OS Roundtable: If You Could Add One Feature To Madden...

[UH53]

It was said before......ability to edit EVERYTHING(plus draft classes)!!!

I second that!

[willz1985]

i would say the ability to create/edit/upload/download draft classes. but then there'd probably be another situation where so college student complains about his "likeness" in and not getting paid for it, then we'd lose madden as well as NCAA.....

[RandallB21]

I would like to be able to use a teambuilder type mode along with historic logo's/uniforms/helmets/ and create custom leagues. Call it League Builder or something unoriginal like that.

I always want to bring back the Houston Oilers, LA Rams, LA Raiders. I know I can do it in M25 but it's a pain to take over in owner mode, then go through the relocation process. I would rather just have the option in the exhibition mode and then carry it over to the CC.

[cattlekiller]

I'm with Bob Kollars on this.
American football is a true TEAM sport, where working in conjunction with others is more critical than most other sports.
Yet we can't play the main game mode with our friends on the same team.I also know that some if not all of our friend circle normally likes the same things as us,its whats makes us friends to begin with.There is s good chance that our best friend who loves football like you likes the same NFL team.

Every year Madden comes out I look for this feature and every year I put my money back into my pocket.I have no interest in playing in an online franchise versus my friends,I want to work with them not against.

[Senator Palmer]

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Custom packages. I'm not talking about the ability to set subs outside of playing a game because that's too limiting, I'm talking about the ability to create my own personel packages any way I want. I can't tell you how long I've wanted to create a nickle pass rush, or take a tweener linebacker with pass rush ability like Bruce Irvin, or Akeem Ayers, and built a package for him.

We've got custom playbooks now, there's no reason not to have this.

[kehlis]

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I just want dreads.

[coachmac75]

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Free practice mode (real practice mode) for Online Connected Carreer.

Current practice is for players developpement to get XP whihc is good, but we obviously miss a true practice mode on CCM with custom playbook to really have a valuable practice with your team.

With current game you have to maintain a mirrored team of your CCM team which is really annoying and time consuming.

[Segagendude]

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I'd like to see the CFL with all the teams, stadiums and rules.

What's that got to do with the NFL and Madden??

[braves_94]

I want a more intelligent throwing system. If QB's like Manning or Brady throw it in tight coverage, at least throw it to a spot where the receiver can only get it, specially if there is no pressure in his face. I want to see more incompletes when throwing it is tight coverage and less interceptions. Maybe institute more a lead that allows you to throw in the area of the receiver, but incomplete. I'm sick of every pass being touched unless you have a streaking receiver going down field and the CPU decides now you're going to over-throw it. And I want to see the right analogue used as a hit stick. And not the arcade-y hit stick of old. But so pressing down on it will provide with a tackle. Hit it too early, and pentalties like face masking and horse-collar will come in play. Hit it late to encourage more fumbles. Or perfect timing for a well executed tackle. Bring some skill back into defense. Make it about timing. Each tackle rating can have their own window. An all pro MLB will have a bigger window than a run of the mill corner back. People you know you love these ideas.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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I would prefer them bringing back the ability to tackle low or tackle high. Now all tackles are up high. There need to be a precision modifier button for defense. Have it for tackles, have it for swat attempts. There is no excuse for it not being in the game when football games had various ways to tackle depending on the button combination you pressed back on the PS2.

It would add more variety to the game.

1. Tackle high should be high risk and high reward. The reward being you separating the player from the ball. But the risk being either a face mask penalty or targeting penalty.

2. Tackle around the waist option.

3. Tackle low around the legs option.

I always thought it was funny how they highly marketed the all new hurdle system this year for NCAA and Madden but yet 99% of all CPU tackles are up high so you very rarely get to use it.

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Create A Draft Class : With NCAA Football becoming a thing of the past this would be a huge feature. Take a page out of NBA 2k's book and make this happen. As much as I love all of the fun cpu generated classes I would like to create my own every once in a while.

[malky]

CPU VS CPU IN FRANCHISE, took it out, put it back in please

[piffbernd]

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I like what Chris Sanner and Jason Young said in the roundtable. The joke is EA could patch that. I don't understand why EA didn't make a poll with 3 - 5 features and the best is in the next Game.

[Iceman87GT]

What's that got to do with the NFL and Madden??

I can see the appeal in having the CFL, and they have created a CFL version of Madden in the past (it was a project of some of the developers as a training exercise or something like that I believe I read it on Kotaku, but I'm certain I found it via a link on this site). It would get some use from people (Canadians), and the ability to have a makeshift Minor League in the game would be great although unrealistic (as rarely does the NFL sign players from the CFL).

If it didn't mean taking up developing time I'd be all for it, but incorporating the CFL would undoubtedly cut into developer time, and would mean further money being put towards securing player, team, and league rights. Its something that would be good to see if Madden ever produces a game on the level of NBA 2K11 (where it is borderline perfect and you struggle to find a way to improve the game), but I think we are several years away from a scenario like that being remotely possible.

[Iceman87GT]

Create A Draft Class : With NCAA Football becoming a thing of the past this would be a huge feature. Take a page out of NBA 2k's book and make this happen. As much as I love all of the fun cpu generated classes I would like to create my own every once in a while.

They said they were working on a way to make this possible this past year, obviously that didn't work out. I hope they haven't abandon that effort and that they will have support for NCAA 14 Draft Classes in Madden 15/26.

At the very least the next Madden needs to have a way to create Draft Classes that can be shared, while simultaneously working to improve the process by which draft classes are generated (I've heard reports that the difference between classes from one franchise to the next are the names, that the gems remain the same no matter what and it becomes a matter of discovering what the gem is named in year 1 of one CFM vs. year 1 of another CFM).