Re: Madden NFL 12 Developer Video Podcast at Super Bowl Halftime, Thoughts or Ideas?
I'm not disagreeing, but I just think people put too much emphasis on the effect of these things. Yes, their heads can track the ball with PA and you can put in a new jumping animation, but many forget that the underlying AI is often still the same. DBs instantly react and the other receivers don't finish their route when the ball is thrown in Madden--no amount of PA or other animations can change that, because it's not an animation issue.
Tiburon needs to show something gameplay-related that people can look forward to trying themselves--such as better OL/DL blocking/interaction, proper tackling, realistic passing/route running etc. Showing new non-contact animations (like turning, jumping etc.) won't convince people to start playing Madden again, but would be in line with previous years as roadman put it.
It's a catch-22. We want solid info but then look at this early Madden 10 blog:
It talks about procedural awareness and an end to the no look db swat. Info like this had me really excited and renewed my interest in the game, but after playing one game of Madden 10, I realized procedural awareness worked nothing like the blog promised.
To this day I feel duped. I no longer have full confidence in the devs and consider most info just for feeding the hype machine until proven otherwise. The madden team would do more harm than good at this point by releasing info like this again, imo.
It's more important to me that the info is accurate instead of how big or small the info is. If they deliver in August, that when they will renew my interest in the franchise.
It talks about procedural awareness and an end to the no look db swat. Info like this had me really excited and renewed my interest in the game, but after playing one game of Madden 10, I realized procedural awareness worked nothing like the blog promised.
To this day I feel duped. I no longer have full confidence in the devs and consider most info just for feeding the hype machine until proven otherwise. The madden team would do more harm than good at this point by releasing info like this again, imo.
It's more important to me that the info is accurate instead of how big or small the info is. If they deliver in August, that when they will renew my interest in the franchise.
Tiburon needs to show something gameplay-related that people can look forward to trying themselves--such as better OL/DL blocking/interaction, proper tackling, realistic passing/route running etc. Showing new non-contact animations (like turning, jumping etc.) won't convince people to start playing Madden again, but would be in line with previous years as roadman put it.
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