Where Is A New Fight Night Game?

[YogiYahooeys]

"When EA picked up the UFC license, there was still the spectre of Brock Lesnar drawing huge pay-per-view buy rates."

Brock Lesnar was beaten down in his last 2 fights after the second of which he promptly retired. That was December 2011. EA Sports UFC was not announced until June 2012.

[regenhuber]

Would buy a new FN game in a second.
I got UFC for x1 but never play it, its toooooo complicated.

[JayBee74]

Quote: Originally Posted by regenhuber

Would buy a new FN game in a second. I got UFC for x1 but never play it, its toooooo complicated.

Bought a wrestling game a couple of months ago that was too complicated for my taste. Got a full refund the next day.

[shavane]

1st and foremost outstanding article. I also hope that fight night returns and I hope it happens soon. I always felt the fight night series was one of the more technically sound games ever made. I love how you have to balance your stamina, time your counters, wear opponents down, let them wear themselves out through head movement, blocking, ring savy and then unleash holy hell on them when the time was right. Fight Night doubles as a button masher but like you said if you take the time to perfect the sweet science you can become a true master. Not to mention its one of the best looking games ever but for me its all about the game play. EA turns me off because most of their decisions are strictly about money as seen in the Madden series and I understand this but for the gamers and fans all we care about are the games we love.

[Wiggy]

Quote: Originally Posted by YogiYahooeys

"When EA picked up the UFC license, there was still the spectre of Brock Lesnar drawing huge pay-per-view buy rates." Brock Lesnar was beaten down in his last 2 fights after the second of which he promptly retired. That was December 2011. EA Sports UFC was not announced until June 2012.

To clarify on this, EA and the UFC were still making the deal and these financial decisions in late 2011 or early 2012, so the "spectre" of Brock that I referred to was very real. EA saw a company with high buy rates (because of Brock), and they made the deal with that in mind.

Even when losing, Brock was a huge draw, which explains why he's so coveted by the UFC now.

[majestic]

I don't know much about game development (please correct me if I'm wrong) but if EA has only one fight team and they're only going to make one fight game, wouldn't it make more financial sense to them to continue making UFC games? To make a boxing game it seems like they'd have to build it from the ground up, at least for next-gen systems, whereas for UFC they've already made that investment in a core gameplay system that they can more cheaply build on/tweak for future releases.

Don't get me wrong, as a longtime boxing fan, I'm squarely on team Fight Night. I'm just not very optimistic we'll see a boxing game any time soon from EA, unless boxing surges in popularity, or the UFC series completely tanks.

[allBthere]

Quote: Originally Posted by majestic

I don't know much about game development (please correct me if I'm wrong) but if EA has only one fight team and they're only going to make one fight game, wouldn't it make more financial sense to them to continue making UFC games? To make a boxing game it seems like they'd have to build it from the ground up, at least for next-gen systems, whereas for UFC they've already made that investment in a core gameplay system that they can more cheaply build on/tweak for future releases. Don't get me wrong, as a longtime boxing fan, I'm squarely on team Fight Night. I'm just not very optimistic we'll see a boxing game any time soon from EA, unless boxing surges in popularity, or the UFC series completely tanks.

I believe both of those things are happening only in a less dramatic way. Very interesting articles I've read on the UFC and it's decline or pull-back and 2015 is such a huge year for boxing and the past few years have been pretty good as well. I've actually found myself passing on many recent UFC events - and have knowingly passed because despite how hard supporters argue to the contrary, I find cards weaker and thus easier to pass on, on a more frequent basis, and I have disliked the fox deal since day 1 and think that also hurts as well.

On the flip side, as many problems as boxing has with promoters ego's and sanctioning bodies, there have been many fascinating fights in the past few years and this year I'm just so excited for, without even throwing in the enormous circus that is floyd and manny.

I think with the sales of EA UFC being much lower than expected combined with the current climate we are in, EA will at least have meeting about it, and potentially bringing back FN

[SHAKYR]

Quote: Originally Posted by shavane

1st and foremost outstanding article. I also hope that fight night returns and I hope it happens soon. I always felt the fight night series was one of the more technically sound games ever made. I love how you have to balance your stamina, time your counters, wear opponents down, let them wear themselves out through head movement, blocking, ring savy and then unleash holy hell on them when the time was right. Fight Night doubles as a button masher but like you said if you take the time to perfect the sweet science you can become a true master. Not to mention its one of the best looking games ever but for me its all about the game play. EA turns me off because most of their decisions are strictly about money as seen in the Madden series and I understand this but for the gamers and fans all we care about are the games we love.

You giving Fight Night Champion too much credit. The hardcore boxing fans and even boxers didn't think it was realistic as other sports game and the sim aspects were missing. The depth of modes were not there and the game needed a manager mode.