It looks like the Wii version this year wasn't a half-ass effort because EA actually included all the non-online stuff from the other consoles to the Wii version. Online has less stuff than the others but does get automatic roster updates.

:lol: at IGN having a "sizzle" video of all the new features and under new celebrations a high-five was shown as being a new TD taunt.

The game was rumored to have Tecmo Bowl like controls and gameplay but it looks like EA was lying because it doesn't unless its only in 5v5 mode or somehow they are considering the new power-ups as "Tecmo Bowl" style.

<font color=goldenrod>I need to try out Ultimate Team. Looks like a fun concept.</font>

In other sports games I've played you can adjust the CPU sim length so you can even the score and have MVP candidates. It was like this in NBA2k11 where the first season I played I was winning but no where near MVP. Changed that shit and won scoring titles, mvp, and all that shit.

<font color=goldenrod>Glad to see I'm not the only one having issues with this......but the weather is bugged to fuck. It seems like each home stadium has a weather pattern tied to it no matter what depending on time of day. As such, EVERY Giants home game during the day is played in pouring rain.

Ditto for teams like Cleveland and Kansas City. Rains no matter what. How something like this got through development is beyond me.</font>

Looks like they took that effort out of the PS3 version. I have no idea what the fuck happened there, it looks awful :|

Bought a Legendary pack for Ultimate Team and got both Dan Marino AND Barry Sanders. :cool:

<font color=goldenrod>Only just now realizing that you only have to cut your roster to 55 players, the same roster limit as every other Madden. Not a huge deal but I don't get why they don't just make it 53 as it should be. Also they should pull a Head Coach and eliminate the stupid positional minimums...you could field a team of 53 speedy running backs and wide receivers if you wanted to (Al Davis?).

Hate having to keep 10 offensive linemen on my roster when most of them will never sniff the field. I actually edited long snapper Zak DeOssie into a center from a LB (they programmed him to be the only LB in the game that can long snap - 0 OVR which means nothing since bad snaps don't exist in Madden) so I could get around it and keep an extra player a a different position that I didn't want to lose. Probably wouldn't have even kept Zak if not for the fact that he's probably going to be a Giants lifer in real life.

Kept my 1st-4th and 7th round picks, plus two undrafted rookies. The top 3 might be the only ones that stick around for more than a yearmassuming I do a better job scouting next season.</font>

should have this this week, maybe next

WHO WANTS SOME tomorrow.

I played 2 online games. Lost the first, won the second. After the second game I noticed there was a madden coin penalty for COMPLETING 2 games. WTF?

<font color=goldenrod>Wish I had some decent, remotely challenging sliders for Pro. Everytime I switch to All Pro I find it impossible to complete a pass as every single receiver is blanketed perfectly on every play. I'm talking like...lucky if I get a 25% completion percentage.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Well, had the most exciting Madden game I've ever had the CPU last night. I left the difficulty at All-Pro for the remainder of the 2012 season...actually managed to make it to the Super Bowl against the Browns of all teams...they went 9-7 in the regular season and knocked off the heavily favored Colts in the AFC Title game.

Early on I didn't know how the hell they managed to make it that far, Colt McCoy looked awful and I was managing to stuff Peyton Hillis. Had a 21-6 lead midway through the 4th. That's when Colt went into "no fucking way you're winning this" mode, drove down the field with ease and spammed Cribbs. They have all 3 timeouts and they stuff Bradshaw on the next drive. Drive down the field AGAIN and they score a TD with the 2 point conversion after my D had been great all day.

My last ditch attempts to get in FG range fall short with a Manningham catch reviewed and ruled out of bounds even though he clearly was in (the review system appears to be totally random). Overtime, I get the ball, get a nice drive going. But I get stopped in that iffy area of the field where it's too close to punt. Rather than go for it and have SOME chance, I stupidly send out Tynes for a 55 yard attempt figuring we're in the Superdome with no wind. It's well short. Browns drive down the field again with ease and a Dawson field goal ends it. Browns are Super Bowl 47 champions.

Ordinarily I'd be pissed off that the game did a 180 on me...and if it was against a team I disliked that might have been the case. But man that was exciting. I looked and Tynes only has an 85 kick power rating, that's terrible. Signed Josh Scobee who has like 96.</font>

The seam go route with Jennings from Rodgers is damn near unstoppable.

I have watched at least 1 football game every week of the season for the past 5 years, and I have never bought a Madden game..... I am a terrible person.....

I have to have an online pass to merely update the rosters?

Fucking retarded

There is ways around it if you have your profile on a USB drive. However, since I don't have Live, I don't know if you can get banned for it or not.

That's what you get for being a cheapskate.

<font color=goldenrod>Avenged my upsetting loss in Super Bowl 47 to the Browns (who went 6-10 in the worst division in football in their failure to defend their title) by winning Super Bowl 48...more like the Manning Bowl as it was the Giants vs. the Colts. Even cooler was that it was outdoors in the cold in my home stadium, and I was the home team for it. Did a remarkably good job of containing Peyton, who threw for just under 5,000 yards during the season.

And that completes my first full All-Pro season. The games I won were generally close. I know I'd get slaughtered on All Madden, so I might try to tweak the settings to be somewhere in the middle.</font>

Anybody interested in forming a TPWW-only online Franchise?

Getting rid of this. Played 3 games, can't play anymore. It's just more of the same. Can't be bothered to put in the time for franchise.

I wanna shot at that ass first. Unless you don't have online then you suck.

Yeah, let's do it right now

right

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

In like an hour?

Gonna be busy then, tomorrow sometime.

Trading in franchise mode is ridiculously difficult this time around.

Not to hard when you edit whoever you're after. :shifty:

I traded my first round draft pick like 5 times so now I have 6 first round picks in the next year of my franchise

Reunited with my PS3 for a month so I'm finally able to play this. I love the difficulty difference this year, very refreshing. I was starting to get pretty bored with how easy All-Pro was before but now I'm struggling which is great. Currently 3-4 in my first season of Franchise with the Jets, just about starting to improve. Hopefully a strong second half of the season beckons.

If anyone fancies a game add me on PSN (TeamSheep).

I just realised the play off seedings are fucked in franchise. I made the playoffs as the number 6 seed, beat the Patriots in the wild card round and now I'm playing the #2 seeded Raiders in the divisional round instead of the #1 Steelers. I've been playing Madden for 7 years and never noticed this, has it always been this way?

<font color=goldenrod>That's weird. The playoff seedings have never been wrong for me and I'm 4 years deep in my franchise.

I've steadily increased the difficulty and I've still won 3 Super Bowls in 4 years (very nearly a four-peat were it not for the miracle the Browns pulled out as I had posted about earlier). Might have to finally go all the way to All-Madden, or close to it.

The contracts are a bit fucked though. I've re-signed plenty of guys to extremely team-friendly contracts. Eli Manning's contract was up and despite 4 straight Super Bowl appearances and a respectable 86 OVR rating at age 34 he was content with getting a 3 year deal for like $3 million a year. I bumped up his annual salary to not feel like I was completely fleecing the CPU, but I have an absurd amount of cap space.

Drafted a QB in the 2nd round who starts at like an 82 OVR and has A potential. Probably gonna be my personal Aaron Rodgers.</font>

After a google search, apparently it's always been messed up on every Madden game. They get the wild card round seedings correct, but then the divisional round is messed up as they seed the teams then based on record and not on divisional champions first and then the 2 wild card teams, like it should be. So I was #6 with a 9-7 record, but the Texans won their division at 7-9 and then won their wild card game, and so they went on to play #1 because of their worse record. Can't believe EA haven't fixed this.

<font color=goldenrod>Turning CPU QB Accuracy anywhere over 50 makes it pretty much impossible for them to miss a pass</font> :-\