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$59AUD?
Yep, $59AUD
Thanks for the short review. It sounds like a game to love or hate based on personal preferences.
$59AUD?
No just press squareIn career batting mode do you still need to watch your partner (computer) bat whilst you stand at the bowler's end? That used to test my patience
With EB's prices even if its the best game I've ever played I take it back, then go buy it elsewhere for 30 bucks less lol
Why not just price match it the first time around and save yourself a trip?
Way better than DBC17, but what isn't.
Playable but f**k me the commentary is completely insane. Slater must have had epilepsy, tourettes and bipolar all at once when recording his lines.
From what I hear Cricket Australia invested in this game and wanted to use it as part of their marketing strategy for the Ashes. That’s quite different to BigAnt’s relationship with the NRL, where the NRL hasn’t understood the marketing potential of a high quality sports sim for their codeLooks like Big Ant have done things well this time. The game development looks more thought out the graphics seem good considering their budget and their marketing campaign shits on what happened to the NRL game. Cricket Australia's been sharing all of their content advertising it. I don't think the NRL ever did that once.
Makes me think part of the problems with NRL games weren't Big Ant.
That’s quite different to BigAnt’s relationship with the NRL, where the NRL hasn’t understood the marketing potential of a high quality sports sim for their code
If they are and they're not willing to invest themselves, all their marketing people must have got their qualifications on a Chinese website.Perhaps the NRL does understand the marketing potential of a high quality sports sim for their code.
They're just waiting for someone to make one.
If they made yawnion they could adapt the same engine and change the rules,you're grabbing 2 markets at the same time,however smallIf they are and they're not willing to invest themselves, all their marketing people must have got their qualifications on a Chinese website.
Seriously, if the NRL are that f**king geniused that they think a Madden quality game is gonna appear for a sport like ours played seriously in a couple regions of just two countries, then there's no hope for them. Compare this cricket game to League - with it's narrow Aus-Eng focus you think it might be limiting, but that already puts its profit potential FAR higher than an League game because Cricket is massive across THE WHOLE of the UK and Australia, and then cricket fans in the rest of the cricket world will still wanna give it a try.
I've said it a million times, but Rugby League has nothing REMOTELY like the market size necessary to produce video games of anything beyond a passable quality; to get that requires direct intervention and investment from the code itself.
Potentially, but League is much more suited to the video game format than Union and realistically should be much easier to translate.If they made yawnion they could adapt the same engine and change the rules,you're grabbing 2 markets at the same time,however small
EAPotentially, but League is much more suited to the video game format than Union and realistically should be much easier to translate.
If I had my way, I'd be getting the NRL to license EA's Madden Software to adapt the code and partner with BigAnt to create a truly world class product. EA wouldn't want to lose too many of their key people, so it'd be a model whereby you built on the work of BigAnt but with much more expensive software and coders and designers with experience on massive projects.
Yeah that whole Star Wars thing is a fiasco I agree and frankly when they’ve made smaller sports titles in the past they’ve done absolute shit work because they tend to farm them out to small devs and then give them bugger all resources on unrealistic deadlines (their first few union games were far worse than anything Sidhe or BigAnt ever did with League).EA
I'm not sure i trust them anymore with the lootbox fiasco and speed cards
I think they're out of touch and Madden 18 has been widely panned
Get it. I hated DB17 but this is really easy to play but very deep at the same time. Thoroughly enjoyable to both bat and bowl tooThe Star Wars thing will not be the death of EA. It is but a minor set back.
Anyway, I'm keen to try this cricket game out. Should I get it?
Loved DBC 14 (played over 200 hours) but didnt get 17 due to the poor reviews.