Nah, early 32 bit was cool ‘cuz you got awesome (for the time) graphics with gameplay still very much rooted in arcade. And you still had some spectacular bugs that made everything funnier. FIFA ‘97 was a bad game, but it was so buggy I still remember some stuff from it (incidentally, the last FIFA game I bought until I got a very discounted FIFA for Switch just to see where the series is at these days). And Konami’s soccer was awesome on both PS1 and N64.It was the transition from 16 bit to 32 bit systems. Thats when developers had access ro enough power for graphics and "realism" to become ends in themselves over gameplay.
When they realized they can just copy paste code every year and still make a large profit
So like 2006/7
Well its around this time other games stopped being produced. 2k football, NBA jam, more arcade style games that required artistic input with concepts that weren't just make it as real as possible. You know things that required something more than copy paste.You think they weren’t copying and pasting code a lot in those days?
Came for this. Thanks for not disappointing.When did sports games become so boing?
When DOA got a volleyball spin off
NBA Jam was pure arcade fun posing like a sports game. I played the SNES version so much I wore out a controller.I agree.
I'm not a sports guy, but I used to enjoy stuff like NFL Blitz and NBA Jam.
Now? I don't play any sports games at all, aside from the occasional golf game.
The variety has gone.
i remember getting this games cartridge but it was all in japanese. Had to return to the shop and got it replaced with mario3..I generally dont enjoy sports and even watching it bores me, let alone sports in video games.
The only one I played was Capitan Tsubasa in NES.
I’d say late 6th gen / early 7th.
Nah, early 32 bit was cool ‘cuz you got awesome (for the time) graphics with gameplay still very much rooted in arcade. And you still had some spectacular bugs that made everything funnier. FIFA ‘97 was a bad game, but it was so buggy I still remember some stuff from it (incidentally, the last FIFA game I bought until I got a very discounted FIFA for Switch just to see where the series is at these days). And Konami’s soccer was awesome on both PS1 and N64.
Sadly people these days want a lot of intricacies in the gameplay to make things more “real”, and licenses is where it’s at. It’d be impossible for aficionados of these games to go back to something graphically simpler and more arcadey. Shame, ‘cause nothing will ever be as fun as those crude 8- and 16-bit sports games, and the nice balance of the early 3D efforts is gone.
of course not don't be so silly!Wait, were they expected to be fun?
Ice Hockey: The pinnacle of sports games.
Nah. I much prefer simulation style sports games. To me, the problem became when competition ended. When 2k couldn’t make NFL games, when EA stopped trying with NBA Live and let 2k go without competition. I was an OG MWS (Madden Workd Syndicate) competitive gamer. I traveled the country before “esports” was a thing. The only sports game I play religiously anymore is MLB the Show (even though there is no comp, it’s the only baseball game on the market but it’s great year in year out imo). I mean even NHL sucks and is stagnant because there are no other options. Competition needs to come back to the genre.I remember back when both arcade and simulation sports games were fun. Now I guess they're meant to be "realistic" - which just means they're slow and boring. I even tried the newest MLB The Show game on GamePass and it's nowhere near as fun as MVP Baseball 2005 on the original Xbox is. The new Madden games don't even feel as good as the Maddens from that era. The NBA 2K Dreamcast games are way more fun than the newest 2K microtransaction filled crap Even the presentation, menus, etc. of new sports games are so boring. It doesn't help that we basically don't get any arcade sports games anymore expect in the case of the occasional low budget indie title that basically has no replay value or features. I also miss when we had competition. Back in the day you could buy Madden, NFL 2K, NFL Fever, NFL Gameday, and NFL Blitz in the same year and they all felt different and tried to outdo each other. Now you get one publisher releasing one game per league and they put no effort in improving it from year to year because I guess they don't have any reason to do so.
Even the "sports entertainment" 2K WWE games became slow, generic, and boring compared to the old Smackdown games...
I adored that game lol. But you’re right, Blades of Steel was awesome.It wasn't even the best hockey game on the system.
The concept of playing Gradius between periods was phenomenal.I adored that game lol. But you’re right, Blades of Steel was awesome.
Ah, the memories. Thanks for this masterpiece, Tomonobu Itagaki.When did sports games become so boing?
When DOA got a volleyball spin off