Madden NFL 15 Developer Livestream - Presentation and Graphics

[jpdavis82]

Halftime show was definitely improved on since E3, we still need to see them add the broadcast cam angle though.

[DNMHIII]

Relative to presentation and graphics I'm not impressed at all. The presentation and halftime show didn't wow me one bit and the lighting and colors were really.....really.....bad IMO.

[bad_philanthropy]

For some reason that looked much worse than the last livestream. One of these years they are really going to have to trash the gameplay code base of this game and build something new. The animation system is just so ancient and hideous.

I bet there are some pretty talented software engineers working on the game that are forced to use this dinosaur legacy code due to annual release demands. If only they could have some time and resources to rebuild.

On the AI side of things, the secondary looked rather hapless—contrary to what we've heard and were shown last livestream.

[treq21]

Not impressed. I see the same things that have haunted this series for years. And that halftime show was lame.

Very much leaning towards another no buy. Sad.

[The JareBear]

The last stream and the little tidbits I had seen here and there lately, before this, had me really hyped. What I saw here definitely was a letdown. Hopefully I can go back and re-watch the whole thing and get a better feel for it, but that wasn't very good at all.

Not saying it really means anything, just saying, I hope the next EA stream/reveal/video release shows off better gameplay than that.

[RyanLaFalce]

It's sad that all of you complain complain complain. Do you think it makes the devs job any easier when all people do is complain? No!

[engrishbwudd]

Hmm. Graphics are beautiful and I saw some pretty satisfying things (computer-controlled Foles stepping into the pocket) but I didn't see too many over/under throws that were advertised by the devs. I'm sure the pass acc sliders need to be tuned. Along with most of the other sliders as well. Alas.

[rtkiii]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gilley

The banners that provide stats don't stay up long enough. I barely have time to read what's on them.

I hope that is not the case...that is always a complaint with me. Make the stats display until you have to hit a non-essential button like Y....instead of X.