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DrewTheXenocide

03-12-2005, 06:46 AM

surfing, if you consider that a sport.

I think I agree. The sports listed on the poll all have examples of good games in them. (Even Rugby, so I hear), but I remember a surfing game around the time Tony Hawk's Pro Skater first exploded, and it didn't turn out so well.

IIRC, there was a wakeboarding game that turned out purty well, though.

Royal

03-12-2005, 07:09 AM

Mixed Martial Arts.

Sheldon

03-12-2005, 07:18 AM

Mixed Martial Arts.
When it first came out I thought the UFC game on Dreamcast did a pretty good job. Its pretty outdated now, but it started pretty good.

Royal

03-12-2005, 07:20 AM

When it first came out I thought the UFC game on Dreamcast did a pretty good job. Its pretty outdated now, but it started pretty good.

From what I've heard, the Pride Arcade is a really tight version.

mgs

03-12-2005, 11:13 AM

lacrosse.

a game about it could be a lot like hockey, but there are tons of ways to cradle the ball, there's hitting almost like football, speed like soccer, offensive and defensive scheme plays can be set up like basketball and using your stick to check the other player's stick, besides all that, there's the goalie and certain shots to contend with.

Convoy

03-12-2005, 02:11 PM

I think I agree. The sports listed on the poll all have examples of good games in them. (Even Rugby, so I hear), but I remember a surfing game around the time Tony Hawk's Pro Skater first exploded, and it didn't turn out so well.

There are 4 surfing games that I know of:

Sunny Garcia Surfing (PS2)
Surfing H3O (PS2)
Championship Surfer (PS/DC)
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (PS2/XBOX/GC)

Arrjay

03-12-2005, 02:25 PM

Aussie Rules Football.
No, not Soccer.
Not Rugby.
Aussie Rules Football!
Nothing rivals it in terms of translation difficulty.

Headhunter

03-12-2005, 08:05 PM

Hockey; the titles since the SNES era have been horrible; not realistic at all other than graphically, and nowhere enjoyable enough to be considered an arcade experience.

Really, really bad.

Slayven

03-12-2005, 09:56 PM

curling and cricket

Leslie Lee III

03-12-2005, 10:34 PM

Boxing, they keep having to completely rework the engines and it still ends up being just a fight game.

Punchy

03-13-2005, 12:49 PM

Baseball. You really can't emulate taking a pitch.

DrewTheXenocide

03-13-2005, 03:56 PM

Boxing, they keep having to completely rework the engines and it still ends up being just a fight game.
There was Super Punch-Out, which was good.

MKTerra

03-13-2005, 05:50 PM

Gotta be Calvinball :D

Leslie Lee III

03-13-2005, 05:53 PM

There was Super Punch-Out, which was good.

I wasn't saying there haven't been good boxing games, there just haven't been any that resembled actual boxing.

Tenacious N

03-13-2005, 05:58 PM

Hockey; the titles since the SNES era have been horrible; not realistic at all other than graphically, and nowhere enjoyable enough to be considered an arcade experience.

Really, really bad.

I disagree. I thought the NHL games on Genesis during the 90's were awesome.

Sheldon

03-13-2005, 06:48 PM

curling and cricket

A curling game would be great....the strategy involved would be awesome, you would have all sorts of different brooms to choose from, and have a button to press when you want the skip to scream louder and more incoherently!

Punchy

03-13-2005, 07:24 PM

A curling game would be great....the strategy involved would be awesome, you would have all sorts of different brooms to choose from, and have a button to press when you want the skip to scream louder and more incoherently!

And you could pick different outfits for all of the "atheletes" (ie, overweight guys and housewife-looking women).

I Must Break U

03-14-2005, 04:48 PM

what happened to lacrosse, even though it wouldn't be that hard to make a game of it. Plus every game on the poll, with the exception of rugby, has had excellent games made for them.

ShinjiGohan

03-14-2005, 09:01 PM

A video game on playing fighting games ^.^

Leslie Lee III

03-14-2005, 10:33 PM

what happened to lacrosse, even though it wouldn't be that hard to make a game of it. Plus every game on the poll, with the exception of rugby, has had excellent games made for them.

What was the boxing one?

Gaz

03-18-2005, 06:36 AM

What was the boxing one?
I liked Fight Night...

Leslie Lee III

03-18-2005, 07:31 AM

I liked Fight Night...

I liked it to, but the question here seems to be accuracy not enjoyment.

Gaz

03-18-2005, 07:38 AM

I liked it to, but the question here seems to be accuracy not enjoyment.
Short of actual gloves the system in FN was pretty accurate and the damage system was good too.

Leslie Lee III

03-18-2005, 07:48 AM

Short of actual gloves the system in FN was pretty accurate and the damage system was good too.

But the actual fighting was an easily exploitable button masher that lacked the strategy of boxing. It didn't even have tieups I recall.

Gaz

03-18-2005, 07:59 AM

But the actual fighting was an easily exploitable button masher that lacked the strategy of boxing. It didn't even have tieups I recall.
I suppose we have different views of the sport, to me it tends to come down to power more often than not. The guy (or girl) who hits hardest and fastest usually wins.

Leslie Lee III

03-18-2005, 08:07 AM

I suppose we have different views of the sport, to me it tends to come down to power more often than not. The guy (or girl) who hits hardest and fastest usually wins.

Boxing, especially with the greats, is a lot deeper than that and no came has come close to emulating that depth. I have doubts any game will.

Gaz

03-18-2005, 08:18 AM

Boxing, especially with the greats, is a lot deeper than that and no came has come close to emulating that depth. I have doubts any game will.
The same can be said for any sport. No soccer game has the nuances of shifting tactics and gamesmanship, as well as the ball control that the real game has. THPS has a horribly unrealistic physics engine. Wrestling games play as "shoot". A line has to be drawn between what's possible and playable as opposed to what''s ideal and desirable.

Leslie Lee III

03-18-2005, 08:58 AM

The same can be said for any sport. No soccer game has the nuances of shifting tactics and gamesmanship, as well as the ball control that the real game has. THPS has a horribly unrealistic physics engine. Wrestling games play as "shoot". A line has to be drawn between what's possible and playable as opposed to what''s ideal and desirable.

But isn't the question of the thread what sport is the hardest to emulate? Isn't pointing out the lack of tactics and unrealistic mechanics in certain sports translations the point of this thread?

Gaz

03-18-2005, 09:55 AM

But isn't the question of the thread what sport is the hardest to emulate? Isn't pointing out the lack of tactics and unrealistic mechanics in certain sports translations the point of this thread?
Yes, but how high we set the bar is important. If an absolutely 100% realistic adaptation is what we look for then every sport will fail, I just feel like the limitations of consoles should be taken into account.

Leslie Lee III

03-18-2005, 10:29 AM

Yes, but how high we set the bar is important. If an absolutely 100% realistic adaptation is what we look for then every sport will fail, I just feel like the limitations of consoles should be taken into account.

I don't think any Boxing game has come close to reaching those limits though, even the best are still glorified fighting games and that's not at all what boxing is. I never once feel like I'm doing something like a boxer would do, just looking for what punch the opponent will be open to all day, then hitting it until I get a TKO in the 2nd or 3rd round. It's not even that much fun really.