Quick Look: Madden NFL 15

Vinny I believe dressing up in someone else's uniform is legal in hockey as I saw it in this hockey documentary.

I thought a large reason of playing sports games was so you didn't have to deal with the dumbass announcer cutaways and constant commercials. Shows what I know!

@deepspaceoctopus said:

So magical to hear Alex is a Patriots fan.

Oh yeah, he totally is. Not sure how hardcore he is but I remember him already living in New York when the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl. I'm guessing that wasn't fun for him.

Totally agree. Alex takes it all way too seriously, but it should satisfy thin-skinned football fans who freak out everytime Jeff makes fun of the ridiculous menus.

Wide Right

So sad that Alex tells vinny to go for a poor team then chooses one of the highest rated in the game.

Alex Navarro should never be allowed to Quick Look sports games. It should be Dan and Jeff, or Vinny and Vinny's imaginary friend. I miss the idiocy

Awesome, just what I was thinking of.

The whole 60 dollar pricetag on top of excessive sponsorships and micro-transactions for an annual franchise really strikes home how important competition is.

@alex Dont feel bad for the bills they do it to themselves. I would say feel bad for ralph wilson never seeing a superbowl win, but he made a shitload of money off that team.

@ljrepoman: do you enjoy being insufferable?

yay amercian handegg

If you bombed out of this early because it's not Jeff and Vinny enough you should stick with it, it's certainly Vinny enough!

Finally somebody who actually understands the game...

I don't think it's Alex taking it too seriously, it's that he reviews Madden every year, probably whether he likes to or not and as such just knows the game but he's kind of stuck with it as he knows the changes just like how I'd imagine Dan would know any changes in wrestling.

Vinny just wasn't ready for some FOOTBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@molenator85: Well, to be fair Pete Carroll hasn't come out publicly as a 9/11 truther, he just asked a retired general a bunch of questions about the various conspiracy theories during a private conversation and someone leaked it to deadspin.

FOOTBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Lots of good ideas for future football titles in this QL. Tackling minigames instead of the animation where your soul gets stolen, vuvuzela and angry bee swarm weather options, special abilities like disguising your player to be on the other team...

"New York's got a lot of football teams." No they don't Vinny. They have one, the Bills are the ONLY NY football team. Those poser ass Jets and Giants play in Jersey.

"servers are usually good in EA Sports Stuff"

Uh ... Maybe it's just me but for years I found EA Sports almost unlpayable online. I gave up on them a few years back, I guess they got that worked out now?

*breathes in*

FFFFFFFFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTBAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Interesting that Alex mentioned SBnation's Breaking Madden series, I believe there was an episode where they featured Tecmobowl era Bo Jackson, with max stats. The result was kinda predictable!

Achk, I hate stuttering/hitcheyness. I can handle low framerates and bad graphics, but full-stop stuttering drives me crazy.

Oh wow thanks Alex for recommending "Breaking Madden," I've spent the last couple of days just reading through that guy's game breaking articles

It's pretty amazing.

Great QL btw!

the audio ducking is really nice, I imagine it wont sound good for dialogue heavy games but for this it works great.

it's weird seeing Madden on a Playstation

I miss Jeff and Vinny.

Wait.

ALL my rowdy friends are coming over tonight?!

Why i dont care or watch football anymore. Every pass play is basically nothing but a cross pattern(outside of a few qbs) and every pass is less than 5 yards. The other reason is i cant stand that they wont let the players on the field call the plays but have to have some dumb ass on the sideline tell them when its 3rd adn 1, run the ball.

Jeff and Vinny's Giant Bomb Sports Crew will always be first in my heart, but this quicklook was pretty great!

Sadly, EA does not want my money, so it is not on PC.

Really enjoyed watching a quick look sports video on GB O_o

Great quick look! Madden looks good this year, and I'm looking forward to playing it!

What are the fanny packs that some of the players wear?

The rag doll physics reminds me of sumotori dreams.

Good thing one half of Giant Bombs expert sports team was here to teach sports amateur Alex some things.

I've been playing the trial and so far it's a much better game than Madden 25. Just like Vinny and Alex said if you haven't picked this game for years, this year's Madden is great!

Go Dallas Ducks

They're hand warmers, especially useful for QBs in colder games.

I'm glad that Vinny finally stopped acting like he knows nothing about football.

Ew, patriots? Jesus, Alex.....

@deavyin: What an amazingly shitty and douchebaggy comment.

How did they run? How did they track distance, or keep track of exactly where the ball should be placed between plays?