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  • Fist Of Kings
    Pro
    • Oct 2009
    • 794

    #16
    Re: The Five Best Ways To Improve Madden's Presentation

    The presentation is too bare bones. This has been the case year after year and was the last thing I expected after finally making the leap to next gen. An old game on less powerful consoles got small details like that right. Not only did it not focus only on the qb with the same one run to the field cutscene like Madden 15 does every game, but there for multiple cutscenes for various positions.

    If you played a franchise, your stats would display correctly, a nice overlay showed the standings, while a smaller graphic showed scores of other games. Replays were tv styled and showed the whole play instead of being zoomed up close to the ball. The announcers mentioned if your team were on a winning/losing streak, unlike in Madden 15 where again we're given that one line the announcers say every week: Nantz: "Well partner, one team is unbeaten."

    The commentators don't have a sense of what's going on the field either. Nantz said my team didn't have much luck running the football when my 2nd string rb was subbed in for a play, even though my starting rb had over 100 yards. The stats overlays don't work right either, as they say every week how one of my players 'bounced back' from a poor performance, showing either 0's or -0.1s across the board.

    Also, they said the sideline interactions(living worlds) would be so much better since they are on the more powerful consoles, but it's the same as last gen. Players are zombies either standing, or in a weird crouching stance where their jerseys suddenly become cheap knockoffs once they're on the sideline.

    A 240 lb beast comes crashing towards the players on the sideline, and not only do they not interact, they are unaffected by his momentum as they simply shift slightly. Players often celebrate when they shouldn't. Why are defenders fist pumping when I gained 6 yards on 1st down? Unless you're a star player with a specific td celebration, most of the time the guy that scores kept the ball and ran randomly. How many game balls does one player need lol?

    They've made football games for a long time, no excuse for presentation so poor.

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    • itsOTTOmatic
      Banned
      • Nov 2013
      • 133

      #17
      Re: The Five Best Ways To Improve Madden's Presentation

      Originally posted by jhigginsluckow
      Interesting. I personally don't think I would like the cut ins or halftime shows. I just skip them. If I want to look at cheerleaders, I can google them lol.

      One big thing for me is the playcall screen. I hate that it opens right up to the screen where by pressing A, X, or Y (for XBOX) is calling a play. Reason being, since I skip all the replays and other gimmicks, I'm continuously pressing AAAAAAAAA as soon as the play is over. And if I don't stop in time, it picks the "A" play. I liked it better when it made you pick either "by formation" "by play type" "supersim" or whatever because then I had time to back out of the screen. If any of that makes sense.

      Lol I do the pressing A thing all the time too. I'll screw up and pick the A play like at least a couple times a game. Good to know I'm not the only one

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      • mauricehines23
        Rookie
        • Aug 2012
        • 7

        #18
        Madden needs to let the user set their own whether conditions like they use to back in the day.

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        • radney
          Rookie
          • Dec 2009
          • 74

          #19
          Originally posted by mauricehines23
          Madden needs to let the user set their own whether conditions like they use to back in the day.
          I agree. Madden needs to let the user set their own weather like they did in the past. I hate that now all the weather is pre-determined in each game.

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          • capa
            Banned
            • Jul 2002
            • 5323

            #20
            Re: The Five Best Ways To Improve Madden's Presentation

            Fewer shots of the coaches on the sidelines. I know what they look like. The game is on the field. Occasionally, ok...but it happens way too frequently.

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            • jtmoneyb4u
              Rookie
              • Sep 2010
              • 13

              #21
              bring back the damn coin toss all games are not played on cbs lets get fox,espn,and nfl network in the game and more broadcast teams i rather hear joe buck than phil sims
              Ciroc_Obama904 #Lakeshow #NinerGang #DawgNation

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              • Cardot
                I'm not on InstantFace.
                • Feb 2003
                • 6172

                #22
                Re: The Five Best Ways To Improve Madden's Presentation

                Originally posted by itsOTTOmatic
                Lol I do the pressing A thing all the time too. I'll screw up and pick the A play like at least a couple times a game. Good to know I'm not the only one
                While I enjoy some of the cutscenes, there should be an option for "Fast Play" or whatever that skips them automatically. Better yet, have an option for Never, Occaisionally or Always with the cutscenes. Still not sure why EA doesn't like options.

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                • rtkiii
                  Banned
                  • Sep 2012
                  • 525

                  #23
                  I wish all of the stat over lays worked correctly. Example: Anytime in Player CFM when that stat comes up about comparing to how they played the week before. EVERY TIME but maybe once the stats are all 0s.

                  Give a better variety of stats. Example: Go into Playoffs, show season stats for the frist game but second through the Super Bowl show Play Off stats. Same with OT, Show stats that reflect how players have done in previous OT games. Example 2: At some point in the game(near the beginning show current season stats...it always seems to focus on the game's stats. Which is fine but vareity is needed so it makes you want to look at the stats.

                  Weekly Wrap up show - This is just a must for keeping the player included in what is going on. I do not really need a halftime show or post game as I know what happened in that game. I know...I was playing. A weekly wrap up would just be fantastic!

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                  • rtkiii
                    Banned
                    • Sep 2012
                    • 525

                    #24
                    Originally posted by statum71
                    Season related league leaders stat banners.
                    Yes! this would be great too! Maybe show the league leaders and show where your top players fits. and it would not need to show this every game But maybe Week 3 show the top 3 RBs yards and then where your guy fits. Game 5 show the top 5 QBs and where your guy fits, etc. Variety.

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                    • rtkiii
                      Banned
                      • Sep 2012
                      • 525

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Cardot
                      While I enjoy some of the cutscenes, there should be an option for "Fast Play" or whatever that skips them automatically. Better yet, have an option for Never, Occaisionally or Always with the cutscenes. Still not sure why EA doesn't like options.
                      This is good too....Like what NBA 2K does. I would like more of an option

                      All Plays
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                      Big Plays only - 15 yard run play, 25 yard Pass play, TD, FG...turnover...etc
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                      • Cardot
                        I'm not on InstantFace.
                        • Feb 2003
                        • 6172

                        #26
                        Re: The Five Best Ways To Improve Madden's Presentation

                        Not to open any old wounds, but I really liked the way 2K5 handled post play. If I recall correctly, during the postplay cutscene or replay, if you hit the button, the image would reduce into one quadrant of the screen....so you could continue to view it if you wanted...(and it was quick & seemless). in another quadrant was a stat based upon a player from the last play and then the bottom half of the screen you had your playbook. I believe that Madden and NCAA were also better organized back them. For the last several years, EA seems to like to have the playcall screens and replays poping up over each other and tripping over themselves.

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                        • Sheba2011
                          MVP
                          • Oct 2013
                          • 2355

                          #27
                          Re: The Five Best Ways To Improve Madden's Presentation

                          The commentary is never going to improve if they keep using the wrong people. They try to find the biggest names possible and stick them in the game. This is nothing against Simms, Collinsworth, Nantz or Johnson but they don't have the voices that translate well to video-games. The action is too quick in a video game for them to keep up with. Those guys record their lines like they are saying it during a normal NFL broadcast where they have time to between plays. It is a problem that plagues many sports video games.

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                          • NZ Buccaneer
                            Rookie
                            • Apr 2005
                            • 390

                            #28
                            I liked the different camera angles and cuts for the cam Newton game at the start, but no other moments or games seem to have that.

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                            • capa
                              Banned
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 5323

                              #29
                              Re: The Five Best Ways To Improve Madden's Presentation

                              Probably a very low priority, but why when I start a game and then put the controller in the middle to watch 2 teams play (cpu vs cpu) does the game use all those cut scenes and time between plays? I mean, it is close to 15-20 seconds or more before the next play gets run.

                              A Fast Play setting that could be used in any and all modes would be great. This would skip the cut scenes and stay focused on the action on the field.

                              C

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                              • Cardot
                                I'm not on InstantFace.
                                • Feb 2003
                                • 6172

                                #30
                                Re: The Five Best Ways To Improve Madden's Presentation

                                Originally posted by Sheba2011
                                The commentary is never going to improve if they keep using the wrong people. They try to find the biggest names possible and stick them in the game. This is nothing against Simms, Collinsworth, Nantz or Johnson but they don't have the voices that translate well to video-games.
                                I don't blame the announcers for this....I put this on the developers. The announcers are just handed a script to read from. It is up to the developers to make sure they say the right things at the right time. It is also up to the developers to figure out how the audio should transition if the user is speeding up the action by by-passing cut-scenes. (All the more reason for there be a setting for cut-scenes...the commentary logic could be tied to that).

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