Originally Posted by postalblowfish7
and the fact that entertainment weekly would have the mindless trend-following gull to include Madden - 2003 LOL - anyone who's played the last 3 years of madden games (which are all complete rip offs by the way) know that the series has fallen from the grace it never really had (most true hxc gamers prefer 2K's gameplay over madden's name). not to mention the fact that i have to line up shelf after shelf of used sports games on the PS2 and XBOX walls at work at GameStop. they are UGLY. they are TASTELESS. they are completely counter to what i love about video games. Madden 2003 - one of the top 10 games of all time, for $1.99 at gamestop!
ok, i'm diverting the topic to a VG pet peeve - annual release sports titles, and the fools who line up to buy them. biggest difference between madden 2005 and madden 2006? madden 2005 was playable, madden 2006 sucked. biggest difference between madden 2006 and madden 2007? madden 2006 had a full color booklet, madden 2007 has a 8 page B&W pamplet.
what do they all have in common?
they were all $50 for the first year they were out, then their value dropped to below $5 when next year's version was released. when will this house of cards fall? when EA loses its exclusive NFL license and other companies are finally once again allowed to make NFL franchise football games, and one of them just makes a decent game that isn't rushed as fuck, and also offers downloadable roster/stat updates as the season progresses, and when the new season starts. seriously, the data for who's on what team and how good everyone is could fit on a freakin 3.5" floppy. and this is what people shell out $50 for every year.
oh well, serves them right. sports are for jocks and video games are for the cool - now that jocks are pretending to be gamers i guess i don't mind that they're all getting ripped off.
/rant off
on a on-topic note - the controls for madden on the Wii really do look promising LOL