Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Why Does Judo Get No Love?

As the subject says, why does judo get no love? I know its a style in the game but you don't learn any judo moves. The judo moves that you DO learn, i.e. triangle choke, is considered a brazilian jiu jitsu move. There are plenty of throws that I hope are incorporated into the next build of EA Sports MMA. Throws such as Osoto Gari, Seoi Nagi, and other foot sweep-style throws are moves that have been done in MMA competition and as such be learnable moves in the game.
This isn't just a knock on EA Sports MMA as UFC Undisputed ALSO includes judo as a selectable style and doesn't really have any judo style throws to learn. I just want judo to get the same love as BJJ, Muay Thai, Boxing, and Wrestling get.|||I too have wondered the same thing. I never felt that a Judoka in eithier game was potrayed correctly compared to other fighters. EA has a very good base now they just need to fine tune everything for EA MMA 2.|||I kind of feel your pain, and I have a fairly good answer I think. Judo gets no love because most of MMA gets no love in this game. It's too homogenized, everyone is exactly the same except for 14 to 16 special moves and stats. I think they tried to squeeze too everything that is MMA into a nice little package that they forgot about the huge repository or stuff there is in MMA. There is more stuff missing from this game than there is in it. Everything that IS in it has been polished and adjusted to the point that it shares little functional resemblance to what it's actually supposed to represent. The striking is decent but not varied enough, everything else I feel is fundamentally backwards.

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