EGM gives Madden 88/100

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Quote: Originally Posted by pjv31

To be fair, NCAA didn't even start working on the patch until after release.

"To be fair," they knew of the issues prior to release. Don't give them a pass just because.

I'm actually ecstatic Madden will have a patch available on release day. It shows a commitment to the title we have not seen enough of with NCAA.

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

I could tell from game 1 if the stats are out of wack.

As much as I agree with your sentiment, I think you're being a little ridiculous with this statement. You can't tell any stat line is "out of wack" from just one game.

Quote: Originally Posted by Fillycheze

It's different for each game. The patch limit is a MS thing. I'm not aware of similar restrictions on the Sony side.

This is true. Sadly, PS3 gamers will most likely have to suffer because of it. The Show's patch was something like 16MB, IIRC. Many more things can be included because of it. That's why patches through XBL seem "faster." It's because they are smaller.

[Phil_Frazier]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

So its possible that MS will only let you patch NCAA once for free but twice for Madden? Does the number of games sold affect their decision? Any confirmation on this stuff would be great.

Yes this is very possible. All I know is Madden gets two. I'm not sure what logic MS and EA Corporate used to determine how many each game gets. All that stuff is handled during high-level negotiations with MS when EA signs on to be a developer for their platform.

Phil

[DonRSD]

Quote: Originally Posted by bukktown

So....Quarters D will stop the QB sneak........who'd a thunk it

only ea games does a 7db/1lb/3 dline set crush a jumbo i set

.......if its in the game

[SoxFan01605]

lol...this thread is just making me laugh. OS is a great community, but the Madden boards are just silly sometimes. What's funny is, you can't really take any thread on a review seriously because it's the same scenario every time.

The Madden haters (and don't kid yourselves fellas, there's plenty of you) go out of their way to pick apart a game based on a paragraph that most haven't even directly read themselves. This is true whether the review is stellar or not...the bad reviews must be true and the great reviews must be false.

The Madden supporters (and don't kid yourselves on this either...there are plenty of you blind loyalists here too) swoop in to defend any issue that is brought up with the game. They always have a "yeah, but" response for the game's detractors, again whether the review is good or not. The great reviews are vindication for their beloved Madden. The bad reviews are simply a Madden ***** sneaking out of the woodworks. Of course all this love/hate is perfectly understandable, given everyone's extensive time spent with the game

I just don't understand why people take these reviews so seriously. Most people here have already fit Madden into whatever they expect it to be, and no amount of words from someone else (with their own preconceived expectations) are going to change that. In the end, most who are so "passionate" will be in line at a Gamestop at midnight...to try for themselves of course

...the rental process can be your friend

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Quote: Originally Posted by Likwidkewl

I think people are being way too hard on the testers. For all we know, they did report those exact issues. It isn't up to them to fix them. If the producer decides they aren't worth fixing there isn't much the testers can do about it.

Amen. People should do some research on the Quality Assurance process in the video game industry. Just there is a bug in the game found on day one, doesn't mean that was the first time it was ever seen. It doesn't mean there was never a tester that saw that issue. Hell, for all we know, the Tester may have even tried like hell to get that issue fixed, but was overruled by the many that rank higher in the company.

[Postman17]

Quote: Originally Posted by djordan

Patches are put out by many developers.... Stop try to make it seem like EA is the only people that put out patches... there were patches for COD4,Halo3,GTAIV, Resistance, and many other games.... Patches fix problems...be happy your getting them because if we weren't you would whine even more.

Trust me I am not. My point there is only going to be one patch. This patch may not be the one that fixes the biggest problem if found. We should gets as many patches as possible for our 60 beans if there is problem.

[BezO]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fillycheze

Again, I want to disagree. We are trying to patch Day 1 because we have the luxury of seeing feedback in NCAA. Are all of the NCAA issues present in Madden? No. We did notice a few that were and that were easy to fix so we want ahead and fixed them. To me it wasn't an 'oh sh*i*t we better fix that' decision. It was more of a 'why not fix it if we have some time?' type of decision.

Oh sh!t seems more appropriate. "Why not fix it if we have some time?" sounds more like you're throwing your customers a bone.

Quote: Originally Posted by Fillycheze

Some additional bits of information to help understand patching a little better. MS actually limits the size of our combined patch. This means that the combined size of our patches cannot exceed 4MB. With this restriction, we can't fix everything.

So folks should understand why everyone isn't ecstatic about a day 1 patch. Customers are a patch down due to known issues from a game released a month prior... issues that shouldn't be present on release day IMO. Seems odd you all are so comfortable releasing a game you know is broken.

Quote: Originally Posted by maddenps2

Last year, Madden 2008 received a 88.3 rating from EGM.

Doesn't say much for this year's score IMO.

[Quint75]

Quote: Originally Posted by Postman17

Trust me I am not. My point there is only going to be one patch.

No offense, but are you keeping up with this thread? Look back a few posts at what Fillycheze just said.