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Re: Madden NFL 11 Review
Unfortunately, the numbered score is going to be what is looked at here, and with that will come a very satisfied executive at EA Sports, which will in turn continue to hurt this franchise.
How this game merits the numbered score of 9.0 is baffling. Can you say they made progress and improved key features that now offer a solid gameplay experience? Sure. But giving this game a numerical value of 9 looks to this game's glaring issues and completely ignores them. A simple example would be that the game's play action system is broken. The review even mentions this...
"If you call a play-action pass with a designed rollout, it’s almost an automatic loss of a play because somebody will usually blow an assignment. I have noticed that the linemen are protecting the pocket instead of where the quarterback is rolling to during these plays."
What does that tell me? It tells me the game's blocking is still broken, and along side the above quote are numerous comments and specific videos that show simple blocking assignments being missed. What about these horrible single defender tackles where all other defenders are virtually rolling off of the offensive player? Why is this continually ignored by countless reviewers? It is a key factor of football, a contact sport. Tackling is broken and remains that way in Madden 11. Tackling. And yet this football game scores a 9. One point away from a 10?
I'm not one to over react about scores and what is attributed to one specific game, but in a situation where this is it, this is our only NFL game, it receiving a 9 should mean it sets very high standards.
Does Madden 11 really do that?Last edited by DaveDQ; 08-09-2010, 03:34 PM.Being kind, one to another, never disappoints.Comment
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One of the stupidst threads I've ever seen.
Seriously... a review goes up, and instead of using the review to decide if the game is worth the purchase to them, they go in and review the review, giving it low marks if it doesn't match what they want to feel about the game.
Reviews are not written for the purpose of justifying your feelings. It's almost like you guys take pride in seeing Madden get poor reviews.
Let me let you all in on a little secret; these reviews aren't meaningless. The are read and taken into account by the higher ups at EA. Perhaps that seems dumb and short sighted, but that's how they look at it. Peter Moore is a big Metacritic fan. So... if Madden's review scores start tanking now, it's good by Locomotion and Real Assignment AI, and welcome back The Ring and Virtual Trainer.
Personally, even if I disagree with everything the reviewer says, I want to see good reviews. Madden may be a long ways out from what you want, but at least it's pointed in the right direction the past couple of years. The last thing I wanna see is an about face.There are two types of people on OS: Those who disagree with me, and those who agree.
The first kind is wrong. The second is superfluous.
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One of the stupidst threads I've ever seen.
Seriously... a review goes up, and instead of using the review to decide if the game is worth the purchase to them, they go in and review the review, giving it low marks if it doesn't match what they want to feel about the game.
Reviews are not written for the purpose of justifying your feelings. It's almost like you guys take pride in seeing Madden get poor reviews.
Let me let you all in on a little secret; these reviews aren't meaningless. The are read and taken into account by the higher ups at EA. Perhaps that seems dumb and short sighted, but that's how they look at it. Peter Moore is a big Metacritic fan. So... if Madden's review scores start tanking now, it's good by Locomotion and Real Assignment AI, and welcome back The Ring and Virtual Trainer.
Personally, even if I disagree with everything the reviewer says, I want to see good reviews. Madden may be a long ways out from what you want, but at least it's pointed in the right direction the past couple of years. The last thing I wanna see is an about face.Comment
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One of the stupidst threads I've ever seen.
Seriously... a review goes up, and instead of using the review to decide if the game is worth the purchase to them, they go in and review the review, giving it low marks if it doesn't match what they want to feel about the game.
Reviews are not written for the purpose of justifying your feelings. It's almost like you guys take pride in seeing Madden get poor reviews.
Let me let you all in on a little secret; these reviews aren't meaningless. The are read and taken into account by the higher ups at EA. Perhaps that seems dumb and short sighted, but that's how they look at it. Peter Moore is a big Metacritic fan. So... if Madden's review scores start tanking now, it's good by Locomotion and Real Assignment AI, and welcome back The Ring and Virtual Trainer.
Personally, even if I disagree with everything the reviewer says, I want to see good reviews. Madden may be a long ways out from what you want, but at least it's pointed in the right direction the past couple of years. The last thing I wanna see is an about face.Being kind, one to another, never disappoints.Comment
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WOW, the Madden series has become a shoe-in to get a 9 or close to on here (Madden 11=9.0 Madden 10= 9.0 Madden 09=8.5). I know different people review certain sports on here, but there should be some consideration of how the other sports games were rated with their + & - and then evaluating how this game stacks up because according to O.S reviews, Madden 11 is a better game than MLB the Show, and in The Show review, it was deducted points because a lot of the gameplay elements and mechanics were tweaked or stayed the same despite some of those elements already being good/great in its current state. A good portion of Madden has stayed the same even by the reviewer's own admission, and that includes the problems that's been in the game for YEARS on in, but yet it isn't a big burden against the game, which would anchor down the score....
I can only imagine what the score will be when they actually start making big changes, and start really innovating.
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One of the stupidst threads I've ever seen.
Seriously... a review goes up, and instead of using the review to decide if the game is worth the purchase to them, they go in and review the review, giving it low marks if it doesn't match what they want to feel about the game.
Reviews are not written for the purpose of justifying your feelings. It's almost like you guys take pride in seeing Madden get poor reviews.
Let me let you all in on a little secret; these reviews aren't meaningless. The are read and taken into account by the higher ups at EA. Perhaps that seems dumb and short sighted, but that's how they look at it. Peter Moore is a big Metacritic fan. So... if Madden's review scores start tanking now, it's good by Locomotion and Real Assignment AI, and welcome back The Ring and Virtual Trainer.
Personally, even if I disagree with everything the reviewer says, I want to see good reviews. Madden may be a long ways out from what you want, but at least it's pointed in the right direction the past couple of years. The last thing I wanna see is an about face.
Sidenote: I wish folks would stop saying people want Madden to receive low marks....nothing could be further from the truth. We simply want the review to be genuine and the standard to be upheld across the board...no special treatment.“What’s better than one billionaire? 2.....”Comment
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This is exactly right.Comment
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It is not about the review not matching what people want it to say, it is about the review not being objective. Further more people have the right to an opinion about something that seems to be better suited for the back of a box, rather than a review breaking down the game.
Sidenote: I wish folks would stop saying people want Madden to receive low marks....nothing could be further from the truth. We simply want the review to be genuine and the standard to be upheld across the board...no special treatment.Comment
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One of the stupidst threads I've ever seen.
Seriously... a review goes up, and instead of using the review to decide if the game is worth the purchase to them, they go in and review the review, giving it low marks if it doesn't match what they want to feel about the game.
Reviews are not written for the purpose of justifying your feelings. It's almost like you guys take pride in seeing Madden get poor reviews.
Let me let you all in on a little secret; these reviews aren't meaningless. The are read and taken into account by the higher ups at EA. Perhaps that seems dumb and short sighted, but that's how they look at it. Peter Moore is a big Metacritic fan. So... if Madden's review scores start tanking now, it's good by Locomotion and Real Assignment AI, and welcome back The Ring and Virtual Trainer.
Personally, even if I disagree with everything the reviewer says, I want to see good reviews. Madden may be a long ways out from what you want, but at least it's pointed in the right direction the past couple of years. The last thing I wanna see is an about face.
So, I do respect your feeling on this matter as you clearly want this game to progress in the direction many of us do, but does a higher review score really do that when it's still lacking in major areas? Hopefully, you are right and it gives the dev team more leeway to do things how they would really like to.Comment
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What he said...Taz/BigSmallz are pretty reasonable, but other posts in this thread are ridiculous. It's like reviewers aren't supposed to like the game. Guys in here want to see the game trashed here and there, because they aren't happy with it. If reviews mean that much to you guys and you don't like the ones posted here, read through the impressions threads. Hang around long enough and you'll get and idea of the posters that are reasonable and realistic in their opinions/expectations and what to disregard (too positive/negative)...and still to each his own
Edit: Many reviews i read seem vague and don't address what i want them too, at this point i kinda expect it to be that way, leaving that incomplete feeling afterwards...seems to be the way nowLast edited by Pacman83; 08-09-2010, 04:19 PM.
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What he said...Taz/BigSmallz are pretty reasonable, but other posts in this thread are ridiculous. It's like reviewers aren't supposed to like the game. Guys in here want to see the game trashed here and there, because they aren't happy with it. If reviews mean that much to you guys and you don't like the ones posted here, read through the impressions threads. Hang around long enough and you'll get and idea of the posters that are reasonable and realistic in their opinions/expectations and what to disregard (too positive/negative)...and still to each his ownComment
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Madden will always be Sim-Lite, good entertaining game of football. EA will not not do anything to rock the apple cart with the casual fans. The fan base is huge. You would think they would at least throw the diehards a bone and deliver the option of a true sim. Maybe they will, who knows. I don't have the time to invest in it anymore except a few games on the weekends. I'll still buy it because it's a good sim-lite game.Comment
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so has anybody figured out if the short replays and no halftime show is only for the ps3 or is it for the 360 as wellComment
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