ElGreazy78
October 29th, 2007, 06:33 AM
So, I see a bunch of angry threads and I just wanted to take a break of hearing everyone yarping and have a thread where we can voice why exactly we love or are obsessed with this game.
For me, this game revitalized my love for video games. For the last few years it's been: buy a game, play it a week, never touch it again, etc. But thanks to APF, gaming, especially the online variety, has been nothing but fun. I've never enjoyed online gaming until now. I've never been part of an online community until now. And I've never been so into a game until now.
The thing I really love about this game is what I believe the developers intended when they created the game: for people to become attached to their teams much like people do with their WOW characters and to put them up against the opposition. If you think about it, every team you face online, is in some way, a reflection of the opponent: the uniforms, the roster, the playbooks, the playing style, etc. Everything is unique. Basically, it's you bringing your team to war with another opponent's team and you never know what you're going to get.
The gameplay is great. Guys on my more dominate team (the Phoenix) like Derrick Thomas, Ronnie Lott, Lem Barney & Gregg Lloyd invigorate the rest of my Generic players and bring them to a whole new level. It's like watching a great defensive team like the Ravens or Patriots getting put in a situation where they need to be clutch and come through by either great coaching or the leaders inspire the rest of the team. My team does it all: they make defensive stands to keep me in the game, I'll see Johnny Cornerback make an amazing play against my opponents Gold Legend during clutch time because of the playcalling, the special teams will pull out a big return or block a key kick, my offense dink-n-dunks passes & runs their way to 1st downs while eating the clock, etc, it's great. My team is created and plays the way I love to see football with smash mouth offense & smothering defense. Whenever you're clicking, it's a thing of beauty and it's satisfying.
I love the strategy in this game. There's nothing better than being able to out-coach and out-play an opponent or have them do the same to you without having to resort to money plays or cheese, gamer glitches (Madden 40-yard scramble & 60 yard bombs) etc. Each game you are faced with a new look: high octane offenses, pass-smoothering defenses w/ two Gold CBs, the dreaded "Campbell offense" lol, West Coast offenses, full stacked offense or defense, etc and it takes constant thinking to stay in the game. You either impose your will on a your opponent, you adapt to their gameplan or you attempt to bait them into a key mistake. One of my favorite things is when there is a shutout at halftime yet by the 3rd quarter, all hell has broken loose with both teams scoring at will because you've finally discovered your opponent's weaknesses.
I also love how the Legends are incorporated. It takes me back to games like Tecmo Super Bowl where you have some good players, some great players and then you have guys like Bo Jackson, Lawrence Taylor, Marcus Allen, etc who are so great and peerless in talent that they are their own gameplan. These guys play like people remember them: completely dominate, completely unstoppable and just out of this world; they should because they were some of the greatest of all time. Sure some people may call Rice, Campbell or OJ cheese at times, but we all know that when we manage to stop them, its a fufilling accomplishment. Plus there is a strategy to all the legends, for every Rice, there is a Lott who can negate him; nobody is unstoppable in this game. You don't get this with Madden or any other football game.
I think what the APF developers did was amazing. They managed to bring great gameplay, heart, and competition to a football game that doesn't even include an NFL license! Enough with all the negativety! People, it is actually okay to enjoy something in this world (even with it's flaws) and to not have to complain or hate on everything that we as spoiled consumers come into contact with. So what about this game makes you happy?
For me, this game revitalized my love for video games. For the last few years it's been: buy a game, play it a week, never touch it again, etc. But thanks to APF, gaming, especially the online variety, has been nothing but fun. I've never enjoyed online gaming until now. I've never been part of an online community until now. And I've never been so into a game until now.
The thing I really love about this game is what I believe the developers intended when they created the game: for people to become attached to their teams much like people do with their WOW characters and to put them up against the opposition. If you think about it, every team you face online, is in some way, a reflection of the opponent: the uniforms, the roster, the playbooks, the playing style, etc. Everything is unique. Basically, it's you bringing your team to war with another opponent's team and you never know what you're going to get.
The gameplay is great. Guys on my more dominate team (the Phoenix) like Derrick Thomas, Ronnie Lott, Lem Barney & Gregg Lloyd invigorate the rest of my Generic players and bring them to a whole new level. It's like watching a great defensive team like the Ravens or Patriots getting put in a situation where they need to be clutch and come through by either great coaching or the leaders inspire the rest of the team. My team does it all: they make defensive stands to keep me in the game, I'll see Johnny Cornerback make an amazing play against my opponents Gold Legend during clutch time because of the playcalling, the special teams will pull out a big return or block a key kick, my offense dink-n-dunks passes & runs their way to 1st downs while eating the clock, etc, it's great. My team is created and plays the way I love to see football with smash mouth offense & smothering defense. Whenever you're clicking, it's a thing of beauty and it's satisfying.
I love the strategy in this game. There's nothing better than being able to out-coach and out-play an opponent or have them do the same to you without having to resort to money plays or cheese, gamer glitches (Madden 40-yard scramble & 60 yard bombs) etc. Each game you are faced with a new look: high octane offenses, pass-smoothering defenses w/ two Gold CBs, the dreaded "Campbell offense" lol, West Coast offenses, full stacked offense or defense, etc and it takes constant thinking to stay in the game. You either impose your will on a your opponent, you adapt to their gameplan or you attempt to bait them into a key mistake. One of my favorite things is when there is a shutout at halftime yet by the 3rd quarter, all hell has broken loose with both teams scoring at will because you've finally discovered your opponent's weaknesses.
I also love how the Legends are incorporated. It takes me back to games like Tecmo Super Bowl where you have some good players, some great players and then you have guys like Bo Jackson, Lawrence Taylor, Marcus Allen, etc who are so great and peerless in talent that they are their own gameplan. These guys play like people remember them: completely dominate, completely unstoppable and just out of this world; they should because they were some of the greatest of all time. Sure some people may call Rice, Campbell or OJ cheese at times, but we all know that when we manage to stop them, its a fufilling accomplishment. Plus there is a strategy to all the legends, for every Rice, there is a Lott who can negate him; nobody is unstoppable in this game. You don't get this with Madden or any other football game.
I think what the APF developers did was amazing. They managed to bring great gameplay, heart, and competition to a football game that doesn't even include an NFL license! Enough with all the negativety! People, it is actually okay to enjoy something in this world (even with it's flaws) and to not have to complain or hate on everything that we as spoiled consumers come into contact with. So what about this game makes you happy?