{"id":1267,"date":"2008-08-02T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/02\/madden-09-countdown-10-days\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T15:05:17","slug":"madden-09-countdown-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/02\/madden-09-countdown-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden 09 Countdown (10 days)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/videogames\/psx\/madden96_boxart.jpg\" alt=\"PlayStation Madden 96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>There is an interesting slider discussion going on at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationsports.com\/forums\/madden-nfl-football\/259558-more-info-cpu-sliders-ea.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.operationsports.com\/forums\/madden-nfl-football\/259558-more-info-cpu-sliders-ea.html', 'OS');\" target=\"new\">OS<\/a>, and while some think there is much doom and gloom with the lack of CPU sliders, can it really be all that terrible?  I mean down right PlayStation <em>Madden 96<\/em> bad?  Enough to cancel the game?<\/p>\n<p>I think I am going to wait with baited breath to see how things pan out with this year\u2019s Madden.  While I am not a slider whore, I do like to fiddle with sliders to adjust things to my liking.  I am not sure what inspired the developers to drop slider adjustments, but obviously sliders are not considered important to the overall success of the game.  Look no further than the broken slider crap we are currently enduring with <em>NCAA Football 09<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These days I am not looking for the perfect game, but something that is enjoyable and heavily slanted towards a simulation experience.  <em>Blitz<\/em> style over the top sports games are not my cup of team.  I do not like seeing 75% (or higher) pass completion percentages game after game; that is just not realistic.  There is a fine line between fun and realistic, and this line, or perception, is different for every gamer.  I think sliders can help balance out things, but sliders will not help with a faulty AI, poor play calling, or a broken game engine.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Madden 09<\/em> demo gives me a sense of things to come, and right now I am sitting on the fence.  The experience is different than <em>NCAA Football 09<\/em>, which is a positive, but will <em>Madden 09<\/em> offer more enjoyment for my football time?<\/p>\n<p>I want a solid NFL game; my expectations are not lofty.  The problem is that <em>Madden 09<\/em> is the only game in town.  Thanks to exclusive licenses, we are stuck with a take or leave situation.  I long for the days of <em>GameDay<\/em>, where Sony caught EA Sports with their pants down, which resulted in the cancellation of <em>Madden 96<\/em> for the PlayStation.  Give me some <em>GameBreaker<\/em> vs. <em>NCAA Football<\/em>, <em>GameDay<\/em> vs. <em>Madden<\/em>, or <em>2K<\/em> vs. <em>Madden<\/em> competition.  Sometimes the good \u2018ol days really were better.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting slider discussion going on at OS, and while some think there is much doom and gloom with the lack of CPU sliders, can it really be all that terrible? I mean down right PlayStation Madden 96 bad? Enough to cancel the game? I think I am going to wait with baited &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/02\/madden-09-countdown-10-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden 09 Countdown (10 days).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}