aight another video.
HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUCKING FUNNY.
OMFG.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6QXUXQ8miHs&search=juggernaut%20bitc
Feb 23, 2006
omg. oky seriously..these two videos had me cracking up for a LONG time. The second link had me CRYING from laughing so hard. I thought I was gonna piss my pants from how hard i was laughing.
http://www.break.com/index/snowboardhead19.html
http://www.break.com/index/bottlehead16.html
http://www.break.com/index/snowboardhead19.html
http://www.break.com/index/bottlehead16.html
Feb 14, 2006
Thanks Jonathan for the research you put into this. Again I will say again that unless we want ceramic chips and/or want to buy thousands of chips...the four edgespots and the six edgespots are impossible. I've looked around a lot of reputable sights and no one does these kind of chips unless we want to go down in quality.
The other cool thing about buying from this company is that they did the Rounders movie so all their colors will be exactly the same as in the film. I see your point about the KGB chips being kind of worthless if we can't get the same edgespots, but I'm pretty sure waiting around for it is a mistake considering they already told me it is impossible.
So alas I think the three is our only choice. I should have my colors picked out...I like the ones you did except for the shit brown and yellow urine color. Also since you picked out 12 colors...1200 chips would be necessary. I'll sleep on this tonight and try to figure out what I wanna do...
The other cool thing about buying from this company is that they did the Rounders movie so all their colors will be exactly the same as in the film. I see your point about the KGB chips being kind of worthless if we can't get the same edgespots, but I'm pretty sure waiting around for it is a mistake considering they already told me it is impossible.
So alas I think the three is our only choice. I should have my colors picked out...I like the ones you did except for the shit brown and yellow urine color. Also since you picked out 12 colors...1200 chips would be necessary. I'll sleep on this tonight and try to figure out what I wanna do...
Following our conversation the other day, here is someone's take on the worst video game box art.
I remember being confused by Phalanx and disgusted by Bust-A-Move. I do not, however, remember Bionic Granny.
I remember being confused by Phalanx and disgusted by Bust-A-Move. I do not, however, remember Bionic Granny.
Feb 13, 2006
Poker Chips
Ready-to-order simplicity
So at some point, realizing how heavy 1000+ chips would be, I thought storing them in two cases rather than one would be practical. This led to my idea of two complementary sets, which could be used individually, or combined when a higher total chip count would improve our lives and demeanors. The first set contains the traditional casino colors (blue/red/green/black/purple), with KGB’s spot colors where applicable, and the second set is a splendid-looking customized set (grey/orange/dk blue/brown/lt yellow). Note that the color schemes are visually similar for each chip value, for elegant symmetry and memorization convenience. The 300/100/100/50/50 count works for each 600-chip set, or 250/100/50/50/50 for matching 500-chip sets.
Note on the chip count: A single set of 500 or 600 is more than enough for all our home games; 1000+ chips could accurately be identified as overkill. While increasing the count of low-value chips allows everyone to have big stacks even when a lot of people are playing, it also reduces the use of the higher-value chips. Recall that we seldom touch my purple chips. You could just go with some version of the customized set, since it's uniquely personalized, and it's somewhat pointless to have the KGB colors when the spots don’t match up. But if you're sure you want a huge set (that effectively makes all our other chips obsolete), hopefully you'll get a lifetime of use out of them. I do like having big stacks available, and love the variety of color, but I also like having money. Either choice is easily justifiable.
Heightened difficulty and reward
Way back around the time I received my poker chip set, I was perusing the Web sites and couldn’t decide what number of edge spots looked best. Due to this recent return to the wild world of colorful clay, I have decided that I like four. It looks better balanced than three, and less cluttered than six. So if I had to choose one style it would be with four small edge spots, like KGB’s green/orange and black/green chips in Rounders. I’d think they must sell these somewhere, but who knows.
But even better, I think, would be a set combining different styles and colors, again like KGB’s (with the six-spotted purple/peach chips). The variety would look interesting and also help remind players of the values of the different colored chips. This option might take more time to complete (and yes, might be impossible), but I'd check around about this.
Unattainable perfection
Dazzling the eye and the heart, the rainbow chip is by leaps and bounds the most coveted poker chip ever made. Unfortunately for the common man, it is so valuable that only a few emperors and sultans in the world could ever afford to buy in for one. The lamentable result is that pokerchips.com does not make it available to the general public. Such is life… we dream for a moment of the wonders that might have been, shed a lone tear, and carry on.
Ready-to-order simplicity
So at some point, realizing how heavy 1000+ chips would be, I thought storing them in two cases rather than one would be practical. This led to my idea of two complementary sets, which could be used individually, or combined when a higher total chip count would improve our lives and demeanors. The first set contains the traditional casino colors (blue/red/green/black/purple), with KGB’s spot colors where applicable, and the second set is a splendid-looking customized set (grey/orange/dk blue/brown/lt yellow). Note that the color schemes are visually similar for each chip value, for elegant symmetry and memorization convenience. The 300/100/100/50/50 count works for each 600-chip set, or 250/100/50/50/50 for matching 500-chip sets.
Note on the chip count: A single set of 500 or 600 is more than enough for all our home games; 1000+ chips could accurately be identified as overkill. While increasing the count of low-value chips allows everyone to have big stacks even when a lot of people are playing, it also reduces the use of the higher-value chips. Recall that we seldom touch my purple chips. You could just go with some version of the customized set, since it's uniquely personalized, and it's somewhat pointless to have the KGB colors when the spots don’t match up. But if you're sure you want a huge set (that effectively makes all our other chips obsolete), hopefully you'll get a lifetime of use out of them. I do like having big stacks available, and love the variety of color, but I also like having money. Either choice is easily justifiable.
Heightened difficulty and reward
Way back around the time I received my poker chip set, I was perusing the Web sites and couldn’t decide what number of edge spots looked best. Due to this recent return to the wild world of colorful clay, I have decided that I like four. It looks better balanced than three, and less cluttered than six. So if I had to choose one style it would be with four small edge spots, like KGB’s green/orange and black/green chips in Rounders. I’d think they must sell these somewhere, but who knows.
But even better, I think, would be a set combining different styles and colors, again like KGB’s (with the six-spotted purple/peach chips). The variety would look interesting and also help remind players of the values of the different colored chips. This option might take more time to complete (and yes, might be impossible), but I'd check around about this.
Unattainable perfection
Dazzling the eye and the heart, the rainbow chip is by leaps and bounds the most coveted poker chip ever made. Unfortunately for the common man, it is so valuable that only a few emperors and sultans in the world could ever afford to buy in for one. The lamentable result is that pokerchips.com does not make it available to the general public. Such is life… we dream for a moment of the wonders that might have been, shed a lone tear, and carry on.
Feb 12, 2006
this is an animated gif. Let the whole thing load first, and then watch it. Fucking hilarious doesn't even BEGIN to describe it.
http://x87.xanga.com/cf7b507135c3034364129/b21583118.gif
the fat punk deserved it. You don't that shit in public, especially in front of your friends house. And JLP doesn't put up with that shit. lol.
http://x87.xanga.com/cf7b507135c3034364129/b21583118.gif
the fat punk deserved it. You don't that shit in public, especially in front of your friends house. And JLP doesn't put up with that shit. lol.
Feb 6, 2006
Andy needs to shut his mouth considering he will never be looking at these chips. Haha.
Yes I think I'm going to buy 1100. Unless we decide to only get 50 of the purple and 50 of the chocolate. Let me know what you think.
I tried the green, but it was very hard to get anything to look decent while trying to keep the edge spots unique. Plus you have to realize that the question mark chip is the one that will be worth the most. So we thought perhaps something clean looking rather than all colorful (besides the rainbow chips that they won't let us do). Hence the blacks with the gray or blacks with the white. Although green could mean that you are in the money...
But Steve said that green/blue and green/brown makes him think of a globe. Now that he told me that, that is all I can see as well. Thanks Steve. Haha. Also Steve has expressed that the blue chips that I put up on the choices picture reminds him of the old days of when we used to play. This makes him think of Scott. Then it makes him want to leave. Haha.
The reason for the 1100 Jonathan is because I really thought we were missing a blue from my pallette. And considering blue is one of my favorite colors, I couldn't see excluding it from the set. Also if I ever wanted to purchase blue in the future, I would have to buy a minimum of 300 for a new order. Might as well get colors that I want before I have to buy 300 of them just to have em. Please let me know if this should actually change any of the numbers that we should have of each.
Let me say right off the bat my favorite ones so far that have been picked are the black/DG green obviously because of rounders and the poker superstars colors of Yellow/blue. That brown is also sick.
SO LET ME SAY AGAIN TO ANDY WHO ONCE AGAIN WON'T EVEN TOUCH THESE CHIPS...THESE ARE NOT THE ONLY COLOR CHOICES ON THE TOP. LET ME KNOW.
Yes I think I'm going to buy 1100. Unless we decide to only get 50 of the purple and 50 of the chocolate. Let me know what you think.
I tried the green, but it was very hard to get anything to look decent while trying to keep the edge spots unique. Plus you have to realize that the question mark chip is the one that will be worth the most. So we thought perhaps something clean looking rather than all colorful (besides the rainbow chips that they won't let us do). Hence the blacks with the gray or blacks with the white. Although green could mean that you are in the money...
But Steve said that green/blue and green/brown makes him think of a globe. Now that he told me that, that is all I can see as well. Thanks Steve. Haha. Also Steve has expressed that the blue chips that I put up on the choices picture reminds him of the old days of when we used to play. This makes him think of Scott. Then it makes him want to leave. Haha.
The reason for the 1100 Jonathan is because I really thought we were missing a blue from my pallette. And considering blue is one of my favorite colors, I couldn't see excluding it from the set. Also if I ever wanted to purchase blue in the future, I would have to buy a minimum of 300 for a new order. Might as well get colors that I want before I have to buy 300 of them just to have em. Please let me know if this should actually change any of the numbers that we should have of each.
Let me say right off the bat my favorite ones so far that have been picked are the black/DG green obviously because of rounders and the poker superstars colors of Yellow/blue. That brown is also sick.
SO LET ME SAY AGAIN TO ANDY WHO ONCE AGAIN WON'T EVEN TOUCH THESE CHIPS...THESE ARE NOT THE ONLY COLOR CHOICES ON THE TOP. LET ME KNOW.
Jan 30, 2006
http://uploads.ungrounded.net/285000/285267_ultimateshowdown.swf
another video. It's only funny because of the various 80s/90s icons in it. Turn on the subtitles too.
another video. It's only funny because of the various 80s/90s icons in it. Turn on the subtitles too.
Jan 23, 2006
Hi all,
Two reasons for the post.
1. Kevin had some funny Chuck Norris quotes on his Myspace comments:
-Chuck Norris once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45 minutes having sex with his waitress
-They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn't take shit from anybody
-If Chuck Norris is late, time better slow the fuck down
-Chuck Norris could have any woman he wants, but he has never had sex. He only masturbates because the only person good enough to have sex with Chuck is Chuck
-Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because Chuck Norris is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris
-In fine print on the last page of the Guinness Book of World Records it notes that all world records are held by Chuck Norris, and those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone else has ever gotten
-Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris
-When Chuck Norris has sex with a man, it won't be because he is gay. It will be because he has run out of women.
-In a recent survey it was discovered the 94% of American women lost their virginity to Chuck Norris. The other 6% were incredibly fat or ugly.
-Chuck Norris does not have AIDS but he gives it to people anyway.
-When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down.
2. Got a game Wednesday @ 715PM. This one could be entertaining for two reasons, 1 we're playing a Japanese FOB team that I think is funny. Another is this is pretty much a must win for our team to have a shot at the playoffs. We're 2 - 5 - 1, the other team is 3 - 5. If we win we'll move ahead of them in the standings (sadly they're in the last spot for the playoffs). Our game next week is also another must win to guarantee us a spot in the playoffs, but we'll take one week at a time. So if you want to come out (I know traffic is jizzy at that time) please do. We can meet for dinner downtown and take Monterey to avoid traffic if you so desire. Let me know. (Last time we played this team, I laid out two helpless Japanese girls that were trying to move me from the middle, a reoccurence is imminent.) haha
Alright Peace!
Two reasons for the post.
1. Kevin had some funny Chuck Norris quotes on his Myspace comments:
-Chuck Norris once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45 minutes having sex with his waitress
-They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn't take shit from anybody
-If Chuck Norris is late, time better slow the fuck down
-Chuck Norris could have any woman he wants, but he has never had sex. He only masturbates because the only person good enough to have sex with Chuck is Chuck
-Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because Chuck Norris is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris
-In fine print on the last page of the Guinness Book of World Records it notes that all world records are held by Chuck Norris, and those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone else has ever gotten
-Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris
-When Chuck Norris has sex with a man, it won't be because he is gay. It will be because he has run out of women.
-In a recent survey it was discovered the 94% of American women lost their virginity to Chuck Norris. The other 6% were incredibly fat or ugly.
-Chuck Norris does not have AIDS but he gives it to people anyway.
-When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down.
2. Got a game Wednesday @ 715PM. This one could be entertaining for two reasons, 1 we're playing a Japanese FOB team that I think is funny. Another is this is pretty much a must win for our team to have a shot at the playoffs. We're 2 - 5 - 1, the other team is 3 - 5. If we win we'll move ahead of them in the standings (sadly they're in the last spot for the playoffs). Our game next week is also another must win to guarantee us a spot in the playoffs, but we'll take one week at a time. So if you want to come out (I know traffic is jizzy at that time) please do. We can meet for dinner downtown and take Monterey to avoid traffic if you so desire. Let me know. (Last time we played this team, I laid out two helpless Japanese girls that were trying to move me from the middle, a reoccurence is imminent.) haha
Alright Peace!
Jan 9, 2006
18 MONTHS COMES DOWN TO THIS...FREEDOM OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION WITHOUT MOZILLA HOLDING ME BACK...
MY FUCKING GOD. MY DEAR FUCKING GOD. For those who don't know anything about my struggles with MentalAbstraction...ever since people have started using Mozilla and it was pointed out to me in numerous emails that my site didn't work with Mozilla I have been researching on and off for as long as I can remember trying to figure out WHY it wouldn't work. I posted in numerous forums with no one being able to help me. I've researched large amount of Flash sites and Mozilla sites trying to figure this out. I even bought multiple books on Flash/HTML to try to figure this out...and finally...at 4:23 AM...I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT.
You might be saying...big fucking deal. Well let me tell you that my opening page has over 50 layers of graphics. A large amount having code embedded in it, it was tough to troubleshoot everything. Going over and over code, publishing sites, uploading, testing over and over and over...for over 18 months finally has paid dividends. You guys can check if you want to. The INFO, TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL WORKS TO A CERTAIN EXTENT WHILE THE OTHER BUTTONS HAVEN'T BEEN CHANGED YET. As long as it loads I can make any other page load.
Sorry for sounding very excited...but as far as personal achievments go...this is right up there. I have never worked on something for 18 months without having some kind of growth toward optimism...this case was an all or nothing. It either worked or it didn't. Now if only I could beat the third level of Spelunker I could die a happy man. So what does this mean to everyone?
Well pretty much nothing...EXCEPT for the fact that I can finally start production on MentalAbstraction.com V2.0, and I can finally get a legit photography section up and I can finally do the cool things that I wanted to do with Ricki's online portfolio. Oh man oh man...I'm so happy.
I was going to post a large blog, but Steve told me he was gonna wake me up tomorrow morning since I didn't have work and he would be in the area...so I better get to bed. I can hardly wait to work on my site again...
MY FUCKING GOD. MY DEAR FUCKING GOD. For those who don't know anything about my struggles with MentalAbstraction...ever since people have started using Mozilla and it was pointed out to me in numerous emails that my site didn't work with Mozilla I have been researching on and off for as long as I can remember trying to figure out WHY it wouldn't work. I posted in numerous forums with no one being able to help me. I've researched large amount of Flash sites and Mozilla sites trying to figure this out. I even bought multiple books on Flash/HTML to try to figure this out...and finally...at 4:23 AM...I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT.
You might be saying...big fucking deal. Well let me tell you that my opening page has over 50 layers of graphics. A large amount having code embedded in it, it was tough to troubleshoot everything. Going over and over code, publishing sites, uploading, testing over and over and over...for over 18 months finally has paid dividends. You guys can check if you want to. The INFO, TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL WORKS TO A CERTAIN EXTENT WHILE THE OTHER BUTTONS HAVEN'T BEEN CHANGED YET. As long as it loads I can make any other page load.
Sorry for sounding very excited...but as far as personal achievments go...this is right up there. I have never worked on something for 18 months without having some kind of growth toward optimism...this case was an all or nothing. It either worked or it didn't. Now if only I could beat the third level of Spelunker I could die a happy man. So what does this mean to everyone?
Well pretty much nothing...EXCEPT for the fact that I can finally start production on MentalAbstraction.com V2.0, and I can finally get a legit photography section up and I can finally do the cool things that I wanted to do with Ricki's online portfolio. Oh man oh man...I'm so happy.
I was going to post a large blog, but Steve told me he was gonna wake me up tomorrow morning since I didn't have work and he would be in the area...so I better get to bed. I can hardly wait to work on my site again...
Jan 6, 2006
Interesting way to water cool your Xbox 360 if you so desire...
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=OTM5LDE=
With all the political talk, I found this...
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=OTM5LDE=
With all the political talk, I found this...
Jan 5, 2006
I also know little of politics, and I'm only sporadically into video games. So video game legislation is far beyond my realm of interest.
But the described situation does provide for discussion.
I don't see a problem with the required-ratings legislation (besides the cost of time and money, obviously better spent on more urgent problems). In fact, from my understanding it is on gamers' side.
You want to be able to play games with mature themes. I agree this should be allowed. Some parents don't want their little kids playing these games. Fine.
A rating system will help. It exists. It is used.
But no law requires it be used. <-- foreshadowing
Here's a little story to illustrate...
(1) A new company makes a game full of graphic sex and violence, not to mention a 4-letter word in every sentence spoken by the realistically-rendered 3D characters. Clearly the game is worth a purchase.
(2) The company craftily designs the game box with all manner of harmless wholesome cartoon characters. No rating is there to be found.
(3) The kids who read magazines and the Web find out what the game is really like. Naturally, they want it.
(4) Their parents buy it for them because the box looks harmless. The kids only play in their rooms or when their parents aren't around. Often without pants.
(5) The kids show their friends, who also trick their parents into buying it. Many circles of trust are broken.
(6) One day a parent comes home from work early to find a 7-year-old latchkey kid beating up a hooker. Rage ensues.
(7) Parents tell parents. The whole world is mad. Child abuse skyrockets.
(8) Some parents demand that games not be allowed to have this kind of content.
(9) Someone more sensible suggests a rating system be required. The best way to ensure that is to make it law. It is done.
(10) Someone even more sensible says "We knew this was what we needed, why didn't we do this long ago? A temporary lapse in violation does not eliminate the need for law."
Why would the company choose this path? I don't know. People are silly sometimes. They don't think long term. I can't be held accountable for every video game company executive's faulty decision. I just make up the utterly unbelievable stories.
How is the rating issue handled with movies? Is there a law? I never knew or cared.
And what about books? Is no one concerned because no one reads anymore? There is some adult stuff filling up public libraries across the nation. And I've been taking advantage since I was 5.
But the described situation does provide for discussion.
I don't see a problem with the required-ratings legislation (besides the cost of time and money, obviously better spent on more urgent problems). In fact, from my understanding it is on gamers' side.
You want to be able to play games with mature themes. I agree this should be allowed. Some parents don't want their little kids playing these games. Fine.
A rating system will help. It exists. It is used.
But no law requires it be used. <-- foreshadowing
Here's a little story to illustrate...
(1) A new company makes a game full of graphic sex and violence, not to mention a 4-letter word in every sentence spoken by the realistically-rendered 3D characters. Clearly the game is worth a purchase.
(2) The company craftily designs the game box with all manner of harmless wholesome cartoon characters. No rating is there to be found.
(3) The kids who read magazines and the Web find out what the game is really like. Naturally, they want it.
(4) Their parents buy it for them because the box looks harmless. The kids only play in their rooms or when their parents aren't around. Often without pants.
(5) The kids show their friends, who also trick their parents into buying it. Many circles of trust are broken.
(6) One day a parent comes home from work early to find a 7-year-old latchkey kid beating up a hooker. Rage ensues.
(7) Parents tell parents. The whole world is mad. Child abuse skyrockets.
(8) Some parents demand that games not be allowed to have this kind of content.
(9) Someone more sensible suggests a rating system be required. The best way to ensure that is to make it law. It is done.
(10) Someone even more sensible says "We knew this was what we needed, why didn't we do this long ago? A temporary lapse in violation does not eliminate the need for law."
Why would the company choose this path? I don't know. People are silly sometimes. They don't think long term. I can't be held accountable for every video game company executive's faulty decision. I just make up the utterly unbelievable stories.
How is the rating issue handled with movies? Is there a law? I never knew or cared.
And what about books? Is no one concerned because no one reads anymore? There is some adult stuff filling up public libraries across the nation. And I've been taking advantage since I was 5.
Dec 18, 2005
Dec 12, 2005
Okay so I have a lot of pictures to sort through...roughly 500+ and like I said...I'll probably only like 25 of them. That is not to say the subjects were crappy, basically just my photographic EYE. Some of this turned out too soft and out of focus and some of them look really crappy compositionally...but all in all...I have stumbled on a few so far that are almost magical to say the least...
So for a preview...here is me walking with Shannon's family. Who knew we would meet up with them there? Shangri-La tours in the hizouse.
So for a preview...here is me walking with Shannon's family. Who knew we would meet up with them there? Shangri-La tours in the hizouse.
Dec 4, 2005
First off, sorry for uploading these on the blogger. I know it fucks up our layout and I will hopefully get my website back up soon so I can have a new photography session. For those that don't know, I just got a new camera...definetely not one of those point/shoot ones, but a camera that resembles a 35mm. It set me back a pretty penny, but so far with these images I am very happy with the outcome. These of course are LQ so please don't judge the camera on these images. All the RAW images are actually about 50X30 inches. Enough to make a decent sized print!
So Aaron, Jen and Shan were nice enough to come to my part of town to eat dinner because they know I'm lazier than shit. It seems they got their money with Guitar Hero, Gunther.net, Wacom Tablets and XBOX360. All the while they let me even photograph them...I hope these photos help capture the fun we had! While checking out these images I learned a lot about my camera and what does and does not work. Hopefully the Disneyland photos will be something special. In the meantime enjoy these!
So Aaron, Jen and Shan were nice enough to come to my part of town to eat dinner because they know I'm lazier than shit. It seems they got their money with Guitar Hero, Gunther.net, Wacom Tablets and XBOX360. All the while they let me even photograph them...I hope these photos help capture the fun we had! While checking out these images I learned a lot about my camera and what does and does not work. Hopefully the Disneyland photos will be something special. In the meantime enjoy these!
Dec 1, 2005
Madden 360 Style
With the craze of Fantasy Football, Colts undefeated season, the 49ers sucking, but @ times looking promising, I was pretty stoked to get this version of Madden. I had played the same game for regular Xbox and I was pretty disappointed because Madden had just peaked in terms of gameplay.
Pros about the new one:
-Of the course the graphics. The stadiums look great, the field looks awesome, and the player models are spectacular.
-Got rid of any of the "stupid" modes in Madden that don't focus on game play itself.
-The user interface is easy to use and intuitive. The way you call plays now seems easier and more efficient as it shows more plays on the screen.
-The AI seems a bit smarter when it comes to D. I have a hard time scoring 40+ pts against the computer. This could also attribute that I'm using the Niners, but who knows.
-Utilizes Dolby Digital 5.1 - which makes it sound awesome.
Cons:
-No mini-camp. The mini-games were kind of dumb, but I did like the fact that you could progress your players with it.
-No post game stats. This seems like a simple thing to have, but for some reason they got rid of it. All you get to see is the top statistical leaders for the game.
-No way to change camera angles. The gameplay changes a little bit when you hike the ball, but it would be nice to have this basic feature as well.
-No Madden - he may be annoying, but he's a classic. "BooM" "Where'd that truck come from!?" The new announcer isn't very good.
-The controls are a bit funky. There's a button for sprint, hold ball, spin, juke, stiff arm - it's a tough combo of buttons. Moving your QB and doing a pump are used with the same control stick and it must be sensitive because I seem to pump all the time which leads to sacks.
-I haven't gotten this far yet, but they took out scouting of the college players which I thought was kind of cool.
So all in all, it's still a solid game, but this is like the "core xbox 360" where ironically the other console version would be the "premium." I expect next years Madden to include anything missing from the stripped down version.
In the meantime, I will wait anxiously and hoping EA will release a MVP game for 360.
With the craze of Fantasy Football, Colts undefeated season, the 49ers sucking, but @ times looking promising, I was pretty stoked to get this version of Madden. I had played the same game for regular Xbox and I was pretty disappointed because Madden had just peaked in terms of gameplay.
Pros about the new one:
-Of the course the graphics. The stadiums look great, the field looks awesome, and the player models are spectacular.
-Got rid of any of the "stupid" modes in Madden that don't focus on game play itself.
-The user interface is easy to use and intuitive. The way you call plays now seems easier and more efficient as it shows more plays on the screen.
-The AI seems a bit smarter when it comes to D. I have a hard time scoring 40+ pts against the computer. This could also attribute that I'm using the Niners, but who knows.
-Utilizes Dolby Digital 5.1 - which makes it sound awesome.
Cons:
-No mini-camp. The mini-games were kind of dumb, but I did like the fact that you could progress your players with it.
-No post game stats. This seems like a simple thing to have, but for some reason they got rid of it. All you get to see is the top statistical leaders for the game.
-No way to change camera angles. The gameplay changes a little bit when you hike the ball, but it would be nice to have this basic feature as well.
-No Madden - he may be annoying, but he's a classic. "BooM" "Where'd that truck come from!?" The new announcer isn't very good.
-The controls are a bit funky. There's a button for sprint, hold ball, spin, juke, stiff arm - it's a tough combo of buttons. Moving your QB and doing a pump are used with the same control stick and it must be sensitive because I seem to pump all the time which leads to sacks.
-I haven't gotten this far yet, but they took out scouting of the college players which I thought was kind of cool.
So all in all, it's still a solid game, but this is like the "core xbox 360" where ironically the other console version would be the "premium." I expect next years Madden to include anything missing from the stripped down version.
In the meantime, I will wait anxiously and hoping EA will release a MVP game for 360.
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