Post by: Bonethugs on March 18, 2003, 10:26:59 AM
Top Gun: Combat Zone
Both Resident Evils, sorry folks these are the best games I've ever played
Mortal Kombat
Need for Speed
Both 007's
I guess we all have different tastes, but NO sports games...Come on, unreal!!!
Post by: Ian Sane on March 18, 2003, 10:36:24 AM
Personally I don't really even like real sports so I don't really care for sports games either. I do find some arcade sports games like Midway's stuff fun enough for a rental with friends. I just don't feel they're worth owning.
I do like Tony Hawk games. Do those count as sports games?
Post by: The Omen on March 18, 2003, 11:02:31 AM
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Post by: thecubedcanuck on March 18, 2003, 12:56:35 PM
I own
NHL 2003
Madden 2003
Tiger Woods 2003
Fifa 2003
SSX tricky
Metroid prime
Eternal darkness
luigis mansion
Super mario sunshine
time splitters
RE
Post by: Chris1228 on March 18, 2003, 01:12:01 PM
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Post by: mojorizin on March 18, 2003, 01:59:40 PM
I'm just not into them as much anymore. Once I hit my thirties, I didn't hang out with the fellas anymore and that was what was great about those games. Without a bunch of blokes to play Madden with, it is truly just a rehash of the last version with updated rosters. Plus, the last football game I REALLY enjoyed was Gameday '97 on PS the year before everybody got all POLYGONAL on me. The control and gameplay hasn't been the same, and the fun factor just isn't there anymore for me
Post by: CrYpTiC on March 18, 2003, 02:20:16 PM
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Why don't we like sports games? It's probably because we don't like sports in general, and hence don't like videogames about these sports.
I love sports games. Probably the reason a lot of people don't like sports games is because either they dont play sports, or they just play video games all day and play on the internet or whatever. They can't handle the real life manly games so they stick to the fake stuff.
Post by: Darc Requiem on March 18, 2003, 02:21:55 PM
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Post by: ThePerm on March 18, 2003, 02:57:52 PM
I was a big sega fan back in the day so fighting are also some of my favorite games. I dont mind a good racer every once in a while. I never really liked sports games...but these new sets of wacky sports games that have been coming out have sparked my interest. Also, i never liked the control of games like madden. I loved nba hangtime for jaguar though, and a monster football on genisis, blitz is cool i guess. hmmm arcade style games i guess. You know EA never got into the arcade business...maybe their missing some genetic gaming heritage i just need to play a game and stay interested.
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Post by: Scyth3r on March 18, 2003, 03:27:22 PM
Furthermore, to simply put it. I got the Gamecube more or less for the platform games and the party games. Sports games? Whats the compelling reason to get one over say the X-Box or the computer which has internet play? NIntendo is making a smart move in having EA work its sports titles w/ the GBA... if gives one advantage for the GC version albiet small still.
Post by: DiggleD44 on March 18, 2003, 03:30:34 PM
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN!!!
Post by: Reverse_Gecko on March 18, 2003, 03:35:47 PM
I hardly ever see 3rd party sports games that are worth buying. All the nintendo sports games, like 1080 and waverace, and the mario sports games were really good, but thats about it.
When I say sports games I mean sports like basketball football or baseball. I dont mean racing or snowboarding. I like most racing or snowboarding games.
Post by: Duriez on March 18, 2003, 03:49:37 PM
Post by: GoHuskers on March 18, 2003, 05:05:45 PM
I love Zelda and games like that, but sometimes figuring out some of those puzzles frustrates me after being at school all day so I give it a rest and pop in Madden or NCAA Football.
Post by: zekermit on March 18, 2003, 05:11:28 PM
Post by: penfold on March 18, 2003, 06:17:25 PM
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Originally posted by: Darc Requiem
I like sports games. I own a ton of GC games. As far as sports games go I own Knockout Kings 2003 and Madden 2003. I had Madden 2002 but I traded it in when I got Madden 2003.....BTW am I the only one that hates the sound track on Madden 2003...its horrible. I was planning on getting NBA 2K3 then Sega canned their sports lineup so I sorta soured on supporting a lame duck sports lineup. I would have bought Live but its waaaay to unrealistic. Your star player is way too dominating....gives you almost no reason to pass the ball. Sigh I'm gonna miss the NBA 2K series...hopefully the next live is more realistic.......or I may have to buy 2K4 on PS2.
Darc Requiem
You are not the only one that hates the soundtrack. Its really the only flaw, IMHO, of Madden 2003. Madden is supposed to be about football, not showcasing music more appropriate for MTV 2 or MuchMusic. It makes it seem more like infotainment, than an actual simulation of a football game.
You may be thankful you didnt get NBA2K3 for the GameCube. I have read complaints in GamePro about NBA2k3 being so bug filled that the game freezes, making the player reboot the system. The response from Sega was something like this:
"Gee...youre the only ones that have complained to us about this bug. Enjoy the game". It wasnt just one person who complained, but it was several.
Post by: 3_MaSteRPIeCE on March 18, 2003, 06:35:23 PM
I like bastketball and basketball games. I own NBA inside drive 03 and NBA live 03.
I also like zelda and fps games if that means anything to you.
Post by: Grey Ninja on March 18, 2003, 07:09:28 PM
Why play sports when there are better games I guess is what I am saying.
I must say that I do like some extreme sports games though, such as SSX, Mario Golf, Mario Party or the like. They don't feel much like the sports you would encounter in real life that much.
Post by: Mario on March 18, 2003, 07:36:19 PM
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The games I have outside of sports are:
Top Gun: Combat Zone
Both Resident Evils, sorry folks these are the best games I've ever played
Mortal Kombat
Need for Speed
Both 007's
LOL, No wonder you like sports games so much... Have you ever heard of "Nintendo"? Yes, they are a games company, and they actually make pretty damn good games, as do Sega, maybe you should try them one day... 
(Sorry if i hurt your feelings)
Post by: PIAC on March 18, 2003, 08:05:58 PM
more fun to kick a footy or drive a car in real life (specially my friends supra
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Post by: The Omen on March 19, 2003, 03:05:45 AM
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Well i think the only people that play sports games are people who are too fat or unskilled to be able to kick a football in real life, i play sport all the time, which is why i dont need sports games
That is pretty funny. considering ton's of PRO athletes play ALL the sports games ALL the time.
Post by: egman on March 19, 2003, 04:14:33 AM
I play videogames generally to get away from reality. That doesn't mean I dislike sim type games, but simulation sports turn me off for some reason. Also, as a longtime Nintendo fan I'm just more attracted to adventure games. Nintendo were the first to really get non linear adventure down with Zelda and Metroid, and it's these games that really made me hardcore gamer more than anything else. I played games long before I even had an interest in sports, so the two interests never really crossed paths like they have for others.
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Post by: thecubedcanuck on March 19, 2003, 07:16:35 AM
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think that what the person above said about simulation is dead on. They're sim games. I don't play flight sim games, or other types of sim games. I know how real life works -- I can get that on normal TV without spending any money. So why play a simulation of football when the real-life stuff is often much better, and more entertaining? If I'm going to play games, I want to do things I can't do in real life.
They are only sims to a certain extent. I play hockey 3 nights a week in the winter, play baseball twice a week in the summer and golf all other days in the summer. I am not fat, and I am not lazy.
The thing is, I cant out skate Pavel Bure in real life, I cant shoot as hard as Al McKinnis, I cant snag grounders as well as A-rod, and I cant hit the golf ball 190 yards with my 7 iron out of 3 inch rough like Tiger can. So even though sports games may be sims, they are in no way a reflection of the average persons abilities when they play the sports for real. The games allow me to be Tiger Woods or Mario Lemieux, to play at a level I cant in real life. When I play NHL 2003 I am ingulfed in the action, I am part of the game, I for that brief moment am playing in the NHL.
IMO it is no differant than playing golden eye. When I play it I am a spy, a secret agent, with a pile of cool toys. Now in real life I could probably attempt the same things, but I am guessing the results would be no where near as favorable.
Maybe there is a need to like sports, especially the sports that you will play in the games. However I cant be sure because I like sports, so I cant see from the other side of the story. I will say this though. I hate watching basketball, I hate playing it in real life, but I do like playing the video game version, the same goes for soccer. So I am not sure if I really buy the "I dont like sports angle".
I guess at the end of the day it is about choice and preferance. If you dont like sports games so be it, but to say the games suck because they dont appeal to you is just plain ignorant. I also find it irritating when people say that companies simply rehash the same game every year. When I see a quote like "Madden is the same game every year, only a moron would buy it every year", then the same person says they own Monkeyball 1 and 2. I find that severly hipocritical. The games are differant, EA spends all year on the new titles, the people who make the game live the games and are truly fans of the sport involved. To say no effort went in to it is a slap in the face IMO, and is in most cases unwarrented.
In the end sports games are reason I still play and follow the gaming industry, for Nintendo to lose all its sports games would be the end of me owning a nintendo system and I have owned every one of them. I would miss a lot of Nintendo's great work like Zelda and Mario, but I would rather miss them than the sports.
Just one gamers point of view.
Post by: Chris1228 on March 19, 2003, 07:42:06 AM
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Post by: 3_MaSteRPIeCE on March 19, 2003, 01:05:54 PM
and don't start that i'm a fatass
Yeah i cant dunk 10' but i could dunk 9'. cause i'm only 5'7". I play basketball all of the time. I bet im more cut than 70% of people in this place.
It's fun too. You pass the ball, shake em up a bit and drive in for a dunk. It depends if you like sports in real life (and of course people who like sports in real life actually PLAY it
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