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Post by M3 Commish on Mar 11, 2010 14:30:52 GMT -8
 Coming out of a media event held yesterday are some hints towards the focus for Madden 11. While we now know that NCAA Football 11 is centered on “core experience, authenticity, and innovation” Madden is being described as “simpler, quicker, and deeper”. Citing different statistics collected through Madden 10, including one that put the average game length at 63 minutes, EA Sports is hoping to compact that or provide options to ease the strain on gamers. An hour long is understandably just too great of a commitment for many to take on. According to EA, of those 63 minutes, only 17 were spent during on-field action. The rest was in navigating plays and menus or through presentational elements. Hopefully EA doesn’t take this to mean that quarter length needs to be shortened. All that does is pressure people to pass more, which results in more incompletions and clock stoppages. The limited number of possessions puts more pressure on the user to conserve time therefore defeating the whole purpose of shortening quarters. The accelerated clock with longer quarters seemed to provide a really nice balance in Madden 10. What will hopefully be done is to provide different options such as in-game saves which has been on the to-do list but missed the cut for the past few years. A quick-play option to skip through the presentation that slows the pace down would also be beneficial, we’ve seen the baseball games go this route. There is also discussion about the streamlining of playbooks, as the average gamer only used 13 plays out of the hundreds available. Ultimately people are going to get comfortable with a handful of plays especially when the playbooks are all relatively similar. I think a great addition, one that has been discussed before, would be custom playbooks. If people could construct their own playbooks from the wide array of plays included in the game (not necessarily create new plays) then it would be much more likely that person would mix up their play selection as well as know where to find each play when they are looking for it. What do you think about EA laying out the plan for Madden 11 to be “simpler, quicker, and deeper”? __________________ Not really sure WHAT to think about this .. I mean, it could be a good thing OR bad thing. Simpler? I'm not sure the masses would like this game being 'simpler' ... quicker? ... Quicker from a standpoint that the game was TOO slow last year? This might be a good thing .. but not TOO much quicker .. and deeper? WTF? ... back to the days of NFL Fever??!?! No thanks! |
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Post by Stodds13 on Mar 12, 2010 8:48:40 GMT -8
63 of the best minutes of my life!!! lol....I don't care if games take an hour, it's football, I don't want to be knocking games out in 20 min...
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Post by xz PRoD1gY zx on Mar 15, 2010 1:49:32 GMT -8
I think the game will just pick you play for you and that's what you gotta use.
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Post by Scubasteve0141 on Mar 15, 2010 8:45:29 GMT -8
I think the game will just pick you play for you and that's what you gotta use. what?  why would you simplify madden, so retards can play instead of crying about it? last year was easily the best madden ive ever played... it needed tweaks but it was a fun game... i agree with stodds i dont want to play a game in 20 mins... if you were playing the right way, instead if chucking it up 45-50X a game the game took 40-45 mins... I do love the Idea of Custom Playbooks.... there were like 7 books i liked but it be nice to combine them... although this means some people will have only 4 plays in there book lol |
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Post by xeo on Mar 15, 2010 12:06:08 GMT -8
I think the game will just pick you play for you and that's what you gotta use. Sdot would like this... right Rsarge? |
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