Wwe
NHL
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Sports games shuld be every 2 years and in between dlc and more updates and stuff like tournaments
If people are willing to buy them then whats the problem? i think its cod or mw123 you should be talking about, the new pes and fifa look good this year.
There's no doubting that Gamerscore has been a phenomenal success for this generation of consoles. Microsoft's scoring system has proven to be an addictive mechanism that has incentivised gamers to keep playing even when a game is completed. So much was its success, that Sony even got into the act with the belated introduction of Trophies.
But if there's one thing we hate more than anything else, it's those odd-numbered achievements that mess up your score. Here's our pick of five of the offenders
Thats better:)
And PES is still way better. I don't know what these FIFA fan boy types keep screaming about. They almost sound like 360 owners who are trying to justify their purchase by making a villain out of the opposing console.
Play them both, side by side. FIFA is not as smooth, and not as good in any way. The players look slightly bettter on FIFA, but the animation is jerky and the grass looks crap.
And above all, the PES engine still feels amazing. I am not trying to be one sided here! Please try these demo's back to back! You will see PES is waaay better.
Are you kidding yourself
because by saying "not as good in any way" you are actually saying that pro has better graphics, better sound than fifa... i don't think so
as far as gameplay goes fifa FOR ME is allot better than pro evo but thats just my opinion
Pro evo is for people who have a passion for playing or watching football, real football people, the ones who follow a team, read gossip, live and breathe football, fifa is for kids and dads not very good at games. That is my opinion. Pro evo is fast, fluent and solid. fifa still feels too sluggish. Its ok playing the ball around the back four but as soon as you try to string a few passes together it falls into a boring, predictable game of slog it out in the middle of the park. Its hard to describe really, evo just has a better grasp of real football. The was attacks are built is more realistic, so what if fifa has better graphics and licenses, football is all about the playability.
Whooaaa !!! Chill out ad4mb, youre taking this way too seriously.
Why do you care what I think. If you enjoy it, play it. Just stating my opinion which is based on what I know. I have friends who play pro evo ( the majority, who are all football fanatics like myself ) and some who play fifa ( who are younger relatives mainly and their dads ). Most younger people find pro evo difficult as it rewards patience and tactics whereas fifa gives you the thrill of playing as gerrard, fabregas etc...