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Peter Moore believes the real "movement" for Xbox 360 and PS3 sports games in the future will be making them more approachable.
He feels his EA Sports catalogue has been "too hard" in the past and wants to move away from alienating newcomers.
"With the 360 and PS3 versions, the real movement you're going to see there is about approachability. Not dumbing it down - but stuff that feels more adaptive, helping you get through the game," Moore told IGN.
"Our games have been too hard - and even hardcore gamers will tell us at times it's just too fricking hard to play a game without having to revert back to the manual to find out what to do. We need to change that.
"We need to continue to bring people into the industry that are playing games for the first time - and not just with the Wii, but also with the PS3 and with the 360 as well," he added.
Peter Moore waded into headlines recently after airing his belief that no-one really wants PC sports games any more.
He went on to tell IGN that FIFA 09 would still get a PC release as it is particularly viable in Europe, but stood by his his right to not lose money by making unwanted SKUs.
"It's entertaining and people want me dead, or hung, drawn and quartered," said Moore of the feedback his comments sparked.
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"Our games have been too hard - and even hardcore gamers will tell us at times it's just too fricking hard to play a game without having to revert back to the manual to find out what to do. We need to change that."
Really Mr Moore? I've never heard anyone ever say EA sports games are too hard. I call BS and it's just an excuse to dumb down mores games to appeal to the damn casual market who don't want to learn using those fiddly controller thingies. |
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Well EA sports games might have been easier if they'd actually had a decent manual to explain them properly but, in my experience, EA make absolutely the worst and cheapest manuals of any of the major publishers... options are poorly explained, controls are often listed incorrectly and modes are poorly explained. All in el cheapo black and white too and rarely more than 16 pages thick. You'd think that EA would take hints from Microsoft and Konami, who both produce superb manuals and often in colour too.
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"Well EA sports games might have been easier if they'd actually had a decent manual to explain them properly but, in my experience, EA make absolutely the worst and cheapest manuals of any of the major publishers... options are poorly explained, controls are often listen incorrectly and modes are poorly explained. All in el cheapo black and white too and rarely more than 16 pages thick. You'd think that EA would take hints from Microsoft and Konami, who both produce superb manuals and often in colour too."
Wait, people read manuals? ;) |
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Clive Dunn
07/07/08 @ 12:40
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Can anyone actually name a "difficult" EA Sports game ? Struggling to think of one I've found too hard.
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gooners2006
07/07/08 @ 12:56
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"Our Games are too hard"
thats what the easy difficulty is for, to make it easier so everybody has a chance of being good |
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monkie_king
07/07/08 @ 14:32
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Hopefully this just means implementing an optional one-button "Tard Mode", not removing complex controls alogether.
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bestforever7
07/07/08 @ 14:49
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@ kestral
I think that's just american football in general. Its impossible to understand for beginners |
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StrayBezza
07/07/08 @ 15:29
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What is this cock on about? Ea games too hard for the hardcore gamer. Sausage Jockey.
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TheWretched
07/07/08 @ 21:05
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> Can anyone actually name a "difficult" EA Sports game ? Struggling to think of one I've found too hard.
NHL 96 was frikkin' hard... the goalie was nigh on perfect... He didn't let any puck through^^ But that was way back in 1995, so, it basically isn't true anymore |
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Can't understand why everyone hates EA? Army of Two aside their games are generally pretty good. I get Tiger Woods every year, my daughter loves the Sims and at the moment I'm playing Battlefield:Bad Company which is shit hot and has finally got me off COD4. No one likes every type of game and because they make so many games there are going to be ones you don't like but to say everything EA makes is rubbish is just bollocks. I will probably even buy Madden this year as every year I look at it but get put off by the complexity of it but this year they have promised a decent training mode.
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The way I'm seeing this is that Fifa08 is not difficult in regards to its challenge factor, but to get the best out of the free flowing football style, its a non-intuitive pain. To get people to run onto the ball without trapping it, its usually like a case of Hold L1, press direction then X and O.... I would hope its that kind of thing they are trying to remove, because in the heat of a quickly developing move, pulling stuff off like that IS difficult. It would be nice if you could just make things happen without embarking on a memory game vs Twister exercise.
and just to back that up, the choice quote from the article: ""With the 360 and PS3 versions, the real movement you're going to see there is about approachability. Not dumbing it down - but stuff that feels more adaptive, helping you get through the game," Moore told IGN." so not difficulty levels, intuitively
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No, the guy is right. The titles that are most popular in the US: the American football franchises (Madden and NCAA Football) have become very, very involved. Same with NHL. EA's NBA title is just bad - I'll leave it out.
You also have to think that the sports game audience might trend a bit older than the overall market. This audience doesn't qualify as casual - but they don't have 20 hours to waste slogging through practice/training modes before they have some idea what in hell they're doing. They do want to be able to play a game or round of golf straight away. Granted, it's a fine line to walk - trying to make sports titles play more intuitively without going soft. And it may turn out poorly. But it's not s bad goal. I'll give them a chance and see what they do with it. The nice thing about sports franchises is that the next release is only ever a year away. If Madden 2010 is terrible, people won't have to wait long for 2011 . . . |
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