Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

[Artman22]

After playing the demo for a while. I must say that I didn't like the demo. The game feels too robotic. The game isn't smooth. I'm going to skip madden this year. I love the NFL, but this in a way feels worst the madden 10. The graphics are good, and gus sounds ok in the game, but the gameplay feels slugish..

[vch1212]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

No where does anything say they can't voice their opinion. NOWHERE. However you have to do it without being an *** and being insulting. If they can't voice your opinion in an adult manner then that's their problem. Also the bolded part.. 2 words... Strategy Pad just play'n

I know, that it just seems that people get banned for being angry. And you know sometimes it seems that EA gets protected a lot. They should get blasted I mean they are pretty darn cocky and full of themselves. I can say that because its their actions that show it, but I had a friend get banned here because he made a little joke about them. I mean wow can the devs not handle a little jab? I just think when your dealing in the public arena all bets are off. I am in public relations for political figures, mostly small time people but they get blasted heavy all the time and when they cry about it I tell em that's the game your in. If you can't handle it go and find a new career. You got to have thick skin. And most of all I tell em to actually listen to the people they are trying to help, that works sometimes.

[SA1NT401]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

SA1NT401 - I think EA has given me a new cause to rage against aside from the dreadlocks - this little bundle of misery they call the Strategy Pad!

LOL...Right there with ya Dogg! Right there with ya.....

[ryan36]

Quote: Originally Posted by vch1212

I understand that being rude isn't right, but If someone have a gripe about EA and the development team, why can't a person voice those gripes? If a difference is backed up with facts, Like how the reason they can't expand that much on certain game modes is because their old code holds them back, or that they use the same commentating over and over instead of getting the team in the booth and recording fresh new stuff. Why cant I voice an opinion that might hurt their feelings. This is the business they chose and they know that they will get feedback whether good, bad or indifferent they will get feedback. Most of the Madden core fans are smart and just feel shafted sometimes like I know Gameflow is just "ask madden" dressed up and I feel patronized by that. Why is this wrong? In my business I don't want people around me who only tell me good stuff. Sometimes I need to hear the blasts so I can progress and better myself as I know I don't know it all. Anyway Im just asking because I want to stay here cause I see there are real fans here but do I have to just praise EA even though they need to hear a little tough love.

If you say all this without profanity you'll be fine and calling people dumb ******** stupid or lazy, you'll be fine.

[alifeincomplete]

Being a PS3 owner, I couldn't get the demo until last night and the size of it made the download take forever... so I just kept playing NCAA '11 instead... having literally just played a game in the demo as the Jets, I have assembled a short list of notes about it.

- Strategy pad. If this year's overall theme is about quickness and simplicity, why did they make something that was quick and simple into something that's unnecessarily convoluted? It's not a deal breaker for me once you get the hang of it, but I don't get the logic behind making such a big change.

- Kick meter. I like the change. It took me two kicks to get the hang of it; I shanked my opening kickoff out of bounds for an illegal procedure call, haha.

- The zoomed-out camera. This will bother the hell out of me, and I really hope it's changed for the retail product. After playing so much NCAA, my head started to hurt with the readjusted vantage point.

- Catching animations and Locomotion. Catching seems to have been refined a bit and I'm glad for that, but the use of Locomotion doesn't look like it was as well implemented as NCAA 11's version. It also makes running way too easy, which I'm sure can be balanced out with slider adjustments.

- Commentary. While I appreciate the new energy brought by Gus Johnson, he seems terribly out of place and his delivery is off. Again, something I hope that is just because it's was a work-in-progress demo. Collinsworth's lines were almost verbatim from Madden 10.

I really want to play the retail version, but I have to admit that I am terribly on the fence for this game. I fear my love of the NFL will force my hand at some point in August, but I don't see myself shelling out $60 on opening day, especially since money is a little tight right now. I can satiate my need for football with NCAA '11 which, right now, looks like the superior product anyway. I was never a Madden fan to begin with and I really felt defeated when EA gobbled up the rights and killed my beloved 2K5, but Madden 10 really sold me on their attempt to change their ways. This game.... eh, not so much. It's like NHL 10 is to NHL 09. There are changes, but the biggest one is probably just an updated roster. We'll see.

[NDalltheway]

Quote: Originally Posted by Art1bk

After playing the demo for a while. I must say that I didn't like the demo. The game feels too robotic. The game isn't smooth. I'm going to skip madden this year. I love the NFL, but this in a way feels worst the madden 10. The graphics are good, and gus sounds ok in the game, but the gameplay feels slugish..

have you tried a different game speed??

Personally, i buy madden every year no matter what and i previously thought i was gonna be buying the same game as madden 10. but after i played it, i was totally stunned. graphics are amazing and its realistic football. WRs can get separation on corners unlike the physic corners in NCAA 11 but theres a good pass rush which is like in real football. i am so excited for the full game

[Only1LT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

I believe its: Pad then up to select DB's the pad for the direction Pad then up to select DB's then down on pad Pad then Lpad then either up/down/L or R Pad then up then select which wr and then pick the route.... From work and I can remember what to do. Pad is simple. I agree it should have been an option but I'm 44 and can remember from work after playing for about 1 hour yesterday what the controls are. The scarey part is if the simple D-Pad configuration/change is this problematic for a lot of people then we can pretty much kiss any real innovation to, for example, the passing system. If EA ever gets rid of the brain dead system that been this way and stale for the last umpteen years (Hit X for X...Hit Y for Y) the world will collapse into itself.

Lol. So true. I'm having flashbacks of of all the Vision Cone complaints.

In fairness, I don't really like the Strat Pad either, but it's not the end of the World.

I would like to see reform in the Passing Mechanic though, and I know that it will be met with a lot of angst if it ever happened.

[RGiles36]

GameFLOW...

I know this point will get lost in this thread so I'll probably blog it later this week along with some other impressions.

Anyway, I like GF a lot. There's something I enjoy by not being interrupted by the playcall screen every couple of seconds. But as I said while @ CD, I despise the auto-coach cam functionality. IMO and only my opinion, it's intrusive, invasive, and makes me feel away from the action. I know that we all use coach cam when we get to the line anyway, but having it pop up automatically takes away from other presentational things they could do.

I thought the ideal solution would be to have a little play art graphic appear in the left-hand corner of the screen. Waa-lah! It leaves the screen clean and you know what the play is right off the bat. As it is now, the players approach the line with various routes underneath but you can't completely tell what the play is until they settle at the LOS. And then on defense, by default the coach cam only shows my assignment? Why not the entire play (single player mode) as it does on offense?

Again, I like GF, but I think it could've been implemented better. It would be so much cleaner if I could see a graphic of the play art (about the same size of the plays in the play call screen) as opposed to auto-coach cam.