Madden NFL 11 Super Bowl Halftime Blog Possible?

[CreatineKasey]

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agreed. 80% people who buy madden plays offline franchise and not online. They really need to focus more on offline franchise first then online later. But me I would love to see a blog on the improvments they are making on presention this year.

Making up stats?! lol!

I'd be up for some online feature improvements too.

[Rashad19]

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Gameplay

[earl_baldwin]

give us a 2k5 espn halftime show

[Tico Da Great]

A couple of perfomances from artist on the madden soundtrack with the half time show being about 4 mins then hafltime highlights with play by play
presentation telling us about each play. Play by Play. And you gotta add cheerleaders to the game for the feel.

[Tico Da Great]

Guys he asked us about the halftime show and ideas not gameplay.
Im pretty sure Ian and the Madden team will work out the gameplay kinks.

[gamer23]

leave that online crap alone and worry about gameplay and presentation.

[Tico Da Great]

I dunno if ian will build a new engine from scratch guys?

[Scott]

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leave that online crap alone and worry about gameplay and presentation.

excuse me, but some people care about online franchise.

[dfos81]

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per Ian Cummings twitter: Thanks for all the replies! Wow. Gameplay clear leader now.

So he mentioned that gameplay is the clear leader for the Blog, cool stuff. I just hope the " innovative new take", has everything to do w/ gameplay.

Come on EA/Tiburon, give us some real-time physics, no more canned animations and What about a.i. that takes into account your skills, for ex. Racing games have a ghost mode, you can race yourself.

How about Madden having a Play Yourself Mode(my skill doesn't take into account your style, teams your facing, etc), which would take into account your style of play calls on 1st, 2nd, 3rd dwn, etc. Use those percentages, plus the amount of no huddle percentages, blitzes, press, man, zone, and so on.
They keep these numbers for online games. Use these numbers to get the cpu a.i. up to your skill.

[rspencer86]

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It's never too early to start the hype machine back up.

I really want to hear about gameplay. If the gameplay isn't good, then what is the point of getting excited about presentation, franchise, online, etc.?

Need info about OL/DL interactions, sideline catches, momentum (defense overpursuing or a defender overrunning an angle), whether penalties will be accurately implemented for once (defensive pass interference is a HUGE part of the NFL, and it's almost nonexistent in Madden), kicking interface refresh, etc.

[BooShay]

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I wanna see what PA is all about this year!1

[JohnDoh]

I would appreciate some info on planned gameplay and presentation improvements... thanks!

[Droopy03]

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GAMEPLAY / FRANCHISE

[CardsFan52]

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Gameplay and possibly some mid air collisions.

[RGiles36]

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Come on EA/Tiburon, give us some real-time physics, no more canned animations and What about a.i. that takes into account your skills, for ex. Racing games have a ghost mode, you can race yourself.

I really wonder if people know what they're saying when they mention they want no more canned animations (and I mean no offense to dfos81). If the Backbreaker Iphone App is any indication, I'll take a combo of both mo-cap and physics.

whether penalties will be accurately implemented for once (defensive pass interference is a HUGE part of the NFL, and it's almost nonexistent in Madden),

Yeah, that's pretty sad for lack of better word. Penalties have been hit and miss (mostly miss) for this generation of consoles.

Guys he asked us about the halftime show and ideas not gameplay.
Im pretty sure Ian and the Madden team will work out the gameplay kinks.

I think you misunderstood the question, Tico.

That aside, I voted gameplay. I just hope everyone has their expectations tempered to not expect something juicy. I seem to recall many people up-in-arms over the Procedural Awareness blog last year.

While I know the information won't be substantial, I hope it's something that will generate some excitement. I was satisfied last year b/c I and everyone else knew we were getting additional information on a consistent basis. If you didn't like that blog, you could rest assured that another was soon coming. But that hasn't been promised for this year so far.

If information is not going to come as rapid as last year, I think Adembroski's line of thinking fits best.