| MikeB said: NFL is pretty irrelavant to me, of course this may be of importance to people in the US. IMO realistic American Foothball (like Baseball and Criicket) implementations usually don't make good video games as IMO there are usually too many dead moments in such games. Some less realistic games inspired by Rugby are great though, like for instance Speedball 2, as they don't nearly have as many dead moments and more continuous play like 'soccer'. |
American football makes great video games. I don't think I'm biased, I prefer both baseball and "soccer" to watch in real life, but I think football video games are better. Baseball is the worst, I'm obsessed with baseball and I've never even bought a baseball video game in the last 10 years because they are terrible.
In terms of how the major team sports rank as video games I'd go:
football
soccer
... (big dropoff)
ice hockey (and i'm not a fan)
...
basketball
...
baseball
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
