Madden NFL 25 Videos (Taken by Attendees From Recent Community Event)

[GiantBlue76]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Videos (Taken by Attendees From Recent Community Event)

I don't want to go too far based off what little we saw, but I certainly see where you're coming from. The story will be told in a few short months.

I will say that my expectations have been tempered a bit though. I'm just not convinced that [for one example] the same guys who have bastardized the presentation in current gen are going to be 100% committed to it next gen. It's been almost 10 years since we've had GREAT presentation in a NFL game.

In addition, having listened to the Sim Perspective radio show last week, I sorta heard the lyrics to the same old song: "Remember this is year one on a new console, they're going to need time." And that's NOOOOO slight on my guys. Kudos to them for trying to set expectations. But I was hoping we would be able to turn the page on that mindset as we approached next gen. I got the vibe that we're still going to be trotting along year after year.

At some point, I think we all will have to embrace Big's thinking in this thread (including myself). If they wanted to make a simulation game with ALL the bells and whistles, it would be done. FIFA completely reinvented itself (as I understand it) in a 2-3 year period. I think the NHL franchise underwent a similar transition. While football is an entirely different sport, there's gonna come a time where we have to understand that Tiburon is going to make the kind of football game THEY want to make. And they have.

In saying all of that, it's beginning to be hard to conceive that Tiburon is setting out to make an authentic simulation of the NFL. If they were committed to sim gameplay, why is the default game speed always so fast?

Regardless of how good/bad it turns out, M25 on XBOXOne/PS4 should tell the story of where this franchise is headed. Like I said a few months ago, I'm not spending another console generation attempting to see the forest through the trees. It's been too long. With the regressions in the last year & change, I feel like my Madden 10 wishlist is just as relevant as it was five years ago.

Russ, I want to LOVE this post. Where is the love X 10000 for a post? lol. This sums up EXACTLY how I've felt, and kudos to you as a gamechanger to say it. You are 100% correct here, IMO.

[Don Figures]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Videos (Taken by Attendees From Recent Community Event)

SMH - Still no gang tackling! Solo tackles and some failed attempts at simulating gang tackling (one guy always falls off or back). Just seems to be much of the same from EA.

Watching real football the defense is attacking the ball. Guys flying all over the place to make the tackle. You don't see that EVER in Madden history!

[inkcil]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Videos (Taken by Attendees From Recent Community Event)

Seems like all of these videos are on 360. Is there a reason why we are not seeing PS3 vids? Given the history of Madden on PS3 I'd like to see some vids of players being excited to play on that system.

[jpdavis82]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Videos (Taken by Attendees From Recent Community Event)

Seems like all of these videos are on 360. Is there a reason why we are not seeing PS3 vids? Given the history of Madden on PS3 I'd like to see some vids of players being excited to play on that system.

If you just need to see PS3 videos I can find some from E3 for you. I know people always say WIP doesn't mean anything, but if you notice here there is no pre-game intros for the teams, no sideline reporter in pre-game, and no pre-game with Nantz and Simms on screen. The gameplay itself is a little different vs E3 too.

Here's one
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