Madden NFL 11 Exclusive Debut Trailer

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

Nice gifs Djordan. Personally I think EA finally gave people the perfect "1st footage". They showed things from a gameplay camera angle(which everyone complains about), and they showed things from up close angles. I don't see how anyone can complain about what they showed, it's exactly what we usually want. The problem lies with the game itself. Face it people, if you don't like the footage you saw give it up. This is what we get this generation. EA built 1 of the worst football engines coming into this generation. That's it it's over. Just don't buy the game if you don't like an ounce of what you saw, because it's not going to get much better by August. BELIEVE THAT.

Sage and DJ;

Take a look at this thread with the Brees interview.

I feel a bit better watching this one vs the trailer.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...e-pump-up.html

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

Sage and DJ; Take a look at this thread with the Brees interview. I feel a bit better watching this one vs the trailer. http://www.operationsports.com/forum...e-pump-up.html

I just watched that, and while it does look slightly better, it's still not what I'm looking for, so I think I'll be passing on the game this year until I can get a used copy.

[Tick32]

IDK. Still see the same problems that plagued Nxt Gen Maddens b4. Look at the 1st play they run. The defense is obviously playing a zone. Watch how both of the DB's back paddle then turn way b4 the WR passes them. Leaving the WR's open for a short pass. I hated that on Madden 10. Also look at when he throws the pass, the two DB's start running to the ball without even looking behind them to see where it was thrown. I hope they fix this by launch.

[SA1NT401]

early vid or not...That was awful....

[djordan]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

Sage and DJ; Take a look at this thread with the Brees interview. I feel a bit better watching this one vs the trailer. http://www.operationsports.com/forum...e-pump-up.html

I saw the video. Animations still don't look fluid enough. Just think about this.

The jump from Playstation 1 to Playstation 2 in terms of animations were HUGGGGGGGEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

The jump from Playstation 2 to Playstation 3/XBOX 360 were minimal in regards to animation...S*** Remember Madden 06 on XBOX 360 had the same damn animations as Playstation 2/XBOX.

Face it..Tiburon/EA jacked up Next Gen framework from the jump. Till this day I will blame David Ortiz for all of this.

[dmick4324]

Quote: Originally Posted by ScoobySnax

They have to fix the O-line/D-Line though. QBs should not be able to roll and chuck w/o getting clobbered by a D-end. Running animations were improved in my opinion. I want to see the defense get an overhaul. It always seems that everything is for the offense. I need more options on D to counteract the over-powered offenses.

I'm with ya here. I'm a defensive guy from the word go and would love nothing more than to get a blog about how they're focusing on the 3-4 defense. However I think to most people that play Madden a 50 yard touchdown pass is more rewarding than a 3 and out capped off by a 4 yard sack on 3rd down.

[callmetaternuts]

I don't know why anyone expects a shift in philosophy. Every yearr for probably the last 5 has been the same. There is no multi-year strategy here. It's make a game with a few improvements, patch it once or twice and then move on. The next year they make improvements but it does nothing to build off previous years. They need a business plan

Year 1 - Fix locomotion issues and AI issues
Year 2 - Work on presentation, commentary
Year 3 - Franchise (I'd rather this be year 1, but you ge t the drift).

Right now the direction only lastas for a year, then its a complete change. Last year's vision was "Everything you see on Sundays" This year its "Simpler and Quicker" How do those correlate? It's just flailing in the wind.

I desperately want to like Madden. It's alright in the visuals, but there just isn't any long term appeal to me yet. Maybe they will announce new franchise stuff, but as of this moment, it seems the appeal is to those people who want to jsut knock a game out here and there or play online.

Show some direction, show some progression (company/title wise). Develop a plan and stick with it. Ortiz got the boot because the game just went one step forward two steps backwards with lack of direction. I don't doubt the new staff wants to make a good game, but it just seems the higher ups or whoever has final say can stick to a plan, its all mass over reaction, quick fixes that end up having to be re-written in 2 years.

[Boregard]

The thing that jumped out at me on the Brees vid was that the OTs still don't take a "jab step" and turn to form the pocket and the outside rushers still don't appear to try to get up the field and then make a move - it still looks like they engage first then try to make a move and that is really disappointing - especially after LBrulz (I think) extensive post demonstrating how that should look/feel.

Looks like to me that while OL/DL interaction may have gotten some tweaks it still won't be any where near the way it should be - just my thoughts.

The thing is that until they fix that a lot of play calls that should work based on situation will not work.