All-Pro Football 2K8 - The Next Tecmo Bowl?

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by FORMULA316

Times are certainly different, when one company can flush the competition down the toilet buy gobbling up league licensing.

If that were true then we wouldn't be discussing the competition's new game, and this isn't even to mention the Blitz The League series. So you can hardly say EA or anyone has flushed the competition down the toilet by buying the NFL league license.

[J-Unit40]

Quote: Originally Posted by bangpow

Well, times are different nowadays. One of the greatest baseball games of all time, IMHO, was Baseball Stars and it had no license at all. The thing with that game was that you could actually build your team from the ground up, which at the time was unheard of. Since then, those innovations those games had have been put to use by the major games with the licenses now. So, you can get the best of both worlds now.

Baseball Stars! Oh, now we're talking. Some of my best memories are on the Nintendo with Baseball Stars. I used to create a team and put all my friends in the neighborhood on it and have a blast.

What a good time - Playing vs. the Lovely Ladies to stack your cash fund to build your squad. Going against the Ghastly Monsters, the World Powers and Oh of the Japan Robins. And what a dominant force was the American Dreams were. What a game!! And if your team erased?! Oh no, I would be livid. I had a good friend of mine put a pitchfork through the cartridge in his front lawn right after his max powered team erased. Talk about intensity and love for your franchise. Geez.

I'm done with my memory lane trip guys. Bangpow just took me back a ways.

[Scottdau]

Quote: Originally Posted by quietcool72

Formula, I didn't mean that APF2K8 was Tecmo-like on the field. The similarity to Tecmo Bowl is that its "star player driven". (and APFK2K8 uses about 106 former Tecmo Super Bowl vets from the 1991 season..) Tecmo also didn't market much, if at all. Yet the game took off because of its stars and its features, so its similar in that regard too. So when I compare it to Tecmo Super Bowl...I don't mean in the "on the field execution" sense. Tecmo was an arcade football game (though about as sim as it got back in 1991 on consoles.) There must be something about that 1991 season who's stars Tecmo pimped... and I think that 2K knew that when picking the roster. Nothing wrong with that... It was one of the most played football games in history, and those players stood out because of the game. Here's the vets from the original TSB in APF2K8 Troy Aikman Bubby Brister Randall Cunningham (i.e. "QB EAGLES") John Elway Steve Grogan Jim Harbaugh Bobby Hebert Jeff Hostetler Bernie Kosar Dave Krieg Dan Marino Joe Montana Warren Moon Ken O'Brien Mark Rypien Andre Ware Steve Young Merril Hoge Daryl Johnston Tom Rathman Ickey Woods Marcus Allen Ottis Anderson Reggie Cobb Roger Craig Barry Foster Freeman McNeil Dave Meggett Christian Okoye Barry Sanders Emmitt Smith Thurman Thomas Curt Warner Chris Doleman Rulon Jones Leonard Marshall Leslie O'Neal Clyde Simmons Tony Tolbert Reggie White Jerome Brown Dave Butz Mike Golic Dan Hampton Greg Kragen Keith Millard William Perry Dan Saleaumua Albert Lewis Terry McDaniel Rod Woodson Al Del Greco Jeff Jaeger Eddie Murray Ben Coates Eric Green Keith Jackson Brent Jones Pete Metzelaars Jay Novacek Mark Carrier Anthony Carter Gary Clark Henry Ellard Irving Fryar Willie Gault Ernest Givins Alvin Harper James Lofton Rob Moore Herman Moore Andre Reed Jerry Rice Ricky Sanders John Taylor Yancey Thigpen Dermontti Dawson Bill Fralic Russ Grimm Randall Mcdaniel Guy Mcintyre Jesse Sapolu Steve Wisniewski Joe Jacoby Jim Lachey Mike Munchak Anthony Munoz Bubba Paris Richmond Webb Harry Carson Pepper Johnson John Offerdahl Mike Singletary Chris Spielman Carl Banks Brian Bosworth Greg Lloyd Karl Mecklenburg Derrick Thomas Leroy Butler Ronnie Lott Eugene Robinson Eric Turner Joey Browner

Joey Browner was one mean cat on the field.

[wwharton]

Quote: Originally Posted by dQbell

The main reason why I'd say it isn't the next Tecmo Super Bowl is because All-Pro 2K8 was NFL 2K5 first, and as much as some keep saying, "Why do we have to keep talking about 2K5?", I think the reality is 2K5 will always be on our minds, if not for how great a game it was, then for the way the franchise was taken away from the market.

that's actually not the game most want to stop hearing about over here.

[FORMULA316]

Quote: Originally Posted by samuel40

Someone else mentioned 4th and Inches in another thread. Can I just say I am Dam proud to be among gamers who appreciate their heritage : ) That was some great footballin' and if my commadore 64 hadn't stopped working I would still be playing it today. anyway Great article I am ashamed to say that was my first time at that site. Very nice.

I had the Commodore 128D Those were great video gaming times!!!

[FORMULA316]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

If that were true then we wouldn't be discussing the competition's new game, and this isn't even to mention the Blitz The League series. So you can hardly say EA or anyone has flushed the competition down the toilet by buying the NFL league license.

Perhaps I wrote in haste and was not clear, however the reality is that there
are no competiting football games with the NFL license. What EA did was
effectively take the competition right out of the equation. Although I
am excited about APF, it's not an NFL-branded product.

[lostone]

Super Techmo Bowl is still fun to this day. The Raiders were silly good with Bo Jackson and Tim Brown and Marcus Allen. Oh man the running i did on that game. Bo Jackson was unstoppable. The best thing I pulled all the time was the run to my endzone then throw 100 yards for the touchdown for fun. Best post score animation ever :P

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by FORMULA316

Perhaps I wrote in haste and was not clear, however the reality is that there are no competiting football games with the NFL license. What EA did was effectively take the competition right out of the equation. Although I am excited about APF, it's not an NFL-branded product.

Yeah but there is still competition, it's just not branded the way you want (NFL) but my point was just that it's false to say EA ruined the competition with buying the NFL license because if they did then there'd be no competition at all and that isn't the case.