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Posted 08-18-2009 at 03:07 AM by kcxiv
5 years ago, we had 2 pretty good NFL football games. Madden 05 and the infamous NFL2K5. We all know the story that happened so no need to get into that whole ordeal.


I would say i am pretty hardcore football gamer. Been doing it for over 20 years now. Anyways, i was reading the Madden forums see'ing what people think of the game. At first, alot of people seem to like it, some dont. Then a few days after release, i start see'ing people frustrations about the basic fundamentals of the game. People morphing through other players, DB's knowing what route the WR is going to do because they feel the DB is literally programed to run his route if he has good awareness. RB flats are broken. Pro-Tak barely works, ect, ect.

I came to 1 thread called, i cant get into Madden anymore. I read his post and a few others in that thread that agreed with him. They all think that them getting older and expecting more out of a video game could be the issues. In my opinion that is far far from the issue. The issue is, as the years go buy technology gets better. games get better. As they should, right? Well, so far on the next gen systems they haven't been better then NFL2K5 (remember my opinion, you don't have to agree with it).

We all know EA is the only company making football games, so their games should be held to a higher standard. IF we dont buy their game, was play no updated NFL football game. Its alot of pressure and i am sure Ian and his crew put alot of work into their game, but why cant their games fix the huge issues of years prior? This got me thinking and i have come up with 2 answers, 1, they dont care too because people will buy the game anyways and forums posters are the VERY VERY SMALL minority of gamers or 2, they simply cant do it.

I know some people will say, well, they just have 1 year under new leadership to turn it around. That may be true, but in the mean time and for me the last 5 years i have been without any game i enjoy. So, a 20 year football gaming veteran is left out in the cold.

I hope in the very very very near future this changes. I dont care what company makes the game, i just want to pop the game in and enjoy it and not cringe when i see bad things happen. I dont want to have to take away passing to my running backs because they will always be open becuase the defensive AI is flat out broken. Thats football and i shouldn't have to do that. You cant take football out of football.

Anyways, thats my first blog. Quite possibly my last blog.

Oh ya, i know my grammar and sentence structure are bad. I apologize for that.
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