I hate the perpetual "new" on the menus, too!

This gave me a chuckle. Thank you for that!

If MS wanted to be a one-stop entertainment provider, they should try purchasing a cable provider so they can just use the XB1 as the primary device for TV-watching.

Not sure about 10% or less being a business standard in terms of quality control ... maybe in electronics, but in auto parts, I can't remember for sure but I swear the QC percentage of default parts is much lower for passing grade. Do you have a link where 10% is the customary number?

It would be nice to see a discount of some small nature as a gesture, but it's not really industry custom.

I look at it the same way ... they were the best title back in 05.

Besides the monopoly agreement EA negotiated with the NFL for licensing, and the fact that 2k football was a better rendition at the time than EA's NFL version was, I don't follow how that follows what I said.

Ah, that was a dead zone in time for me, got away from playing hockey games in-between Genesis/SNES and PS3/360 era.

I wish that was a real swaying point though ... their holding onto The Show as an exclusive is not like MS holding onto Halo as a MS exclusive. I think The Last of Us would have been more of a selling point, as well as some of their other great exclusives. Sporting games are popular enough, and I love sports myself,…

2k's NBA series has been fairly close to sim-accurate as possible ... I remember playing and seeing the game predict who was going to win the championship that year, around the 2k5-2k6 era. They had a minor bump around 2k8-9-10 with weird stuff like Shaq being able to hit 3s at one point (game-breaking), but nothing…

I've wondered how many millions of dollars Sony has lost by not releasing The Show on all plats.

At every turn, I think EA goes for 'arcade,' now that you mention that descriptor. They talk about realism but it's there under the surface, in patches, not really at the forefront, imo.

They even re-wrote the narrative when they re-released DR2 with West as the playable character ... the protagonist from DR2, Chuck Greene, was one of the psychos in Off the Record.

They're designed so that your character gets much more adept at navigating and handling problems, taking more damage, as you complete more run-throughs ... I don't think any iteration of Dead Rising has ever been doable in one shot, in terms of exploration and leisure while doing so. Maybe the DLC they released for…

I thought everyone played MLB: The Show. Nobody really cares for 2k or the long-dead EA version, at least, neither company's games in MLB are revered like NFL 2k was.

Fair opinion, as 2k does some stuff that is better in their version of the game, and I've only played the EA version ... I'm going off of the general popular opinion when people discuss the two. EA's NHL wins out in a majority, for preference. But that definitely doesn't mean EA's version is perfect.

They don't turn sports games into gold every time. NHL 2k was never that hot. MLB 2k is really not that good at all.

Yeah, that's uncomfy-close to me too.

Thanks for the nudge. Enough people love both that I can't discount 1 & 2 entirely. The interface is probably the major stumbling block, as the opening set with getting out of the vault and fighting rats and walking a stretch was not the best way to start a game (F1). I'm patient too, so it shouldn't get passed…

The thing for me is that FNV sticks more in-line with what 1 & 2 did, that universe ... F3 was a departure, and fans of 1 & 2 often seem to hold 3's departure against it as a lack of quality or whatever.