Madden NFL 2011

Archimedes wrote: »

It gets my seal of approval

Calvin Johnson is a beast in it. I started off with a Lions franchise. Make sure you go to online mode first, and go to play a head to head so it downloads the updated rosters for you.

Ah good thinking!! Definitely will be starting off with a lions franchise too.

Hey mikey where did you get your copy?

Nothing to see here. Nothing, nothing at all! Ahem.

loving this game,the no sprint button is excellent and my Jets defence is fantastic,did anyone say Blitz:D

Raoul wrote: »

Ah good thinking!! Definitely will be starting off with a lions franchise too.

Hey mikey where did you get your copy?

I got it in HMV for €45, but as I traded in UFC 2010 i got €22 off.

And I would definately be in for a fantasy draft franchine. Sounds like a great idea.

In terms of stories, after dominating the Broncos in week 1 with the Jags, I had a much tougher time against San Diego. With the score at 17-17 and around 90 seconds on the clock I had worked up to the red zone, went for glory... Pass tipped and intercepted by one of their Defensive Tackles, who proceeded to waddle uncontested the full 80 or so yards for the winning score.

Stev_o wrote: »

Who says returning KO was impossible.

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/30634006

Eh? Who says that? I've returned a load of kickoffs for TDs and I'm far from the best player! Online it's even easier with human error added in.

Syferus wrote: »

Eh? Who says that? I've returned a load of kickoffs for TDs and I'm far from the best player! Online it's even easier with human error added in.

Go check the Madden forums and you d see they all complain that its impossible to do which is bs.

The Custom setting is All Pro basically with pass rush turned down to 6 or 7 because my defence was getting picked apart by the AI.

Anyone else think the interface totally sucks and is slow as hell?! Just had the game crashing during my Madden Moments session there. And didn't realise you have the manually save the bloody thing!

Renn wrote: »

Anyone else think the interface totally sucks and is slow as hell?! Just had the game crashing during my Madden Moments session there. And didn't realise you have the manually save the bloody thing!

Okay, it has crashed a number of times at this stage. Wondering if the same is happening other people on the PS3?

NTMK wrote: »

Is there much of a difference between 10 and 11. is 11 worth gettin when i have 10?

Apparently Franchise and Superstar are the same. Gameplay has been changed. I don't have the game, this is just a word of mouth thing.

Played my first couple of online games last night, takes quite a while to complete one! Was nearly sure I was 45 mins playing the first one...

OKay, first off, I know very little about American Football. But I decided to give this game a try, and am starting to learn more about the sport and rules

Loving the game so far. My biggest issue so far is the fumbles. After a few games playing Pro, I switched to All-Pro (it was nice winning games by about 6 touchdowns, but I like a bit more of a challenge). But when there's a fumble and everyone jumps on the ball, I swear I've nearly broken the controller trying to repeatedly press the buttons to get the ball. It's hard enough repeatedly pressing the button without having to switch button every few seconds. It was hard enough doing it on Pro, but All-Pro is just damn near impossible.

I'll read through all the previous pages of this thread later, but if anyone has any tips and tricks for the game they'd be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

I won a fight for the fumble earlier on All-Pro when the CPU should really have gotten the ball. Almost broke the controller.

Im starting to steamroller teams on All-Pro now with the Jags, still leaking scores but im putting up anywhere between 35-50 points each week, but the jump to All-Madden is just too much.

Syferus wrote:

It's not a valid comparision - non-sport series outside of Guitar Hero and Rock have development times that are at least twice that of yearly sports sims. You can rightly lothe the yearly cash-in if you want, but don't discount the amount of work that has to go in at the coalface to make the game each year.

It's a valid comparison because the price point is the exact same. I can understand a €30 yearly update if there won't be huge gameplay tweaks. The answer to a smaller development window is having more staff. There is a clear difference in the work loads put into Madden 10-Madden 11 and any other AAA title of the same price point.

I will buy madden if the price drops (and its decently patched) but I'm really disappointed that after such a stellar last year this edition has such incremental improvements.

Madden and NCAA have huge staffs to get them out the door already - there is such a thing as budgets and minimum wage! Much of the money is tied up in the NFL licenses to begin with in any case. Every single year is an incremetal improvement - just because emotionally a certain new mode feels more value-added to you doesn't mean any less work went into the game this year as opposed to last.

Well if 80% of the game is untouched (offline and online franchise, superstar etc.) and since 2006 basic features put into 2k5 and ps2 madden still haven't made the cut I don't buy that a) that much thought or b) that much effort has gone into madden 11. If they had focussed on refining the game engine I wouldn't care about new features but they really have to provide one or the other.

It's not a valid comparision because you're not comparing like for like in anything but price - you can lambast it for being too pricey or for having less advancement per edition as a series like Mass Effect, but if you try to combine the two you have to ignore the fact that budgeting and development time are hugely different in those respective cases.

I appreciate they have a compressed development window. They also make insane amounts of sales. In three years of development madden spawns three editions to your average AAA titles one. So you'd expect that in that year with all of the money they made that they could devote larger teams to make meaningful changes to the game. With the stellar greathouse patch of backbreaker (tiny development team, short time frame) the madden excuses just don't seem to work.

tallaghtoutlaws wrote: »

Backbreaker and short time frame to be fair cannot go into the same sentence. Took them 3 years to get it out. And it has many flaws and to be fair the game engine and player movement is unique compared to Madden but the game is not great. So much to improve on. Their ability to fix and grow this game will show now over the next year or so. If they can rattle out a better version next year then you can actually compare it to Madden for development time.

As a person who dislikes Madden I thought Backbreaker might offer something different but it didn't and to be honest with you wont gain any ground over Madden. I will stick to NCAA.

My mention of short time frame referred to the greathouse patch where a huge number of fixes were implemented in a short timeframe. Compared to EA's crap attention to online franchise for Madden 10 it shows what can be done with willpower. You can bet Natural Motion had a fraction of the mooola that EA have for manpower. Agreed that backbreaker isn't the be all and end all of football games but they did a hell of a lot more with their development cycle (even over 3 years) than EA have done since Madden 2006!

Wompa1 wrote: »

Has anyone noticed wierd stuff going on with their game?

2 of my players celebrated after an incomplete pass, the referee announced Holding Offense, Declined, Repeat 4th Down...then it went to the other teams 1st down...

Its tougher to time a last ditch field goal cus you have to judge the meter bar

Maybe they want trades.

kilns wrote: »

Guys

Are any of you in an all ireland franchise in Madden 11 for the xbox?

I am sure we could rustle together 32 guys from Ireland who would be interested??

I'd be up for it. Throw my hat in for Galway...Any idea how to structure something like this? is it 1 game a week, twice a week? does it have to be on set days? I've always wanted to play in a torunament online in a game but never have.