Madden NFL 10 Blog: Customization

[DaveDQ]

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Wow, game speed. That is huge to me. Serious.

[sportzbro]

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Now give me an update on the score overlay so I can give some more props to my wishlist!

This....where its at right now is so annoying. If its in the same spot for 10, it at least needs to fade away during play.

[roadman]

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This was a darn good blog. One of my hopes was accelerated clock and it's in.

Yipee Kay Yay

I'm sure we will hear the proverbial, eh, not until game play is shown.

And for the folks that weren't jumping for joy, please notice my sig. The big news comes between draft day through summer.

This, though, was a huge day for me.

Camera options, coach mode, pre-game warm up. Presentation IS getting some LOVE.

[KANE699]

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This....where its at right now is so annoying. If its in the same spot for 10, it at least needs to fade away during play.

Never bothered me but its already been shown that its going to the bottom of the screen.

In franchise mode seeing the games update quater by quater again would be great, I don't think I have seen this since past gen systems and its was awesome to watch.

[sportzbro]

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Never bothered me but its already been shown that its going to the bottom of the screen.

Really, I never read that anywhere, but that's good to hear. Thanks.

[dave374]

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I love all these options.

[J-Unit40]

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Outstanding. The more customization options we have, the happier everyone will be. Well, I guess I can't speak for all of us of course .

Thank you!

[Jistic]

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This was changed to be global in 09. I think this is actually a valid approach - the CPU still has error in all their kicks and power, so to make it so they can't kick as far seemed a little cheap. Obviously if the tuning is busted then that's a problem, but this was changed last year and it actually seems to be ok. If you guys have major complaints with it from 09, then let me know.

As for the penalty sliders, one of the patches in 09 DRASTICALLY improved their importance. Again though, if you guys have any specific feedback on those sliders not working to your liking, send me a PM.

My one concern is that if kicking is too easy, and we make it way more difficult for the human player, will the CPU be missing everything?

I guess I just don't understand why you'd seperate sliders in every other area but not special teams? I guess we'll just have to see.

[Cnada]

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Pre-Game Warm Up, Cool as long as it doesnt become so repetitive the shine goes away too fast after a month you wonder why they work on the cotton candy

Accelerated Clock Cool, never used it myself but if it means i can run down the clock and make the running game meaningfull thats great.

Special Teams, was really hoping a total re-do of st would be done, Kicking game is horrible, no skill all kicks are automatic really is anti-climactic and i dont mean add a camera angle to it.

Not really my cup of tea blog since i dont complain about customising menus or uniforms but i know theres a market for it out there.

Keep it up Ian get those 3am Features in!

[Bump101]

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Great post Ian. The sliders and the ability to tweak the game the way we like is cool, but how come you guys didn't give us the option to adjust kick off and punt return blocking? We have sliders for offense, defense, kicking and punting, but no slider for the return game? It's all most impossible to run a return back, and giving us sliders for would help out a lot.

[KANE699]

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Great post Ian. The sliders and the ability to tweak the game the way we like is cool, but how come you guys didn't give us the option to adjust kick off and punt return blocking? We have sliders for offense, defense, kicking and punting, but no slider for the return game? It's all most impossible to run a return back, and giving us sliders for would help out a lot.

It's not that easy in the NFL or we would have a return a week now wouldn't we, we kind of do now but there are teams that go years without a punt or kick off return for td's, I would like slightly better blocking but not by much, its pretty good the way it is now and isn't super easy to score a td.


In fact I still havent gotten the 2 ko's for td or 2 pr's for td achievements yet.

[Bump101]

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It's not that easy in the NFL or we would have a return a week now wouldn't we, we kind of do now but there are teams that go years without a punt or kick off return for td's, I would like slightly better blocking but not by much, its pretty good the way it is now and isn't super easy to score a td.


In fact I still havent gotten the 2 ko's for td or 2 pr's for td achievements yet.

The point is, why is there sliders for every other position except for the return game? I'm pretty sure Quarterbacking in the NFL isn't easy but you can adjust the QB accuracy, so why not blocking for the return game. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be hard to add.

[PGaither84]

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Great post Ian. The sliders and the ability to tweak the game the way we like is cool, but how come you guys didn't give us the option to adjust kick off and punt return blocking? We have sliders for offense, defense, kicking and punting, but no slider for the return game? It's all most impossible to run a return back, and giving us sliders for would help out a lot.

What's funny ot me about this is my friend on PS3 returned 3 kicks in a ranked game. He saved the replays and I wish when you up load them it would show they were all in the same gae so people could see that feat. He had no O and no D that game, unlike normal. However, 3 returns latter and he won 21-20. For some reason it was very easy for him to return the ball when it waskicked to his left. Just a couple blocks, a broken tackle on one of them and he was gone.

I have returned a few with Rossum, but it takes some luck as the 49ers don't block so well.

I agree that ST in general needs re-tooling. Most game reviewers feel the same way. I have seen year after year IGN talk about ST being a major weak point in Madden, and they give the game a 9.2+ each year. The lack of real, but balanced return options like reverse, fake reverse, return left, return right, hidden onside attempts out of normal kickoff formation [like the 49ers have done many times] and a "safe" return to watch for the fake onside are all missing.

The only addition i saw was the much needed mised FG return that has never been in madden prior to 09. I remember playing NFL 2k2 [note: not 5, two.] and returning missed FG attempts. I had to manually catch them and I did it on a whim the first time. My friend and I were so shocked we tried it every time since then and tested it in Madden each year untill 09. So happy 09 had this.

[Derrville]

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It's not that easy in the NFL or we would have a return a week now wouldn't we, we kind of do now but there are teams that go years without a punt or kick off return for td's, I would like slightly better blocking but not by much, its pretty good the way it is now and isn't super easy to score a td.


In fact I still havent gotten the 2 ko's for td or 2 pr's for td achievements yet.

i think there were over 30 KO and PR for a TD last year

[blackngoldfan]

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Great blog Ian.

It's great to see ALL of the customization options added this year. ESPECIALLY game speed! I absolutely loved the game speed of the Madden '09 demo that came with the NFL DVD, but when I got the retail version, the speed was bumped up a few notches. Total bummer.

One thing that I didn't see in the blog was an option for In-Game Saves. I really hope you guys somehow fit this in the game for us folks with wives and children.