08-21-2010, 04:38 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lima, Peru
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Re: Madden Community = Beta testers
Yes, and no. A yearly title like Madden has such a short cycle to be worked on. My understanding is that they started on 12 before 11 hit store shelves, just liek every year before. You have to remember, most games don't have the short dead lines sports titles have. There are countless example, but how far back was Half Life two pushed back? Did you know that Kights of the Old Republic Two wasn't even finished when BioWare was told to release it, so they jsut fudged an ending and let the community finish the PC version themselves?
I guess what is frustrating is when people say things like "Madden is just a roster update." Maybe 06, 07 and 08 were on next gen... maybe, but put in Madden 08 for the 360, then put in Madden 11 and tell me they are the same game. They just aren't. I don't need to list all the changes, but if we only had Madden 08 to paly with for three years with downloadable roster updates and tyhen Madden 11 came out, I doubt people would feel the same way. now some say they havn't purchasedthe game in years and still won't, but most of those people say it's becasue they still are not happy with the game, and that's fine. Just don't say it's the same. The game is evolving and you can see the drastic differences since Ian and Phill were allowed to call a lot of the shots.
I said it back before Madden 10 came out that the ship has finally cource corrected. We are a long way from port, but we are sailing in the right direction, finally. At least to me, Madden 11 is a lot of fun to play [offline and OTP] and the future appears to be bright.
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