Maximum Football???

[biological warrior]

Any newes on Division Rivals?

[thrym]

Originally Posted by BradS

LOL funny as hell thread, ppl still believe this is coming out soon. You should go to the Combat Leader board there. Same deal, been in development for over 4 years now. Until recently the developers decided they did not like the direction the game is going and development halts. What a joke.

That reminds me...haven't I been waiting on Team Fortress 2(or whatever Sierra is calling it now) since Spring of 1999, it might even go back farther if I wanted to dig at it...but I don't

[tucker rocky]

Nice screens of this game, to bad it'll never be fullfilled.

[Bee]

Just finished reading some of the threads over there...I'm not sure if it's hilarious or just sad...

[Ragone]

Anyone got word on black ice hockey by chance?

Ooh, and i hear duke nukem forever is nearing release!

[tucker rocky]

Originally Posted by Bee

Just finished reading some of the threads over there...I'm not sure if it's hilarious or just sad...

Threads are there, just nothing but a blank page loads. Unless I'm being impatient.

[tucker rocky]

Originally Posted by tucker rocky

Threads are there, just nothing but a blank page loads. Unless I'm being impatient.

yes I am, patience is the thing.

So much hope, but nothing will ever happen with this game.

[Tigercat]

As for the idea about it being a good simulation finally with real graphics:

1) By the time this game goes out the graphics will be dated. Whats the point of the product supposedly appealing as something like FOF+Madden if the graphics are way worse than the latest Madden?

2)This guy doesn't exactly have the kind of experience in releasing several versions of good simulation titles that the best sport sim developers do. Whats the point of the product supposedly appealing as something like FOF+Madden if the simulation is way worse than the latest FOF?

I would think there is a high chance that this game is bad FOF + bad Madden with more customability. I said something similiar before, who cares if you can play with 6 quarters on a 140 yard field if the game is subpar in the more important aspects?

[Grammaticus]

Who knows, until the game comes out it is just some guys fantasy. Or maybe many guys fantasy. What do you say, you wanna nail Pam Anderson?

[Desmond]

I want this game to come out so it will be easier to make pictures for my FOFMP League.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

Reading the current website over at Matrixgames, I'm still pretty pumped about this game. Release should be any day now, I think reconfiguring everything for career play caused an unavoidable delay, and looks like its going to hit the ground running with plenty of leagues/teams/uniforms/past and present already made and waiting for it.

Any update?

[CraigSca]

It's my understanding he's having problems with the Maximum Football Power Poll feature

[Galaril]

This game is a joke.

[A-Husker-4-Life]

Originally Posted by Galaril

This game is a joke.

I call it vaporware.... Put this game in with Duke Nukem Forever....

[Bonegavel]

Quik wins the award for best comments in a vaporware thread.

[Riggins44]

I hope the operating system(s) he's developing for is still relevant when he releases the game. Might be like 4 or 5 version of Windows released before it comes out.

[ahbrady]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Any update?

I'm expecting it to be released any minute now.

[Coffee Warlord]

The true secret is it's done, they just have to upload it to their server. Unfortunately, when this game entered development, it was back in the days of 300 baud modems. Having never upgraded their hardware, it's taken several years to upload it to the web.

Expect the upload to finish in 2014.

[ice4277]

I think it is going to be released right.........................now.

[ice4277]

Damn.

[Bubba Wheels]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Any update?

Well, since you ask...I checked the website last weekend and the update they had at the time was the box-cover art was being finished and some last minute 'honing' going on. Check it out for yourselves over at Matrixgames.com.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

Well, since you ask...I checked the website last weekend and the update they had at the time was the box-cover art was being finished and some last minute 'honing' going on. Check it out for yourselves over at Matrixgames.com.

Well, then I'm convinced. Just 13 months of last minute "honing" eh? Great. Where do I pre-buy?

[yabanci]

Takes a long time to "hone" that box art.

12/14/2004
The staff of Matrix games and I have worked out a tentative release schedule of Super Bowl week. The exact day is TBA but it should be that week. The reason for the extra delay is rather simple. Matrix and Wintervalley simply teamed up too late to have a good Christmas release. Box art, promotional materials, etc are still being created.

[Eaglesfan27]

Well, the box art is certainly going to make or break this game.

[Bubba Wheels]

Well, they have it featured in the 'game recon' box on the Matrixgames site...so Matrixgames seems willing to bet its cred on a release pretty soon.

[biological warrior]

This is what happens when you do too much with too little. Just release the frequent game and develop ot over time.

[CraigSca]

To hell with the game, I can't wait for the promotional materials! Maybe it'll be a jar of Vick's Vap-o-rub?

[Emiliano]

Originally Posted by yabanci

Takes a long time to "hone" that box art.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Oh, shit, I just noticed what year that "box art" notice was from. I had originally thought that that message was from a month ago.

[Bubba Wheels]

Well, the forum over there says that David Winter, developer has finished and its all in Matrixgames hands right now.

[Bubba Wheels]

C'mon, you can design and play games from any period in history. Check out these leather helmet days and tell me you aren't going to get this game.http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=997248

[MJ4H]

oh

[vex]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

C'mon, you can design and play games from any period in history. Check out these leather helmet days and tell me you aren't going to get this game.http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=997248

I'm not going to get this game.

[st.cronin]

So, if this game is released, how long will it take them to get a patch out?

Or, will a patch not be needed?

[biological warrior]

I'll give it a shot, providing it is around the 24-25$ price range.

[Tigercat]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

C'mon, you can design and play games from any period in history. Check out these leather helmet days and tell me you aren't going to get this game.http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=997248

Butt ugly graphics? Yea, that will get me to buy the game. Hell, stubby console Madden characters from the mid 90s look just as good as that attempt to make 3D players. Do some of those guys have white halloween masks over their faces?

Again, explain to my why a customizeable game with bad graphics and a who knows how good sim engine(probably sub par compared to whats out there) could possibly get you this excited? Or better yet, why should it get US excited? Answer: It Shouldn't.

[sovereignstar]

Originally Posted by Tigercat

Butt ugly graphics? Yea, that will get me to buy the game. Hell, stubby console Madden characters from the mid 90s look just as good as that attempt to make 3D players. Do some of those guys have white halloween masks over their faces?

I think everything is customizable, so those white halloween masks could be gorilla masks or maybe even teenage mutant ninja turtle masks.

[Tigercat]

Originally Posted by sovereignstar

I think everything is customizable, so those white halloween masks could be gorilla masks or maybe even teenage mutant ninja turtle masks.

Sweet! I always wanted a game of Mike Ditka vs a team full of Michael Myers played on the surface of the moon!

[MizzouRah]

Might be the most un-anticipated football game ever for me. I want the FPS Series to RIP in my mind.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

So, if this game is released, how long will it take them to get a patch out?

Or, will a patch not be needed?

Based on how long everything else has taken, IF it is released, there's zero chance that I'm buying it unless I hear lots of positive reviews and feedbacks. There's no reason at this point to have any confidence that timely patches would be released.

[MalcPow]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Based on how long everything else has taken, IF it is released, there's zero chance that I'm buying it unless I hear lots of positive reviews and feedbacks. There's no reason at this point to have any confidence that timely patches would be released.

But patches don't need nearly as much box art work

[Pumpy Tudors]

Can you get banned for posting a fake Maximum Football release thread?

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Based on how long everything else has taken, IF it is released, there's zero chance that I'm buying it unless I hear lots of positive reviews and feedbacks. There's no reason at this point to have any confidence that timely patches would be released.

Ditto.

[MalcPow]

Only if you bash Michelle Wie and link to tubgirl AND fake a Maximum Football release...

[Bubba Wheels]

I still give alot of credit to David Winter for making this game. Consider that the sales of computer sports games are a fraction of that of the console games. Then consider that everybody who makes computer sports games makes them as text sims. So I don't care at all about the delays.

And any fair-minded person has to acknowledge that this game should have and would have already been out if the 'career-play' option hadn't been pushed so much. But it will just make for a better game when it does happen.

[yabanci]

those graphics look horrible. They remind me of that old tabletop football game where the field vibrates and the little figures buzz around mindlessly. Look at screenshot #3. Where is that defensive player running to? Someone needs to pause the vibration and reorient him in the right direction. Look at screenshot #5. The running back is taking it in for a score and the two safeties are frozen flatfooted deep in the end zone like statutes. This is going to be a disaster.

[biological warrior]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

I still give alot of credit to David Winter for making this game. Consider that the sales of computer sports games are a fraction of that of the console games. Then consider that everybody who makes computer sports games makes them as text sims. So I don't care at all about the delays.

And any fair-minded person has to acknowledge that this game should have and would have already been out if the 'career-play' option hadn't been pushed so much. But it will just make for a better game when it does happen.

I hope you are right because the genre needs a solid simulation, but right now it looks like crap but the release will tell I guess.
Right now Im hoping someone would remake Accolade's Legends of Football.

[sovereignstar]

Originally Posted by yabanci

those graphics look horrible. They remind me of that old tabletop football game where the field vibrates and the little figures buzz around mindlessly. Look at screenshot #3. Where is that defensive player running to? Someone needs to pause the vibration and reorient him in the right direction. Look at screenshot #5. The running back is taking it in for a score and the two safeties are frozen flatfooted deep in the end zone like statutes. This is going to be a disaster.

#5 is *really* funny.

[Desmond]

Ill buy everyone here a copy of the game just to see the glory that would ensue from a "Alright Boys, Maximum Football First Impressions" Thread over on those forums.

[astrosfan64]

Originally Posted by yabanci

those graphics look horrible. They remind me of that old tabletop football game where the field vibrates and the little figures buzz around mindlessly. Look at screenshot #3. Where is that defensive player running to? Someone needs to pause the vibration and reorient him in the right direction. Look at screenshot #5. The running back is taking it in for a score and the two safeties are frozen flatfooted deep in the end zone like statutes. This is going to be a disaster.

Classic Post.