Sports gamers post here.

No matter what, I always seem to come back to playing sports games to keep me busy. Right now I'm in Year 4 of Race for the Heisman in NCAA Football 2006 (with some ridiculous stats ) and it's been nothing but fun.

I've always been a fan of hockey games, but no 3D version of the game has enthralled me as much as some of the 2D ones. I've always wished that EA would just stop messing around and remake NHL 95 but have it updated for today's rosters and jerseys (alternates and old ones too!) and have monthly and yearly patches for little (<$2) to no cost. The same could really be said for most of the other games EA has made, with the exception of FIFA (remember the SNES/Genesis versions? ewww). Of course, FIFA has had Winning Eleven to compete with, and has slowly but surely improved itself to being in a deadlock with WE, despite having all the licenses and players. WE is still more fun.

Now that it's been a year since EA bought the NFL license, does anyone remember that EA wasn't really all that committed to improving itself in the first place, when there WAS competition from Sega/ESPN/2K Sports? It's not even the difference between Madden 2005 and 2006 for the Xbox, but now it's the difference between the Xbox version and the X360 version. And there isn't much. EA really rushed the 360 version and I hope, for their sake, that 2007 won't be as much a letdown as 2006 turned out to be...not just with Madden, but with all their games. The upcoming E3 should be telling of where exactly the HD-era of sports games is going.

How ya doing, buddy?

MVP 2005 was excellent. I may have to pick up NCAA Baseball 06 just because it has the same gameplay as MVP did.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

NBA games have always been crappy for balance. Hey, don't try to steal, ever.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

MLB 2K6 is out and is the only third-party baseball game this year.

I'm scooting through Franchise mode with my created uber-second-baseman and after 15 years of winning MVP awards and putting up 40HR/40SB he quickly receded into suckyville. One year he was third in MVP voting (the lowest other than 1st he's appeared on the list) with a .195 batting average. There's other bugs like that, particularly with the hall-of-fame (the obviously awesome players make up 99.9% of the HOF...then there's guys who look like they played one season as a pinch hitter, retired and got voted in). I'm just waiting for my guy to retire and get voted into the HOF (which he will, with 876 HRs, 2553 RBI, 2595 hits, 877 SBs before his 25th season (he's 41 and he started playing at 16).

I'll redo it with him as a pitcher next.

Offense de-evolved into anemia in the 15 years since the first season of this game; no one hits over 150 HRs as a team in 2031, and the most stolen bases by one team is 13.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Ryuu

MVP Baseball 2005 was perfect, shame EA lost the contract with the MLB.

MVP 2005 is still the only baseball game I've ever played where I could realistically get 15+ strikeouts. "Best baseball game ever" doesn't seem like a bad title, in retrospect.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Playing MLB 2K6 is a good way to be frustrated with something.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

I've always been a fan of hockey games, but no 3D version of the game has enthralled me as much as some of the 2D ones. I've always wished that EA would just stop messing around and remake NHL 95 but have it updated for today's rosters and jerseys (alternates and old ones too!) and have monthly and yearly patches for little (<$2) to no cost.

http://www.nhl94.com/update

Someone out there likes me.

FELIPE NO

06WC looks promising, but I'll be sticking with the demo given my limited economic means (going to school FTL).

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I was referring to all the fouls that you get trying to steal.

Jam it back in, in the dark.