Also, few things are more rewarding than recruiting a player, having them become a star, importing them to Madden and then drafting them and tearing it up in the NFL with them.
just bought madden for the first time this past year. I love the training sequence at the beginning. it's the perfect warm up for me
This thread makes me wanna go out and buy a console now. Last one I had was a PS2 that went tits up 10 years ago. Never played online or anything...
I remember when we tried to do a TMB tournament a few years ago on PS3 and dbl refused to play because we said you can only use each team once so he wouldn't play if he couldn't be Bama the whole time. We never made it past the 2nd round and SkRoUsE and I were the only ones to play that round
I was in a league with Bart from How High and Roy from the office. We would kick off every dynasty year with a game party at Barts house.
It was detailed on an earlier page by I think Kirk Fogg but the changes to recruiting and how heavily it leans toward offense are the biggest problems. With recruiting, it changed from hourly limits to a points system where you assign a certain number of points per week to recruits. You could assign a max of 700 points to a recruit each week, but had a cap of like 5000 total to distribute amongst your targets. Bonus points for certain program attributes were added on so while you as a coach could only dedicate 700 points to a player, the total points could be higher. The AI always went all in on a player so it discouraged you from distributing a small point amount amongst a lot of players on your board. In the offseason, instead of having 5 weeks to recruit, you were given 15,000 total points for a one shot deal. The AI again always went all in on whoever they were targeting so unless you did the same there's the chance that you may not even get anyone in offseason recruiting. The game really favored the spread option and air raid passing attacks over any kind of defense or any other offensive style. You couldn't defend the read option and the only time you'd force QB turnovers was if you were facing a Freshman QB at home.
When I think of Madden soundtracks I instantly think of..... All from the GOAT version, Madden 2005. Ray Lewis cover and the year the hitstick was introduced
I really hate the pass d system they added for 14 (maybe it was 13). Shitty ball hawking nonsense. God damn, just let me strafe and play defense. I still play 14 weekly though
Every time I see my roommate from sophomore year of college we starting singing "Catch a beat running like Randy Moss"
Pretty sure this was one of EA's classic overreactions to complaints about a previous version. It was either 12 or 13 where LB's where jumping 15 feet in the air and picking off anything over the middle.
That is right. I remember because that was before I started playing FIFA pro clubs with skrouse and I started on FIFA 13
there's a guy in my building that looks a lot like Dean Cain, and it never fails that when i see him around the first thing that pops in my head is "little green jimmy the cricket suit wearing ass muh fucker"
Didn't play nearly as much, but on either 04 or 05, me and my friends created a school called Abracadabra University. Their nickname was the Magicians, their stadium was called "The Cauldron," and it was located like 3000 miles into the Atlantic Ocean. You could say distance was a factor.
God damnit EA I should be recruiting some 6'6 stud QB who runs a 4.3 and killing in my online dynasty right now :(
My freshman year of college (NCAA 04) and my roommate always picked the Miami Hurricanes. It wasn't even fair to play as them and I fucking hated that he picked them. Pretty sure everyone in their secondary was rated like 93 or higher. I would beat him maybe once every five games with OSU, Texas, or whoever. And then I discovered the option playbook with the fighting GoodForAnother 's. Roommate just couldn't stop Roberson and Sproles. I probably threw the ball four times a game max. It got to the point where he would pick All American teams and still couldn't beat me with K State. Think they only had like one decent player on their defense too; some LB. Jesus I have so many memories about this game. Edit: Josh Buhl was the LB for K State.
Airforce's was the best. It had triple option, options out of shot gun, fun and gun. All around my favorite by far. Last year I played and ohio state ran it to near perfection, but still percy and tebow with demps was the GOAT option team and i fucking hate the gators.
my friend and i would always just use the cheap offensive strategy. loved playing with the fighting bertwing's in 09 and putting a fast safety at qb and just running the triple option with him, mcfadden and felix jones at fb he would do something similar. only way to stop it was to put some backup receivers/rb's at olb and spy with them
I think it was 2006, but Arkansas was rated a B- or C+, but they had a fast QB, McFadden, some other impact RB (not Jones) and Hillis, along with a good WR. Anyways, whenever my roommates and I would play online we would make our opponents play with a B rated team plus. We did this so we would avoid the cheesers who always played as Texas or whatever other cheap ass team. For the most part we would beat the shit out of these people since we knew how to play with them and our opponents really never played with the team they used.