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Comment on NCAA Football 09 Patch Mess by AJ

AJ — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:03:27 +0000

Dude, I’m so with you on these posts. I’ve traditionally bought Madden on day one, year after year. But this year I decided to boycott it since I just couldn’t get into it last year. It’s like the game had no soul anymore or something (I refuse to believe it had anything to do with me turning 30 last year).

I thought I’d try out NCAA this year…guess what: a month later I’ve already traded it away. I ran through a whole dynasty and same result: just wasn’t all that fun.

I’m convinced EA has gotten away from what made the game so great in the first place and is just concerned about their ability to print money once a year in the fall.

Comment on Madden 09 Countdown (3 days). by jcalvert

jcalvert — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:52:32 +0000

Wow! That makes a great deal even better. I missed the $10 gift card offer. According to Amazon:

“Order Madden NFL 09 or Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition by August 11, 2008 in our Video Games Store and receive a $10.00 Amazon.com Gift Card*. An email will be sent out on August 31, 2008 and will include the Amazon.com Gift Card and redemption instructions. This offer applies only to the purchase of Madden NFL 09 or Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition offered by Amazon.com and does not apply to products sold on our site by third-party merchants or through third-party areas such as Amazon.com Marketplace or Auctions. Limit one per household.”

Comment on Madden 09 Countdown (3 days). by wco81

wco81 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:55:31 +0000

Read that they’re also offering a $10 gift card?

Or maybe it’s Amazon credit.

Don’t know if it’s true. Don’t have Amazon Prime.

Comment on UGA #1 by jcalvert

jcalvert — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:45:42 +0000

Schedule is really hard … of course I am pulling for the Dawgs, but the reality is that it is not realistic for them to go undefeated. Hopes and dreams.

Comment on EA. PS3. Lemmings. by John Boy (Bulby37)

John Boy (Bulby37) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:59:21 +0000

Well, look at it this way. EA has bought FIFA, NFL, and Nascar exclusives. If I recall way back to launch when I was looking for ps3 games, you had Motorstorm or EA sports. This is more of a testament to the ratio of games EA was involved with to total games on ps3. I hate EA, but their policy of using developers from Madden on to the Orange Box on to Army of Two on to Facebreaker, so on, has ended with EA having a larger lineup of games than even Sony itself has put out. With so few games out, more people are willing to put up with the crapware and “pay 60 bucks to beta test for us please” bs because honestly, I’d rather have NCAA 09 even with your bad reveiws than Haze. I have Soul Calibur, COD4, GH3, and the Orange Box currently. SSHD, Pain, Warhawk, some bowling crap and the camera software from psn. Warhawk could’ve come from ea. I think the problem is truly industry wide, though. Even Halo 3 plays like ass no matter what 360 fanboys say.

Comment on Madden 09 Countdown (10 days). by John Boy (Bulby37)

John Boy (Bulby37) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:48:17 +0000

Seems everything EA games does or has done nowdays leads to something. They’ve long been setting the standard for games, and if I’m correct, it’s like 1/3 the ratio of ea games to all others on the ps3. I’ll tell you straight up, you should buy and try out the Orange Box for ps3, especially if you’re familiar with any of the games on pc. EA was given the task of taking that game to ps3, for Valve is “not a ps3 developing company,” and the result is a watery version of one of the greatest games in history. And you can tell on ps3 the gameplay system is damaged, further ispection shows multiple layers of depth that were unexplicably axed from the game for time constraint reasons. I too long for the days of competition in sports games: I’ve had a personal boycott of EA sports football est. Madden ‘05 and it’s looking like that will hold strong. I made the mistake of checking out Nascar ‘07 part 3, err… Nascar ‘09 and they had a car skin editor, Jeff Gordon, and Nascar ‘07 again. Madden to me has become an endless series of roster updates, as you’d have to play Madden 96 for a while for the newer ones to look great in comparison. Right off, they never lie of whence they have come. Check out NBA 2k8, they’ve got awesome AI sliders. And decent online, though it’s got certain “Patriot” type teams that tend to be unbeatable against actual players. I was happier wasting 50 on that than Madden, though.

Comment on UGA #1 by John Boy (Bulby37)

John Boy (Bulby37) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:20:10 +0000

Yo bro UGA goin’ all da way if our peeps can keep out da pen. I found your site trying to figure out the best way to get music on my ps3… Looks like ripping the source disk directly is it. For future reference, my files rip as aac and at first, Pain wouldn’t recognize the music files, but now all of my tunes will play on sshd. Keep it real, add me as a friend on psn if you wanna.

Comment on Madden 09 (Demo) Impressions by jcalvert

jcalvert — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:29:34 +0000

Like I said, I am really not sure what to think. I usually play sports games on default settings for the first few games to see what the developers intended for the “average” gamers.

Sliders are screwed up in this year’s NCAA (they may get patched), so I doubt sliders in Madden would make much of a difference. I usually use them to adjust a game to help me - too much passing, not enough running, too many ints, etc.

I will put in some more time with the demo this weekend before deciding if I should invest some money in Madden this year.

Comment on Madden 09 (Demo) Impressions by wco81

wco81 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:36:48 +0000

I didn’t like the description of the demo when I first heard about it.

But really, these demos for very familiar and popular series aren’t going to influence buying decisions that much.

The NCAA demo is a real game but with short quarters so you have to play them over and over again to get an idea of what gameplay tweaks they made.

It sounds like people had a positive reaction to it but were surprised by many aspects of the actual game, which had issues with the punt and kick returns as widely reported.

The Madden demo doesn’t let you play defense but you can kind of see what the CPU defense is doing. However, I don’t think it will give anywhere near a complete picture of the quirks of this year’s edition.

I’ve never touched sliders because you can’t use them online anyways. But I can understand why people are upset. I’m kind of skeptical that they make much difference because the core logic of the game seems to me to have been static for a long time.

Comment on PS3 PSP Remote Play Black Magic by Morrelli

Morrelli — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:43:56 +0000

I have been experiencing exactly the same problems as everyone else here.. and like everyone else here no matter how long you spend scrolling the Internet there seems to be no solution.. over the last few days, however, i have been going to and from work trying new different things out. and today i finally did it!! (well sort of ) at the moment my router is set up exactly like jcalvert.. “Static ip: DMZ : UPnP enabled, and port forwarding for 9293.”(one more thing i had read about during my scrolling was to take your wireless signal channel off auto and set it to 10.. not why but it seems to have worked) but before I left the house I left the playstation on and in remote play mode… and finally a connection!! i can see my ps3 screen on my psp when we are about 6 miles apart.. but there is one BIG downside tho… i cannot control whats on the screen at all.. up, down, left, X, Triangle.. nothing except when i push the ps button..(Select + Home for my psp’s butting config) the no entry sign appears on the top right of the screen.. weird right… as i say i have just got it this far today.. and am still looking into it.. my assumption is that there is still something weird going on with the router… if you could try doing that with your ps3 and see if it works we could rule out that its an individual routers problem.. p.s. if you receive the (80010068) error when connecting, keep trying. thanks guys, hope it works!! >:)