Madden NFL 09: First Online Leagues Details and Video Clip

[beau21]

Quote: Originally Posted by nuttyrich

Wow, nice video, this looks like Vintage madden! Hope they add some good announcers!

would you mind linking me to the video you're referring to?

i don't think we're seeing the same video

[WDOgF0reL1fe]

The negativity in this thread is RAGING and killing me.

Where can I find optimism prime?

[SteelerSpartan]

I just now saw this because GTA IV has been consuming me


Ok heres my take

Positives:
*Graphics/Models are great!
*Snow looks great as well(though yes I agree more shots outside of snow games would be nice)
*Game Speed is down from 08 and looks a lot better IMO
*Didn't see any of those over the top "stone shoulder" "wow" hits that plagued 08 far too much last year
*No Fumbles...lol

Negatives:
*Recycled animations
*Angles
*Stadium Atmosphere still felt not quite right
*Jury is still out on the Presentation...hopefully theres more to come..correction...A LOT More to Come

Overall:

I loved that it seemed more boring....the big hits last year were just way over done and looked silly. Of course they still could have done better with the animations and still made it seem more realistic

I hope the turnovers/bugs/glitches stay few and far in between this year.....My mind is still telling me to keep my guard up about this year...and make no mistake about it...I still have loads of issues with these games an EA....

But after watching that the Football Lover inside of me wants to be cautiously optimistic

[truryder4life]

The video wasn't very impressive imo, but its still very early. I don't know if it was the snow but the framerate didn't seem very good, as the animations looked jerkier than they do in Madden 08.

[grunt]

Quote: Originally Posted by LBzrule

yup, it's the same game.

Peace

[K_GUN]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

By the time the game comes out, I am going to be so sick of snow games, that I won't want to play any. Video looked good. The Minnesota defender still took a poor angle at the ball carrier on the TD pass.

at the risk of sounding like Ben Brinkman

"sometimes defenders take bad angles to the ball"



i liked the vids


amazing snow gfx
very smooth
DBs look like they are angled inward (ala APF)
cool zooms into the LOS look
hunchbacks seem to be gone


i have a feeling that 09 is all about:
presentation
online leagues

[dukie5021]

I have my doubts as well...

positives:

flex scheduling
flexible trading rules and options
"profile" draft -- if it works right

negatives:
no info on d/c's and how they are fixed
no fantasy draft
no rookie draft
32 users? gimme a break...
no mention of playoffs
no free agents
10 game season? who came up with this number???
"profile" draft -- if it ends up like a yahoo fantasy football draft and i end up with 3 good qb's and no rb, 4 good de's and no mlb...

questions:
if there's no draft and no free agents and we use ea updated rosters, is there progression?

at the end of the season what happens? do i start season 2 as the 09 packers, play it, then start season 3 as the 09 packers?

so we profile drafted and played our season... we profile draft again with the same draft pool and start season 2 with a different semi-random team?

conclusion:
this isn't an online franchise like i was hoping for... this seems like more of playing guys on my friends list then what i wanted it to be. why would you take the basis for every online league over the past several years (franchise) and completely scrap it when designing your game's online league? last night i went to bed thinkin this madden was gonna get it right and was excited... now i'm going to bed contemplating whether or not i even wanna buy the game...

[TDKing]

Dissappointed again ! Well EA you just set up your on line league feature to fail. On-line leagues = Wasted Server Space. There will be a ton of leagues started and only a handfull, if that will be active. So far this game has been one dissappointment after another, for me anyway. They just can't get things right. Worst of all with this 32 player league thing they proudly admit the did it on purpose and try and back it up with a lame excuse. Doesn't NCAA have cpu teams in their online dynasties witih flex scheduling ?

IGN: Say I only have five friends, but still want to play in a full season with 32 teams. Is that possible with flex scheduling included?

Ferwerda and Castorani: Actually, you cannot. This was a conscious design decision by us. We decided it would be better to ensure that all teams are controlled by users which would allow for us to implement our flex scheduling. To be clear, there is not a 'set' schedule in our leagues. All schedules are flex.