Madden NFL 11 Blog: Locomotion w/ Videos and L.T. Screenshot

[Pacman83]

Embarrassing? lol...its online, plus anybody that can read can see my point, w/o twisting my words.
Some one else mentioned 2k, so i just question 2K's business decisions in reference to competition with Madden and other EA games. Any other assumption is just dumb.

[MJenness]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pacman83

Embarrassing? lol...its online, plus anybody that can read can see my point, w/o twisting my words. Some one else mentioned 2k, so i just question 2K's business decisions in reference to competition with Madden and other EA games. Any other assumption is just dumb.

Dude, let it go, you lost this one.

[Pacman83]

If you say so....dude.

[johnnyg713]

Looking at the screenshots and comparing how much better NCAA 11 looks, I have concluded Madden 11 is going to have a lot going on, on the sidelines this year...

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You guys move on from the back and forth

[Valdarez]

While we are on the subject of locomotion, doesn't anyone here wonder why EA Sports didn't license Euphoria? If you're going to make the best football game to date, why not use the best tech to date?

My answer. Pride. Someone in the EA organization doesn't want to admit they can't build the same thing, and IMHO whoever made that decision needs to be removed from the decision making process as they are limiting the potential of Madden. Think of what Madden could be with Euphoria + Madden's Art team.

The build versus buy debate is always a core choice in the business world, and for the most part you always buy. It almost never makes sense to reinvent the wheel.

[briax87]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at the community day (for Madden 10) wasn't there some small amounts of locomotion added, but were eventually removed due to the AI defence running past the offence and other related issues? I'm assuming this will have to be worked on too if the locomotion is added too?

[Valdarez]

Quote: Originally Posted by briax87

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at the community day (for Madden 10) wasn't there some small amounts of locomotion added, but were eventually removed due to the AI defence running past the offence and other related issues? I'm assuming this will have to be worked on too if the locomotion is added too?

I'm not sure, I know that Ian said they weren't able to work on locomotion last year as it meant they'd have to redo all animations and they simply didn't have the cycles to do it and all of the game fixes + ProTak. So if they did anything, then odds are it was very, very small changes. I bet the community day guys can sound off on whether there were changes to locomotion in M10.