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It seems like every time a new sports game comes out, I have to listen or read about how using the right sliders can improve the gaming experience.
The fact of the matter is that NONE of my favorite sports games of the previous generations (Tecmo Super Bowl, NBA Live 05, NCAA FBall 2002, and 2006, etc…) required me to alter the sliders to get a full gaming experience. All I had to do was up the difficulty level a bit and VOILA the game played wonderfully!
For someone like me who has a full time jobs and kids, I don’t want to spend hours on end trying to find the best sliders to fix a game that should have been playable out of the box. Adding these sliders in games is basically a company’s way to get a game out by its release date without having to fully test the product for optimal performance.
Listen, I know sliders have their benefits. Having the option to cut down interceptions by the user and CPU because they are clearly out of control or cutting up game speed because it’s to slow for your taste is perfectly fine. But having to cut up FG percentage for layups/dunks just because the friggin’ game allows you to blow 50% of those shots inexplicably is absurd.
I have tweaked sliders before to help games flow a little better. But having to change every single slider to get the “best” experience??? Color me uninterested!
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back in the day, once a game's logic was figured out the game would go on the shelf, which happened fairly quickly. this happend regardless of what level the games was set on.
In addition, the sophistication level of a sports gamers is at an all time high. What you have is older gamers, more knowledgable gamers, living out their sporting fantasies. what we have is the arm chair coach transitioning into video sports gaming. I doubt its the 12-18 year olds complaining about Kobe or Lebron dropping 60 each game.
Back in the day it was really only kids playing these games. My experience has become this reality, now at family functions you have 40 year olds getting in line with the teenagers waiting, to get winners.
its really funny when you have adults telling 6 -10 year olds to go to sleep so they could get at the WII or the PS3 to get in a game of football, tennis, golf, basketball etc.
These sliders serve that purpose. before it was one size fits all.