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Yeah I'm so excited. I'm just ready for it to come out already.
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Looks fantastic.
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I picked it up on a 3 day Redbox rental. I’m trying story mode first and its so shitty. I love the old high school coach trying to talk me out of a tryout with the dolphins to stay back with him and coach.
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I'm kind of over Madden. I've kicked the habit of running out and buying a new one every year.
The last one that I owned was the one with Gronk on the cover in 2016. Before that I hadn't bought a copy since the anniversary edition one that came out in 2013. The only reason that I bought that one is because it came with a one year subscription to Sunday Ticket.
The last one that I owned was the one with Gronk on the cover in 2016. Before that I hadn't bought a copy since the anniversary edition one that came out in 2013. The only reason that I bought that one is because it came with a one year subscription to Sunday Ticket.
Smitty
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I’ve been out on Madden for at least 5 years now, probably more like 10.
Kind of all sports games, really. They are just way too big of a time drain to play all the games, run all the franchise mode stuff to completion. Unless you are a kid you don’t have all the time anymore once you are working and have a family.
But especially not for one that doesn’t respect my time like Madden. That game has felt exactly the same for 15 years. The animations, player models, etc, everything is the fucking same with a new layer of shine on it. But why should they change? It prints money hand over fist. They’d be insane to risk losing money by changing something and losing any portion of their fanbase whi still buy it rabidly. Meanwhile the game takes forever to sim weeks (seriously, it has to sum the scores of 16 whole games each week, it should accomplish that in about a half a millisecond, not the 30-45 seconds or longer it always takes), even the menus take literal seconds to load in and out of. And since the interface is still so shitty, to do something as simple as navigate through your franchise mode to check some stats, change a lineup, and check the waiver wire, could require like 4-5-6 different menus all of which take seconds upon seconds to load. The whole experience just drags.
And how about the ridiculous fact that they still don’t let you change personnel in sub-packages outside the actual played game? You have to change the players while picking your play! While the play clock ticks down! Fucking retarded! You can set a depth chart in the menus, but you can’t, for example, put Randy Gregory in for Tyrone Crawford at RE in all dime defensive sets before a game. No, Gregory either starts on the depth chart, meaning he’s the starting DE in all sets, or he’s the backup, and he doesn’t start in any sets.
But you’ve only got like 25 seconds to change it all, to do every sub package you want to change, before the play clock expires.
Madness. They just don’t care.
Kind of all sports games, really. They are just way too big of a time drain to play all the games, run all the franchise mode stuff to completion. Unless you are a kid you don’t have all the time anymore once you are working and have a family.
But especially not for one that doesn’t respect my time like Madden. That game has felt exactly the same for 15 years. The animations, player models, etc, everything is the fucking same with a new layer of shine on it. But why should they change? It prints money hand over fist. They’d be insane to risk losing money by changing something and losing any portion of their fanbase whi still buy it rabidly. Meanwhile the game takes forever to sim weeks (seriously, it has to sum the scores of 16 whole games each week, it should accomplish that in about a half a millisecond, not the 30-45 seconds or longer it always takes), even the menus take literal seconds to load in and out of. And since the interface is still so shitty, to do something as simple as navigate through your franchise mode to check some stats, change a lineup, and check the waiver wire, could require like 4-5-6 different menus all of which take seconds upon seconds to load. The whole experience just drags.
And how about the ridiculous fact that they still don’t let you change personnel in sub-packages outside the actual played game? You have to change the players while picking your play! While the play clock ticks down! Fucking retarded! You can set a depth chart in the menus, but you can’t, for example, put Randy Gregory in for Tyrone Crawford at RE in all dime defensive sets before a game. No, Gregory either starts on the depth chart, meaning he’s the starting DE in all sets, or he’s the backup, and he doesn’t start in any sets.
But you’ve only got like 25 seconds to change it all, to do every sub package you want to change, before the play clock expires.
Madness. They just don’t care.
Smitty
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A much superior game, to be sure, though honestly last time I played that game I felt like it was getting a bit stale too.
Texas Ace
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Great game that continues to try and get better despite having a lock on the market.
EA could learn a lot from them.
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MLB The Show is the last of the great sports games left.
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Texas Ace
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[MENTION=3]boozeman[/MENTION] [MENTION=24]mschmidt64[/MENTION] [MENTION=12]Deuce[/MENTION]
You boys up to round up the old DCC posse?
We'll be missing a lot of the old gang, but maybe we can get some new guys to join.
Those original RDR online sessions were the most fun I ever had playing online with the DCC.....even more fun than the original Madden league.
The moment that always sticks in my mind is Schmitty killing Thorn, followed by him saying "Suck it, Thorn! Oh wait....."
Good times.
You boys up to round up the old DCC posse?
We'll be missing a lot of the old gang, but maybe we can get some new guys to join.
Those original RDR online sessions were the most fun I ever had playing online with the DCC.....even more fun than the original Madden league.
The moment that always sticks in my mind is Schmitty killing Thorn, followed by him saying "Suck it, Thorn! Oh wait....."
Good times.
Texas Ace
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I still have the final NCAA game made and update the rosters every year off of Operation Sports.
I hope that game finds a way to come back.
midswat
... soon
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Wait... you can do that? How? Does it have the players names or just numbers?
I got NCAA 2014 but I didn't like how they changed the recruiting part, so went back to 2013. What I hate about the recruiting cycle is how unrealistic it is with all the 5 star white runningbacks and skill position players. Not racist here but thats completely unrealistic.
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Deuce
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Every year I think of doing this. I may have to now.