Madden Creative Director, Ian Cummings is Leaving Tiburon

[djordan]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

iPad issues. Typing more than one word sentences and them editing them is a challenge. Autocorrect doesn't make matters any easier.

Excuses.... JK

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

Sage your my man and all but I'll be honest I had a blast with NCAA this year. Madden was a meh experience but NCAA held my attention like no dad game since NCAA '04

Right back at ya BK, you know we go back . I too had fun with NCAA, and I totally agree with it being the most fun since 04. With that being said it still didn't impress like The Show and 2K11 did on the field(court). The presentation is outdated, and the game is full of alot of goofy animations and awkward situations, which every game is to a point, but EA football games stand out more than others IMO. It still doesn't give me that authentic feeling like the others games I mentioned.

Now that doesn't mean I didn't play the hell out of it(I still do), but standing next to the other games, it just doesn't do the job. Now I will say it may impress as far as EA football games go this gen, but really is that saying much?

My apologies if I derailed the thread.

[LiquorLogic]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

I never get thus logic. If 60 bucks is a big expenditure for you and the game doesn't meet your standards year after year why is it EA's fault you keep giving them your money?

If you buy cheeseburger, from the only place that sells cheeseburgers, and you don't like it, you'll be upset. When you decide not to buy a cheeseburger, from the only place in the galaxy that sells them, you've saved your money, but you're either still hungry, or you had eat pizza, tacos, something from a deli, or whatever else you didn't feel like eating. Don't you have the right to be mad at the owner of the business who made it so their cheeseburger is the only cheeseburger you have the opportunity to eat. Shouldn't you also be mad at the cook, who year after year, fails to make a cheeseburger to your liking ?

Don't you have the right to be even more upset when a the cook tells you it can't be done, when you know for a fact that it's been done before ?

It's eat a cheeseburger that tastes like crap, or give up cheeseburgers. We, as customers, want a choice, and what I described above is not a choice; it's a dilemma.

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

I definitely noticed a difference in performance in the trenches based on ratings. As far as the videos. I don't put a lot of stock in setting up tests to make the game do what it was never intended to do. I thought the game this year was mediocre and I'd love to get 2k back but I am not going to go out of my way to to do all this stupid YouTube crap like or whatever his name was. Nothing better about seeing a guy who can't even spell the word physics complain about physics in a video game like Apexis or ryanmoody.

So you wouldn't go out of you way to illustrate the things that are wrong with the game. That's your choice, but does your choice invalidate what they are saying ? You said it yourself: Madden was mediocre. Poking fun at their spelling doesn't change that.

Weight means nothing in the trenches.The tackles get no push. The interactions are too clean : the dlineman either beats the tackle cleanly, or they both start courting each with some ball-room dancing. There are no animations where the offensive lineman stays in between but loses ground; there is no vertical interaction, only horizontal. It's been this way for years and I refuse to believe that the "suits" are to blame for that. I refuse to believe that more money was allocated to the development of other games in the past. Take consecutive-hit tackling for an example: it's in the ps2 version. You mean to tell me that EA is spending more money on a last gen title ?

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by LiquorLogic

If you buy cheeseburger, from the only place that sells cheeseburgers, and you don't like it, you'll be upset. When you decide not to buy a cheeseburger, from the only place in the galaxy that sells them, you've saved your money, but you're either still hungry, or you had eat pizza, tacos, something from a deli, or whatever else you didn't feel like eating. Don't you have the right to be mad at the owner of the business who made it so their cheeseburger is the only cheeseburger you have the opportunity to eat, and the cook, who year after year, fails to make a cheeseburger to your liking. Don't you have the right to be even more upset when a the cook tells you it can't be done, when you know for a fact that it's been done before ? It's eat a cheeseburger that tastes like crap, or give up cheeseburgers. We, as customers, want a choice, and what I described above is not a choice; it's a dilemma.

I dont think the cheeseburger tastes like crap, it just isn't as realistic as some of the other cheeseburgers before it .

[lofeazy]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

I dont think the cheeseburger tastes like crap, it just isn't as realistic as some of the other cheeseburgers before it .

Thats a good one.

[TracerBullet]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

I dont think the cheeseburger tastes like crap, it just isn't as realistic as some of the other cheeseburgers before it .

[LiquorLogic]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

I dont think the cheeseburger tastes like crap, it just isn't as realistic as some of the other cheeseburgers before it .

So you're getting a cheeseburger with a bunch of fillers. Wouldn't a cheeseburger with some grade A beef be nice right about now ?

[Dog]

Madden =/= Cheeseburger.