FrenchMovieTheme said:
i hope you aren't referring to MLB 2k5, cause that game is a piece of shit. MVP i will grant you. i think it is a more accurate representation of baseball than madden is of football. but you have to understand that it's not difficult to make an accurate baseball game. you can't really "cheese" in baseball. there are no money plays. yeah you can throw garbage pitches, but welcome to the real world.
Let me begin by saying that I have voiced plenty of negative opinions against MLB 2K5. I was actually referring to MVP.
the bullshit IS acceptable because it happens on both sides and at the end of the day it comes out even for the most part. you can point to lineman breaking blocks, or this or that, but let me ask you this: did you throw any INT's? have any turnovers? odds are you did, and that isn't the games fault that you threw into double coverage or a cb made a good play.
I bolded this point because I want you to see how ridiculous this is. If this is what you believe, the bullshit happened on both sides of ESPN NFL, and ESPN NBA. Why did we drop those like naked zombie toddlers? At the end of the day if you make more plays and make less mistakes, you're going to win too. I beat Bog by playing smart football when no one could in ESPN NFL. Play better D in NBA and get more rebounds, of course you're gonna get the game regardless of the hopstep.
Maybe I am bullshitting myself, but in order to address your turnover point, I will admit I think I make better reads at the LoS than anyone else in the league. My ability to recognize coverage and make correct audibles is my basis for this. The season stats are unfortunately down, but going into the last game I had thrown 10 interceptions, and if you had read my posts after each game, you know that at least two of them were balls that bounced off of my receiver's hands. Am I at fault for that? I do make correct reads, look at my rushing total, look at my passing stats (yardage is low because I focused on coming out of my backfield a lot more this season than last). I, personally, do not make many mistakes in terms of costing myself the game. However, and you know this one quite well, my guys fumble a lot for whatever reason. I think I had 10 fumbles going into the last game. You'd think that a guy that used Tiki as his feature back last season (and the season before) would know how and when to use the Y button ball cover move, but hey I still fumbled more than anyone in the league, and maybe one or two of those were huge hitstick hits. Again, am I at fault for that? Look at the turnover differential for my team. Really, the fumbles ruin it, don't kid yourself. My point is, on the field, I'm not making a lot of mistakes, if any, per game.
Offensive/Defensive play calling is hot/cold, we all know this. You can make the right calls but sometimes your guys don't play to their potential, as you saw in your game with Malley. I don't think that play calling is an issue for me, though you may think it is as my lost to you in Season 3 featured the unequivocably worst playcalling I have ever done.
im not calling you guys out, if you dont want to play then dont its not the end of the world. but dont throw a tantrum or quit after every game you lose. shit i got 53 points put up on me against malley and i was still fighting to the very end. you dont think i was upset that holmes broke a gajillion tackles or that dante burned triple coverage for a td? its upsetting but boo hoo get over it.
still i understand that football is not in season and you might not be as hyped to play a sport that isn't around right now. thats fine. but if you are going to quit because you lost a 1 point game or because you are upset that you gave up an 80 yard TD to a guy you have no respect for that is kind of weak
My point here is this, I love Madden 2005 and although the pluses outweighed the minuses before, now it's flipped as the minuses become more and more glaring. You can't sit there and say that I am being a baby about it when I likely have more games played than you do. I'm 97-56 in ranked games, 5-9, 8-8, and 9-7 in season play, countless franchise games, and even more unranked games. I think I have seen the same amount of BS as you have if not more, the amount of times I haven't gotten upset over BS easily matches yours. I'm calling it quits because I'm burnt out and tired of denying that there are any problems with this game, and frankly, I'd love to play some of my other games that have been sitting on the backburner because of my 2-3 Madden game a night affliction.
That said, I would play season 4 if we eliminated the BS play, as I told Fifty online. No slot corners whatsoever, no d-line spread, no double safety bluffs unless it's a goalline situation, and no manual blitzing from the outside(you know who you are buddy!). These are very clearly game breaking exploits. I understand if you don't want that, there's always next year.
