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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.

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The only sports game I ever enjoyed and still play with regularity is All-Star Baseball 2002 for gamecube. As for any others, I've really never been a fan of EA games, although they seem to make most of the sports games nowadays. I always enjoy watching my brother play NCAA football 2005 though...he plays as the badgers and guarantees that he'll outscore the other team by 80 points every game. It seems that I've shaded away from sports games, but after seeing MVP baseball 2005, I think I'm once again hooked...game after game after game

The other game I (oddly) had interest in was Microsoft Baseball 2000. I don't even know where I got it, but I know that I completed a full season with the Boston Red Sox...where games ran about 30 minutes. I thought it was quite an accomplishment to finish any 162 game season on a video game system...

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

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I've only gotten into the NBA 2k series and just recently into Madden.

I stopped buying NBA Live after 05... Nothing changes year after year... Same game modes, same unbalanced gameplay... At least the 2k series attempts to improve.

Madden is still good fun... I never really payed attention to football until I began reading Eyeshield 21 (an anime). I'm actually interested to play Madden 07 now. <_<

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

I've only really enjoyed the NBA sports games. I've been playing them since NBA Jam on the SNES, and I've always found them enjoyable. I have a very old baseball game for SNES called "Super Baseball 2020," and that also doesn't fail to bore me to this day.

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Originally Posted by Chaotic

I stopped buying NBA Live after 05... Nothing changes year after year... Same game modes, same unbalanced gameplay... At least the 2k series attempts to improve.

Yeah, the Live series really has become shitty. Unfortunately, I still play it. The PC version of 2006 has more features, and it's fun to play it with a bunch of people, especially when we player lock ourselves on one team. Other than, the gameplay is terrible.

I'll be trying out NBA 2K6 soon, since my friend just won an X-Box 360 and bought the game plus 3 more controllers. Yeah.. I'll be living at his apartment for the next few weeks.

The NCAA March Madness 2006 is fun to play too, though I like College Hoops 2K6 a lot more, which is why I'm looking forward to NBA 2K6. I like basketball games, in general. NBA Jam was fun. I liked Street and Showtime as well.

Other than basketball, I play EA's NHL series, just because hockey is always fun to play. FIFA is great too since I love soccer. I'm also into the extreme sports games... snowboarding & skateboarding ones, no matter how absurd.

I don't really play Madden.

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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.

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The only sports games that I play are the arcade-style basketball games, mainly being the NBA Street series. Most other sports games don't interest me because, just like in real life, I don't really like sports that much (basketball is about the only one I watch). I do like golf games as well, if you want to consider that a sport (which, as much as I like it, I don't).

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I only tend to play football (soccer) games when it comes to sport. I used to be pretty into FIFA, but I prefer Pro Evo these days. I haven't played the most recent version of either one though.

I'm probably more into Championship Manager, but that's the sort of game that can be somewhat addictive if you don't control yourself. >_>

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Originally Posted by nazpyro

I'll be trying out NBA 2K6 soon, since my friend just won an X-Box 360 and bought the game plus 3 more controllers. Yeah.. I'll be living at his apartment for the next few weeks.

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Originally Posted by The Dopefish

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

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

I play Madden '05 a lot, '06 sucked horribly; however NCAA Football 2006 was quite good.

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I play the NCAA Football games from EA pretty much every year. They're really fun to play against my friends, since we're all pretty close to each other in skill {though admittedly, I am slightly less good than the two of my friends with whom I play it}.

I also just picked up MLB 2k6. I'm sort of glad that they got the license instead of EA, since I really couldn't stand the MVP games. But the 2k games are not without their flaws. I still think that the best simulation style baseball game is All-Star Baseball 2001 {N64}. And hell, in terms of fun factor, ASB 2000 is right up there is the classics RBI Baseball {NES}, Ken Griffey Jr Baseball {SNES}, and Baseball Simulator 1.000 {SNES}.

I used to play a little hockey, like NHL 95 on Genesis, excellent game. I also played the Acclaim hockey game on N64 back in the day and it was pretty awesome. I played a little NBA Live back on the Genesis, but it gets old pretty quick to me.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Chaotic

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Impatiently waiting for this. My friend called Microsoft, and they were like, "Yeah, we're out right now." This shit better come before the end of the semester.

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I've never been much of a sports game until I played Super Mario Strikers, I'm not much of a soccer fan, but with it bieng rather simpliastic it was fun nonetheless.

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I'm addicted to football. And thusly, I've bought a football game pretty much every year. Usually, it's Madden, but I also probably ended up buying all of the 2k games every year (it was the only football game on the Dreamcast and then they made them super cheap BUT still good). I look back fondly on the 2k/Sega sports series and wish it was still around so that EA could have some real competition. Most likely, any push for EA to improve Madden greatly (what the hell changed between '05 and '06? They just lifted the Superstar mode from NCAA Football '06) will have to come from a football game that is probably more street football than actual football.

Blitz: The League tried to accomplish this, but the game is extremely easy to cheese your way through. It had some potential in the storyline aspect, but the gameplay was just so bad to endure long sittings through. And whatever happened to NFL Street? I'd like to see that franchise revived. And NBA Street as well.

I don't think people would get really excited about an ordinary football game that uses non-NFL teams. A great part of the appeal is being able to play as your favorite team. I don't know about you, but even though the NFL Europe teams are in Madden '06, nobody I know uses em.

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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.

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

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The only sports games that I give a damn about (actually owned/own) are as follows:

Bases Loaded 3: NES
Tecmo Bowl: NES
Double Dribble: NES
Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major Leauge Baseball: SNES
NHL 96: SNES
Triple Play 98: PSX
GameDay 98: PSX
NHL 2K6: PS2
NHL 06: PS2

I've really moved away from baseball/football and the only basketball game I liked was back in the NES days--well, not so true, the NBA Jam series for the Genesis was ok. sup Hillary Clinton?

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Originally Posted by The Dopefish

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

I'm actually enjoying it myself. The main issue I have with it is the defense. Players do not move very fluidly in the field, and often the game selects the wrong fielder for you to control initially, causing you to run in the wrong direction to begin with. I like the new hitting style with the step and then swing, and I like the pitching with picking location and effort. With the previous game you would just say "I want the pitch to go here" and then press the button and it would go there every time.

Though I did get frustrated the other day when I was playing and like 8 out of 10 batters on my team hit pop ups to the infield. It didn't help that I was already losing by a few runs.

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Of all the Madden games, three of them were my favorites. 96 98 and 05. I play 2005 to death in franchise mode(just trying it out too). It's amazing how much control you have over your teams. I like sport games in general, however I find them way too easy. I don't know if any remembers College Football Championchip II that was on genesis, but that had to been the only college football I ever played(and to death). Ehhhh that said, all I like is football. Basketball got boring after NBA Live 96, and baseball was never my thing.

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Originally Posted by Winter Storm

I don't know if any remembers College Football Championchip II that was on genesis, but that had to been the only college football I ever played(and to death).

Nebraska running the option on that game was unstoppable.

If you are a college football fan, EA's NCAA games have been getting progressively better. I felt like there was a drop-off after 2001 on PSX but I'd say that 2006 easily rivaled 2001 in terms of pure fun. I am expecting no less from NCAA 07, which releases in July I think.

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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

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I don't play a lot of sports games, but I do enjoy my Pro Evo/Winning Eleven. That is, simply put, one of my most-loved game series. Playing with friends is a riot.

I guess you could also call football (okay, soccer) management sims as sports games, eh? I ever-so-often lapse into intense addictions to said games (most notably the Championship Manager/Football Manager series).

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I'm also playing the WINNING ELEVEN series. Currenly playing Master League with US Palermo. Their kit is awesome, beautiful, I should say.

Lately I've been playing 2006 FIFA World Cup. The FIFA series have improved a lot, and it's really fun to play. At the moment I'm trying to qualify for the World Cup with England. Awesome squad they have.

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