Robert Flores Goes One-On-One With EA Sports Madden NFL 11 Game Designers (ESPN)

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by TDKing

Oh, and i said it when the game first came out that they would spit out their stupid little stats that say how successfull gameflow was.. duh its new everyone who has the game is gonna try it. Lets see what your stats say in the middle of November.

I'll be keeping those stats up in the middle of November and so will many more people.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by adfletch71

These interviewers never ask these guys any hard questions about the game and why consumers arent happy with features.

Do you really think ESPN knows that consumers aren't happy with features. They know that people are still buying the game and that is probably about all they know.

[JohnDoe8865]

The comment Phil Frazier made about RFA being easy to add but not being "fun" was like a kick in the nuts to any longtime football gamer, myself included. Wow. Talk about being out of touch on that ...

[cheapargentina]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

Really? A gimmick that works? Imagine that?

gameflow is actually really fun if you set up your gameplan

not to mention its a step in the right way when it comes to realism

[boooey]

Quote: Originally Posted by adfletch71

These interviewers never ask these guys any hard questions about the game and why consumers arent happy with features.

exactly.. this is yet just another staged interview with pre-approved softball sized questions teed up for the Madden Dev team.
Nothing real or genuine about these EA infomercials whatsoever.
They have yet to be held accountable for the lack of progress in this game.

I always get a kick out of Donny Moore's title of "Ratings Czar".. its so ridiculous.
They are so far out of touch its just crazy..

[roadman]

Sorry, I should have used the sarcasm smiley.

I love game planning and will use it a lot.

[Flamehead]

Quote: Originally Posted by JohnDoe8865

The comment Phil Frazier made about RFA being easy to add but not being "fun" was like a kick in the nuts to any longtime football gamer, myself included. Wow. Talk about being out of touch on that ...

+1. That comment was very disappointing.

[adembroski]

Quote: Originally Posted by JohnDoe8865

The comment Phil Frazier made about RFA being easy to add but not being "fun" was like a kick in the nuts to any longtime football gamer, myself included. Wow. Talk about being out of touch on that ...

Phil Frazier is not out of touch, I promise you that.

A lot of what EA is saying lately is being taken in the worst way possible. When someone at EA says "franchise mode is boring", as Ian said in an interview, he means Madden's franchise mode is boring. He's acknowledging that it's not where it needs to be. What Phil was talking about was making the processes that come with Franchise Mode fun rather than a series of spreadsheets.

Having played through several season in NFL Head Coach 09, it is VERY hard to go back to traditional franchise modes that are nothing but spreadsheet management. I don't care what game you're talking about... MLB The Show, NHL... it's all just spreadsheet management. NFL Head Coach found a new way to present it too you, and it made a huge difference. This is the sort of thing Phil is talking about.

If they added every possible feature and made the logic perfect but kept the current structure, I'd be extremely disappointed. It's just old, stale, boring, and just like every other franchise mode in existence. NFL Head Coach 09 Career mode + Madden NFL 12 gameplay would be revolutionary.

Personally, I am pretty impressed by how much Phil has improved in interviews since last year. It's not really natural for him. I think he'd rather stay in the background and let Ian and Donny do the talking (actually, I think Donny's the only one that really likes doing public interviews, because he's the only real extrovert on the team). Phil doesn't seem to me to be the attention seeking type, and I think he's just rather be working than talking about work.

I am pretty sure Ian doesn't like it. I get the sense that he's acutely aware of how his words are going to be dissected here. Mike Young is so soft spoken, and he's like that in real life, so it's hard to say how he feels about it.