Reasons to Hate the Madden Mulligan Feature

[ezekiel55]

Quote: Originally Posted by FlyingFinn

This feature is for the Madden Nation Gamer. Now they will be able see how to exploit the game AI for each and ever play in the playbook, allowing them to score 100 pts in a 2 minute qtr game rather then a mere 62.

LOL...

Its unfortunate, but I think your spot on with that prediction.

[jfsolo]

From Ian Cummings on the MaddenMania boards:

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And to beat someone to the punch with a post of "why did they spend time on X feature that I think is stupid when they could have spent that on OL/DL play or gang tackles?" The gameplay team is separate from the rest of the teams, and shared among NCAA and Madden. So there has never been a decision to do a feature OUTSIDE of gameplay over something that is gameplay-related (i.e. the gameplay team has nothing to do with Franchise, Online, Virtual Training Center, etc.). This is also why I can't answer anything about other modes in the other posts.

I don't know for certain, but the rewind feature seems like it was a Peter Moore mandated feature that was going to be in the game period. So the group of guys assigned to that task probably worked on it exclusively.

There are of course a lot of reasons to be critical of the gameplay team, but them working on fluff features instead of core football features doesn't seem to be one of those reasons. And if as he says the team is shared amongst both games, well then you can see why only a couple of major game play fixes get done each cycle. This is with them have to deal with the poor design decisions of the past that have plagued this game for many, many years.

[spankdatazz22]

It's a great discussion article - huge props to the author, I thought it was very well written and probably the best new OS article to date. I don't see why it's a problem to speculate on the possible implications of what Tiburon chooses to implement in the game right now - the game is still a relatively long way from release date and they're putting out information regularly, so why not discuss it.

Personally I don't think Tiburon would choose the feature to counter the turnover issues the game had last year. I do think the feature is bad because it would seem to encourage more recklessness when playing - 4th and a few yards, may as well go for it because I can take a mulligan if I fail (if the feature works the way I envision). There are a ton of similar scenarios. If a person is a football novice, it doesn't seem wise to encourage less strategizing and make the game more arcadey than it already is. It doesn't seem like a good way to teach new Madden players good fundamentals, which will affect the quality of play overall/further water down the quality of the online gameplay experience

[yamabushi]

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this ever-present dumbing-down of Madden has me largely pessimistic for the future. If EA is focused on creating a game that even your grandma could play, then it’s doubtful that they will work on improving pass defense AI, or including all the correct alternate uniforms. You know, the things that really matter to the football fans. Seems like some flawed thinking to this guy.

And there you have it.
Any hopes that Madden would improve and move to a more sim like experience died when Peter Moore walked thru the door, lusting after the Wiis 'success'.
And I doubt even another year of declining sales will sway this manic pursuit of the 'casual' market.

Thank Jebus for backwards compatibility.

[clarkerots]

People who say "just turn it off" are obviously not reading the part about the rewind feature possibly being a "fix" to the turnover issue. You can't turn off the rediculous turnovers so turning off the rewind doesn't fix the overall problem. Unless you want to turn off fumbles too, maybe penalites, maybe we can turn off field goals......oh, I can't wait for actual football!!!!

[MassNole]

Great article, I am disgusted with this feature.

I haven't read up fully on it, but please tell me this won't be available in Online play?

[oukingpen]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scott

No, you can disable it.

good. by looking at this thread and all the whining you'd think it was mandatory.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by MassNole

Great article, I am disgusted with this feature. I haven't read up fully on it, but please tell me this won't be available in Online play?

No to online play.