Madden NFL 13 Video - Live Draft in Connected Careers Mode

[k2thaz]

Quote: Originally Posted by imskykid

Unfortunately, if you watch some of the other draft videos you can see that each twitter personality has a few repetitive tweets. I think one keeps saying something along the lines of "looks like teams are fighting for position #team1 #team2" and if there's a trade Skip says "now the questions is, who are they going to take"... so I'm sure Schreleth has an automated tweet that says "x player is the obvious #1 pick." They can only program so many tweets for each personality so its inevitable that we are going to see some tweets that dont match up perfectly with whats happening. However, its still a cool feature and I'm not going to let a pretend tweet by a fake Mark Schreleth ruin the experience.

pretend tweets by Mark are better than real ones, so I'll take it

[k2thaz]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaBlackGoku

You're right, these ARE stupid complaints. You wanna play Madden 12 with that broken import draft class? Be my guest. All you're really doing is beating a dead horse right now. Smdh.....

i'm with you, last year Michael Brockers 6th round, Blackmon 4th, Michael Floyd came out white and a 7th rounder.

even with fixed rosters it doesn't work out well, and let's not forget the HUGE shoulder pads.

i understand the frustration but I'm all for this new draft

[Joobieo]

People need to relax and just take in the new draft setup and enjoy it .

[JimmyT85]

Quote: Originally Posted by k2thaz

i'm with you, last year Michael Brockers 6th round, Blackmon 4th, Michael Floyd came out white and a 7th rounder. even with fixed rosters it doesn't work out well, and let's not forget the HUGE shoulder pads. i understand the frustration but I'm all for this new draft

I can't really comment much on the lack of imported draft classes etc, simply because I've never done it.

We don't get NCAA over here in the UK, so it's never been a feature I've been able to use. I can understand why people are annoyed it's not in, but in all honesty, if it's as broken as it sounds, I don't see the point using it.

[balcobomber25]

Quote: Originally Posted by trevdawg0909

It looks cool, but with what I see as a major problem: the commentary keeps referring to FAKE NFL players!!! In the video, Miami drafted TE - Marion Marks #2 overall and Trey Wingo said "Do any of you remember former NFL player Azriel Marks? If not you should. Marion Marks is his son." There never was a player named Azriel Marks in the NFL. A few picks later, an OG named Kendrick Rose is drafted and Wingo says "Kendrick is the cousin of current NFL safety Keyon Rose." Well if you're playing a franchise, you'd be playing it with the real NFL players in the game. It's ridiculous to have the commentator refer to a made up player who's not even in the game as a "current NFL safety." The other issue with this is that the photo used for Kendrick Rose is of a white player. Not to be prejudiced or anything but wouldn't Kendrick and Keyon be most likely names of black players and not white? On that same note, the #1 overall pick was Treon Martin - WR. (also shown as a white dude.) Names aside, how realistic is it that a white WR would be the #1 overall pick? Just saying.... Now a lot of you may think these are stupid complaints and that it shouldn't detract from the overall game at all. But the point is that EA has always touted their Madden franchise as realistic and their motto was "IF IT'S IN THE GAME, IT'S IN THE GAME!" Well all this fake stuff just doesn't cut it for me. I don't want to play a game where the commentator refers to players who aren't even in the league and never existed. It detracts from the overall experience. I'm not alone here. If EA wants to put this fake stuff in there for the casual audience, fine. But at least leave the option for the rest of us to keep things a bit more realistic. Or at the very least, allow us to edit the players ourselves if we want and the only reason they took that option out of the game is so that they could add in this superficial connected careers mode that allowed commentators to talk about players. Seriously, there was nothing more enjoyable in past Maddens for me (and many others) then to import draft classes from NCAA and have these real rookies enter the NFL. At the end of my first season in Madden 12, Andrew Luck went #1 overall. Matt Kalil went #2 overall. Quinton Coples went #3 overall. It was awesome. This year, I'd want to play a Madden franchise where Matt Barkley goes #1 overall. Maybe Barkavious Mingo goes #2 overall. Then maybe Mantei Teo goes #3. Nope. Instead I get a white WR named Treon Martin going #1 overall. A TE who is the son of a former fake NFL legend going #2 overall. And a HB named Xavier Waters (who fake USC coach Devin Gilberry says is the best player he's ever seen) going #3 overall. No thank you. I'll stick with Madden 12 for another year I guess.

Racism is alive and well in this one.

[balcobomber25]

Quote: Originally Posted by Humdinger80

Don't bother man haha they don't care about the details. What they care about is the white WR named Treon with 96 SPD and 83 CTH rating they can draft with the #1 ovr pick they screwed over a team that actually needed it but who cares? the cpu will end up drafting a punter in the first round anyway. These people don't want the NFL, they want John Madden football 2013 the video game.

So you are saying it will be just like the real NFL? I guess you dont remember when The Oakland Raiders selected Sebastian Janakowski with the 17th overall pick in 2000.

[DerkontheOS]

Mind = Blown.

[fsufan4423]

Quote: Originally Posted by DerkontheOS

Mind = Blown.

Exactly! Can't wait to dive into this.