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TalkBack / RE:EA Secures Exclusive Rights to NCAA Football

« on: April 11, 2005, 11:39:27 AM »

I do not like EA games.  The only game of EA's that I bought was every three years (or so) I buy NCAA Football.  I love college sports, and college football is just a great game (even though my school has a much much much better Basketball team, GO ILLINI).  But now...I don't know.  I feel like I am just feeding the beast.

But guys, I am sorry to say but if we want to continue playing superior software on superior hardware (Nintendo games on a Nintendo system) we have to have EA on our side.  Nintendo must have EA support.  It sucks, It sucks a big one, but it must be done.

What EA is doing is shady, not ilegal.  Also, it is similar to what Nintendo used to do back in the old days.  EA is shrewd, and that sucks, but no ilegal.  

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TalkBack / RE:EA Buys Approximately 20% of Ubi Soft

« on: December 20, 2004, 10:20:04 AM »

1)  The NFL deal is very bad.  This eliminates competition in Pro Football videogames.  I do not know if anyone here recalls, but there was never a Madden game released the first year of the Playstation(One) because the game they designed was SO BAD compared to 989 Studios "Gameday" that EA did not release a Madden that year.  Has anyone ever played a 989 game?  Wow, who could ever imagine a 2nd party developer being so bad at graphics and controls ON THEIR HOME SYSTEM!?  But...what came out of this?  The Madden game that first appeared on the PS was GREAT!  EA got their ass kicked and put it in gear.  The "NFL 2kx" series was doing this.  Though they have had some drawbacks, the "2kx" series has been a very very good alternative to the Madden series.  

2)  I am glad to also see some people on this board are not impressed with Ubi Soft, I thought it was just me!  I bought Beyound Good & Evil, expecting a pretty good game (the reviews [even on this very site] made this game sound great).  What I got was a very poorly controlled-Zelda-wanna-be game that was a huge let down.  I thought Ubi Soft sounded like they might be a good thing for video games.  They had some nice concepts with creating franchises (PoP, BG&E, Rayman).  But, this is where the "Nintendo Difference" comes in.  They all fall well short of what they could be.  This is the exact reason why I buy ONLY Nintendo games.  

The 20% ownership by EA doesn't really matter to me.  I don't care.  I don't buy games outside of Nintendo, except sports games.  I buy EA NCAA sports games, but now I am not even going to do that.  I will just have to buy the NCAA sports games from Sega, if they still make this after this.  I don't see why they would spend so much money on their NCAA games when the Pro ones sell much better.  

BTW-Does anyone have NCAA Football 2005?  How annoying is it with all of the advertisements in that game?  Pontiac amoung others are all over that game and you can skip past their ads!  Why do I have to pay $50 to look at ads?  It is total BS and this all just adds to how much I do not care for EA.