Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

[roadman]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

That sums up Madden in a nutshell. A lot of great features but they don't work as intended or are riddled with bugs. I think the hate would be much less if everything worked right out the box. Its been like this For far too many years.

Well, for one, we live in the patch era.

I don't know of a sports game that I've owned that didn't have patches after coming out of the box.

Of course, before anyone thinks or writes that there are better sports games than Madden, I'm not disagreeing, just saying each game needs a patch or patches.

[MossMan84]

Yeah I forgot who I was responding to for a second, I apologize for even trying to discuss Madden with you.

Sad news to report: Madden is on its way out! They will still sell a decent amount of copies this year and about half the amount the following year and only because they will still be hanging onto the NFL shield! Other football games are on the way and madden will be remembered as the dark ages of football! I really wish they could pull it together and make something epic but thats not their reality. The only possible way they can save madden is to spend some money and put the latest greatest tech into the game; again, highly unlikely! And for the guys who think they know it all: These new games will have their very own type of MUT; so are you going to play a broken game with MUT or are you going to play a football lovers sim game with MUT! Case Closed!

[SmittyD81]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

Hey smitty, thanks for responding to OS posters. I would like to address the "progressively improved". This happens to be a matter of opinion. Mine is that Madden has taken some significant steps BACKWARDS since completely changing direction after M12.

I recognize the "progressive improvements" in gameplay, but my opinion is huge steps were taken backwards in franchise. As gameplay has made some improvements toward realism, franchise has made huge steps toward arcade. It's my opinion that these improvements in gameplay don't come close to making up for the steps backwards in franchise. Now this is just my opinion and I realize others do like the franchise changes. I don't.

First of all I appreciate your response, I no that is going to take a lot more for this game to please the majority instead of it being a mixed bag. Competition will most definitely help that with Joe Montana coming soon. I think that Madden overall is going to take time to get back to the greatness that it once was and the cool thing about this is that the team knows it and isn't denying any of that. the only problem is that it's going to take time to get the game back to where it once was and in some cases regardless of what they do they'll always be viewed as minimal/not making progression. It is what it is, all they can do is work with the hand their dealt.

[gr18]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

That sums up Madden in a nutshell. A lot of great features but they don't work as intended or are riddled with bugs. I think the hate would be much less if everything worked right out the box. Its been like this For far too many years.

I agree.Madden had been especially bad in being a particularly annoying experience at launch.Numerous bugs that make patches pretty much a useless exercise.We have to band aid or completely disregard/overlook certain things or features in the game that should work but instead just hope that next year it'll be at least better.

If the game functioned reasonably better,despite it's flaws,after you plunk down the $60 it would be a nice start.

[bucky60]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

First of all I appreciate your response, I no that is going to take a lot more for this game to please the majority instead of it being a mixed bag. Competition will most definitely help that with Joe Montana coming soon. I think that Madden overall is going to take time to get back to the greatness that it once was and the cool thing about this is that the team knows it and isn't denying any of that. the only problem is that it's going to take time to get the game back to where it once was and in some cases regardless of what they do they'll always be viewed as minimal/not making progression. It is what it is, all they can do is work with the hand their dealt.

Smitty, my point is they were not dealt CFM. They created CFM. And though I have no problem with EA combining modes, I have a very strong distaste for what they did with franchise. The direction the franchise team went is very arcade.

I too am hopeful for competition. That may be my only hope toward a more realistic franchise mode.

I want to make myself very clear Smitty. I don't want EA/Tib to take out the CFM franchise they have now. If they did that, the ones that enjoy the current franchise would end up in the same boat I'm currently in. I'm left with hoping some Video football game will provide a realistic franchise mode (off field stuff) or madden provides options for franchise realism. But so far I've lost all hope with madden providing any kind of realistic (non arcade) franchise by the direction the current team took CFM/Franchise.

Though I do give Rex and his team credit for the improvements they have made toward realism. I can't give the franchise team the same credit. Just very frustrating for me.

[philliesfan136]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

Okay.. so is Tebow gonna be in the game?

[RyanLaFalce]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

Okay.. so is Tebow gonna be in the game?

Yea he will be.

[SmittyD81]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

Smitty, my point is they were not dealt CFM. They created CFM. And though I have no problem with EA combining modes, I have a very strong distaste for what they did with franchise. The direction the franchise team went is very arcade.

I too am hopeful for competition. That may be my only hope toward a more realistic franchise mode.

I want to make myself very clear Smitty. I don't want EA/Tib to take out the CFM franchise they have now. If they did that, the ones that enjoy the current franchise would end up in the same boat I'm currently in. I'm left with hoping some Video football game will provide a realistic franchise mode (off field stuff) or madden provides options for franchise realism. But so far I've lost all hope with madden providing any kind of realistic (non arcade) franchise by the direction the current team took CFM/Franchise.

Though I do give Rex and his team credit for the improvements they have made toward realism. I can't give the franchise team the same credit. Just very frustrating for me.

I fully agree with you in regards of CFM. There is no true challenge in terms of depth and immersion. it does need a lot more work in terms of how the mode used to be back then on PS2. Gameplay and Franchise go hand in hand. Need the depth to have much more value overall.

[SmittyD81]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

The real internal changes that need to happen still haven't. For this game to ever surpass these other sports games, we need alot more to change.

We shall see what's done.

[MossMan84]

I fully agree with you in regards of CFM. There is no true challenge in terms of depth and immersion. it does need a lot more work in terms of how the mode used to be back then on PS2. Gameplay and Franchise go hand in hand. Need the depth to have much more value overall.

I think its as simple as bringing back madden franchise mode from 05-06-ps2 with todays updated graphics! Franchise mode had so much immersion to it on ps2; I still can play franchise mode today and play for 100s of hours b4 I have to switch up to those other awesome games we cant talk about on here! I just wish I could play my ps2 madden 05-06 on my ps4; then I would be set since no game has come close to duplicating the format and fun that came with those franchises modes!

[SageInfinite]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

We shall see what's done.

Yeah man. No matter how I feel about Madden any particular year, I always look forward to the "hype" train, as it usually is more entertaining than playing the actual game. All the talk and video from the community is what fuels me nowadays, so I appreciate cats like you and the crew for the content.

[jerwoods]

i will give madden 15 props its pretty close in my view just make the run game better with more OPI DPI calls and better custom draft classes names sizes and let us edit Offline if we choose to

[SmittyD81]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

Yeah man. No matter how I feel about Madden any particular year, I always look forward to the "hype" train, as it usually is more entertaining than playing the actual game. All the talk and video from the community is what fuels me nowadays, so I appreciate cats like you and the crew for the content.

Thanks man for the support man. Appreciate it over the years bro.

[dsk1317]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

Will it contain any of the following:
1. Real route recognition.
2. Real run/pass keys.
3. Pattern matching zone coverages.
4. 1-gap, 2-gap, and hybrid fronts.
5. Route based passing.
6. Real run fits.
7. True to life coverage checks.
8. Wr tags.
9. Conversion routes.
-and I could continue on, and on, and on

[Hooe]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Launches on August 25th - News, Features and Details Arrive in May

You could to a point make the same argument about Madden not be relevant since the PS2 days. Every installment on the PS3 felt like a step back and it was because they kept trying to re-invent the wheel.

The way I remember the story is that the first three Gen-7 Madden games were train wrecks to the point where I didn't even buy them and actually held off making the jump from the PS2 to XBOX 360 on account of the poor quality of the game at that time. From Madden 09 onward the series started moving forward again, albeit having lost significant ground.

We will never know how it would've worked out for them on the 360/PS3 since their wasn't competition but I don't think you can truly write off the fact that the most highly regarded Madden was 2005 and just by coincidence they had competition that year.

I won't begin to argue that the lack of direct and meaningful competition Madden has enjoyed in the console football video game space is or ever was a good thing.