Young told Polygon that much of Longshot’s story focuses on Devin’s relationship with his father, Cutter Wade, played by Moonlight Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. In addition to doubts about whether he’s good enough to reach the NFL, Devin is carrying some emotional baggage. Only five of the 32 NFL teams are projected to start a black quarterback this season, and considering the continuing outcry over the fact that Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned, this is an issue that Longshot will hopefully touch on. But you may have to prioritize Devin’s interests over those of his partner in crime.ĭevin has a particularly tough road to success in the league, since he is black. ![]() He said that Longshot will throw some tough decisions at you, like situations involving Devin and his best friend, Colt, whom Young described as “basically brothers.” Colt, who’s played by Friday Night Lights alum Scott Porter, is a wide receiver - the natural counterpart to a quarterback - and he’s trying to travel the same difficult path to the NFL as Devin. Those reductive options have “always felt like they weren’t real choices,” said Young. Dialogue selections amount to “press A to placate your coach or B to be a demanding jerk.” Existing story modes in other sports games tend to limit their interactivity to simple binary decisions, reducing the player character’s path to one of two cliches: the me-first hothead, or the humble team player. But it sounds like Young and Zuniga worked hard to flesh out the character of Devin, to tell a story that - like the mode itself - is about more than football alone. We didn’t get a look at Longshot ourselves. ![]() “A lot of inner conflict with the story is Devin trying not to give up on himself.” “A lot of people would rather just not try, versus facing the embarrassment of not making it,” said Young. Lemon - himself a former NFL prospect - is laying it all on the line for his last shot at making it to the NFL, which is a courageous act in and of itself. The story at the heart of Longshot is fundamentally about giving up on your dreams. EA Tiburon/Electronic Arts A dream worth chasing “Our philosophy was a playable movie, versus, like, a career mode with cutscenes,” he said. In fact, Young repeatedly returned to that description, promising “movie-quality” writing, acting, visuals and production values. The operative word there is “story.” Young and Longshot’s other lead writer, Adrian Todd Zuniga, wanted to tell a specific tale about a particular character - and do it in a way that was on par with a sports film. “This is a story about getting to the NFL.” “All of the games within Longshot, none of them are the main character playing a 2017 NFL schedule,” Young explained in an interview with Polygon this week. That’s not how Madden 18’s story mode works. Those experiences are largely built around playing through a particular sport’s regular season games in the schedule are interspersed with cutscenes. Story modes are becoming more and more common in simulation sports games, and most of them - NBA 2K’s M圜areer, MLB The Show’s Road to the Show and even FIFA 17’s The Journey, to name some prominent examples - tread a similar path: You step into the shoes of a can’t-miss prospect who will inevitably blaze through the minor leagues, college ball and/or training camp before debuting at the pro level, where they will surely become a perennial all-star and future Hall of Famer. “This is a story about getting to the NFL”
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