Dissecting the Madden NFL 18 Features Reveal

[SolidSquid]

Quote: Originally Posted by iLLWiLL

If they didn't even re-do the quarterback throwing animations, I'm out.

One of my biggest pet peeves with madden is that the qbs never really hold the ball, it just floats next to their hands, and release points look terrible. The ball comes flying out way before the end of the throwing animation

[TheBleedingRed21]

I honestly feel like this thread was created prematurely. I wouldn't call back of the box features from amazon and GameStop feature reveals.

The stuff that matters to most of us (the os simulation crowd) is not gonna be appealing to the masses and probably wouldn't make the back of the box.

To say in the article there will be no improvements to Franchise is nothing but a guess and gets people assuming things. I think we should wait before taking this leap.

[Valaskjalf]

Quote: Originally Posted by DeuceDouglas

CFM will be better but by how much, who knows. Like with Big Decisions, was the game better with it? Probably. Would it have been any worse without it? Not at all. My guess is that there aren't any major additions and most of what was done is tuning and tweaking. Gameplanning will probably see the most attention with how shallow and poorly done it was, regression, probably goals again, maybe scouting again. I think we'll probably see coordinators but not position coaches and I don't think they'll have much of an effect on anything outside of maybe some XP discounts or GamePlan boosts. On one hand I like it because it means they'll be working on some aspects that they haven't really implemented fully and need a lot of attention and they'll be able to start actually making them better rather than adding new stuff and leaving them behind. Then on the other hand there is so much that needs to be added/changed or shouldn't be there that I just wish they'd start tearing the bad stuff out and do it the right way. Last year was a complete dud and this year looks that way too as far as new additions but for features that are already in it could be really positive depending on how they execute which is obviously suspect but still.

The biggest frustration to me is that the moment EA makes some big hoo-ha about a new feature, it turns out to be massively underdeveloped. The Big Decisions feature is the perfect example of something that was added, but had absolutely no depth. Same with player regression....it literally came down to "This guy is old so -2 on his skills". All these things need to be fleshed out, going through the regression screen and see 15 players regressing for a singular reason is terribly shallow.

And I fear we will see similar things this year, all these new "features" or additional screens, which essentially adds artificial depth to the game. For instance I dont think I have ever selected the option to bring someone back from injury early instead of starting the backup. It's a gimmick to give you the impression of choice/depth when the answer is pretty obvious.

EDIT: Apologies for this evolving into a rant, probably not the correct place for it. Just showing my apprehension for CFM this year.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Valaskjalf

The biggest frustration to me is that the moment EA makes some big hoo-ha about a new feature, it turns out to be massively underdeveloped. The Big Decisions feature is the perfect example of something that was added, but had absolutely no depth. Same with player regression....it literally came down to "This guy is old so -2 on his skills". All these things need to be fleshed out, going through the regression screen and see 15 players regressing for a singular reason is terribly shallow. And I fear we will see similar things this year, all these new "features" or additional screens, which essentially adds artificial depth to the game. For instance I dont think I have ever selected the option to bring someone back from injury early instead of starting the backup.All these features function as pseudo choices to make it appear as adding depth.

See, this is why it's hard to design a game for 5 million different users and now, hopefully, with the separation of arcade, sim and competitive, that will start changing those dynamics.

I loved the Big Decisions feature. I had players that were good players (WR's) that were two weeks removed from coming off the DL and I was taking a chance they healed quicker.

[Madden08PCgmr]

"What do I think?"

I feel great about my decision to go on Madden sabbatical.

I just can't support this title any longer.


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[ps2sportgamer]

LMAO at dudes talking like they're disappointed over some basic back of the box descriptions. When the features get revealed in detail don't come back on here acting like the game will be good and being your usual corny self. You still gonna buy it like you do every year....

Now for my opinion: Frostbite probably took up a lot of the development cycle but I'm all for change. With 4k probably being included I'm gonna be happy for that too! Coaching adjustments will probably include CB/WR coverage assignments which will be a small but great addition for me.

I'll wait for EA to come in and talk about what they added before i talk about anything else...

[NateDogPack12]

Quote: Originally Posted by ps2sportgamer

LMAO at dudes talking like they're disappointed over some basic back of the box descriptions. When the features get revealed in detail don't come back on here acting like the game will be good and being your usual corny self. You still gonna buy it like you do every year.... Now for my opinion: Frostbite probably took up a lot of the development cycle but I'm all for change. With 4k probably being included I'm gonna be happy for that too! Coaching adjustments will probably include CB/WR coverage assignments which will be a small but great addition for me. I'll wait for EA to come in and talk about what they added before i talk about anything else...

As of now, this is the information we have. When new information becomes available, it's reasonable to assume some people will change their opinion. The purpose of this board is to discuss the information available.

[kjcheezhead]

I was and am a fan of the vision cone. Calling it target passing makes it sound like something different like read and lead from NFL Fever which was really clunky and hard to use.

Hopefully it's a return of the vision cone and the 3 different play styles allows the people that loved/hated it to choose to use it.

Of the feature reveal and the trailer it's really the only piece of information that intrigued me at all.


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