Madden turns 20 on Aug. 12, 'Collector's Edition' announced
So, let's make a Hail Mary pass and wish the best for Madden '09. Initial data on last year's Madden sales showed consumers weren't that into the series anymore. Maybe this'll be the year the franchise gets a major update bringing gamers in who don't just buy the series like sheep year after year ... stop laughing! One can dream, can't they?
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And even better when it had Mom's face on it.
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give longtime Madden gamers a REASON to buy your game again. Use that ESPN license, use the NFL exclusivity for some new, innovative ideas.
AND do not gimp the PS3 version.
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Sounds pretty dumb doesn't it, jackass.
PS. You suck.
THIS IS PS3!!!
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http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/03/bfbcs-dlc-is-just-plain-bs.html
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"we’ve also got to go out and captivate the masses."
"People are intimidated by the controller."
“There are too many buttons and triggers and d-pads. We’ve got to break a lot of that down.”
I have no hope at all that madden, or any EA sports game will be worth playing. much less paying $60 for.
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But PJ is still awesome.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/
But I am kinda curious about the 'collector's edition', just to see what they include.
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Give PS3 users a reason to be excited, treat us right with better graphics and control than the 360 version. You know, the way it's supposed to be. The 360 is an inferior console and should have the inferior version. However, since Madden is a multiplat game, that will probably never happen. EA, just make it right.
If you screw us over one more time EA, then huge groups of PS3 fans will never buy another Madden again. I know I won't.
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You're weird.
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You see, thats the problem - if they didn't rush the same crap out each year we wouldn't hate on the game. They have less than a year bcause they choose to do it that way.
Just thinking about developers who take time over their game - ALL the nintendo franchises, Bungie, Boware among others in the MS camp, and most of the Sony 1st party as well - and these typicaly come out pretty well.
Though the Call of Duty series and Insomniac have a different strategy - two teams in tandem, two-year cycle, so that you have one game every year without sacrificing quality (though in case of CoD one team seems better - the ones who made CoD2 / 4)
So you suggest they come out every two years are something...This is the biggest sport in America, they would be dumb if they did that. But I do believe they can do a lot more than what they have been doing, because with the lost of 2K Madden has just been "meh".
With as much money as Madden brings in with gamers like me reluctantly buying it due to new players / rosters etc. I could imagine that EA could expand their development team to do more in 1 year. I bet they would if they had to compete with another product, but it looks like that won't happen any time soon.
Hell, I'd love it if they just bumped their development efficiency for just one cycle to get a lot of the bugs out for good.
*pops in NFL 2K5 for old times sake*
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What we really need is more than one choice of NFL game, like the 2K games. Excluding college games (which make sense to be one publisher), nobody will buy football games with fake players, a la NFL Blitz later incarnations. Hell, I had Blitz for PS1 and it was so fun. They can just go at snails' pace and people will buy it 'cause its got Peyton Manning.
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Such as the game not knowing that a 4-3 tackle's rating should not significantly drop if he starts at DE on a 3-4 defense since they are essentially the same role.
Or Brodney Pool's name being pronounced "Pope" ever since he's been a starter in 06.
Or when a player suddenly has a +100 speed rating on a play. It was nice that one time it happened for my OLB and he tackled the running back from way too far away after the running back had broke free for what should have been a TD. But usually it's one of the computer's players on defense running down my player when it looks like I should be breaking free down the field.
And why can't I setup which players start on Special Teams anymore? I remember being able to do that back in 2003 and 2004.
Why can't I figure out how to save a replay on the 360 version? I can on the PS2 version and its programmers assumed you would only have an 8MB card, not an actual hard drive. (honestly, this could just be my error)
The weather is pathetic. You cannot get a real snow game going on unless you count a few flurries and a thin white transparency on the green parts of the field. I want a snow game where I struggle to read the field markings!
I know this seems like a list of tiny things, but considering how little seems to change (IMO) from year to year in the game I wonder just how much effort and resources EA devotes to actual programming for Madden.
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