I am an avid Madden player and I always try my best to enjoy the game. I know Madden has been no where near perfect ever since the next gen versions of the game came out, but I feel the game has lots of potential and it has a decent base to go off. With that in mind, I do wish that Madden can be improved further and I wish the EA would take our thoughts into consideration before putting out Madden 16. So without further ado, here is my wish-list of things that I hope to be added into Madden 16 as well as things that can be improved:
Scouting Combine For Connected Franchise
When I say scouting combine, I mean for both the player mode and for the owner/coach mode. For player mode, I don't like the idea of picking your team and then just playing games. In my opinion, I feel like this was a bit of laziness on EA's part. I liked how in Madden 07 they had the scouting combine where your created player would go through all the drills that NFL draft prospects go through such as 40-yard dash, bench press, shuttle run, vertical jump, etc. I feel that when I played superstar mode on Madden 07, that is the one I enjoyed the most because it felt like I was in the shoes of a college prospect preparing for the NFL draft, which is how the mode should be.
As far as the owner/coach mode portion of connected franchise goes, I don't like the system they have for scouting players. It just feels kinda boring to me that I don't get to test these players through the scouting combine drills. Rather, I pay scouting points to have the game tell me what the ratings are. That is not fun to me. In previous games, they had this option and when the NFL draft came, they would should the prospect's 40-yard time, bench press and everything else. I think its a more realistic experience to the draft if they formatted it like this rather. I know how much everyone loves the draft (as do I), so why not work on realism when it comes to scouting for the draft? The draft experience itself seems ok to me. I think it is sufficient enough to give a bit of a realistic experience, but it would still be a cool addition if they showed maybe the top 10 picks standing by the commissioner and maybe even the commissioner announcing the names of the picks.
Create-A-Draft Class
This is one I would love to see in particular. Honestly, I was not a fan of importing draft classes from NCAA because even though they had the names of the real players, there was always problems. I noticed in several situations where they put pictures of players that didn't even look like them and I saw several of the same pictures for more than one player, which makes absolutely no sense. Also, I did have problems with age. For some reason, they made a lot of the prospects 24 or 25 years old which was really frustrating. I just didn't like importing the classes because it didn't feel realistic enough for me. So rather than importing draft classes, why not have an option to create your own players and put them in your own custom draft class? I know there are a lot of players in the draft, so if someone doesn't want to create 200+ players, the player can just create the players they want and then maybe the game can have a system where it randomly generates random players for the rest of the draft class. This is just my thought on how it can work and I know there is probably a better way to execute this idea, but in general, I would love to see this feature in the game.
Create-A-Team
Self explanatory. I loved in the older games being able to create my own team, make them a cupcake team, then rebuild them in franchise mode. This was always something I did in Madden and it frustrated me when they took this out. It didn't make sense to me that they would take out a feature they've had in almost every single Madden game out of nowhere. So bring this back EA. I'm sure everyone would agree with me here. They can format it similar to the team builder in NCAA. I want to have full customization of the uniforms, the stadium details, and anything else.
Improve WR/DB Interaction
Not much to be said here. Man coverage is still broken and I feel like WRs always have the advantage. If I have a corner like Patrick Peterson or any of the other top corners in the league, I shouldn't expect to see some average that has an Overall of 80 or less beat out a corner with a rating of 90+ for over 100 yards in a game. That shouldn't happen. Period.
Improve CPU AI Playcalling
I've had games where I was up by 4 in the 4th quarter with like 1 minute left and the computer has the ball. They need a touchdown and they have no timeouts. What do they do? They run the ball. Not logical obviously. Needs to be fixed. That is a huge bug that is very irritating. I don't wanna win because of the AI bug. Fix this.
Those are some of the major things I came up with. I am a player who honestly doesn't care for presentation much, just gameplay. I don't care how good the presentation is. If the gameplay isn't good, then I can't enjoy it. That just goes without saying. Enough of focusing on presentation EA. It's time to start fixing the gameplay. Those are my thoughts. What do you guys think Madden 16 should have or what do you believe should be improved?
Scouting Combine For Connected Franchise
When I say scouting combine, I mean for both the player mode and for the owner/coach mode. For player mode, I don't like the idea of picking your team and then just playing games. In my opinion, I feel like this was a bit of laziness on EA's part. I liked how in Madden 07 they had the scouting combine where your created player would go through all the drills that NFL draft prospects go through such as 40-yard dash, bench press, shuttle run, vertical jump, etc. I feel that when I played superstar mode on Madden 07, that is the one I enjoyed the most because it felt like I was in the shoes of a college prospect preparing for the NFL draft, which is how the mode should be.
As far as the owner/coach mode portion of connected franchise goes, I don't like the system they have for scouting players. It just feels kinda boring to me that I don't get to test these players through the scouting combine drills. Rather, I pay scouting points to have the game tell me what the ratings are. That is not fun to me. In previous games, they had this option and when the NFL draft came, they would should the prospect's 40-yard time, bench press and everything else. I think its a more realistic experience to the draft if they formatted it like this rather. I know how much everyone loves the draft (as do I), so why not work on realism when it comes to scouting for the draft? The draft experience itself seems ok to me. I think it is sufficient enough to give a bit of a realistic experience, but it would still be a cool addition if they showed maybe the top 10 picks standing by the commissioner and maybe even the commissioner announcing the names of the picks.
Create-A-Draft Class
This is one I would love to see in particular. Honestly, I was not a fan of importing draft classes from NCAA because even though they had the names of the real players, there was always problems. I noticed in several situations where they put pictures of players that didn't even look like them and I saw several of the same pictures for more than one player, which makes absolutely no sense. Also, I did have problems with age. For some reason, they made a lot of the prospects 24 or 25 years old which was really frustrating. I just didn't like importing the classes because it didn't feel realistic enough for me. So rather than importing draft classes, why not have an option to create your own players and put them in your own custom draft class? I know there are a lot of players in the draft, so if someone doesn't want to create 200+ players, the player can just create the players they want and then maybe the game can have a system where it randomly generates random players for the rest of the draft class. This is just my thought on how it can work and I know there is probably a better way to execute this idea, but in general, I would love to see this feature in the game.
Create-A-Team
Self explanatory. I loved in the older games being able to create my own team, make them a cupcake team, then rebuild them in franchise mode. This was always something I did in Madden and it frustrated me when they took this out. It didn't make sense to me that they would take out a feature they've had in almost every single Madden game out of nowhere. So bring this back EA. I'm sure everyone would agree with me here. They can format it similar to the team builder in NCAA. I want to have full customization of the uniforms, the stadium details, and anything else.
Improve WR/DB Interaction
Not much to be said here. Man coverage is still broken and I feel like WRs always have the advantage. If I have a corner like Patrick Peterson or any of the other top corners in the league, I shouldn't expect to see some average that has an Overall of 80 or less beat out a corner with a rating of 90+ for over 100 yards in a game. That shouldn't happen. Period.
Improve CPU AI Playcalling
I've had games where I was up by 4 in the 4th quarter with like 1 minute left and the computer has the ball. They need a touchdown and they have no timeouts. What do they do? They run the ball. Not logical obviously. Needs to be fixed. That is a huge bug that is very irritating. I don't wanna win because of the AI bug. Fix this.
Those are some of the major things I came up with. I am a player who honestly doesn't care for presentation much, just gameplay. I don't care how good the presentation is. If the gameplay isn't good, then I can't enjoy it. That just goes without saying. Enough of focusing on presentation EA. It's time to start fixing the gameplay. Those are my thoughts. What do you guys think Madden 16 should have or what do you believe should be improved?
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