Madden 25 Next-Gen Living Worlds Trailer

[marshallfever]

Saw the commercial with Urlacher and Lewis and it looked pretty good. I'm still completely amazed,we have yet to see live game-play of the game and the game has already been released

[royounggoku]

Quote: Originally Posted by marshallfever

Saw the commercial with Urlacher and Lewis and it looked pretty good. I'm still completely amazed,we have yet to see live game-play of the game and the game has already been released

What was in it?

[marshallfever]

Quote: Originally Posted by royounggoku

What was in it?

It was a commercial focusing on the Xbox One. It showed Urlacher and Lewis playing each other. Game play from the quick view of it (footage was recording the t.v) it looked very similar to a higher res version of current madden. Once again, footage was very quick and it was being filmed off of a television.

Side note, I must say, i'm impressed with the Xbox One. Urlacher snapped the current live game he was watching while he started the game of Madden. Small stuff like that is cool

[apollon42]

http://youtu.be/iO37nwfjxrE

Here's the commercial in case you missed it.

[El_Poopador]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jetpac

2K14 is 50GB. NEXT GEN PORTED MADDEN is a measly 20GB... just a higher textured port

what does the size of the game have to do with the quality of it?

[icicle22]

Quote: Originally Posted by apollon42

http://youtu.be/iO37nwfjxrE Here's the commercial in case you missed it.

Holy Moly! For one brief second I thought that first shot was gameplay before I realized they were watching a live game and can switch over to the video game via the XBOX one. Once the real game loaded....it did look kinda like the same old same old. You really can't even tell it's not current gen.

Anyway....for a few seconds I was like "Wow!" but that was because it was a real football game. Time to temper my expectations once again.

Peace.

[Only1LT]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

Does basic troubleshooting not tell us the problem doesn't lie with the devs? How many times have devs moved on since the game was good? Don't you think that maybe, just maybe the problem may well rest with people well above the devs who have a false perception of what might make a good game?

First, djordan said that they need to fire everyone, so he wasn't just talking about the devs.

Second, you are partially right. There is one constant amidst all the changes, but it isn't the constant that you are thinking. The constant is Tiburon.

No matter how many lead designers and game overseers they bring is, it's still Tiburon. So what they brought in Kolbe, or Mike Wang, or whoever else they bring in? It's still Tiburon. What are they going to change? It's still 99% of the same people still working on the game and developing the game around the same code base that was created by people that left or were fired 10yrs ago. As well intentioned as any of these new hires might be, it would take them years to change all that has been done by the 99% of the people still working on the game or who have worked on it previously.

Look, we don't have the whole story, and I'm not pretending to, but short of a sworn affidavit by EA, I will not believe that "the suits" are ruining the work of some otherwise stellar group of individuals at this studio. Refuse to believe it.

So "the suits" say that they need a back of the box feature? So what? If I look at the back of the box of every iteration ever made of NBA 2K, MLB the Show, FIFA, NHL, NFL 2K, APF 2K, etc, etc, will I not see features listed? They all have back of the box features. The difference is how they are implemented, number one, and the quality of the rest of the game, besides said features, number two.

The problems with Madden go much deeper than anybody wearing a suit. It's noble that people want to liberate Tiburon from the criticism of their own creation, but it's poorly misplaced, IMO.

Tiburon is the constant. Change Tiburon and you will see the grandest changes that you have ever seen in one iteration of Madden. There is no way that this would not be the case. A different studio would not use Tiburon's existing code base, so everything would literally be built anew, and not built from the ground up but still exactly the same, like it is now.

I'm not saying this will ever happen, I'm just saying that changing leads and even changing "the suits" won't have as much effect as giving the reigns of development to an entirely different studio.

[jyoung]

Screen grab from the IGN FIFA 14 PS4 review:

Spoiler

No noticeable repeats in that shot, plus an even ratio of men to women.

Will Madden be able match this?