Madden NFL 10 Blog: The Importance of an Early Community Day (New Screenshot Included

[StevieTheD]

Quote: Originally Posted by johnnywhiplash

Mr. Mayor, the residents of Crazytown need you back at home. They're so lonely without you...

Wow. The "mayor" managed to elicit a response from a veteran who has 15 posts in 5 years. Impressive.

Anyway, hooray for the "ignore list." It's a shame, this thread was getting back on track with some decent Q&A and discussion.


Back to the topic, it's great to hear about the animations but I'm still dieing for some franchise impressions. At the least, hearing how it compared to your expectations or some general, vague, non-NDA-violating impressions would be awesome!

[ch46647]

Ok.... I was planning on not asking any questions for the guys who just got to test the game out. People have asked enough questions as is, and it may be starting to wear them out. But what the hell I am going to ask my one question anyway, if none of you guys want to answer thats fine but I will give it a shot.

This question is more focused on LBZ since he is a defensive minded player, but if any of you want to chime in thats great. I have always been a defensive Madden player. I play field position football and great defense. I am a Baltimore guy so obviously play as the Ravens. In the last gen Maddens (partiularly 00-05) I could play this way and be very competitive. Since next gen, playing defense has been more of a chore and just hasn't been any fun. (or effective)

My one question is, in your opinion, is this the year we can play great defense and field position football, and actually compete against even the best offensive players? A simple Yes or No would be just fine with me Thanks guys!!

[bowdown2shadi]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheWatcher

LOL. How do you know what we asked? I can tell you that I asked some questions about the Returners body placement while setting up to receive, and it was also part of my report.

Man, just ignore these fools. How would they know what went on in there? Exactly, they dont.

I dont know were all this talk about adem, watcher, lbz, kane, etc not knowing **** about football came from.

[KyGamerLT]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

whats a "madden head"?

They only play madden and play it a lot. But that is what i think it is.

[LBzrule]

Quote: Originally Posted by g2thecore

I feel much better now. I was a little worried after your previous answer. I didn't the get the impression you were really that impressed with the animations. So from my understanding, they're not as good as 2k's, but much better than previous Madden's.

Actually he's saying overall. But there are a few areas where they kill 2k5 and 2k8. I think even Adem will admit that.

[g2thecore]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dawkins#20

Promising, i put in 09 today and saw an animation i'd never seen before in practice. One where the receiver tips it and then twists his body to catch it, seemed pretty sweet but never occured in game. Light years ahead of 09, not as good as 2k5 i'll see seems somewhat promising. I did get the feeling the tweaks they were making were making the game a little more like 2K, with the whole slowing the speed down etc.

See it's been a long time since I've seen a new animation in Madden 09 (well it's also been a long time since I've played the game). Though I AM concerned about variety in animations, I was more worried about the fluidity and realism in the animations.

Looking at WR's run routes in Madden 09 is really painful on the eye. They're extremely robotic, they lack any kind of fluid motion, they accelerate too fast and rarely decelerate. I know this was addressed by Ian in one of the blogs, but I wanted to know how the guys felt about it now that they've seen it in motion.

[Dawkins#20]

Quote: Originally Posted by ch46647

Ok.... I was planning on not asking any questions for the guys who just got to test the game out. People have asked enough questions as is, and it may be starting to wear them out. But what the hell I am going to ask my one question anyway, if none of you guys want to answer thats fine but I will give it a shot. This question is more focused on LBZ since he is a defensive minded player, but if any of you want to chime in thats great. I have always been a defensive Madden player. I play field position football and great defense. I am a Baltimore guy so obviously play as the Ravens. In the last gen Maddens (partiularly 00-05) I could play this way and be very competitive. Since next gen, playing defense has been more of a chore and just hasn't been any fun. (or effective) My one question is, in your opinion, is this the year we can play great defense and field position football, and actually compete against even the best offensive players? A simple Yes or No would be just fine with me Thanks guys!!

Same i just want to know if i can have an impact when controlling a DB.

[adembroski]

Quote: Originally Posted by ch46647

Ok.... I was planning on not asking any questions for the guys who just got to test the game out. People have asked enough questions as is, and it may be starting to wear them out. But what the hell I am going to ask my one question anyway, if none of you guys want to answer thats fine but I will give it a shot. This question is more focused on LBZ since he is a defensive minded player, but if any of you want to chime in thats great. I have always been a defensive Madden player. I play field position football and great defense. I am a Baltimore guy so obviously play as the Ravens. In the last gen Maddens (partiularly 00-05) I could play this way and be very competitive. Since next gen, playing defense has been more of a chore and just hasn't been any fun. (or effective) My one question is, in your opinion, is this the year we can play great defense and field position football, and actually compete against even the best offensive players? A simple Yes or No would be just fine with me Thanks guys!!

Too broad for an unfinished game. I'm gonna pass on this one.