A "Mature" Sports Game

[@ptrcrispy]

Blitz The League be like: *spine snaps in half* "Off for 3 plays"

[@bigsky1047]

Modern medicine (drugs) does wonders

[@noboy345]

Bring back blitz

[@Chonkems]

@@bigsky1047 I LOVE AMPHETAMINES I LOVE AMPHETAMINES

[@NukaCola514]

Just inject em with some steroids he'll be fine

[@rafaelmarco9538]

They might've drafted viltrumites 🤷‍♂️

[@tonsonlorencedanield]

You heard him Nintendo, time to put sex scandals in Wii Sports

[@cynthiacrescent]

it would make a nintendo game worth a second look, at least

[@pygmalion0451]

Miyamoto always goes on how we won't get another F-Zero unless it can do something new. What if...

[@rikkTV]

"news just in, Captain Falcon has been caught roidong up and sucking down in the Blue Falcon"​@@pygmalion0451

[@afd19850]

@@pygmalion0451topless lap girls lol

[@nguyentrongtunglam]

​@@pygmalion0451 aw imagine Bayonetta or Samus in F Zero then lol

[@djtoxicdhg]

Can somone send prostatutes to my house to lower my stamina ???

[@Raycevick]

Sorry, the menu didn't appear on my next match.

[@GuckFoogle-pk6ns]

Oh man I've got a very important day at work tomorrow, wouldn't it be just awful if some joker sent a truckload of drugs and hookers over, just to sabotage me? ... WELL, I'M WAITING!

[@coffin7904]

Pro statues

[@coffin7904]

​@Raycevick what's that film/show with the dude from my name is earl? I'm sorry I'm dumb and can't find it in the description.

[@Raycevick]

@@coffin7904 Where?

[@KyrieKirigiri]

Wrestling Empire is a game that portrays the sport that it's representing accurately. You have to negotiate contracts when signing with promotions, often times getting screwed over or forced to do something you don't want to do, there's separate relationship meters for characters in ring and IRL, you get offered drugs and can do them or not, and characters actually die - either through old age, drug abuse, or another character murdering them. Matches can get so violent that people's limbs fly off and they can die as a result. It's an indie game made by 1 guy (MDickie) who made similar games such as prison simulator Hard Times and Jesus simulator The You Testament, and it's available on PC, Mobile and Nintendo Switch.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

He put dismemberment back into the game? I remember it getting removed when it went from MPire to Empire.

[@TheOriginalStix]

​@Rad-Dude63andathird No, dismemberment unfortunately isn't in Empire. It's pretty mad in the Mpire games though.

[@Agnt14]

MDICKIE MENTIONED🔥🔥

[@SusCalvin]

Tabletop RPG wrestling games also track double roles sometimes. In World Wide Wrestling you have both your kayfabe persona and the drama with other wrestlers, and the real drama behind it all. We had one NPC wrestler who wanted to keep it quiet that he was family of the league owner. But one PC wrestler decided to talk smack about that on tv. Hitting eachother with chairs in kayfabe is okay... But that was mean.

[@JCOdrjones]

I mean, that game is trying, but it's also victim to just not being able to go through in full with such mature topics on a worthwhile level that's not extremely comedic

[@staidenofanarchy]

I remember in MLB 2006, you could actually trigger a fight if you hit enough batters. It affected gameplay, too, you had to replace your pitcher and catcher afterwards. They'd NEVER allow that in the modern games.

[@Raycevick]

Wait, seriously?

[@staidenofanarchy]

@Raycevick yup! It would cut away before they actually started throwing punches, but youd see the catcher and batter start arguing and then start to fight. The announcer would call it too. If my PS2 still works I can see about posting footage lol.

[@FreshTillDeath56]

I think MVP Baseball 05 has that too. I think you could charge the mound anyway.

[@MrTJPAS]

@@staidenofanarchy You mean the MLB Slugfest series?

[@staidenofanarchy]

@@MrTJPAS Nope! MLB 2006 for the PS2. Again it would cut away before they started throwing punches but it's really in there, you had to replace players, the announcers would call it, everything.

[@Huggbees]

NFL Blitz will forever be one of my favorite forgotten series. This one is the only one I never tried, so thank you for reminding me it exists.

[@cosmiceyness]

They need to rerelease it already

[@nicholasweaver2374]

It's always nice seeing a KZbinr you love in the wild.

[@wizzzer1337]

Unreal Tournament 2003 was already the M rated NFL game of the 00's.

[@ThisBirdHasFlown]

hehe good call

[@M0rinkashi]

Unreal Championship in this case, since Midway DID published three Unreal Tournament games (two being Xbox-exclusives), first is based on UT2k3, second being its own thing, having a third-person camera for melee combat, fatalities (no, really, there are fatalities in the game, you even input the same way as MK fatalities), Raiden as a unlockable character and the option to replace the regular UT announcer with the announcer from MK Deception. The third just being UT3, 'nough said.

[@todaysdesperadohatesavocad7109]

This is a way, way better joke than I think a lot of people are recognizing it is. Had to let you know.

[@DemonicHarkonnen]

@@M0rinkashi Omg, a shoutout to Unreal Championship 2? I still play that game to this day! Not shy of calling it one of my favourite games. And that overly dramatic story? My god, it was amazing! I'm so happy I never lost the disk to this absolute gem.

[@M0rinkashi]

@DemonicHarkonnen Glad someone loving the game! I kind of wish I could play it myself because I don't have an original Xbox nor even able to play it on a hacked Xbox 360 with modified backward compatibility.

[@burritoboygaimng]

Dear god that backstabbing joke is top tier

[@Sejikan]

Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that

[@JasonX909]

Reminds me of Norm, which is the best possible compliment

[@theriddler6994]

But the glove dont fit!

[@TaniaDlc-z2x]

Time stap ?

[@brunor832]

RAYCEVICK IS BACK

[@Splarkszter]

AND WITH KILLER INSTINCT SOUND-TRACK

[@r3uvsgaming]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO

[@404Errored]

I'M TYPING IN CAPITAL LETTERS TO EXPRESS EXCITEMENT BUT I ACTUALLY JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK HELP ME

[@glt918]

NO WAY, REALLY?

[@chromaticchrome3746]

HUH I WAS THINKING THIS IS A WHITELIGHT VIDEO?

[@Hehawmon]

This would actually pull me into trying a sports game again, but there’s no way that the current sports franchises would allow this.

[@tehbeernerd]

There’s also no way that a game like this made today wouldn’t be stuffed with monetization. The Blitz IP belongs to WB Games now so it’s a sure bet they’d put a lot of it in.

[@ThePhantom4516]

as is almost always the case nowadays, you'd need a passionate & talented indie dev to step up for this to ever become a reality.

[@ted8514]

​@@ThePhantom4516There's an indie company that made brought back Mutant League Football and gave it some of Blitz The League's DNA. Especially with the off the field drama player get into sometimes in Dynasty mode. They called the reboot Mutant Football League.

[@Deliveredmean42]

@@tehbeernerd Well... not for long if WB is selling their gaming division apparently?

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Imagine if Madden allowed you to hire a lawyer to deal with your players drug addiction/domestic violence charges. Now that's realistic

[@yeoscore]

we watched Playmakers in my 10th grade sports marketing class as an example of why authenticity is so difficult to achieve in sports. the reaction of the classroom when we got to the end and were told there wasn’t more was priceless.

[@miyagifatghost2684]

Was an excellent show

[@irishempire9811]

You had a sports marketing class?

[@yeoscore]

@@irishempire9811 Yes! it was a two-year class. I split the years, so did sports marketing 1 in 10th grade and 2 as a senior, looks excellent on a college application essay when going for sports media. Northern Virginia for context

[@stevenhay7147]

There was a flash game we all used to plain in school called "Jumpers for goalposts" and it was a football game about your character starting from playing in the streets, playing for local teams all the way up to choosing which team to sign for. It had options for your character to do between games like attending training, going to charity events or just getting drunk. These options changed the way your team was perceived and it effected stats and the way the story played out. For a silly flash game it had a lot of drama.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

New Star Soccer is arguably the spiritual sequel to this really, and then some however it misses the mark and takes several aspects away. JFG was awesome, the JFG 90s one they did was great, but the original JfG is where it's at. I'd love someone to do a career mode on it. THe GOAL letters and seeing the keeper stumped always made me laugh, and the starting in the streets with a chalk goal and some random ass kid in goal is where it's at, too come to think of it, just a brick wall with a goal on it in chalk and some kids kicking a football around. Maybe it's a council estate since the devs were British IIRC,maybe it's a playground wall, perhaps it's P.E> class and the school is in a rough areaw

[@spaceghost8886]

Jumpers for Goalposts is certified KINO I’d rather play that than FIFA any day of the week.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

@@spaceghost8886 Right anyone done a playthrough of it on YT? I'd watch that than FIFA. To be fair I'd love the JFG formula, add in realism with gamlbing and betting and such and bam, instant hit. Even if it's the same two or three set scenarios in JFG, yeah

[@GuagoFruit]

The most authentic sport game I played was... Dirt 2. It actually captures the vibe of a travelling race driver and the "drama" between rivals too.

[@federalgamingagency5019]

GRID 1 was that but on asphalt. you saw nearly everything on track, engines giving out, tire blowouts and cars falling apart and deforming from crashes. only two things GRID lacks is literally dying from high speed crashes (which makes sense this is a family friendly game) and pit stops (which aren't needed due to races being short). Codemasters were on a tear in the late 2000s.

[@IRXCER]

Bro I love dirt 2. I’m currently replaying it and remembered how good the soundtrack fits the game

[@woopygoman]

My memory might be poor but so far in the "simcade" category, Dirt 2 is still the goat.

[@sandalogaming6766]

@@woopygomanfor me it’s a coin toss between DiRT 2 and 3. My older brothers both were big into skating (and still are to this day) and both of them were big fans of Ken Block, so they decided to by 9-10 year old me a copy of DiRT 2 because it had Ken Block in it. Coincidentally it was around the same time where I started to watch his Gymkhana content on YT. Needless to say I loved those games

[@DaDualityofMan]

@@federalgamingagency5019Never owned the game but played the hell out of the online demo 😂

[@dunadan1995]

PYRE is easily the best basketball game story ever and that’s extremely sad considering NBA literally had Spike Lee create a MyPlayer story and have all the money in the world to fund an actually good storyline and fail at doing so in frustrating ways EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

[@Eknashik]

Holy fuck a PYRE mention!

[@fartface8918]

Aye pyre is a treat

[@F_lippy]

What’re you talking about? Spike Lee’s “Livin’ Da Dream” was an absolute masterpiece!!! ‘Member the time when the Friend Of Freak spent an entire hour in the passenger seat of an Escalade talking about a flashback story with no actual flashback and trying to blackmail the player? Great story and directions

[@kite0impulse]

​@@F_lippyRIP Victor Van Lier

[@alexelectricx]

@@F_lippy I can't fnd livin' da dream on imdb...any ideas?

[@nasa1722]

class 09 jump scare

[@dopey473]

I can't escape it

[@j0hnicide]

i didnt even think raycevick liked it

[@Kenionatus]

@@j0hnicide He didn't explicitly endorse it as a whole, just its insults.

[@taylorjudge4506]

Game is so ass

[@1wayroad935]

@@taylorjudge4506 Hit too close to home for you?

[@texasranger9599]

Is this Spec Ops the Line of sports?

[@CyanRooper]

"Do you feel like a champion yet?"

[@baconous689]

"Your orders injured 47 players. Someone has to pay for your failures, Coach."

[@HiBoa]

"That kid you paid to have dropped this game would have had a season-ending injury if he played. So really, he is the lucky one."

[@XFGHL78E]

"You are still a good player."

[@poymannyng1845]

"gentlemen, welcome to the Arizona Cardinals"

[@noblemile]

The Class of 09 girls would say some shit and the x-ray screen would come up

[@thequietdreamer2186]

Christ above, they would…

[@Mezelenja]

"It's the fourteen-year-old-atheist of sports games." god damn

[@thequietdreamer2186]

Hardly, it’s high school football for guys who peaked in high school.

[@staleburrito]

Yo showing OJ when you said "backstabbing" was out of pocket and I love it.

[@t4styp0t4t0]

You need to play Fight Night Champion's story mode. It's really fun and merges storys of sibling rivalries, shady promoters and fighting skinheads in prison.

[@Squesus]

I was waiting the whole video expecting him to mention it

[@Raycevick]

I couldn't get into it personally, perhaps I'll have to revisit it in the future.

[@ethandesangles]

Literally just started replaying it last week and it still holds up really well.

[@marioboij]

Havent played it for many, many years but it's a classic​ I actually enjoy every time I go back to@@Raycevick

[@Henrque123]

​@@Raycevick Our Blitz was Fight night Champion. As someone who's always wanted the real experience of sports, FNC was the closest I could ever find. Even though the story is lacking and gameplay doesn't really go deep into anything special, all the real sport's drama, trauma, drugs, cheating, crimes, hard work and crooks all are there. I swear a new Fight Night would be huge.

[@acudaican]

So basically... we need CK3 events, but for Madden.

[@daryanguy]

or even better, CK2 events

[@supersasukemaniac]

I think CK 2 events would work better, due to how crazy things can get with the NFL and their players.

[@doorsareforopening]

Now I'm thinking about some kind of game where it's just "This is The Police" but with football players instead of cops. You never actually play the game, you only manage the players, or if you do play the game, it's from a more distant perspective. You gotta deal with their vices, the things that plague them mentally, their injuries, the crimes they commit, their PR, etc.

[@gunfighter009]

Is there no football manager equivalent to the baseball and soccer manager games?

[@Calvin_Coolage]

​@@gunfighter009Most handegg games do have a manager mode of a sort but it's never that in depth.

[@DaDualityofMan]

Sounds like an M rated version of NFL Head Coach

[@DaDualityofMan]

@@gunfighter009NFL Head Coach

[@99iner]

I can actually relate with this. I'm a wrestling fan and the wrestling industry is brutal. But my gripes with the WWE 2K games is that they glorify professional wrestling a bit too much. A very big chunk of the storylines in wrestling is influenced by the real life issues that happen in the industry. Hell the biggest storyline going on rn is due to that. But the 2k games don't acknowledge that. I played Wrestling Revolution 3D and eventually played Wrestling Empire and I can say that where Blitz League failed, Wrestling Empire succeeded. The very first dialogue that happens when you start career mode is your coach telling you the harsh realities of the industry. Wrestlers get injured, you can get injured, it could be a career ending injury or a life ending one. People die in the ring, you may enter a controversy for being irresponsible for injuring a wrestler, you can enter actual beefs, not just storyline one, you enter the open world and you're fully responsible for everything that happens to you, you have to workout to keep in shape, you have to be over with your fans if you want to get a contract signing or even have more opportunities. And it's not just career mode. In another mode, you play as the booker of a wrestling company and it's just as brutal. Keep your employees happy, book them properly or else they will become irrelevant quickly, your champion has to be over with your fans to keep the ratings high, the game has a territory system that is way similar to how wrestling was in the 90s. Wrestling Empire Empire may be a random ass game but dude when it comes to authenticity it nails it.

[@Cam10_84]

Triple H would not be able to leave his house if people saw the games were making stories based on Owen Hart or Chris Benoit.

[@99iner]

@@Cam10_84 😂😂. Or the entire McMahon empire

[@Cam10_84]

@@99iner especially nowadays. I don't look down on 2k at all for removing Vince and Brock last minute.

[@99iner]

@@Cam10_84 honestly. Their crimes were terrible enough

[@jrsomethingnumbers9704]

MDickie's games are a joy to watch lol

[@furwerkstudio2057]

I had a Twitter fight about "immersion" with people who think that vr will be the next step in sports game, but all they are getting is the Disneyland-ified toy version and this puts another nail into their coffin.

[@superbnns]

Raycevick gives me the vibe of a cool cousin you only see a couple of times a year when you're a kid, but he always has some new toy or game to show off to you

[@csabaszabo6859]

Exactly my cousin

[@superbnns]

@csabaszabo6859 everyone should have a cousin like that

[@csabaszabo6859]

@@superbnns It was more inportant to me, because I never had a chance to experience most of the games in the 2000's excpet when I visited him.

[@theenglishman]

Putting controversial or mature content in a sports game is fine if it adds an interesting wrinkle mechanically and, this is important, has a *benefit* that would make the player want to risk the negative consequences to go for it. A good example is the MLB Slugfest games. In that series there’s a mechanic where you can choose to hit a batter, and it will *usually* cause their power-swing and speed stats to go down for the rest of the game. But there’s also a small chance that either a) they get so angry that they charge the mound, which lowers your pitcher’s stat, or b) the batter’s power will go UP by a huge amount. And that second scenario is guaranteed to happen if you keep hitting the same batter multiple times.

[@nicholasbuffone175]

I personally have a big soft spot for Blitz: The League, but yeah, this is something it struggles with considerably in places. Some of the in-game steroids DO give your players a greater risk of injury (and/or lower another vague rating called "Field Awareness" that literally doesn't get mentioned anywhere else in the game), and there's a chance you'll be hit with a fine if you're caught with your hands in the cookie jar... but that risk/reward rarely matters when there's so little incentive to stick your hand in that jar in the first place: even the mildest steroids are so overpriced --- exacerbated by their short duration, with each purchased buff wearing off after only three games --- that unless you have cash to burn, you're ironically better off just investing in better training equipment and letting your players acquire permanent ratings upgrades au naturel. I replayed the game recently, as it so happens, and while I absolutely had loads of fun with it overall, the only times I ever used the steroids mechanic were when one of my players got a multi-game injury and I used a "accelerate their recovery" boost so their return date would sync up with the rest of the team's training cycles. As a consequence, it's reduced to another way in which The League subjectively falls short of its secondary goal of making the player establish a full-fledged dialogue with these sordid aspects of the sport; if anything, you could even argue it inadvertently encourages them to look away by diverting their attention towards other, coincidentally more "morally acceptable" practices. "Winners don't do drugs" indeed, I suppose. :P (Keep in mind that I'm mostly just spitballing and may have zero idea what I'm talking about.)

[@SpyroCG]

When you mentioned authenticity, I thought you were going to talk about sports games getting more animations added, while simultaneously getting clunkier to control. Crazy how authenticity has multiple negative effects on the genre.

[@Raycevick]

Animation led controls in-general just seem to be more frustrating for fast-paced games.

[@DaDualityofMan]

Yeah games can never completely mimic how complex human movement is, especially in sports games where you’re translating movements people have practiced for years and years to perfect in real life

[@ReplikaHyde]

10:28 Imagine an entire football team being completely destroyed by two high school students who use nothing more than shit talking.

[@TheKeeperofChaos]

I'm convinced Ray used the Blitz vs DOAX2 comparison solely so he'd have an excuse to look at footage of it while editing, alone at night...

[@chiseledmedal2634]

15:49 if we got a historic racer with the impact, fear and trauma of Grand Prix it would be interesting.

[@TheOriginalStix]

The Grand Prix Legends lover in me is screaming for this game idea.

[@Firepal3D]

casually putting those Killer Instinct sounds in the beginning like we haven't all repeatedly moved up and down on the game over screen. ur the goat

[@memecoin1830]

Came down here to look to see if someone noticed it before me. OMG

[@404Errored]

So what you're saying is air hockey is still the real champion. Good to know.

[@belowbronze8588]

was refreshing for my Sunday morning Perun, fancy seeing you here Ray

[@kisaragi-hiu]

As a Perun viewer... lol

[@ardantop132na6]

Speaking of... lol New video.

[@keima-kun7685]

5:22 Black Lagoon cameo 🔥

[@csabaszabo6859]

where?

[@keima-kun7685]

@@csabaszabo6859 On the car

[@FeiFongWang]

"hey GUyS BLack lAgoON LooK It'S blacK laGooN"

[@DaDualityofMan]

Dutch would have been a good linebacker, also Revy actually looks like a “car pinup girl”

[@csabaszabo6859]

@@keima-kun7685 found it thnx

[@kyletracht8276]

"Cheerleaders with enough flexibility to impress Garrus Vakarian" had me doing a double take lmaoooo

[@Yukinari2007]

Even now in the modern arcade 1UP port of NFL Blitz arcade, NFL tries to cover up how violent of a sport football is by removing post play violence. Its like if ferrari let you put their cars into Burnout but didnt let their vehicles get damaged cause they have an image to uphold.

[@mirfalltnixein.1]

Amazing comparison because in some of the older NFS games that exact thing happened. Not every car could be used in races with cops, only in races without them (that still has traffic you could hit, so clearly still illegal street racing)

[@nedinnis6752]

My ongoing frustration with Gran Turismo. I like the series but it feels a bit jarring that I am a terrible driver and getting away with life ending fender benders without so much as a literal scratch.

[@Romax-pg2is]

"Its like if ferrari let you put their cars into Burnout but didnt let their vehicles get damaged cause they have an image to uphold." As far as portrayal of damage physics go, there's some truth to that statement.

[@Marinealver]

Reminds me of a Dave the Direman webcomic where the reporter was talking about all the E-sports scandals involving gambling, match fixing and performance enhancing drugs. Then the punchline being E-sports has now become a legitimate sport.

[@CosetteTape]

This may be one of your best videos yet. You captured the genuinely hazardous compulsion that drives pro athletes perfectly during the Playmakers section, speaking as a member of a bush-league sports dynasty family.

[@Nmille98]

That Seananners reference gave me whiplash

[@DriftJunkie]

Timestamp?

[@Nmille98]

​@@DriftJunkie 11:21

[@Fungamerplays]

"backstabbing" cuts to o.j. 💀

[@chaffXgrenade]

Never thought I'd wake up to find a review of Blitz: The League and a sports drama TV series in my subscription box today.

[@HiddenGemsReviews]

I'm sure there are very few people out there that care less for sports than I do, but you somehow got me opening up another tab to start watching Playmakers with how you presented it. As for Blitz: The League, I feel like the only way we'd ever get a game like this nowadays would be from an indie studio. As you mention at the end of the video, corporations would keep things too safe to try anything like it again, but letting a smaller studio who could correctly identify the kind of nuance and authenticity the real drama of sports causes could lead to less overhead from higher ups. At this point, however, I think said studio would just have to make up their own sport so leagues don't try and strike them down.

[@danmack3173]

I appreciate the directness of the updated title, but the original was really good too.

[@Raycevick]

Seems like it's getting a tad more exposure, though the algo still makes it tough to know for sure. I wish I had that tool some channels have where they let you test multiple thumbnails and titles to compare.

[@danmack3173]

Oh holy crap hi. Appreciate the insight (and the vid)

[@jaffachannel]

Just curious what was the og title?

[@Raycevick]

​@@jaffachannelI always list them in the description

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

Y'know, I know this would never happen in one of those big league games and whatnot but just the idea of kicking the door of one of these marketing departments to drop something like a Blitz the League-esque game and see the reaction? Gold.

[@Nonexistentialism]

In an industry dominated by the online game, you’d think they’d just make one game and add dlc every year with new players.

[@KasumiRINA]

Why just sell DLC when you can sell full priced game every year AND DLC for 4 seasons after release?

[@thecluckster3908]

25:58 bro is so real for this

[@whatislife43]

cultured and based beyond belief

[@bermuda333]

This reminds me of how in Madden, the NFL is so scared of any semblance of bad publicity that they pressured EA to call career-ending spine injuries "back strains"

[@Raycevick]

...bruh

[@yehuda8589]

Reminds me of the storylines Suda51 wrote for the Firepro Wrestling series, how Firepro Special ends with your protagonist committing suicide after becoming the champion after realizing that he pushed away everyone who cared about him in the pursuit of glory and just didn’t know what to do with himself anymore. While the sequel story Suda wrote for Firepro World felt pretty meandering in the middle, I think it had an equally fascinating ending to Firepro Special.

[@ryuuakito]

Showing more about the brutal side of sports is exactly why I'm a huge fan of UFC 5 and its move to an M rating to show more injuries and combat damage, even with all of the problems it has. That being said, it definitely could show more "authenticity" within its career mode, with the genre basically staying as far away from controversy as possible.

[@Raycevick]

I was disappointed to see UFC 5 mostly just use that M-Rating for combat, rather than its world.

[@ryuuakito]

@@Raycevick One can only hope they expand on it on UFC 6 (and cry when they don’t 😭) From what I can tell apart from combat that M rating was only used to say “fuck” like once or twice in the entire game

[@aegisleague4053]

My fucking GOD, the whiplash I got at seeing Class of 09 mentioned. ....It's getting a vid, right? Pretty please?

[@smokedmeats5506]

🙏 doubt it but it would be funny, and the main game at least has a bit more to it than just the humor

[@kobakareli]

Nowadays I only watch videos where I know what I’m getting. Even then, I go through what’s available in my subscriptions and recommendations, and pick a couple, then go back and watch them. See, I was doing just that when I stumbled upon this video and, to be honest, I had no idea what it was about based on the title or the thumbnail, but something told me - “stop whatever it is you’re doing and just watch this one.” So I did, and I’m really happy, because this was very interesting and overall just a great video

[@suntannedduck2388]

He does give that feeling with his videos and is why I was attracted them as well. The 'i have angle an to talk about, you better sit down for this'. XD

[@Raycevick]

Thank you, and welcome to the sandbox!

[@NickJerrison]

Calling it before finishing (which I never do), but if this video mentions MDickie games, this is peak Raycevick.

[@NickJerrison]

I was wrong

[@potetoesman]

@@NickJerrisonehh, 50/50. Either it happens, or it doesn’t. Would’ve fit in pretty well too.

[@Raycevick]

What I've already gathered from comments is that I need to play Wrestling Empire.

[@DeathAngel-ft8oz]

@@Raycevick Have fun!

[@bojeppe6828]

oh ​@@Raycevickboy go enjoy it

[@Rainbowhawk1993]

Raycevick is back with the game of Angry Joe’s first KZbin video.

[@SqueebPlays]

X-rays do NOT get old in Sniper Elite.

[@KiranaRutoCh]

"And god help these boys if they met the duo from Class of '09." That smash cut from Valtteri Bottas celebrating at Australia to Nicole and Jecka (already the last duo I expected on your videos) being savage is so funny, IMO XD

[@mrwalter1049]

God I LOVE the way you say your piece in these essays. And the humor is so good. I was wondering when I'd be graced with the next one and I am very glad it was today :)

[@Maladroit69]

OJ “backstabbing” 😂

[@midshipend7107]

Fantastic video, been following since the halo 5 years later and your scripts never fail to deliver insightful commentary and leaving me with something to think about, thanks!

[@ASTRAllOUNGE-]

I've had this idea over the last 5 years that Rockstar and 2k should just swallow their pride and make the most authentic football game to ever exist. One that stays true to how football is played but also brings in the reality of off the field relationships and drama. One that could be built into the GTA world but still stay authentic to what the sport truly is without going to the extremes blitz did. I could rant about it for hours and show off my notebook of gameplay ideas but I feel you so much on this, you have no idea @raycevick how badly I want this. Lol, love the content as always.

[@Zordonzig]

This game was so fun! I even loved playing the Cyberball arcade game. My uncle has a real Cyberball arcade cabinet. Blitz REALLY needs to make a comeback.

[@supirkev]

Wii sports is CLEARLY the most "authentic" sports game

[@Dasaltwarrior]

I legit thought the intro was using the Killer Instinct 2013 thing where highlighting the different rematch menu options played the main theme

[@Firepal3D]

it literally IS that

[@perspii2808]

Football Manager 2024 my guy. Even if you don’t like football/soccer, it’s the absolute pinnacle of serious sports games with depth and storylines etc. The next title is gonna have an engine upgrade so when that comes out it might be a good time to try it

[@gil4335]

i had a great idea half way this video. football manager, but with racing. (theres probably a game like this already and im just dumb) you have to manage a racing team in F1 or some other racing division. you would have to hire drivers, decide how to tune your cars, choose what races to participate in, manage your pit stop crew and assign each of them to what they do best (tire changing; re-fueling, etc). i would play that

[@holdin09]

F1 manager lol

[@alexchipka6126]

Motorsport Manager exists! It does that all with flying colors, one of my favorite games

[@crxiqz]

I don't think you would considering these games are available

[@wbeaurowe]

Bruh I loved this game so much as a kid. Haven't thought about it in years.

[@TylerTheLoser_]

WAIT THIS IS THE GAME FEATURED ON MORTAL KOMBAT SHAOLIN MONKS AND I COULD NEVER REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS CALLED THANK UUUUUUUUU

[@shawklan27]

The current state of sport games are so tragic that I still resort to playing old games routinely. No regrets.

[@ParkerMcgraw]

Not just sports games. Most games. I play old games almost exclusively now. Back when you got a complete game.

[@alternativewalls4988]

"backstabbing" and showing OJ is fucking wild

[@EisenSMT]

Another case of "me binging a KZbinrs videos one day then they upload the next morning". Welcome back Ray

[@Raycevick]

Good to be back

[@leebid1626]

The first two Def Jam games on PS2 were perfect

[@Pilps]

Just in time to enjoy while editing, welcome back and see you again in another 4 months!

[@zedrake]

I also have ADHD and its nice to know its possible to be a successful game youtuber while having it. YOU'RE AN INSPIRATION IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

[@FreshTillDeath56]

3:05 "So this is it. This what we're going to get. Every year, and everything, forever." I look at just about every genre of video games I'm interested in and this is exactly what I feel inside. Sports games, multiplayer shooters, platformers, you name it. Indies ARE great, but every time I start to get deeply invested, the limitations of the dev team and their resources becomes clear. Blitz: The League isn't just remarkable for its own ideas, it's retrospectively remarkable in how many other games of its era are like it; Quality games that do something different and actually have a BUDGET (I'm thinking of the NFL/NBA Street games and Downhill Domination to name a few). I seriously can't believe that Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't have a single new idea for Formula Zero or something wild like a new Kirby sports game. For as much as Valve has contributed to the games industry, I can't help but feel with each coming year that adding hats to Team Fortress has set the industry back by decades. Just as Valve inspired the industry to be the best in can be in the late 90s-early 00s, Valve has inspired the industry to be the laziest and safest it can be today. This is a problem far bigger than games and art, it's a problem affecting all of us in just about every way today.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

I feel like way too many people have a weird idea about what constitutes as an indie game and that really holds people back from enjoying shit.

[@FreshTillDeath56]

@@Rad-Dude63andathird For sure. You shouldn't be afraid to try anything. An idea is an idea, and sometimes, a fresh idea is more than enough to make up for the size and capability of your development studio.

[@Arakus99]

Sometimes I feel really lucky that speed focused single player FPSs are my fav genre (since IMO indie budget and resource issues aren’t as bad for them, and there’s been tons of them coming out lately)

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

@@FreshTillDeath56 I mean yeah but my point is that people dismiss playing indie games on the basis of stereotypes (and not only, but definitely also bigoted ones too I've heard before because I guess people really don't like Celeste or something).

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

Jesus Christ glitchy ass KZbin making me comment in the wrong places I hate this app. (Please ignore any weird out of place notifications, Google apparently doesn't have the money to run a functioning website, the poor urchins.)

[@WikiThis]

1:15 "Backstabbing" I guess that's one way to put the OJ situation.

[@Raycevick]

I wanted to use the clip of him "pranking" a Journalist, but I couldn't crop it, and that's technical a front stab... or just a regular stab.

[@cactuskris8141]

When I saw that your new video is about Blitz, I really wouldn´t have thought you´d manage to name-drop the sociopathic duo of Nicole and Jecka. Still, if you really think about it they could make fun of people playing Blitz in their game and it would all come around in a cosmic sense.

[@thequietdreamer2186]

I would love to see that fanfic happen.

[@waarschijn]

12:54 To take a knee... niche. nice.

[@emanuel81111]

A videogame i would never found on my own if not for raycevick

[@aSkymne]

thanks for recreating my first 5min of the Killer Instinct menu at the start

[@i0ushephf]

The problem with pro sports games trying to be authentic is that the life of a professional athlete is insanely monotone. An authentic sports game would have you spend at least 90% of the time on the training field or in the gym or in the fields or wherever the athletes hone their skills. An authentic sports game would be a grind fest like we’ve never seen before

[@donkeybreathsuperkin]

Fight night champion's Champion mode is almost everything you're asking for

[@DJ88Masterchief]

NHL Hitz 2003, is my favorite Midway sports game. Still great to boot up to this day.

[@staidenofanarchy]

Hitz 2003 is goated, the minigames and backyard mode are amazing

[@averagefalloutenjoyer123]

Goddamn both Caddicarus and Raycevick release a new video on the same day. We are eating GOOD today

[@rfgnmf-nmesofuehsdjfnrmeowfsdz]

raycevik is like my dad he cooks once per quarter but we're eating good every time

[@One_Point_Safety]

Excellent video. My favorite part of sports are the stories, and it’s a shame the insanely popular video games of sports can’t or won’t grasp this. This is especially frustrating as madden refuses to acknowledge the existence of the most beautiful story, the 1 point safety. Thank you again for posting this.

[@blackflame4506]

The Ray SEE VICK effect is back with authority!

[@csabaszabo6859]

the 2000's were the peak of gaming, I just keep finding YT videos about games with such unique ideas, like I never even heared about this game befor.

[@UENShanix]

Great video. I wonder how much Blitz 1 suffered from the mid-aughts attempt at making something 'real'. I know we've been chasing the high of a game that feels real but it almost reminds me of STALKER in a way, strangely enough. Or maybe half of ARMA. A genuine attempt at something that feels real, but ends up being held back by that hold on realism. Certainly the x-ray injuries aren't completely real, but by holding to that idea they're setting a certain tone and it shows in Blitz 2 how well that wouldn't go with trying to be serious. Something I need to think on more.

[@MentalCrusader]

Hearing the Killer Instinct menu sounds is blissful

[@GeneralCodeBlue]

I think a big problem is that games try way too hard to seem mature rather then actually being mature. Because theres nothing more immature then someone trying to act mature. Making the MDickie comparison because everyone else is. The choice to take steriods in that game. It's presented as a stat boost in exchange for money. But theres more to it then that. Building stats can be a long process as it costs health, training one stat can decrese another even without gains, and those gains can be lost during matches. Steriods skip that. And on the other hand, there's no real penalty for taking steriods outside of a small lost of popularity, and maybe a reference to it before your match. It doesn't impact future career prospects, and its quickly forgotten. A lot like real life steriod scandals. Its not presented as a make or break, one off story. But a fact of life. But there is another wrestling game that goes even further. Total Extreme Wrestling, this is a booking simulator that allows you to provide a dirty doctor backstage for your talent to buy drugs from, you can ask wrestlers to get on steriods making them more marketable, and you can ignore instances of stars failing drug tests. And while the consequences can be more dire, it again doesn't make a big deal out of the choices. They are presented the same way as wrestler showing up late, or passing on knowledge to a youngster.

[@DJSymphix]

I thought I was hallucinating when I was hearing Tekken OST's in the background, but then I realize Raycevick is cultured.

[@SeedyL]

When Raycevick drops, he takes priority

[@L_Train]

Ive been waitng 20 years for a blitz the league 3. There's so much potential there.

[@Teddy_yb]

I’m a simple man, I see a Raycevick video and I watch. Then when I’m done, I cry.

[@Bionix01]

One of my favorite series of all time. I have such vivid memories of the gameplay and scenarios I ended up in. Goal line stand for the championship I have to break the opposing teams star running back to win the game. 1 yard line final second win

[@xyzero1682]

"I've seen more drugs in Alvin and the chipmunks" Deep fucking cut.

[@saver_spenta_mainyu]

Was feeling nostalgic for your Halo videos when lo and behold, this dropped last week.

[@Hau5test]

The ost choices this video were great!

[@Raycevick]

Namco is a life saver...

[@FreshTillDeath56]

@@Raycevick catJAM

[@loucam08]

Crysis track in there, great choice for sure (related fact, the OSTs for Crysis 2 and 3 were done by the same guy who did Baldur's Gate 3)

[@Serph115]

Hearing the Tekken 5 OST was amazing

[@yarghhargh9345]

I knew the exact game this was going to be before i even saw the thumbnail lmao

[@thehunterjk2521]

So basically every sports game should have the equivalent of that NFL experience gag from Family Guy.

[@salmonsdontdie4952]

Broooo, bumping the opening theme for Season 4 of The Wire is incredible work