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08/21/09
"Now in those days tiny little people would sneak up and start playing football behind me and whenever I got hungry from too much commenting, I would reach behind me and pick up a quarterback for a quick snack. Of course, they caught on to this and tried to escape through the cables, which is why you still see people these days stuffing chewing gum into the TV outlets, to stop the little footballers from running away, you see."
"Of course these days, you got all these flat screen TVs, which is why broadcasters all have to be really skinny now, but I still recall the days of Fat George, who couldn't even fit into a Sony, and that's why they invented the widescreen. Too many quarterbacks we told him, so the Doctor made him it eat the cheerleaders, all skin and bones the poor things."
"One of these days, I'll buy myself a tube and go into one of those internets, maybe I'll invent those video games everyone's been talking about."
08/20/09
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John Madden: "Hey Johnny (the third)!! I heard you like video games! Did you know that I helped make the very first video game? It was crazy!"
*Pulls child in front of a giant HD screen with a blank image and starts to draw intelligible squigly yellow lines*
"We invented this little thing called a controller that looks like this, that you held that moved a little guy across a screen like this."
Grandson: "Wow grandpa! I didn't know you invented Mario!!"
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Either way, the switch from a computer to a console is the reason we didn't get Madden Beacon teaches NFL, so it's probably for the best.
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I swear to god, the moment I read that line, I just about laugh rioted.
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@DouglasJayFalcon:
I lol'd
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I'm so glad you shared.
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The WiiS360.
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06/23/09
I don't see this franchise out of the game anytime soon.
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Fuck the haters
06/22/09
I personally didn't care for 2K5. For all of the features and brilliant ideas that other series have had, no one can compare to the gameplay mechanics of Madden. It is simply too iconic for another title to overcome.
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06/25/09
When I want to play a video game of football (whether it be sim or arcade) I don't want to struggle with the controls to figure out how to play it. I want to pick it up and simulate football, period. I want a playbook that is easy to wade through and smartly organized. I want intuitive controls when it comes to picking a receiver or executing a defensive scheme.
When I pick up Madden, this is all instantly familiar and thus easily useable. It could have the greatest "Career" mode and the best "fly Crib" add-on, but none of that means shit to me. I want to be able to easily find cover 3 and have a playbook that allows me to do several variations off of the same offensive package easily.
I'll agree that EA got pretty lazy in 06 and 07. That said, I have never played another football game whose controls are even equal to Madden let alone superior.
To me 90% of the hate Madden gets comes from the same people that bitch about GTA IV. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Millions of other people will and EA will use the profits from their purchases to bankroll titles like Dead Space etc.