Why no video highlights from around the league?

[MAnderson]

The Rece Davis in-game recap is a nice touch, but help me understand why they can't generate video highlights to go with it. Has this feature made it into any sports game yet? Is it that difficult to randomly generate 1 highlight that matches up with the stats that have also been generated?

[joeblackis]

Re: Why no video highlights from around the league?

The Rece Davis in-game recap is a nice touch, but help me understand why they can't generate video highlights to go with it. Has this feature made it into any sports game yet? Is it that difficult to randomly generate 1 highlight that matches up with the stats that have also been generated?

or like madden 97 where they would take you straight to the last seconds of a game to watch it as it happened. Usually just a last second fieldgoal or 4th down play. And that was 15years ago...

[Illcat]

Re: Why no video highlights from around the league?

I believe one of the Madden's on a previous gen had highlights from other games. Like you I would love to see this in NCAA and Madden again.

[Reed1417]

Re: Why no video highlights from around the league?

or like madden 97 where they would take you straight to the last seconds of a game to watch it as it happened. Usually just a last second fieldgoal or 4th down play. And that was 15years ago...

man i remember that. it was so awesome to see that. seeing as i was 5 at the time in 97 it was really cool to me since i've always loved sports but yes i would love to see that in NCAA/Madden. i keep seeing fans holding signs in NCAA saying "Sportscenter is next..." i'm just like oh i wish it was =/ nevertheless i'm very happy with the updates. makes my Dynasty come alive.

[Pezell04x]

Re: Why no video highlights from around the league?

The Rece Davis in-game recap is a nice touch, but help me understand why they can't generate video highlights to go with it. Has this feature made it into any sports game yet? Is it that difficult to randomly generate 1 highlight that matches up with the stats that have also been generated?

I dont think the current hardware has that much RAM to do something like that.

[joeblackis]

Re: Why no video highlights from around the league?

man i remember that. it was so awesome to see that. seeing as i was 5 at the time in 97 it was really cool to me since i've always loved sports but yes i would love to see that in NCAA/Madden. i keep seeing fans holding signs in NCAA saying "Sportscenter is next..." i'm just like oh i wish it was =/ nevertheless i'm very happy with the updates. makes my Dynasty come alive.

Yeah instead of improving little things like that they just remove them and forget about them. Also in 97 having real video footage used of madden and summerall before your game was great and chris brown real video in the studio was great. I saw a pic of madden 2013 and they use crappy animation of phil simms and jim nantz.. which looked awful by the way.

[mrprice33]

Re: Why no video highlights from around the league?

The Rece Davis in-game recap is a nice touch, but help me understand why they can't generate video highlights to go with it. Has this feature made it into any sports game yet? Is it that difficult to randomly generate 1 highlight that matches up with the stats that have also been generated?

Yes.

Think about how long it takes the game to load, then imagine that during the studio update.

[MAnderson]

Re: Why no video highlights from around the league?

Yes.

Think about how long it takes the game to load, then imagine that during the studio update.

It would take the same amount of time to load 1 highlight (heck, give me a 3 yard TD run) as it would take to load the entire game? Hmmmm ok.

[mrprice33]

It would take the same amount of time to load 1 highlight (heck, give me a 3 yard TD run) as it would take to load the entire game? Hmmmm ok.

They still have to load an entire stadium and 22 players. The amount of time you spend in game is irrelevant.

One way they *could* do it is to have it be FMV instead of rendered on the fly, which would save the load, but would take up an untenable amount of disc space, especially if they wanted multiple highlights for each permutation of team. Let's say they wanted just 3 generic highlights. There are something like 16,000 possible matchup combinations, which would be 48,000 videos. If each one was 4 seconds, that's 53 hours of video.

[brandon27]

Re: Why no video highlights from around the league?

It would be nice, but it would just be another thing for people to complain about. I'm going to guess that if possible, the game couldnt generate nothing more the a few canned highlights that you'd see over, and over for each game, each week and then people would complain about that too.

I can't see it being practical though having this with the way games are done now with the graphics being as much better than they are in 97, from players, to textures, grass, stadiums, equipment, players etc. etc. Just too much to always have to load. At least for the highlights to have the same viewing quality as the games themselves.