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Bruinswillwin77 said:
I forget which NFL game it was but I remember mid-late 1990s when I was real young I figured out I could score TD on the fake punt play just about every time
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Gameday 98 on Playstation had a ton of easy trick plays like that. I could block kicks and recover onside kicks almost every time.

I didn't care for Quarterback Club for n64, the one with Favre as the cover guy, but it had a nice little turn back the clock feature. They'd throw you into historic games with a good comeback attempt, and usually they start you off on the last drive of the game.
 
I do like the arcadey eliminator mode in the new NHL just for the hilarious factor of pretty much no penalties and you can murder players without the puck
 
Playing MLB the show right now probably wanna of the better sports titles. However baseball is one of my least liked sport. I like playing my season games and play most of the 82 games in NBA and NHL. Play all 16 games of Madden is easy. 182 games of my baseball. Think I am on game 21 time to sim like 150 games.
 
McGarnagle said:
My favorite sports games:

- MVP 2005 - the gold standard for any baseball game
- NHL 96 (SNES era) - presentation was great
- NHL 2004 (PS2 era) - I don't think it was the best of that generation, and if anything it was antiquated by the time it came out, but it was the one I owned and put hours upon hours into
- FIFA 07 (PS2) - I'm not a passionate soccer follower beyond the world cup, but there's just something about FIFA games that are relaxing and hypnotic. Plus with practically every league in the world to jump around in career mode to, there's a lot of replayability.
- NFL2K2 - Not as revered as 2K5, but the features in that game were way beyond Madden for 2001 (Madden always had the better presentation though). My favorite thing was how it had realistic weather accumulation so if you had a snow game and just left the select play menu open on a kickoff for like 30 minutes the snow would pile up all over the field.
- NBA Jam Tournament Edition - Not a realistic simulation but great times were playing that game as an 8 year old. Too bad the Celtics sucked.
And if wrestling games count, WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WCW/nWo Revenge for the N64 are the gold standards to me (I liked Wrestlemania 2000 better than No Mercy, that's my hot take)
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WM2000 was also my favorite of those 3. Revenge set the standard, then WM2000 tweaked it every so slightly and gave it a better roster since it was peak WWF/E.

I keep seeing all these rumors of AEW Fight Forever being a similar engine, but I think people are only reading into that because one of the dev guys worked with THQ on WM2000. That being said, if they clean up the graphics and give it the same super simple, somewhat clunky game engine as the other classics, then they might as well take my money now
 
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LSCII said:
There were so many ways to score. Come down either wing and at the dot cut across and take a slap shot. Top corner every time. Behind the net to out front, shoot far side. The one you mention and of course the all time easiest, down the center throw a deke and boom. Lol
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I don't remember if it was 93 or 94, but when going top to bottom you just skated into the right post and collided with the goal and goalie and it went in, every time. Once someone in the Fraternity house figured out that worked, it became all anyone did. And we had games that were like 23-22. it was insane.
 
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BlackCrowes said:
I don't remember if it was 93 or 94, but when going top to bottom you just skated into the right post and collided with the goal and goalie and it went in, every time. Once someone in the Fraternity house figured out that worked, it became all anyone did. And we had games that were like 23-22. it was insane.
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Definitely worked way better skating south. I hated that shit. I had a friend that did it constantly so we started playing with penalties…and it usually wasn’t called anyway. Maddening
 
TD Charlie said:
WM2000 was also my favorite of those 3. Revenge set the standard, then WM2000 tweaked it every so slightly and gave it a better roster since it was peak WWF/E.

I keep seeing all these rumors of AEW Fight Forever being a similar engine, but I think people are only reading into that because one of the dev guys worked with THQ on WM2000. That being said, if they clean up the graphics and give it the same super simple, somewhat clunky game engine as the other classics, then they might as well take my money now
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Yeah, WM2000 came out at the absolute peak of the Attitude Era and had a perfect roster. No Mercy may have improved gameplay slightly and added features, but by then some of the wrestlers from 1999/2000 were gone, plus they cut half of the entrance which made the presentation worse IMO.

Revenge was a groundbreaking game with a huge roster and advanced customization options for its day, but the lack of a coherent story mode and no entrance music/announcers/create-a-wrestler/etc. were a drawback. WM2000 fixed all of that. And the first time I was playing through the story mode or whatever they called it and after a match there was a cutscene where another wrestler called out and challenged my created guy, my mind was absolutely blown because prior to 1999 none of the other WWF or WCW games to that day were anything other than just going through a list of opponents in matches to win a belt at the end of the list. Adding storylines was the biggest leap forward in wrestling gaming history IMO.

I've really fallen out of wrestling over the last few years (I briefly watched the first month or so of AEW but I wasn't captivated enough to search out content around my schedule as it got busier and I had moved and not had cable anymore), but if the AEW game is just a straight up re-engineered THQ N64-era engine, I am in 100%.
 
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BlackCrowes said:
I don't remember if it was 93 or 94, but when going top to bottom you just skated into the right post and collided with the goal and goalie and it went in, every time. Once someone in the Fraternity house figured out that worked, it became all anyone did. And we had games that were like 23-22. it was insane.
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So the group of guys I lived with played this nonstop from 92 on and we always put it on shuffle (All star teams were not allowed) to select your team so it was completely random. We had a party and one of the girls we lived with brought her new boyfriend. He walks in and sees we're playing NHL on sega and starts immediately talking shit about how he's the best and how he's going to beat all our asses. Fast forward to me being up 12-0 in the first period, and me handing the controller to my other friend because the kid sucked so bad it was boring. He goes, but I've never lost a game at this. We all started laughing and told him to get ready for a very long night. He was lucky to score 3 goals in a game over the course of a spectacular beat down during the party. It was hilarious.
 
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Some of the first Smackdown games were my favorite wrestling games and Warzone. But some of the first smackdowns had real in depth create a wrestler and deeper storylines than I have seen in newer ones. WCW had the better N64 wrestling games but WCW ECW and other smaller wrestling games all sucked on PS2 and PS3

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Rockstar IMO is one of the best if not best gaming companies out there of course they have GTA(Vice City is a GOAT game) and Red Dead but I think LA Noire is very underrated.



Lots of puzzles and critical thinking.
 
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Troublesome 85 said:
Some of the first Smackdown games were my favorite wrestling games and Warzone. But some of the first smackdowns had real in depth create a wrestler and deeper storylines than I have seen in newer ones. WCW had the better N64 wrestling games but WCW ECW and other smaller wrestling games all sucked on PS2 and PS3

@McGarnagle @TD Charlie
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The PS2 Smackdowns were pretty good but the PS1 ones couldn't touch the THQ N64 engine IMO. Playstation 1 wasn't a great console for wrestling or sports, they couldn't load things fast enough so nothing felt very fluid, movement was choppy.

The Acclaim N64 games were horrible in retrospect. The controls were terrible, graphics polygonal and ugly, features were limited, and the biggest issue is that the development took so long and had so many delays that the rosters were beyond outdated by the time they even came out. Like Warzone had several of the wrestlers in it gone from the company by the time it came out (notably Bret Hart) and others were presented in outdated gimmicks. For a 1998 N64/PS1 game, at the time I suppose it was alright but THQ's WCW games were so far ahead of Acclaim's WWF ones that it was no competition, and no surprise that WWF jumped to the THQ license as soon as they could. Acclaim tried to pattern them after fighting games with health bars and and button combos, while THQ made them as wrestling games with momentum bars.

Warzone is an absolutely abysmal game in retrospect but it was sort of fun at the time with those hardcore matches where TVs and 2 by 4s just kept flying into the ring for you to hit your opponent with. It was very arcade-y. Also, it gave us this gem:

 
Troublesome 85 said:
Rockstar IMO is one of the best if not best gaming companies out there of course they have GTA(Vice City is a GOAT game) and Red Dead but I think LA Noire is very underrated.



Lots of puzzles and critical thinking.
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I need to pick up LA Noire at some point, I'm sure it's cheap on the PS Store. I love Rockstar's games from the GTA series to RDR2 (which is perhaps the best game I've ever played in my life), but LA Noire came out during a gap in my video game playing so I never got to try it.

The last year or so I've been playing a lot of old Assassin's Creed games that I never got to try before. I love the gameplay in the series even if the stories are kind of weird. Just finished Rogue so I'm due to try something new.
 
I'm old so I go back to pong and Atari days and I think we as a collective people don't pay enough honor to Intellvision. This is the first gaming system that was smart enough to license the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL as part of their games. The hockey game they had at the time was awesome. Some of the older folks on this board may recall....
 
I like playing semi hammered madden nfl21 1 on 1 after Bruins games... I always go with Mac Jones/Patriots and try to pull out upset wins against people who always choose either the Rams/Chiefs/Bills/Bucs.

Usually don't win but sometimes I do - I noticed most players are horrible at clock management and I've had a few last second wins and it's kinda funny getting angry messages afterward.
 
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The first sports game I played on a computer was NHL hockey on an Apple IIe.
You had to first program the game from a book of video game programs.
Then you can play it and every so often there was a glitch and you had to go back into the program and fix it. We played for hours it was lots of fun.
I also a table hockey game with 3d figures of the Bruins and the Blackhawks I believe, that was lots of fun too.
 
LSCII said:
I'm old so I go back to pong and Atari days and I think we as a collective people don't pay enough honor to Intellvision. This is the first gaming system that was smart enough to license the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL as part of their games. The hockey game they had at the time was awesome. Some of the older folks on this board may recall....
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I was the Missile Command Master my friend.

Didn't the Intellvision Hockey game even have fighting?
 
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