Breaking Down the First Madden NFL 16 Trailer (Video Breakdown)

[SolidSquid]

Re: Breaking Down the First Madden NFL 16 Trailer (Video Breakdown)

This is pretty typical for their cycle at this point in time, first showing player models, with the rest being pretty much all beta. It doesn't even look like they've inserted new crowds and such yet, albeit the pics are shown on new Super Bowl field presentation. Steeler's wideout's helmet logo still cocked forward on the helmet, like it is now, similar to the Cowboys star and a few other logos, and I too will be disappointed with no mouthpieces. I'm also GUESSING db stuff will mean that receivers/backs fall down/get thrown down, etc, and there will be more check downs on who you throw to, and that's a good thing. If you're complaing about Hall's position on Beckam play, noted, but look at Carr's position in real life when Beckham made that catch in real life. Also looking forward to Rex's team video breakdown of the improvements coming. After the leap 15 made I'm still optimistic, and will remain so as I have in all these years. It's good to see the board buzzing again. At least we don't have ps3 gen 2006 type stuff to worry about. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Not worried so much about halls position as we are his interception attempt. He's trying to intercept a pass that isn't even there. He should be reaching over his left shoulder trying to contest the catch. It's fine to get beat and be out of position but the AI should know that and have animations in place to act accordingly

[JetLife6]

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Thanks for all the feedback guys! The WR/DB theme is just one of several major gameplay upgrades this year. We will be announcing more in the weeks leading up to E3. There is A LOT more to come.

Hope so. Really hope there is improvements in equipment and presentation as well. Don't know how nike hasn't hassled you guys yet about the ridiculously outdated equipment..

[TheBuddyHobbs]

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How many years have we fooled our-self's saying this? I remember madden's first year on ps4, what was it madden 25? Some dude was on this forum saying "just wait guys, i know someone from ea and they said madden 15 will wow us, its the game we've all been waiting for", then disappointment (imo) shipped out last august. Its always been like this for madden, "I hope this, I hope that", i'm over it with this development team, it's obvious they don't value the sim as much as the arcade. That's their prerogative how they run their business but if your waiting for them to change you might as well get comfortable

Just going to leave this in here...
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How come fifa and ea ufc came close to this trailer, but live and madden are laughably nowhere even close?

Fifa and UFC are pretty legit. Once UFC puts in missing features I am very confident it will be a great game like Fifa.

[TheBuddyHobbs]

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Seriously Hall isn't even playing the ball he's just doing an animation that allows for OBJ's to play out. Same old Madden.

I guess we will have to see, but with Madden usually what you see at first is what you get. Except for the trailer showing off some cool stuff. I just can't get on the hype train. At least not yet. The track record has me losing faith. I am hoping though.

[TheBuddyHobbs]

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Anyone else think the Jr. celebration looked terrible? I feel like graphically Madden isn't even trying.

I don't understand it either. UFC and FIFA both have legit graphics, especially compared to other EA sports games. I thought they were going to share the engine? Seems like false advertisement to me now.

[l8knight1]

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Not worried so much about halls position as we are his interception attempt. He's trying to intercept a pass that isn't even there. He should be reaching over his left shoulder trying to contest the catch. It's fine to get beat and be out of position but the AI should know that and have animations in place to act accordingly

I understand your point. Receivers do the same thing when there is a pick. Wish the animation would just cease when possession is decided by cpu. Sticky wicket for sure.

[NC12]

I'm done with this game

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I see a lot people complaining about Madden "canned-animations" but then praising 2k... 2k has the most canned animations of any game on the market. On another note, it does look decent, the only think i didn't like was the ball warping into odell hand. It looks good otherwise. People say do something ground breaking, but 2k does the same thing incremental updates every year, but people still give it praise. Its because EA makes madden, if it was any one other than EA hell it could be 989 Sports you guys would love it

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I would imagine the agreement between the NFL and Microsoft making the XBOX One "the official video game console of the NFL" has something to do with it.

I was gonna say I believe EA works more closely with Microsoft anyway... I'm fine with that seeing I'm an Xbox one guy and my PS4 collects dust

[TheBuddyHobbs]

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I see a lot people complaining about Madden "canned-animations" but then praising 2k... 2k has the most canned animations of any game on the market. On another note, it does look decent, the only think i didn't like was the ball warping into odell hand. It looks good otherwise. People say do something ground breaking, but 2k does the same thing incremental updates every year, but people still give it praise. Its because EA makes madden, if it was any one other than EA hell it could be 989 Sports you guys would love it

Yeah, that's it! We hate EA sports so much. It couldn't possibly be the fact we have seen the same canned animations for YEARS. Plenty of legacy issues still left. If they don't fix the sliders then not there is no point for me getting game. Seeing as I am offline only player.

[Pokes404]

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I see a lot people complaining about Madden "canned-animations" but then praising 2k... 2k has the most canned animations of any game on the market. On another note, it does look decent, the only think i didn't like was the ball warping into odell hand. It looks good otherwise. People say do something ground breaking, but 2k does the same thing incremental updates every year, but people still give it praise. Its because EA makes madden, if it was any one other than EA hell it could be 989 Sports you guys would love it

Every game has animations. People complain about Madden's animations because, for the most part, they tend to look more jerky and robotic than other games. Also, they don't seem to be as branchable, and they don't transition between animations as smoothly as other games out there.

Yeah, you can get stuck in a long animation in 2K, and it's not like 2K always plays out the best-looking/most-realistic animation every time. But for the most part, 2K looks and feels a little more organic than Madden.

That's just my opinion. I'm speaking for others here, but I would guess that that's where they are coming from as well.

But to stay on topic, I really hope hand-fighting and jockeying for position are a part of this new "Playmaker" system they're touting. If it's just a bunch of catch animation, and nothing else, I'm going to be really disappointed ... again.

*Hadn't seen the feature rundown on the other thread, but they are touting hand-fighting and "contextual animations" between WR/DB. We'll see how it works once we get some gameplay videos.

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Every game has animations. People complain about Madden's animations because, for the most part, they tend to look more jerky and robotic than other games. Also, they don't seem to be as branchable, and they don't transition between animations as smoothly as other games out there.

Yeah, you can get stuck in a long animation in 2K, and it's not like 2K always plays out the best-looking/most-realistic animation every time. But for the most part, 2K looks and feels a little more organic than Madden.

That's just my opinion. I'm speaking for others here, but I would guess that that's where they are coming from as well.

But to stay on topic, I really hope hand-fighting and jockeying for position are a part of this new "Playmaker" system they're touting. If it's just a bunch of catch animation, and nothing else, I'm going to be really disappointed ... again.

*Hadn't seen the feature rundown on the other thread, but they are touting hand-fighting and "contextual animations" between WR/DB. We'll see how it works once we get some gameplay videos.

Finally someone can rationalize what they are trying to say somewhat, but honestly I think madden is smooth in my opinion, but that's just me. Sometimes 2k is so smooth that it looks like wiggle worms on the floor and not human movement.. I just don't agree that people don't like canned animations but 2k be having damn near 5 second long animations that you just put the controller down and watch

[jpdavis82]

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Just wait til you see more😁 All I have to say.

[SageInfinite]

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Just wait til you see more😁 All I have to say.

Man please. You been saying this for years. Your credibility is gone, take this L once again

[jpdavis82]

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Man please. You been saying this for years. Your credibility is gone, take this L once again

Sent you a PM. I've said all I am going to. Y'all will have to say whatever you want and see if I'm not serious about this once things are unveiled.