A few things that would make Madden a little more realistic:
-more arm tackles and mis-tackles, more gang tackles
-make height and weight a factor
-have the receivers drop more passes, or at least make a "catching tendency" option...STOP having receivers run a curl and have the ball bounce off their hands, and do NOT let them miss completely! Make some animated drops like they do catches if you have to
-make the defense attempt to tackle the ball carrier while being blocked
-don't let the highlight stick work so well, if you need to get rid of it and exchange it with ESPN2K5's shoulder charge, where the ball carrier will either break the tackle by plowing the guy, or get tackled while fighting...I'm sick of a one-automatic-broken-tackle-then-get-tackled kind of deal every play
-have "hit stick" kind of tackles occur less often, or simply make more of them, to make them more enjoyable... when there's about 5 big hits in the game and you play Madden more than once, you start to either get sick of them or just get used to them and they don't seem like big hits to you anymore... take any of Madden's "hit stick" tackles and try to find one tackle like that in real life.... if all else fails make them less gruesome
-give the WR's a chance to make a jump-ball catch
A little more on the arm tackles and gang ones: watch ANY NFL rushing play; whether be big play or small, and then at any rushing play from Madden, then look at the difference!!! The real play has a couple mis-tackles hear and there, and it is hardly ever one guy who takes the ball carrier down by himself, unless it's the safety tackling a WR who got deep.
Finally, a little more on the height and weight thing: once they apply the jump-ball oppertunity for the receivers, people will love to use their tall receivers to an advantage
Here are my ides for new features...let me know what you think
1:The CPU initiates trades! also you could be able to trade for future draft picks. In addition, you could throw in some extra cash or demand some extra cash if the player you're trying to trade or the player another team is trying to trade to your team is valued too low.
2:It would be nice to see a REAL superbowl halftime show. All EA has to do is just put the halftime shows from 99'-07' in the game and let the player decide which one he wants to watch. Neat huh?
3:Make WR's be able to drag their feet to stay inbounds.
4:In the offseason, you can select which players you want to work out the most and their stock would rise or decrease as you did this.
5:All-New player personalities! (Ex:Mike Vick cut his hair because he wanted a new look and he couldn't win a superbowl. Warren Sapp lost a bunch of weight this offseason to better his stats. Randy Moss is always crying about something right? Then why doesn't he wine in the game? And I can't even say enough about TO! You guys get the point. Last but not least....Chad Johnson....lol...He's got a mouth on him!
6:Being able to latter the ball. (Ex:remember a few years back when the new orleans saints lattered the ball about 6 times in one play!? And it ended up being the play of the year? This would make a great addition.
7:A more realistic crowd! (Ex:Fans actually boo their team or the "team hero" when they don't perform to expectations. They rush the field after the superbowl etc.
8:A deeper franchise mode. (Exlayer suspensions because of misconduct off or on the field, fines need to be added to the game also.
9:Fights on the field (ex: remember when the falcons played the eagles for the first game about two seaons ago? Jerimiah trotter and jason webster got into a fight before the game started and both were suspended for that game)
10:Coaches give refs an "eaf full" on a BS call. LOL.....Now that's REALISTIC!
12:More unique celebrations! (Ex:TO's sharpie, Joe Horn's cell phone, or you could create you own unique celebration)
13:This is a big one.......Whenever you upgrade your stadium in franchise mode....you can actually "see" the upgrade in use.
14:Now this one may never happen but i'm gonna throw it out there. lol......here goes! A lone fan runs out on the field naked b4 the superbowl begins.....YOU'VE SEEN THE HIGHLIGHTS! IT HAPPENS.....lol
15:Player injuries needs to be more realistic. When a player injures his hip..he doesn't "walk" off the field.
16:Post game interviews
17:Fresh commentary.....C'mon.....madden ain't dead yet. He's old..but he ain't dead.
18:In franchise mode....you can e-mail the players back.
19:Make team "bad apples" real! (Ex:Adam Pacman Jones, The entire bengals team, lol, Terrell Owens, Randy Moss, etc.
20:Make the weather a factor. (Exome teams suck in the playoffs in the snow) A dome team players' attributes should fall during that game.
21:Player and coach conflicts (Ex: John Gruden and Keyshawn Johnson)
22:NFL recruits college coaches! need I say more?
23:Why don't players get hurt when you unleash the hit stick? It is a BIG hit right?
24:All new warm-up before a game. (ex: run through some plays, stretch, etc.
25:Super Bowl intro's by player names! (Ex:Ray Lewis does his little dance)
26:Coaches can hire and fire staff
That's about it guys....let me know what you think
Thanks for the comment a/b my user name cash path. I have that name because it's true. That's what I am. I'm currently about to deploy to Iraq though. Right now..no one can beat me in madden 07' on this base! I'm really looking foward to playing madden 08'. Do me a favor please. Will you add my madden features to the fantasy list please? Thanx
They need to fix the offensive push off when playing against someone else. I play against people who switch to the receiver, run into the corner until it redirects him and then turn back to the ball on deep passes.
A more sophistcted replay system. Espn 2006 was good about letting you decide what you wanted to challenge.
Well basically everything has been said already. But I want to reiterate the fact that most of the players leaving BYU are 25 or older because of the two year mission they go on. Also you dont really see many of their players on the game even though they are playing or are free agents. That part upsets me greatly. Just my 2 cents.
I'd like to see more dual threat players, like Deon Sanders and the like superstar players who have plays they are specifically called in for to either throw the defense off by having them in the lineup, or throw the offense off if say you switched a reciever in to cover another reciever who had been burning the other db's
the other thing i'd like to see is going back to madden 96 or 97 i forget, when you created a character through drills so you cant just input 99 on everything, it forces people to learn how to play, maybe they can add a reward system into this as well (not sure if any of these had been added, i just havnt seen them mentioned)
Okay, why is it that you get Calvin Johnson, Patrick Willis, and Ted Ginn all having great speed, agility, and acceleration for their positions as ROOKIES, and every year in the NFL more FAST and AGILE players come in and yet still on the Franchise mode the fastest player in drafts is always like 92 speed with 85 acceleration? What's wrong there? It's a rare occasion when we can draft players as fast and agile as the real players that are already in the game...
For example....Calvin Johnson runs like a 4.3 forty yard dash...There was a WR in my Franchise draft who ran a 4.32 and was the best in the cone drill and really top 4 in all of the areas...yet when I drafted him he had 90 speed and 90 acceleration with 86 agility...Now...that's not what I figured to be drafting there, shouldn't he have been faster than that? Yeah the stock in the drills isn't much all the time but when the fastest receiver in the draft was only 94 with 88 agility and acceleration...somethings up...every year there are superb athletes in the real NFL draft yet every season in Madden there is crap...and crap all the time.
My request...MORE REALISTIC PLAYERS IN THE DRAFT, I'M SICK OF THESE SLOW MIKE WILLIAMS TYPE RECEIVERS!!! AND RUNNING BACKS!!! THROW A REGGIE BUSH-LIKE RB IN EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE!!! I MEAN LOOK AT THE 2006 DRAFT, WE GOT JOSEPH ADDAI, REGGIE BUSH, DEANGELO WILLIAMS, MAURICE DREW, LAURENCE MARONEY....AND WHEN I RUN A DRAFT THE BEST GUY ISN'T ANY BETTER THAN LAMONT JORDAN!!! THIS IS REALLY TURNING ME OFF OF FRANCHISE MODE!!!
How about just being able to make your own teams with made up or existing players in franchise mode - Is this too much to ask? bring in more options to the game rather taking them away.
Dont get me wrong it is the best sim on the market.... I wonder if you can do this in NCAA?
Full edit ability for players
Custom Created coaches
Ability to add your own headshot to created player
CPU being able to pronouce my name if its not ,,,, Jones or Smith
Midseason position changes, so I don't have two stud DE's with one disgruntled he is not the starter. Because I cannot seem to change him from RE to LE or DT.
Hey and where the heck is the substitutions within formation menu?????
Before I could go to a specific formation and choose where to put which man.
Maybe I just have not found it yet...
I agree with most of the stuff in the master list.
Nice work
from readin these posts it seems that EA actually reads these ideas...well good cause i have 10 years worth of ideas...and instead of writing a best seller i thought this would the easiest way for my ideas to be seen. first i will give you my in game thoughts, and than my franchise mode ones.
1. EA knows that madden is the one game that we wait for anxiously every year... so why do they continuosly make the game easy for first time players? We, the real gamers want a real football experience in every aspect possible... isn't the slogan "if it's in the game, it's in the game"?
2. year in and year out the coverage seems to be lacking and never cathes on to patters (ie. running the same play over and over yet still gainging massive yardage each play) whether it be on the pst patterns or quick pick and outs... in football you would see the same package everytime and eventually clue in on whats coming next, and not just for that game. the next week when you face a team they should be ready for the same play from the same formation... i mean its a computer, it can't remember these things?
3. offensive line blocking needs to get better... i can take peppers, line him up outside the lineman and rush right to the qb and get him almost everytime. its dumb to have a DE with 75 sacks at the end of a season while playing on all madden.
4. defense needs to be better all around. if you look at the stats at the end of a season (for the league, not just my team) they are way out of wack. almost every player has mvp like numbers and its dumb. qbs pass for 5000 yards and rbs have 2500, keep it real...thats all im asking.
5. i know EA is trying each year to come out with more realistic tackling and game physics and im sure its hard to get all the stuff to look so real.....but still as a gamer i want more...mainly better tackling and sideline awarness... but everyone wants that so i wont go to far into it.
now for the franchise mode....
i personally do not play the superstar mode all that much simply because i like the gm aspect of franchise.... but that being said, here are my issues.
1. ******this is my biggest concern****** has anyone ever looked at how the draft goes?????? if you are just starting a franchise you want to be good for years to come...how come none of the young players ever get drafted early? who would ever draft an old veteran like brett favre in the first round? thats way too unrealistic. every team should be trying to build a team that both plays well to their playbooks and is young yet competitive. its horrible that they just have one draft order and thats how the game does the draft. its pointless cause no matter how much you draft the other teams are always going to have the same weird random teams.
2. the expansion team. if they wont allow for a realistic draft at least let us have an expansion team to build from. the when the texans came out was great. it was actually fun to start from the bottom with cast offs from other teams and one solid draft pick, and try to turn them into a winner. i just want something where its competitive to play the other team each week.
3. more trade proposals in the offseason... simple enough.
4. better contracts and realistic salary cap. its pointless to have a salary cap if you can afford to have whoever you want anyways... and get rid of the green bar... like a free agent is going to ever lay out how close you are to signing him......little more...little more...little more....got em!!!
5. one thing i do have to applaud EA for is the coach idea. i think its a blast to build your team with real life coaches which affect your overall team development.
sorry for anyone who either feel asleep or has thrown their computer out the window..... the sad part is i could have gone on for longer but decided this is it for today. hope some of you feel the same way...... and please EA... im not good enough to actually get in the game....so i depend on you to make it close lol.
1. the fantasy draft should be better and not as predictable as it is, u pretty much know whos going when in the first couple of rounds
2. u should be able to see the draft class alot earlier in the offseason, so that you know potential playes to draft before the free agent signing, it would help alot
3. and as lippy13 said there has to be alot more trading going on amongst the cpu teams, more proposals, and it should be easier to trade then it is, most offers get rejected
Just curious.. Has any of the patches fixed the cpu vs cpu so you can watch? That was a major selling point of the PS2 game for me.. It's pure bunk that a next gen game didn't or doesn't allow such a simple thing.
One thing that I think the Madden series needs is optional CFL (Canadian Football League) rules/teams, for example
1. 110 Yard field
2. 12 Players
3. NO fair catch
4. 1 foot inbounds catch
5. 3 downs..etc...etc
Now I know I am probably going to catch a lot of flack from this, for as was stated before the game is meant to simulate the NFL, well in all fairness the NHL series was meant to simulate the NHL, and it contains all international rules including the larger rink, plus all teams and players in the European Elite Leagues.
Couldn't hurt to just add 8 more teams and additional rules.
Cheers.
idk if that would work i think it would be hard to obtain the CFL license and it would cost EA some money and since the CFL isnt that big its prolly not worth it to EA maybe add the rules thou
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Originally Posted by jdawg03
To have unlimited cap room so that you can get all the best on your team I would like that.
they put a salary cap in the game because in the NFL there is a real salary cap
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The creations modes need to increase drastically. There should be a lot more features to creating a player, i.e., tattoos, hair/beard styles, improve body sculpting/adjusting, what brand to wear (i know the reebok is over the nfl but nike and under armor should be added), postioning wrist/arm bands, and different styles of clothing options.
You should be able to create a playbook as well on both sides of the ball. That would make playing your friends and online a lot more enjoyable and bring in very new and exclusive aspect to the game.
Creating a team is a joke. It should feature a lot more modern realistic aspects about starting a franchise. It should be a lot more control and options on creating the outfits, stadium, and team logo. I would buy Madden for as long as I live if i could live through that fantasy of having a NFL team. I would also be glad to help.
layer suspensions because of misconduct off or on the field, fines need to be added to the game also.
ome teams suck in the playoffs in the snow) A dome team players' attributes should fall during that game.
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