Fight Night Round 4 getting free control scheme update, DLC
by JC Fletcher 
{ Jul 8th 2009 at 9:15AM } 
Before that, "by early August," according to EA, a DLC pack will be released containing "a new training gym, new gameplay sliders, as well as a host of new equipment that can be used for outfitting boxers." An alternate, Pizza Hut-sponsored version of Sugar Ray Leonard will also be available in the Xbox game. All of this will also be free.
[Thanks, Mr. Pants]
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DerKapitan @ Jul 8th 2009 9:17AM
screw that. I had to learn the new controls. people can stop being whiny children.
Mo @ Jul 8th 2009 12:20PM
moreover, once you master the new controls, they "feel" much more realistic imo and significantly contribute the to "Feeling" of boxing. as opposed to just button mashing, which after using the sticks even sounds retarded.
not to mention it wont destroy your buttons
Samael @ Jul 8th 2009 12:39PM
just a thought, what if people do not want to learn the new scheme, what if they like the button smashing?
Judd @ Jul 8th 2009 12:58PM
I don't mind button smashing if that's the sort of game it's supposed to be, like an old-school fighting game. But this is different. This is what makes Fight Night Round 4. Its control scheme.
Should gamers have every option in playing a game every way they want? Should every Fight Night feature every single boxer that's been featured in the entire series? What if I really liked the graphics in the original Fight Night, should developers feel obligated to give me the option to run Fight Night 4 with original Xbox or PS2 quality graphics?
No, because game series' change. Sometimes fans like the changes and sometimes they don't. And while I don't think anyone is being whiny if they'd like to use the face buttons, I think that they need to understand that this was the direction the Fight Night games were going in. And if the developers intended for gamers to play the game with the analog sticks, it's not really putting the game at an even playing level if others can play in a different style.
Premature ejaculation man @ Jul 8th 2009 10:29PM
There's already enough spammers online with the NTPC already. I don't want button mashers to ruin this further =(
Eric @ Jul 8th 2009 9:26AM
Bunch of bitching little girls. WAAAAAAA! No face buttons. Learn to play the game right.
Killiam XXIII @ Jul 8th 2009 10:04AM
No u.
The Baron @ Jul 8th 2009 10:10AM
Bunch of pretentious e-peen questing bastards. SNARF SNARF SNARF who cares if they charge for things that should have been in the game SNARF SNARF.
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Jul 8th 2009 9:27AM
Pizza Hut Sponsored version of Sugar Ray Leonard?? REALLY!?!?!
at any rate, I like the controls as they are. Reason being my hand cramps up from pushing buttons to fast, so that stick really helps me out. Now if a fighting stick worked on here then I wouldnt be opposed to using the buttons.....
NoughtSoClever @ Jul 8th 2009 10:10AM
So this is like a fat ass version of him?
Prox @ Jul 8th 2009 10:12AM
He delivers a knockout in 30 minutes or less or it's free.
refinedsugar @ Jul 8th 2009 8:29PM
lol@Prox. Nice.
protofunc @ Jul 9th 2009 11:45AM
So your hands hurt when you use your fingers/thumb to play, but it doesn't when you handle the stick?
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Jul 9th 2009 11:49AM
yea from having to push the buttons so fast, but on the analog stick its fine.....
voxie @ Jul 8th 2009 9:27AM
It's too late EA, you should've included it in the game itself.
itbekevin2010 @ Jul 8th 2009 11:07AM
better late than never amigo.
Professor Lario @ Jul 8th 2009 11:29AM
Seriously!? Just wait two months, buy the game for $40, download the free DLC, and enjoy.
JXCgunrunna @ Jul 8th 2009 9:28AM
... Activision would charge at least 2 dollars for this.
Linkario @ Jul 8th 2009 9:30AM
What about the sex offender registry sponsored Mike Tyson, is that making the update?
Viney @ Jul 8th 2009 10:29AM
For every bad Mike Tyson joke on the internet, Tyson eats a child. Please, think of the children.
ottoman673 @ Jul 8th 2009 9:32AM
woah, woah. hold up.
EA NOT charging for DLC?
The end is nearing, my friends.
johnny @ Jul 8th 2009 9:34AM
EA jokes are lame now. didnt you get the memo?
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Jul 8th 2009 9:34AM
uummmmm Burnout Paradise says Hello.....
ottoman673 @ Jul 8th 2009 9:40AM
Burnout Paradise is a nice exception to the bunch, but you have to admit: A large majority of EA's games have some kind of time saver pack, some kind of DLC that's an unlock code, etc.
All i'm saying is that this is strikingly unusual for them.
Snake Robot Podium @ Jul 8th 2009 9:55AM
Thank Pizza Hut for this one.
Burnout also relies on ads to keep things free. I once hit a Gilette Fusion van and crashed into a Diesel Store.
Nevertheless, I hope this free DLC stuff is change we can believe in. http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/14/obama-takes-campaign-to-burnouts-paradise-city/
Sly @ Jul 8th 2009 2:56PM
actually, burnout paradise has a time savers pack...
dark_inchworm (on Steam!) dark inchworm (on XBL!) @ Jul 8th 2009 9:38AM
Is it just me, or does "face button control scheme" not actually link to anything at all?
pjak @ Jul 8th 2009 9:43AM
take the %20 (space) from the start of the url - like this:http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/28/fight-night-round-4-might-get-button-mapping-via-dlc/
sonicspike41 @ Jul 8th 2009 9:46AM
Yeah, you're right. It's just a silly href error though. They accidently tossed in two HTTPs in the url so it spits back the Page Load Error message.
http:// http//www.joystiq.com/2009/06/28/fight-night-round-4-might-get-button-mapping-via-dlc/
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/28/fight-night-round-4-might-get-button-mapping-via-dlc/
First is what they accidentally used, second is the actual article.
Kdiggy @ Jul 8th 2009 9:38AM
EA seems to be pretty decent. Activision on the other hand...
Deedubbadoo @ Jul 8th 2009 9:40AM
I bought the game knowing full well that it was stick only punching. I tried to learn it, didn't like it, went back to playing Tiger and Prototype. I will pick it back up when the DLC is released for the button mapping. Am I a whiny baby, nope! I am a person that does not have that much time to game anymore between life and work, so I would rather play a game that I enjoy than one that I do not. We have been able to use the buttons since FN2004, why take it out now? Did no one, in any meeting ever say, ...Gee guys we've let people use the buttons to punch for five years now, don't you think taking out that control scheme might turn away some potential customers..? I mean I am not a marketing guru by any means but it just seems that they shot themselves in the foot on this and now gamers have to wait till September for the something that could just have easily been integrated into the retail release.
Bowser Rogozhin: Death of a Ladies Man @ Jul 8th 2009 9:41AM
What a cynical way to curb second hand sales. Hold back parts of the game and release it incrementally as free downloadble content. As this standard becomes more entrenched, consumers will hold onto their games for a few weeks longer in the hopes of some DLC. That's probably the thinking anyway. The bad has heavily outweighed the good when it comes to the introduction of hard drives.
Storm Eagle::The Blood Edge @ Jul 8th 2009 10:06AM
So you think the master plan all along with the addition of the hard drive to the console was to leave out key parts of a game's infrastructure only to charge us for it later via DLC? (See, I can use big words, too :P)
But think of all the money (and progress) your saving not having to go out and buy multiple memory cards. Or having to erase the progress of a game you may one day come back to.
tmacairjordan87 @ Jul 8th 2009 11:27AM
"The bad has heavily outweighed the good when it comes to the introduction of hard drives."
God damn you really are a nintendo fanboy aren't you? My gaming life has been 100% better since I got my 120gb hard drive. Quick launching from Fallout 3 to one of my many xbla games or xbox originals, then going to one of the 7 demos I downloaded earlier that day is golden. It's also nice being able to keep all my DLC at once, without forgetting what I had for each game.
j.howlett @ Jul 8th 2009 9:48AM
great news but i'm still waiting for a good sale
rabbler78 @ Jul 8th 2009 9:57AM
should have been on there in the first place. Fan service? give me a break, EA, and activision, and everyone else should gives us programmable controls, it's not hard to accomplish either. We want choices.
Prox @ Jul 8th 2009 10:18AM
Programmable controls can actually make games much worse. People will discover setups that make exploits super-easy and ruin the game for everyone else. There are definitely times when I think "Man, I wish I could jump with 'A' in this game", but I understand why they don't add that functionality.
Except in single player offline games, though. I'm looking at you Fallout 3.
rabbler78 @ Jul 8th 2009 10:53AM
@prox - i see your point, but all i'm saying is that this should've been in the game from the get-go. if they wanted to make a rigid experience, then maybe they should make movies or something.
PedoJokerBear (aka Deeznuts) @ Jul 8th 2009 9:59AM
thank you, and for the folks saying "learn how to use the stick noobz" its better to have options.
Samuel Vimes @ Jul 8th 2009 10:09AM
Cool, a good game ruined. Now online matches will be fighting against haymaker spamming cheapos.
ottoman673 @ Jul 8th 2009 10:15AM
I love it when people try and spam power hits in UFC. just consistently dodge, block and counter 'til their stamina bar is down, then take them down and submit them...
you could essentially do the same thing in FNR4, except just let them wear themselves out and then unleash a combo or 10.
Aaron @ Jul 8th 2009 10:16AM
Hay makers will still be on the the stick just like they were in FN RD 3 .....There wont be one button hay makers !
Samuel Vimes @ Jul 8th 2009 10:23AM
ottoman673 - Essentially yes that works. But it's hardly fun to fight a one trick pony.
Aaron - Are you sure? I don't see anything saying there wont be.
GiggMan @ Jul 8th 2009 10:25AM
This is gonna suck with the current control scheme. If they allow people to use R2 (PS3 example) and press a button to throw haymakers than that is weak. At least in round 3 if you wanted to throw a haymaker you had to use the analog stick.
Fight Night R3 controls or leave it.
didsend15 @ Jul 8th 2009 11:21AM
Ohhh FNR 4. I play in 2 part much time laaaater. I hope 4 is same cool as 2.
If you want it's game for free just go to my site and read tips: www.nintendowiifor3.tk
STEVE @ Jul 8th 2009 11:24AM
"Bunch of bitching little girls. WAAAAAAA! No face buttons. Learn to play the game right."
"screw that. I had to learn the new controls. people can stop being whiny children"
Hey you two assholes, this is added back in as an option to use instead of using the right stick for uppercuts,hooks and jabs! It has always been in the other games and there was no reason to ever take it out.
You don't have to use it if you don't want to!
So what the hell is wrong with giving people choices? I mean come on you two we pay $60.00 fucking dollars for these games and then E.A. forces everyone that has always played it with the face buttons to learn a new way of playing like it or not!
So you two think it's a better idea to have the game developers say "fuck you everybody play the game the way we want you to" instead of giving people choices!
Do you guys even use any brain functions before you post?
Wizzleteets @ Jul 8th 2009 12:25PM
To be fair, a developer is always entitled to redesignate buttons with a franchise. Just look at the reload buttons in Halo 3; they work much better with the bumpers than they ever did with the X button. I'm sure this was the idea behind FNR4 too: change to make the control scheme better not worse (and arguably make the online and versus components much more competetive since everyone was using the same scheme).
I say this, of course, having only played FNR3, not 4, so you can certainly tell me to blow it out my ass.
Tyler @ Jul 8th 2009 6:18PM
What a douche...
Ujn Hunter @ Jul 8th 2009 12:23PM
I stand by my original remark... Button punching is for nancy boys!
Samael @ Jul 8th 2009 12:44PM
and why do you care if others are nancy??