Backbreaker Conference Call

[kjcheezhead]

Quote: Originally Posted by WeAreAllWitnesses

God I'm sick of saying this. The limited time frame thing isn't an excuse. Well, it's technically an excuse, it's just an incredibly awful excuse. They don't have the NFL telling them when they have to release a game by. They don't have contracts to adhere to. They can take as long as they want with this game. If something sucks, they can delay the game and fix it. They have that freedom.

I'm sick of responding to this, lol. There isn't a magical development fund these guys get to make the game. Eventually they will spend more in development than the game can make and they have to release and add more features in another installment. Even if there was no NFL license, do you think EA would've just developed Madden for 5 years without a return on the investment?

[JayBee74]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

No doubt about it this is a tech demo. The only thing this title has going for it is the Euphoria technology that Natural Motion continues to campaign for. I don't mind it because what video game football is right now makes us all desire something more. It may be frustrating to hear, but the concept of this game is not football. The concept is to use football to display their technology.

Having not even played the demo, the powerful anti-fan boy minds are hard at work here. I think you guys are wanting the game to fail to much.

[Xaos]

Quote: Originally Posted by JayBee74

You said you were screwed in a situation where your called play requires adjustment because of defensive movement. According to you the lack of hot routes has screwed you. That's not true-you have an option to audible. I'm not going round and round with you about "why can't you hot route"-it's not in the game. Your BB like Blitz tackle argument is weak and I'm being generous. Exciting tackles is now the BB/Blitz connection? I thought BB had realistic tackles, not over the top ones.

Ok. So i'm going to have to have audibles to adjust to every possible situation. I'll try. And i'm not the first to compare this arcade game to blitz, nor will I be the last. So don't act as if I am the only one saying BB = Blitz

[Bellsprout]

Quote: Originally Posted by kjcheezhead

I'm sick of responding to this, lol. There isn't a magical development fund these guys get to make the game. Eventually they will spend more in development than the game can make and they have to release and add more features in another installment. Even if there was no NFL license, do you think EA would've just developed Madden for 5 years without a return on the investment?

So Backbreaker is allowed to release an incomplete game early in an effort to make money, but damn EA to hell if Madden releases like that? How does that make sense?

[Xaos]

Quote: Originally Posted by WeAreAllWitnesses

So Backbreaker is allowed to release an incomplete game early in an effort to make money, but damn EA to hell if Madden releases like that? How does that make sense?

Doesn't have to make sense because its BACKBREAKER THE BEST FOOTBALL GAME EVER BECAUSE IT HAS EUPHORIA! YOU HAVEN'T HEARD? Where have you been under a rock?

[kjcheezhead]

Quote: Originally Posted by thor-17

The devs. deserve better than this. Come on guys. They have built a game based on freakin' player behaviors- not dice rolled, seen it a million times canned animations. Every play will be different. There will be no more learning and exploiting the animations. The game will be won and lost by strategy, just like in real life. This game has the capacity to change sports gaming forever. If you are ok with the same half a$$ed gameplay EVERY year and with features that don't work, then don't support this game. Get out of the Backbreaker forums and back to the sheep, I mean Madden forums. You will get exactly what you deserve. If you want a revolution and have devs push the limits of what sports games can be, then support this game. Remember the video of Madden 06? Remember how pumped we were to see it? It's Madden 11 and they are nowhere near that, but Backbreaker is. One more thing, compare the newly released video of NCAA 11 with any Backbreaker video. I was shocked at how easy it is to pick out the animation triggers in NCAA. It's jerky and ugly. Now, look at Backbreaker. Think- canned, stale animation(NCAA), actual behaviors(Backbreaker).

I see someone else sees the big picture and noticed something revolutionary about this game besides the tackles. (Which actually involves all contact in the game)

Did no one else read the reason injuries didn't make the game? Only because the devs want them to be real and based on physics. Wouldn't a one and done company just go the easy route and throw dice roll injuries in the game if it's all just for a tech demo anyways?

[Xaos]

Quote: Originally Posted by kjcheezhead

I see someone else sees the big picture and noticed something revolutionary about this game besides the tackles. (Which actually involves all contact in the game) Did no one else read the reason injuries didn't make the game? Only because the devs want them to be real and based on physics. Wouldn't a one and done company just go the easy route and throw dice roll injuries in the game if it's all just for a tech demo anyways?

I can't see whats wrong with Madden's "Dice-Roll" injuries. Any lame excuse for why fatigue and hot routes aren't in there?

[mgoblue678]

Quote: Originally Posted by Xaos

Ok. So i'm going to have to have audibles to adjust to every possible situation. I'll try. And i'm not the first to compare this arcade game to blitz, nor will I be the last. So don't act as if I am the only one saying BB = Blitz

Did you even read the quote in the conference call that said the game was more of sim than a arcade style of game? The devs have never said anything or have the videos shown anything remotely resembling a Blitz style game.

All your doing right now is trolling plain and simple. Spewing out the same Blitz garbage without anything to back your claim up.

There are legitimate concerns that I have about the game as well and I can see why their is skepticism, but the the generic Blitz or tech demo comments said by the same kind of people in every thread is really getting old.