Reasons to Hate the Madden Mulligan Feature

[RaychelSnr]

Wil McCombs returns from his long hiatus to give us another article, this time discussing why he hates (and why you should also hate) the Madden Mulligan feature. Check out his article here.

"A while back, I brought to light the debate of restarting your console mid-game, to avoid the agony of defeat. While the feedback of said article was largely not in favor of such an activity, I have a sneaking suspicion that last year’s Madden/NCAA turnover system led to an all-time high in in-game restarts."

[hq3000]

Great article, it definitely seems EA's approach is in the wrong direction. I have honestly never heard of a do-over system like this. Its a bit silly that something like this needs to be implemented to a game but I'm sure they have some asinine reasoning to it. We'll see if this game is good but I'm starting to doubt I'll buy another Madden again. And thats a sad feeling because its the only game I have bought since I was little.

[Pared]

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Madden is no longer Madden. It's a "fun little sports game that everyone can play!!!"

There's Mario, and then there's Madden. Pretty much EA's pipe dream in a nutshell.

And we can't do anything about it. Grin and bear it b/c there's nothing you can do. Either adapt or get out.

[Trevytrev11]

This is probably the worst feature added to a sports game since MLB 2K added "Slamzone"

One of the beauties of sports in general is being the Monday Morning Quarterback and second guessing a coaches play calling, substitution, etc.

This takes all of that away. Run up the middle 4th and 1 and get stuffed...just hit rewind and punt it.

Think the safty blitz will catch the opponent blind sided and get an easy sack only to have your blitz picked up and have the QB hit the open WR for a 80 Yard TD? Just rewind and stick to your cover 2.

Sports is all about reacting quickily and exactly to what your opponent does. It's reacting to no-huddle offense. It's rotating properly on defense to cover the open man on the wing. It's looking fastball and reacting to a curveball. This is the beauty of sports and EA is ruining it.

[JBucc]

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Good lord quit being a bunch of crybabies. If you don't like it turn the damn thing off. EA doesn't have a gun to your head forcing you to rewind.

[K_GUN]

Re: Reasons to Hate the Madden Mulligan Feature

like slamzone, just ignore it

online?....why would u even play a guy like that anyway?

take ownership

[countryboy]

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Good lord quit being a bunch of crybabies. If you don't like it turn the damn thing off. EA doesn't have a gun to your head forcing you to rewind.

well, this is bound to get something started.

[wsu_gb23]

Why would EA even waste their time with this feature? It's supposed to be a sim-game! There is no rewinding.... dumb feature!

[countryboy]

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Why to hate the mulligan feature. Because mulligans are for golf, not for football.

Also, when I read about it, it made me cry.

[countryboy]

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Why would EA even waste their time with this feature? It's supposed to be a sim-game! There is no rewinding.... dumb feature!

for casual gamers. I think its meant to be a "teaching tool".

[Pared]

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like slamzone, just ignore it

online?....why would u even play a guy like that anyway?

take ownership

That doesn't justify slamzone. That was complete trash. A joke of a feature in a baseball game. And you couldn't turn it off online.

I agree though... just turn the thing off. It's not available online so just get over it already. It's no different than setting your subs to manual.

OMG why would the have subs on auto by default! Game killer! C'mon guys.

[BezO]

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for casual gamers. I think its meant to be a "teaching tool".

If this is the reason, they could've stuck to football ways of teaching.

The telestrater was a great idea. That should kick in after every interception, fumble, touchdown, ect.

They could've made pick-the-defense-after-an-interception more realistic. Cut scene with coach & QB, clipboard, diagram, blurb from coach, so on.

Improve practice mode with pre-snap & post-play blurbs from coach... when to use the play, the play's goal, scenarios, ect.

An EA rep confirmed what most of us knew for a while. Their developers have specialties. Gameplay, presentation, interface, ect. Whoever worked on Rewind could have spent time on the above features instead and kept the learning FOOTBALL related. I don't understand why EA looks outside of football for ideas so often.

[Pared]

Re: Reasons to Hate the Madden Mulligan Feature

While I agree with you, it makes sense in two ways:

1) It's easier to implement than every single possible telestrator scenario
2) It's more interactive where the player can actually play the game, not watch it.

[LingeringRegime]

Best article ever written on this site. I hope you don't get gamespotted for it.

[Shadymamba]

Do Over??? Done with madden i cant believe they would even implement some stupid bullsh** like this wow!