Madden 09 Patch #2 Released, Impressions Here

[countryboy]

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Was that a rant or an impression?

[Kramer5150]

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I think they wanted to do it when 2k put it's game on sale for $19.99 at the start of the cycle. They saw a dangerous precedent that could hurt the value of their brandname where videogames are concerned.
IMO, 2k nailed its own coffin shut when they went this route.

This is pure speculation,I have never seen any link from a reliable source to back any of this up.
I think this was nothing more than a rumor started up by gamesites,and "so-called" analyst's.

Imo....it's just pure speculation...like the bigfoot sightings.....we'll just never know.

[Hunsy34]

So now where is the DCL? Haha I need the sliders big time to make this game even better and more realistic. Any word of the DCL coming out?

[holycrikey]

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I've said this in like four different freezing threads now

WATCH HALFTIME HIGHLIGHTS!!!
PICK 2-3 AND WATCH THEM IN THEIR ENTIRETY.

It sounds dumb, and it is. I don't know why it works but it works.

You sound like you're getting hung up at the same point I was last year. Play a new game and WATCH a few highlights at HALFTIME.

If you're getting freezes at other points in the game or other menus, then this won't help. But if you're getting freezing when you try and exit after a game...try this.

Does not work. I've tried viewing the highlights. In fact, I always watch them. This has not helped the freezing issue. Each time I exit the game, it goes to the loading screen, then it disappears and shows the image of the franchise screen and boom. Freeze. Every single time. I've simulated past games, I've tried rebooting, I've tried the silly highlight-viewing method. Nothing works.

I've got to jump on the bandwagon. NEVER in my years of gaming (over 15 years dating back to Commodore 64's and TRS-80's) have I encountered such a buggy and worthlessly put together game. I can stand glitches and bugs. But when it makes the game UNPLAYABLE, the developers need to be held responsible. I don't even mind the patching process. But the fact that they were insanely slow to develop the patch and obviously didn't even test it across systems makes it all the more infuriating.

Obviously many many people are still continuing to have problems, and EA's lack of support is pathetic.

Maybe I just need to go back to Madden 08 on the PC.

[Chi Dynasty12]

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Did they update celebrations? Because when I was playing, Brandon Lloyd did a celebration (pointing to the sky) that he did from Week 3 in real life. Pretty cool

[Anti Honor]

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I seriously cannot get the CPU to run or score points. It's ridiculous. I'm starting to wonder if any CPU team plays better than another. Do the ratings even matter? I certainly don't see any ''robo qb'' at this point either - Hell, I'd welcome it.

It's like playing against a 5 year old. When the hell are we going to get some decent CPU AI from these games? Unlike some people, I don't want to win back to back superbowls as the Detroit Lions, and have the best defense in the game.

[wookie48]

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well we can add a third, I just experienced the franchise freeze. I finished one of my preseason games and I went back to the franchise main menu to sim the other games and it froze.

I guess the real answer is EA needs to get a new staff of super nerds that can actually program a video game code to put out a copmplete product

[rayjohnson83]

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whats good, im new to this. what is a patch, and how do I get it?

[boooey]

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I seriously cannot get the CPU to run or score points. It's ridiculous. I'm starting to wonder if any CPU team plays better than another. Do the ratings even matter? I certainly don't see any ''robo qb'' at this point either - Hell, I'd welcome it.

It's like playing against a 5 year old. When the hell are we going to get some decent CPU AI from these games? Unlike some people, I don't want to win back to back superbowls as the Detroit Lions, and have the best defense in the game.

yea.. while i do have some really close games sometimes, the CPU in general just has a hard time sustaining long drives.

If they don't score on a long pass or run, or something I just screwed up on playing defense, they have a real hard time scoring.

and one time the CPU was down 10 points with 2 minutes left.. CPU onside kicked, recovered the ball, then drove and scored a TD with like a minute left. So he's only down 3 now.

and guess what CPU did next?
He freaking kicked off a long kickoff, no onside kick... game over

It just seems that every time i start to enjoy Madden, another very frustrating bug pops its ugly head, to sour my experience.

[Disqo]

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It just seems that every time i start to enjoy Madden, another very frustrating bug pops its ugly head, to sour my experience.

You have hit the nail on the head

[Titus001]

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Player regression in this game is broken or poorly planned. I'm playing as the Browns in my franchise and just won the super bowl. 3 of my starting o-line have went down in ratings. Joe Thomas has lost -1 awareness. Eric Steinbach has lost - 1 strength as did my right guard. Two years in a row this has happened to my o-line. Steinbach now has 86 strength. Other Gems is that Tony Romo is now an 91 in my franchise even though he played two good seasons in my franchise regarding stats. Steinback after this season in franchise will then have 85 strength as a left guard. Dude is in his prime like my whole line but they are declining every season... what a joke.

[babyfat9]

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Madden football on Next Gen is a joke. Players look so unrealistic (Everyone is like vein popping ripped), we can't even get the right equitments such as neck braces, the lighting this year is just horrible. Commentary sucks, we can't even edit players sizes and so on. I thought by now EA would get it right. NCAA football is way better than NFL as far as gameplay goes and even how realistic graphics are !!!!!!

[homeycool]

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[QUOTE=Anti Honor;2038763085]I seriously cannot get the CPU to run or score points. It's ridiculous. I'm starting to wonder if any CPU team plays better than another. Do the ratings even matter? I certainly don't see any ''robo qb'' at this point either - Hell, I'd welcome it.QUOTE]

I agree 100 percent! I just played Packers at Buc's, me being the packers. Yards were nearly identical (I think they beat me by like 20 yards), we each had one turnover, and penalities were also even, but I still ended up winning 31-14.

The computer cannot score, from 20 to 20 the CPU seems to do okay.... As soon as they get in the red zone everything just falls apart. Not to mention the horrible late game logic (end of half, quarter, etc)

You almost have to feel cheated to lose on this game in my opinion.

[rayjohnson83]

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Where do I go to get the patch?

[brendanrfoley]

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Where do I go to get the patch?

If you have a 360 and are connected to XBox Live, the game automatically updates when you boot it up. Not sure how it works with PSN.