Bro what are you talking about. No one is expecting fifa/2k/madden level.
What we do expect is after 8 years, is a game that has significantly built off it’s previous version. The videos do not look like that at all.
I will hold out judgement until release day. But with the very limited that’s been released, my expectations are low and we would be absolutely within our right to express major disappointment for a repolished game 8 years later. Its doing the bare minimum and insulting to fans
That’s because direction he is kicking it? Left to right side would be stupid and unrealistic!? Here’s hoping they did same with hands to feet
Hi will the game be on the U.S. PlayStation Store?
Does that include the slow step animation when changing direction?
Does the game work tho?
Can’t believe yall thought we were getting a brand new game built from the ground up animations wise, when RLL games were 4 deep and are a fantastic base to build upon. This is RLL5 but with an update franchise name.
My hope has always been it’s RLL4 with smoother in play movements, better graphics, deeper be a pro and franchise modes.
To this day being able to see your feeder club players and bring them up to cover positions was one of the best franchise choices in a sports game.
so yall all saying youd rather a brand new system and it be in the state rugby 25 is then already a solid base (rll4) - which I might add is the best league game so far.
Just search Rugby league 26 on X and you will find some videos pretty easy. They dont show to much really, definitely nothing that could give you an idea of the gameplay feel or changes.
The short bit of gameplay does very much look like rll4 but the picture quality is sh*t. Im on the same boat as you, A more polished version of rll4 is fine by me.
Without development updates, it could really just be a reskinned RLL4 they worked on for little to no time.
A full price game should not be almost identical to an 8 year old game on old hardware and should not require on-going updates, especially if it takes the same amount of updates Rugby 25 has taken to get to a playable state (playable is still questionable, the amount of times I’ve uninstalled out of frustration haha).
I hope for everyones sake the day one patch brings a wide range of updates but I am very skeptical.
The leaked footage shows Burton goal kicking right footed, just like Munster kicking right footed in the Nrl trailer, this has to be a mistake 8 years on & they still can’t get the little things like this right.
its not almost identical… theyve added a whole new mode and madde career mode 100x more indepth stop complaining, as i said every one buys fifa every year and thats even less of a change
Do we have career mode details?
I for one, am not surprised that it could potentially be built off RLL4 and to be quite honest - happy that is the case ! Why would anyone in the business throw away years of development on a previous iteration of the game ? It helps build a foundation from, fix the bugs that are known and improve on things based on feedback and reflection.
I think this is a smart move that only benefits us as rugby league gaming fans and bodes well for the future of the franchise .
Be better if the back of cover shot displayed the full disclaimer clearly readable because it contains in detail what competitions are included in the game…
Not offically but would expect it to be pretty much the same as AFL26 and Rugby25 which are both super indepth
No mention of UK Superleague from what I can tell in the copyright disclaimer on the back cover …could this mean that the NRL version only contains NRL Clubs and vice versa??? I am using RLL4 back cover as a comparison where all competitions logos and trademarks are mentioned…
No, itll contain both its just focusing on the NRL because its the NRL version your concept wouldnt make sense.
hope your right…previous covers outlay it differently
I wasn’t expecting the game to look vastly different to RLL4, I just wasn’t expecting it to look identical to RLL4 with a new scoreboard and updated jerseys. I don’t play enough Fifa to comment but I can tell you right now, Madden 17 is a vastly different game to Madden 25. Hell, look at the difference between all the different Rugby League Live releases, they all resemble the sport of Rugby League, but each are dramatically different (in some cases better, in other cases a step backward)
Naturally year to year releases won’t change much i.e Big Ants cricket games which is fine, thats the nature of the beast.
But we aren’t talking year to year, we’re talking 8 years and a console generation of time in which they haven’t even updated the kickoff animation, which even when it was released at the time was janky and weird looking.
Like I said, I hope for all our sakes the day one patch dramatically improves things. Rugby 25 has had about a thousand patches and isn’t even close to being anywhere remotely playable to the extent Rugby League Live 4 is, so I am not hopeful based on what we’ve seen so far.