{"id":1280,"date":"2008-08-12T22:51:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T02:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/12\/madden-and-the-bitter-old-man\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T23:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T03:03:45","slug":"madden-and-the-bitter-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/12\/madden-and-the-bitter-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden and the bitter old man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 9:30 PM EST, the NCAA Football 09 patch has still not been posted.  Where is the f\u2019ing patch for the PS3?  Now that Madden is out, will anyone care?  I love NCAA Football (the series, not necessarily this year\u2019s game) so I want to see a quality gameplay patch, but I will be damned if we will see it anytime soon since the first roster patch cannot seem to be released.<\/p>\n<p>So I open Madden and jump right into the Madden IQ crap.  Some of this stuff seems contrived.  Let\u2019s just call it down right BS.  My IQ sucks; 498.\u00a0 Funny, this score is actually lower than my demo score.\u00a0 Somehow I have regressed.<\/p>\n<p>For my first game I have the Saints visit the Georgia Dome.  Call me a bitter old man, but this first game does not leave me feeling all that enthused for Madden.  There is a reason that I have not really gotten into Madden the last few years.  Typical pattern is purchase, play less than two weeks, become disappointed, sell on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>Right out of the box this one just screams typical Madden.  No running game and unrealistic pass percent completion numbers.  Brees goes 15-19 for 136 yards.  I know my Madden IQ sucks, but come on; this is shades of this year\u2019s NCAA Football.  WTF?  Of course running is the polar opposite.  McAllister has 19 yards on 15 attempts, while Turner has 11 yards on 7 attempts.  Give the CPU a cookie for at least making 15 rushing attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Adding insult to injury, after my 10-3 loss, my IQ drops 10 points to 489.  Ouch.  I guess I am getting too old for this crap.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well; getting late for this bitter old man.  Will have to take another crack at it tomorrow.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>As of 9:30 PM EST, the NCAA Football 09 patch has still not been posted. Where is the f\u2019ing patch for the PS3? Now that Madden is out, will anyone care? I love NCAA Football (the series, not necessarily this year\u2019s game) so I want to see a quality gameplay patch, but I will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/12\/madden-and-the-bitter-old-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden and the bitter old man.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}