Originally when I got back into gaming as an adult, the Dreamcast was the console I had been playing.
The NFL 2k Football games totally blew my mind. I am a huge football fan and I thought they were super realistic compared to the Montana Sports talk Football of my earlier days of gaming. I guess I was never a "Madden Football" fan.
I always preferred another NFL game to Madden.
When ESPN NFL 2k5 came out I was in Sim Football heaven! The animations looked real, unlike Maddens (Gears of War type Animations) There was gang tackles, you could control the defense like never before, you could double cover the wide receivers, the playbooks were authentic. There was a trophy section called "The Crib" where you unlocked items from your favorite teams to put around your crib.
There were celebrity people to play against like Steve-O from Jackass and Carmen Electra. Where the Computer simulated what the celebrities did when they actually played the game themselves. This was also a feature online, you could download the top players "Profile" and play against it, even when they weren't there, and it would copy all the things they would do. That way you could practice against them.
There were online leagues, I won mine. There were online ranking systems, I was in the top 10.
The running game actually worked in this game. THere was even the unique First person Football mode. Which was fun to mess around with.
Best of all 2K sports realized what a total rip off it is to sell a new sports game eact year for a full $50 or $60 when most games just give you an updated roster.
So there solution was to charge $19.99 for all there sports titles. Due to this, I was able to buy ESPN 2k5 Football on Playstation 2 and XBox and I also was able to buy 2k5 Baseball.
The folks over at EA Didn't like this very much, they were outclassed and outsold by ESPN NFL 2K5, so what did they do? They purchased the very expensive exclusive NFL license.
So now Madden is the only game that can have actual NFL players and and stadiums and things like that. My big concern is that with no competition EA doesn't have to improve the product. People will buy it because it is the only game in town. They aren't forced to get better.
I have not bought an NFL game since then and I cant wait until the license runs out. I think it is a mistake to let any one developer have rights to something like the NFL or MLB or anything like that.
Now what can we do? Well I have done the class action thing, I've signed the petitions and now I guess we just have to wait for the Exclusive deal to fade away. It should have never happened to begin with honestly.
I am happy to see EA fail again and again, I love the fact that less and less people are buying Madden each year. You reap what you sew EA.
We published the performance optimization guide for Ghost of Tsushima earlier today. This is the second post in that series, recommending the optimized settings for the Steam Deck handheld console. Ghost of Tsushima was tested in the below scene using customized graphics settings that provide a stable 40-45 FPS at 720p.
Yes, Ubisoft's divisive pirate RPG Skull and Bones appears to be sailing on the tides of success, as Ubisoft prepares to launch Season 2.
I recall seeing a fairly low concurrent player base that was helped by the free trial (likely the metric they are using internally to push for season 2)
If true, it goes to show that the negative press response was not reflecting reality. I personally thought omitting land traversal was a huge miss. But i also thought there was some things that were great about it. Lets see which story was true and which was made up (or worse, paid for)
No data just pr talk. The same site has an article talking about how the price of the game was slashed quickly post release, these sites treat us like fools lol
They're right. There is no argument either. The game is a turd and Ubisoft is doubling down on that turd. It's all fancy PR talk with no actual substance. I don't know what "argument" you're looking for. I read the article. It sounds like Ubisoft asked for a redo on their "AAAA" "game". Trash game and trash company.
Price decrease articles are typically made to make it seem like a gaming is flopping, they're often poorly researched and meaningless.
The article about the game thriving is also meaningless because it contains no data, it's basically corporate propaganda, even suicide squad is getting a season 2
In resume, not only this site plays both sides, it does it lazily and cynically because they don't care about quality, what they care about is clicks from us ( fools )
@ jb
🤣 all it says is thanksfor the support. It's not like they're saying hey it's better than what you've seen come buy it. Lol you guys will whine about anything
@ Friendly
Gotcha when you referenced the other articles was like... uh doesn't that make it non biased? Basically you prefer stats with these articles or some sort of metric. I'm tracking. All I can say is... not everything is an amazing read or comment on n4g, lol. Game on!
Skull and bones TReMENDoUS ReSPoNSe. Prove it gaming journalist !! Prove it
@InYourFaceHole Use all the emojis you need in order to feel better. Your latest comment is just a "save face" comment. Everybody knows you're a Ubisoft simp now. I hope you got what you wanted with your $190 Rare Earth Metal Ultimate Clandestine Epic Edge Lord Edition.
The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication was incredibly scary, and would be considered a cinematic horror because of how well everything is done visually. There are many faults with it, but at least it's very scary.
uck e.a. they are trash .hot alley trash
No mention of FIFA? One of EA Sports biggest franchises and it's ignored?
@danarc
No offense but I don't like nor play soccer games. I know it might be successful? but I do know EA didn't buy the license to Soccer and ruin that, there is competition for that game. EA isn't forced to make a better NFL game however because people will still buy it because there is no competition.