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September 20th, 2006 at 09:12am PsychoPez

Only 8 days between updates. I’m starting to get into the swing of things. I do promise longer reports coming soon, even if they’re less often.

I really want to say that my opinion has shifted for the better on at least one facet of this game. I want to come here and have a good quarter of this post say that “while x, y, z, alpha, and beta all still suck, I enjoy q somewhat more now.” I wish I could point out that subjecting myself to the string of code on this DVD has bettered me in some way, other than wishing I was playing the cooking chicken stage of Parappa the Rappa in place of this moderately warm heap of bovine anus void.

But I cannot.

I’ve been able to roll up a nice 6-1 record with my team, on the standard difficulty level. I figured it was time for me to up my level, that maybe I’m getting so bored with the game cause it’s not a challenge. (Even though I threw 4 interceptions against the in game against the Bears and STILL won the game, more on luck and Willis McGhee’s counter play running).

So I upped my difficulty level, and got stomped. Like, everything I thought I knew, I didn’t. Now, I’ll grant that a higher difficulty level should be hard, and God help me, I’m going to continue on playing at this to better myself, but it is a real, noticeable, ego-stripping, emasculating step to take.

The other issue I’ve had with this game lately is that most times I’m blindly mashing buttons. This was a major beef with the game I had, there seemed to be very little skill, just pressing the button at the right time. Let me say that a game, I was pissed at this game because I thought a skill ONLY REVOLVED AROUND PRESSING BUTTONS AT THE RIGHT TIME.

Think about that for a second. I just started playing Kingdom Hearts II, and a major skill of that video game is PRESSING THE ‘X’ BUTTON AS FAST AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. So Madden 07, I forgive you for the hatred of making me master a video game skill you have to master for every video game; for making an issue when there was none really.

The Good: I don’t hate it as much because I discovered hypocrisy on my part.

The Bad: Given the choice, I’d rather play City of Heroes, Kingdom Hearts II, or Pong still.

Opinion Change: Still miss Techmo Bowl…..8 bit is still better than DVD and authentic playbooks

Entry Filed under: Madden NFL 2007