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Derek
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Topic: Madden demo is out Posted: 08-01-2008 at 8:51am |
I'm with you on this. I hate that 'feature' in video games. (See past Tiger Woods Tournamenet scoring, etc) Do you HAVE to have it on in Madden?
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K_Mosley
MVP Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 1529 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 11:13am |
I believe playing on the "my skills" skill level is what causes the computer to adjust to you. I'd assume that the other skill levels are the same. I'm gleaning that from Bill Abner's blog - I obviously don't have the game myself.
Kevin
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Brent
Legend Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 6677 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 12:26pm |
Correct me if I am wrong, sliders aside, can you not just simply avoid the Madden IQ stuff and just play on one of the four difficulties (could have sworn you could but not really interested in delving into the 100 page threads over at OS).
Edit: Oops just noticed Derek asked the same thing. |
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Slumberland
All-Star Joined: 01-27-2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 577 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 3:02pm |
I tend to play these games on defaults, but the ruckus has been very entertaining.
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Brent
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 3:15pm |
Just imagine if you could see some of the PM's sent to Ian or Phil. $50 there was at least one death threat.
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Mike_S
Rookie Joined: 02-21-2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 254 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 3:50pm |
Not completely correct for this thread, but seems to fit...I saw some
comments both here and at DigitalSportsPage about pre-release
complaints on the game...
If you guys see stuff you don't like -- no CPU sliders, etc. -- vote with your money and time and don't buy the new versions of the game this year or ever. If the hardcores abandon the game completely, it will eventually lead to better quality. At least rent it first, then decide. Despite being a die-hard sports fan, and loving sports video games my whole life, I haven'tpersonally purchased an EA Sports product since NCAA 2003. And even that I knew was a probable-mistake at the time. Before that, probably the '98 versions or so. And before that, the '93 versions for Sega Genesis (which I actually got for free because I worked at EA at the time). And though I wish I had some great new video games to play, I'm so much happier playing High Heat 2004 and occasionally Winning Eleven 6, or just watching super-random stuff on ESPNU or CBSC or whatever than I ever could be wasting time and money on products I know will disappoint me and not be fun! :-) And just for grins, and way off-topic, my NCAA 2003 experience: First game. Having a terrible time learning and executing the controls. BC (me) leads UConn, 10-9, late in the game. I somehow intercept a pass at about my own 1 yard line and end up in my own endzone thanks to momentum, where I'm tackled. Safety called; it should have been a touchback by rule, but of course the game didn't call it correctly. Lose the game 11-10. The amazing part: I had seen the same exact bug in the series 5 years earlier, despite playing probably 5 games max. Albeit a small issue, it hadn't been fixed in 5 iterations of the game! That told me that they didn't care about gameplay details, which to me personally matter a ton. By contrast, I worked on a football game that was never released (likely the inspiration for the NFL Street series); the day we first saw that same bug in the office playing/testing the game it was fixed. If you care, vote with your pocketbooks. |
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Derek
MVP Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: New Jersey Online Status: Offline Posts: 1127 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 4:06pm |
Are you not a hockey fan, Mike? I think the EA hockey games have been pretty good.
But yes, of course you are right, a wallet (not that there's anything wrong with carrying a pocketbook ) is the best voice a consumer has. I love the online Nascar 09 play I've been having too, but the reports of the AI not being even able to drive on a road track pain me, not to mention the current glitch where profile saves get corrupted. I don't think these are minor things. |
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Grambo Bastille
All-Star Joined: 02-24-2008 Location: Worcester, MA Online Status: Offline Posts: 624 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 4:30pm |
The way I look at it, I buy a game to have fun. If it's not
perfect, I have to weigh what I like vs. what I don't like about a
game. Before both Grid and NCAA were released, there were people
saying that there were glitches which made the game unplayable.
On both counts, I either didn't notice the glitch, or it wasn't that
important to me. The complaints I see about Madden don't really
bother me so far. I am a sub-average gamer, so the "perfections"
don't usually affect me for the most part. I did not buy Madden
last year (nor did I buy NCAA last year as well), but I like the
symmetry of both games enough to buy them every other year - the
symmetry being the ability to draft college players you have in NCAA
into Madden.
The other thing I was attracted to was the collector's edition since I fully intended to buy Head Coach anyway. I have only purchased one other CE so far for the 360 because the extras are not usually worth it, but this one seems fun. To me, no game will ever be 100% perfect, but if I get a game and feel I play it enough to get my money's worth, then I am content. I am hoping Madden is that game. Oh, and I want to see the Pats kick the Giants ass! |
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Mike_S
Rookie Joined: 02-21-2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 254 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 4:33pm |
I like hockey ok, but it's not my favorite. To be honest, IMO,
the NHL series has always been the best of the EA-Sports games for "fun
factor". I just haven't been excited enough about NHL or the
games themselves to want to give it another try, I remember it being
fun with an opponent in an arcady-way, but less fun in 1-player mode.
Also, I enjoy playing mostly single player games (which I'm told represents about 50% of the market in sports games). I can definitely see how some of these games would be more fun if you're playing against your brother or good friends online. BTW, are you old enough to have tried the early Wayne Gretzky Hockey games from the late '80s/early '90s on PC or Amiga ?!? Talk about fun factor through the roof!! Great AI, easy-to-learn-but-somewhat-deep controls, believable stats, etc. I played WGH II -- a DOS game!! -- for my PC for probably 10 years or more, talk about a high bar for EA NHL to try to match!! :-) Unfortunately, it had some PC-hardware-specific code in there and doesn't want to run under any DOS emulators I can find; and my original DOS-based 386 is recently dead and buried. :-( |
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TedSGN
MVP Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: Friday Harbor Online Status: Offline Posts: 3288 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08-01-2008 at 7:30pm |
Mike,
I was a die hard Wayne Gretzky Hockey player on the Amiga for several years. I even used the companion product Hockey League Manager which allowed you to do all the management stuff and then save it as a file. Then you would load the file in WGH and play the game and save the file. Then load it back into HLM and manage some more. It was very very deep and very cool. It took a lot of years to find a hockey game that I felt surpassed WGH in fun and realism and that was NHL 2k2 on the Dreamcast. WGH had the advantage of being 2D so that all of the play looked realistic and had statistical fidelity. |
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