Madden 25 Next-Gen Living Worlds Trailer

[ajblithe20]

Hmmmm.. the crowd stuff didn't look too spectacular to me. But I do like the living sidelines thing, and Chip Kelly looks great (die hard eagles fan here). I've been thinking for a while that Madden's gameplay is good enough, the things that have prevented me from playing as much as I used to are the little things, like graphics or stuff like living sidelines.

[CarryTheWeight]

Not horrible for a first attempt at dynamic sidelines. If player/body types remain the same until Madden 2020, then I'll have a major issue. The fact APF2K8 included a (lower-poly) version of every player authentically modeled on the sidelines still jumps out at me all these years later. Why Madden lags behind (on more powerful hardware, no less) makes little sense.

I'm hoping, when Madden introduces real-time presentation (HAS to be next year), we can see players dynamically sub one-another out with no major change in graphical fidelity. Until then, this will have to do. I'm OK giving the first year excuse for the sidelines. Next year needs to make bigger strides, no excuses there.

As for the repeating characters in the crowd, again...something EA needs to improve immensely in future iterations. With the news that The Show has expanded the variety of its audience models, Madden needs to follow suit. Again, I'll excuse the "first year implementation" but that doesn't mean I'll excuse it any longer.

[TheBuddyHobbs]

Quote: Originally Posted by mestevo

Judging by your edit I thought you were going to suggest it was Brees or something. Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk

Doesn't make any sense...

[Sturzinator]

Quote: Originally Posted by ajblithe20

Hmmmm.. the crowd stuff didn't look too spectacular to me. But I do like the living sidelines thing, and Chip Kelly looks great (die hard eagles fan here). I've been thinking for a while that Madden's gameplay is good enough, the things that have prevented me from playing as much as I used to are the little things, like graphics or stuff like living sidelines.

We all march to different beats don't we ?

I think the game play is horrid and the graphics and fluff more than good enough.

Exactly the opposite!

[wordtobigbird]

Quote: Originally Posted by CarryTheWeight

I'm hoping, when Madden introduces real-time presentation (HAS to be next year), we can see players dynamically sub one-another out with no major change in graphical fidelity. Until then, this will have to do. I'm OK giving the first year excuse for the sidelines. Next year needs to make bigger strides, no excuses there.

Oh wow. Never thought of that. That would be dope to be able to see who the offense/defense is bringing onto the field while I'm picking my play.

[RateSports]

Quote: Originally Posted by wordtobigbird

7 McCown, Luke QB 6-4 217 32 10 Louisiana Tech Looks just like him to me. Can't you tell? This is the problem with bringing attention to the sideline but then getting the sidelines details wrong. Because even though it is a cool thing to have, all I can think about now is how these are all the wrong players on the sideline..

Haha nothing beats Lance Briggs

[ghettogeeksta]

Looks weak, the graphics are weak for next-gen and I thought the sideline interactions were going to be better. Seems like the characters on the sidelines are generic/easily noticeable lower graphics quality, and seems like you can only interact with one person on the side line at a time while everyone else looks the opposite way.

And the crowd, you can't really judge from trailers you have to play it to really feel the difference but I do see alot of repeat crowd models; and are those celebrations cut scenes? If so that's not real-time crown interaction. Anyway this game is more of a updated Madden 25 current gen, which is nothing to be proud of.

[CarryTheWeight]

Quote: Originally Posted by wordtobigbird

Oh wow. Never thought of that. That would be dope to be able to see who the offense/defense is bringing onto the field while I'm picking my play.

One of FIFA's major selling points is a real-time "virtual director" (their words, not mine). Everything in that game will happen in real-time according to the developers. I played the demo at a Sony Store recently and it's pretty much exactly as they say.

Frankly, when other EA Sports titles are improving their presentation I'm a bit shocked to see Madden still employing the same tired cutscenes. Even next-gen FIFA 14's bench/sideline models are the actual player models (that, or each bench player rendered at a slightly lower resolution like in APF2K8 or the current-gen NBA 2K titles).