Madden NFL 11 Video: Gus Johnson and Jon Robinson - 5 Minutes of Gameplay

[PantherBeast_OS]

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commentary was great, gameplay stale..I know I know, it's pre alpha

That pretty much what it is. That's why it is prealpha build. So gameplay has gotten better since then.

[jmik58]

Why don't they just put the commentators in a miniature box and ship it with my game. Then they can call the play by play live.

Then if I sold my game to someone else, EA could charge that person $10 to access the Gus-in-a-box feature.

[cowboy_kmoney]

Gus and Collinsworth is going to take this game over the top.

[roadman]

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Why don't they just put the commentators in a miniature box and ship it with my game. Then they can call the play by play live.

Then if I sold my game to someone else, EA could charge that person $10 to access the Gus-in-a-box feature.

Our survey said!

[Lava]

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Nice video. Let's hope the final in-game commentary can live up to the hype, and that Collinsworth sounds better working with Johnson than Robinson did.

[TracerBullet]

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I'm not sure how they write the stuff for the commentary, but I hope they just let the commentators do their thing and write their own stuff.

Usually the staff writes out the commentary. This year, however, they hired writers. They did say they never interfered with what Gus was doing in the booth. They never told him he was too loud or anything like that. Gus also said they gave him a ton of material to go off of. So hopefully its some good stuff.

[Segagendude]

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They're just having some fun with Gus and members of the media who are trying their hand at commentary.

Guess we'll have to wait til E3 to get the REAL in-game commentary. As others have said, let's hope EA doesn't "chop cut rebuild" the audio and make Gus sound like Hammond (or worse).....

[Vikes1]

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If the commentary ends up sounding anything like in this video, what a huge change it would bring.

Thank God EA Tiburon at least listened to one thing...to get rid of Tom Hammond. For what ever the reason, he was terrible.

[Cryolemon]

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I personally think the Madden team would do well to look at MLB 2k10's commentary, which is fantastic. Gus Johnson should be a definite improvement though.

[cdon2k]

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Quoted from the other thread from PacMan83

"How are you making sense? Anyone spending $60 a product only have themselves to blame for not reading the info on it.....Where do these people/ideas come from??? Seriously, of all the conspiracy theories...A lot of times, we create our own smoke screens man."

Yes, we all know that the general public are OUTSTANDING when it comes to doing their own reaserch. No one has ever bought a product based on misinformation before lol. Hell, i'm a poster on OS and I barely caught it do to the fact that I have been busy today. I found it strange that Collinsworth wasn't there and saw an extra link to Kotaku where I actually read the story and rewatched the video. I am not a Madden basher, hell I am even excited for gameflow as I am a "shorter game" person. I love what they are doing with '11, but this seemed like they were trying to slide one by and with the recent 10$ online code, I am sorry if even I am starting to get a bit jaded.

[Lava]

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Quoted from the other thread from PacMan83

"How are you making sense? Anyone spending $60 a product only have themselves to blame for not reading the info on it.....Where do these people/ideas come from??? Seriously, of all the conspiracy theories...A lot of times, we create our own smoke screens man."

Yes, we all know that the general public are OUTSTANDING when it comes to doing their own reaserch. No one has ever bought a product based on misinformation before lol. Hell, i'm a poster on OS and I barely caught it do to the fact that I have been busy today. I found it strange that Collinsworth wasn't there and saw an extra link to Kotaku where I actually read the story and rewatched the video. I am not a Madden basher, hell I am even excited for gameflow as I am a "shorter game" person. I love what they are doing with '11, but this seemed like they were trying to slide one by and with the recent 10$ online code, I am sorry if even I am starting to get a bit jaded.

Think about it: why on earth would EA want anyone to believe that those non-professional, horrible commentators would be replacing Collinsworth this year? They wouldn't. They weren't trying to slide anything by, let it go.

[davep]

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As someone else mentioned...gameplay looked incredibly stale, identical to '10. And I'm not even sure why they released that commentary...it was great, but I could do a voice over watching a madden game and it wouldn't sound half bad.

[cdon2k]

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Good point, I thought of that, but even if it was unintentional, they misrepresented their product at best... and downright lied at worst. Yeah the other guy sounded bad, but hearing Gus live over the game was amazing. I just believe that he will sound no where near that performance in game. It's really not worth it though, consider it dropped.

[Fresh Prince]

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Gus Johnson is GREAT and I'm pleased with the addition.

However, thank God it's Gus Johnson and not Jon Robinson. Seriously, that Jon Robinson guy has no future if he's headed into that direction. Absolutely horrible, IMO. Not just what he says but his knowledge. He's pounding the decision to run the football on 3rd & 1 when you have Frank Gore in the backfield?

[HolyCrap]

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sounds great! Jon Robinson was just doggin dudes awesome. Rippin on Jamarcus...Classic