Got to meet Peter Warrick yesterday and had him sign my FSU helmet. I still need to add the "NOLES" bumper decal and his tomahawk awards...and I asked him if he remembered how many he won for the 99 season but unfortunately he didn't.
Let me preface this by saying that I am strictly a solo, offline Dynasty player that will occasionally do a RTG run.
With RTG, I'm not really encouraged by the fact that they put purchasable microtransactions within the mode. This feels like a Saudi choice and I wouldn't be surprised if those greedy bastards implement more pay-to-play features within the base game since they bought EA. The mode is pretty repetitive since 25 with no real changes.
In Dynasty, I have enjoyed my time in the mode. I do like the changes and the NIL was pretty easy to figure out. It wasn't too challenging to increase my NIL funds going into my next season, even at my school (Cincy)...so long as you win, your NIL will increase. The mode as it is, does feel pretty realistic to real life regarding modern college football.
That being said, the solo player in me does yearn for more control in offline Dynasty. I do enjoy the challenge that Dynasty presents this year, but once in a while, I like to go god-mode and would appreciate the ability to give my team as much (or as little) NIL or recruiting hours as I'd like or alter players progression traits.
I also am not a fan of them removing the "fastest" option for coach progression, if you are going to make "normal" the highest option, Dynasty needs to go from 30 years back to 50 or 60 years. They also dropped the ball by removing the ability to roll over skill points.
Another feature that Dynasty (or in Franchise for Madden as well) would benefit from is a yearly review of league rules similar to what NBA 2K does in Association mode, as well as adding that classic infraction meter back, because as we've seen, the NCAA still has problems with people like Sorsby, and it would be neat see our teams occasionally address problematic players.
It needs not be said, but Create-A-Prospect needs to happen, or at the minimum, the ability to change the recruits faces, hair, etc.
Lastly. I like the expanded equipment selection they have, but there is still more work to do. They removed some facemasks, which I didn't love, and the older helmets like the VSR-4 still do not fit well, and some of the classic face masks like the JOP, are still undersized and ill fitting. I'd also love if they added the older elastic sleeves for jerseys we had in the 90s through the 2000s.
I'm giving RTG a 5.5/10 with the .5 being for adding in additional positions but a 5 for repetition with no real improvements.
Dynasty gets a 7.9/10. A few of the changes I suggested and it's a perfect 10.
Equipment gets a 7.5/10 with the same thing being said as Dynasty.
Bottom Line: If EA continues the microtransaction trend amd doesn't make any real improvements, I may stick with CFB 27 and no longer be a yearly buyer.
Really cool thought I've always had...what if, when Skynet became self-aware, it's handlers didn't try to pull the plug.
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Tell me the stream of events that you see happening. I'm super excited to read your theories.
Like come on dude. Skynet became self-aware in 1997, not 2029.
On this day in 1995, the T-800 and the T-1000 arrived in Los Angeles, CA.
So I'm going to be pulling the trigger on the game soon, and as someone who has never played any of the Battlefield games, I'd like some honest opinions about what to expect. You don't have to glaze it. I'd just love some sincere takes about the franchise from long time players. I've played Call of Duty and Ghost Recon, of which the latter I preferred, but how does Battlefield compare and contrast to those games. I enjoyed PVP on Ghost Recon more because it put more emphasis on team-based tactics, as opposed to the run-and-gun, lone wolf style of CoD. What should I expect from gameplay and weapons systems handling, and what does the game offer regarding soldier customization? I could go on YouTube but I honestly trust Redditors more than I do YT videos.
Good morning everyone. Hope you're all doing well. I wanted to introduce myself and share my super villain origin story (😄)
I am in my late 40s and grew up in Alabama. I grew up in foster care and groups for 99% of my childhood. These group homes forced us boys to go to church every Sunday, with the churches we attended being fundamentalist, primitive southern Baptist churches. The Satanic panic? Oh we heard that EVERY DAY.
Now, I've always been naturally skeptical, but religious indoctrination is definitely a thing, and coupled with the desire to fit in, they had a 14-year old me convinced I was "called" to be a preacher. I memorized scripture, learned every detail of the stories. I prepared my own services, complete with 2 hour sermons. There was a problem with my sermons though. They were focused on love, understanding and accepting differences, community service, empathy...you know...all the things that Christianity is *supposed* to be. They certainly let me know I had too much, and I quote, "hippie messages".
Fast forward to 2001. 9/11 happens and I immediately join the military. Years pass after multiple deployments between Iraq and Afghanistan, and I start pursuing a college degree (online obviously), with a focus on history, specifically Bronze and Iron Age History. It is during this time that I begin to see the apparent cracks in the historical accuracy of these stories. At this point, I'm trying to reconcile Christian teachings with education (and logic). For example...how were dinosaurs real if the bible is true? I had devised the story within my head that because God's time was infinitely longer than ours the 5 days that preceeded human creation could have been millions or billions of years. I was so excited. I figured out how unite my Christian upbringing with scientific and historical facts. I immediately went to the Chaplain to share. It was shot down immediately.
Fast forward to a deployment in 2012. One of my fellow soldiers left the COP we were based out out of around 4 AM and massacred almost an entire village in Afghanistan. For whatever reason, this really shook me. I essentially had a mini mental break. Every wound, every explosion, every bullet whizzing past, every dead body I had seen...all came flooding into my brain. People who both believed in the same god killing each other. Then it hit me. He's not there. Never has been. Can't be. And if he is, he's either powerless or just indifferent.
Either way, I was done wasting my time worrying. That and the complete lack of evidence for the deity of Abrahamic mythology and the character of Jesus, I checked out.
This is where I find myself today. Now completely divorced from religion and constantly pissed at the overbearing religious folks (that I used to be).
Amyway...nice to meet all of you.
So we're watching Tales from the Crypt and Arnold pops up in the intro with the Cryptkeeper, and then we see one of the main characters is played by Rick Rossovich, who played Matt in The Terminator. Arnold directed this episode so it was pretty cool to see those two work together again.
So let's hear everyone's predictions for what gets revealed during today's live stream. I know that they're focusing on MK II first, and obviously they already have the ninja mold set, so I'm thinking Smoke. I also forsee them announcing Jax and either Kahn or Kintaro, but I wouldn't rule out Shang Tsung or Kung Lao.
That being said, I'm really excited for the eventual 92 MK waves, but I'm really hoping for a 95 MK movie wave as well (if Todd can get the licensing)
I just bought it in the PS Store for like 8 bucks to play for the first time in 20 years, and it dawned to me that they need to remake this game. Or at least set RDR3 in a Revolver-adjacent time frame. Even if they didn't want to revisit Red Harlow himself, take us back to Bear Mountain at the minimum. Plus the 1870s would be a great setting because you could incorporate stories about the relatively immediate aftermath of the Civil War. In RDR2 it's been roughly 35 years since the end of the war, so if you set it closer to 1870, you get a more surreal experience dealing with it.
Obviously there are a litany of recurring issues with the mode, but then it hit me about one of the biggest problems it has is something missing that you see in other sports titles.
*Retirements*
If I play NBA2K or Madden or MLB The Show, year 1 of a franchise doesn't look the same as year 25. Rosters change, players retire, and new stars emerge (with or without your intervention).
Universe Mode could benefit from this. Older wrestlers actually retire and CPU generated wrestlers and storylines fill in those gaps.
If you're to replicate that now, you have to do the tedious job of removing and adding wrestlers in, which is fine, but it would be nice if the Mode played a little more true to life and had a more organic flow to it. I've played through Universe Mode and left the default roster in, and year 30 and Roman Reigns is still either holding or vying for the title and taking ridiculous bumps, despite being 70 years old (in-game) at that point.
I'm a fan of hyper-realism, so the injury system could use a tweaking as well. I know we've all had ridiculously long matches with no DQ just to see how terribly we could injure our opponent, only for it say they suffered a minor injury and would be out for a bit (and then appear the following night).
I know some will disagree, but those are overhauls to the mode I'd like to see. Maybe have an adjustable current age and retirement age slider for each wrestler in the game to use in Universe. Perhaps after a wrestler retires, they show up as a manager or a GM. I did that manually with Hogan as I brought him in as a Bischoff-type who managed a new iteration of the nWo.
Not identical, but damn near a close look. If they ever make a movie about Dennis Rader, Kurtwood Smith would be perfect casting.