Madden NFL 16 Presentation Details

[Junior Moe]

Quote: Originally Posted by VdaStampede

some games even had a feature that let you stream music from your computer. why isn't that an option?

Yeah man that would be a great option as well. I'm not a fan of streaming music but I would do it in a flash it's our only option.

[DeuceDouglas]

The thing I don't like about the commentary is that it doesn't sound like commentary, it sounds way too scripted. Obviously it's going to always sound somewhat scripted because it is but it shouldn't be too hard to make it sound less scripted than it does just by creating better lines and making sure they don't repeat too much. MVP 2005 from a substance standpoint didn't really have good commentary at all, but it for the most part sounded really natural and unless Krukow would repeat the exact same thing twice in back to back sequences or say something completely stupid, it always sounded pretty good or at least natural.

I don't really pay attention to the commentary too much but just watching the Steelers-Browns vid there's instances where it makes itself more noticeable than it needs to be and I think that's what creates problems. Good commentary should just flow and and not stick out and but it seems like they put lines that are almost like "hey, you're supposed to be paying attention to this so listen" and IMO those are the worst lines. There's also issues with there being too much dead space and when they use player names. Overall I don't think it's really that bad but I don't really pay attention to it that much and I'm not really bothered by it either way but I still think there's a lot of area for improvement there.

[green94]

Quote: Originally Posted by jpdavis82

No reason they can't have the sidelines have head tracking next year because the players and crowds have it now.

I would have thought more focus would have been placed on the sidelines since they are more visible. Don't get me wrong, the fact that they are following up on their promise of living worlds gives me hope that one day they will give the sidelines the attention they deserve.

Any conversations about additional presentation features like Refs tossing their flags on penalties and whether or not they plan on adding the Orange first down markers on the field?

[TDYRX]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve_OS

I know it may be a small thing, but as a Cowboys fan who lives in Pittsburgh, its AWESOME to see Terrible Towels in Cincy. Anybody that pays any attention to the AFC North knows that those things damn near fill up the Browns, Bengals and Ravens stadiums. That in and of itself increases the immersion factor at least a little to me. Hopefully Jerry World isn't filled with Texans fans when we play Houston

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruff Ryder

I don't wanna dwell on this point but I'm just saying that Live 16 will have you scanning your face in the game with a cellphone. I think if stadium sounds was a big enough priority they could figure it out. It doesn't have to involve ripping CDs to your hdd. We have that article up about innovation becoming a thing of the past for sports games. One thing for sure is that innovation doesn't start by taking no for an answer.

Why is this directed at EA though? Like I said..."no one has figured this out yet". The Show hasnt even figured out how to do this and it is a Sony created game. I'm not aware of a single game on the X1 or PS4 that lets you access and customize music on a HD. The reason being the current architecture of each system doesnt allow you to do that (I hear that a recent update to the X1 may permit this).

Also this is another case of this community thinking that its requests are in line with what the majority of players want. The problem is it isnt. Look, I am the biggest advocate for adding custom soundtracks to games. I have THOUSANDS of music files on my computer that I used for the Show, NHL, WWE, NBA2k and NCAA Football. All of those files are pretty much useless because none of those games support next gen.

But I also realize that the people who use this feature are pretty small in numbers compared to the total audience for those games. ****, most of the people on OS dont even use those features on last gen.

You are asking EA to spend man hours looking for a workaround for a feature that most people dont use instead of using those hours to create or improve features that more people may actually use? That doesnt make sense.

[fredo5020]

Quote: Originally Posted by sectiona21

Pure disappointment again from EA. Another year of ignoring the community and trying to hype up a bunch of garbage. A purchase of this is highly doubtful.

My thoughts exactly I bet 98% of this **** won't work

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Junior Moe

No. You cant save them on the console itself. I put an 8gb thumb drive in with Ronyells (I think) NBA 2k12 sounds on it to test it out and everything sounds fine. I don't see why we couldn't just use that as the source and have the games pull from that. When it was announced I though it meant that we would have a way to get our music back into our games. Sony and MS need to just open these things back up so that devs can utilize it like before. We b#### about games removing features, MS and Sony are pulling some bull on us too. LOL

I agree. Thats the reason we cant use custom sounds on the Show is because Sony's architecture doesnt allow you to use thumb drives or move music from a thumbdrive to the HD.

[neume1mb]

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DYNAMIC FEEDBACK Another way we use Augmented UI is with instant stats and feedback around our players on the field. Madden players can now easily see which milestones they achieved by seeing their accomplishments in a 3D space. This new dynamic feedback system is a big interface improvement that shows important stats without distracting players with popups.

So does this mean it will show season stats for CFM? Or just game stats?
For the love of all that is holy I want my season stats to show up in game and be accurate!

And I could care less about the monolith thing. 1 or 2 seasons in I have my own QB so the QB intro is completely useless, and now the monolith will be useless.

This announcement is pretty disappointing for me. Signs? Really? They had signs in like what, '04? I hate they spend time on stuff like this instead of giving everyone what they want like subs and the ability to edit. SMH