NCAA Football 09 Thoughts on the Features: Pasta Padre

[coogrfan]

Re: NCAA Football 09 Thoughts on the Features: Pasta Padre

Mascot games are about as valuable as including a "design a pothole" feature on racing games or "tea party" mode on a fighting game. The two demographics that would enjoy this mode: young kids and dragon-ball z watching japana-fruit enthuisiasts; aren't the core group of gamers footing the bill for a college football sim: That's the truth, accept it all you politically correct "Every one is special and gets a trophy" apologists!

That was like listening to Rush Limbaugh:I disagree with almost every word of it, but damned if I didn't laugh out loud all the same. Well done.

Back to what really matters, I am not so naive that I don't understand the marketing for profit concept of "Add enough new or previously ommitted features to spark consumer interest in thois years product, but keep enough out to make the customer demand and crave more to justify spending $60 every year for a product that will be incrementally better than its predecessor and thus constitute a 'new' product and continue the profit by supply (game features) and demand (gamer wishlists)." Now that I'm done sounding like a crusty economics professor, just make the game and moves play fast, make all the transitions fluid and smooth, and don't omit basic features like alternate uniforms and stadiums. That makes everone happy that the basic bases are covered for the gamers, and vast room for added features and innovative growth of the series to spark the marketing of sales for the company in future years.

Can't argue with that.

[janglar]

Whoa, whoa! I am a hardcore democrat and an active volunteer for the Democratic Party of Oregon, and I support Barack Obama and worked at his rally at MacArthur Court in Eugene, Oregon a few weeks ago. I understand that what I said about the mascots did sound like a right wing conservative hate-fest, but we're talking about a video game, not preaching a moral and opinionated cultural whitewash of society like Republican politics. I'm only saying this because that was a perfectly legal and acceptable kick in the nuts to me; however I do understand the irony in the comparison. Clueless hippies (I live in Eugene, Oregon and have family in Berkely, California-I know them better than anyone) sitting in trees and bitching about conspiracies concerning topics they are clueless about are every bit as ******** as the fear mongoring conservatives that hypocritically shove morals and threats in our faces. I apologize to everyone for climbing on my soapbox and getting off subject, but I just had to clear that up. Thank You for putting up with me the idiot.

[SageInfinite]

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Whoa, whoa! I am a hardcore democrat and an active volunteer for the Democratic Party of Oregon, and I support Barack Obama and worked at his rally at MacArthur Court in Eugene, Oregon a few weeks ago. I understand that what I said about the mascots did sound like a right wing conservative hate-fest, but we're talking about a video game, not preaching a moral and opinionated cultural whitewash of society like Republican politics. I'm only saying this because that was a perfectly legal and acceptable kick in the nuts to me; however I do understand the irony in the comparison. Clueless hippies (I live in Eugene, Oregon and have family in Berkely, California-I know them better than anyone) sitting in trees and bitching about conspiracies concerning topics they are clueless about are every bit as ******** as the fear mongoring conservatives that hypocritically shove morals and threats in our faces. I apologize to everyone for climbing on my soapbox and getting off subject, but I just had to clear that up. Thank You for putting up with me the idiot.

I like this guy!

[coogrfan]

Re: NCAA Football 09 Thoughts on the Features: Pasta Padre

Whoa, whoa! I am a hardcore democrat and an active volunteer for the Democratic Party of Oregon, and I support Barack Obama and worked at his rally at MacArthur Court in Eugene, Oregon a few weeks ago. I understand that what I said about the mascots did sound like a right wing conservative hate-fest, but we're talking about a video game, not preaching a moral and opinionated cultural whitewash of society like Republican politics. I'm only saying this because that was a perfectly legal and acceptable kick in the nuts to me; however I do understand the irony in the comparison. Clueless hippies (I live in Eugene, Oregon and have family in Berkely, California-I know them better than anyone) sitting in trees and bitching about conspiracies concerning topics they are clueless about are every bit as ******** as the fear mongoring conservatives that hypocritically shove morals and threats in our faces. I apologize to everyone for climbing on my soapbox and getting off subject, but I just had to clear that up. Thank You for putting up with me the idiot.

Duly noted. Welcome aboard.

[TheGamingChef]

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Back to what really matters, I am not so naive that I don't understand the marketing for profit concept of "Add enough new or previously ommitted features to spark consumer interest in thois years product, but keep enough out to make the customer demand and crave more to justify spending $60 every year for a product that will be incrementally better than its predecessor and thus constitute a 'new' product and continue the profit by supply (game features) and demand (gamer wishlists).

That's absolutely true... I'm a firm believer that the reason NFL 2K5, MVP 2005, and College Hoops 2K8 were so good was because the devs knew that those would be the last versions of those games for a while

[eDotd]

Re: NCAA Football 09 Thoughts on the Features: Pasta Padre

dragon-ball z watching japana-fruit enthuisiasts;

Lol, japana-fruit?

[grunt]

Re: NCAA Football 09 Thoughts on the Features: Pasta Padre

I think Pasta was a tad bit optimistic over the "new" features.

[countryboy]

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Whoa, whoa! I am a hardcore democrat and an active volunteer for the Democratic Party of Oregon, and I support Barack Obama and worked at his rally at MacArthur Court in Eugene, Oregon a few weeks ago. I understand that what I said about the mascots did sound like a right wing conservative hate-fest, but we're talking about a video game, not preaching a moral and opinionated cultural whitewash of society like Republican politics.

WTF??


How did politics make it into a NCAA Football discussion forum?

[janglar]

I wholeheartedly apologize once again for getting off point, countryboy. That was in response to one reply and it totally has no place in the NCAA forum. I am a subject changing moron and regretfully say I'm sorry for injecting my personal boring bias into the subjective and fun NCAA forum

[Sausage]

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I think Pasta was a tad bit optimistic over the "new" features.

Not surprised dude gets easily excited about both NCAA/Madden. Does he work for EA or do people joke about that?

[Cyros]

Re: NCAA Football 09 Thoughts on the Features: Pasta Padre

Not surprised dude gets easily excited about both NCAA/Madden. Does he work for EA or do people joke about that?

I think he's one of those community leader people or something like that for EA.

[spankdatazz22]

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Padre's a joke. I give him credit for doing one thing in all the time I've seen his many articles - he asked relatively tough questions of Peter Moore about the EASports mindset, which gave insight to their metacritic reviews = quality mentality. Pretty much everything else is thinly veiled EA praise/hype and/or the occasional 2K putdown. You need only look at the articles he's written in chronological order to get an idea of where he's coming from, and his overall tone. He's the same dude that tried to make a big deal of OJ being in APF last year while hyping NCAA and Madden - and we see how that turned out. It's the same thing every year. I can somewhat understand why none of these guys don't want to lose their seat at the EA roundtable - EA gives them access and perks like getting to meet Michael Strahan, and they can help steer the online community EA's way. Consumers just need to be smarter about taking what they read with a pound of salt.

[countryboy]

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I wholeheartedly apologize once again for getting off point, countryboy. That was in response to one reply and it totally has no place in the NCAA forum. I am a subject changing moron and regretfully say I'm sorry for injecting my personal boring bias into the subjective and fun NCAA forum

no need to apologize to me man, I was just wondering how in the world politics made it into a forum discussing NCAA Football '09.

[Pared]

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Pretty much everything else is thinly veiled EA praise/hype and/or the occasional 2K putdown.

It's a shame more people don't realize this.

[eDotd]

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Bleh. I don't care if there are "very few resources spent in putting the mascot games together". They hold no purpose what so ever. Those little resources can be spent somewhere else, despite how little they may be.