EA announces NFL Blitz

Skab

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/hands-on-nfl-blitz/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGGeKHnW8FM&feature=channel_video_title

Interview but has gameplay running:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs9oqNLtBY4&feature=channel_video_title

Valleo

Fuck, yes!

Bullio

The first one on N64 was the best football game ever (Mutant League Football is a close second). Were any of the later entries worth playing? I stopped paying attention to the series after the second one due to mediocre reviews and the yearly brand milking.

Zxerol

Well, that's unexpected. NFL Blitz was about the football game I really, really enjoyed.

And of course, it'll likely never make a PC release so I can't be assed to care about this one. Shame.

UnbreakableVow

This would be nice if it was cool

But the whole NBA Jam thing comes to mind

Kuribo's Shoe

NBA Jam was really good, did you even play it

Inkyblots

Yeah NBA jam was pretty great with the new tweaks they made to the gameplay, hopefully they do the same to blitz. Oh and fix the rubber banding AI please

Allforce

I used to spend 2 bucks every day at lunch in college playing a full game of NFL Blitz at this arcade inside a bar near the dining hall. I think I was #1 on that thing for my entire freshman and sophomore years.

TheSonicRetard

UnbreakableVow wrote:

This would be nice if it was cool

But the whole NBA Jam thing comes to mind

Immediately what I thought of. EA fucked up NBA Jam's release so hard. Hope they don't do the same with Blitz.

So, from those screens, you get to build teams made up of players from different teams?

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

NBA Jam was really good, did you even play it

I'm pretty sure he's referring to the way it was marketed and handled, not the actual game itself. EA mishandled one of the biggest sports properties EVER.

Inkyblots

I had blocked that out of my mind, that was pretty terrible of them.

UnbreakableVow

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

NBA Jam was really good, did you even play it

I played On Fire edition and it was actually not that good at all

Marth

FUCK YES

When can I hand EA all my money

Skab

UnbreakableVow wrote:

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

NBA Jam was really good, did you even play it

I played On Fire edition and it was actually not that good at all

Care to elaborate on what you didn't like about it?

I had quite a bit a fun with it myself, so I'm curious.

Marth

January 3 huh

If I give them more money can I have it now please

Blitz is awesome. I liked The League II but I'll take this any day.

zerg rush

Bullio wrote:

The first one on N64 was the best football game ever

Lies. That one had ruberbanding AI like a motherfucker.

What's that, you're up 34 points? Interception, opponent touchdown, onside kick, opponent recovers for touchdown, onside kick, opponent recovers for touchdown, onside kick, you recover, fumble, opponent touchdown...

UnbreakableVow

Skab wrote:

UnbreakableVow wrote:

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

NBA Jam was really good, did you even play it

I played On Fire edition and it was actually not that good at all

Care to elaborate on what you didn't like about it?

I had quite a bit a fun with it myself, so I'm curious.

Everything zerg rush just said about Blitz on the 64

Rubberbanding like a motherfucker

Perhaps it was like that on the SNES, too. I honestly don't remember. If that's the case, I'd rather just look at it through my rose-tinted glasses.

Kuribo's Shoe

NBA Jam/NFL Blitz has always had rubberbanding

that's why you play it with other people

Kuribo's Shoe

Also the difference between Jam and Blitz here is that they tried to use Jam to sell their failing basketball franchise

Madden's doing just fine, so I doubt NFL Blitz will have the same problems. I just hope that if it's a full game it's fully featured enough to support the price tag. Shouldn't be too hard.

TheSonicRetard

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

Also the difference between Jam and Blitz here is that they tried to use Jam to sell their failing basketball franchise

Madden's doing just fine, so I doubt NFL Blitz will have the same problems. I just hope that if it's a full game it's fully featured enough to support the price tag. Shouldn't be too hard.

Before that, it was a wii-exclusive retail game, which, IMO, isn't much better.

They just handled the entire thing very poorly. By the time I got it on my PS3, it had been out for months apparently and I was stuck waiting for the release.

Page-

My friend and I finally managed to find a copy of Blitz: The League 2 a couple weeks back. Lot's of fun to play. Don't understand why people are so hung up on the license.

A new '99 style game could be fun, even with the E rating. Looking forward to it not being a terrible half-breed.

TheSonicRetard

Page- wrote:

My friend and I finally managed to find a copy of Blitz: The League 2 a couple weeks back. Lot's of fun to play. Don't understand why people are so hung up on the license.

A new '99 style game could be fun, even with the E rating. Looking forward to it not being a terrible half-breed.

I don't think people are hung up on the NFL license - they're hung up on the violent, gritty portrayal of American Football that Blitz: The League fostered. I don't play football games to watch people's legs break in grizzly ways, and then watch them juice for hours after.

Page-

I do.

TheSonicRetard

Page- wrote:

I do.

You should check out burnout then. It's like nascar, only they focus on the crashes instead of the race itself.

Page-

I've played it. Still don't like racing games.

Malkor

Me and the bros loved this back in the day.

I probabley have no choice but to purchase and play the shit out of this.

Marth

The League II is awesome and this will be awesome and oh my god I love Blitz you guys.

edit: One thing about The League II is that it's INCREDIBLY glitchy. I don't mind it, I think it adds to the charm, but if you like your games to follow their own rules consistently then you might not like The League II. Just an FYI.

BTP

http://twitter.com/#!/pastapadre/status/126719108434755584

"Biggest bummer about NFL Blitz so far - no late hits. The NFL wouldn't allow it."

Bullio wrote:

The first one on N64 was the best football game ever (Mutant League Football is a close second).

And so it shall remain.

Were any of the later entries worth playing? I stopped paying attention to the series after the second one due to mediocre reviews and the yearly brand milking.

Personally, I would say no ONLY because of how Fire Mode worked in those games. It was far too broken.

At least with the original Blitz, it was pretty much just pick your favorite team and go, since everyone had the same playbook.

Page-

No late hits?

Weak.

Zxerol

Superweak.

Inkyblots

That's pretty lame, it was always a nice stress reliever to plow into somebody who just scored TD on you.

Skull2185

New Blitz, WOOO!

The League games were good too, you could explode a dude's testicles for cryin out loud! No late hits is super dumb though (The NFL wouldn't allow it... jesus christ...)

Half the fun was rapid fire switching players and torpedoing guys before the play screen came up.

Figgy

I hope I can play with Obama and Clinton on my team, like in Jam.

And late hits? That sucks. At least it's not really a game play affecting change, though.

THEPAIN73

NFL Blitz 2001 is one of my favorite games.

If it does anything like it then they have my money.

Page-

I am going to miss this sort of thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54zdTEF_ns&feature=related

NickTheNewbie

Holy shit, get hype!

Olivaw

This is absolutely what I need to care about football video games again

Oh Blitz, I've always loved you

Mulletude

I haven't played Blitz since the first two entries on the N64. This may change that.

Re: nholder

So, this game totally came out. I've been seriously thinking about it but from what I've seen online and on giant bomb there aren't many people jumping on board quite yet. Did anyone pick it up?

Marth

I got it and it's great. It's not quite like the classic games but I can deal.

Re: nholder

Marth wrote:

I got it and it's great. It's not quite like the classic games but I can deal.

Good to hear. I figure if I can get over the lack of late hits (doesn't really bother me) I'll have fun with it. I'm only worried that there will be no one playing in the near future based on how lackluster the launch has been. Whatever, it's only 15 bucks, I'll go for it.

skeldare

Wow talk about flying under the radar. I'll have to check this out, totally loved the old Blitz games.