Madden 09 Discussion

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:06 pm

Yeah maybe it is a week or so early but the demo is out today and apparently some people already have the game.

Here is a thread with some EA Sports World videos from OS

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/m ... ideos.html

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:11 pm

http://nutweasel.blogspot.com/

Abner has the game and he is not a Madden fan so we'll see what he has to say.

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:31 pm

I have no plans to visit the Madden 09 train wreck on OS this year.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:32 pm

Those video replays look pretty sweet. Looking real forward to trying the demo this evening!

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:25 pm

Danimal wrote:http://nutweasel.blogspot.com/

Abner has the game and he is not a Madden fan so we'll see what he has to say.

Not a Madden fan means? He dislikes EA? or he prefers 2k?

Downloading demo at this very moment....

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:49 pm

Let me try to explain what I meant.

He is not a 2K die hard, he is just very picky. Things you and I would let go, which is evident by us still playing NCAA

he will not.

I mean from reading the blog he hasn't played much and he is already looking to lower completion percentage. I'm not saying he should be or it's not an issue. I typically tend to play the game for a few days before I start trying to muck with it.

I don't know if any of that makes sense, I just know the demo is pretty fun, so I hope the game turns out the same way.

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:52 pm

I do like the Madden IQ test, now.. is it just a gimmick? Do players deliberately do bad, so their difficulty is lower?

Although I would just play solo, so I guess all that would matter to me is how accurate it adjusts to my skillz.

The game is so much faster than NCAA, and it should be. Running is tough and I failed the first two times because I was stuffed at the line. DOH!

Passing seems good and all the graphics, animations and such seem really well done.

Of course this doesn't really tell any of us how the full game is going to play.

That IQ test did remind me of Tron though!

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:00 pm

Faster than ncaa? I think NCAA is too fast.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:08 pm

Also he is giving no indication on how he is playing just that the cpu is too accurate and he can't find the sliders.

Did he take the iq test? If so is he playing with that on so the cpu is determining the difficulty? Or did he set it to all-pro or all-madden and start playing. I think that is key information to have.

Again not saying he is wrong on what he is saying, I couldn't I don't have the game. But I recall him saying int were still an issue in NCAA on one of his first posts which was incorrect. Right now there just a random dumping of thoughts without a lot of context, so before I jump off the ledge I'll give it some time.

I also wish he would pop in Head Coach and give us some info

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:18 pm

Is the demo just the quiz and the last drive by the Giants in the SB? or am I missing something?

Anyhow ...I like how it looks and how it feels...My one problem that might not be a problem is the Receivers drop alot of passes...

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:19 pm

Danimal wrote:
I also wish he would pop in Head Coach and give us some info

Yes!

and yes you make sense...

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:26 pm

I quit and restarted the demo...Then skipped the quiz and now the receivers arent dropping passes...My imagination? or am I putting more touch on the passes?

jcalvert · Post by **jcalvert** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:32 pm

I always tend to start playing a game with all the default settings - difficulty, sliders, etc. I want to see what the developers intended for the typical, average, mass-market gamer. After I do a few games, then I start adjusting based on what I find.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:37 pm

http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/63813

More sports world videos.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:59 pm

I'm not sure how the difficulty is supposed to work, but I know very little about pigskin football - played the Tron football 'camp', went into the game scenario and then scored a TD in a 2 play, 30 second drive.

Hmmmmm - I thought the whole IQ/Tron mini-games were there to determine the difficult level?

[It was actually quite time efficient because I only had 10 minutes to play so it worked out well]

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:29 pm

Well, I like what I see so far. I'm not finding the game easy. On the contrary, one timeout and a minute forty something is not enough time for me to get all my ducks in a row. The A.I. DB's are playing tough D.

Graphically, it looks gorgeous. It's the best Madden I've seen.

How well it plays on defense is still to be determined.

Are there new camera angles when you drop back to pass? It sure seems like it. I like the look of the passing game.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:04 pm

sportdan30 wrote: Graphically, it looks gorgeous. It's the best Madden I've seen.

Great looking game indeed.

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:27 pm

Rodster wrote:I have no plans to visit the Madden 09 train wreck on OS this year.

Well, if you did, you'd learn that one of the developers said there are no CPU sliders this year.

Yes, you read that correctly. There are sliders for the user, but you can't tweak the CPU directly.

The OS crowd is freaking, and rightly so, but it's not a killer for me. The sliders in Madden have always been s*** anyway -- you could turn down human INT and still pick off four passes a game last year. And I suppose if they wanted to do the adaptive AI maybe sliders screwed it up. But it's a bizarre decision on their part.

grtwhtsk · Post by **grtwhtsk** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:41 pm

How do the CPU sliders just get left out? Unreal.

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/m ... rs-14.html

Post by the developer is on page 14.

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:43 pm

Wow the EA Sports train wreck just keeps getting better all the time. OK it looks like it'll be FIFA AND NHL for me this year.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:49 pm

Brando70 wrote: The OS crowd is freaking, and rightly so, but it's not a killer for me. The sliders in Madden have always been s*** anyway --.

Right on!...they dont mean anything to me.

I have tried em on occasion but I never wind up using them as they do nothing...Same goes for OS.

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:06 pm

F Abner. All the guy has to do all day is play videogames. Nice but if I did that, I would overanalyze everything too.

F EA too if you believe OS. They got all the licenses and are saying F you to us all. just laughing in our faces.

Basically it's LET THEM EAT CAKE mentality.

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:26 pm

OS just went atomic over this announcement.

The CPU sliders don't work in NCAA and they are completely removed in Madden.

Me thinks CPU sliders in NCAA were "work as designed".

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:41 pm

JRod wrote:OS just went atomic over this announcement.

The CPU sliders don't work in NCAA and they are completely removed in Madden.

Me thinks CPU sliders in NCAA were "work as designed".

It is pretty funny...In the end they are the only people who will care though.

EA will sell a billion copies and make a trillion dollars. They sell to the average man not to us.

Personally I dont care as sliders have always seemed a bit fantastic to me.

Edit: I hardly ever venture to OS but this s*** is just too funny and I need the laughs after the Sox game...Im thinking these goofs will go deep into the night.

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:43 pm

wow, shocking. I love the line from EA that the game "adjusts" to your gameplay style (no need for sliders!). One could argue my gameplay style is adjusted to the crappy AI. lol.