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  • RaychelSnr
    Executive Editor
    • Jan 2007
    • 4845

    #1

    Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch



    To anyone who read my Backbreaker Review, you know I've royally trashed the game's quality in the past. But I've also tried to remain consistent with the game being a lasting lesson to sports game developers that there is a different approach than the 'God-angle' many of the games have gone with in the past few years.

    To truly simulate a sport, the best way to do so is to get you closer to the action, Backbreaker did just that. However, the game couldn't get the basic tenets of football down, so while the effort was to be honored -- it was still a very bad game at the end of the day.

    Until today.

    Backbreaker's patch, announced today, looks to completely change the game from the bottom up. The improvements will almost certainly take Backbreaker from a completely atrocious game to at least a somewhat passable game and possibly beyond that. However, what I feel the patch really does is leave a lasting legacy in the minds of gamers on how a company should handle the position of being in the wrong.

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  • Falcons11497
    Rookie
    • Nov 2009
    • 167

    #2
    +1
    It was one hell of a patch

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    • ezio
      MVP
      • Jun 2003
      • 2853

      #3
      I agree. it is amazing. I held onto the game to see what the patch would be bring. If it plays as good as it sounds it will be truly amazing.

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      • Dramaking
        Rookie
        • Jun 2010
        • 79

        #4
        wow this is the GOD patch loll

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        • Epiffani
          Supporter
          • Aug 2008
          • 331

          #5
          Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

          Didn't read the blog because I think I can understand the premise of what was said in the excerpt from the first post. They could have came up with multiple excuses and did some serious scapegoating being that this was there first year and they could have hung their hat on producing the first football game with real time physics because we were told that it really wasn't possible (at least on the current gen consoles). They could have said that this game has too many problems and is not worth the headache, or they could have been unhappy with the sale figures, and mailed it in similar to what was done with NCAA Basketball 10' all the while leaving fans clamoring and wondering if the series is finish, but they showed confidence in their product, and have decided to stayed the course through the good and more importantly the bad. The patch and how extensive it is, definitely speaks volumes to me as a consumer, and gives me a sort of confidence in them that I didn't have before.

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          • xylocaine
            MVP
            • Jul 2002
            • 1082

            #6
            The patch will be next summer "Backbreaker 2"

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            • sois
              Banned
              • Nov 2007
              • 1900

              #7
              Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

              Originally posted by xylocaine
              The patch will be next summer "Backbreaker 2"
              WTF are you talking about?

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              • xylocaine
                MVP
                • Jul 2002
                • 1082

                #8
                Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

                Originally posted by sois
                WTF are you talking about?

                what i'm talking about is, good luck with a patch fixing that atrocious game. Nice show of support from the BB team, but that game is dead except for the few hundred diehards. I'll give BB2 another chance but it needs to go back in the oven. It was raw this time. I have to have it at least medium rare.

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                • hatisback
                  Banned
                  • Nov 2004
                  • 1013

                  #9
                  Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

                  Originally posted by xylocaine
                  what i'm talking about is, good luck with a patch fixing that atrocious game. Nice show of support from the BB team, but that game is dead except for the few hundred diehards. I'll give BB2 another chance but it needs to go back in the oven. It was raw this time. I have to have it at least medium rare.
                  Wow ^ definition of ignorance right there, considering adding together what the competition has done in 4 years time with patches, still isnt as emmaculate as this one update.

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                  • Panther84
                    Rookie
                    • Sep 2003
                    • 359

                    #10
                    Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

                    Originally posted by xylocaine
                    what i'm talking about is, good luck with a patch fixing that atrocious game. Nice show of support from the BB team, but that game is dead except for the few hundred diehards. I'll give BB2 another chance but it needs to go back in the oven. It was raw this time. I have to have it at least medium rare.
                    Enjoy playing your flawless game....

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                    • Charleston_Tiger
                      Banned
                      • Jun 2010
                      • 203

                      #11
                      Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

                      Originally posted by xylocaine
                      what i'm talking about is, good luck with a patch fixing that atrocious game. Nice show of support from the BB team, but that game is dead except for the few hundred diehards. I'll give BB2 another chance but it needs to go back in the oven. It was raw this time. I have to have it at least medium rare.
                      Wow if ignorance is bliss you must be one happy guy.

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                      • mestevo
                        Gooney Goo Goo
                        • Apr 2010
                        • 19556

                        #12
                        Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

                        He's kinda right though, which I presume why you guys decided to insult him rather than prove him wrong. This patch will probably only benefit hundreds of people at this point.

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                        • Charleston_Tiger
                          Banned
                          • Jun 2010
                          • 203

                          #13
                          Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

                          Originally posted by mestevo
                          He's kinda right though, which I presume why you guys decided to insult him rather than prove him wrong. This patch will probably only benefit hundreds of people at this point.

                          Have any data to back those claims up? Or are you just posting more negative garbage bc you havent picked up the game in months and really have nothing new to say?

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                          • mvb34
                            S**c*d* P**l C*-Ch*mp**n
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 8138

                            #14
                            Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

                            Originally posted by mestevo
                            He's kinda right though, which I presume why you guys decided to insult him rather than prove him wrong. This patch will probably only benefit hundreds of people at this point.
                            I agree.. Its not like all of sudden this game will start showing up on shelves at Gamestop..
                            http://www.twitch.tv/mikecharles34

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                            • hatisback
                              Banned
                              • Nov 2004
                              • 1013

                              #15
                              Re: Backbreaker Adding to Legacy with Patch

                              Originally posted by KBLover
                              What does that have to do with his argument that the patch will impact only the die hards that stuck it out with the game, which are probably a small fraction of the folks who bought BB?

                              What EA has or has not achieved doesn't make BB sell more after the patch.
                              It would if they re release a demo post patch so people can try it out. Wouldnt that be the smart thing to do? I expect them to be smart enough to do it.

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