I'd rather drink horse semen than play any of them, but I understand it's primarily because of the roster changes, so even a year later the game is worthless.
There are old sports games I still play today. RBI baseball on the NES is still fun today as when I played as a kid. Same with Super Tennis on the SNES. Coach K basketball for the Genesis hasn't aged as well but it's still pretty fun. And I regularly fire up College Hoops 2k8 on my ps3. That is still the greatest college basketball game.
super tennis is amazing. that game still owns. matt is my guy in that game.
I don't want to get flamed for saying this, but I think sports games with yearly rosters are one of the few types of console games that would probably be better as free-to-play or something or monthly charge that's super cheap.
I wonder how many Football fanatics really care about updated stats, though i agree just make a DLC for that stuff.
I'd like to see some attention to detail...cheerleaders, Refs, coaches cussing as they walk back n forth, models of fans in the stands and not blurry boxes...maybe a fight break out...remember the mini game fights in TV Sports hocky? Maybe get tackled and rammed into people on the side lines, real risks for players getting injured...etc
They could do that stuff without making it Arcadey, it would certainly pose far mroe realism than the way Madden is now.
Madden and NCAA Football have far too many real issues with actually creating a simulation of football to worry about stuff like that anytime soon. Broken AI, gameplay exploits, and bugs. 13 was a step in the right direction, but there's a ways to go.
NCAA Football added cheerleaders a couple years ago. And it's stale and repetitive after about the 9th or 10th time of seeing them. Doing the same things. Over and over. By about time number 100, you just want to pull your eyes out.
What's sad is that NFL2K5, a game now 9 years old, on a previous generation system, which was retailed for $20 new, from a company FAR smaller than EA, has easily 10x better presentation quality than current Madden's. It's laughable, but it just proves what a total lack of competition breeds.
Take Two isn't THAT much smaller than EA. Let's not forget that they are the publishers of a little series called Grand Theft Auto.
So?? The point still stands: A 9 year old game on a last gen console sold at a discount from a smaller company with fewer resources still utterly trounces the current offering's efforts in the presentation department.
It's a total joke.
Its not even whether you like sports games or not, they seem to be universally worthless. They always exclusively dominate the dollar bin.
Do they just make 10x more sports games than other genres? If they are really that hot and people buy them why dont they hold any value at all?
Only sports game I have that has ANY value is Tecmo Bowl for NES.
Its one of the biggest pet peeves of any collector, digging through 500 copies of Madden to look for Mario or something.
I buy old/used sports games. I will wait til it's about 2 years old before buying it for like $5 or less. I love $1 sports games. There is no better bang for buck. I don't care about current rosters.
I don't see the appeal of paying $60+ for old JPN rpg games. I enjoyed them as a kid but I just outgrew the repetition and genre. When I'm in the mood, I rather fire the rpg on a handheld via emulator rather than the old console itself. I still have most of the popular rpg games in cartridge and discs.
So?? The point still stands: A 9 year old game on a last gen console sold at a discount from a smaller company with fewer resources still utterly trounces the current offering's efforts in the presentation department.
It's a total joke.
You are comparing what is considered the best football of all time to every other football game. That is like comparing every JRPG to Chrono Trigger and crying they couldn't be as good. It was made by Square, why aren't all other Square titles as good?
Take Two isn't THAT much smaller than EA. Let's not forget that they are the publishers of a little series called Grand Theft Auto.