Madden NFL 10 Video: NFC South

[countryboy]

Please oh please August...hurry your butt up!!!


I'm ready for some NFL football!!!

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by spankdatazz22

There's so much unnatural movement in that video it's literally borderline comical for me. It almost looks like a caricature of the NFL with the in-close hype trailer approach highlighting some of the game's obvious deficiencies. In other videos it looks better from a gameplay camera viewpoint.

Yea the movement is laughable at times.

[achain]

I know this has been beaten to death here, but it wasn't until I watched this promo video that I really realized how awful these animations really are. For some reason, the regular gameplay footage seems to hide it a bit better... but wow... those are miserable.

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by achain

I know this has been beaten to death here, but it wasn't until I watched this promo video that I really realized how awful these animations really are. For some reason, the regular gameplay footage seems to hide it a bit better... but wow... those are miserable.

I think it has to do with EA's replays having missing frames.

[PGaither84]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

I think it has to do with EA's replays having missing frames.

I love that excuse by EA the most. How many times do we actually watch a play where the ball went through a players or did something stupid in the animation or looked that bad and it looks the same on the replay?

I want a video capture device instead of my web cam to record stuff, there are too many times in the live action of 09 that stuff is wrong and when you go to the replay you get the tired line of "oh, the replay has less frames, that didn't happen like that in the game" yes, it did, don't lie to me. I belive there are less frames, but it still happened. Maybe it just didn't look as ugly, but it was still ugly.

Gameplay videos Ian posted look nice, the trailers look horrid. They look like the old madden team is behind them. Maybe we have the same marketing guys. Phil or Peter or whomever should have told the marketing team to make a new style of Promo videos as well as the new direction of the game.

M10 Video < direction for M10

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by GTheorenHobbes

Looks like Madden shares the "just throw 'em down" tackle animation with NCAA. Hope we don't see it every other play like we do with the NCAA demo.

I really don't like the animation but as long as it doesn't happen often, that's fine IMO. It does happen in the NFL on occasion to the QB.

I don't know what it is, but this trailer looks like it was shot with Madden '09. A lot of the animations don't look nearly as complete as the videos we've seen.

[Tengo Juego]

The running animation that Reggie had last year suites him better than the one we saw in this video.

Madden 09 Animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35AtHaVB0NM

Real Reggie Run:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aRh2WUz18

The run animation we saw in that video waay back from Ian should ONLY be for big lumbering runners. NOT for elite speed guys(Hester, Bush, CJ, Parker, etc...)

[Von Dozier]

The reason the animations look so "bad" I believe is because of there being no real acceleration. Immediately after a player breaks a tackle and is going through a motion to get his balance back, it goes straight into that chest-up leg-pumping perfect run animation, and it makes it look very fake and robotic.

Though this should be fixed next year as Ian has said he wants to include the FIFA acceleration (forget the word for it) engine.

Aside from that, I really liked the presentation side of things.