We Told You So (re: Madden 2006)

[StriderKyo]

Gridiron is for fags.

No scrum?

Padding?

Coach tells everybody what to do?

Fags.

I would pay money to see the Baltimore Ravens Vs. the Australian Rules Jocko All Stars. There would be fatalities. Ray Lewis would be up on manslaughter charges by halftime.

[Gooch]

Okay, so somebody didn't know how to play a prevent defense. In Madden, you could hang in a prevent and this shit would still happen.

Um...you ever watch a real NFL game where a team that is ahead by 7-10 points plays prevent D and the opposing offense advances the ball fairly easily and goes downfield for a quick score? The announcers usually say something witty and original like "playing a prevent defense only prevents you from winning?" I'm sure you've heard it before since you've watched so much football since you've been 11 years old. The fact that this same situation still happens in Madden doesn't validate your arguement.

[frostwolf ex]

I would pay money to see the Baltimore Ravens Vs. the Australian Rules Jocko All Stars. There would be fatalities. Ray Lewis would be up on manslaughter charges by halftime.

well, footballers killing people isnt particularly that new, is it?

[Error]

Especially Ray Lewis..

[TobalRox]

I hate to defend EA here, but they weren't the ones to break out the checkbook. The NFL went to them and said we're going exclusive. It wasn't EA.

Now then, having said that, the response you should have made to our friend here wasn't that EA got scared and bought the exclusivity, you should have pointed out that EA got scared after seeing the sales that 2k5 was getting at it's $20 price point and had to drop it's price, THUS causing the great increase in sales that he's pointing to.

Also, they then snatched up the rights to college football, ESPN, and Arena football. They obviously wanted to eliminate competition in any way they could.

[Drewbacca]

No scrum?

That sounds like something a pirate would scrape off the bottom of his foot after a hard month of bootleggin'.

[Revoltor]

Remember, Gamepost has no standards, but we can implicitly trust their reviews as long as they fall in line with our preconceived notions.

Yeah I don't get it.

IGN reviews mean something now?

[Diff-chan]

Yeah I don't get it.

IGN reviews mean something now?

Just link to this thread next time Yoshi says anything about IGN's or GameSpot's lack of quality.

[gamevet]

Um...you ever watch a real NFL game where a team that is ahead by 7-10 points plays prevent D and the opposing offense advances the ball fairly easily and goes downfield for a quick score? The announcers usually say something witty and original like "playing a prevent defense only prevents you from winning?" I'm sure you've heard it before since you've watched so much football since you've been 11 years old. The fact that this same situation still happens in Madden doesn't validate your arguement.

A prevent defense will allow for screen plays and short passes underneath the coverage. Usually plays more than 10 yards don't happen and if they do it's because a really fast reviever has found an opening on the upper corners.

Believe me, I've seen many a Cowboys game blown in the 4th quarter last season, because they went into a prevent style defense, only to be slowly picked apart. The offense usually went 3 and out and went back to the prevent again and the same results would happen.

A prevent defense is designed to stop the big yardage plays, but leaves open the running game and 8-10 yard passing plays down the middle. The fact that far too often you can get away with an over the top passing play in Madden when someone is in this style of coverage and often with 2 guys riding his jersey, makes the game far too arcadey and unrealistic.


The NFL2K games focused on a more defensive oriented style of gameplay, while the Madden series has more often focused on an offensive style.

[AstroBlue]

I would pay money to see the Baltimore Ravens Vs. the Australian Rules Jocko All Stars. There would be fatalities. Ray Lewis would be up on manslaughter charges by halftime.

Well of course, since Australian Rules is about being able to run fast, jump high and kick accurately. Australian Rules players have more in common with basketball players in their size. I was taking more about Rugby.

As for Baltimore Ravens vs the All Blacks (New Zealand Rugby Union side)?

Dead Ravens.