OS Roundtable: If You Could Add One Feature To Madden...

[Gotmadskillzson]

I would prefer them bringing back the ability to tackle low or tackle high. Now all tackles are up high. There need to be a precision modifier button for defense. Have it for tackles, have it for swat attempts. There is no excuse for it not being in the game when football games had various ways to tackle depending on the button combination you pressed back on the PS2.

It would add more variety to the game.

1. Tackle high should be high risk and high reward. The reward being you separating the player from the ball. But the risk being either a face mask penalty or targeting penalty.

2. Tackle around the waist option.

3. Tackle low around the legs option.

I always thought it was funny how they highly marketed the all new hurdle system this year for NCAA and Madden but yet 99% of all CPU tackles are up high so you very rarely get to use it.

[24]

Create A Draft Class : With NCAA Football becoming a thing of the past this would be a huge feature. Take a page out of NBA 2k's book and make this happen. As much as I love all of the fun cpu generated classes I would like to create my own every once in a while.

[malky]

CPU VS CPU IN FRANCHISE, took it out, put it back in please

[piffbernd]

I like what Chris Sanner and Jason Young said in the roundtable. The joke is EA could patch that. I don't understand why EA didn't make a poll with 3 - 5 features and the best is in the next Game.

[Iceman87GT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Segagendude

What's that got to do with the NFL and Madden??

I can see the appeal in having the CFL, and they have created a CFL version of Madden in the past (it was a project of some of the developers as a training exercise or something like that I believe I read it on Kotaku, but I'm certain I found it via a link on this site). It would get some use from people (Canadians), and the ability to have a makeshift Minor League in the game would be great although unrealistic (as rarely does the NFL sign players from the CFL).

If it didn't mean taking up developing time I'd be all for it, but incorporating the CFL would undoubtedly cut into developer time, and would mean further money being put towards securing player, team, and league rights. Its something that would be good to see if Madden ever produces a game on the level of NBA 2K11 (where it is borderline perfect and you struggle to find a way to improve the game), but I think we are several years away from a scenario like that being remotely possible.

[Iceman87GT]

Quote: Originally Posted by 24

Create A Draft Class : With NCAA Football becoming a thing of the past this would be a huge feature. Take a page out of NBA 2k's book and make this happen. As much as I love all of the fun cpu generated classes I would like to create my own every once in a while.

They said they were working on a way to make this possible this past year, obviously that didn't work out. I hope they haven't abandon that effort and that they will have support for NCAA 14 Draft Classes in Madden 15/26.

At the very least the next Madden needs to have a way to create Draft Classes that can be shared, while simultaneously working to improve the process by which draft classes are generated (I've heard reports that the difference between classes from one franchise to the next are the names, that the gems remain the same no matter what and it becomes a matter of discovering what the gem is named in year 1 of one CFM vs. year 1 of another CFM).

[bucky60]

Add a realistic progression system as an option to the current arcade XP progression system.

[Bryzine21]

I agree with Jason. Fix what is already there. especially penalties and special teams.