Breaking Down the First Madden NFL 16 Trailer (Video Breakdown)

[TheBuddyHobbs]

Quote: Originally Posted by Batum Shaka Laka

Seriously Hall isn't even playing the ball he's just doing an animation that allows for OBJ's to play out. Same old Madden.

I guess we will have to see, but with Madden usually what you see at first is what you get. Except for the trailer showing off some cool stuff. I just can't get on the hype train. At least not yet. The track record has me losing faith. I am hoping though.

[TheBuddyHobbs]

Quote: Originally Posted by stalefsh

Anyone else think the Jr. celebration looked terrible? I feel like graphically Madden isn't even trying.

I don't understand it either. UFC and FIFA both have legit graphics, especially compared to other EA sports games. I thought they were going to share the engine? Seems like false advertisement to me now.

[l8knight1]

Quote: Originally Posted by SolidSquid

Not worried so much about halls position as we are his interception attempt. He's trying to intercept a pass that isn't even there. He should be reaching over his left shoulder trying to contest the catch. It's fine to get beat and be out of position but the AI should know that and have animations in place to act accordingly

I understand your point. Receivers do the same thing when there is a pick. Wish the animation would just cease when possession is decided by cpu. Sticky wicket for sure.

[NC12]

I'm done with this game

[grodbetatted]

I see a lot people complaining about Madden "canned-animations" but then praising 2k... 2k has the most canned animations of any game on the market. On another note, it does look decent, the only think i didn't like was the ball warping into odell hand. It looks good otherwise. People say do something ground breaking, but 2k does the same thing incremental updates every year, but people still give it praise. Its because EA makes madden, if it was any one other than EA hell it could be 989 Sports you guys would love it

[grodbetatted]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

I would imagine the agreement between the NFL and Microsoft making the XBOX One "the official video game console of the NFL" has something to do with it.

I was gonna say I believe EA works more closely with Microsoft anyway... I'm fine with that seeing I'm an Xbox one guy and my PS4 collects dust

[TheBuddyHobbs]

Quote: Originally Posted by grodbetatted

I see a lot people complaining about Madden "canned-animations" but then praising 2k... 2k has the most canned animations of any game on the market. On another note, it does look decent, the only think i didn't like was the ball warping into odell hand. It looks good otherwise. People say do something ground breaking, but 2k does the same thing incremental updates every year, but people still give it praise. Its because EA makes madden, if it was any one other than EA hell it could be 989 Sports you guys would love it

Yeah, that's it! We hate EA sports so much. It couldn't possibly be the fact we have seen the same canned animations for YEARS. Plenty of legacy issues still left. If they don't fix the sliders then not there is no point for me getting game. Seeing as I am offline only player.

[Pokes404]

Quote: Originally Posted by grodbetatted

I see a lot people complaining about Madden "canned-animations" but then praising 2k... 2k has the most canned animations of any game on the market. On another note, it does look decent, the only think i didn't like was the ball warping into odell hand. It looks good otherwise. People say do something ground breaking, but 2k does the same thing incremental updates every year, but people still give it praise. Its because EA makes madden, if it was any one other than EA hell it could be 989 Sports you guys would love it

Every game has animations. People complain about Madden's animations because, for the most part, they tend to look more jerky and robotic than other games. Also, they don't seem to be as branchable, and they don't transition between animations as smoothly as other games out there.

Yeah, you can get stuck in a long animation in 2K, and it's not like 2K always plays out the best-looking/most-realistic animation every time. But for the most part, 2K looks and feels a little more organic than Madden.

That's just my opinion. I'm speaking for others here, but I would guess that that's where they are coming from as well.

But to stay on topic, I really hope hand-fighting and jockeying for position are a part of this new "Playmaker" system they're touting. If it's just a bunch of catch animation, and nothing else, I'm going to be really disappointed ... again.

*Hadn't seen the feature rundown on the other thread, but they are touting hand-fighting and "contextual animations" between WR/DB. We'll see how it works once we get some gameplay videos.