Madden 21
 

First look!

Cue the bitching!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Madden 21 everyone. All we expected, and still found a way to disappoint. Seeing the other games featured in the Series X showcase, they make Madden truly look like the joke it is. Guess we’ll be getting NFL 2K back sooner than we thought....<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoycottMADDEN21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BoycottMADDEN21</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ez0Z0iU0fQ">pic.twitter.com/Ez0Z0iU0fQ</a></p>&mdash; Modern Gridiron (@boycottmadden20) <a href="https://twitter.com/boycottmadden20/status/1258441455431016453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Full vidya

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Madden 21 <a href="https://t.co/z4r4dxuUoG">pic.twitter.com/z4r4dxuUoG</a></p>&mdash; RiverBoat Ron SZN (@ECLIPSEGemGT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ECLIPSEGemGT/status/1258427945263214597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

About to be another year of garbage.

I hope 2020 finds a way to kill Madden for good. This year is nuts so it owes us all a favor at this point.

Be interesting to see how they can improve on 20. I like 20 and have played it a shit ton.

Hopefully we get some more franchise improvements.

ROFL. They haven’t improved Franchise mode in the last 8 years....but sure....they’ll do it now.

Last year they did. I did enjoy the improvements.

What “improvements” were those? Keep in mind that improvements don’t count if they were in past games and taken out.

bought the last Madden, won't buy another.

The MUT mode was once fun, but they only care about squeezing every last dime out of their players. They even play mind games on you with their patented DDA. And it's now literally the same thing every year, grind the same solos or buy the same packs to get the same exact players that you had last year...

Franchise was ok but got boring real quick. Tried many sliders and settings, it's either too easy or too hard with nothing in between. Connected franchise would probably be the most enjoyable way to play.

we know you're AntiMA so just go

One thing I'd like to see in Franchise mode is improved salary cap and contract stuff. If they can fix that, the sim will be pretty darn close to perfect.

It was a legitimate question. What improvements did they make?

That's one thing I loved about this last year's Madden. The cap was more difficult to manage, and made building a dynasty much harder.

You also don't automatically sign a FA if you're the highest bidder.

Loved it.

For sure, it’s much harder. I’d just like to see the salary cap rise incrementally like the real one does. Also wish there was a contract restructure process, as well as the ability to do a franchise tag and trade without it hitting your cap with a bunch of dead $$.

The auto generated draft classes were also too weak - even on all madden, if you go deep into a franchise, eventually other teams stop developing star players, except at QB.

Did anyone else feel there was a definite difference in gAmeplay between franchise and MUT?

seemed like MUT was smoother, and had a totally different feel.