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Alara317 on 09 June 2018
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Ka-pi96 said:
Alara317 said:

Good for you; did you hear the audience? They sure didn't care. 

And sports games are just the same thing every year. You might play them, sure, but when was the last time you were genuinely excited for a new entry in Fifa? I wouldn't be surprised if VIRTUALLY NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD jumped at this new mode like half the gaming sphere did when Smash was announced or the FFVII remake was shown for the first time. 

Do you care? Sure. but are you passionate about it? I highly doubt it. Sports games will almost never elicit the same giddy joy or love that other games would. 

So while my statement of 'who cares' is less about the absolutes as you seem to have interpreted it, the actual sentiment is 'who cares enough to be excited?' As in, yay....another Battlefield! Another Sports game. Another Halo. Another Forza. Another Gran Turismo. Another Gears of War. Another Assassin's Creed. Whoop-de-do. Nobody holds the same passion for those titles as they do for smash, or God of War, or Zelda, or Mario, or Grand Theft auto, or Red Dead Redemption, or The Last of Us, or Uncharted. 

As somebody who gave FIFA 18 his official 2018 GOTY award, I can safely say at least one person was much more excited by the FIFA 19 reveal than either of those two you mentioned

But how can you claim to be excited about a game that you 100% knew was coming (because it literally comes every year) based on a franchise that is certainly good but only making iterative improvements on the same thing over and over again? I'm sure the new mode will be cool, but how is a minor change/addition the same as, say, a whole new IP like Splatoon with gameplay unlike anything seen before? 

Almost all sports games are virtually identical to their past iterations. Make a few tweaks, add a few tackle animations, push a marginally different mode...but then still have 95% of the actual gameplay identical to last year's model. At least racing games have new tracks and fighting games have new characters and open worlds have new maps to explore. A sports game will always have players faffing about with a ball on the same playing field doing nearly identical things ad nauseum. 

Final Fantasy's Blitzball had more variety to it than any football/basketball games. Sure, it was nowhere near as refined, but it was more interesting because it at least had some variety to it. 

My point is, I can't fathom how someone could be excited for 'sports ball 2018' when it's 90% the same game as 'sports ball 2017'. I get that it has that feeling like it's an excuse to return to an old favorite if you're into that, but to be super excited for it when it's basically the same thing? I just don't get that. 

All I get from these EA sports announcements is 'yep, it's another sports game, but this time it's slightly better'. 

When the internet is throwing a fit over Dark Souls Remastered just being Dark Souls with some performance tweaks and better online, it strikes me as odd to hear similar people buying the same football game once a year for a decade straight.