Madden NFL 10 Blog: 2nd Title Update Preliminary Details

[Segagendude]

Quote: Originally Posted by bgeno

I haven't been on the Madden forums since this summer (I knew I couldn't afford the game and didn't want to get myself excited about it), but this is something that has bothered me as well... and, frankly, it's another reason I quit checking out the Madden forum. To me, some people's priorities are a little off. And I caught some **** for it when I mentioned in the summer that I'd rather they fix gameplay than work on presentation stuff that gets old after the third time you see it anyhow.

So if gameplay was as tight as the real thing in Madden 08, you'd be happy as pie with that????

That game was beyond boring. I disagree with what you say, presentation and immersion is what keeps me playing and not falling asleep. M10 is headed in the right direction in this regard, and the Extra Point can be expanded upon big time. This year was the "inaugural" year for that show.....

[Exonerated]

Conflicting perspectives occur because of a unique stance to the topic at hand.

[KBLover]

Quote: Originally Posted by swiftychampleone

Honestly, I don't care how great gameplay is. If the atmosphere is bad, who wants to play it?

I do.

I want football to played well on a football game.

If that doesn't happen, all the realistic atmosphere and grass getting chewed up and halftime shows don't matter to me.

I liked 2K5 - not for the halftime show, but for the depth of the gameplay and the weekly planning system.

Maybe because I'm a text-sim player at heart (OOTP, Baseball Mogul, etc) I care less about graphics over balanced and realistic gameplay and game systems, but I would MUCH rather have Madden play the game of football very well over giving me the TV-Show like presentation.

MLB The Show was brought up. It's awesome in commentary - but if it played a poor game of baseball, I would be saying "that's nice - great commentary" and not play much because the sport itself is played too poorly.

Given the way the Madden gameplay is, I'm not asking for less by wanting it perfected as much as possible.

[Old Mr T]

It's obviously a personal choice but for me;

1.) Gameplay
2.) Presentation

I don't agree with the sentiment that one has to be sacrificed for the other. Surely both aspects can be built upon as the game matures.

The advantage of Madden releasing a new version year upon year is that it allows them to keep building upon what they already have.

Extra Point for example is a good idea and should remain. Let's hope it's just the start of what the presentation can be. It's severely lacking in content but I see it as a basic building block for an aspect of the game which be improved massively.

The same applies to gameplay.

What I can't abide is when parts of the game are removed. There is no excuse for that whatsoever (Removing the much loved Madden Classic Cam really baffled me and has affected my enjoyment of the game).

As long as Madden aims to keep improving and adding to the game (as opposed to removing things) then I see no reason why both gameplay and presentation can't receive substantial improvements for Madden 11.

[NdaZone7]

This patch isnt gonna fix anything. Im sorry but patch 1 broke the game more. It did some decent things but add more things to break the game.

The only reason EA is spending all this time on patch 2 is just to get people that put off buying Madden to be like now I can buy it because they fixed the game which there just tricking them.

Madden sales are way down because the game is just a broken train wreck, and this patch is just to grab more sales and not save or fix the game.

By the time this patch is released its gonna be New years and the NFL season is fonna be almost over with Madden 11 on its way in like 5 months.

[bgeno]

Quote: Originally Posted by swiftychampleone

Honestly, I don't care how great gameplay is. If the atmosphere is bad, who wants to play it?

If the gameplay was sick, I'd play it. Atmosphere gets old, gameplay keeps me coming back for more.

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Am I missing something here? I'm not directing this at you BGeno, but some gamers need to stop settling for less and raise your expectations.

You're talking to people who prefer gameplay over presentation about settling for less? Pot, meet kettle.

Quote: Originally Posted by Segagendude

So if gameplay was as tight as the real thing in Madden 08, you'd be happy as pie with that????

Absolutely.

Quote: Originally Posted by KBLover

I do. I want football to played well on a football game. If that doesn't happen, all the realistic atmosphere and grass getting chewed up and halftime shows don't matter to me.

Bingo.



I can watch football on Sundays for realistic halftime shows and cut scenes and all that jazz. In fact, everything there is done PERFECT.

What I can't do on Sundays (or any other time for that matter) is control my team, take over the coaching duties and tell a player almost exactly what to do.

I can do presentation every weekend, but I can't do gameplay.



Maybe you guys should try Blitz: The League? And I don't mean that in a condescending tone. It, admittedly, has some neat cut scenes and presentation elements.

[swiftychampleone]

Quote: Originally Posted by KBLover

I do. I want football to played well on a football game. If that doesn't happen, all the realistic atmosphere and grass getting chewed up and halftime shows don't matter to me. I liked 2K5 - not for the halftime show, but for the depth of the gameplay and the weekly planning system. Maybe because I'm a text-sim player at heart (OOTP, Baseball Mogul, etc) I care less about graphics over balanced and realistic gameplay and game systems, but I would MUCH rather have Madden play the game of football very well over giving me the TV-Show like presentation. MLB The Show was brought up. It's awesome in commentary - but if it played a poor game of baseball, I would be saying "that's nice - great commentary" and not play much because the sport itself is played too poorly. Given the way the Madden gameplay is, I'm not asking for less by wanting it perfected as much as possible.

I also want football to be played well. Both should be done right. If you noticed my earlier post, I hit on how important gameplay is. What I'm saying is, one should no be sacrificed for the other. Like Roadman stated, there are separate groups on the EA team that work on different areas of the game. So my question to EA is, what's the problem?

[Dmacho]

Quote: Originally Posted by Segagendude

So if gameplay was as tight as the real thing in Madden 08, you'd be happy as pie with that???? That game was beyond boring. I disagree with what you say, presentation and immersion is what keeps me playing and not falling asleep. M10 is headed in the right direction in this regard, and the Extra Point can be expanded upon big time. This year was the "inaugural" year for that show.....

The gameplay is the most important aspect of any game, I don't know how you can argue that. The game has improved a lot of presentation aspects ; however, Madden 10 is still crap because the ratings are absolutely meaningless.