Yahtzee Got Me Thinking Sports Games

[themind]

The doldrum of sports games for me is that they mirror real sports too closely. The old argument always applies, if I wanted to play football/baseball/basketball/bowling/etc, I would go outside and play it. It seems foolish, in a sense, to play a video game version of a real game.

This argument is really dumb, makes ZERO sense and surprisingly comes from ppl that have no interest in sports . (video games or the real thing)

It's literally apples and oranges, as the saying goes.

I am interested in sports, in real life, so your premise that the argument is coming from someone who isn't interested in sports is off the mark in this case.

I like hockey mainly (sue me I'm Canadian), I get out to play baseball and soccer, and I watch those sports, in addition to American football. on TV.

The issue with the video games is that I was forking over full retail price for the newest game on or near the time of its release, but the games just aren't that different from one year to the next. The $59.99 price tag cannot be justified for a roster update, new online features, and some new animations.

Now to be fair I've been playing the EA NHL games since '93, but around 2005 or 2006 I simply had to stop getting the "latest greatest" game because they are all virtually the same. The difference between the very first 360 version of NHL and the newest NHL '13 are not that great. The animations are maybe more smooth and numerous, but it is an identical game graphically, and the commentators, game music, menus, almost everything stylistically is on par.

The point of this post, which you seemingly missed because you didn't offer me any examples, is that I'm bored with video game sports because I have a few of the older titles, and the newer titles are basically the same thing in a different box.

I'm looking for some whacky, off the wall, new concept sports titles. Megaman Soccer, Mario Tennis, BaseBrawl... there are more alternative sports titles on NES than there seems to be on 360 & PS3 combined, I'm looking for a diamond in the rough.

It is not apples and oranges. It may be grannysmith vs Macintosh, but I'm still talking about apples.

 

[saintdane05]

The Quidditch World Cup game was fun.

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Also, Starcraft is a Sport. Thus, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is a sports game.

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And if you are a sicko like me, you can always get Dead Or Alive: Extreme Beach Volleyball.

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[flying_whimsy]

I remember playing a stupidly fun vollyball game on the snes called hyper v-ball, I think; it had a normal mode and some sort of scifi power ball mode that I had a lot fun with.

Other than that the only games I can think are the quilty pleasure Dead or Alive Xtreme Series and all of the Outlaw sports games (Outlaw Tennis, etc. Wow, surprised I even remember those).

Although to be honest I play games to get away from that sporty competitive stuff.

 

[Total LOLige]

The FIFA Street games are somewhat off the wall. I would much rather play FIFA 2005 than FIFA 13 in fact any I'd rather play any FIFA game that preceded FIFA 12, 12 implemented quite a radical change to the tackling system and it's a shit change at that. Mario Street Strikers is pretty fun if Motorstorm counts as off the wall then I recommend that as well.

 

[TrevHead]

I'm not really a sports person guy but I have a gaming friend who is and when I play Fifa, Tennis etc I have bags of fun even if i'm not all that good at them.

I used to look down on them and see them as nothing but shitty derivative games with roster updates, but it's no different from fragging dudes in CoD or TF2 only some gamers like rosters others hats.

Maybe Sensible World of Soccer might be to the OPs liking, according to the wiki theres a version on XBLA. (or you can just play one of the older versions on PC)

The old 16bit classic Speedball 2 is fun IIRC theres a XBLA remake too.

 

[Daveman]

In fairness, FIFA actually kind of works, and while year to year the changes seem non-existent, if you go back 3 years you can really tell and 5 years back it feels completely different. It also has workable, decent local multiplayer which most games tend to shit on nowadays.

 

[TrevHead]

The doldrum of sports games for me is that they mirror real sports too closely. The old argument always applies, if I wanted to play football/baseball/basketball/bowling/etc, I would go outside and play it. It seems foolish, in a sense, to play a video game version of a real game.

This argument is really dumb, makes ZERO sense and surprisingly comes from ppl that have no interest in sports . (video games or the real thing)

It's literally apples and oranges, as the saying goes.

I agree, its nothing like the real thing, a closer comparison would be that the games lend themselves best to spectators rather than sportsmen as they tend to have TV camera angles.

I suppose a real sports sim who need to be a FPS / TPS similar to how F1 and other racing sims.