Sounds like you were playing on a too high difficulty level.

That applies to a lot of people's real lives also.

Quote Towns88="Towns88"Sounds like you were playing on a too high difficulty level.'" Ha ha. I was playing the same level as normal uk.ign.com/articles/2012/08/15/b ... -questions

Quote Towns88="Towns88"Sounds like you were playing on a too high difficulty level.'" Ha ha. I was playing the same level as normal uk.ign.com/articles/2012/08/15/b ... -questions

Few things id like to see;



No random knock ons which can gift the game to the opposition in the last 5 minutes - Often in the old game you could play sensible RL with drives out your own half, with players who werent fatigued who would just randomly knock on and it was often better just to play hotball with the ball - Should be the opposite to this for me....more risky passess, if you dont get right, should increase the chances of k/ons.



Also - When you break and pass to a supporting player, the player needs to catch the ball with the same momentum and not take it standing still...in the old games theres no point in using your support as they just stop and get tackled!



would also like to see less random high tackles...again should increase chances with more aggression and no random jumping of the ball to a player nowhere near it when theres another player closer!

The problem is that with so many people playing games like Fifa and Madden which have fantastic modern gameplay, people expect the same from RLL. It just isn't going to happen. If we had a RL game with the gameplay of Madden it would be unreal, but not enough money gets invested, it is just a shame that technology can't be used on a RL game so that it feels like Madden and Fifa.



The best we can hope for is decent graphics, better gameplay than the last game (as some people have highlighted problems)... and then a decent career and online mode where you can sign players etc.



You may as well stop dreaming about a game with few problems, it will still have tons of problems. Even FIFA does still have problems and they have been developing it for 20 years!

They guy in the interview I linked too says the same thing.

forums.sidhe.co.nz/showthread.ph ... gue-Live-2 seems quite promising

forums.sidhe.co.nz/showthread.ph ... gue-Live-2 seems quite promising

Good to see the biggest problems I had in the first game were the first things to be addressed. Short passes were pretty crippling because they would stop running as it switched control, and I had to switch the commentary off after about a game and a half - listening to the same stupid phrases over and over, it was like watching Sky with only Stevo commentating...



The players out of position thing I didn't see mentioned, though, which always bugged me - why were my centres always in the middle of the pitch and the props out by the edges? I know the backs come in and help out early in the set, but on the last tackle it's hard to take advantage of an overlap made entirely of slow lumbering forwards.

I'm not sure how impartial that review is. I'll reserve judgement for the time being.

Gameplay trailer is out - looks very promising! Flick pass, grubber kick and that inside ball all looking very nice indeed!

It's smarmy-positive which is the worst kind. There are no negatives in it at all. The game will no doubt be an improvement on the previous games, but it won't be 'good', it's just the subject matter that will make most buy it, to support the concept of a league game. The developer's back catalogue is very poor and the previous league games were simply awful. I don't blame the developer, they are in a viscious cycle. Their games have little investment, sell poorly and generate little revenue. Without a big games company investing in it, there is no chance of it ever turning into anything genuinely worth playing.



Our best hope of ever getting a semi decent RL game is for one of the bigger developers to butcher an existing sports game engine and dish it out as an Xbox Live Arcade/PSN game.

for all its faults, I still found the last game (RLL) worth playing, if anything just because I love the sport

I just couldn't bring myself to keep playing the last one, it just didn't feel anything like rugby league I was playing. I know, like saddened says, that it's always going to be "cheap" so to speak, but I just thought the gameplay was utterly awful on the last one with ridiculous issues like fast wingers being caught by props, forwards on the wing, wrong squads etc



Hopefully this will be a big improvement, it'll have to be because if it's not it's the last RL game I shall waste my money on.

I've said it before, but RL doesn't lend itself to being a video game in the same way football does. Football can be boiled down to Pong essentially, with bells and whistles added as the games and consoles progressed. The nature of play in RL means that you need to be able to see different things depending on what is happening.