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Topic: Enjoy playing ESPN NFL 2k5.... (Read 13777 times)
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Bunk
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Mutant League, from what I remember, was basically just a reskin of Madden from the year before, with some additional violence options added. And it was cool.
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Zetleft
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NFL2k5 reskinned with Orcs and Skeletons and bodies being ripped apart... sign me up for 1 now.
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doubleplus
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Wow, nothing would make my day more than making Zombie Brett Favre stumble drunkenly onto a bouncing betty and be catapulted across the screen in a gorey shockwave.
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WoW! GaH!
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Paelos
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I could give a shit less about the players, but the idea of not being able to use teams is retarded. I usually use the team editor to make up my own teams in the league anyway, but I like throwing my misfits against the NFL best, not some knock-off.
Then again, Madden is a good gaming franchise, but they won't continue to be that way without competition. Monopolies make shitty products.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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WindupAtheist
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ESPN: "Fine! We'll make our OWN football series! With blackjack! And hookers!!"
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murdoc
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At least every football game can have LaVar Arrington in it!
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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WonderBrick
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All I can say is: live with it. I whined when ____________, but eventually learned to embrace __________, and so to should you.
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eldaec
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But that doesn't show that "piracy keeps prices low". It shows just the opposite: piracy keeps prices higher by prompting companies to create copy protection schemes so fewer people will take the time and hassle to try to pirate it. It doesn't *show* anything except an observed coleration between harder piracy and higher prices. As for whether you feel increased competition from pirates reduces prices more than increased expenditure on anti-piracy measures increases it - well that's entirely a matter of opinion. There can be little doubt that both have an effect. I guess logically it depends on whether you believe the pricing model in video games is closer to aligned to value pricing (charging whatever the market will bear) or cost pricing (charging whatever you can afford based on your costs). I offer nothing other than my opinion on the matter - and an observation that in most industries consistent pricing across products from various companies is usually considered to be evidence of value pricing. |
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schild
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... the NBA has rejected EA's initial offer. One of the reasons is that the NBA Live series simply doesn't have a stranglehold on the market the way Madden has for years, so by signing an exclusive deal with EA, the NBA would actually be losing money. EA will turn around, double their offer, and get another license. How do you like dem apples? Yes, I'm apparently trying to ruin your week. All of yous guyses. |
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Zetleft
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It took years of negotiation for the NFL to come around but they sure did. Everything has a price and EA has an infinate wallet.
I never got into Basketball games anyway.
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Funny- I would think it would be the other way around- the NFL is the 800 pound gorilla of professional sports in the US, while the NBA is running a distant 3rd in popularity. If I were to guess which one would whore itself out for an exclusive contract, I would have guessed NBA.
Basketball games are still a long way from the smooth, polished feel that football has now (and baseball games have had for years). It is such a flui,d fastpaced game IRL that it is difficult to capture digitally.
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Dark Vengeance
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We still don't have the physics and collision detection down to a fine enough scale as to make the small-scale subtleties of basketball work...we also neglect the physics of the human body, and the fact that it can "give" to some degree.
Not to mention that there is such limited control that you are lucky to be facing the hoop at all when you try to pull down that rebound...let alone the ability to stick out your rump and box the other guy out, or to jump a direction other than straight up, and/or control your arms in flight.
Because we don't have the ability to get down to the fingertip level, most sports video games become "a game of feet" instead of "a game of inches".
Bring the noise.
Cheers............
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