Thats right, every single sports game, wrestling (manly hugging is not a SPORT!) or just #'ed sequels that get upchucked by the devs every year I ♥♥♥♥♥ hate all of you... Why you ask?

Simple, cause its ruining the industry. By ruining the industry i mean its doing NOTHING cept adding small improvements for a price of a full game, that looks almost EXACTLY like it did a year ago. WTF! Instead of getting a sequel or some off-shoot project of Psyhconauts or Star Wars Republic Commando... we get another Madden game... no make that FIVE ♥♥♥♥♥ games about grunting and hugging... WTF.

Hey devs, like EA... why not STOP shoveling money up your asses from stupid retard kids who buy sports games and put that effort into building new IP's or hmmm God knows a non-money only game!?

ARGH. Just annoying how its always just some game that comes out again and again... with nothing but small minute improvements... even then... if ya wanna play sports... go outside and play them! Gaming is made for fragging not passing the puck!

Also, WHATS THE ♥♥♥♥♥ DEAL with those yearly sequels being call NHL 2009 when its only mid 2008 when it comes out... honestly, who the ♥♥♥♥♥ thought that up?

For now... my rant has ended.

Although these yearly releases have bigger changes than you might think, I do agree with you. Me being a fan of shooters, I hate how big of a market the sports games get.

I agree, although i never even touched a Madden game...

Every year it's the same damn game, just with little new features in it. Stop wasting money EA, just stop. I bet somewhere a little kitty has cried.

Don't forget that EA has a special division called EA Sports. Then there are other divisions for other type of games.

Sports games were designed to cater to those who lack the necessary skills to play it physically (or have never been to the outside world). If they don't have a console, hey, there's always Fantasy-(insert sports game here)... GO GO, VIRTUAL AGE!!!

Fifa '09 should be renamed to Roster Update '09

Game market is going from bad to worse these days.

Nearly ALL the games at the E3 Leipzig convention are SEQUALS. Where did originality go to? Back in the early days people would make a game about a chef riding giant insects with a gun that shoots dinosaurs.
Yeah... that's about what Yathzee said in his Zero Punctuation...

I'd love to see arcade and side-scrollers return. I'm getting sick of the over-the-top realism.

Arcade and Side-scrolling games (Smups, Beat-'em-ups, etc) have been passed down to become user-created content. Look at the Touhou curtain-shooter series for example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou). Professional Game Developers don't make them nowadays because they're too easy for them. The only companies that make a living out of arcade games are PopCap and Alawar.

Actually, you take a look at XBox arcade, classic styled games are on the rise. And people are getting paid to make them, meaning people are paying to play them.

yeah but I suspect its such all-arcade-games-together game, which are everywhere.

I dunno for sure though, I don't know about that game xD

Hey, I happen to like some of those yearly games myself (NFS:Most Wanted was awesome). Others can thrown out into the radioactive garbage though (football!!!).

Are we including HL2, HL2 ep1, HL2 ep2, and the still to come HL2 ep3 in this this "Darn you all to heck" rant?

Of course not.

... because... is there a reason you say so? It is my understanding that each consecutive game comes out about a year after its predecessor and is a continuation of the same story, or is it that each game builds on the previous that exempts it from this rant?

Yes, and each episode is taking a lot longer than a year to finish.

There's a big difference between episodic gaming and the yearly sports games.


And really, it's pointless to complain about this. EA (all developers, really) is a business. They exist to make money. These yearly sports games are easy to make, and make a lot of money as sports fans continue to buy them. In other words, they're low risk and high reward.

Besides, how much exactly can you add to a sports game to make it significantly better then the previous game?

Plasma cannons...

Hell,you can put those in any game and I'll probably buy it.

Three words: Ninjas, Pirates, and Zombies!

Race games can go crazy, and often do, but "regular" sports never change much.
EA could just release big patches for players to update their games, and request money for them too. Though this would isolate the crowd that lack internet connection.

They won't get nearly as much with that scheme than they do with yearly full releases.

True. It is why they go with the yearly releases.

Dude, did any one play that new madden game yet? I just rented it today and it freakin' rocks!

Nope, and I'm not even touching it.

I refuse to play any sports games (unless it can justify itself.)

Wait, so you're ragging on it and you haven't even tried it?

If he has tried any of the recent Maddens, chances are he won't like the future ones either.

Tried Madden NFL 05, It BLOWS.

Tried NBA 07, BLOWS.

Huh. Your earlier post said you never touched a Madden game.

I've tried a few football games. I thought they were pretty fun.

No, not a copy of madden, but at my cousin's house.

Dammit. I are a Liar

No one never lies.

True. Can I sig it?