Madden 12 concerns

[iamgramps]

From my understanding both NCAA 12 and Madden use the same gameplay engine. However, with the problems NCAA 12 is experiencing (Custom playbooks, graphical mishaps, to name a few) should we be concerned about the state of Madden 12. I'm really hoping these issues are sorted out, because I'm anxiously waiting to get my hands on Madden 12.

[MattIntellect]

Quote: Originally Posted by iamgramps

From my understanding both NCAA 12 and Madden use the same gameplay engine. However, with the problems NCAA 12 is experiencing (Custom playbooks, graphical mishaps, to name a few) should we be concerned about the state of Madden 12. I'm really hoping these issues are sorted out, because I'm anxiously waiting to get my hands on Madden 12.

Madden is releasing much later this year than NCAA Football 12, so I highly doubt you will see the same issues regarding Custom Playbooks and other problems found in NCAA 12 when Madden releases.

[iamgramps]

Quote: Originally Posted by MattIntellect

Madden is releasing much later this year than NCAA Football 12, so I highly doubt you will see the same issues regarding Custom Playbooks and other problems found in NCAA 12 when Madden releases.

Thanks for the reassurance, I appreciate that.

[Smoke6]

Quote: Originally Posted by MattIntellect

Madden is releasing much later this year than NCAA Football 12, so I highly doubt you will see the same issues regarding Custom Playbooks and other problems found in NCAA 12 when Madden releases.

So not true!

Madden has been done for a while now, or else we wouldnt have had bad news about no online franchise upgrades!

Game goes gold like 2 months before release or something to that effect, so what we get from NCAA is about what we're getting from madden until we see details on the launch day patch and even then thats spotty at best.

My concerns is with the game not recognizing when a defender is playing offense and does not account for a "skill rating adjustment", and instead lets the defender play WR like the best of them. We got this DPP but really dont know how well it works with this scenario.

No player should be rated the same "skill rating" wise when they play out of position. Tired of seeing 97 spd corners playing WR and dominating and running routes and making top tier WR like catches in traffic! IMO everything should drop drastically except for spd, if you cant catch good enough to play offense, then being a defender in that situation should be the same.

I would like to see more dropped passes from players in traffic than we already do. The dropping back so many yards with the QB in NCAA is almost perfect and I hope madden does atleast have that going for it for those hike and dash type of players.

I dont care how many people say NANO's can be stopped, but this is a momentum killer for me and seeing people set it up or attempt it just kills my drive for the game. Hopefully this has also been addressed as I am not that much of a big offline player anymore (NCAA is changing that again for now) but hopefully madden follows suit like NCAA offline if all else fails, ill be back to being an offline player!

[Broncos86]

Madden finished? No. Madden gone gold? Yes. There's nothing that says they can't fix these issues with a release day patch. If you feel like worrying, go right ahead.

[RedZoneD25]

Quote: Originally Posted by Broncos86

Madden finished? No. Madden gone gold? Yes. There's nothing that says they can't fix these issues with a release day patch. If you feel like worrying, go right ahead.

If it went gold, it's finished. I don't believe it has yet...typically games go gold a month before release. Features were done early in 2011, it's been bug fixing, tuning, portrait updates, presentation, etc since. Not saying you're wrong, but I have no reason to believe we should be nervous looking at how nice M12 looked at E3, knowing they still had at least a month and a half left to tune.

[jpdavis82]

I hope they make a "Making of Madden 12" series like NCAA 12 is doing, I found that first episode pretty informative and it shows us how much work they actually do and they aren't just sitting around being lazy all day. There's a ton of work that goes into making these games.

[jayjayfree]

^^^^ I agree That was an awesome addition they did, and fun to watch