Madden NFL 16 Community Impressions

[SkinsBoYee]

Got to say, really happy with what I am seeing so far in this years game. Penalties!!! Penalties! It is so great to see penalties in the game. Its like their this little thing you have to account for that makes the game seem so much more real. Have had some games where they where being called left and right. Other's not so much. This is perfect.

I think the line play is pretty great too. Last year was a sack fest. This year seems they got it tuned to about perfect. I play on the DL and you need to use your moves. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. Thats called football. Its is awesome to see a DL line that wrecks havoc and you can see it in the QB play when linemen and backers are flying at him. I think they got this down. Played the as the Texans vs. the Chiefs last night and their DL is sick. The pressure was nuts. Had Wilfork blow thru the line on a crushing sack on Smith. Out for 7 weeks, Broken Collar bone! That's what I am talking about!

Love the menu's as well. Great look.

[gunnnaGB]

can someone please fwd this to KOLBE,


I think I speak for a lot of online players who is not affiliated with the tourney BS(that's the reason we don't have penalties called like they should be online) that we need PENALTIES ONLINE. Penalties is great offline but online its non existing. Can "You all" the Madden DEVS or KOLBE at least turn the penalties back up where they belong for unranked games at least, since you all catering to the tourney players who wanna play NFL BLITZ style,




fyi there are a **** load of madden gamers that wanna play real NFL simulation style ball online.

[bears1387]

Gameplay has improved, running is fun, one button defensive controls makes you feel like you have zero control and makes playing defense boring to say the least. Face scans look awesome, wish they would finish everyone though, maybe by 2020? I am a simulation guy so Play now is the only mode I will play until they make some huge changes. Why is there still not an NFL today feature where you can pick and choose each week's games from the home screen? Also, why are there still no additions/upgrades to the equipment? I am not an engineer, but how hard could that possibly be to add in some new equipment, it's pure EA Sports laziness IMO.

CFM sucks. That's as mild as I can put it, it 's probably terrific for all of the fantasy land people that love to make stuff up in their heads and play with fake players 40 years into the future, but for those of us that just want to play a regular season and have stats calculated and simulate an NFL season, CFM is a joke. I get it EA Sports, you are catering to the majority with this crap, but at least give us the option.

I "tried" to start an offline season, failed the 1st attempt because I was taken directly to week 1 of the season when I wanted to start with the preseason. Then in my 1st preseason game, I began on defense...after two straight third down penalties, the Dolphins went for it on 4th and 7...ON THEIR OWN 40 YARD LINE...that was all she wrote for me, I quit and went back to Play Now immediately. The cherry on top of all of that, was the fact that every 10 seconds, I had a "Goal" bubble in my face, which made it hard to even focus on what was happening in the game. Seriously, it's amazing how nice the game actually looks, but you can't ever see it because of all the goal and stat bubbles popping up all over the place.

Madden is fun as hell in Play Now, everything else is just a waste of space to me. For this I would give madden an OVERALL RATING of 5/10.

People have been screaming it for years, but seriously EA, go play NBA2K and write down some ideas, because the less is more approach is obviously lost on your company.

[therizing02]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jistic

Last night I played Madden for 6 hours straight. I haven't done that in over 10 years. That's about all you need to know. Played skills trainer with my son for a little bit. We had a blast since I coach him in football anyway he loved doing the drills and wanted the Gatorade packs for MUT. Played MUT for a bit as well. I've never played it before but my son loves it and I gotta admit it's pretty cool. But being that I'm an old school guy after he went to bed I setup a quick exhibition. I moved the penalties up to 60 and did a few minor tweaks. WOW! Best game of Madden I've played since '02. As others have mentioned "organic" is the best way to describe it. I saw the coolest strip animation when my backup RB came in he was still running but didn't have the ball! Next thing I know the defense is all over it. I saw the replay and was like damn I didn't even know that dude stripped it Peanut style. Penalties are here!!!!!! OMG Praise Jesus! They have added more, and dammit they do call them. The sliders are WAY sensitive as they should be. Love love love love love this. 15 years too late but thankfully they are here. Fatigue works, subs happen, injury slider works, ratings matter, crowd is way better, lighting is fantastic, it just seems like player motion is smoother. Tackling is better just everything seems better. More importantly is immersion. I lose track of time like I used to. I can see spending a lot of time with this game. I liked 15, but this seems like a huge, yet quiet step forward. Two thumbs up!

Jistic.....welcome back man. It's like I walked into the gym and to my surprise Dr. J was lacing up the Converse.

Glad you like the game....now get to work on a slider set!

The game plays great!

[Bootzilla]

The game has really been cleaned up. I agree with all of the positives in regards to how well the game looks and plays.

The following are things I feel need to be tweaked or tuned in regards to game play. Comments based entirely on human vs cpu.

On All-Pro cpu safeties aren't aggressive enough or quick enough when covering the deep ball when they have deep halves. Haven't really messed with sliders too much but maybe the Pass Reaction slider can help remedy this. I believe that this is the reason why Aggressive Catch can at times seem overpowered. Not that the mechanic itself is OP it's just the amount of one on one opportunities that are occurring due to poor safety play.

Zones in general need to be tightened up a bit. Don't want to screw with sliders too much because man coverage is really good especially when you use all of your coverage options.

Need more responsiveness to the stiff arm. For whatever reason most every other button is responsive. Hit hurdle and you hurdle, spin you spin. Stiff arm? Oftentimes nada.

The CFM problems need to be remedied pronto. Drive goals should NEVER, EVER be a part of a simulation. That concept should have died in the idea phase. To have something that honestly shouldn't be in a sim break the only option we have to play Season or Franchise mode makes me crazy.

Otherwise great effort.

[fistofrage]

Played one game last night on All-Pro default. Passing seemed too easy for the human. Didn't see any penalties.

But I have heard that the sliders actually work this year so I am going to try a few things out.

The game seems like a good base and if sliders actually work, I'm sure we'll have a decent game to play.

Now as a single player, I'm really concerned about all the CFM stuff I'm hearing. If that's all frogged up, we could be in trouble. When EA patches that I'm sure there will be some unintended consequence like penalties or fumbles being removed or return of the Robo QB.

[big_nick]

In my honest opinion. . I kinda hate this game. The online head to head has been ruined since you can no longer select anything except play books and you can no longer see who you're matched against ! I pick the Tennessee Titans and get matched against the seahawks consistently !!

[TeamHawkins]

Online is ruined for me too. Not sure who thought it was a bright idea to not allow you to see who your opponent is selecting. But my Browns went up against Indy, Denver, Pittsburgh, and Green Bay. All four of them I lost, due to the Madden CPU garbage that occurs in ever User vs User game. Predetermined outcomes. All three were close games. But the CPU made sure I didn't win, even though I was clearly better.

Twice I attempted FG's, and the ball never made it past the line of scrimmage. Instead it did a 90 degree turn and went directly out of bounds. One of my opponents was like "What the bleep?" Another instance, I caused a fumble and all three of my players stood around the football kicking it like soccer, allowing an opponent to pick it back up. But I got big hit inside the 10 yard line while the defender was being blocked, and I fumbled and it was instantly picked up and returned about 95 yards for a TD.

Anytime I had receivers wide open I was forced to throw directly to a defender nowhere near the WR, or incomplete. Predetermined outcome. And the amount of interceptions dropped makes online unplayable. Opponents are horrible even with overpowered teams, but the CPU finds ways to assist them by forcing you to drop the bad passes they make consistently. Which keeps them on the field, allowing them to keep chucking until they get lucky. And in this game, you will get lucky time and time again.

Also against Pittsburgh, there is a money defense in Dime formation that completely shuts down the run. And while I only lost by 8, it was all hell trying to compete against this cheese, AND computer garbage against me. It's just not balanced enough online. I don't appreciate having to pick the Patriots or Seahawks just to get computer help to play online.