Madden NFL 11 Exclusive Debut Trailer

[HealyMonster]

Quote: Originally Posted by streamline

...you can still pick your own plays genius. Lets be honest here madden is damned if they do and damned if they don't. No one will ever be completely happy with their produce especially in comparison to the juggernaut that is NFL 2k5. I'll wait until the demo before I start proclaiming this game the worse thing ever. Although, I'll probably end up buying Madden for my football fix : x

its not even that 2k5 was a "juggernaut" it was just better than madden and every madden since. The issue with Madden is that these Devs saw what worked yet every year they went in the "opposite direction" of 2k5. They tried "on the field" and it didn't work, they tried the Hip Hop Ballin be a superstar with the catchy game intros etc and that didn't work. They tried "upping the presentation" last year and failed in comparison to 2k5 yet again.

Its like every year we are like here take this game(2k5) and do that. They say OK, a few months later Madden comes out and we are like wtf dude, did you play 2k5? They are like wait, what? oh ok next year. and then we do it all over again lol.

[LoostheMoos]

Am I the only one that is sick to death of the phrase "In Madden XX, it's all about (fill in the blanks with marketing catch phrase)"?

Madden 08 : "It's all about 'twitch control'."
Madden 09 : "It's all about '(I forget this one, but I remember there WAS one)'."
Madden 10 : "It's all about 'everything you see on Sundays'."
Madden 11 : "It's all about 'simpler, quicker, deeper'."

I want to scream already when I hear that damn phrase....they should change the company slogan from "It's in the game" to "EA Sports, This year it's all about..."

Someone needs to fire ALL of these guys already, clean house from Frazier, Cummings et al to Ben and the NCAA crew as well for a total lack of creativity. How can we expect this group to actually innovate and create a better game when they cannot even invent a new way to discuss their puke every year? I've seen more creativity in second grade art class projects than this!

Seriously, people always wonder why there is a perception that EA does not care about their audience or their product and they can never seem to figure out why...well, I believe that using the same annoying and inaccurate "catch-phraseology" every year, year-in and year-out is probably a contributing factor!!!

[boooey]

Maybe this will be the first year where we don't expect much and the Madden team will surprise us... because that trailer honestly did nothing for me.

Looks exactly the same as Madden 10 with some slightly different running animations.. but it still doesn't look "real" to me.

It looks like a cartoon still, and these canned animations are the stone age now.. real physics next gen.

[Bgamer90]

Quote: Originally Posted by LoostheMoos

Seriously, people always wonder why there is a perception that EA does not care about their audience or their product and they can never seem to figure out why...well, I believe that using the same annoying and inaccurate "catch-phraseology" every year, year-in and year-out is probably a contributing factor!!!... Someone needs to fire ALL of these guys already, clean house from Frazier, Cummings et al to Ben and the NCAA crew as well for a total lack of creativity. How can we expect this group to actually innovate and create a better game when they cannot even invent a new way to discuss their puke every year? I've seen more creativity in second grade art class projects than this!

So you hate them for using simple PR/advertising tactics that most popular products use...

Nice.

Also, you shouldn't blame the devs for how the trailers/ads are. Most don't have much influence on it. Ian said to me last night that he didn't see the trailer before it aired on Spike (and that he can't comment on it since EA is keeping his mouth pretty much shut at the moment).

[yardz23]

Did anyone else laugh pretty hard when the voice over guy goes "INNOVATION IS: Simpler, Quicker, Deeper."

i couldn't help it. You know whats innovative?

[marktg30]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bgamer90

So you hate them for using simple PR tactics that most popular products use... Nice.

I think most people are upset with them because they feel that the 'progress' they claim to make is often misrepresented/over-stated.

[Oscar-cortes]

this is stupid.madden has no idea whats going on. for example..up until madden 9, we have had training camps in franchise mode.i for one enjoyed having the chioce to make players better by training. madden 10 came in looking promising but came with the exclusion of training camps and put in this garbage player progression b.s. superstar mode used to be entertaining when you had your own place to live in and could get tats, go to the barber shop. now its just calendar and screens. everything good about madden gets taken out he following years. now playcalls? shorter game lengths were not a problem because if you werre blkowing out your opponent in the 2 qtr, you could simply sim it to the end.all im saying here is WTF

[Bgamer90]

Quote: Originally Posted by marktg30

I think most people are upset with them because they feel that the 'progress' they claim to make is often misrepresented/over-stated.

The progress the devs claim or the progress that the ads claim?

If the latter, that's basically true about all advertisements.