How do you play?

[PGaither84]

it surprises me how many people say they only play a few online games and then are done for good. How many of you played ranked game? How many played unranked? in my experience unranked is the way to go. People seem to think that their online ranked rating score thingy matters at all and will play what ever way they think it takes to win. While you will find quitters and cheesers in unranked games as well [cheesers who play unranked games often do so thinking of it as "practice mode"] but a lot of people I have in unranked games like to play real football.

I am just so sick of how easy the computer is to defeat on all-pro mode and how in all-madden mode it has to cheat adn screw you over to make up for what ever skill it lacks. players running the wrong way, abandoning coverages and blocks at the most inopertune times while computer controlled players play with what appears to be 100awareness, knowing your play pre-snap and adjusting accordingly [come out in a big formation in a play action after running the ball hard and well and the defense comes out in a dime, or call a draw on 3rd and 4 out of a 4 wide spread formation and the d is in the 46. Then despite what you do in the audibles, the computer always knows what you audibled into and adjusts accordingly as well... makes me so angry and is so unfun.]

[Sanchez_Mareno]

Solely offline franchise

[Beardown]

Strictly off-line. I do not have the time to commit to an on-line franchise and I am not into just playing random games. I play Madden to build a team over multiple franchise years.

[Purple28Pedestrian]

Quote: Originally Posted by superjames1992

Strictly franchise mode.

+1 4 me

[drtre88]

Strictly offline. I've tried playing online a few times but i definitely noticed lag and it interfered with my gameplay.

[Captain Mallow]

With the new coach mode I'd be interested--for the first time--in some serious online competition, preferably a full-blown franchise.

[JayhawkerStL]

I play a pretty even balance of both. Of course, that has been NFL 2K5 and APFB 2K8 until now. I gave last year's madden a real shot, playing several "league" games as well as offline.

I'm surprised how many people play Madden offline because of just how bad of a representation of football it has always been. But this year's game has me pretty excited.

I post more regularly on another gaming forum, and we have a pretty good group of guys to play games with. Think OS with the kiddies and their hand towel fetishes stripped out. We've played several season of 2K8, and a partial of Madden 09. If Madden hold our attention, I will play that online a ton.

But I don't play random games much at all. It's pretty much friends list only, unless i have a rla itch to try some new gameplan out and no one is around. But the ranked and unranked games are full of pubtards. I have no patience for them, and will drop a game the moment it becomes clear they are going to cheese.

So if enough of my friends are playing it online, I will play it a lot more. Otherwise, we will just kickstart another season of 2K8. I'd love for Madden to bring us back. It's been more than 10 years since EA put out a compelling football game.

[crob8822]

Quote: Originally Posted by PGaither84

it surprises me how many people say they only play a few online games and then are done for good. How many of you played ranked game? How many played unranked? in my experience unranked is the way to go. People seem to think that their online ranked rating score thingy matters at all and will play what ever way they think it takes to win. While you will find quitters and cheesers in unranked games as well [cheesers who play unranked games often do so thinking of it as "practice mode"] but a lot of people I have in unranked games like to play real football. I am just so sick of how easy the computer is to defeat on all-pro mode and how in all-madden mode it has to cheat adn screw you over to make up for what ever skill it lacks. players running the wrong way, abandoning coverages and blocks at the most inopertune times while computer controlled players play with what appears to be 100awareness, knowing your play pre-snap and adjusting accordingly [come out in a big formation in a play action after running the ball hard and well and the defense comes out in a dime, or call a draw on 3rd and 4 out of a 4 wide spread formation and the d is in the 46. Then despite what you do in the audibles, the computer always knows what you audibled into and adjusts accordingly as well... makes me so angry and is so unfun.]

wouldn't it be cool if there was a feature in madden, where you can set up the computer opponents game plan, meaning you can list a group of plays passing or running plays that are commonly run by that team, or better yet they can get the coaches to set up there teams there game plan and program it into madden so in example say I was playing the Pittsburgh Steelers. I will be matching IQ's against Mike Timlin IQ instead of having the computer randomly picking plays. There was a feature in 2K5 where the computer matches your play call habits.