Adding features to make a deeper franchise mode is only half of it for me. I want them to overhaul the gameplay. It's gotten so stale. It's felt the same for the past decade. The stupid animation based scripted gameplay got really old. I know **** all about video game engines, but I've seen many people complain about the Frostbite Engine using "real player motion" and how they need to scrap it and use something more physics based.

Who cares when game play is pure garbage as is the sim engine. Franchise is a ****ing disaster in 2022. Inexcusable

Even if they did do that they'd be years away from an actually fun playable game that used physics instead of these predetermined animations. I'd love it if they did but I don't realistically see them doing that unless they're forced to by competition.

More quality stuff from EA
 

I see that Madden is still crap. Sigh, guess I will stick with my 2 year old version.

Oh, and then this is just icing on the cake. EA apparently has to show how woke they are. :shake:

https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/19/c...RwLs0hhySW7A3Q

What’s that you say? EA ****ed up yet again? I’m shocked.

The amount of game breaking bugs at launch this year is insane. List of what I've seen so far.

Aforementioned bug where your score and team stats revert to 0.

Horribly slow menu times.

Blinding light when in the draft on franchise.

Not being able to trade RTs in the trade center. LT is listed twice instead.

Regular season games acting like preseason so all your skill position players sit after one drive mad you can't get them back in.

I was really hoping 2K was going to be able to get back into the NFL video game business, but of course that was way too much wishful thinking...

:LOL:

Holy shit that might actually make franchise fun.

IGN gives the Madden Series back-to-back “6” Scores with its review of Madden 22

https://www.ign.com/articles/madden-...source=twitter

I have ea access for my kid so I fired it up on PC last night

wtf bruh, this game is WORSE Than last year! Not talking about the features, etc., but the gameplay. Even the AI is dumb, the tackles are all weird, and I NEVER had any weird bugs like you see on YouTube last year.

This year I completed a pass, I'm about 11 yards downfield and all the sudden whistle is called and in for a 3 yard pass. Literally, a lineman fell down and as soon as he touched the ground I was 'downed' LOL WHAT? I had the ball way down the field, my lineman did not have the ball!

its wierd and shifty and you can just tell its ****in off

Jesus Christ. How can EA be getting worse.

Who could have guessed?

Oh.

The franchise changes aren't bad. Once they fix the garbled mess and it's actually playable it'll be an improvement.

Playing on PS5 so my game play is probably quite a bit different.

Have they fixed the franchise mode glitch yet?

Nope.

This is ****ing bullshit. I set up a quick franchise mode and played a game and had no issue just to see. So then I started over and spent 2 hours setting up franchise mode the way I normally would and 2 out of the 4 games I've played have had this stupid bug. Sixty ****ing dollars just for updated rosters and a 17 game schedule. For some stupid reason that's worth it to me, I didn't need any new features. And I can't even play the ****ing games. **** these people.

Seriously, I'm so ****ing pissed. I haven't seen one place online where EA has addressed this issue. I have limited free time and one of the few things I like doing with it is running through franchise mode. It's therapeutic and shit. I finished a run with the dolphins in June on m21, and thought to myself, I'll just wait till August to start another franchise mode since the new game will have the 17 game seasons. So I've been stoked about this for 2 months. I even carved out a bunch of time this weekend to play. I'm very stingy with money so 60 bucks was a big commitment here. I should have just gone to a ****ing royals game with the money and then atleast when my team finishes with 0 I'm not shocked. **** EA.

If you run it on the cloud the bug doesn't exist, I think.

Right on, I'll give it a try.

2k sucks now too.

EA just needs to take a year off and have a normal game development cycle.

Great games aren't made in a year.

2k is releasing an NFL game next year.

Exactly. They need to take the time to build a solid foundation that is just a good fun football game and then build on it every year. It's too bad it'll never happen though.

The state this game is still in is ****ing embarrassing. Almost a week after release and there's still legitimately game breaking bugs that make playing almost impossible.

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It would be nice if EA lost the license from the NFL over this but I seriously doubt it.

lol free to play already

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I'm not even interested in playing that shit for free. It's a shame what happened to that game. I'd love to have a good NFL game again some day. Like Madden 2004 or 2005. Those were the days.

I will give it a whirl tomorrow on Steam.

Ditto, I hate their guts for what they’ve done to it

I was bored so I bought it. I kinda like the MUT mode but this year it's terrible.

You know what's ****ed up? Mahomes is the worst QB in MUT and pretty much everyone that plays the mode talks about that. Daniel ****ing Jones is a far superior QB in MUT than Mahomes is. That's because of a few things, Mahomes is categorized as an improviser and they don't get good abilities, he has a slow release and isn't super fast so therefore he kinda blows.

Really dumb because Mahomes is the best player and a once in a 100 year type of player.

But I don't care, I always do a Chiefs theme team and this year they have Derrick Thomas in the game and I already got him.

But the game is ass, they also killed everything about defense. Yesterday they had their little pro tournament on stream and every single one of these "pros" ran the same exact 2 or 3 plays on both offense and defense. Literally 100% of them. It's a joke.

Anyone have a madden mobile league?

Same exact game as the last 10 or so years lol fix the sliders and it's at least playable just like every version before it. Amazing how zero competition leads to lazy results.

Sucks out loud, I remember the 90's football games with great fondness. Themz wuz the dayz

Should see the used copies at my local GameStop LMAO

Here in about 3 weeks it’ll be on sale used for $19 like it is every year. And will still be too much $$.


What a bummer.

Never did play it LMAO

You'd probably like it with a good slider set. It's just the same damn game as always. We need competition.

We should have little things by now like multiple announcing teams, different presentations for prime time games, some way to punish running the same plays over and over again...just inexcusable this is the result in 2021. Basically a roster update with a few worthless shiny toys

NCAA sounds like it's going to be the exact same as Madden gameplay wise.

Of course

lol pushed back the scouting update

Madden 22 is a beta

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Scouting update? I didn't even know they were finally gonna add something to scouting. I got used to the shitty scouting where you unlock three attributes with your weekly "scouting points", then look at their 40 time and bench reps and hope for the best.

I still remember trying to draft a good middle linebacker and it said he had an A+ in hitting, A in tackling, and B+ in block shedding. Pretty good 40 time and all that. Mid first round projection. So I draft him with pick 12 or whatever I had and the ****er was like a 71 overall with normal development trait. ****ing stupid. It said his 40 time was like a 4.5 but his speed was a 77.

It's meant to be a little murky, just like real scouting.

'A' in tackling usually means it's going to be low 80s rating.

It's been the same goddamn complaints for over 20 years now. It's hard to care anymore.

By now everyone should understand what Madden is and never will be.

I don't log into GTA Online and expect real car physics either....

Scouting update is live.

$38.99 on steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...Madden_NFL_22/

might give it a whirl if we lose again

Scouting update isnt on PC yet afaik.

Edit: nvm, it actually is in the patch notes for current gen. Nice.

I'm angry at myself. I bought it.

My brother and I don't have a lot of games we enjoy playing with one another that lets us bullshit throughout the game. We typically play things like Apex Legends where background noise is important so we really aren't carrying a conversation while we play.

So... I've paid for Madden for the first time since 2019.

Heard the scouting update was a collasol failure of a feature....wow

I mean it's the exact same game so if you hadn't purchased for a few years, a good slider set makes it playable. Waste of money if purchased in the last few years. It should be a game released every other year

I bought the game as well for $5. I had a $50 credit or whatever.

I kinda want my $5 back. The game is a ****in disaster. Poorly put together in just about every way imaginable.

It sucks, because I grew up a Madden nut. Absolutely would play the **** outta Madden every year, and I spent in all honesty too much of my childhood playing the damn thing, but I loved it. It's amazing to see how the entire thing is now purely animation based and the game can kinda dictate the way it wants things to go just by a random animation for each play. It's the worst one I've ever played, and I've said that 3 years in a row now.

Didn't you smoke Clay and crew in a cp League? ROFL

I was the Buffalo Bills of the CP league.

Madden: Head 2 head...Who is the best at running the same 3 glitch plays the entire game. Fun.

Yeah, I mean I'm historically a very good Madden player. The game just isn't fun anymore for me until they basically redo everything.

He did. He smoked all of us, IIRC.

It was especially bad for Clay though. He had just gotten laid off by the Post Office or something and had loads of free time. I want to say he scouted out my previous game before our match. Literally watched me play beforehand to gain an upper hand lol it's been a while so some details might be off but I thought it was hilariously pathetic at the time.

That team was a force.

You can literally run the same play drag route and complete every pass on every drive with sliders maxed on ALL Madden. Game is completely broken.

Trolling him with the Browns and all their extra draft capital that first year was fun LMAO

I can't get PS4 controller icons to pop up. WTF.

Had to dig out an old XYBA controller I used to use with my Adroid WAY back in the day.

This looks really nice with everything on max at 3440x1440 though...

RPCS3 is your friend guys

https://rpcs3.net/compatibility?s=2&c=m

You can also play the NCAA Football games.

Did they remove Gruden from the game yet?

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Cancelled the other updates for franchise.

Did PC get the next gen update? Yes I know probably a big no just thought I would ask.

hell naw

Supposedly you can complete every pass on a drag route for an easy 5 to 15 yards on every play on Allmadden with sliders jacked to the moon and score every possession. The CPU will never adjust coverage. Just inexcusable what a joke this franchise is.

I've been looking around and EA has taken a lot of heat over screwing PC users, I guess they still haven't caved. Their answer will probably be to stop releasing on PC. Doesn't sound like the College football game will be on PC either.

Madden is $18.

I'm going in with Sabo's franchise and gameplay mods.

Pray for me.

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