Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

[edjames01]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

I wish people would stop complaining about losing the control from last years game. You weren't controlling anything. You were just fixing the screwed up data caused by the games bad logic.

There wasn't any depth or excitement to Franchise mode. What was there even to do besides playing games?

Free Agency? LOL
Scouting? LOL
The Draft? LOL
Progression? LOL
Trades? LOL, Most NFL trades are about moving up and down in the draft and it just did not work.

All of it was just plain bad.

IF connected careers actually works, it will be the first time in a while that a Madden player actually has control of an NFL franchise. Where your decisions actually have an affect on the state of your team. I guess if you like to simulate the events of the real NFL season, it definitely wont do that, but the game isn't even meant to do that.

[BodamEscapePlan]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

All of this has really turned me off. I'm still going to buy it but if the features of CCM don't work as they're advertised, I don't know what I'm going to do. The whole experience just sounds so tied down...

I already feel like this is Xbox 360's Madden 06 all over again.

[elsid13]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

I have a strange feeling CC is an attempt to make Madden into either Dragon Age or Mass Effect. I'm really feeling the RPG part of this is going to kill the RTP that EA introduced. In the end of the day it about football and I think to many folks at EA are getting swept up with the success of ME and DA.

[bpac55]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

I agree that they are focusing too much on trying to be a first person game. Football is a team sport and I know I don't speak for myself when I say I don't want to just have control of ONE player. So many of us take control of every team to live out the NFL as real as possible.

If anything they should have made the CCM the new Superstar mode or whatever it was called.

ELIMINATING franchise was a huge mistake. I know franchise is part of CCM but before just getting rid of it all together they should have kept it in with CCM for the first year to see how it worked. If CCM is amazing and we want more, THEN you get rid of franchise. A lot of Madden players buy the game just for offline franchise, now we don't have it.

[Yukon46]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

I wish people would stop complaining about losing the control from last years game. You weren't controlling anything. You were just fixing the screwed up data caused by the games bad logic.

There wasn't any depth or excitement to Franchise mode. What was there even to do besides playing games?

Free Agency? LOL
Scouting? LOL
The Draft? LOL
Progression? LOL
Trades? LOL, Most NFL trades are about moving up and down in the draft and it just did not work.

All of it was just plain bad.

IF connected careers actually works, it will be the first time in a while that a Madden player actually has control of an NFL franchise. Where your decisions actually have an affect on the state of your team. I guess if you like to simulate the events of the real NFL season, it definitely wont do that, but the game isn't even meant to do that.

I think this is a very good post.....making a very good point !!

(But not complaining, it is giving ones opinion)

......But I do still want to adjust my players Equipment, and change player Jersey Numbers !

[edjames01]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

I have a strange feeling CC is an attempt to make Madden into either Dragon Age or Mass Effect. I'm really feeling the RPG part of this is going to kill the RTP that EA introduced. In the end of the day it about football and I think to many folks at EA are getting swept up with the success of ME and DA.

Naw, There is nothing RPG about it. Using points to progress players is not new. The previous gen allowed you to do it by running the drills and HC09 used game performance to allocated XP.

[edjames01]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

I agree that they are focusing too much on trying to be a first person game. Football is a team sport and I know I don't speak for myself when I say I don't want to just have control of ONE player. So many of us take control of every team to live out the NFL as real as possible.

If anything they should have made the CCM the new Superstar mode or whatever it was called.

ELIMINATING franchise was a huge mistake. I know franchise is part of CCM but before just getting rid of it all together they should have kept it in with CCM for the first year to see how it worked. If CCM is amazing and we want more, THEN you get rid of franchise. A lot of Madden players buy the game just for offline franchise, now we don't have it.

Why keep the old franchise? It is trash.

[moneal2001]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

its has also been used by 2k for myplayer and for road to the show. people are bashing it because its ea. even college hoops 2k8 had progression just like head coach 09.

[edjames01]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

All of this has really turned me off. I'm still going to buy it but if the features of CCM don't work as they're advertised, I don't know what I'm going to do. The whole experience just sounds so tied down...

I already feel like this is Xbox 360's Madden 06 all over again.

I'm trading the game in if it isn't any good. I have no problem playing Madden 08 and NFL Head Coach 09 (which I am playing RIGHT NOW).

[savoie2006]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

Question: It says when you start a career mode you select a player or be a coach. My question is can you only be that player or can you still switch as you play?

[Aftershock9958]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

I have a strange feeling CC is an attempt to make Madden into either Dragon Age or Mass Effect. I'm really feeling the RPG part of this is going to kill the RTP that EA introduced. In the end of the day it about football and I think to many folks at EA are getting swept up with the success of ME and DA.

I really don't get it. They introduce XP and use the phrase "RPG influenced" and people immediately go the route of claiming Madden will turn into a full on RPG.

Get a grip people.

[Aftershock9958]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

Question: It says when you start a career mode you select a player or be a coach. My question is can you only be that player or can you still switch as you play?

You can switch.

[TreFacTor]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

Why keep the old franchise? It is trash.

It had the features many of us enjoyed in order to get more immersed in the game. It's almost a compulsion or an obsession to control every little detail.

To be able to simultaneously take my beloved Eagles and the Steelers to the Super Bowl in one franchise rather than separate careers.

To make sure I can make a roster that I can use (can't play the game online) past this year.

This thread is full of passionate madden players, and although we really see the benefit of the CC, it's really only beneficial to the online player and most agree long over due. All the offline customization player wants is the features that were removed and if that means we were neglected and it were explained why, we may have sung a song of praise instead of stirring controversy. Which do you think is a better solution? They way they have handled the situation so far doesn't seem to be going over to well.

[moneal2001]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

if you select to be a player, you get to choose anyone in the nfl, a legend, or create your own. it plays like superstar from there, controling only your player.

[Aftershock9958]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

I know franchise is part of CCM...

A lot of Madden players buy the game just for offline franchise, now we don't have it.

See the discrepancy in your post?

They're not trying to make a first person game.

CC will be the deepest franchise mode you've played in a Madden game.