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GridIronGestapo -> With a lil' Community Support..... (3/6/2006 3:36:54 AM)
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This game could be what we lost back in 99 with the FPSFB99 Debacle......
Ohhh my god!!! another mention of the "Holy Grail" of all football games for the PC platform. If your an old baller such as my self, just about any football game is going to be compared to FPSFBPro....Madden still gets compared to it even with its killer graphics.
Its not fair, but thats the status quo......
With that being said, MXFB does have its issues, can they be fixed? will they be fixed? I am pretty sure they will. What we have here that we didnt have in 99 is a place where we can hammer out the gory hooohaaa's.
Potential.......
That is a screwy word it means: The inherent ability or capacity for growth, development, or coming into being. Something possessing the capacity for growth or development.
That is exactly what we have here, MaxPotential at our fingertips. "I payed 40 bucks for potential?" Well, if you lived in the great crash of 99 then you probably paid 40 bucks for nothing. Even half of the refunds were not refunded simply traded for other games of equal value. I will INVEST 40 bucks all day for Potential.
FPSFBPRO99 had one show stopper bug after another. MX does not. Yes, there are things some consider show stoppers that I would not , such is the case of having my own opinion. There is a solid base to work with here.
It will however require a community effort from here on out as well as the developer/producers in the proverbial "hot seat" to get the job done.
Just a little heads up to smack some of the naysayers into reality, the guys that scream FBPRO was the shiznit!!! the same guys that probably never even played the game just read what they missed.
I was with the series from 95 to 99 and yes the "Holy Grail" of PC based football games was still not perfect for the raging public even up to and into the 98 version. It was finally deemed the most stable it had ever been only at patch version 1.08. Only to twice more be revamped to become 1.08a and 1.08b alpha/beta. Most of us settled and stayed with 1.08b the rumored 1.09 was more of a pharce than anything to which it became known as FBPRO99 the game with more Bugs than a Baghdad Bordello.
Still up to its demise. The Football Pro series was a community effort and guys like E.A. Gelat, Sundby's and the total group effort by the VPNFL bunch was what made it the great game we all remember.
I already see guys here like Deft, nmleague, roberson, and others hard at work. There will be others come down the pipe. My expertise is in play design and league ratings accuracy from 1969-89. However.....I have become a Arena fanatic, and all my "Love" will be concentrated in that direction.
You SCREAMED for it........
You GOT IT........
Now stop being part of the problem......
Become part of the solution!
I have entered two links , I will call them exhibit's A and B.
Oh ya, I am a FANBOI!!! of any Football game with potential! and yes I do own Madden, FOF, The College Years, and TPF. I want more than text based stats, I want more than bell and whistle thumb jockey eye candy. I want .............what you want!
Exhibit A: http://www.gelat.com/fpssite/
Exhibit B: http://laker09.tripod.com/univ/index.html
Just two examples of what made the FBPRO Series the game you all loved so much. It didnt come out of the box that way.
* This post was not checked for spelling accuracy. Deal with it, or send a bug report to Mrs. Workman @ Daniel Emmett Elementary School Mt.Vernon Ohio.
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