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Originally Posted by whatcha |
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The reviews have been interesting. The impressions have stirred the pot. Why is it we play this thing we call NCAA Football 13? For some, do you envision yourself as the team you're playing with, listening to the crowd scream your name as you run down the tunnel and onto the field? Or do you see this video game as a change to enjoy some semblance of football with a few collections of pixels on your television?
For me, this is what it always has been, a video game. Never perfect, always enjoyable. It isn't real football and if I want to play real football there are a number of adult football leagues around the country for that. Nope, I'm good there. Played enough growing up and in my early adult life that I don't want to subject my knees and back to that anymore. So this video game experience requires me to suspend reality for a little while and use my imagination. I luckily haven't forgotten how to do that. It seems a lot of folks these days don't know how to use their imagination anymore and want EA to do everything for them. That's okay, I guess, but that's not why I play the game. It's never quite that serious to me. It's a video game. I play it for personal enjoyment. I typically don't do things that cause me the frustration that so many are displaying lately. In my mind, if it's that frustrating, turn off your Xbox and step away from the television. Some are probably the same folks that spew hatred towards the referees when their favorite team loses because it was obviously the referees that missed 4 or 5 tackles, walked 7 batters, or missed 50% of their free throws during the game.
It's a video game, and I play it for the enjoyment I get. I can still remember tecmo bowl tournaments and madden tournaments on sega genesis. I can remember the turbo controllers and people using Detroit because you could hold down turbo C and tacklers would bounce off Barry Sanders as he spun like a whirling dirvish. We had fun playing the game and when we wanted real football we'd grab a football and go play. I'm thoroughly enjoying NCAA 13 and will finish season 1 tonight after work. There are a few tweaks I'm sure I'll have to make to the sliders, but the game is enjoyable and a break from bills, work, the economy, politics, and everything else in this world that pounds on us incessantly.
So, back to the subject line....why do you play?
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I whole heartedly agree with this OP. If you dont like the game, put it down. If you don't like the way it was created, friggin get an education in software development and better yourself in the classroom and become a developer of the game to make it better.
I can see why some are frustrated in some aspects. For me, it would be the fact that if this were my job, and people were b*tching about how well I was doing my job, I would work even harder than before to be better. But really, are these limitations to the PS3 console itself? We cannot blame the game itself for that.
Not to mention, football cannot EVER, EVER be captured on the sticks. Playing football through college and being a student of the game has taught me enough to know that no matter what things look like on paper (or video game codes) you'll never be able to capture the hardwork, team work, passion, pride, toughness of an individual player or team. Football is a game of randomly occuring events which could never be simulated.
It's the best game there's ever been, don't diminish it because a damn video game isnt to your liking.
Sorry, maybe a little much.