Unfortunately on my work computer I have to use Windows Explorer and can’t download anything onto the computer due to firewalls. I did the conversion and still got stuck in the grays. I’m working with Kinja on that. If you don’t see a post from me on WAYPTW tomorrow morning, check the grays! Please don’t forget me!!

Yeah, that’s all stuff that requires both a deep knowledge of the sport, and at least some sense of where the talents of your individual players lie. When I was playing the game as the 2011 Packers (the one team where I did know who was good at what), I still couldn’t necessarily tell you from the play selection…

The tells are there, but they’re usually subtle and deal with positioning. For example, a 1 deep safety is a tell for cover 3, which tells you to run certain receiver route combinations — same for covers 0, 2, 4, etc. Trucking or stiff arms are based on timing, but also (supposedly) the player’s attributes. The…

This is a really good explanation of why Madden can be really frustrating. I enjoy Madden because I’m a football fan but I suck at it because I’m not really great at knowing when to do what with my defense and often my offense and I’ve never really felt that I had that great of feel for the controls. It’s frustrating…

One of the things that drew me to this series is the split between Madden The Game, and Madden, The Officially Licensed NFL Football Simulator. I think “football as video game” has a ton of potential to be fun, but the market has been essentially killed by the fact that Madden is the only game that can legally do the…

As someone who’s always found football—and baseball, which has a similar “turn-based” feel—far too slow in comparison to basketball, which was my game when I was a kid, immersing myself in Madden over the last few weeks has helped me see the interesting tactical stuff that’s happening as each play is called. I’ve…

I’ve actually been fairly impressed with Madden 18's tutorials (which finished installing well after I wrote the first draft of this, which is very funny to me.) There’s a whole section that’s basically, “So, you don’t know a damn thing about football, huh?”

I randomly picked Game Over up as a teenager because I had a few dollars in trade-in credit at a Gamestop (or maybe it was still a EB Games at that point), and I’ll be damned if I didn’t get more enjoyment out of that book than most games I bought back in those days. It’s probably one of the reasons I ended up so…

What specifically about the headline

Oh, I went through this phase of my video game development with Madden 11 and 12, I think? The Packers had just come off their last Super Bowl win, and I was inspired to pick up a used copy of Madden 11 and see what all the fuss was about.

He appears to have written six different books with that title and different subtitles.

I’d say the rules don’t force teams to behave in certain ways so much as coaching “tradition” does. As noted in the article the game apparently mocks you for faking punts, yet strictly by the numbers punting itself is not a good idea, depending on field position the fake punt probably is the better move but tradition…

So Kinja is doing this great thing where I click “load more comments” and the button goes away up it doesn’t show any additional comments and I can’t scroll down. Leaving me seeing the first 2 comments. Bang up job, Kinga.

Interesting, thanks. i’ll have to check that out.

Here’s mine: “Taxes are like The Legend of Zelda, in the sense that they’re currently under the control of a large, angry, porcine monster known for threatening young women, who is also currently living in a large, white castle.

I had no idea Nintendo was that old. Apparently they also ran love hotels. Imagine the inovative, family oriented, intuitive to use brothels we could have today if they’d just stayed the course.

It really is kind of nuts just how much they expanded the scope of those old Sonic courses, while still preserving the look and feel of the originals (for the most part). I fully expected each Act I to be a direct copy of the original, and I was pleasantly surprised by just how much they’ve opening things up and…

They actually worked an “& Knuckles” mode into Sonic Mania, albeit not in the same way. You can choose to play as Knuckles from the first time you load the software, but you can also unlock a secret mode where Knuckles follows you around instead of Tails. This mode works even if you chose to play as Knuckles, which…

And similarly, BioShock (understandably) did a number of the same things System Shock 2 had done, but it also added a deliberate and extensive focus on politics, not just through the background but embedded in the game with the moral choice system. I don’t think trying to interrogate Objectivism through whether or not…

Kinda seems like a Sonic & Knuckles-type deal, adding new details into an existing level.