<font color=goldenrod>Just went ahead and reserved my copy at Best Buy. Essentially free since I had a gift card from my old job. :cool:

Looking at the Giants' ratings - I'm not one to tweak ratings too often but some of them are just balls. Of course, the game ships with pre-lockout rosters, but EA says the first roster update will be available the day the game ships. Hopefully those rosters are loaded just like the default ones are (73 of 75 spots filled for the Giants) so that I can actually play through pre-season/make cuts.

Also with the roster rules in place, I hope they've done away with needing to have a "minimum" number of guys at each position. Hated always having to carry 10 OL.</font>

Was the new change to the roster minimum from the new CBA because if it is then it won't be in Madden 12 because EA already stated the game is using the old CBA for rules and structure.

<font color=goldenrod>Nah, you have to cut your roster to 53 - that's the same in both CBAs.

But Madden always had roster minimums at certain positions...and for the O-Line I believe you needed to have 4 tackles, 4 guards, and 2 centers. They may have eventually edited it so that you only needed 3 tackles and 3 guards, but I don't remember. For a few years I only got around that by having the Giants' long snapper being listed as the backup center.

I remember at one point years ago, my fullback got injured before the playoffs. You NEEDED to have one, and putting a player on IR didn't free up a roster spot. So I needed to edit Brandon Jacobs into a fullback to get around the minimum rule.

I wonder if inactives lists will come into play here. Would love that as well.</font>

Downloading this ish right now. Don't know why. Im buying regardless.

So I'm dumb. I wasted 25 bucks and got the EA season pass just so I can play this early. It's a great game but I should have waited.

:lol:

The only real benefit to the season pass would be the discount on DLC but only if you bought all the DLC for a game otherwise $25 for 15 days of early access (5 games total) is a bad idea.

If there is a online Franchise this year, someone sign me up as Miami

Hopefully I can get discounts on Ultimate Madden Team cards. I wanna get into that and build a good team.

<font color=goldenrod>Seriously pumped for this. Gonna be rather gutted if power is still out on Tuesday.</font>

My local gamestop is releasing this at midnight. But from 4 pm to midnight they are having a madden tourney for those who pre ordered it. I think im gunna get drunk and walk up in there like " Shawne Merriman Motha Fuckas!", but I'm sort of afraid to lose to a 10 year old.

Shawne Merriman is in reference to the time I destroyed NERF in a game of Madden. I sacked him like 27 times. He was all crying and shit and I kept telling him the ways I would fuck his mother. I think he was 11 years old back then. I don't remember.

A lot if black people up here at Gamestop, getting Madden. Feel like I'm at the source awards.

I feel like I'm in the Candlestick Park parking lot

Police are here. Not sure if they're getting madden or if they just smelled the gin and juice

Madden 12 is in my hands. Word is, there's a 30 minute download to update rosters. The fuck?

I bought the pass for the early release, but now I can't afford to get the retail game until Friday. :shifty:

Finally hit the Goozex lottery and got 4th in line for this. So I should have it in... 2 weeks? Maybe.

It'll be obsolete by then.

<font color=goldenrod>30 minutes for a roster update? Balls.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Jesus, reading reviews of people who have been playing since midnight. Never expected to see this much negativity. A lot of "nothing has changed" and "franchise has glitches and doesn't live up to the hype" posts.

Gonna be trying it out for myself today. If they drop the ball though I might skip yet another year after this.</font>

People bitch too much
Its a good game.

Gonna have to enjoy it regardless. My little brother busted my Madden 11 so I was in need of a new one anyway. Got it off Amazon with release day delivery for $60.98. .98 for shipping, no tax and a $20 credit for my next purchase? SOLD. The fuck you at UPS?

I'm paying about $4 for this.

<font color=goldenrod>Jesus Christ, it's impossible to pass in the rain. Went 5-15 for 97 yards with Eli on Opening Day. The receivers either drop the pass or slip while running the route.

Also, stats that are simmed for the CPU teams seem to be based on 15 minute quarters. So if you play 5 minute quarters like me you can pretty much forget about ever having an MVP contender.</font>

Yeah, the stat thing blows, but it's always been like that

Kotaku was able to confirm it is possible to hit the Jerrytron on Cowboys stadium during punts and kickoffs but only on rare occasions.

It's suppose to be hard to pass in the rain you numb dick.

It's suppose to be hard to pass in the rain you numb dick.

Fucking graphics are the best thing about this. Probably the best they'll ever get on the current gen consoles.

No shit. Simply pointing out that it's very difficult, which is frustrating but a good bit of realism. Would only be a bad thing if it rained every game for some reason.

My safeties have been beasting it through 2 games thus far. Rolle and Phillips with 2 picks each.

This game is much harder than it was last year. Took me 3 tries to win a game on All-Pro with the Cardinals against great teams such as the Panthers, Vikings and Dolphins. and I only won the game cause of a long TD in OT. I didn't have any problem winning games last year.

Might pick this up today and take Tim Tebow to the promise land.

This is my first Madden game since Shaun Alexander was on the cover. The Ultimate Team thing is pretty cool.

Hit me up on PSN: Kyle19338

What's PSN?

PlayStation Network

<font color=goldenrod>Scored a TD and XP to go up by 8. Force DeSean Jackson to fumble. Philly challenges, the replays show he fumbled but it gets inexplicably overturned. I'm pissed, but manage to force Philly to punt and then bring in Da'Rel Scott for a 76 yard TD run. Glorious.</font>

I love Ultimate Team.

Has anyone gotten a legend yet?