Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream, Watch it Here

[juduking]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

While I'm happy they finally fixed the defense, I'm a bit worried watching this. In the past games they show us, the scores would be too high and now it seems they tuned the defense to essentially have no offense in Madden.

It looks like you could run the ball just fine, passing will take more skill which is nice. Not every player will go online and score 50 anymore which is a welcome change

[SamuraiX]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Oh I know, I'm just saying it seems this game is for the die hard fans for once. It' just something I can see happening where the casuals complain that they can't score and they hate the game because of it.

I say good, have them learn to play the game

[raiderphantom]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Wow I honestly expected nothing from this. I hardly touched Madden 13 and last year was the first time I didn't buy since madden 03. Was Rex hired just this year? Because this is really impressive. He said something along the lines of...

"We looked at NFL stats and wanted to get realistic numbers such as passing yards per game scaled based on the amount of time played in a madden game."

That's amazing. I remember hearing an interview some time ago about them trying to get realistic stats but they never scaled it! haha so I was like Yeah you're getting 300 yards passing in 5 minute quarters!!

Anyway this is tempting me to get an XB1. I wonder if it will be similar on old gen too because I was really waiting on a good NBA 2K game before I switch over and 2K14 on CG was a major bust.

[goravens2052]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Boo.... to the Presentation guys for not wanting to show us the halftime show.

Boo.... The pass was thrown RIGHT TO THE DEFENDER, and the same stone hands animation that has been in this game for a while, prevented it from being an interception.

[TTD71]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Oh I know, I'm just saying it seems this game is for the die hard fans for once. It' just something I can see happening where the casuals complain that they can't score and they hate the game because of it.

Good...makes me actually believe the Skills Trainer is going to be essential for people to master before they venture online or H2H.

That whole video was nice and actually made me a lot more excited to play the game...well done.

[wordtobigbird]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Boo.... The pass was thrown RIGHT TO THE DEFENDER, and the same stone hands animation that has been in this game for a while, prevented it from being an interception.

Stone hands animation? You mean a drop..?

[goravens2052]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

I say good, have them learn to play the game

I'm all for it too. If they get mad, then that's their problem.

Now give us a deeper CFM and force them to learn how to run a team the real way.

[wordtobigbird]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

I like a number of the things I've seen today, personally, and I'm looking forward to playing the full game.

Same. Looking forward to feeling these changes first hand and even stepping back into online quick matches.

[LBzrule]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Oh I know, I'm just saying it seems this game is for the die hard fans for once. It' just something I can see happening where the casuals complain that they can't score and they hate the game because of it.

And this is where EA needs to ignore them. They've gone that route and it has not worked and the game is still working its way out of hell. They try to gain casuals and turn off core gamers and they will not win because they'll alienate the very people who WOULD be there for the long haul. The casual guy is not going to be there for the long haul. There will be plenty of items in the game for the casual person but they need to make sure they don't succumb to a voice that is not going to be around after one month. They've done that too much and even the diehards start looking elsewhere after about two months. So they've done enough babying and it hasn't worked out great.

[oneamongthefence]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Boo.... to the Presentation guys for not wanting to show us the halftime show.

Boo.... The pass was thrown RIGHT TO THE DEFENDER, and the same stone hands animation that has been in this game for a while, prevented it from being an interception.

Hopefully because it's not awful.

And we really need ball juggle animations.

[RogueHominid]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

I liked the candor of the guy in the middle regarding what got done this year and what remains to be done, and I really liked the clarity of the guy on the right's answers to specific questions about defense.

I also liked that they went right for specific legacy/problem plays and coverages; rather than hiding from questions about whether or not coverages that should stop a given concept actually do, they sought those scenarios out and let the game speak for itself. That was a stand-up move, so I respect the dev team for that.

Locomotion still looks terrible in many instances, but the player models looked decent, at least to me.

After seeing this, I'm excited to learn/see more.

[bcruise]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

One thing's for sure...that's easily the most detailed, "smartest" presentation I've ever seen come out of EA. Well done guys.

[raiderphantom]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Oh I know, I'm just saying it seems this game is for the die hard fans for once. It' just something I can see happening where the casuals complain that they can't score and they hate the game because of it.

I say good, have them learn to play the game

NBA 2K14 on old gen started out the same way. Very realistic. Then the complaints came rolling in and they patched it to make it more casual.

Can't they just make a casual setting for those that complain it's too hard? Or would nobody embrace that?

Even make the "normal" setting casual and just give us a "sim" or "hardcore" setting where it's realistic.

[wordtobigbird]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

And this is where EA needs to ignore them. They've gone that route and it has not worked and the game is still working its way out of hell. They try to gain casuals and turn off core gamers and they will not win because they'll alienate the very people who WOULD be there for the long haul. The casual guy is not going to be there for the long haul. There will be plenty of items in the game for the casual person but they need to make sure they don't succumb to a voice that is not going to be around after one month. They've done that too much and even the diehards start looking elsewhere after about two months. So they've done enough babying and it hasn't worked out great.

With what Rex said toward the end, and throughout, about people pretty much raising their football IQ to get better at Madden makes me believe we don't have to worry about those complaints changing the game in the future. They know it will really hard for some.

[4thQtrStre5S]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream Starts at 4:30 PM EST, Watch it Here

Color me impressed....So many things I liked, but a few quick things that stood out was the defensive ability to guard the sticks...The ease of applying defenders coverage position of inside, or outside, etc. And then the delay on offense between calling audibles....

JUst so much more - really probably the most positive, informative live streams I've every witnessed.