Originally posted by ezra_
If you were asking me if I wanted to play a football game with some options, and I was totally clueless as to the possibility of more options, I would be super psyched on GLB2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BmurO7ZW_Q
(if I had never played Madden, or if I had no game station).
The reality is that I want a more complex game with salaries and trades, coordinator intimidation, etc. Essentially, I want to own a football franchise in real life. I have a life long friend and we dream of owning a baseball team. Is owning a "A" level team consider success? No.
Some of us are sim gamers. Some of us are video gamers. Some of us want some sort of artificial intelligence, military grade replication of real life.
In the end (and this will indeed be my last season), neither GLB1 or GLB2 can satisfy what I look for in a game. I very much appreciate the organic nature of GLB1. I wish it would evolve more into a focus on tweak head details, and not devolve into a populist game. However, Bort and his crew made something that occupied a decent amount of my time for 4 years, and they deserve a TON of credit for that. I hope they make bank on GLB2.
Video games fulfill a fantasy to be in control of something we do not believe we can control as individuals (Hey, I won a football team! Hey, I could be an OC for the Jets and dominate! etc). They gave us a serious sniff at that, more so than any other game. At some point, the only way to really do it right is to really do it.
As a decent spender on this site (maybe 100-150$ a season), and a heavy trafficker of it, I wanted more detail. We got a lot of attention until season 32 or so, and then it was clear that ownership efforts went to the new game. That's cool and all, but what I was hoping for was some sort of appeal to the intellectual, with a goal that the user base would have to elevate their skill set to the product, and not the other way around. We have reached a cross road of profit vs idealism, and I do not fault the profit motive.
The time has come to read books, practice something odd and challenging, and hang some rings on my pals as we have a last hurrah.Basically we plea for Madden Franchise but with the in depth game planning,ownership, and player building strategies of GLB.
Replace the dots in this current GLB and input alot of GLB2 here in GLB1 or carry over the in depth detail from here to the new one.
Hopefully I'm making sense still catching up.
