[QUOTE="Aural_Assault"]
Wrong. I'm sorry your favorite game sucks, but what you just said is what people say when someone tells them their favorite game is a piece of crap. Try and justify throwing your money away all you want, but I don't "suck" at Madden any more than the people I play it with.
My problems with the game are many: It's an overpriced roster update. Not to mention I have issues with the Madden franchise's business practices. Sports games in general are overpriced IMO. It's the exact same game as last year (and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, etc.) with a new feature.
Why would you pay $60 for that? It honestly boggles my mind. What boggles my mind even more are the clowns who pay for NCAA and then three months later go out and pay $60 for the exact same game with different colored uniforms. 2k sports games were the best last gen at $20. At least they were honest about "hey, we know this isn't terribly different from last year, so we're only going to charge you $20."
Those are my major beefs with Madden. My last issue with it really has nothing to do with Madden, but sports games in general. Outside of playing with friends on your couch (a $20 experience), I don't see the point in sports games. Even then I find it hard to justify. I played basketball and baseball in high school, and football in little league when I was a kid. I play basketball in an intramural league here where I'm going to graduate school. There are tons of sports activities in every community for people of all ages, sizes and skill levels. Why play a video game of something you can do in real life?
white_sox
Any sorta proof you've played the last 3 to 4 years of NCAA and Madden? Why play a video game of something you can do in real life?Aural_Assault
Right, because I can get 22 people together with full pads and play at Soldier field right now. I can call Tony Romo and Brandon Marshall and see if they want to throw around the old pigskin for a couple hours. If you want to play a shooter go to the range. If you want to play guitar hero buy a Les Paul. If you want to play Half-life buy a science kit.We're on a forum so I guess there's nothing I can do to prove to you that I've played the past few years. While I have played every year, the last one I actually bought before 2010 was 2007 (had to cause Shaun Alexander was on the cover and I'm from Seattle). 2010 was same ol' same ol'. It is pretty easy to get 22+ guys together. Join a league. There are tons of them. You actually feel like you're throwing around with Brandon Marshall just because it's in a video game? Wouldn't tossing it around with a friend and pretending he's Brandon Marshall feel more like tossing it around with him than hitting the Y button and watching a virtual reproduction of it?
Buy a science kit? WTF does that even mean? I can see you really thought that one out. If I ever accidentally pay for or play a game where I'm shooting at paper targets with a .22 rifle I'll make sure to remember your advice about shooters. As a guitar player for most of my life, the Guitar Hero game and its clones offend me. Just like I've been an athlete most of my life, sports games are pointless. Guitar Hero and Madden take away from meaningful activity that could be better used honing real life skills without much difficulty. For the price of the first Guitar Hero and its controller you could buy a cheap beginner guitar. For half the price of Madden you could pay a league entrance fee.
Video games should be an art. They should be a vehicle for delivering story. Of course, they can't and shouldn't be such all the time. There are a place for sports games in the industry and medium. But every year? At full price? For little to no innovation or change? With people buying it in the numbers they do? It does more damage than good to the medium as an art, cheapens the experience, gives us the image of and helps us spot the mindless consumer.
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