Comments on: Looking towards Madden 10. http://www.calvertgames.com/cgblog/2009/07/05/looking-towards-madden-10/ @ calvertgames.com Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:26:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jcalvert http://www.calvertgames.com/cgblog/2009/07/05/looking-towards-madden-10/comment-page-1/#comment-31772 jcalvert Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:02:29 +0000 http://www.calvertgames.com/cgblog/2009/07/05/looking-towards-madden-10/#comment-31772 The last few years I have not thought the strategy mattered that much, at least not with the PS3 version. I would not be at all surprised if the PS2 (i.e. last generation) played better from this perspective because the AI has been well refined. Maybe it is the speed of the players, but I always felt like the CPU cheated. I just never felt like I was actually in control by making good use of strategy. If I had decent skills, I think I would have done much better, but what do I know? Over the last 2-3 years I have not invested the same time and energy that I once dedicated to Madden (and NCAA Football) to really learn the ins and outs of the game. From what I am reading about Madden 10, it sounds like a rebirth of the franchise. As always, you either like Madden or you do not. The last few years I have not thought the strategy mattered that much, at least not with the PS3 version. I would not be at all surprised if the PS2 (i.e. last generation) played better from this perspective because the AI has been well refined.

Maybe it is the speed of the players, but I always felt like the CPU cheated. I just never felt like I was actually in control by making good use of strategy. If I had decent skills, I think I would have done much better, but what do I know? Over the last 2-3 years I have not invested the same time and energy that I once dedicated to Madden (and NCAA Football) to really learn the ins and outs of the game.

From what I am reading about Madden 10, it sounds like a rebirth of the franchise. As always, you either like Madden or you do not.

]]> By: wco81 http://www.calvertgames.com/cgblog/2009/07/05/looking-towards-madden-10/comment-page-1/#comment-31767 wco81 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:25:30 +0000 http://www.calvertgames.com/cgblog/2009/07/05/looking-towards-madden-10/#comment-31767 I don't think it's that different, the idea that you can win with strategy instead of pure twitch skills. It's different in those Madden tournaments, where the players are executing the same rocket catch game after game and they do have some precision in the way they run back and forth setting up suction blocking. But otherwise, good strategy like seeing where the coverage is and making good decisions have always worked. In Madden though, the one attribute which mattered more than anything else has been speed. We'll see if that's truly changed. I don’t think it’s that different, the idea that you can win with strategy instead of pure twitch skills.

It’s different in those Madden tournaments, where the players are executing the same rocket catch game after game and they do have some precision in the way they run back and forth setting up suction blocking.

But otherwise, good strategy like seeing where the coverage is and making good decisions have always worked.

In Madden though, the one attribute which mattered more than anything else has been speed. We’ll see if that’s truly changed.

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