Fine. I don’t play Madden. But I know with the sources I follow on games news, this is what gets echoed back. Giant Bomb does a quick look for the game, say up front that they don’t expect to get through it without encountering bugs, and then they encounter bugs. The kinds of bugs you’d recognize no matter how into football you are.
EDIT: Yup, bugs are mentioned in many reviews for the last several years of Madden. Seems to be the reality.
There will always be bugs. It’s the nature of a complex simulation with emergent gameplay.
But anyone telling you that they’re increasing doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They’re increasingly small edge cases as the simulation gets very obviously more advanced and complex every iteration. It’s not minor and it’s not subtle. If you play ten hours a year with a middle school football level of understanding the improvements are impossible to miss.
Any review from someone who doesn’t watch football every week all season is the exact same quality of someone who’s never played an FPS reviewing a tactical shooter. it has literally zero value in any possible context and it’s an embarrassment to your organization to publish it.
I can’t speak for every reviewer, but a good number of them do watch football every week. Plenty of games have advanced simulations and don’t have texture bugs and T posing. I’m glad you enjoy the games, but the reviews are what they are for a reason. I’m also not sure how you went from, “Anyone saying these games are buggy is lying” to “Of course it will have bugs!”
The reviews are what they are because there are literally zero gaming outlets who respect the existence of sports games or cover them the way they cover anything else.
I play hundreds of games a year and have literally never once seen a player t pose on the field. It’s not a thing that’s a normal or frequent occurrence, and anyone who tells you it is isn’t just incompetent. They’re deliberately and maliciously lying to you, and in and of itself it’s incontrovertible proof that their entire review is fraud.
Fine. I don’t play Madden. But I know with the sources I follow on games news, this is what gets echoed back. Giant Bomb does a quick look for the game, say up front that they don’t expect to get through it without encountering bugs, and then they encounter bugs. The kinds of bugs you’d recognize no matter how into football you are.
EDIT: Yup, bugs are mentioned in many reviews for the last several years of Madden. Seems to be the reality.
There will always be bugs. It’s the nature of a complex simulation with emergent gameplay.
But anyone telling you that they’re increasing doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They’re increasingly small edge cases as the simulation gets very obviously more advanced and complex every iteration. It’s not minor and it’s not subtle. If you play ten hours a year with a middle school football level of understanding the improvements are impossible to miss.
Any review from someone who doesn’t watch football every week all season is the exact same quality of someone who’s never played an FPS reviewing a tactical shooter. it has literally zero value in any possible context and it’s an embarrassment to your organization to publish it.
I can’t speak for every reviewer, but a good number of them do watch football every week. Plenty of games have advanced simulations and don’t have texture bugs and T posing. I’m glad you enjoy the games, but the reviews are what they are for a reason. I’m also not sure how you went from, “Anyone saying these games are buggy is lying” to “Of course it will have bugs!”
The reviews are what they are because there are literally zero gaming outlets who respect the existence of sports games or cover them the way they cover anything else.
I play hundreds of games a year and have literally never once seen a player t pose on the field. It’s not a thing that’s a normal or frequent occurrence, and anyone who tells you it is isn’t just incompetent. They’re deliberately and maliciously lying to you, and in and of itself it’s incontrovertible proof that their entire review is fraud.