Madden NFL 25 Video - MNF Simulation: Colts vs. Chargers (Xbox One)

[CT Pitbull]

I am trying so hard to view this game with "rose colored" glasses but man the realistic side of me wants to just tear this effort a new one. Im gonna try and be positive here for a hot second. The visuals look much better (helmets, field, etc.).... The running styles look changed, although I cant say yet if they are changed for the better or worse right now. The "off" arm of Richardson while running just looks funky. Its almost like its in a "straight line sprinters" position. Uh im gonna have to see more. Throwing motions look like they haven't been touched once again, which is kind of upsetting. The marquis players for almost every team in the NFL is the QB. You think they would want to replicate them to the most minute detail. Obviously that's NOT the case. Maybe that's something they will address in later years.


Back to the graphics for a second. The helmets finally look beautiful, BUT why didn't they already look like this? smh


I am still holding out for some unzoomed/non-trailer video of this game but it just looks all too damn familiar man. For a next generation console, short cycle or not, I was expecting SOOOOOOO much more from this game. Where did all the money go? This game generates BIG bucks what was put back in this year?


I think those guys may have been better off taking the year off from next gen and starting from scratch with NEW player models, physics, animations, commentary, and so on. And if it couldn't be done for next year just release a roster update for ps3 and 360, and keep working till the "base" is right.


If this game is going to be the "base" for this generation, I don't know man...

[dat swag]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

The worst? Their marketing is fantastic. Look at their product placement. The name is everywhere. Radio shows, TV shows, live football games....Everyone talks about the game. No, their marketing plan has been the most successful thing about the game. People who actually know football see past the marketing scheme but the "Madden fans" (the vast majority of their fanbase) don't care about how football plays out. Look at the sales of this game, if it weren't for marketing, this game would have died out years ago.

I agree...I guess what I mean is in terms of speaking to the hardcore fan their marketing is an epic fail. But it only reminds me that EA could care less about what a hardcore Football guy wants.

[jpdavis82]

Quote: Originally Posted by CT Pittbull

I am trying so hard to view this game with "rose colored" glasses but man the realistic side of me wants to just tear this effort a new one. Im gonna try and be positive here for a hot second. The visuals look much better (helmets, field, etc.).... The running styles look changed, although I cant say yet if they are changed for the better or worse right now. The "off" arm of Richardson while running just looks funky. Its almost like its in a "straight line sprinters" position. Uh im gonna have to see more. Throwing motions look like they haven't been touched once again, which is kind of upsetting. The marquis players for almost every team in the NFL is the QB. You think they would want to replicate them to the most minute detail. Obviously that's NOT the case. Maybe that's something they will address in later years. Back to the graphics for a second. The helmets finally look beautiful, BUT why didn't they already look like this? smh I am still holding out for some unzoomed/non-trailer video of this game but it just looks all too damn familiar man. For a next generation console, short cycle or not, I was expecting SOOOOOOO much more from this game. Where did all the money go? This game generates BIG bucks what was put back in this year? I think those guys may have been better off taking the year off from next gen and starting from scratch with NEW player models, physics, animations, commentary, and so on. And if it couldn't be done for next year just release a roster update for ps3 and 360, and keep working till the "base" is right. If this game is going to be the "base" for this generation, I don't know man...

[gator3guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by RandomPerson

Look how much better a game that came out 5 YEARS ago looks than a 2014 "next-gen" game EA is pathetic.

You mean the ball doesn't look like it was shot out of a cannon when it was thrown?

[Only1LT]

Quote: Originally Posted by dat swag

Even if they hired everyone of those guys the game would stay the same. I'm gonna repeat this again. Madden Football is the McDonalds of videogames...They are reliable, people love the fries, they sell over 2 billion every year (exaggeration) and they put very little resources into the product. Madden is EA's cash cow...The McDonalds marketing strategy is working like a charm because while its not the best burger and fry combo it is the most well known and its reliable. From a marketing standpoint they have to be saying...Why would we change?...Particularly when we are the only game in town?...I think its a long term death sentence but as long as they retain NFL rights to the game their strategy is bullet proof. The Madden name alone sells...meanwhile they are allowing EA Canada to do all the real innovation in Hockey and Soccer which are games that they are really trying to corner the market in. meanwhile madden still rakes in the cash. At the very least I'd like to see them get rid of Tiburon and give the game to EA Canada. Those VC 2K guys wouldn't last one year on the game because EA would not spend the resources or give them the time to make a product that is different from standard Madden. They would quit...Why do you think we see so much turnover in producers of Madden?...being handcuffed into making a sub par game is not something those guys sign on for...after a year or two they realize there is no chance their ideas will be implemented so they bounce.

While I get your point, totally, there is a huge contradiction there. EA would not go to the trouble of hiring the entire NFL2k dev team, to make the same game. What would be the point of that? They could just allow Tiburon to make the same game.

Secondly, if the entire dev team of NFL2K were still around, they wouldn't be starting at zero anymore than Vince Zampella, Jason West, and Grant Collier had to start at zero when they left to make TitanFall. I guarantee it plays a lot like Call of Duty whether they were allowed to leave with actual assets or not.

They have already built the thing once, so even if you have to build it over, almost entirely, it will still go much faster the second time.

[BV11]

Unbelievable. It is time for Madden to be taken down, something needs to happen.

I hope NBA 2k next gen is as good as it looks and people will see how pathetic EA really is.

[GiantBlue76]

Quote: Originally Posted by gator3guy

You mean the ball doesn't look like it was shot out of a cannon when it was thrown?

Notice the "physics". Everything there looks real and natural. No folding paper bodies, or passes thrown 30 yards while the QB's back is being bent in half. I feel bad for the few guys on the dev team that probably have some real ability. I'd be embarrassed.

[tfer717]

Quote: Originally Posted by gator3guy

You mean the ball doesn't look like it was shot out of a cannon when it was thrown?

i don't think so at all. Remember it is a gif so you are getting frame jumping and stuttering. The camera is also panning.. and who knows what the game speed was. you can see how they run that is looks a little quick. But even so, i think it looks fantastic. Oh and its 7 years old too.