bxphenom7's Blog - Operation Sports

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Posted on May 31, 2018 at 08:01 PM.

PSN has a sale that includes PES 2018 at $19.99, and FIFA 18 at $23.99. What really hurts seeing this is I had already bought FIFA 18 around Black Friday at around $20 because of trade-in credit only to return it within 3 weeks because I couldn't get into it. With the World Cup nearing, I'm very tempted to pick up PES or FIFA again. But at these prices and FIFA 18's World Cup patch, this has become a tough decision.

I was never supposed to have a football game this year. Nonetheless, ... Read More

Friday, August 8, 2014

MLB The Show Needs Consistency Rating

Posted on August 8, 2014 at 11:41 AM.

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First off, I just want to say MLB The Show has been my favorite sports franchise since MLB 2005 with Eric Chavez on the cover, a couple of years before The Show was added to the title. I could hardly find things wrong with it, until now.

MLB The Show needs a consistency rating, right down to it. Personally, I've always felt slumps were programmed into the game (some people say no) but this year's versions has slumps that are just brutal.

In RTTS, my guy has 92 OVR, ... Read More

Thursday, April 25, 2013

A CFL Game - What Would It Mean To Football Market?

Posted on April 25, 2013 at 12:06 AM.

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So I came upon a link to a fan forum for a Canadian football team and someone posted an email from a representative of the CFL announcing they are working on a video game for both mobile and console. Check it out:

http://www.riderfans.com/forum/showthread.php?114509-CFL-Video-Game-is-actually-happening

I, like many football fans, have been dying for a developer to create a football game to go head to head with Madden ever since 2K was forced out of competing. I found myself ... Read More

Monday, October 8, 2012

2K Should Just Make College Football

Posted on October 8, 2012 at 01:38 PM.

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With the class-action lawsuit settlement and EA being able to retain their NFL exclusive license, I'm starting to grow inpatient for the first time and starting to wonder if there will ever be NFL 2K again.

If there is going to be an NFL 2K game, I believe it's only going to happen if 2K grabs the NFL's attention with an excellent college football game. If 2K make their game the preferred college football experience over EA's title, then they would stand a better fight in vying for ... Read More

Monday, September 3, 2012

2K's MLB Exclusive Third Party Rights

Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:49 AM.

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So EA's exclusive deal with the NFL killed off NFL 2k series that ended with NFL 2k5 - an awesome game. 2K acquired exclusive third party rights ending EA's MVP Baseball series with MVP Baseball 2005 - also an awesome game. However, 2K makes bad baseball games and EA makes never-changing (despite Madden 13 finally showing it's headed in the right direction) football games.

This is terrible from a consumer standpoint, and also terrible financially for 2K since its MLB offering receives ... Read More

Monday, August 27, 2012

Bringing 2K Football Back

Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:34 PM.

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After being disappointed yet again by this year's Madden, I started thinking of how great NFL 2k5 was last gen. I think Madden finally got the right ideas down and at this point it's just fine tuning but I don't understand why it's taken them this long to do so. It's Madden's first year with all these changes so i decided not to buy Madden 13 (haven't bought Madden since Madden 08) since I knew there would be hiccups and flaws with the first year of changes. I just really wanted to know if there's ... Read More

Sunday, August 12, 2012

2K Football Next-Gen? MVP Baseball Back No Doubt

Posted on August 12, 2012 at 07:16 PM.

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I absolutely miss NFL 2k5 still and it's 2012. I haven't bought a Madden game since Madden 08 because it's essentially the same game every year. Now, I know EA has a monopoly on the football game market and any hope for an NFL licensed game from 2K is non-existent. All Pro Football 2K8 disappointed me mode-wise; too bad 2K can't even tap in to Arena football...yet. There was a blog earlier on this site that showed MVP Baseball 2012 I believe for Japan's leagues. This had me thinking about how stupid ... Read More

Friday, August 10, 2012

NBA Live 13 M.I.A. A Good Thing Maybe?

Posted on August 10, 2012 at 07:41 PM.

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I had high hopes for NBA Live 13 after playing 2k since NBA 2k5. Every day EA doesn't release some info on their NBA Live 13 game, the less I believe it will be released. However, with all the criticism towards their silence and E3 showing, maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing for EA to cancel their game. Think about it - if EA decided to cancel this year's release, then they could take another year to develop this game. I was surprised when EA actually had not spent 2 years developing NBA Live ... Read More