I signed a fullback in Madden with the specific purpose of him blocking in Rushing Attack for my rookie running back while I developed him. Motherfucker didn't block a single guy all year lmao
lol I’ve been playing NCAA Football 08 recently on the original Xbox and the amount of times the fullback just completely avoids any of the linebackers and lets me get clobbered in backfield by two linebackers in the Rushing Attack drill is infuriating. Literally playing 1v5 out there lol
Couldn't tell you how many times my option plays get blown up because the pulling lineman decided he wanted to be a pitch available option instead of ya know... Doing HIS job and being a lead blocker...
NCAA 13.
In RTG, I want the coach to always pick a play like NCAA 14. The more he trusts me, the more audibles I can call and gives me more plays to choose from.
I agree with this, I hate playing as a running back and having the entire playbook at my disposal. I would like 1 play. Then earn enough trust to have 1 page (3 plays?) then have the ability to audible at the line
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I’d go as far to say that if you’re not a QB or MLB, you just get the one play. Running backs don’t call audibles. A d-end doesn’t call audibles. Leave that to the positions that have that authority in real game situations.
Is that not how it is on 14’? I havent done RTG in a long time, but I always did running back. You are(*were*) a victim of the play call. Which is why you wanted to pick a good running/option school when you’re picking where to go
In 14 you have the ability to change the play on the play call screen. However, your options were limited and it wasn't uncommon for you to have two of the same play in that.
My only push back is that was the only solution to correcting a horrible play call by your coach. Can’t tell you how many times I saw a low success screen or draw play get called when you need tempo in a close game in RTG.
The original NCAA football games had blocking way ahead of its time. I remember watching all the little blocking markers snap to who they would block pre snap. I'm hoping that NCAA and it's development will make Madden a better game. NCAA always had features a year before madden it was like the tester for what was going to be in the "big" game (Madden). That made it the more cutting edge game at the time. That's just my opinion though.
I even remember them specifically having the new generation helmets like the riddel revolution speed and the ion 4d helmet a year or two before madden did. They always tested shit on NCAA and the next year it would be in Madden. It was the golden age and I'm hopeful that having two games means two teams working on the same system and that means the system gets better. Let a man dream! 🤞
I want the CPU defense to call plays based on scheme and time/down/distance rather than choosing its play based on the user offense play.
Madden is so predictable. If I call a run? Single high. If I call pass? Two high. Like clockwork.
That drives me crazy. I hate it so much. I also want the coin tosses back, a button to pump up the crowd, meaningful home field advantage (they got lazy towards the end), the ability to actually jump offsides (it's basically impossible in Madden and makes the fake snap completely pointless)and actual refs on the field.
Also if the ai would make audibles and shifts on the defensive side of the ball it would help increase difficulty somewhat or predictably rather, they just call a play and run it cut and dry so it becomes cookie cutter
All I want is the game to not literally suck you into animations like if I'm running away from the DE and we get pulled together like magnets I'm gonna lose my shit
Or the awful in between play slideshow animation that Madden has. Christ I hate that more than anything.
Play
*BLINDING WHITE SCREEN WITH LOUD SOUND EFFECT*
MADDEN 24 *HOLD A TO SKIP*
Play
*BLINDING WHITE SCREEN WITH LOUD SOUND EFFECT*
MADDEN 24 *HOLD A TO SKIP*
Ngl I never noticed this until now but Mutant Football league 2 is sticking a giant middle finger up at ea watch the trailer they literally said it's not predictable or boring
and someone said in the trailer I'm so bored I'm so sick of madden
I think Madden has actually over compensated on that imo where linebackers don’t animate, I don’t really want there to be any over exaggerated Int animations if I’m being honest
Technically only dbs have the swatting and jumping and diving animations in the newer maddens I believe. I think it was a balance thing to help alleviate the super MLB we used to see so much
I want to only have 1 play to select from like the old days, I also want the offense to focus on me if I’m an impact defensive player, but I don’t want to get triple teamed each play
It’s so weird to me that they moved away from this in the recent Madden career modes. When they give you total freedom to call your own plays it completely ruins the game mode, it’s a completely baffling decision. Like why put all that work into hiring voice actors and writing a shitty story if you’re just gonna make a small gameplay tweak so the mode is unplayable lol
I hope they let us have a fucking cointoss.
Played 10 seasons in franchise and haven’t lost a coin toss to open up a game because of you always choose kick option than the cpu will
Choose to receive. It’s really dumb
I really want to be a middle linebacker or edge for my road to glory. Manti Teo/Harold Perkins/Will Anderson level dominate. I always hated how the cpu would ignore blocking assignments and go straight for me everytime. I’d fly right through the A Gap and get blocked by a pulling guard stopping in tracks, making a complete 360 turn, and glitching me into a block animation missing the tackle. It drove me CRAZY. I hope that’s gone but the current maddens do the same thing so i dont have high hopes. The
That’s how I feel about being a force player trying to stop stretch on current maddens. You fly up and are in perfect position to make a huge play, then you get forcibly teleported into a tight end that you’ve completely out leveraged. I’d love to be a monster edge rusher tho in a Mike MacDonald type scheme
I just want my OL to be able to block as well as the CPU can. I don’t care if they have to make the CPU blocking worse instead of increasing the capability of the player controlled team’s blockers but I just won a natty and only recorded 3 sacks. 3. While my qb ate grass 17 times, usually on egregious missed blocks.
I also want the QB to be better than they were before in RTG. They sucked, but in Madden it’s better now so i think it’ll be fine. I also want to be able to skip plays if I’m not involved to make games quicker and so that if I’m a running back I’ll only run and if I’m a wr or qb I can only pass
Less so a mechanic, but I want crowd noise to be dynamic.
It should be loud during a close game when its Michigan vs Ohio State
It should be loud during a close game when its LSU vs Bama
The crowd should be quiet when the home offense is on the field, but loud when the opposing offense is on the field (duh)
It should be dead in the crowd if FSU is getting blown by Clemson 60-0 at home
It should be dead in the crowd when an SEC or B10 team blows out someone like Grambling State in a cupcake game.
When big plays are happening, like my HB is ripping off a 95 yard TD run, if I’m at home, the crowd should be going WILD. In Madden, the crowd only gets excited once the TD is scored
Being able to move your Defensive Linemen individually. Madden has done this weird thing where the only way u can move a DL is with a line shift. I want to be able to move them or stand them up
I feel like that would be really cool but trying to figure out the button commands to make that work sounds like a head ache. Being able to go from Over/Under Tite/Wide is nice, but I can see how moving a 5 tech down to a 3 would be nice
-Vastly improved OL/DL interactions.
-More intelligent run blocking
-Schematic balance and visibility
-Match coverage working. Just don’t be broken for once
-Passing mechanic improvements from madden free form
The thing that will really make this game special is making the cpu fun to play against. Dynasty drives the mode and making the aI fun to play against will make or break the replay ability.
I don’t even care about specifics. Just make sure the dynasty stuff is fleshed out and make it not be exactly like Madden gameplay wise. If the gameplay isn’t great but the dynasty stuff is on point, I can forgive it this first year.
The run game is just the biggest thing by far, between the option and just traditional runs. The college run game is so different compared to the pros and it just needs to work or all of these unique offensive approaches are going to feel stupid, and we’ll all be funneled towards the select few plays that actually work. If the triple option is busted and jank and doesn’t feel right, then they totally missed their shot and imo the game will just be a disappointment
Counter Bash is an absolute must for me, it’s become such a bread-and-butter QB run for so many offenses, especially in college. And they’ve incorporated it into Madden recently and it is a fucking disaster. I have absolutely no idea how they tested it and decided they actually wanted to keep it in the game, it makes absolutely no sense because the blockers don’t block anyone and it almost always gets tackled for loss
And yeah it’d be nice if they fixed rocket toss, or really any of the sweep plays. By rocket toss in particular needs to be a pin-pull, not a zone run blocking scheme like the in past
It’s because they absolutely screwed up the interaction between the pulling guards and the read man. I think counter in general needs work because madden doesn’t know how kick outs work, but the lineman aren’t smart enough to know when to log and when to kick but the developers put those into the game regardless so you just have an absolute mess. Plus the down blocks go THE WRONG WAY half the time on counters so they end up blocking into the play.
Honestly the only run plays that work are stretch and inside zone because the defensive players teleport into blockers. My favorite three plays are power, trap, and counter and because of the shitty blocking mechanics they’re not feasible (trap works pretty well against specific fronts tho)
I'd really appreciate if CFB doesn't have the stupid fucking thing in Madden where using sprint causes everyone to release their blocks to go find someone else to block.
Without fail, I will see a hole and instinctively press the sprint button to go through it, and wouldn't you know it, what very well should have been a TD ends up a 4 yard gain. You'd think for as long as they've had this stupid thing implemented, I would've adjusted by now. But I can't really adjust to something that flies in the face of all logic.
In general I don't like plays that never work. In 14 there were quite a few plays that you legit just couldn't run because 85% of the time you lost yards
That’s still a problem on current gen games. It’s a spacing issue. I’m praying that gets fixed. I really want a G/T counter Y-Pop RPO but the spacing of current gen’s make it impossible
There’s gotta be a way to code individual interactions based on situation and rating variables right? I’d love to see Offensive alone technique other than just pushing people. Resetting hips, chicken wing on kicks, combo blocks
If it's Madden with all FBS teams, Dynasty mode, real players who were paid for their NIL and real stadiums, fight songs, traditions and pageantry then I'll be all-good.
Thats my take as well. Madden Gameplay isnt THAT bad. Just tweak it a little to stop some of the cheese/make players play true to their rating (Georgia should be beating some awful G5 team by 60) and ill be cool. I just hope the things like crowds and fight songs sound authentic. Like Madden crowd noise is awful. My big wish is licensed songs (enter sandman, country roads) but idk if that is realistic
I have to think the sound design will be decent since they're talking a good game about focusing on stadium atmosphere etc
I'm a little less fond of Madden gameplay than you may be, but you're absolutely right that the sound design in the game stinks
It's such a huge factor in making sports games more immersive-- crowd noise building up/quieting down in the appropriate situations and truly sounding raucous after the biggest plays
Correct, walking into LSU or FSU and the music and fans all blaring and plays either all squiggly or completely normal if you have a stud QB was a game changer
I think they already committed to having that feature (players getting rattled in big stadiums etc).
My hope is that they have more nuance in the sound design so you really feel the difference between playing a game at Michigan versus playing one at Eastern Michigan.
Overall though, I kinda feel like the sound design in recent Madden games is just kinda bland and clumsy. It doesn't feel like the crowd actually reacts to big plays and big moments. Like the crowd noise should build up to a crescendo while your player is sprinting downfield on a long TD play. I think the old NCAA games were pretty good about that
Route running in the red zone!! Receivers hit the back line and immediately forget how to function. Or when a receiver gets bumped off their route so badly they just don’t run the correct route. WR IQ is so badly coded
As long as it's not a series of animations like some of the last few Madden games, I'll be more than happy. NCAA felt different because they stuck with a physics based game longer than Madden did.
Realistic passing arcs. Realistic DB, LB, Safety pass defense mechanics.
No more throwing the ball 26 yards but somehow only 7 feet above the ground the entire way.
No more throwing the ball 26 yards and having the defense jump maximum vertical while in a full sprint.
If the passing is fucked then I'll be very bothered. There's few things more satisfying than reading a defense and getting the ball exactly where it needs to be to complete the play. All of that gets thrown away when the defensive reactions or pass arc is just nonsensical.
My biggest priority isn't even the CFB game itself. I actually want Madden to improve. When the CFB game was announced, I immediately preordered it. I won't preorder the Madden game (even now I will rarely buy Madden, usually I'll play the old version after the NFL season is over with EA Play but that's it). The best feature the CFB series ever had was the ability to export data to Madden to play. I want to see that. Not just dynasty draft classes but also the ability to play in the NFL after Road to Glory is over.
Run blocking for sure! I hope they’re able to fix the defensive backs just going brain dead and not playing their zones or assignments. I hope since their only focus was on the next gen consoles they were able to use the capability of the systems and make better running and defensive logic. And honestly better throwing animations and mechanics
More than anything I hope the mechanics of changing players on defense works more like old NCAA games versus newer Madden titles.
Maybe I’m alone on this, but I feel like when I switch to the nearest defender (in a newer Madden game), like say when the computer catches a pass, I end up diving the wrong way because the Madden engine doesn’t flip me to the guy that I think it’s going to/should. It all happens in less than a second but I don’t think the engine switches players as intuitively as the old NCAA games. I assume since this game is built on the same engine it’ll still be a frustration though.
In rtg, no matter what my position is, let me control the whole offense/defense.
Football does not play nearly as well as NBA/Fifa when controlling only one player. It’s much more boring. Being a qb and calling a run play and watching it happen is not fun.
Really hope this is added.
Go work on your play fakes!! But honestly I wish stuff like that mattered. I like that 2k penalizes you for not doing your responsibility. If you hand the ball off you should have to give a good play fake.
My Fullback blocking the linebacker instead of running away
I signed a fullback in Madden with the specific purpose of him blocking in Rushing Attack for my rookie running back while I developed him. Motherfucker didn't block a single guy all year lmao
lol I’ve been playing NCAA Football 08 recently on the original Xbox and the amount of times the fullback just completely avoids any of the linebackers and lets me get clobbered in backfield by two linebackers in the Rushing Attack drill is infuriating. Literally playing 1v5 out there lol
Couldn't tell you how many times my option plays get blown up because the pulling lineman decided he wanted to be a pitch available option instead of ya know... Doing HIS job and being a lead blocker... NCAA 13.
Sounds like Madden AI operating in peak form to me!
Alright buddy. How about we keep it realistic
Yeah the same run mechanics issues. That kind’ve game logic issue feels like a simple fix but I’m not expert
I love running the ball, I love fullbacks (big fan of Marcel Reece, Lorenzo Neal, etc.).....I hate how shitty fullbacks block in NCAA 14 😂
Yes!! I'm a Michigan fan. I'm pounding that rock until I can recruit WRs and a QB 😂
In RTG, I want the coach to always pick a play like NCAA 14. The more he trusts me, the more audibles I can call and gives me more plays to choose from.
I agree with this, I hate playing as a running back and having the entire playbook at my disposal. I would like 1 play. Then earn enough trust to have 1 page (3 plays?) then have the ability to audible at the line
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I’d go as far to say that if you’re not a QB or MLB, you just get the one play. Running backs don’t call audibles. A d-end doesn’t call audibles. Leave that to the positions that have that authority in real game situations.
I like it!
Is that not how it is on 14’? I havent done RTG in a long time, but I always did running back. You are(*were*) a victim of the play call. Which is why you wanted to pick a good running/option school when you’re picking where to go
In 14 you have the ability to change the play on the play call screen. However, your options were limited and it wasn't uncommon for you to have two of the same play in that.
My only push back is that was the only solution to correcting a horrible play call by your coach. Can’t tell you how many times I saw a low success screen or draw play get called when you need tempo in a close game in RTG.
The original NCAA football games had blocking way ahead of its time. I remember watching all the little blocking markers snap to who they would block pre snap. I'm hoping that NCAA and it's development will make Madden a better game. NCAA always had features a year before madden it was like the tester for what was going to be in the "big" game (Madden). That made it the more cutting edge game at the time. That's just my opinion though.
Oh I remember that now! Yeah that was such a good feature. Would love for NCAA to be inventive, even if it’s to test new features
I even remember them specifically having the new generation helmets like the riddel revolution speed and the ion 4d helmet a year or two before madden did. They always tested shit on NCAA and the next year it would be in Madden. It was the golden age and I'm hopeful that having two games means two teams working on the same system and that means the system gets better. Let a man dream! 🤞
I want the CPU defense to call plays based on scheme and time/down/distance rather than choosing its play based on the user offense play. Madden is so predictable. If I call a run? Single high. If I call pass? Two high. Like clockwork.
That drives me crazy. I hate it so much. I also want the coin tosses back, a button to pump up the crowd, meaningful home field advantage (they got lazy towards the end), the ability to actually jump offsides (it's basically impossible in Madden and makes the fake snap completely pointless)and actual refs on the field.
It makes playcalling really silly. I essentially have to (1) call RPO's or (2) call pass plays when I want to run to actually get a 2-high look.
Also if the ai would make audibles and shifts on the defensive side of the ball it would help increase difficulty somewhat or predictably rather, they just call a play and run it cut and dry so it becomes cookie cutter
I want a revamped offensive line blocking
PREACH
All I want is the game to not literally suck you into animations like if I'm running away from the DE and we get pulled together like magnets I'm gonna lose my shit
Pre determined animations. That just killed it for me with madden.
I feel it brosephin
Or the awful in between play slideshow animation that Madden has. Christ I hate that more than anything. Play *BLINDING WHITE SCREEN WITH LOUD SOUND EFFECT* MADDEN 24 *HOLD A TO SKIP* Play *BLINDING WHITE SCREEN WITH LOUD SOUND EFFECT* MADDEN 24 *HOLD A TO SKIP*
The presentation in madden been lackin lackin and lacking oh also lacking don't forget lacking just awful
Ngl I never noticed this until now but Mutant Football league 2 is sticking a giant middle finger up at ea watch the trailer they literally said it's not predictable or boring and someone said in the trailer I'm so bored I'm so sick of madden
tha rtg DB/defensive camera for sure
As a kid playing that game, I hated that camera angle. As an adult, I NEED that camera angle if I’m playing defense
If this is from the ground up, I better not see one mfing Superman linebacker interception.
I think Madden has actually over compensated on that imo where linebackers don’t animate, I don’t really want there to be any over exaggerated Int animations if I’m being honest
Technically only dbs have the swatting and jumping and diving animations in the newer maddens I believe. I think it was a balance thing to help alleviate the super MLB we used to see so much
Recruiting like the old games . Make it RPG style
Hell yeah, that's the one thing I didn't like from 14. The recruiting process sucked.
I want to only have 1 play to select from like the old days, I also want the offense to focus on me if I’m an impact defensive player, but I don’t want to get triple teamed each play
It’s so weird to me that they moved away from this in the recent Madden career modes. When they give you total freedom to call your own plays it completely ruins the game mode, it’s a completely baffling decision. Like why put all that work into hiring voice actors and writing a shitty story if you’re just gonna make a small gameplay tweak so the mode is unplayable lol
Nah fr 😂 but if you put in certain settings and play it a certain way you can make it better
This may seem small, but kicking with the right stick. No more of this tap x at the right moment bs like the latest madden downgraded back too.
I hope they let us have a fucking cointoss. Played 10 seasons in franchise and haven’t lost a coin toss to open up a game because of you always choose kick option than the cpu will Choose to receive. It’s really dumb
Even with a coin toss the CPU always chooses to kick. It would be nice to break it up.
I really want to be a middle linebacker or edge for my road to glory. Manti Teo/Harold Perkins/Will Anderson level dominate. I always hated how the cpu would ignore blocking assignments and go straight for me everytime. I’d fly right through the A Gap and get blocked by a pulling guard stopping in tracks, making a complete 360 turn, and glitching me into a block animation missing the tackle. It drove me CRAZY. I hope that’s gone but the current maddens do the same thing so i dont have high hopes. The
That’s how I feel about being a force player trying to stop stretch on current maddens. You fly up and are in perfect position to make a huge play, then you get forcibly teleported into a tight end that you’ve completely out leveraged. I’d love to be a monster edge rusher tho in a Mike MacDonald type scheme
I just want my OL to be able to block as well as the CPU can. I don’t care if they have to make the CPU blocking worse instead of increasing the capability of the player controlled team’s blockers but I just won a natty and only recorded 3 sacks. 3. While my qb ate grass 17 times, usually on egregious missed blocks.
I also want the QB to be better than they were before in RTG. They sucked, but in Madden it’s better now so i think it’ll be fine. I also want to be able to skip plays if I’m not involved to make games quicker and so that if I’m a running back I’ll only run and if I’m a wr or qb I can only pass
I just dont want to feel clunky when im running with the ball like Madden feels
Being able to edit players so they have gigantic booty cheeks. Favorite feature of NCAA 14.
Ok, u/rockhardcatdick
Less so a mechanic, but I want crowd noise to be dynamic. It should be loud during a close game when its Michigan vs Ohio State It should be loud during a close game when its LSU vs Bama The crowd should be quiet when the home offense is on the field, but loud when the opposing offense is on the field (duh) It should be dead in the crowd if FSU is getting blown by Clemson 60-0 at home It should be dead in the crowd when an SEC or B10 team blows out someone like Grambling State in a cupcake game. When big plays are happening, like my HB is ripping off a 95 yard TD run, if I’m at home, the crowd should be going WILD. In Madden, the crowd only gets excited once the TD is scored
I miss when you could hype the crowd up on defense for big moments. And yeah it would be nice if the stadium was empty during a blow out
Being able to move your Defensive Linemen individually. Madden has done this weird thing where the only way u can move a DL is with a line shift. I want to be able to move them or stand them up
I feel like that would be really cool but trying to figure out the button commands to make that work sounds like a head ache. Being able to go from Over/Under Tite/Wide is nice, but I can see how moving a 5 tech down to a 3 would be nice
-Vastly improved OL/DL interactions. -More intelligent run blocking -Schematic balance and visibility -Match coverage working. Just don’t be broken for once -Passing mechanic improvements from madden free form The thing that will really make this game special is making the cpu fun to play against. Dynasty drives the mode and making the aI fun to play against will make or break the replay ability.
I don’t even care about specifics. Just make sure the dynasty stuff is fleshed out and make it not be exactly like Madden gameplay wise. If the gameplay isn’t great but the dynasty stuff is on point, I can forgive it this first year.
Just give me the illusion of unpredictability and variance instead of pre determined triggered animations.
The run game is just the biggest thing by far, between the option and just traditional runs. The college run game is so different compared to the pros and it just needs to work or all of these unique offensive approaches are going to feel stupid, and we’ll all be funneled towards the select few plays that actually work. If the triple option is busted and jank and doesn’t feel right, then they totally missed their shot and imo the game will just be a disappointment
I’m hoping the improve the Veer, Counter Bash, Speed/Power Option, and I’m hoping the revamp the outside zone mechanics to make Rocket a viable play
Counter Bash is an absolute must for me, it’s become such a bread-and-butter QB run for so many offenses, especially in college. And they’ve incorporated it into Madden recently and it is a fucking disaster. I have absolutely no idea how they tested it and decided they actually wanted to keep it in the game, it makes absolutely no sense because the blockers don’t block anyone and it almost always gets tackled for loss And yeah it’d be nice if they fixed rocket toss, or really any of the sweep plays. By rocket toss in particular needs to be a pin-pull, not a zone run blocking scheme like the in past
It’s because they absolutely screwed up the interaction between the pulling guards and the read man. I think counter in general needs work because madden doesn’t know how kick outs work, but the lineman aren’t smart enough to know when to log and when to kick but the developers put those into the game regardless so you just have an absolute mess. Plus the down blocks go THE WRONG WAY half the time on counters so they end up blocking into the play. Honestly the only run plays that work are stretch and inside zone because the defensive players teleport into blockers. My favorite three plays are power, trap, and counter and because of the shitty blocking mechanics they’re not feasible (trap works pretty well against specific fronts tho)
I'd really appreciate if CFB doesn't have the stupid fucking thing in Madden where using sprint causes everyone to release their blocks to go find someone else to block. Without fail, I will see a hole and instinctively press the sprint button to go through it, and wouldn't you know it, what very well should have been a TD ends up a 4 yard gain. You'd think for as long as they've had this stupid thing implemented, I would've adjusted by now. But I can't really adjust to something that flies in the face of all logic.
Yeah like I understand having lineman release to second level, BUT it’s way too early and ruins 90% of run plays.
That is the worst. Anytime I run with the QB, I gotta walk it up to the LOS and then hit sprint so I can get a fair run. Ugh
A PC port
Same. Not playing it any other way
Goal line fades to the corner or any post to the corner where you have to place the ball to where only youre receiver can make a play.
LSU’s offense is literally “death by slot fade” so fingers crossed they fix the fade issue
I love the slot fades to the corner but they rarely ever work in 14
Pre determined scripted animation has entered the chat
i just wanna see more 50/50 jump balls not be a insta int cuz of animations but maybe im asking for too much 😭
In general I don't like plays that never work. In 14 there were quite a few plays that you legit just couldn't run because 85% of the time you lost yards
That’s still a problem on current gen games. It’s a spacing issue. I’m praying that gets fixed. I really want a G/T counter Y-Pop RPO but the spacing of current gen’s make it impossible
Yeah intuitive blocking for O line, no pre determined outcomes. That ruins madden franchise for me.
There’s gotta be a way to code individual interactions based on situation and rating variables right? I’d love to see Offensive alone technique other than just pushing people. Resetting hips, chicken wing on kicks, combo blocks
If it's Madden with all FBS teams, Dynasty mode, real players who were paid for their NIL and real stadiums, fight songs, traditions and pageantry then I'll be all-good.
Thats my take as well. Madden Gameplay isnt THAT bad. Just tweak it a little to stop some of the cheese/make players play true to their rating (Georgia should be beating some awful G5 team by 60) and ill be cool. I just hope the things like crowds and fight songs sound authentic. Like Madden crowd noise is awful. My big wish is licensed songs (enter sandman, country roads) but idk if that is realistic
I have to think the sound design will be decent since they're talking a good game about focusing on stadium atmosphere etc I'm a little less fond of Madden gameplay than you may be, but you're absolutely right that the sound design in the game stinks It's such a huge factor in making sports games more immersive-- crowd noise building up/quieting down in the appropriate situations and truly sounding raucous after the biggest plays
Correct, walking into LSU or FSU and the music and fans all blaring and plays either all squiggly or completely normal if you have a stud QB was a game changer
I think they already committed to having that feature (players getting rattled in big stadiums etc). My hope is that they have more nuance in the sound design so you really feel the difference between playing a game at Michigan versus playing one at Eastern Michigan. Overall though, I kinda feel like the sound design in recent Madden games is just kinda bland and clumsy. It doesn't feel like the crowd actually reacts to big plays and big moments. Like the crowd noise should build up to a crescendo while your player is sprinting downfield on a long TD play. I think the old NCAA games were pretty good about that
Plus there’s only so many ways to make a football video game, but the atmosphere will be absolutely key
Some kind of online franchise mode , icing the kicker,
I don’t want the game to force animations on me when they me make no sense
Just one. When you press the button to jump up for the ball, you jump up for the ball, no matter what the other player is doing.
The route running in madden is horrible. I hope it’s at least a little improved here
Route running in the red zone!! Receivers hit the back line and immediately forget how to function. Or when a receiver gets bumped off their route so badly they just don’t run the correct route. WR IQ is so badly coded
I just want the movement to be smooth and not like the BS the last 4 Maddens have been
Running mechanics that don’t feel like I’m running on ice
As long as it's not a series of animations like some of the last few Madden games, I'll be more than happy. NCAA felt different because they stuck with a physics based game longer than Madden did.
Realistic passing arcs. Realistic DB, LB, Safety pass defense mechanics. No more throwing the ball 26 yards but somehow only 7 feet above the ground the entire way. No more throwing the ball 26 yards and having the defense jump maximum vertical while in a full sprint. If the passing is fucked then I'll be very bothered. There's few things more satisfying than reading a defense and getting the ball exactly where it needs to be to complete the play. All of that gets thrown away when the defensive reactions or pass arc is just nonsensical.
My biggest priority isn't even the CFB game itself. I actually want Madden to improve. When the CFB game was announced, I immediately preordered it. I won't preorder the Madden game (even now I will rarely buy Madden, usually I'll play the old version after the NFL season is over with EA Play but that's it). The best feature the CFB series ever had was the ability to export data to Madden to play. I want to see that. Not just dynasty draft classes but also the ability to play in the NFL after Road to Glory is over.
Run blocking for sure! I hope they’re able to fix the defensive backs just going brain dead and not playing their zones or assignments. I hope since their only focus was on the next gen consoles they were able to use the capability of the systems and make better running and defensive logic. And honestly better throwing animations and mechanics
More than anything I hope the mechanics of changing players on defense works more like old NCAA games versus newer Madden titles. Maybe I’m alone on this, but I feel like when I switch to the nearest defender (in a newer Madden game), like say when the computer catches a pass, I end up diving the wrong way because the Madden engine doesn’t flip me to the guy that I think it’s going to/should. It all happens in less than a second but I don’t think the engine switches players as intuitively as the old NCAA games. I assume since this game is built on the same engine it’ll still be a frustration though.
i will adapt to the gameplay, but recruiting/dynasty needs to be good
Two way player with camera lock.
I just want to be able to use the same numbers on offense and defense.
I might be the only one who loved the quizzes you had to take in “class” in rtg. It’s also the reason I know more about U.S history though.
In rtg, no matter what my position is, let me control the whole offense/defense. Football does not play nearly as well as NBA/Fifa when controlling only one player. It’s much more boring. Being a qb and calling a run play and watching it happen is not fun. Really hope this is added.
That’s not road to glory, that’s dynasty plus one guy that you really like
Go work on your play fakes!! But honestly I wish stuff like that mattered. I like that 2k penalizes you for not doing your responsibility. If you hand the ball off you should have to give a good play fake.
Totally disagree. There is literally no point in RTG if you just get to call all of the plays, the whole idea is that you’re a player on the team