Madden NFL 16 Gameplay Video (IGN)

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by cowboy_kmoney

Please somebody save us frm this being the only game to have on the market.I believe in buisness but whats good for buisness is having others eat at the table so it keep others ontop of there game. We r in 2015 and its only small ateos being made to this game. So behind other titles.

Keep this crap out of this and all threads about this game. This is not the medium for that discussion.

Only warning.

[allhailben7]

I hate to bring up 2K, but EA needs to look at what they've done. Now, while I have problems with 2K on the court, 2K is the best model for sports games off the court. You play as a player, you get a storyline; as a GM, you can literally sit down with players to negotiate contracts; you have to manage egos and performance changes based on promises made to your team and the media.


Madden, to me, seems empty. There's no real storyline, just a cut-and-dry, laboring CCM. The way things are now, I would have lived with 2-3 years ago, or maybe even have been excited. But now? Yeah, I can lead a team to a Super Bowl and build up 'Legacy XP' and I can get some good games after fine-tuning a slider set put together by the good folks here at OS. After that, I have the draft, a bit under-played, but decent nonetheless--where I basically get 70% of my enjoyment as I move to later years.


But after that? Menus. Dry free agency where the only excitement is in trying to convince a string of ratings with no personality and presence that they should sign with me. No players struggling to get along. No struggles with players. No live press conferences asking interesting questions after games (their Q&A like twice per season doesn't quite count). Nothing, really, outside of football and the draft and when those two are all I can look forward to, I get burned out quick. That's what I think is missing from Madden--personality--and the sad thing is that it was there, once, back when they had Tony Bruno in 2005.

[Cohle]

All of that BS is why I don't play the franchise mode in NBA 2K. It's the last thing I want see added to CCM.



The problem is two-fold. One, it is a bunch of tedious stuff that I would prefer to see streamlined, not stretched out. Two, and more importantly, from text-based sims to any console sports game I have played, the AI is utter garbage. It's nit interesting because it is talking to a dumb machine that either makes I too easy or annoying frustrating.



This just feels like the pie in the sky stuff I thought I wanted, but many years of playing these games revealed the folly un that.