07-08-2009, 09:03 AM
|
#1
|
Rookie
OVR: 5
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Brynmawr
|
Highlights from other games idea
First time poster, long time lurker...
A lot of posters wanted a weekly highlight show very badly, but obviously that won't be in Madden 10 (not going to air those complaints, long been dragged over)
NFL2k5's problem was although it carried highlights, as far as I understand they were pre-determined and finite? So eventually they would repeat ad nauseum.
So why not utilise the internet connections we all have these days and obtain an infinite supply of highlights - from other people's games?
Set up a server system whereby every time there is a pre-determined "big play" (which could also include the odd three-and-out or two) it automatically starts uploading the highlight in the background while you happily play away. Or just take the big five highlights from 09 and upload them after every game's end.
That way, the week's other games could be a series of server streamed videos, rendered using those teams and players involved. You'd get infinite highlights to look at this way, without having to rely on EA sitting down and creating x amount of videos.
Cons (off the top of my head):
1) May make some of the action look...interesting. You'd have to set up a system where each player could interchange with your roster's players (so LT1 of the whoevers could be replaced with their star number 1 pic from the third year of your franchise) but that may create some weird mismatches, such as a Peyton Manning type running for a 40 yard game. To avoid this, maybe each highlight would automatically generate some parameters in a sort of filter system.
For example, Willie Parker jukes a defender then sprints 42 yards untouched. The highlight would automatically carry a "speed > x" "juke > y" so a lumbering full back would never have that highlight.
2) Making the stats match up with the simmed stats (again, could use parameters for this)
3) Bugs/cheese rearing their head in the highlights. Obviously, there isn't much you could do about this, but it would put a little more pressure on EA to prune these tricks - although I'm sure OS does more than enough of this already.
Of course, all of this would take the servers being able to upload and dowload quickly and painlessly, which may be more than tricky...
What do you think?
|
|
|