Madden NFL 12 Blog - Franchise Mode in Madden 12

[crob8822]

Finally pre-season games have meaning

[GoodImmigrant]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hova57

they have strengths and weaknesses that affect the team. I think there's more to it.

yeah, that's what the franchise blog said, but how will it work. is it like +1 AWR -1 CTH? a trade off? just like that?

[natewest23]

I hope in this years Madden......in the Pro Bowl game each player has their original team helmet on! All these changes to Franchise mode got me kind of siked! Im ready for NCAA 12 and Madden 12!

[jvalverde88]

Okay they got my attention, I really liked M11 but couldn't get into it because Franchise mode was so stale. Honestly IMO I thought Post Patch M11 played better than Post Patch NCAA 11.

[rooney8]

I wonder if team distraction role is back in. Would mean player morale is back as well.

[Icarus2k9]

Dipping back into the behemoth that is this thread....

After a lot of thought and cyclical breathing to calm down somewhat, I realised without a specific feature being included I may still actually be on the fence about this Madden.

Does anyone know if there's a way to hide potential? Too many people have commented on this in the past to suggest it's not an issue for some that's a real sore point, but M11 was a constant game of "don't look at the screen" in the same way Tiger Woods 12 is being marred for me because of the putting circle. I understand the potential gets revealed after a couple of weeks, but that just means I'll be cutting guys after 4 weeks rather than instantly.

Just one on/off switch in the franchise options screen would make my day

[Sandbox]

Quote: Originally Posted by JaySmooov

Just note that was the last-gen days. They had to scrap everything "extra" basically for the next-gen Madden 06 because of lack of memory, and what did get in was watered down. Basically, Madden has been recovering for about 3 years - up until about 09. After that, mediocrity got unacceptable. But they did make strides consistently. Don't believe me? Check every review for next-gen for Madden, from Madden 06, up until Madden 11.

Stop saying this, that's not what happened at all.

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sandbox

Stop saying this, that's not what happened at all.

Yeah, even the developers (Although it was a BS statement) said they built from the ground up and that's why everything was bare bones.
BS statement because some of the same things, like the RB ICON glitch, was in the "built from the ground up", game.
In any case I don't think I've ever seen them say it was due to memory etc..