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Ugh, sportsball? That’s not gonna get gamers. That’s gonna get dudebros that would have bullied nerds in the 1980s but now play competitive BS video games.
Aren’t the dudebros in the biggest group of trump supporters? They should target them instead of preaching to the choir.
It’s still a video game.
It might be one of the lamer segments of the gaming market, since the games are basically the same each year, but with updated stats.
Personally, they should go retro with some short order(NES powerpad, basically a memory game, styled as a short order cook making giant burgers.), or maybe some n64 Mariocart. I bet Walz can hit all the RR shortcuts.
Is DDR old enough to be retro now? That could be fun, too.
how do you do, fellow kids?
ah yes, madden players are famously kids.
they aren’t streaming roblox. they’re streaming madden because he pricks probably used to play it decades ago in between sessions of WoW.
I think they chose to play Madden because Walz used to be a football coach.
They are both former gamers, this isn’t Hillary pretending she is hip.
So they are both maddening?
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Thank you, I will be here all week
I respect the joke, but I simultaneously also respect whoever downvoted the comment nearly instantly :)
THIS is how you do fellow kids
What kids are playing Madden, though?
Aged boomers who are regressing to an unempathetic childlike state.
Although a good chunk of them act like it, Boomers aren’t actually kids.
Hundreds of thousands of people.
The fact of the matter is that casual gamers and console owners overlap with Facebook and all generic social media.
We know that we only Lemmy are small, so we should try to keep in mind that our understandings and opinions of generic things in the world are the uncommon ones. Madden sells. FIFA sells. Call of Duty sells. Grand Theft Auto sells. Trying to criticize these outside of Lemmy will only result in losing even more faith in the general public, if that was even possible.
A handful of small executive yachts worth of kids are judging by the numbers.
Which edition of Madden are we up to now? Like 57?
No, because we’re not in the year 2056 (sports gsmes tend to have the next year in the title, like cars).
Lots of normies (assuming American normies love Madden as much as European normies love fifa)
Correct
My normie friend buys it every year, and acknowledges he paid for an updated sport wiafu roster.
We just say Gaifu now.
Way easier than guessing the spelling of husbando.
My friend groups are. And the new NCAA game. Video Games and Football, there is truely no greater combination of american values
What’s NCAA like vs Madden?
I haven’t played the most recent one, or madden for that matter, so this based on experience from about 15-20 years ago but I’m sure it’ll be mostly the same. First and foremost, there are some rule differences. Second, there are different strategies, formations, and plays. Third, you have different players with greater diversity in talent level. Fourth, the teams are different, which might mean more to some than others. And finally, the commentators are different, the last time, they had the cat known for whistling, which was funny. I can’t remember his name.
I bought the most recent CFB, I was both excited for the season and intrigued since it had been 15ish years. It is really polished and cool for what it is, but I forgot I hated it back in day and still hate it now. But it was really well done
Sports games are one of the few genres that are couch competition friendly.
People who lead boring normal lives.
Most people who own consoles I guess the
The what? THE WHAT???
The poor son of a gun! They never got a chance to finish their
All these unfinished comments are going to drive me to
Goddammit Candleja
Scream.
Hey! I own consoles and the only sports game I’ve purchased in 20 years was the new CFB game, and immediately remembered why I don’t buy sports games unless Mario is involved
It’s just outreach. May be corny, but they’re intentionally getting outside their comfort zone to reach more people.
Both Walz and aoc play video games already.
Well that did it for me. I’m voting Harris!
Net than the trump ralley they put up on twitch from the trump side.
I flagged that shit for bigotry
It would be funny if one of them started cheating
between this and WoW, are they going to stream any good games?
Musk is streaming a full playthrough of the Leisure Suit Larry series.
A bunch of horribly aged sex comedies full of misogynistic “jokes”, blatant homohpboia, and various pop-culture references that you’d have to have been born in the 70’s to have a chance of getting?
Sounds like his kinda game being a washed-up divorced dad living in the past who’s children and ex-wife want nothing to do with him.
Seriously, I own the series, bought it in a bundle for Steam and I’ve tried playing them. I love old adventure games, especially comedies like Monkey Island and I heard so many good things about it from my dad and the laughs he had from LSL when he was a dumb kid fresh out of high school.
…and I nearly died of anti-lulz trying to play these things.
I love a good raunchy comedy, for fuck’s sake, my favorite Boomer Shooter is Duke Nukem 3D… but LSL has aged about as well as Larry himself has been implied to.
I’m too young to even know what a leisure suit is, and I’m in my god damn 30’s.
Leisure suit larry is a good nickname for musk. Although it soils the leisure suit larry brand.
Loser suit Larry seems more musky.
AOC did among us during the previous election
Would be fun if they streamed Civilization.
Fuck, play some Clock Tower, tis Halloween afterall.
Or hell, play Resident Evil and do commentary talking about how it’s not only based on the works of George Romero, but also pretty dang based considering the moral of the story is “American Pharmaceutical Companies are literally evil and responsible for mass death”
Walz: MY WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Walz: Oh that is SO you Gandhi, you piece of shit!
Not my game of choice, but as an elderly gamer, this works for me.
This is stupid. I didn’t vote for these two to play video games.
I’m betting you’ve never voted for either of these two.
As a Minnesotan, I have voted for Walz twice. I have even spoken to him directly.
did you point out that you only voted with the condition that he was never supposed to have fun? maybe he missed that.
No, we discussed public education.
There is a difference between him having fun and and a meaningless publicity stunt.
meaningless publicity stunt? you know he’s running for vice president, right? this is essentially a rally.
Yes I know he’s running for VP. Playing games on line is a publicity stunt and not a political rally. It’s a “Hey look at me! I’m cool because I streamed playing a video game to show how cool I am!” stunt.
It might impress small children, but not adults. Not that it matters much to me. I already voted for Harris/Walz based on platform NOT on a stupid streamed video game.
well you’re wrong on several accounts. this is just another platform to campaign on.
Are there any crazy glitches/exploits one can do in a modern Madden game that would be akin to taking shots from that one specific spot in Double Dribble where it’s 100% guaranteed to go in?
I wanna see one of them just gobsmack the other with that kinda play. lol
So gimmicky. AOC is listening to DNC strategy morons way too much. This makes the party look even more out of touch, not more relatable. Same with the "X has a beer with “Y” articles. This is all Joe Biden/centrist reacharound logic.
Doesn’t AOC do twitch anyways? This isn’t her first time doing this.
Better be Madden ‘96
I’d give Walz the edge, but EA never made Madden for the Dreamcast. 🤣
John Madden
