Madden NFL 16 Presentation Details

[Junior Moe]

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Excited to see the "living worlds" with respect to the crowd. Never played NHL but it looked good from the videos I saw. Everything else, while nice, is kinda underwhelming. I was hoping to hear about network presentation (CBS, NFL Network or ESPN) being introduced. Maybe next year...Anyway, cant wait to give it a spin with EA Access.

[aholbert32]

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I hate when EA does this beyond broadcast ****. Nobody asks for that. Perfect what they do in real life first. Can you give us that first? Other than that I like the sound of the improvements, but once again, have to see how they play out in the retail. None of this stuff is ever as good as they make it sound in these blogs.

This was probably the most underwhelming blog, but they did address things we were asking for, and added alot of things we didn't. Hope it pays off for them.

It depends on what you are looking for. Sim fans typically want their game to look like whats on TV. There are other fans though who want the game to look like it is on the field....as if you were actually playing the game. I think this is a decent middle ground.

[aholbert32]

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Excited to see the "living worlds" with respect to the crowd. Never played NHL but it looked good from the videos I saw. Everything else, while nice, is kinda underwhelming. I was hoping to hear about network presentation (CBS, NFL Network or ESPN) being introduced. Maybe next year...Anyway, cant wait to give it a spin with EA Access.

This always confuses me. Madden's presentation is pretty much a CBS presentation. Same lead announcers. Similar scoreboard. Similar stat overlays (except for these new 3d overlays). Similar graphics used for starting lineups.

Does it matter that much that the scoreboard says EA instead of CBS? Licensing network logos costs money and I'd rather they use those resources somewhere else.

[crenk]

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Thoroughly underwhelmed.....Thought for sure we would be getting in game highlights or weekly wrap up, just because it is 2015 and it is time.

I dont hate anything they revealed they are doing, with the exception of the super zoomed replays. I want to see the context of the play, how it develops from real replay angles. If we are talking an interception/fumble/big hit/ etc then give me the traditional zoomed out followed by a zoomed in one on that piece of the action.

Other than that the other stuff is fine and welcome but isnt getting me excited. Females and foam fingers dont really warrant special recognition imo.....but hey thats just me.....

[snc237]

I sometimes think our expectations are a bit too high. Multiple broadcast teams? I've only seen one game pull this off (NCAA Basketball) and even that was done pretty poorly and was repetitive.

****, we have people here still complaining about the current broadcast team and how repetitive they are and now people are asking for them to add a second broadcast team?

The other stuff is definitely cool but I always wonder how many casualfans actually watched the weekly wrap up shows in past versions of Madden, NFL 2k, NCAA 2k etc. I'd guess that the numbers are low and the dev team isnt willing to put development time into something that is used primarily by a minority of their audience.

I loved the way 2k had there half time show and such. It helped a ton though that they had espn music and such but it was so well implemented. If I simulated a week in madden I defiantly would watch the end of the week highlight show featuring big plays and scores. Absolutely loved that

[oneamongthefence]

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Maybe misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you don't want as many replays. If that's the case I respectfully disagree. As I would love to see a replay after every play if it doesn't slow down the game.

The only way they would be able to do it without slowing down overall game length is change the playcall screen around. Someone posted a great idea in another thread with the playbooks on the side and the middle used for cut-scenes and replays. Would love to see that.

I wouldn't mind seeing less replays of there was specific commentary breaking down big plays. Also hopefully they expanded the amount of cutscenes in between plays. Too many of the same shot of coaches doing the same thing in between plays.

[TDKing]

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I hate the pop up floating stats I hope we can turn that off. Didn't ncaa have a wire cam in their game years ago? Are the announcer going to say the name of the player who made the tackle, sack, pick and maybe talk about his defensive stats for the game? Dynamic weather with a more pronounced effect on gameplay ? Blog is a fail imo.

[aholbert32]

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I loved the way 2k had there half time show and such. It helped a ton though that they had espn music and such but it was so well implemented. If I simulated a week in madden I defiantly would watch the end of the week highlight show featuring big plays and scores. Absolutely loved that

I did too....but we arent the audience the game is directed at. Most fans skip through that stuff.

[aholbert32]

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I wouldn't mind seeing less replays of there was specific commentary breaking down big plays. Also hopefully they expanded the amount of cutscenes in between plays. Too many of the same shot of coaches doing the same thing in between plays.

FYI, there arent any cutscenes in Madden 16 or in 15 (except for a few TD celebrations) It was all actual gameplay and movement by players on the field.

[oneamongthefence]

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FYI, there arent any cutscenes in Madden 16 or in 15 (except for a few TD celebrations) It was all actual gameplay and movement by players on the field.

There were cutscenes of the coaches. For example the coach getting angry all the time. It was reptitive and it happened all the time.

[lgxjames]

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Just my opinion, but you have to look at the total package this year and you will see the effort. Obviously folks weren't extremely happy with CFM blog and this one seems to be getting a neutral reaction, but Gameplay seems like a huge improvement.

I understand this. I was one unhappy with the CFM blog. I've said for awhile now I honestly can "LIVE" with the gameplay if the rest of the game had an immersive experience. IMO neither presentation nor CFM does.

[Bradley814]

Sounds really good, but i was truly hoping to hear something about Halftime improvements, or some sort of playoffs special presentation.

[SECElit3]

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In the few videos I've seen, the presentation looks to be much improved from last year. The replay angles look to have much more variety. I'm not sure why people are saying they are more zoomed in. They look more zoomed out to me.

The changes and additions to living worlds, while lacking innovation, were needed desperately. I am seeing a much more polished Madden 15. I'm OK with that as long as we keep moving forward.

This team is addressing the legacy issues while making subtle improvements. They are building the foundation. We asked for this and are getting it.

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[jmurphy31]

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It is what it is...Didnt expect much, but was hoping to have a surprise thrown into the blog (Wrap up show, ticker, etc)..Glad tehya re improving on things. Im interested to listen to the new commentary "Drive Starters".

I am still not a fan of EA saying we want to give you a different visual experience than you can see on Sunday. Wish they had a toggle option for replays (Broadcast, NFL FILMS, or Gameplay Angle)...I just dont get showing a zoomed in replay of RB getting tackled for 1 yard gain, or a football in flight. I would like to see how a WR got open, or block that was made...without having to go into replay...(Bonus if they had replay commentary, but i could imagine that would be difficult)

[Hooe]

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It depends on what you are looking for. Sim fans typically want their game to look like whats on TV. There are other fans though who want the game to look like it is on the field....as if you were actually playing the game. I think this is a decent middle ground.

Piggybacking off this, a devil's advocate to the "must replicate real-life above all else" approach to presentation:

Tiburon can literally write code to put the cameras anywhere they want. Why should they limit themselves to what is possible in a television broadcast? Arguably doing that is unnecessarily boxing themselves in creatively.

Now I'm not saying that they've gone and revolutionized camera tracking or football broadcast with anything they've done, no, and I'm not even saying I prefer the do-anything approach personally, but I don't think it's universally a bad thing that Madden includes camera positions and sweeps which aren't possible in real life.