New article on Madden 17 commentary

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Gunslinger

Is this....is this a joke? Has the author played any other sports games outside of Madden? If he did, he would realize the sports commentary in NBA 2k and MLB the Show has been miles ahead of Madden for years. Madden 17 can't "save sports commentary in video games" if it can't even compete with sports commentary in other video games.

I think we should wait for 17 to come out to see if it's near the ballpark of what The Show is and to discover if it can compete with The Show. Up to this point, Madden has been garbage in the commentary area.

Here are threads in the MLB The Show forum asking for better or newer commentary, one thread stating they would pay for DLC commentary and one asking if they play with the commentary off.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...-thread-6.html


http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ntary-dlc.html

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ntary-off.html

[ZoneBlitz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jay D

For one, the author ignores the 2K games with great commentary, which is a red flag that this is going to be a puff piece. Equating FIFA and Madden is ridiculous. I may prefer Madden, but it has always had historically bad commentary, while FIFA is at least solid. They complain about the repetitiveness, which is still going to be there. What they are doing, which is what 2K had done for years, is add in more commentary that features both guys going back and forth. No one gives a rip about the intro to a game at Lambeau. Basically, because the writer showed a fairly shallow understanding of commentary, it tells me that the article is going to be EA telling us how great the new team because the writer won't be capable of asking relevant questions. And we can get a full EA take on the commentary by going to their blog. I say all of this as someone excited about the new commentary, which I think is going to be great. What I don't like are shallow articles that are PR puff pieces that waste my time. This seems like the wrong place to link to that kind of stuff. We already post all of EA's info.

Preach brother! I thought the exact same thing. I agree with everything you said. Excellent points.

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[JayhawkerStL]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

I think we should wait for 17 to come out to see if it's near the ballpark of what The Show is and to discover if it can compete with The Show. Up to this point, Madden has been garbage in the commentary area. Here are threads in the MLB The Show forum asking for better or newer commentary, one thread stating they would pay for DLC commentary and one asking if they play with the commentary off. http://www.operationsports.com/forum...-thread-6.html http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ntary-dlc.html http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ntary-off.html

I have a hard time including The Show as quality commentating, when it has never even approached what MLB 2K was doing. That didn't make 2K a better game, but I always viewed The Show as about as bad as Madden in terms of commentary.


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