Madden NFL 16 Presentation Details

[Hassan Darkside]

All in all I'm happy they spent some time improving the presentation and some of the more minor things, but my disappointment lies in the feeling that Madden is constantly playing catchup. It's easy to be content but hard to be excited when features are brought up to a standard that was set years back by other sports games.

Sidenote, I'm giving EA the benefit of the doubt that these presentation things were squared away after the alpha build that was at E3, because the first thing I thought of was the cameramen's reaction (or lack thereof) to this OBJ TD.

[BobbyColtrane]

I wish they would focus on realism and add more things that you see on an actual broadcast. Plus a ticker and highlights from other games. That's what I want. Other stuff is just filler to me.

[Danimal]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

I sometimes think our expectations are a bit too high. Multiple broadcast teams? I've only seen one game pull this off (NCAA Basketball) and even that was done pretty poorly and was repetitive.

While I know this would never happen I would love for them to go after the local radio crews for each team. I wouldn't care if they gave you a code for one and sold the rest as DLC. Then you have the option of hearing your own teams crew or the home teams crew. i.e. Playing Greenbay on the road as the Bears and I listen to their local team.

I can't phantom the cost for something like that but didn't they have extra boradcast teams in FIFA at once point as DLC?

[BleedGreen710]

i love how they say they dont want to use popups cause they are distracting yet whenever i see those floating stat bubbles in all the gameplay videos its just as distracting, maybe worse. and sticks out like a sore thumb cause you don't see that kind of presentation in real life.

[redsox4evur]

Quote: Originally Posted by Danimal

While I know this would never happen I would love for them to go after the local radio crews for each team. I wouldn't care if they gave you a code for one and sold the rest as DLC. Then you have the option of hearing your own teams crew or the home teams crew. i.e. Playing Greenbay on the road as the Bears and I listen to their local team. I can't phantom the cost for something like that but didn't they have extra boradcast teams in FIFA at once point as DLC?

I would love something like this. And I would pay a couple of bucks for something like this.

[HealyMonster]

Quote: Originally Posted by BleedGreen710

i love how they say they dont want to use popups cause they are distracting yet whenever i see those floating stat bubbles in all the gameplay videos its just as distracting, maybe worse. and sticks out like a sore thumb cause you don't see that kind of presentation in real life.

I could see CBS stealing the idea down the road though. while it isn't something you see every week on an actual broadcast, it doesn't strike me as outlandish.

the blog didn't really delve into anything, i mean just from the videos we've seen we already knew about most of this stuff.

id really like to hear about the commentary improvements, halftime show improvements and things like that. those are things we haven't seen yet.

[SageInfinite]

I hate when EA does this beyond broadcast ****. Nobody asks for that. Perfect what they do in real life first. Can you give us that first? Other than that I like the sound of the improvements, but once again, have to see how they play out in the retail. None of this stuff is ever as good as they make it sound in these blogs.

This was probably the most underwhelming blog, but they did address things we were asking for, and added alot of things we didn't. Hope it pays off for them.

[AreTeeKay3]

Female fans...cameraman on the side line...Popup stats(gameplay video needed to see how ridiculous that looks) LOL - laughable that even needs mentioned in the feature list. LOL

Frequency of the stats is a nice idea...but will they be on screen long enough to actually read?

No weekly wrap-up...no M16 for me.