Madden NFL 17 First Look Trailer and Five Things You Must Know About the Game

[khaliib]

Love the new shoes!!!

Wonder how many new styles will be released.

[Toupal]

After a few years following these forums, and many years playing madden, this sounds like their biggest leap from one year to the next since the 2k days

[jwilphl]

Quote: Originally Posted by CertifiedRecords

This game will never reach its full potential until the foundation is fixed which is gameplay...New equipment,that's cool,gap assignments that's cool but how the overall game plays is ridiculous at times as far as animations and it seems like the dev team keeps giving us the same excuse every year that they know overall animations is lacking and they keep procrastinating like it's not one of the biggest parts of the game.simply are you going to fix them or not???

I agree there are serious issues remaining on the fundamental level. Unfortunately, they are never going to be fixed completely. That would require tearing down the engine itself and skipping at least one release, if not two.

I'm not a programmer so I can't explain how deep the rabbit hole goes; it would be great if they could at least get the animations better, but I have no idea how much that falls on the engine itself, limited by its flaws. I would assume the AI interaction is quite complex and deals heavily in calculations, but the warping, sliding, complete lack of momentum and physics needs to get taken care of before the game can ever be "great."

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by jwilphl

I agree there are serious issues remaining on the fundamental level. Unfortunately, they are never going to be fixed completely. That would require tearing down the engine itself and skipping at least one release, if not two. I'm not a programmer so I can't explain how deep the rabbit hole goes; it would be great if they could at least get the animations better, but I have no idea how much that falls on the engine itself, limited by its flaws. I would assume the AI interaction is quite complex and deals heavily in calculations, but the warping, sliding, complete lack of momentum and physics needs to get taken care of before the game can ever be "great."

They wouldn't necessarily have to take a year off, they just have to have a solution for the problems, and start building systems on the side to implement.

NBA 2K used to have terrible animations, they never took a year off and now they're arguably the best in the game. They just have to know what they want to do, and then execute.

[SageInfinite]

Definitely gotta see more, but I slowed down the video(as I usually do) and still saw the same bad sliding type movement on defense. Other than that I loved the juke and hurdle animations. Still hate the base running animation though (as seen in the final two clips) Also love the cleat options. Probably won't see mouth guards but whatever, must be a bigger issue.

What the hell was wrong with the ball in that final clip? Joint was spinning then just froze for two seconds. Used to that type of stuff in a Madden game though...

[RexDEAFootball]

Quote: Originally Posted by XtremeDunkz

Madden has a literally impossible job with some people lol. No wonder they stopped posting here.

Sorry about that. Twitter takes up a lot of the time I used to spend on OS. I'll try and be more active here.

[Sphinx]

I hate to be the cynic but I will believe all of the claims EA is making when I see them in action. Last years game had a lot of potential but I found that the longer I played it the more issues that became more noticeable and slowly the game became unplayable in franchise for me.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by RexDEAFootball

Sorry about that. Twitter takes up a lot of the time I used to spend on OS. I'll try and be more active here.

Thanks for the comment, Rex.

Excited to see the new changes.