VSN's exclusive first look at the halftime show in Madden NFL 15!

[TimsGiants]

Im wondering will online franchises get all the presentation bells and whistles finally like intros, overlays and sideline commentating or will it still be bland?

 

[Golden Taters]

Im wondering will online franchises get all the presentation bells and whistles finally like intros, overlays and sideline commentating or will it still be bland?

I hope this gets answered too...

 

[buckeye]

Im wondering will online franchises get all the presentation bells and whistles finally like intros, overlays and sideline commentating or will it still be bland?

Not sure. Its a connectivity issue P2P. Cut scenes end up causing P2P disconnects. Honestly though I have no idea if it will or not.

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[dave]

I bet $1 million that I rush to skip that every time I play Madden. No offence, but I hardly feel inspired by that halftime show. Hell, it feels 10 years too late.

 

[Aso]

The commentary on the halftime show is very awkward with a lot of pauses and the camera view on the highlights is pretty bad (broadcast cam would be perfect). Halftime show is pretty weak in my opinion, will definitely be skipping that a lot.

I hope they can build on this but I feel like we said that about the weekly Extra Point show in Madden 10 and next year that was gone. For so long Madden has been trying to do what 2K had done successfully 10 years ago. It's hard to get excited about that halftime show when you can look at 2K5's or 2K8's and see something much better.

 

[buckeye]

I bet $1 million that I rush to skip that every time I play Madden. No offence, but I hardly feel inspired by that halftime show. Hell, it feels 10 years too late.

I skip every cut scene and whatnot anyways. I look at it like: I'm playing the game... I know what happened.

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[dave]

I skip every cut scene and whatnot anyways. I look at it like: I'm playing the game... I know what happened.

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Yeah, pretty much. But if the halftime show is spectacular, you might watch it occasionally. This halftime show is not spectacular or anything close.

 

[Houston]

10 years ago. No squats, pauses, or extreme close ups.

10 years ago...

 

[j.hen]

10 years ago. No squats, pauses, or extreme close ups.

10 years ago...

Sure, the new half time show might still be ass, but Madden 15 has a cool all new* camera mode you can use on defense with prompts to help you figure out tackling because that shit is totally what you see on Sunday. :yep:

*by "all new" I of course mean recycled from NCAA. This is EA we're talking about after all.

 

[JerzeyReign]

That was decent. The only use I have for a halftime show is to go grab something from the fridge.

 

[j.hen]

Watching 2K's 10 year old half time show reminded me, that game also had a weekly highlight show also commentated by Berman where he went through EVERY game that week and talked about what happened. Some games even had highlights. It was awesome for a number of reasons, you could see what was going on with other teams in your franchise mode and how they're doing, and it was always cool to see what he'd say about what you did that week and maybe see a highlight from your game.

I mean come the fuck on EA, 2K was doing this shit the right way a decade ago.... :smh:

 

[buckeye]

That was decent. The only use I have for a halftime show is to go grab something from the fridge.

Same here. I'm not wasting my time watching a halftime show on any game.

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[ThunderHorse]

Watching 2K's 10 year old half time show reminded me, that game also had a weekly highlight show also commentated by Berman where he went through EVERY game that week and talked about what happened. Some games even had highlights. It was awesome for a number of reasons, you could see what was going on with other teams in your franchise mode and how they're doing, and it was always cool to see what he'd say about what you did that week and maybe see a highlight from your game.

I mean come the fuck on EA, 2K was doing this shit the right way a decade ago.... :smh:

It was nice because for a second there it pulled you back, away from the video game, and made you feel like there was really an NFL season going on with other teams playing real games. Obviously this isn't something a lot of us watched every time. But for those times that you wanted to really rub it in to your homeboy who you just burned on a big play, there was really no better way than to hear Chris Berman talk about it.

In addition to that, in 2K5 you could go back and watch a replay from every play of the game. I'm not sure if Madden even has that now, where you can view EVERY SINGLE PLAY.

It used to be a lot of fun watching some of the explosion plays that would be highlighted from other teams. Berman would also talk about division standings, trades, injuries, etc.

It's conventional wisdom at this point that it's not in EA's best interests to put out a full halftime show that would make everyone happy. What would they sell to us next year?

 

[buckeye]

Maybe they would focus on selling football next year if a small loud group of people didn't complain about not having halftime shows, 3D grass, hand towels and 6 different pairs of shoes...

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[ThunderHorse]

Maybe they would focus on selling football next year if a small loud group of people didn't complain about not having halftime shows, 3D grass, hand towels and 6 different pairs of shoes...

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Maybe if they believed in some of the same base values football helps teach, one of which being accountability, they would look at themselves and not point to others as an excuse for their shortcomings.

That's just a maybe though....

 

[Misogi]

Maybe they would focus on selling football next year if a small loud group of people didn't complain about not having halftime shows, 3D grass, hand towels and 6 different pairs of shoes...

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But they sat on the ESPN license for nearly 10 years with no improvements to presentation :ukiddingme:

 

[Misogi]

Maybe they would focus on selling football next year if a small loud group of people didn't complain about not having halftime shows, 3D grass, hand towels and 6 different pairs of shoes...

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But they sat on the ESPN license for nearly 10 years with no improvements to presentation :ukiddingme:

 

[buckeye]

But they sat on the ESPN license for nearly 10 years with no improvements to presentation :ukiddingme:

EA has the ESPN license not Madden. I know it sounds basically the same but the NFL requires that if Madden uses a brand it needed to use the official network (NFL Network) until recently. So basically it was "use our stuff or build your own"

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[Twigg4075]

Watching 2K's 10 year old half time show reminded me, that game also had a weekly highlight show also commentated by Berman where he went through EVERY game that week and talked about what happened. Some games even had highlights. It was awesome for a number of reasons, you could see what was going on with other teams in your franchise mode and how they're doing, and it was always cool to see what he'd say about what you did that week and maybe see a highlight from your game.

I mean come the fuck on EA, 2K was doing this shit the right way a decade ago.... :smh:

Exactly. If it is just highlights from the game I'm playing that is pretty much a waste of time. Considering this video mentioned it was a playoff game and yet they never cut away to any of the other games, is extremely disappointing.

 

[MVPete]

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