Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

[savoie2006]

Question: It says when you start a career mode you select a player or be a coach. My question is can you only be that player or can you still switch as you play?

[Aftershock9958]

Quote: Originally Posted by elsid13

I have a strange feeling CC is an attempt to make Madden into either Dragon Age or Mass Effect. I'm really feeling the RPG part of this is going to kill the RTP that EA introduced. In the end of the day it about football and I think to many folks at EA are getting swept up with the success of ME and DA.

I really don't get it. They introduce XP and use the phrase "RPG influenced" and people immediately go the route of claiming Madden will turn into a full on RPG.

Get a grip people.

[Aftershock9958]

Quote: Originally Posted by savoie2006

Question: It says when you start a career mode you select a player or be a coach. My question is can you only be that player or can you still switch as you play?

You can switch.

[TreFacTor]

Quote: Originally Posted by edjames01

Why keep the old franchise? It is trash.

It had the features many of us enjoyed in order to get more immersed in the game. It's almost a compulsion or an obsession to control every little detail.

To be able to simultaneously take my beloved Eagles and the Steelers to the Super Bowl in one franchise rather than separate careers.

To make sure I can make a roster that I can use (can't play the game online) past this year.

This thread is full of passionate madden players, and although we really see the benefit of the CC, it's really only beneficial to the online player and most agree long over due. All the offline customization player wants is the features that were removed and if that means we were neglected and it were explained why, we may have sung a song of praise instead of stirring controversy. Which do you think is a better solution? They way they have handled the situation so far doesn't seem to be going over to well.

[moneal2001]

if you select to be a player, you get to choose anyone in the nfl, a legend, or create your own. it plays like superstar from there, controling only your player.

[Aftershock9958]

Quote: Originally Posted by bpac55

I know franchise is part of CCM... A lot of Madden players buy the game just for offline franchise, now we don't have it.

See the discrepancy in your post?

They're not trying to make a first person game.

CC will be the deepest franchise mode you've played in a Madden game.

[Aftershock9958]

Quote: Originally Posted by TreFacTor

and although we really see the benefit of the CC, it's really only beneficial to the online player

This is completely false. I am both an offline and online player, and it will undoubtedly benefit the offline franchises that I play every year. There are a lot of things about it that are pretty good that have nothing to do with online.

[savoie2006]

Quote: Originally Posted by moneal2001

if you select to be a player, you get to choose anyone in the nfl, a legend, or create your own. it plays like superstar from there, controling only your player.

If there isn't a normal way to play "Franchise" then I won't be buying Madden. I don't care for Be A Pro or Superstar modes.