In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

[troy184]

If so, I would have expected a WOW game. I'm not seeing that right now. It looks like XBox 360 footage....even down to the commentary.

[Malcd9583]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

If so, I would have expected a WOW game. I'm not seeing that right now. It looks like XBox 360 footage....even down to the commentary.

To be honest with you i watched the gameinformer stream because i wanted to see what the fuss was about. So i got the watching and dam dam dam im like first i cant take much from a stream and the guys that were playing cuz lets be honest they were not good. With that being said the game is exactly the same game i traded in on CG they just swaped AP and Barry Sanders saying its a New game the D linemen didnt even shoot up the field like on the "War in the trenches video" Im shocked its come this i had tons of credit at Gamestop so my madden was free but dam dam dam ive been bamboozled.

[BTownSlinger]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

It's junk.

[TOmuch81]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

I think EA spent "their version" of 2 years on it. I wasn't expecting to be blown away, and truthfully, I haven't played it yet, but I was expecting more effort visually. It's hard to not compare the efforts of 2K on their vision for next gen to EA's. Fifa is getting the best reviews and that was a more solid gameplay to begin with. These "plans" that EA has to implement over a course of 3 three years are fine and dandy, but they need to start executing on such. Most of the developing team split up and its the same ride over and over.

[roadman]

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I'd say they worked for two years getting the transition ready and making sure everything was transported over. They didn't want to repeat history.

Evidence of the crowd swelling, true step with only two players, and whatever else is under the hood, I just don't know.

Graphics and lighting look better.

[TheBleedingRed21]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

I'd say they worked for two years getting the transition ready and making sure everything was transported over. They didn't want to repeat history.

Evidence of the crowd swelling, true step with only two players, and whatever else is under the hood, I just don't know.

Graphics and lighting look better.

Except Jamal Charles looked white due to the overdone lighting.

[apollon42]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

Honestly, if you told me this was Madden 15 on Xbox 360, I would believe you. And I still wouldnt even be impressed.

[munky1307]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

If it took them two years to get to this point, what hope do we have for something better in Madden 15 with a shortened development cycle? The sad truth I suppose....

[TTD71]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

I went on at length about this in another response, but if THAT game (at least the footage that I have seen of gameplay and not the pimped out bullshots videos) took them 2 years, then the entire team working on it should seek employment in a field more amenable to their, uh..."talents"?

That is a pathetic port of an already lacking title. I will grant EA this much credit...they honestly seem to think that their problem back in 2005 with the XB360 launch version of Madden was due to missing features alone. They clearly believe that the Madden 2006 on XB360 was a fine effort other than not having practice mode or franchise mode. They do not understand and never have over all these years. The problem is the core of the gameplay and NOT the bells and whistles on the back of the damn box.

There is no hope for a realistic game this generation if EA remains the only game in town. Back on PS1, we needed the rise of NFL Gameday to knock Madden upside the head and bring about change....then when the Dreamcast and PS2 came along it was 2k/VC slapping them into competition with the 2K series....ever since then, well...if you've been reading this far you know the rest of the story...

[troy184]

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Honestly, this game will probably be my deciding factor on whether to buy any future Madden games. The main thing I want to see is if they took the time to fix some of the bugs and glitches the last game had for YEARS in a row. Issues such as

1. Freezing-this is the number one depressing factor about this game, nothing sucks worse than spending hours preparing a Franchise and having it all disappear out of nowhere with a game freeze. Happened to me last night on current gen after I had simmed a whole season, went through free agency, the draft, and all of preseason......and before somebody says "you should have saved". Really???

2. QB simulation stats

3. The fact that your defensive player may be leading the league in sacks but not listed amongst the league leaders

4. Back-up lineman on the user controlled team in a single person CCM making the pro-bowl

5. The IR bug which was fixed with a patch in CG

6. ASSISTED TACKLES

7. CPU drafting AI


These are just some of the things I will be looking at in next gen to see if Tiburon really compares about this game or not. If these things still are broke, I will have lost all faith. It would be inexcusable to put out a broken product AGAIN.

[tfctillidie]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

If this is 2 years of work, what are we to expect for Madden 15...which will be a regular 1 year cycle?

[JayD]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

Of course they did, look at the grass!

[troy184]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

Of course they did, look at the grass!

I will give them this....that snow covered field looks awesome

[Mckinley Cash]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

You know when you have a paper due for school, but you wait until the night before to write it?

And when your teacher asks you when you started on it, and you tell her "Uhh, like a week ago."

EA is that student.

[dat boi Q]

Re: In your honest opinion, did EA really spend 2 years developing Next Gen?

Look like they took two years planning on how to hide the game.