Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

[RogueHominid]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

I like both the game plan and game flow additions. Both seem to work for a more immersive on-field experience while retaining sound football strategy. Sounds like game flow will add more robust logic to "ask Madden." That's a great thing.

And I can't tell you how long I've wanted a feature like game plan in a football game. That's awesome!

[ch46647]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

[quote=PGaither84;2040988501]Locomotion fixed pursuit angles. I can't say why they were broken last year, but in extensive tests I did on CD, they were fixed. Trust me when I say that on CD I did a lot of testing of the game. I talked a lot to the central game play guys and I gave Ian and others a lot of feedback. That's not all we did, but I did that a lot.

Thanks for the detailed reply! When playnig defense did they streamline the pre-play options to like it used to be on the PS2? Or make it like APF2k8 which was pretty similar to the old PS2 pre-play controls. (You said the guy playing you was double teaming Vernon Davis)

It was way to clunky when ported over to next-gen and almost impossible to set guys up in individual assignments before the offense snaps the ball.

If you cant answer that yet thats fine...

Thanks!

[PGaither84]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

Thanks for the detailed reply! When playnig defense did they streamline the pre-play options to like it used to be on the PS2? Or make it like APF2k8 which was pretty similar to the old PS2 pre-play controls. (You said the guy playing you was double teaming Vernon Davis)

It was way to clunky when ported over to next-gen and almost impossible to set guys up in individual assignments before the offense snaps the ball.

If you cant answer that yet thats fine...

Thanks!

I can't right now. I suggest someone watch the drew Brees video again and look in the top left corner area. There is something there I haven't seen any one here at OS mention yet. Also, I think he was just manually covering Davis with a second defender like a line backer.

[canes21]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

Strategy Pad???^

[Palo20]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

Strategy Pad

[SoulAssassin]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

Need info about Franchise changes before I get excited about this.

[PGaither84]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

yes, strategy pad

[Hova57]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

don't remember strategy pad

[Phixius]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

Thanks to PGaither84, I feel a little more optimistic about Madden but I still want to see the gameplay myself.

[ch46647]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

The "strategy pad" was one of the first things I noticed when watching the video. Hopefully this will be back to a carbon copy of the PS2 pre-play controls, or a similar function to APF 2k8. Defensive pre-play controls have been awful in this series to the point I dont even use it anymore.

As the controls stand now you literally have to hit 4 buttons to get 1 guy to do something different. The design is absolutely terrible.

[Valdarez]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

The Strategy Pad is for all those guys that have been complaining about the lack of strategy in Madden.

[Phixius]

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Why do some people on here keep assuming madden crew is not focusing on franchise mode. Just because they have not mention nothing about franchise mode doesn't mean they have not worked on it this year. Every part of the game has a department working on it. Josh Looman works on Franchise mode. It ain't like Looman just gets up and walk away to another departmnet and work on something else. I'm sure Josh and his small crew is doing their best to focus on both offline and online franchise mode. We have 4 months until madden is released. Plenty of time for blogs. Don't worry so much. But overall it is nice to see them doing alot for madden this year. Can't wait until the trailer tonight.

EA didn't mentioned anything about franchise the last 3 years and nothing has change, so it's safe to assume that the same is likely to happen again.

[RogueHominid]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

Man, I'm amazed at how many good eyes there are on these boards.

An APF-like pre-play adjustment system would be phenomenal. I am in agreement that the current system is a tad cumbersome.

It does seem to me that they're doing a nice job of blending ease of use and solid strategy/sim football knowledge. Not easy to do . . .

[thedude213]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

It's sad that one of Madden's big improvement this year is Game Flow, which is basically Ask Madden without the menu between plays.

I just wish Madden would cut the bull with all these "innovative" features and just fine tune what is already in the game. Every year it's another feature that isn't well thought out or flawed, so instead of fixing it, they just make something else for next year's game so you forget about the flaws in the previous one.

[Exonerated]

Re: Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

It's sad that one of Madden's big improvement this year is Game Flow, which is basically Ask Madden without the menu between plays.

I just wish Madden would cut the bull with all these "innovative" features and just fine tune what is already in the game. Every year it's another feature that isn't well thought out or flawed, so instead of fixing it, they just make something else for next year's game so you forget about the flaws in the previous one.

Its sad that the Iphone 3GS is only faster and cheaper. Its what the Iphone 3G should have been. I wish apple would cut with all these 'innovative features' and create a better phone.