YR ROLLING MADDEN VIDEOS GAEM THRED

i'm a mess on defense, pats linebackers are too slow against any sort of stretch/sweep. i've had to press my dbacks to the line leaving me vulnerable to the bomb.

gameplay doesn't seem that much different than last year. i can't believe i've been buying these stupid games for 14 years now.

omg, i loved this game. it traveled everywhere with me when i was 8. i got busted for taking it to church with me one sunday.

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since i don't have a brother i will be holed up in the ukrainian village doing exactly the same thing this weekend.

Cleveland 20
NO 13

It jives with my completely objective analysis.

no

Please to put Knute Rockne or Jeremy Shocker on the cover of '08.

I remain faithfully and humbly yrs,

a look inside the ratings.

lol, some of it is so fuckin random. also the increasing proliferation of 100s is bs. my fave part though is that someone watched Reggie Bush last season and thought "shit, we need to give that dude 100 on agility!" wtf did he do last year above the previous season that made someone decided he needed 100 in any category.

needless to say, i will be queuing with the rest of the plebs on release day. i love this shit sooo much. screens for next-gen version look sweet.

screens for next-gen version look sweet.

i'm ashamed to say that i have given serious thought on multiple occasions to blowing my economic stimulus check on a new video game console just because of madden.

get a ps3 boy and i will fuck you up.

hard to believe i'm denying a sales pitch such as that...

i am pretty good.

I haven't played a new Madden game since 2005. Do they still suck?

I love Madden so much.

i've bought one every year since the early 90s. i no longer take the day off of work to play the shit out of it though.

after reading the updates from pats camp i'm kinda jonesing for the new madden?

i just want to know if they're gonna reinsert favre and if they'll retouch the cover art so he's wearing his new team's uni

there was a piece in sporting news where EA played through seasons in the 09 edition and the Vikings made the playoffs with Favre and not without.... but PACKERS do much better without.

Any year the Chargers are good is a year I have to buy Madden.

hey, this is available for purchase today, no?

if so i think i'm blowing off movies in the park in favor of a six pack and some madden.

I saw on ESPN last night that, while he's still in his Pack uni on the cover, they've already got him in a Jets uni in the game itself.

they've supposedly already released an update including Favre at NYJ. i'll check in approx. 2 hours when i get home and start playing.

you can dl new cover art from ea.

so did anyone buy this?

Defense + RB are way better.

I agree on RB but I can't play defense on it at all. How do you approach D?

Either I play the line until the pass (at which case I switch to the closest coverage and try to get a pick) or I play the FS.

That's basically what I do, but I rarely generate any consistent pass rush.

it's a timing thing with the pass rush. I'm actually pretty good at getting pressure, but the problem is if you defer playcalling to coaches, they blitz too much, and if you play an experienced QB, he gets the ball out quick. That's why sometimes I take back playcalling in difficult spells during a game.

think I racked up 8 or 9 sacks in one of the games....

defending the run, though, I do struggle at that...

What difficulty do you guys play on when you play the computer.

this is the best version for a few years imo. they stripped out most of the crap they had been cluttering it with and finally made rushing ok instead of awful, which was a big deal. online seems to play better this year too. still lots of problems obv, but feel like for the first time they tried to tackle some of them instead of just bolting some gaudy garbage onto the same old shit.

All Pro I think (whichever one is the second most difficult). I like to play on All Madden normally but since it's been so many years since I last played Madden (2007 for the XBox) I'm having to get used to it again.

figure I need to get a little less turnover prone before I can turn it up this time.

yea honestly I've not been a fan of Madden for years as some of the decisions were o_O (like the year they introduced the passing 'cone' to look off receivers), but I love this version. It actually has the most realistic feel of any Madden I've ever played.

There's still some weirdness here and there in the playcalling but hey it's a Madden game.

although is it just me, or can you not challenge Touchdowns? Like there've been at least two touchdowns that I thought were questionable (ie, receiver out of bounds), and I've gone to challenge and the option has not been there like it normally is....

(and there were more than 2 minutes in the quarter at the time)

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2011/03/madden-12-cover-vote-530w.jpg

madden 12 coverstar bracket
lol @ squawks
i do not know who carlos dunlap is. apologies carlos.

Jordan Gross!

The 12th Man

wow, tebow huh?

Woah, Peyton Hillis beat Aaron Rodgers!

Final is now between Hillis and Vick.

gotta bet it's gonna be vick, woulda guessed that from the start honestly

Hillis won by quite a margin, btw.

huh. i am surprised.

anyone tried the demo? i am unsure. it seems like they have made some real nice improvements to player movements and interaction, especially blocking, but it is very hard to tell because EA have fixed the difficulty on pre-school level, i assume not to scare away morons, and so every time i hand the ball off i just walk through the defense. on a similar note, i can't tell if the fact that clay matthews got a sack every time cutler dropped back was because of the difficulty level or because they have fucked something up. i think it is a step forward, but there is a very real possibility that whatever seems to have been fixed is just broken in a different way. the demo is basically pretty unhelpful but i guess i was always going to buy this shit anyway.

I guess Madden is going to give the Iggles an insanely high rating and every cheeser on the internet is suddenly going to become a Philadelphia fan.

last year they changed the ratings a lot during the year. i was mostly using atlanta because you can't use the pats without an avalanche of abuse, and suddenly part way thru the season every fucking idiot online was atlanta, and it turned out it was because the most recent roster update had them as the best rated team.

mord, you are xbox, right?

yeah

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swear to god i had complained extensively here about how balls madden 12 turned out to be. summary: it was very very balls.

glad i skipped this year

when does EA's contract finally run out with the NFL?
There NEEDS to be some competition as this series is kinda dead now

aargh, this demo is shit. i am so unhappy :(

when do these fuckers lose the exclusive license?

http://www.nohighscores.com/2012/08/24/madden-13-early-hours-impressions/

that's interesting. i kinda want more impressions from ppl to calibrate my own against. i have the doubt that, what if it is just different to what i'm used to and i'm just being a kneejerk asshole about it, but trying it again i just hate how fast and frictionless it all feels. with so much physicality in football the game has no sense of mass to the moving parts. rushing was horrible, when they had begun to make some progress with that with the old engine, and passing was no great shakes. the play selection mechanics seem to be more cumbersome somehow, too many button presses.

when was the last time zone coverage worked at all in a madden game? 2004?

I scored an 80-yard rushing touchdown with Tebow and he did not do the Tebow, what is this shit.

^one for the box

that is fairly realistic tho. numerous times this year i have seen him come on the field for one down on a read option and fall forward for 3 yards, and he hasn't tebowed once!

i am playing the new demo. it seems okay? need to play around more but running game seems a little off, i'm either tackled by 3 dudes in the backfield or i've got 5 yards before i see anyone, and no in between. i am at least not horrified this time, so far.

did anyone else do the madden 25 amazon nfl red zone stream ipad to panasonic and then through several other corporate entities you can watch football?! tres psyched

More information pls

yeah i did that. i was half considering buying it this year (last one i bought had daunte culpepper on it iirc) and then i knew i'd be working alot sundays this fall/winter so that sealed the deal.

http://kotaku.com/the-cheapest-way-to-watch-the-nfl-this-year-1041559197
may have ended today tho. basically you pay 100 for the game and it gets you directv nfl sunday ticket

Oh dang that is cool

welp i bought this for the ps3. Doing the drills. I like the read option stuff.

man I remember when people used to call in sick to work to play madden. has call of duty taken that title away?

Video game Jim Nantz just said "butt fumble"

EYEROLL

I like a lot of things about this version! I suck at it though, as usual. I miss the old days when the game was easy.

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/9/5/4691010/breaking-madden-clarence-beeftank-jaguars

BEEFTANK, meanwhile, set an NFL record with 346 rushing yards in a single game, shattering the previous mark of 296. He rushed 42 times, thereby averaging 8.2 yards per carry. I could only call designed runs so many times before the Chiefs' defense started to get wise, so I had to change it up with a lot of passing plays that were repurposed as improvised runs. Roll-out passing plays were particularly effective, not because they fooled anyone, but because they allowed BEEFTANK to swing to the outside right from the start of the play.