04-16-2016, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Re: Madden Ultimate Team - Salary Cap Ranked Beta Coming Soon to Madden NFL 16
I remember believing that all of these UT modes were lame cash grabs and wanting a decent franchise mode. But the reality is, Madden, and even the old 2K games have never been sims. The notion that a game that lets you juke, spin, and truck was a sim was laughable.
But sports gaming on the PC died, taking games like FBPro down with them. As the console games began to look better it has been tempting to think of them as sims, but they never were.
At some point MUT clicked with me. It wasn't sim, it was just fun. Draft Champions has been a revelation. It was the first time I had as much fun playing h2h as I did in Madden 94, when it was a group of friends playing and taking turns on the couch. It exposed the great flaw of MUT, which was the number of unbalanced games.
So getting a salary cap suddenly makes MUT fun again.
What makes MUT and DC is that you get the fun of team building and crafting a strategy outside of the narrow confines of what constitutes realistic. That seems counterintuitive, except that there has never been a single sports game on a console in which team building even approaches realism. Sure, they might have FA, Drafts, and salary caps, but there a million ways it fails. So you end up with thread after thread of annoyed gamers wanting this, that, or the other thing fixed.
But now I just team build and play. The games are great and competitive, and the strategy makes football sense. The only thing that would make it better is if CFM curmudgeons would give it a try and add a ton of more educated sports gamers to the mix.
While I think the exploit complaints are BS, it does get old beating the guys that keep trying. There are plays to beat everything, and going for it on 4th and onsides kicks hurt your chances.
But I find that establishing the run opens up the passing game, field position and time of possession matter, and exploiting match ups are key.
It's been a breath of fresh air to just play and have fun, not worrying about sliders, sims, and ridiculous progression schemes.
And seriously, you don't need to spend a dime to enjoy the mode. That goes double now that they are introducing a salary cap. Yes, they tempt you. But you might be amazed at how many coins you earn just playing solos.
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