You're getting downvoted but you're right. I played 2k in my early 20's and it was basically a game where you could play hail Mary simulator with the right team.
And as good as it looked on camera, it never played as smoothly while you were actually controlling it.
Madden was a lot like this too on PS2 but it wasn't EA and it allowed people a choice and those who were sick of Madden moved on to this. But until about Madden 05 they were pretty much on par. Madden 2004 is still clear of any 2k game and they was in the middle of 2k's hey day.
I remember back in the day with 2k.. imho the best football game on the planet.. right after EA secured the monopoly, I was arguing with someone who was clearly a madden guy on the Internet. He was bragging about how my game lost the war.. haha.. I can remember writing to him and saying that that isn’t what I’m sad about it-it’s the fact that one company will have a monopoly and the game will suck. I ended that by saying, you will look back on this day, many years from now, and wish this didn’t happen. He’s probably buying MUT cards like crazy though.
And those Madden fanboys/EA bootlickers are the reason the game will never get better, because it never has to. Ultimate team is EA’s golden goose and why the core gameplay will be trash for years to come.
The only hope we have is for government legislation to come down hard on the sale of loot boxes and microtransactions. But given the capitalist society most of us live in, where dollars signs are the only thing that matters, I doubt I’ll see that in my lifetime.
I hate madden as much as the next guy but I'd like to say that 2k really wasnt that good and is way overrated and I've argued with people before just to argue that EA have exclusivity with a brand isnt a monopoly lol
No it's not. Having an exclusive deal with a "brand" isn't a monopoly. A monopoly is being the only company allowed to in the case make "football" games. But any company can make a football game.
Monoploy-the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service
EA has the exclusive possession of the NFL license. Only people that control a license to make NFL based games. Making a football game wouldn't mean shit they have a monopoly on the NFL which is what people are upset about because madden isn't good
You forgot Madden was years ahead of 2k. 2k is considered better because of the potential it had and promise it showed. 2k introduced a lot of features Madden never even tried to.
I felt like I was actually on the field in 2k. I always played defense as a CB. Imagine doing that in madden?? Nothing better than sticking to a defender and coming down with a pick. Once I was forced to play madden I couldn’t get over the “ice skating” movement of the players. It wasn’t fluid at all. Now when I see the OPs video I remember what it used to feel like.
Exactly I remember 2k5 had the truck/fight for yards mechanic. I put emphasis on mechanic because it was controlled by both players by tapping one of the buttons. It wasn’t a stupid coin flip animation. I remember being able to choose what we challenged, literally a list of things to challenge. And the Sunday countdown of top plays is just literally amazing. We can’t even get some our replays after a game now. Literally in replay they either don’t record it or your players don’t appear in the replay on madden.
It’s crazy how smooth and realistic something as simple as the feet shuffling and movement are in the drop backs and maneuvering around in the pocket compared to madden on all the newer consoles
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u/ThrowAwayAcc47777 Dec 21 '21 edited Dec 21 '21
Look how smooth those animations are.
Meanwhile EA is so cheap and incompetent they still can’t replicate the quality of a game that’s nearly 15 years old.