Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

[Steve_OS]

Despite some fairly significant strides in cleaning up legacy issues and core gameplay mechanics, the Madden...

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[huntt26]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

Agree on the redzone stuff, but also in general short yardage situations need some work. In real football, short yardage situations and fighting for every yard is one of the more exciting things. Piles of bodies inching toward a first down or end zone. Would love to see that appear in the game and also bring out the chains again.

#1 on my list is also adaptive AI

But a close second is what 2K does with full team and league customization. I love that I can create a fully custom league, make my own uniforms, make my own logos and such and use them. Bring back Team Builder but take it a step further. I'd love to make a custom league with *gasp* XFL, Arena, High School or NCAA teams.

[da_centa_fielda]

The top of my list is a more involved,  organic, and enjoyable career mode.  There's so much potential.

[BigOrangeVol4Life]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

For those of us including myself who like to assign all 32 teams to be controlled by the CPU and watch the games as simulations on offline franchise, I'd like to see the setup being simplified. Instead of having to setup 32 profiles, set the game speed to super slow, etc, just make the start up screen where you select the teams you want to control (as few as 1 to all 32). At the start of every week, select the games you want to play or watch, and move the controller to the center where the CPU plays itself.

I'd also like to see fully customized draft classes and coaching staffs that you can access from the vault.

[jbrock11]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

Meh, I've given up on Madden. EA has shown they are incapable of making a good football game. The only hope is if OOTP can make something similar to their baseball game with OOTP Football.

[Dazraz]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

For those of us including myself who like to assign all 32 teams to be controlled by the CPU and watch the games as simulations on offline franchise, I'd like to see the setup being simplified. Instead of having to setup 32 profiles, set the game speed to super slow, etc, just make the start up screen where you select the teams you want to control (as few as 1 to all 32). At the start of every week, select the games you want to play or watch, and move the controller to the center where the CPU plays itself.

I'd also like to see fully customized draft classes and coaching staffs that you can access from the vault.

Totally agree. I also have all 32 Teams User Controlled. Unfortunately this means when playing a game you don’t get score updates from other games around the league. A simple option such as in NBA 2K where you tick which game/games you want to play in would be a nice addition & one that I can’t imagine being too difficult to implement.
Madden NFL has by far the worst Franchise Mode experience of any of the main stream games. Sluggish Menus, Poor layout, Uninformative & repetitive News Screen....
Everything becomes a drag within the mode to the point that you can’t be bothered & you just skip through stuff which ultimately leads to a lack of immersion.

[Corwin Brown]

I just get a kick out of people saying the game does artificial things like boost ratings. I'd like to ask the many people who think this, you don't thinkcoaches play a big part in having their teams prepared for you their opponent? You don't think Bill Belichick has his team prepared for everything you do or might do to his team and individual players? I get that chess match from Madden but to play chess you first have to understand the chess pieces! 

[azdawgpound]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

I would say fix the cfm where once u have everything set up the cmp changes then once u start like depth charts etc.

Also change the pre season in cfm... Its dumb that once u get into second quarter only the 2nd string guys come in for rest of games...no 3rd and 4th string guys.

Now I'm a roster guy I like creating the draft classes etc every yr we should first have 90 man rosters ...second the salary cap shouldn't!!!! Be on outside of cfm...its hard to get accurate rosters when u run into u can't sign so and so because of the cap!!!!

Also bring the full player edit outside of cfm.

[beau21]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

But a close second is what 2K does with full team and league customization. I love that I can create a fully custom league, make my own uniforms, make my own logos and such and use them. Bring back Team Builder but take it a step further. I'd love to make a custom league with *gasp* XFL, Arena, High School or NCAA teams.

This. This has been at the top of my list for years now.



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[Hooe]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

On the field (user vs CPU), the thing I would like to see the most is the CPU intelligently use all the gameplay tools available to users, diagnose and exploit matchups, and generally speaking not be so locked in to whatever routine it uses based on the play call alone.

On the field (user mechanics), I'd like more and more better tools to attack other users with - green dog blitzes, run pass options, coverage shell disguises which aren't baked into the play calls, etc.

In Franchise, I would like to see more roster management mechanics - compensatory draft picks, restricted free agency, 5th-year team options for first round picks, etc. - and a far greater challenge with respect to managing the salary cap.

In Ultimate Team, I would like to see customizable private leagues.

[wallofhate]

I think a lot of the way the defense plays and the whole "psychic" feel of it has a lot to do with the canned animations that madden has and just the unnatural movement and lack of true football player movement. It seems if they fixed that the one on one play and like movement would fixed itself a lot and in essence make the stuff like space the field and revamp the redzone a much easier fix.  If they fix the animations across the board to be human like the rest of the stuff they fix would be icing on the cake for me

[Jershy88]

I totally agree with a coaching carousel, along with full control of the staff if you are the HC or owner. Lip guard mouthpieces are a must, shoot half the league wears them and  they're not represented. Draft classes would be sick, but EA will never do it. League expansion would be awesome. Basically do everything that 2K does in their franchise mode and blatantly copy it. 

[feeq14]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

I just get a kick out of people saying the game does artificial things like boost ratings. I'd like to ask the many people who think this, you don't thinkcoaches play a big part in having their teams prepared for you their opponent? You don't think Bill Belichick has his team prepared for everything you do or might do to his team and individual players? I get that chess match from Madden but to play chess you first have to understand the chess pieces!*

That's not what is happening in the game. When you boost ratings across the board, or play on all madden you don't get a more strategically improved challenge, you get an artificially stronger challenge because the rules of the chess game get bent in the AI's favor. Sure Bill Belicheck might get his players to play beyond their abilities, but boosting ratings makes all 32 teams play like Bellicheck coached teams.

Ratings boosts mean that Julio Jones is locked down every week by mediocre cornerbacks. Ratings boosts mean that TJ Yates can torch your secondary every time you match up against him.

What's worse though is that the AI isn't strategic about how to use the good players they have. I can't think of how many times I've played the falcons and seen Julio only get 4 targets in a game.

We want a chess game that is legitimate, not placebo effect and imaginary.

[Aimbrogn]

Re: Our Madden NFL 19 Wishlist - What's on Yours?

I am primarily an offline gamer and I thoroughly enjoyed Madden 18 and the graphics overhaul.

1. An offline playoff mode with overlays and commentary unique to the playoffs that the user sets up. NBA 2K, MLB The Show 18, and NHL 18 both provide this option. NBA Live 18 even gives one the ability to make the environment a Playoff game.

2. Classic teams, classic stadiums, and the ability to choose Mexico City and London venues for exhibition games. If this game integrates classic players for Madden Ultimate Team I am not sure why they could not include classic NFL teams.

3. Pro Bowl teams and All Pro teams from the year prior for Exhibition use.

4. A new version of Longshot and build on to how they brought in draft preparation with the Combine into Longshot last year.

5. Various stadiums were off last year including the Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots. The Ravens did not have mention of their 2012 Super Bowl in their stadium and the Patriots stadium does not have the new wall they built in 2017 to display all five of their Super Bowl banners.

6. NBA 2K always did a good job witb the VIP mode where it tracked your stats, play styles, and various records. Integrate something like that or even see how NFL 2k5 tracked user records.

[michaelhawj]

* AI CPU Smarter on offense, defense, special team and playbooks during game *
* real time dynamic weather during game *
* Franchise Mode overhaul need to be 80% : new menu layout, coach carousel,  revamped news and smarter cpu roster management and owner mode need to be great  *
* new scoreboard layout *
* new pre-game warmup with season stats *
* QB overhaul including scambling *
* brand new crowd reaction to what happen during games *
* NFL Replay challenge need to be overhaul *
* Players animations need to be improved more better *
* team chemistry need to be more realistic  *
* player morale need to improve better *
* player injury history from nba 2k that has one *
* players tendency need to improve better *