Looks like thats through all there "ultimate team categories" so FIFA UT and Madden UT
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Absolutely we should.well, until now.
NBA 2K23 just shows how lazy and greedy all these microtransaction game companies are and the capabilities they really have that the consumer is missing out on. We should demand more from them.
It's definitely an age thing. I'm even older by you, and I was always passionate about sports board games and video games, and any kind of games, fun and entertainment, even olden days like games between friends using dice or cards, devising rules, keeping stats, etc. As can be seen by my continued fantasy football input and time spent on it. But....the bottom line is, as you get older you really do grow out of it. You kinda see it for what it always was....a waste of time. Time better spent chasing women, working, getting higher education, going out and having fun, learning to play an instrument, learning a second/third language, traveling, reading books you always wanted to get around to, maybe movies/tv shows you always wanted to get around to---but they also fall into this time-wasting category now, all those entertainment things are stupid really.
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watch the entire vid...(or if you cant be ****ed just watch the finish from 32:00) but I recommend the entire vid for the full story and build up.
Picked up M23 today.
1) The default opening lead in after game install is straight to MUT
2) So many menus and pop ups and promo pages and having to press and hold A to skip cut shots. What a chore.
3) After playing Fifa 22 so much, the free-flowing game, I'm unfortunately finding football a drag to get into. Especially the jerky gameplay and player movements that EA's Madden has had since forever. EA's Fifa is so much smoother, even tho they have canned animations too it just blends together so much better. Almost seamless action. Running the ball, catching and running, returning a kick, it's all so jerky and bowling balls colliding. Doesn't even resemble real action, whereas Fifa at least does.
4) After being forced to play the Legends intro game before you can access anything, went straight to Create A Playbook as I always do. Spent a bit of time just adding in formations I like and removing formations I don't like, not properly setting it all yet.
5) They weren't kidding when they said the playbooks have been trimmed down, could say even gutted. Not much to enthuse over formation-wise or plays-wise for me. Likely to have one or two I-Form, one or two Pistol, one or two Singleback, maybe 5 or so Shotgun. Some of my favorite Shotgun formations from M22 are meh now. Might even cut Shotgun down to one or two as well. But I'm also likely to not even bother.
Because....
I'm just not even enthused anymore playing video games. Well, Fifa 22 is at least a bit of crazy free-flowing fun once in a blue moon, tension as time ticks away to get an equalizer or survive a comeback. But Madden, or perhaps football itself, just feels like going thru the motions. Click something, select something, jerky bowling balls crash, little action, a pass break up, a tackle for 1 yard gain, press and hold A to skip, click something, select something, 2 secs of action, oh look i can right thumbstick a celebration, yay, press and hold A to skip, rinse/repeat.
I dunno, maybe I'm also just jaded and depleted. Just wanna go to sleep and not awake up.
I see the elephant in the room. Doesn't mean you can push that huge thing out of the small room. Anyway, I'm awake, yay.
It's not scoring, but the free-flowing game -- 10 mins of straight play, suspense, drama, no constant menus, thumbstick celebrations and cut scenes to skip...but also the realism of the animations and movements in fifa or nba vs the jerky unrealistic movements of madden. It's very noticeable.
I'm a very casual EPL fan, and had never played soccer video games before. It was an eye-opener.
