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« on: February 16, 2007, 03:00:03 PM »
Ages, I apologise, I concede, you win.
Smash_brother, I hate to tell yout is man but Madden is a *GOOD* game weather you like it or not. It is never just a roster update they change a *lot* each installment. EA takes thier sports very seriously and I respect them for that. A lot of people bash them because they rehash code, as was pointed out *all* devs do that so that is not even a valid point.
I understand that some people just don't like sports games, ok fine you don't have to. But demeaning a games quality based on your own personaly feelings is not very fair to that game, especially if it is acclaimed, wins lots of awards, sells millions each year and has a *massive* userbase. I am not a very big football fan and in general I don't like sports, but I still recognise the quality of the EA sports games, the authenticity, the detail, the graphicaly powere behind them, the attention to detail, the realistic playing fields, the umberof extras, the number of players, the multiplayer aspects, pretty much everything that goes into a sports game.
Let me put it this way, even if *all* EA did was update the roster on all 32 NFL teams each year, lets do tha math a little. Now I suck at math so correct me if I am wrong, but there are 32 Teams in the NFL, there are 8 players on Offense and 12 I think on Defense and then there are back up players and subsitutes (not the right term I know) and the coaches and captains. Now I think on average an NFL team is made up of like 24 players total, times 36. Each players had Yards recieved, yards ran, rushing yards, points scored, turn overs, passing yards, and a few other stats but thsoe are the ones I can think of. Now they have to update *all* those stats for *all* those players every single year. Thats *still* a lot of work, and a lot of attention to detail.
Now there are also the individual players to keep track of as well as the classic players/teams to put in there. So when you seem how much really goes into just a football game you start to earn more respect for the dev teams responsibe for those games. Now I am not trying to maek an argument all i am saying is that there is a lot more involved ina Madden game then what you think.