Never have I found a game so aggravating, so infuriating, and so addicting as NFL Blitz 2000. On a surface level there is a sports game but lying underneath all of that is an artificial intelligence designed to drive me completely insane.
Leading the game by a possession in the 4th quarter, the AI will 100% make a 4th Down Conversion Touch Down in the last 10 seconds to completely demolish any chance of success. Making a safe play in the first 15 seconds of play, the AI will intercept it because fuck you.
Even playing with friends leads to its own level of frustration as fumbles feel insanely random and you can't even trust the field goal kick to be fucking accurate when the meter says it's supposed to.
And yet somehow, I keep finding myself coming back for more, like a weeping housewife returning to her abusive drunken husband. Every loss another literal smack in my face as I start losing control of my sanity with how ridiculous it all feels.
I'm not writing this review to evaluate the game but rather to exorcise my fucking demons at this point because this game keeps putting me through one of the worst self-hate loops I've experienced in my fucking life, and has drained any desire for me to play other games. It's just NFL Blitz, all the time, and no matter how much I practice, no matter what I do I never get better, I'll never get better because the universe is against me.
I'm going fucking crazy.
Leading the game by a possession in the 4th quarter, the AI will 100% make a 4th Down Conversion Touch Down in the last 10 seconds to completely demolish any chance of success. Making a safe play in the first 15 seconds of play, the AI will intercept it because fuck you.
Even playing with friends leads to its own level of frustration as fumbles feel insanely random and you can't even trust the field goal kick to be fucking accurate when the meter says it's supposed to.
And yet somehow, I keep finding myself coming back for more, like a weeping housewife returning to her abusive drunken husband. Every loss another literal smack in my face as I start losing control of my sanity with how ridiculous it all feels.
I'm not writing this review to evaluate the game but rather to exorcise my fucking demons at this point because this game keeps putting me through one of the worst self-hate loops I've experienced in my fucking life, and has drained any desire for me to play other games. It's just NFL Blitz, all the time, and no matter how much I practice, no matter what I do I never get better, I'll never get better because the universe is against me.
I'm going fucking crazy.