Post by POETICDRINK2U on Jul 10, 2013 4:17:35 GMT -5
CAREER (LEGACY)
- More or all the weight divisions(Let us fill in the blanks)
- Contract negotiations, with promoters, trainers for fights
-Have a stable of fighters to manage
- News Articles
- Included licensed trainers if possible
- Being Able to Save a Classic Fight
- Press conferences (more detailed, involvement and better cut scenes)
- Each country has it's own trainers and gyms
- Better records for people in the top 20 definitely the top 10
- Sparring with different fighters (with different styles, weight shouldn't matter if you are working on certain things for your next fight)
- Ability to watch or read text commentary of different fights - Would be a good way of keeping up to date with big fights going on and possibly your future opponent
- Different rings sizes (champions should be able to pick his ring size)
-Different gloves sizes for sparring, amateur bouts and pro bouts
- World with new news items posted daily. Also would be great to read a news story like "Is [insert fighter here] the greatest of all time? Not yet says Cotto!"
- Multiple user controlled boxers(offline)
- Adding Boxers into your legacy throughout your career
- SPONSORSHIP -decide who you sponsor and (again) it may effect your standing in the eyes of your peers/fans. i.e. wearing all Lonsdale into the ring - ok doing an ad for big Mac - BAD and kind of brings me onto my next point.
- GYM -have the gym FULLY interactive. Use money from sponsors/fights to get a bigger space, better equipment and better trainers. When your popularity goes up you can pick different sparring partners to come to your gym.
- Deeper story mode mixed with career mode. Starting off in a gym (of your choice, doesn't have to be a run downed one
- The amateur mode should be yearly with the option of going up to age 26 (start at 16) with the severe option of going into the late 20s and taking a serious hit in some attributes, but gaining series other attributes. When you progress through the years it shouldn't be repetitive meaning every year you do very well the competition is gunning for u and its harder to advance to tournaments unless your are that good.
- Advancing to tourneys like the golden gloves (to the states, regionals, districts, nationals, olympic training center, olympic team, world championships, Pan-Am.....back to club shows and moving thru to get to golden gloves again with the option to travel to different states, thus different training different trainers, different experience) diamond gloves. Should be a story behind it, (road to glory like NCAA) with each advancement you get trophies, plaques, news paper articles etc. ESPN coverage...
- Moving to the pros means a media day depending on how well you did with ya amateur career. Press conference for signing, but after you sign your are on the bottom moving up, but based on your resume your popularity is up or down.
- Through your career advancement you should be able to get the options to have training, going out on the town etc (similar to UFC) should have a rival from the amateurs ie mosley-forrest and press coverage behind it as well as your advancement (news articles on various sites, radio talk (like kirk herbstreit on road to glory)
Major fights in your career should have a press conference with options to answer like Mass Effect, thus making you the villain or the hero, the crowd loving you are hating you, your opponent wanted to make a good fight or trying to knock off ur block. Have a lot of media members, the stare down the weigh in as well.
Traveling to other countries for big fights should be introduced
I want the old school black and white for older fights like SRR and a presentation similar to the AFL Legacy pack for madden for Foreman_Ali matches.
Multiple commentary should be available for all fights.
Era-specific career modes:
This may have been mentioned before, but I think it would be cool to create a boxer to compete in different eras with one goal in mind: To take down the different greats of that era. I feel that the realism is taken away from that game when I have Ali or Hearns fighting in my legacy as contenders in 2010. I'm glad I currently have the ability to remove them from my legacy. I think it would be cool to start you career in the late 70's/early 80's when guys like Ray Leonard, Hearns, Foreman, and others were ruling the day. Around that time, guys like Iron Mike would just be starting out.
ONE of the objectives would be to LAST LONG ENOUGH to meet these ring legends. It shouldn't be automatic that you'll be able to rise through the ranks to beat these guys, as you would still be challenged by fantasy boxers. What should also be taken into consideration is how long the ring legends will keep boxing. It would force the player to rise quickly but sharpen his craft at the same time. How cool would it be to fight in the time of Ali, Frazier and Foreman (with all of their historic bouts going on in real time, and you having the chance to change to course of history), only to rise to their level and beat them all? To me, the GOAT ranking would have more meaning in the game. Of course for current eras, it would have to be a purely mathematical and theoretical ranking based on wins and domination of the current greats.
Accumulate damage during your career
3 Attached Images
5.2 Amateur things
-Olympic Games... If it has copyrights and that’s not needed. Give it an own name... “World Games” or whatever. An arena in China and let the Legacy Mode start at around 2008. I want to fight for my country and win a medal... I guess most ppl don’t care so much for the Amateur mode... but I think everybody would love to fight for a gold medal.
Important things to give it a real feel:
- Amateurs wear a sleeveless-shirt
- in every weight class there is only one fighter from one country
- traditional good amateur boxing countries should be represented as such
- judges score on landed shots and not after Pro rules (ring generalship etc.)
5.3 Promoters
Great way to add longevity to this game. Promoters with different attitudes and skills... father figure (brings you up slowly), don mafia like (somebody who uses you as long as he needs you and afterwards probably doesn’t get you a match in a year), former star boxer (somebody who can bring you up faster and make you much money), star maker (somebody who’s been long in the business and simply always chooses the right opponent, the right challenge and doesn’t do too much), Selfish one (if he sees big bucks he will throw you to the lions) and if you become famous enough you should be able to promote yourself.
5.4 Sparring Partners
To me it would add another level of strategy if you could pay for sparring sessions with boxers who would emulate your next opponent’s style and tendencies. The better the boxer, the better he can emulate your next opponent’s style, the more expensive he would be. You would use the earnings you won from your previous fights to pay for him. There boxers would be boxers who exist in your career mode which would make things interesting because you could potentially meet them later. These paid sparring sessions could also increase your ratings. The sparring partners in your gym or stable could be free.
5.5 Superstars have demands
Many fights today don’t happen because of demands. It would be great to have something like a contract battle for some fights. Things like gloves, weight (catch weight if in different weight classes), purse split, ring size probably even the arena. If you now finally lured in a Big Star into an fight he will probably have some demands... and it’s up to you to decide if you agree or don’t. If you want it bad you will agree probably even if it’s to your disadvantage.
-No limit on how many times you can fight (optional)
-Clips of your last fight
-Commentators- talk about your last fight or fights
5.6 Real Life Counterparts
The additions of boxers I want in Legacy Mode are great. But please let me put them in as old as they are and with their record. I understand that some of them will be retired when I’m finally on top but that’s ok. If they are, they are... then that’s the way it is... I have no problem fighting created fighters as long as they are created with love by the producers.
I should be able to decide if they are truly their age... for example Roy Jones would be as old as he is in 2009 and I would also want to turn his ratings down. It should be possible for the real fighters to have it accurate...
It would also be nice if I turn pro and decide on my weight class if there is something like an introduction video. If you come into an division you usually know the champs, former champs etc. But because we will never have all boxers together there are a lot of created boxers in there and it would be nice if former champs, prospects, ducked fighters, hard punching fighters, technical fighters get introduced in a little clip or something. It’s only needed for the top guys... probably 10 or 12 in a division. Probably with a little back story to them so they get a more real feel to them. If I fight Cotto I know how he fights, his story etc. but if I fight an unknown who supposed to be good it would be nice to get something of their background as well; probably about their fights against other fighters in the division etc. It would make them feel far more real. I know it’s a bit of work but I think a lot of ppl would love to help you out with ideas.
Backgrounds if not videos are really necessary. It gives a feel of fighting a real person.
5.7 Trainers
Have a pool of trainer’s actual licensed ones with fictional ones. Have us pay for them, they should have ratings indicating how good they are, they should also improve and get worst, they would have specialties depending on ratings. There ratings would help your career boxers improve his own ratings. The better the trainer the more expensive. You would hire a trainer first like madden and hiring coaches in Franchise mode.
5.8 Money Spender
I hope there are some things to spend my money on. Boxing, Training, Trainers and sparring partners should be the priority but if I have some money I want to spend it. Probably an own house with all my trophies and titles I have... probably able to bet money on other fights... create an own cloth company or something... buy cloth that I could wear in press conferences or at training sessions... build my own gym just for me... an own promotion company... something like that.
5.9 Message Center
So repetitive, we get the same messages "this person is a champ" or "you've been nominated for an award", instead of doing this why not incorporate a newspaper system? Where headlines are made from fights, where it can have an image on the front with a title such as "Tyson beats Frazier to reclaim the title!" or something? You've implemented it in FIFA so why not on here?
5.10 Arrange Fights
This is the main reason where after a while, Legacy Mode becomes boring. You might be the holder of all 3 belts, but the 1 - 5 ranked people below you are always the same, so you’re constantly fighting the same people! Fighting Tyson 5 or 6 times gets very repetitive and boring, so maybe some more fighters could be added to spice it up or unexpected challengers or something? I don't know but I’m sure EA could easily find a solution.
5.11 End of Year Awards
7(4)-3-1 beat me for the Hot Prospect Award when I have 8(6)-0-0? How are they better than me? This is a bug that can be fixed but this isn't the main reason I’ve addressed these awards, it's because they're not detailed enough.
When there's the Knockout of the Year Award I wouldn't mind seeing it? Or fight of the year? Is it too hard to chuck in a feature to watch them?
This has reminded me, when we win these awards where do they go? We don't have a trophy cabinet or anything so what’s the point in even getting them? This could tie into the newspaper feature mentioned earlier, where a newspaper page is you holding the award with the title "Tyson wins Fighter of the Year Award for fourth year in a row" or something.
-Being able to watch other fights that happen on a card or happened.
- More or all the weight divisions(Let us fill in the blanks)
- Contract negotiations, with promoters, trainers for fights
-Have a stable of fighters to manage
- News Articles
- Included licensed trainers if possible
- Being Able to Save a Classic Fight
- Press conferences (more detailed, involvement and better cut scenes)
- Each country has it's own trainers and gyms
- Better records for people in the top 20 definitely the top 10
- Sparring with different fighters (with different styles, weight shouldn't matter if you are working on certain things for your next fight)
- Ability to watch or read text commentary of different fights - Would be a good way of keeping up to date with big fights going on and possibly your future opponent
- Different rings sizes (champions should be able to pick his ring size)
-Different gloves sizes for sparring, amateur bouts and pro bouts
- World with new news items posted daily. Also would be great to read a news story like "Is [insert fighter here] the greatest of all time? Not yet says Cotto!"
- Multiple user controlled boxers(offline)
- Adding Boxers into your legacy throughout your career
- SPONSORSHIP -decide who you sponsor and (again) it may effect your standing in the eyes of your peers/fans. i.e. wearing all Lonsdale into the ring - ok doing an ad for big Mac - BAD and kind of brings me onto my next point.
- GYM -have the gym FULLY interactive. Use money from sponsors/fights to get a bigger space, better equipment and better trainers. When your popularity goes up you can pick different sparring partners to come to your gym.
- Deeper story mode mixed with career mode. Starting off in a gym (of your choice, doesn't have to be a run downed one
- The amateur mode should be yearly with the option of going up to age 26 (start at 16) with the severe option of going into the late 20s and taking a serious hit in some attributes, but gaining series other attributes. When you progress through the years it shouldn't be repetitive meaning every year you do very well the competition is gunning for u and its harder to advance to tournaments unless your are that good.
- Advancing to tourneys like the golden gloves (to the states, regionals, districts, nationals, olympic training center, olympic team, world championships, Pan-Am.....back to club shows and moving thru to get to golden gloves again with the option to travel to different states, thus different training different trainers, different experience) diamond gloves. Should be a story behind it, (road to glory like NCAA) with each advancement you get trophies, plaques, news paper articles etc. ESPN coverage...
- Moving to the pros means a media day depending on how well you did with ya amateur career. Press conference for signing, but after you sign your are on the bottom moving up, but based on your resume your popularity is up or down.
- Through your career advancement you should be able to get the options to have training, going out on the town etc (similar to UFC) should have a rival from the amateurs ie mosley-forrest and press coverage behind it as well as your advancement (news articles on various sites, radio talk (like kirk herbstreit on road to glory)
Major fights in your career should have a press conference with options to answer like Mass Effect, thus making you the villain or the hero, the crowd loving you are hating you, your opponent wanted to make a good fight or trying to knock off ur block. Have a lot of media members, the stare down the weigh in as well.
Traveling to other countries for big fights should be introduced
I want the old school black and white for older fights like SRR and a presentation similar to the AFL Legacy pack for madden for Foreman_Ali matches.
Multiple commentary should be available for all fights.
Era-specific career modes:
This may have been mentioned before, but I think it would be cool to create a boxer to compete in different eras with one goal in mind: To take down the different greats of that era. I feel that the realism is taken away from that game when I have Ali or Hearns fighting in my legacy as contenders in 2010. I'm glad I currently have the ability to remove them from my legacy. I think it would be cool to start you career in the late 70's/early 80's when guys like Ray Leonard, Hearns, Foreman, and others were ruling the day. Around that time, guys like Iron Mike would just be starting out.
ONE of the objectives would be to LAST LONG ENOUGH to meet these ring legends. It shouldn't be automatic that you'll be able to rise through the ranks to beat these guys, as you would still be challenged by fantasy boxers. What should also be taken into consideration is how long the ring legends will keep boxing. It would force the player to rise quickly but sharpen his craft at the same time. How cool would it be to fight in the time of Ali, Frazier and Foreman (with all of their historic bouts going on in real time, and you having the chance to change to course of history), only to rise to their level and beat them all? To me, the GOAT ranking would have more meaning in the game. Of course for current eras, it would have to be a purely mathematical and theoretical ranking based on wins and domination of the current greats.
Accumulate damage during your career
3 Attached Images
5.2 Amateur things
-Olympic Games... If it has copyrights and that’s not needed. Give it an own name... “World Games” or whatever. An arena in China and let the Legacy Mode start at around 2008. I want to fight for my country and win a medal... I guess most ppl don’t care so much for the Amateur mode... but I think everybody would love to fight for a gold medal.
Important things to give it a real feel:
- Amateurs wear a sleeveless-shirt
- in every weight class there is only one fighter from one country
- traditional good amateur boxing countries should be represented as such
- judges score on landed shots and not after Pro rules (ring generalship etc.)
5.3 Promoters
Great way to add longevity to this game. Promoters with different attitudes and skills... father figure (brings you up slowly), don mafia like (somebody who uses you as long as he needs you and afterwards probably doesn’t get you a match in a year), former star boxer (somebody who can bring you up faster and make you much money), star maker (somebody who’s been long in the business and simply always chooses the right opponent, the right challenge and doesn’t do too much), Selfish one (if he sees big bucks he will throw you to the lions) and if you become famous enough you should be able to promote yourself.
5.4 Sparring Partners
To me it would add another level of strategy if you could pay for sparring sessions with boxers who would emulate your next opponent’s style and tendencies. The better the boxer, the better he can emulate your next opponent’s style, the more expensive he would be. You would use the earnings you won from your previous fights to pay for him. There boxers would be boxers who exist in your career mode which would make things interesting because you could potentially meet them later. These paid sparring sessions could also increase your ratings. The sparring partners in your gym or stable could be free.
5.5 Superstars have demands
Many fights today don’t happen because of demands. It would be great to have something like a contract battle for some fights. Things like gloves, weight (catch weight if in different weight classes), purse split, ring size probably even the arena. If you now finally lured in a Big Star into an fight he will probably have some demands... and it’s up to you to decide if you agree or don’t. If you want it bad you will agree probably even if it’s to your disadvantage.
-No limit on how many times you can fight (optional)
-Clips of your last fight
-Commentators- talk about your last fight or fights
5.6 Real Life Counterparts
The additions of boxers I want in Legacy Mode are great. But please let me put them in as old as they are and with their record. I understand that some of them will be retired when I’m finally on top but that’s ok. If they are, they are... then that’s the way it is... I have no problem fighting created fighters as long as they are created with love by the producers.
I should be able to decide if they are truly their age... for example Roy Jones would be as old as he is in 2009 and I would also want to turn his ratings down. It should be possible for the real fighters to have it accurate...
It would also be nice if I turn pro and decide on my weight class if there is something like an introduction video. If you come into an division you usually know the champs, former champs etc. But because we will never have all boxers together there are a lot of created boxers in there and it would be nice if former champs, prospects, ducked fighters, hard punching fighters, technical fighters get introduced in a little clip or something. It’s only needed for the top guys... probably 10 or 12 in a division. Probably with a little back story to them so they get a more real feel to them. If I fight Cotto I know how he fights, his story etc. but if I fight an unknown who supposed to be good it would be nice to get something of their background as well; probably about their fights against other fighters in the division etc. It would make them feel far more real. I know it’s a bit of work but I think a lot of ppl would love to help you out with ideas.
Backgrounds if not videos are really necessary. It gives a feel of fighting a real person.
5.7 Trainers
Have a pool of trainer’s actual licensed ones with fictional ones. Have us pay for them, they should have ratings indicating how good they are, they should also improve and get worst, they would have specialties depending on ratings. There ratings would help your career boxers improve his own ratings. The better the trainer the more expensive. You would hire a trainer first like madden and hiring coaches in Franchise mode.
5.8 Money Spender
I hope there are some things to spend my money on. Boxing, Training, Trainers and sparring partners should be the priority but if I have some money I want to spend it. Probably an own house with all my trophies and titles I have... probably able to bet money on other fights... create an own cloth company or something... buy cloth that I could wear in press conferences or at training sessions... build my own gym just for me... an own promotion company... something like that.
5.9 Message Center
So repetitive, we get the same messages "this person is a champ" or "you've been nominated for an award", instead of doing this why not incorporate a newspaper system? Where headlines are made from fights, where it can have an image on the front with a title such as "Tyson beats Frazier to reclaim the title!" or something? You've implemented it in FIFA so why not on here?
5.10 Arrange Fights
This is the main reason where after a while, Legacy Mode becomes boring. You might be the holder of all 3 belts, but the 1 - 5 ranked people below you are always the same, so you’re constantly fighting the same people! Fighting Tyson 5 or 6 times gets very repetitive and boring, so maybe some more fighters could be added to spice it up or unexpected challengers or something? I don't know but I’m sure EA could easily find a solution.
5.11 End of Year Awards
7(4)-3-1 beat me for the Hot Prospect Award when I have 8(6)-0-0? How are they better than me? This is a bug that can be fixed but this isn't the main reason I’ve addressed these awards, it's because they're not detailed enough.
When there's the Knockout of the Year Award I wouldn't mind seeing it? Or fight of the year? Is it too hard to chuck in a feature to watch them?
This has reminded me, when we win these awards where do they go? We don't have a trophy cabinet or anything so what’s the point in even getting them? This could tie into the newspaper feature mentioned earlier, where a newspaper page is you holding the award with the title "Tyson wins Fighter of the Year Award for fourth year in a row" or something.
-Being able to watch other fights that happen on a card or happened.