I played some NBA 2K20, but I really, really wanted to play the NCAA Football video game, which EA Sports was forced to stop making in 2014 because they were using college players’ likeness without compensation (Opens in a new tab).One problem, I had lost my copy and apparently everyone else had the same idea: A copy of NCAAF ‘14 would run you about $160 (Opens in a new tab) online. ![]() Relatively speaking, I’m a video game caveman. ![]() I’m even playing on an outdated Xbox 360 with a janky disc tray. Mostly late at night, when I’m waiting for sleep, I’m going back to disappearing into sports games. In quarantine, I’ve fully returned to that little bubble. ![]() It was just a nice, mindless way to pass the time playing against the CPU. I hardly ever played against my friends or my brother. I had no idea if I was good or bad at a game. I’d flop into the couch, fire up my Xbox 360, and spend hours engulfed in a dynasty mode - where you basically control every aspect of a team over the course of an indefinite number of seasons. I wasn’t really against video games but I was genuinely bad at shooters and playing online was an exercise in embarrassment.Īs a teen, I mostly played sports games, offline, by myself, at home in the evenings. ![]() I’d get sniped trying, and failing, at doing something as simple as entering the driver seat of Warthog. I was entirely useless beyond comedic value - I was truly elite at finding novel ways to get killed. This year was about 2005 and my middle school friends hated playing with me online, which was like half of how we entertained ourselves. Walking into walls, shooting at air, trapped in an interminable die-respawn-die-respawn loop.
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