OP, I get some of what you said. The poster above you, I don't get your analysis, but personally, I don't want the CPU to play the game for me.
My reasons for going against button mashing has nothing to do with it being sim or not. I don't like the system in that it takes away the opportunity for me to see the "violent" cutscenes that they added because I have to focus on the bottom of my TV to figure out which button to press next. I have said this before and I'll say it here. A good way to implement this feature is to have both players punch in a series of face buttons on screen and the one who enters the buttons more accurately and quickly recovers the football. It's not as "violent" as you would want it, but it makes it much easier to enjoy the cutscenes more.
I'm not sure who would think that they have the fastest fingers to mash away and break the max speed of players but I personally don't want to mash buttons on every single play every single time. That's what would happen if you wanted to mash buttons to represent players moving their legs. That would be more work than needed and can be annoying. I'm sure there are people who aren't as fast with their fingers, and using this idea, they would never reach a players max speed if they needed to mash buttons every single time.
And another reason why I'm against button mashing is because of the potential exploiting factor that can go with it. OP, how would you feel if you worked really hard to cause a fumble (you are on defense) by mashing away, and the online opponent is a cheeser with a modded turbo controller, not working as hard or as "violent" as you are to get the ball back when you are down 25-21 with 35 seconds left to play and you have no timeouts? Offense recovers and the game is over.
Regardless if I have the fastest fingers to win every fumble recovery or not, if any one of you can fund me a couple of dualshock controllers, then I would glady embrace this feature. I don't want to get violent with my controller. I want to have fun and play the game minus the button mashing mechanics.
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