After playing a series of online games via "EA Sports Online", I asked myself how the hell could I let myself waste so much time. Playing online is fun, I won't deny it. It's nice to ALWAYS have someone to play other than the computer. But now I'm sorta leaning into the other direction.
As much as I'd like to use realistic sliders, I force myself to conform to the ways of the default gameplay settings because not all of them can be changed for online games.
I want for this thread to be a gathering for all those online gamers out there who actually "appreciate" the game of basketball. I'm sick of having to play against people who think basketball is a simple game of racing down the court and putting the ball in the basket. In a game, it's easy to do, and doing it wins games much easier. But I refuse to play any basketball game this way.
Of the 20 some games I've played online... NONE of my opponents went about the game in a strategic way. They complained about my game being too slow, and once they had control, they jacked the speed back to 50, and sometimes even higher. But why? Why don't they see that basketball isn't suppose to be such a fast-paced game (in terms of physical movement, I mean)
20-30 players, all of who used turbo the whole way down the court, periodically pushing up on the freestyle buttom to spin their way to the whole, and finally press square to either dunk on me, or draw a foul because of a collision that wasn't even mid-air (Thanks for including the great defense, EA. Putting your hands straight up really works great... If you want your big men to get fouled out before halftime)
What happend to swinging the ball to find an open man. What happend to looking inside and doing some fakes with your big man and shooting jump hooks. What happend to pick and rolls? It seems to me that very few of us want to use these things to get enjoyment out of the game, and it's really p***ing me off.
Am I the only one suffering from this problem? Or are there others out there dealing with similar issues? If so, then we should keep online gaming between ourselves. There's already and online gaming thread, but I want for this to be for a select few gamers.
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For those in favor of this idea, post your opinions with perhaps your preferred online game settings. I'm sure we can make some kind of compromise.