28 August 2007

Madden 08, You Are A Cruel Mistress

Dear EA-
I want to apologize to you. I don't do this because you were right, I do this because it is the right thing to do. Before Madden 08 came out, you said that the AI in the game would be improved as opposed to previous years and I scoffed. After two years of being told that and seeing games in which I would dominate for four quarters and win games 77-0, I put in Madden 08 and lost. What is worst of all about it is that I lost on All-Pro, not even All-Madden, and I shudder to think what the result would have been if I had played it on All-Madden. I was not a believer in you, I cried foul at everything good that was being said about the game and the improvements and showed such little faith as to say I would wait until I saw other people playing before I would buy it. I am sorry for the heresy, I am sorry for being a skeptic, I only wish that you could forgive me as I will forgive you for the few problems with the game. Now, I'm not one of those obsessive college students who do nothing but play Madden all day, but why did you feel the need to make my players fumble the ball all the time? LaDainian Tomlinson even fumbles and you good folks at EA have such a hard on for him, how would that make him feel? You're right, he probably wouldn't care at all as he sleeps on his piles and piles of money surrounded by beautiful women every night. I'm also not one of those college kids that will hate a player for screwing them over in a game of Madden, but dammit Marshawn Lynch, I can't believe that they called pass interference on Al Wilson for laying your rookie ass out on play action. I hope you break your tibia this year. I guess that what I am trying to say is thank you. Thank you EA Sports for finally giving me a challenge with Madden, for finally making me think twice before I throw the ball up to a receiver getting triple covered for now I know that he probably won't come down with it and the defense will make some sort of a bobbled circus catch and run it back for a touchdown but not before laying out Jay Cutler and injuring him for the season leaving me with Patrick fucking Ramsey for my quarterback the rest of the season. Fuckers.

Sincerely,
King of the Herculoids


Son of a Bitch

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