[SpectralThundr]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

Hopefully they can do much better job that commentary in the past. Obviously when you first play the game the commentary will be so great, but hopefully it doesn't get old/repetitive too fast. They better not be "dulled down" though. The NHL series used to have Jim Hughson as commentator for so many years, but I find he was so much better in real life commentating than in the video game. MLB has run into this problem too. Matt Vasgersian sounds boring on the games commentary, but when I heard him during a real game for the first time ever,I didn't even recognize his voice cause he was so much diff/better in real life. Even Madden series with the CBS guys doesn't sound as good. NBA 2K series is really the only one where the commentators don't seem boring and actually sound just like they do in real life.

From what I understand they didn't just hand Emrick and Olczyk a script. They would watch a scenario, and then record free form commentary for it 10 times or whatever. If this is actually the case in how they did it this time out, it should not only sound more realistically natural, but not sound like it's being read off a script sitting in front of them. Doc's done game commentary before, and it didn't sound all that great, but I'm thinking with how they're pushing presentation this year as a major thing, it should at least be as good as Thorne & Clement were if not better.

I really liked Thorne and Clement but there's only so many ab libs along the lines of washing up on a sandy shore even I could take before it got old 5 years in.

It'll be interesting to see what the 3rd man between the glass element brings to EA's game.