Madden NFL 10 Dev Diary Video: Everything You See On Sunday

[Bgamer90]

Quote: Originally Posted by backbreaker

Presentation is on par with the other game, but I have a bone to pick with EA Tiburon with this mantra if it happens on Sunday its in our game. Watching the video they stated all the games of football they watched and how it was implemented, and that's great. Ian and company, how in the hell can you watch an NFL game for presentation and not even touch on the challenge system? I'll give you an B+ on some of the superfluous things, but the Challenge system is as you say in the video "CORE" to football and the challenge system is one of the most suspenseful aspects of football. It is core to strategy, i.e. game saving drives for first downs, Touch downs, and just think of you mini fumble game, this would be great to challenge to see if the guy actually fumbled the ball, of if a guy got 2 feet down on the sideline ect.... The challenge system is imperative to game play and it provides the drama encompassing the emotional roller coaster for about 90 seconds and if it ends on a game winning drive, sets the emotions for the week and also can determine a season especially if you're making a playoff run. So if you would have address this fundamental aspect of presentation, I would have jumped for joy and would have given Tiburon an A+, but since you and your team refuse to address anything that has to do with the challenge system(I'm going to use your words against you) something "CORE" to game play, your presentation grade thus far is a Low B-.

When did they confirm that they didn't do anything to challenging plays?

[jayohehn]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

You complain when it's not there and you complain when it is. Enough. How many times are guys going to say this? It's getting real old.

Agree, every compliment comes with a slap. People just can't be happy with the LEAPS '10 has made this year.

[Spills]

Also I'm sorry but that shot of the Giants sideline where Coughlin is congratulating Dockery looks so amazingly realistic. If you pause the screen it really looks exactly like you would see it in a game on Sunday. They really got the camera angle perfect on that shot. In addition, the scene right before it where Jim Zhorn is arguing with the ref and the one player is out of focus in the background...come on that looks HOT!! I'm so looking forward to discovering all these scenes while playing this year. Great start guys! Great start. EA is finally making me a believer and turning things around.

[Pacman83]

Stop crying...if you want football, watch/play a football....its a video game...and its gonna be great. Play it or not. Only so much can be done in a year...most games dont get this much improvement with long development cycles...grow up.

[Pared]

Comments like that will not be allowed here. Thread won't turn into a mess of personal attacks.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by thunderstruck22

It still dosnt make sense to me why from a marketing standpoint the madden 10 team would not be pushing hard for the broadcast cam. The graphics are phenominal this year why wouldnt the team want to show them off with the most realistic cam possiable. Remember the old days of walking by a demo of 2k5 or hell old school madden and saying "wow that looks just like a real game". I wish someone on the team would actualy resond to the endless amount of posts begging for the cam. Is there a actual effort going on to patch this in or is the madden team just blowing smoke up our

It's not as simple as you'd like to believe.

If they can patch it in, they will, if not, you wait until next year. Has nothing to do with blowing smoke anywhere.

Why does it have to be, "give me the feature that I want or you don't care about your customers?" When did we get so vain that if the game doesn't cater to each individual of the close to 1 million people who buy the game then it's considered a loss?

C'mon people, you're better than that. There are plenty of guys who want something in the game. Your request/wish/hope is no more important than someone elses.

[asu666]

Someone at EA finally gets it. Maybe they will give Sony's MLB series a run for its money as top sports game soon.

[jwilphl]

The video is looking good, and I'm glad they're really addressing the presentation. It's an aspect of the game, and every EA game, that has always been neglected and/or overlooked. I'm not going to judge just yet based on one video showing some highlights. I'll wait and see how they're actually implemented.

2K set the bar pretty high. I doubt Madden is up to that level in just one year, but hopefully in another year or two they can really step their game up. Madden '09 was just garbage.

The thing that always bothered me was adding presentation to a game was just about the least creative aspect. All you had to was watch a few TV broadcasts to find out how to integrate the presentation. It involves very little thinking in terms of "what do we need to show here?" That sort of thing is already laid out for you.

Anyway, hopefully Madden here is finally getting it. Nice video--the game looks really good. Hopefully it plays that way.