Madden NFL 11 Video: Showing off the "Swagger"

[RayManHCP42]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

As I said, I don't understand at all those of you who feel it should be in the game but don't like it being a rating. You can always disregard the rating completely if you wish. But having the rating means we can edit players and when we create our own we can create him with the swagger of our choice. Having the option is never a bad thing. The rating idea is a great one by EA. The irony here is I can guarantee you if EA had this as a new feature and it was not a rating that could be edited you'd hear the community screaming bloody murder for the ability to edit it and demanding it be a rating...

That's unheard of. I honestly believe that would never be the case but for a small handful of people at most.

A very small handful.

[jcofor25]

swagger rating? kinda stupid but keeps the foofball's equivilent to "teabagging" to a minimum

[mcweezlestein]

Soooooo they put this in the game this year but don't touch franchise mode.......lol ok ?

[spankdatazz22]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheWatcher

It appears that it has to do with whether a player will celebrate or not (or how they'll celebrate) in a given situation. Man, I've been asking for this since forever. I hated watching Marvin Harrison doing dances or Peyton Manning wiggling his body like a krump dancer (2K5) after running for a TD. It was ridiculous because they never did this in real life. So it sounds like this new rating is trying to address that. I like it a lot.

That would seem like a base programming issue though. No one would want to see Peyton Manning doing Adrian Petersen's TD celebration, for example. From what I saw in the video, they were just three custom celebrations. I guess it is good to have it editable, but not sure what a scale of 0-100 would represent - the player's likelihood that an unnecessary celebration should occur (when he should/shouldn't be doing it in the first place)? I think it was 2K5 or 2K4 that had editable customizable celebrations; would seem to be more appropriate in how it was described as affecting the overall presentation. I mean, what would be the difference in someone having a celebration rating of 40 versus 60 if the animation is programmed in regardless? If I'm understanding it correctly. Would seem to be better if it were a toggle-option. Perhaps that's why this whole "Old Spice Swagger" angle doesn't make sense to some. Personally I'm sure it's just a way of them making some extra cash. Not faulting them, but it's just another thing from Tiburon that comes off as kinda cheesy

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by mcweezlestein

Soooooo they put this in the game this year but don't touch franchise mode.......lol ok ?

Who's "they"?
I'm assuming you know for a fact that whoever worked on this was also the group responsible for franchise...

Seriously how about adding something to the conversation other than a quick hit and run post.

[Maniac-64-]

I am sure adding this Swagger rating is a lot easier to do than overhauling Franchise mode. Some of guys need to relax.

[sois]

Did they get Allen, Ocho and CJ to mo-cap these? Something about them still doesn't look right. Maybe it's the speed/framerate or something else technical, but the animations don't look authentic.

[da ThRONe]

Quote: Originally Posted by spankdatazz22

That would seem like a base programming issue though. No one would want to see Peyton Manning doing Adrian Petersen's TD celebration, for example. From what I saw in the video, they were just three custom celebrations. I guess it is good to have it editable, but not sure what a scale of 0-100 would represent - the player's likelihood that an unnecessary celebration should occur (when he should/shouldn't be doing it in the first place)? I think it was 2K5 or 2K4 that had editable customizable celebrations; would seem to be more appropriate in how it was described as affecting the overall presentation. I mean, what would be the difference in someone having a celebration rating of 40 versus 60 if the animation is programmed in regardless? If I'm understanding it correctly. Would seem to be better if it were a toggle-option. Perhaps that's why this whole "Old Spice Swagger" angle doesn't make sense to some. Personally I'm sure it's just a way of them making some extra cash. Not faulting them, but it's just another thing from Tiburon that comes off as kinda cheesy

While I agree this could have easily been a hidden rating. Why hide it when you can get paid to show it?