Celebrations

[Unmasked]

So I'm watching NFL Football Follies on the NFL Network, and they're showing some pretty awesome dances. Which got me to wondering, how will dances and celebrations work in Madden 10?

Hopefully, they get rid of that god awful blue square in the end zone. I also am not a fan of the majority of the end zone celebrations. Most of them don't fit the character of the player doing the celebration. For example, Ben Roethlisberger will never do the "Soulja Boy" after he bootlegs it into the end zone. Leave that to T.O. and Chad Johnson. Also, the celebrations are too much about one person. I want to see the team get involved. For example, a quarterback will chest bump his receiver, a runningback will thank his O-Line, etc. You rarely see someone celebrate by themselves. When somebody gets a game winning touchdown, there should be a dogpile on that person, for example.

I would also like to see customizable celebrations, as in NFL 2k5 and APF 2k8. Give us about 25 different celebrations and let us choose 5 or 6, which we can hotkey to different buttons. This would be much better than having just a couple different celebrations with blue squares around them.

What do you think?

[Takeluck0587]

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I agree with you the squares in the endzone need to go! I want it to be bare bones football get rid off all the clutter!

[Hotlanta]

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I also agree with this. I don't mind if we can't customize are own celebrations but it would be nice to have.

Agree'd that those squares need to go. It looks so odd seeing those after a touchdown and only being able to turn them off playing hardcore kinda sucked. Nothing wrong with hardcore but playing on that also killed my backtrack feature which I enjoyed though it felt repetitive at times.

They also need to fix it where celebrations would get cut off on replays. I wanna see my celebrations after getting a touchdown of my saved replays

[cowboysfan440]

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you can turn the squares off just so you know.

[green94]

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Agree on the "TEAM" celebrations piece. I'm ok with one guy going in and celebrating, but the team needs to follow.

IE. a RB scoring a TD, his O-Line should follow him in the end zone to celebrate with him.

[mgkibbles]

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you can turn the squares off just so you know.

They shouldn't be there to begin with.

[03MstGT290]

Re: Celebrations

So I'm watching NFL Football Follies on the NFL Network, and they're showing some pretty awesome dances. Which got me to wondering, how will dances and celebrations work in Madden 10?

Hopefully, they get rid of that god awful blue square in the end zone. I also am not a fan of the majority of the end zone celebrations. Most of them don't fit the character of the player doing the celebration. For example, Ben Roethlisberger will never do the "Soulja Boy" after he bootlegs it into the end zone. Leave that to T.O. and Chad Johnson. Also, the celebrations are too much about one person. I want to see the team get involved. For example, a quarterback will chest bump his receiver, a runningback will thank his O-Line, etc. You rarely see someone celebrate by themselves. When somebody gets a game winning touchdown, there should be a dogpile on that person, for example.

I would also like to see customizable celebrations, as in NFL 2k5 and APF 2k8. Give us about 25 different celebrations and let us choose 5 or 6, which we can hotkey to different buttons. This would be much better than having just a couple different celebrations with blue squares around them.

What do you think?

I absolutely agree with everything you just said. It's the most unrealistic and "cartoon"istic thing in Madden 09. Players do not jump 10 feet up in the air to dunk the football into the goal post. I tried the blue square celebration once and I haven't use it since. It needs to go. I like the idea of bumping chests, thanking the O-Line, etc.

[TheWatcher]

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That blue square run to a spot stuff is whack. The whole endzone should be a hotspot, there should be way more celebrations and they should be button-assignable. The on-the-way-to-the-endzone celebrations are even more awful and need to be redone. Right now, going to the endzone is no fun, and scoring is no fun because the celebrations are completely handicapped.

But even more, the camera needs to be showcasing the scoring player. It's so frustrating to score a TD in 09 and the camera never really spotlights the guy, and shows him from like 20 yards away, lol. What were they thinking?

The best showcasing I've ever seen on TD's was in the rare Madden 07 cutscenes where you'd score and the camera would go into this cool large shot. That was just plain hot. It's funny how each Madden this generation has had a nice presentation element but they were never able to put together all in one game and get it right.

[shttymcgee]

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I would be ok with the Tecmo Super Bowl td celebration if the game played closer to football inbetween the goallines.

[TheWatcher]

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^^^ Those celebrations in Tecmo Super Bowl were hot though. Even back then they knew how to showcase a TD properly. It's a shame how that team fell apart after TSB 3...

[Wilk5280]

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NCAA 2004 did celebrations perfectly, IMO.

[Glorious Arc]

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just for kicks heres an idea....press and hold the Y buttion to enter celebration mode....then all buttions and the sticks become apart of your celebration allowing the player to do whatever dances and moves or team celebrations he wanted and if they take it to far/to long then they get flagged.

little twist, guys who arent the most agile or are heavy set*cough*LINEMEN*cough* stumble or make it awkward to perform the celebration.

[canes21]

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just for kicks heres an idea....press and hold the Y buttion to enter celebration mode....then all buttions and the sticks become apart of your celebration allowing the player to do whatever dances and moves or team celebrations he wanted and if they take it to far/to long then they get flagged.

little twist, guys who arent the most agile or are heavy set*cough*LINEMEN*cough* stumble or make it awkward to perform the celebration.

Good idea, and it would work great if they did it right. I ujust want to score and see Mike Sellers cluck heels.

[Hassan Darkside]

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I hate to talk about that other game here, but they did celebrations fine. Even if you didn't command to do an individual celebration, your player would do something real quick like a spike or little dance or whatever, then the teammates would come over and congratulate him patting him on the helmet or shoulder pads or high-fiving him or whatever.

[Exonerated]

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No game, not even 2k5 could match the celebration system in FIFA 09. That game has the best celebration in the history of sport games.


Do not continue this conversation without looking at FIFA.

If you don't like the blue light squares, turn them fking off. I want them on. SO let me have them on. The game is not made for you, but aimed for the largest possible audience.