Madden NFL 16 Community Impressions

[HozAndMoose]

Quote: Originally Posted by treq21

As usual, everyone says its the best Madden ever the first week, then everone says its a disappointment after that as the warts begin to show and the 1st patch makes the game worse. Happens every year. Which is why I no longer buy this game at launch.

Except no one has said that.

[NYGiants4Natic]

Quote: Originally Posted by treq21

As usual, everyone says its the best Madden ever the first week, then everone says its a disappointment after that as the warts begin to show and the 1st patch makes the game worse. Happens every year. Which is why I no longer buy this game at launch.

No you were just the one of the few that dont have the game or played the game but decided to tell us your thoughts on the game and left after it was getting great praise

You hung around without posting because it would make you stand out as a ***** against the overwhelming positive impressions. So a few people claim the patch did this and tuner did that and you woke up today with that itchy trigger to type this post up and try and tell us the same rinse and repeat nonsense that is stated the first week of every madden by haters who do not even own or played the game

[jfsolo]

This game has a lot of flaws from the standpoint of mimicking real football of course, but it is my favorite football game ever, from a gameplay perspective, and easily the best Madden ever, IMO.

[KickassJohnson]

Quote: Originally Posted by HozAndMoose

Except no one has said that.

The following quote was taken straight from the site's official review of this game

Madden NFL 16 Review

Quote:

Madden NFL 16 is the best football game you’ve ever played, and the experience is generally becoming one that can be described as great.

[markallen2011]

No coin tosses...wtf

[eXperiment63]

I'm a big 2k5 fan. That game, to me, is the holy grail of football. I still play it once in a while 11 years later.

That being said, this is the best playing game of Madden I've played. I haven't played too many games as of yet, but from the beginning the feel is just that much better.

The passing controls are much nicer. The wr/db interactions are great. The running feels more weighted. Etc.

I'm really hoping that this feeling stays after putting in more hours. Because, with a couple more additions/revisions, this game could be great imo. So far so good though.

Kudos to the Madden devs this cycle.

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[mastershake88]

After a few weeks, and enough looks, I can make my assessment. Here it goes:
1. Drive Goals is gimmicky: too much noise, unnecessary graphics. This seriously needs to be either scrapped or have the option to be turned off.
2. Inaccurate stadiums: No detail given to Dolphin Stadium. Missing graphics, missing banners, and incomplete stadiums that are missing unique designs and or updated for the 2015-16 season.
3. No improvement made to CFM: Even though there are interesting practices and weekly goals, they are lightly attended to. Instead focus should have been placed on making a deeper franchise mode. ex. practice squad etc specific training facilities and weekly preparations.
4. Lack of improvement with presentation: More attention was given to skycam and that's awesome. However, halftime show is lacking. And this ties into the drive goals. It's just ironic that the goal ticker is awesomely placed exactly where a sports ticker should be to keep the player immersed.

Other than that, the game is good.

[PhilBuc]

Finally, I’ve had enough and want to speak my mind on the NFL game I am being forced to play as long as I want to play an NFL game because there are no other options!
I’ve been playing Madden since the NFL 2K series was taken away by EA Sports about 10 years ago. Honestly, I have grown to love Madden. Being a HUGE NFL fan (Tampa Bay) and Madden being the only game in town, its default.
So for the last decade, every year when I play the new Madden, there are always numerous things added. However, for everything added, something is taken away, whether it’s because of a bug or poor design decisions.
Sometimes something is so small to complain about, but doesn’t that just mean that it’s something that should simply be included IN THE GAME to begin with?!
Most of my observations are visual/immersion/presentation:
Raymond James stadium – In Madden 15 the flags around the stadium would actually wave and move like real flags do, this year they stand still (I noticed this in Heinz Field too). The flags all around the stadiums wave and move in Madden 16 in almost all of the stadiums. Raymond James, well, they just look like cardboard cutouts. They moved in Madden 15 and they move in other stadiums in Madden 16!
Bucs helmets – In Madden 15 they were spot on with the metallic flake, in Madden 16, there is no metallic flake. Instead the Bucs helmets are a flat color and look nothing like they really do. This was correct in Madden 15! What’s the excuse?
Ads – Snickers, Gatorade, Papa Johns etc. ads pop up in game (cool). Well, why have cheap made-up brands all over the scoreboards like Arturo spark plugs and Tops Hardware or whatever cheap crap is littered on the field. Why not paste Snickers and Gatorade everywhere instead?
Dirty uniforms – How hard is it to make the uniforms get REALLY dirty in snow and rain games?
Weather – Why is it always exactly 75 degrees on clear days? … It looks as if the snow games have been upgraded visually, but the rain is the same as last gen. Matter of fact, the neat raindrop on the screen effect is gone now, smh why?
Sidelines – Why are there 50+ camera men and still no cheerleaders? Why can’t the generic players on the sideline at least have names on their jerseys?
Jim and Phil – Why were Jim and Phil visually removed from the game?? Why are we going backwards for every step forward every single year over the past decade??
Field wear and tear – How much harder is it to make the fields look a little bit more torn up?
Progressive lighting – Amazing how a 1PM game, which normally ends around 4pm ish….. and the stadium shadows don’t even move and cast onto the field. The 4pm games started in Madden 16 are completely covered in shade before the 1st quarter even ends. It wasn’t nearly this bad in Madden 15!
Pre-Game – Before an exhibition game is selected, we have an option to choose standard or Super Bowl presentation, In Maddens past, we could also choose the Breast Cancer Pink October presentation. Now since Madden 15 it’s only available in October in Career modes.
Chain gang – What happened to them? Why have they been missing?
Backdrops – The backdrops outside the stadium look embarrassing, they are straight out of the PS2 era.
Visiting team – Another year, and yet again the visiting team insists on pumping up the crowd, especially during kickoffs, wonderful!
Replays – Why since Madden on last gen, why when zoomed all the way in on manual replay do the players disappear? …. Also, there is an automatic replay usually shown for sacks that has the stat bubble pop up on the sacker and the sackee, which display their names…. Well, the stat bubbles cover up the play and nothing can be seen.
Play select – Why was the big, bold font in the header of the play select screen changed to a small, light, italic font?
Why are players of opposite team in the huddle together? Why does my running back run out onto the field with the defense between possession changes?
Why do players and the ball disappear through the crowd beyond the end zone?
I just wanted to touch on some of the visual/presentation elements which haven’t been touched on ummm EVER! Also, every single year, things are added (female fans, signs for example) but things removed ie. Static flags, helmets stripped back, chain gang, Jim and Phil etc.
There are a lot more omissions I have noticed in my 20+ games of Madden 16 so far, so many in fact that I cannot remember them all.
These are LITTLE THINGS! It’s either poor quality testing and/or lazy development. Shame on you EA. If and when you lose the NFL license, it will be downhill for the Madden franchise from there.
None of the things I have touched on could possibly be very taxing on the hardware. Seriously, how hard is it to at least make temperatures display something different than 75 degrees 100% of the time? …. How hard can it be to remove 5 or 6 of the 50+ cameramen and add 5 or 6 cheerleaders – you know, like a real NFL game! Its pure lazy development. In my limited knowledge of game development, I would imagine that most of the above can be patched in.
I won’t even get started on halftime, post-game, commentary, etc. as that requires a bigger overhaul. These little things/bugs should have been addressed a decade ago or at the very least in these first 3 Madden games on current gen!
How can I notice most of this stuff within a couple games played? … and NOBODY at EA Sports can pick up on this stuff throughout the development year. More so, why does nobody at EA Sports care?