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Quote: Originally Posted by Guillotine 1

My disc space saving ideas for EA- Hey EA can we ditch the HOF clips from the game and use that space for better 3-d sidelines??? Can we ditch the Ring of a Champion/Ring builder gimmick for more space to improve the game...and while we are trimming off the memory fat lets go ahead and get rid of... The Position Animation- No need for each position to get a little football player doing a position specific animation in the top right corner of the screen. Superstar Mode- Can we just admit that this mode is a failure? Can we take the tremendous amount of space for this mode and apply it to some wickedly cool 3-d cut scene of crowds, or sidelines? Tutorials- Please remove this from the game, and use this space for something useful. You can put the tutorial in the intruction manual where it belongs. EA Sports Extras- Please remove this waist of valuable disc space. I'd much rather have this disc space being used to enhance the copy of Madden that I just bought instead of it being used to try and pitch me other games I really don't care about at all, or will not buy. Showcase- The whole trophy room idea sounds nice and all, but I'd much rather get all the memory I can going into actually gameplay, graphics, and immersion. Customize Ring/Showcase- Come on, need I say more? Mini Games- This may be worth keeping if the game itself were everything we all are trying to make it be, again it seems like a waist of space in the grand scheme of things.

I'd be willing to bet if you eliminated all of that you wouldn't have enough space to put in what you're asking for as replacement. Remember; a lot of that is using resources that already exist or (in the case of EA Sports Extra) it's stuff that's just tossed in to make something useful out of the last few MBs that aren't being used otherwise.

I'm not a big fan of a lot of fluff myself. The trophy case makes sense in NCAA... in Madden, it really doesn't fit. But I don't expect most of this stuff, compared to on the field stuff, takes up a ton of memory.

Honestly, I'd be happy to go back to PS2 quality graphics if it meant a faithful recreation of NFL football in terms of gameplay and at least 2k5 quality presentation.

People asking for hand warmers and 25 different sets of uniforms per team... I could care less. Give me a working Red Right 19 BOB, inside-out blitz pickup AI, a fullback who takes out the man he's supposed too, and a working 3-4 nose, I'll be a hell of a lot happier.