Great update Ian...especially glad to hear about the foot chopping as that was really distracting in the limited clips we have seen publicly. But....replying to forums on your day off? Daaaaaaaamn man! You have a dev kit and a build of the game...do some WORK son!!! (in case that comes across wrong I am totally attempting sarcasm!!)
That was a great info all the way though! By all means, if you are feeling like posting stuff on your days off, please keep going!
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As for the continued obsession with Backbreaker footage from this link:
http://www.walsh-designs.com/bfl/ps3...s/GEDC1872.MOV
- when it says "actual gameplay footage" on the screen, isn't ANYONE the slightest bit concerned that there is NO ONE on the sidelines - no teams, no coaches, no chain gangs, no reporters, no photographers, no medical staff, no security....a great big ZERO...since I have seen Madden and NCAA savaged for their "lack of presentation" for years, I guess we can expect the "BB is so BORING and LIFELESS" threads soon?
(Now if that is not really "final" build gameplay, then is it still "actual gameplay"? I think not!)
- some of those huge hits appear to be happening on the edges and in open space, ie. - it is highly unlikely that those are linebackers making the hits, in fact they look to be CBs to me...and they appear to be doing another one of the things that people have howled about for years - totally destroying the ball carrier a la the hit stick. I freely admit that those MIGHT be LBs and I COULD be totally offbase here...but those big hits concern me more than impress...especially the propensity of the defenders to constantly leave their feet! (I especially dig the play where the two defenders jump into each other and the RB stumbles to the left for more yardage - yes, it IS a nice animation and very fluid, but good god man, if that kind of crap is happening with the AI controlled players I would be incensed playing a game that had my players acting like hyperactive kids who lost their Ridalin scripts...)
- WTF is up with the GLOWING RED ball on the pass play????? (and the kick off???) What is this, Fox Sports trying to broadcast hockey again??? I thought no one would ever out do the Madden shotgun sound effect, but I must congratulate the guys at Natural Motion...a glowing red ball in the air comes pretty damn close!
- WTF x 2 is up with those freaking player models and uniforms? That is just flat out sad looking...I want football players, not goddamn space marines in football helmets...and I want JERSEYS (preferrably 100% customizable like NCAA 10's Teambuilder), not what is being shown on BB footage since 2005. That stuff passed muster as tech demo footage, but to be in "actual gameplay" footage and looking EXACTLY the same as the stuff from the tackle alley video screams to me that BB is either - totally unconcerned with the look of their players, and intending to release the game with that look included; or they are waaaaaaaaaaaaay behind and after 3 going on 4 years in development they are not close to releasing anything yet.
The tackles look great...everything else, and I mean everything...looks horrible.