First Madden NFL 25 Screenshot, First Details on Run Free Ball Carrier Feature

[Smoke6]

My hype is not there, as everyone else has stated its just dull and they're basically rehashing all this for the younger generation of players. Im hoping nex gen ushers in a developer who would make a more realistic football regardless of not having the NFL license, just having my teams colors and location would serve me just fine.

Just like the previous generation, I am sure EA will have nex gen versions of their sports games playable or their in some form for E3 in a couple months. What I hear or see then will pretty much decide for me what my future in football gaming will look like.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by tfer717

and although games like nhl and fifa may be made better than any game made at tiburon... they don't come close to the customization and feel of nba 2k or mlb the show.

Agree, I didn't have as much fun with NBA 2k as I have had in the past. Could have done without the Jay-z presentation and offensive rebounding and cpu fast breaks were uncontrollable at times. Had to fiddle a lot more with sliders like I do with Madden.

The Show, can't tell you a thing about that as I have an xbox and 2k baseball is an updated roster this year and miles behind The Show. Even heard some rumblings The Show is getting stale.

Son has said FIFA has more realism in the last few years than previously.

[tfer717]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

Agree, I didn't have as much fun with NBA 2k as I have had in the past. Could have done without the Jay-z presentation and offensive rebounding and cpu fast breaks were uncontrollable at times. Had to fiddle a lot more with sliders like I do with Madden. The Show, can't tell you a thing about that as I have an xbox and 2k baseball is an updated roster this year and miles behind The Show. Even heard some rumblings The Show is getting stale. Son has said FIFA has more realism in the last few years than previously.

Yeah 2k was bad with the jay-z stuff. but still pretty solid gameplay. and it really lets u tune the game to ur liking. I never felt that way with madden or any other ea game.

The show is amazing but in the end it's still baseball ya know. I love it but its hard to compare with sport games that have full contact and physics.

fifa just feels like every ea game to me. Ive played it alot and it just feels the same every game i play. and i have the same experience with nhl and madden. I never have wow moments. I see the same goals, touchdowns...etc. just very routine. And after a while it becomes frustrating

[sneakeat]

Quote: Originally Posted by adub88

I'm only going to get excited when I see this thing in motion. My biggest problem with this game has been the running animations among other glaring fundamental issues that need to be addressed. Hopefully these are the fluid animations Cam Weber promised us.

Madden can't figure out the basics of football- tackling, blocking, ball physics

[hanzsomehanz]

Its not that they cant figure it out - they choose to go this path of features that override the natural form of sim.

If 2k basketball had dribble moves you could string together as combos like a mortal kombat fighter fans would be jeering the same way we do about how the game feels tuned for arcade and COD

We gotta stop sliding these guys the incometent card... they dont deserve handicap parking - they are choosing to rest on their laurels.

*I personally avoided 2k13 bcause I felt jayz was dandruff and so was the dunk meter and the ability to throw it off the backboard at will.

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[Haze88]

Quote: Originally Posted by hanzsomehanz

2. Who will be on the cover should tell a million words. This year is perhaps the gr8est cover fail. In years past the cover boy hinted that that position would garner favored attention. This year CJ Jr was the cover boy and yet WRs failed to play like poster boys let alone CJ. The QB dictated the success. WRs struggle to go up for the ball.. they dont play to their roles like years past when a WR was not even on the cover.. I see it as a great blunder to showcase a WR cover and not showcase WR prowess with the Infinity Engine. The above tells me that this image of Von Miller being bowled over by Arian Foster can be very misleading. The direction of the series is becomming more and more mixed messaged and this wishy washy plattering is certainly detrimental to the companys success if they continue to resist connecting the dots and prevailing to do this off the cuff to their own beat Sent from my SGH-I727R using Tapatalk 2

This is the only reason I used to care about the cover.
Madden 2004(Mike Vick)-Improved improvising like he did routinely
Madden 2005(Ray Lewis)-Year of defense, hit stick introduced, defensive hot routes
Madden 06(Donovan McNabb)-Vision cone and precision passing
Madden 07(Shaun Alexander)-Improved running, blocker playmaker (desperately want this back now)

Notice how all these new features were on the PS2 and related to the cover player. I can't think of a legit new feature, let alone position-specific one, since then. If Randy Moss made of cover back then, imagine how the receivers would play. Imagine if Anyone from the Mid-00's Chiefs O-Line made the cover how the line-play would be. If CJ made the cover during the PS2/XBOX era, I guarantee we'd have receivers reacting to the ball the way the DB's do now.

[slick589]

Madden is Madden. There isn't much more I can say about it. I miss the ps2 glory days of having fantasy drafts on my couch with my friends. I miss the days of foot planting and realistic movement. I miss the days of scouting a player and learning he had the arm strength of drew Bledsoe. I miss the days when the defense you called actually mattered. I miss the days of a vision cone that simulated a qbs awareness and ability to progress through his reads. I miss the days of controlling my FB on a lead iso and decleating linebackers. I miss the days of my number one and number two rb battling for the starting spot in the offseason. I miss the days of sending my players to training camp in the off season.

As Madden has grown up it seems its become less mature. I'm looking forward to the day i can play a sim football video game that respects the nuances of real football.

NFL The show?!?!? A guy can dream right?

[JMD]

The picture looks ok but I hope EA can put out a game that makes me feel like I'm actually playing a game of NFL Football this year, instead of a game of ragdoll players tripping and falling all over the field and each other. If EA can't do that they should scrap Madden and go back to Mutant League Football, at least I could enjoy that game. After Madden 13 my expectations are at an all time low.