Digital Sportspage

Pat Forde has a great column about these rankings on ESPN.com

From Forde's column ( at http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=4531910):

"There appears to be way too much respect given to accomplishments during the segregated, set-shot, eight-team-NCAA-tournament era ...

1)Flat plays are money kinda...That is if I catch the D in a blitz that leaves the back open. ...
Not buying the slant money at all. I have thrown plenty of picks on em but I guess that could just be Bulger and I.

Yup, slants were far more money in earlier versions of next gen Madden than this ...

Haven't tried it, so I probably shouldn't answer, but I assume that's something you can modify in the defensive gameplan? Set it to aggressive or something?

Yup, go into the defensive gameplan and set rush passer to "aggressive". I haven't had many offsides penalties so have left it on all game ...

Maybe I'll see horrible things tonight or in the next week/month, but it didn't feel like NCAA 9.1 to me in my limited play time with RtG mode.

Ditto - in limited playtime thus far (picked it up despite feeling lukewarm about the demo) it isn't even fair to compare the demo to the final product ...

- DB play seems improved, but I still found it difficult to throw it over the DB on a fly route with man coverage....the DB would jump and make the tip more often than he should. Need to see this more, but this was a big peeve of mine in previous versions.

That's probably the biggest plus side of ...

A few videos posted by Danimal in the Madden thread:

http://www.pastapadre.com/8802/e3-2009-day-one-videos#more-8802

The first 2 are for NCAA 10. The smooth running animations and *much* more realistic momentum/acceleration of the backs have me very close to getting it at release for the first ...

Now that Duke Nukem Forever may finally be dead, Backbreaker moves up one notch on "the most anticipated game that is likely still vaporware" list.

I truly do hope it comes out this year, even though it can't possibly meet its fanboys' lofty expectations. With how dull NCAA & Madden have been the ...

THE very definition of vaporware...unless, of course, Bethesda or Rockstar buys the rights and releases it for Take2. I'd be surprised if anyone would pony up the bucks for the naming rights, regardless, seeing as most teenagers probably never played a single Nukem game and most of the original fans ...

Great news, congrats Teal (and family)!

You see, your GM can level up, like a baseball version of D&D. Part of the leveling process is to upgrade your coaches. So even though I took over the reigning champions, the coaches were brought up from a local volunteer little league team, thus lowering all of my players stats accordingly. So the ...

To preface, let me just say that per CNN Republicans seeking to oppose the stimulus package in its current state published a list of problem items in the stim pkg. (at http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html )

Without taking political sides, I can see a few items on ...

I'm curious as to whether these losses are part of an industry-wide trend (ie, bad economy and new titles being priced at $60) or if EA is getting hit particularly hard due to their release schedule of annual "sequels" to titles like Madden and NFS.

In a way, if flooding the market with annual ...

That is why this should not have been the first thing mentioned. Those who played that "other game" have been there done that. Now five years later it becomes a new feature. Would have left this on the bullet point list and actually put something new out there. Probably has more to do with ...

I understand what Bill is saying, and there are some good points brought up here so far too. I do feel that the lack of innovation and variety are the biggest issues. I'm not going to point fingers strictly at the exclusive deals with the NFL and MLB, because a developer can CHOOSE not to make an ...

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You are pretty close to spot on with many of the changes that had to be made for 60 fps. The graphics / rendering team had to effectively cut all of their stuff in half - when we made the decision to move from 30 to 60. Now they didn't have to just down-res everything by half, but ...

Thanks for the early impressions - I'm still on the fence with this one, but thinking about getting it to play a different kind of baseball text sim. BB Mogul is probably my favorite current baseball text sim, if only because it offers an engaging pitch-by-pitch mode that lets you do something other ...

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38. Equilibrium
37. High Tension
36. The Program

Caveat emptor indeed. My local CC has also been swarming with activity since the announcement. I looked around and there are pretty much no super deals to be had, just the aforementioned 10% off MSRP. Yet people are running thru there like it's Christmas. :roll:

My workout schedule usually takes ...

It'll be the 2 best teams in the AFC battling it out next week. A great match up for the AFC title game. My early favorite is Pittsburgh.

Let's hope for the sake of having 2 great games next weekend that the Cards stay hot. I'd hate to see McNabb calling everyone in his circle from the Cards ...

A panda could never do that...they are just so cuddly and harmless, right?

Spooky wrote:Gotta give props to the guy for keeping a lit smoke going...

Indeed - man, that Dr. Johnny Fever has fallen on some hard times lately, though.

Thanks for the link BD. Hopefully, the menu problems are largely the result of the console interface and the PC version will sport a superior mouse and keyboard driven UI.

It's likely going to be hard for 2k to gain foothold in the sim market, with how solid the competition is for baseball ...

You can never tell how any dominant college player will perform as a pro, but I don't understand the constant hammering on Tebow's pro QB prospects by many in the national media.

Tebow primarily playing out of the shotgun spread offense shouldn't be considered as big of an impediment as many are ...

Rodster wrote:The NFL will broadcast the Broncos v Chargers game next weekend as their Sunday night game. Winner takes the division and goes on. I was hoping for a Jets victory yesterday just for this very same reason.

Any word yet on whether Hoculi will be officiating again?