MADDEN 15

[GoShox]

Reading what you guys are saying makes me feel normal. Madden 05 was my first and I absolutely loved it, just like I loved 06 and 07. I got 09 on the Wii and hated it, I'd miss every damn field goal with the Wii Remote and didn't like the gameplay in general. A few years later I got 13 and absolutely hated that one. Ended up getting 15 cause I heard it was good, and while there were improvements.. it just doesn't feel like the game play is as good as 05/06/07 were. At first I thought that it was just a nostalgia thing, but I'm not sure it is anymore. Unfortunately I have those games on the GameCube, not the PC, so there's no way to update the rosters. Also, those soundtracks were freaking amazing. Madden 15 doesn't even have a freaking soundtrack, it's just stock music.

Also, while John Madden got annoying, they absolutely need to get rid of Nantz/Simms. They're horrible

[ragedogg69]

Originally Posted by GoShox

Reading what you guys are saying makes me feel normal. Madden 05 was my first and I absolutely loved it, just like I loved 06 and 07. I got 09 on the Wii and hated it, I'd miss every damn field goal with the Wii Remote and didn't like the gameplay in general. A few years later I got 13 and absolutely hated that one. Ended up getting 15 cause I heard it was good, and while there were improvements.. it just doesn't feel like the game play is as good as 05/06/07 were. At first I thought that it was just a nostalgia thing, but I'm not sure it is anymore. Unfortunately I have those games on the GameCube, not the PC, so there's no way to update the rosters. Also, those soundtracks were freaking amazing. Madden 15 doesn't even have a freaking soundtrack, it's just stock music.

Also, while John Madden got annoying, they absolutely need to get rid of Nantz/Simms. They're horrible

Honestly, I think it all comes down to player animations to why the gameplay sucks. I noticed this a lot while playing NBA2k15 lately. The game developers are all about making animations look as real as possible. So you have all these animations that take FOREVER to complete. RB runs into a lineman? We have an animation for that. Want to change direction while that animation happens? Tough shit. Enjoy running directly into that linebacker because you couldnt change directions. Same goes for playing defense. Same for basketball games. Sports games are no longer intuitive. You have to learn how to play around its gameplay deficiencies.

It is funny how in 3rd person action games, we hammer them if they have animations that do this same thing. Hell, in Wolfenstien, a FPS, you could stop the reload animation in the middle if you needed to. Yet in sports games, taking control away from the player is somehow okay.

[RobBlake]

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

Honestly, I think it all comes down to player animations to why the gameplay sucks. I noticed this a lot while playing NBA2k15 lately. The game developers are all about making animations look as real as possible. So you have all these animations that take FOREVER to complete. RB runs into a lineman? We have an animation for that. Want to change direction while that animation happens? Tough shit. Enjoy running directly into that linebacker because you couldnt change directions. Same goes for playing defense. Same for basketball games. Sports games are no longer intuitive. You have to learn how to play around its gameplay deficiencies.

It is funny how in 3rd person action games, we hammer them if they have animations that do this same thing. Hell, in Wolfenstien, a FPS, you could stop the reload animation in the middle if you needed to. Yet in sports games, taking control away from the player is somehow okay.

thats why even in older maddens.. the animations were sometimes clunky.. but they felt like you can control it more and more realistic feel almost.