Madden '18
 

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I don't wish injury on anyone, buuuuuuuuut the proof is out there.

Oh god. It's going to have a single player storyline where you are a washout that gets one last break. Then you fail. Then you go arena league for a season before joining the marines and becoming a bad ass infantryman. Then you are the star in the next battlefield.

Smooth, EA.

Mahomes told me to buy a copy......so I shall.

I think it would be decent if they had a single player experience like the NBA game does. Make it so you're an UDFA and you have to make a roster and work your way up. The single player experience in Madden's past ****ing sucked.

I liked the single player aspect of NBA 2k series. though, I don't know anything about basketball, but I still played it. It was pretty fun.

I like the single player option ; I really like the franchise mode in '17, but the past few months I haven't had time to dedicate to running the franchise. Each time I sit down and start playing again, it has been so long since the last time I played I sort of don't know where I left off in terms of contracts, negotiations, who I liked that was being scouted.

due to this lack of time, I either play just a single game, or as of about last week or so, I started a franchise as a QB and going from there. The single player would be a good option/alternative for me. so long as the gameplay in the single player experience is the same. that's one thing I didn't like about the NCAA football games single player. it 'felt' a little off/different from the regular game mode in terms of what you could do...like it was less smooth or something.


is this the first year for the Frostbite engine? or is that already on '17....i have no idea.

frostbite whats on fifa you could snap some shots of the contract years to see where you left off.

This is the first year for frostbite and Madden.

I wonder if we're going to get the 4k ps4 and Madden '18 at the same time...

I'd like to see different intensity. Playoff should be different than reg. Divas. True home field advantage. Have two pairs of commentators would be a neat idea. Get broadcasting license from all networks. Have scout workout camps

Meh

Expected better looking visuals from Frostbite.

Will you cut Reek again :)

OBVIOUSLY NOT YOU SHITLORD BECAUSE HE'LL BE STARTING OUT 15 POINTS HIGHER IN OVR

He developed nicely

Oh my. This could be interesting.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brief description of game styles. Much more info to come. <a href="https://t.co/zwr78pM5gD">pic.twitter.com/zwr78pM5gD</a></p>&mdash; Rex Dickson (@RexDEAFootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/RexDEAFootball/status/863039778736013312">May 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Boner!

Hopefully they improved the single player aspects. I hate MUT and online play.

I'd like them make the draft harder. Like, incredibly hard.

Right now it's far too easy to draft studs. I can usually hit on at least 5 picks every year, and if I want a QB there's virtually no chance of picking a bust, unless you're a buffoon.

I haven't spent a ton of time but I have a harder time finding a complete stud. The position that I can usually draft well are OLBs for a 3-4 but guaranteed that if I need a QB....I'm drafting the 2nd or 3rd one. My last franchise they literally had all the same top 3....and I picked the normal one while the Dolphins drafted the Superstar right after me.

Hmmm.

"Longshot" story mode.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/ma...-longshot.aspx

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You can't customize it? Way to **** that up EA.

Yeah it's shitty. You get to play as one pre-made character at one position.

Awful, terrible execution of what could have been a great idea.

I'm not sure what to make of the Longshot mode...

I like the 'idea' of it, but....man, the more I read about it the more I'm reluctant to get excited about it.

I can't state how much I hate the interface/menu...

I cant' determine if the Longshot mode is going to be like a 20 minute waste of time, where the times you actually play some football, it's already scripted as to what the out come will be regardless of performance etc. Or, if it will be an in-depth time consumer worthy of checking out.

I thought I read somewhere that the Longshot mode could be played while the game loads/installs....so I'm wondering if it's just going to be yet another hyped upgrade by EA only to be another failure.

Why the **** wouldn't you not have a mode like Road to the Show? ****ing worthless ****s at EA.

yeah, that's what i was sort of hoping for when I first heard of it. then I watched the trailer and read interviews.....doesn't sound like that at all. what a bummer.

I'm not even a huge baseball fan, but I bought one of the MLB RTTS games a year ago-ish and I loved the RTTS. Super fun. In fact...I'm sort of burned out on Madden 17...I should hop back into MLB for a bit.

I haven't bought an MLB game years....but I went out and picked up MLB 17 and I've been cranking through a RTTS right now....and loving it. San Diego Studios needs to take over Madden because EA is ****ing horrible.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Madden 18 is such BEAUTIFUL game. You guys will be blown away when you see it. Great job to <a href="https://twitter.com/RexDEAFootball">@RexDEAFootball</a> and the team at EA...</p>&mdash; DaDYNASTY (@DaDYNASTYCFM) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaDYNASTYCFM/status/873727076334944256">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">First impression of Madden 18: Wow it animates totally differently. Acceleration really matters in getting off the line.</p>&mdash; Kat Bailey✨E3 (@The_Katbot) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_Katbot/status/873683220876754944">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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HUGE. Now your OL will get hurt. Franchise just got deeper.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Off Ball Injuries are in. Shout out to <a href="https://twitter.com/ClintOldenburg">@ClintOldenburg</a> who fought like hell to get this in for the SIM community. <a href="https://t.co/rBNI35BIFy">https://t.co/rBNI35BIFy</a></p>&mdash; Rex Dickson (@RexDEAFootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/RexDEAFootball/status/873949944402427904">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Whoever you put at CB1 in your depth chart will matchup vs highest overall receiveer. CB2 vs 2nd best, etc.</p>&mdash; Anthony White (@AWhite_73) <a href="https://twitter.com/AWhite_73/status/874315738517037058">June 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You can also match up by SPD vs SPD, Height vs Height, and Man Cover vs Route Running <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Madden18?src=hash">#Madden18</a> <a href="https://t.co/MeyKYDdivQ">https://t.co/MeyKYDdivQ</a></p>&mdash; Operation Sports (@OperationSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/OperationSports/status/874080070381346816">June 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">IMPORTANT POINT: Target Passing in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Madden18?src=hash">#Madden18</a> is OPTIONAL. It&#39;s always active but you don&#39;t need to use it.</p>&mdash; Operation Sports (@OperationSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/OperationSports/status/874302321005481984">June 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You can lead guys to space much more efficiently. I can also see a time where it&#39;s more intuitive to throw back shoulder/behind receivers. <a href="https://t.co/mGCeVwHv7G">https://t.co/mGCeVwHv7G</a></p>&mdash; Operation Sports (@OperationSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/OperationSports/status/874302817837604864">June 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/madden18?src=hash">#madden18</a> 7. I think the difference in the running game is the sense of weight of a heavier HB versus a light guy like Dalvin Cook.</p>&mdash; Kat Bailey✨E3 (@The_Katbot) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_Katbot/status/875108862264721408">June 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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THERE IT IS

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What are you seeing in that video GoChiefs?

Just that it's Madden 18. The animation does looks smoother. Lighting is tits. And look at that LG pick up the blitz! I also see the center picking up a blitz on the second snap.

Well at least they didn't make it easy. LMAO

I looks pretty damn good.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianma.../#5c815f033e02

One thing I would like to see changed in '18 is getting XP for doing your job. I like to play as a LB alot of the time as a player/connected Franchise. But it's frustrating a alot of times because the goals each game that get you some XP each week, are almost exclusively tackle based. and if your offense is up by 17, the CPU offense is almost exclusively passing at that point so it's hard to get tackles.

Even if you're doing your job as a team defense in coverage and forcing a coverage sack or incompletion, or filling your assigned gap, or contain / forcing a cutback etc....you don't get rewarded - other than like 1 XP for simply playing the down itself. After playing probably 10 games as 'doing my job', I said **** it one game, and just roamed and freelanced. Sure enough, got more tackles and more XP, but it wasn't as fun and play calling was pretty much moot at that point. At that point it was like "yeah, whatever. call whatever play the coach suggests, then line up wherever and do what I want"....I got more XP, but c'mon.

Also, if I sack a QB and force a fumble, the XP should be worth more than just a tackle. I foget the exact XP correlation but i remember thinking "man, I had a monster game. 3 TFL, 2 sacks and a FF" then I saw my XP payout and it totaled like 5 points (or something really low like that). I think i got more XP by simply playing X number of downs. wtf.

If I recall (it's been a while), NBA 2k series would reward you for doing your job in some manner or form.

I played a season as a CB in connected franchise and it was no fun. Even when i would shut down a player for nearly the entire game, I didn't get any XP love because I didn't get an INT and 5+ tackles etc.

It's going to be a 50/50 purchase for me. I really want to play as the Chiefs with Mahomes....but EA ****ing sucks. I have a feeling that the game is going to look great.....and still play like shit.

I'm pretty fortunate, because my Mother-in-law gets me a $50 gift card to gamestop nearly every year for my birthday (started years ago when i was playing games all the time....I don't play nearly as much as I used to but I still get the GC).

last year was the first year in.....jesus....YEARS that I bought a new Madden. So I'll likely use the GC to buy it this year as well. I was pretty pleased with 17 after taking a multi-year hiatus from EA/Madden. Though, I don't play online; mostly just a connected Franchise as a HC/full control, and a connected franchise as a few different players at different positions. So, I have no idea how the online / playing against others aspect is.

I don't play online at all. I strictly play franchise mode. I was hoping for a better single player campaign type mode but it looks like it's not happening. If I get giftcards....I'll probably pick it up but it ****ing pisses me off. The MLB RTTS is just so awesome. Madden would be fantastic if it had a mode like that.

yep. I'm not even a huge baseball fan, but when I got my PS4 last year after the bike wreck, I needed a game or two to keep my occupied so I picked up MLB The Show. so much fun. and I don't even understand all the ins and outs of baseball (other than 6 outs and inning, 9 innings etc) from a strategy standpoint. Would love if Madden did something like that.

and honestly, I don't even play Madden Franchise mode (where you're the HC etc doing scouting, drafting, playing etc) all that often just due to lack of time. So i like to sit down and maybe play a game or two when I have time as a player; or just as a "Play now" type thing. A single player mode like RTTS etc would be great for a player like me. I'd be able to hop in and out of the game as my time allowed and still get a good experience.

I liked NBA 2k career mode as well. But, like with Baseball, I don't know all that much about basektball so i was pretty terrible at it lol. Despite this, it was still super fun.

Doe anyone know why EA doesn't do this? Serious question. Do they not GAF about it, or are they spending resources and effort to appease a certain type of gamer?

Madden has always, and will always, care about the online player. It's been that way since online gaming became a thing.

Thanks. I figured it was something like that.
Bummer.

I'm a Franchise mode guy myself. I have yet to play online.

After playing a season as a CB as a PR/KR a few thoughts.

to earn extra XP you have to achieve goals each week; which is almost solely predicated on making tackles. so to get that, you essentially have to let WRs catch the ball, then tackle them. like if you're in a flat zone and you see someone leaking out into the flat and pick him up....don't pick him up too well, or the QB won't throw it and you won't get jack shit for doing your job. you almost have to bait him into making the throw then make the tackle. This goes back to my desire to have some XP for doing your job correctly. and it's hard to get INT's when you cover your guy so well or play good zone / relationship with the other defenders when the QB won't throw to your side of the field at all.

I had a game against the Jets where I returned 3 kicks/punts and had an INT. Monster game by my standards (don't think i've ever done that. 2 of them were me fighting through tackles, then getting free and having wide open field in front of me...so nothing magical about my return skills...more luck that anything). Know what I got XP-wise for those TDs? ...nada. I was so excited to see my post game XP earnings, figuring "Oh yeah...gonna get a ton of XP here....."....then I see the breakdown and was like WTF. So, again, that's pretty lame.

Hope they fix some of that stuff in 18. I doubt it though lol.

I put xp up like 200%

one can adjust that?
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shows you how much I know LMAO

You can adjust XP sliders for every position.

anyone heard or read anything interesting on this lately?
For some reason, I'm thinking in years past this was right around the time they started putting out actual game play trailers etc.


just seems very quiet out there these days. I would've thought with all the hype about this Longshot Mode, they would be pimping it endlessly by now.

Rex Dickson said video should be released by the 20th. Probably be a couple more days.

We should do a money tourney for CP Madden

Why not?

hey look it's new footage presented in spastic ADD style so I can't actually tell what's going on

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I hate when 90% of these previews don't actually show the gameplay itself.
I wonder how many people buy it, thinking that it's actually going to look like the shit they saw on the preview.

not sure what to make of the target passing (or whatever it's called). They made it sound like you could lead a receiver, or actually control where it's placed. Looks to me like it's still just a button push to the WR anyway, except now there is a graphic showing where the ball will go?

No you control where the graphic goes

ahh, ok. thanks.

yeah, hard to tell with that herky jerky video.

That literally showed nothing.

97 THP for Mahomes :drool::drool::drool:

Only reason I'm buying it this year is for Mahomes and he is going start day one.

I'm going trade away Alex Smith

Like the Chiefs...betting on yet another yearly letdown with Fraudden 18

They made him pretty accurate (83 short, 78 medium and deep) and athletic (79 SPD 87 ACC 88 AGI) as well.

I plan on starting him from day one in my yearly online CFM.

Hunt is alright but his speed is only an 87. He does have nice hands and isn't fumble prone.

I'm very disappointed in how they rated Kpassagnon 69 OVR (79 SPD 82 STR) He does have good ACC but he will need a ton of development to make him a viable 3-4 DE.

I was planning on starting him from early in the season but we'll see how fast I can get his strength and block shedding up.

17 Was probably the first Madden I bought in 7 or 8 years. I hated the menu and how hard it was to find and do simple things but loved the RPG elements of leveling players. For the first time it made the between game stuff worth doing (mini-games etc.)

No, it didn't even seem a big leap forward after over 5 years but I didn't feel cheated either.

I really wish EA would move to a model where you could buy DLC you want without buying the game. Hell, I'd keep the same game for 2 or 3 years and be happy if I could pay $20 a year for updated rosters and FA's.

I guess the scuttlebutt is that game play videos are supposed to be coming out this week / end of this week.

This is always the key for me. all the other hype videos are pointless each year because it's not footage from the actual game.

I thought I read somewhere (maybe even in this thread, I can't recall) that running will feel more realistic this year based on your RB's attributes, height/weight etc. That'll be cool, instead of having virtually all the RBs run the same way in years past.

Excited for the different modes. I'd be more of a sim player for sure. So hopefully a Jamaal Charles type RB doesn't get caught from behind by a DL fatty in the open / getting to the edge. I hope the sim mode truly takes into account the differences in attributes between players' positions on Offense and Defense, and doesn't just suction animation defenders into your ball carrier, despite having an angle/speed/agility over the CPU defender.

Longshot mode sounds interesting...but I'm not sure how much I'll explore it. I played the NBA2k spike lee bullshit (maybe NBA 2k16?), and it was meh. but, at least you got to play some NBA games. (the best part about that was I was a white guy character who's voice didn't match my face lol). Is Longshot mode just going to be like watching a story, with a few occasional button pushes/making decisions? I mean, surely EA wouldn't spend 3 god damn years making something like that....would they?........

fyi on the Madden deal I've gotten the last few years. Pretty good for a copy on day one. $35 off, more if you have GCU.

https://slickdeals.net/f/10433340-be...=7#commentsBox

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Kinda disturbing no gameplay from EA has been released.

yeah, definitely.

They know the public is on to them and their retread game. They can gain nothing by proving everyone's suspicions, and instead, are relying on hype and the fans' hope that the game will be better this year.

Really, when you think about it, maybe Madden is a great NFL simulator. Every year we either buy into the hype that our team will be better or hope like hell they will be better.

yeah, that's what I've been reading more and more of on forums etc.

They know there aren't any significant changes to the gameplay itself, so they're hyping different modes, Longshot, etc.

we shall see. I hope it's improved. I'm buying it day one because i've been sitting on a gift card for $50 since xmas. LMAO.

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watched the video, just randomly fast forwarding to spots and watching a bit here and there.
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...that, uh......looks, basically the same as '17. I hope the feel/gameplay is different once I'm actually playing. Post game menu, play selection menu, etc...look identical.

...and, non-game play related but, .....they really need to work on the intros for the GD Super Bowl. That was lame as F. "Ok guys,...we're all gonna stand around at the goal line, then start running when the smoke machine turns on". C'mon man.

That footage looks pretty good. I see that they still like to use crap music, though.

That sounds like a good deal. Sucks for me, though, as I just bought an Xbox One and my Madden 17 is for the 360.

A couple of things.

At 22:54....what the **** is that? Brady sits back there for 6-7 seconds and then gets sacked? Yep....that's totally realistic. :rolleyes:

And it looks like the same garbage to me. I don't see a lot that's changed. Same boring entrances.

Get a used one from the bargain bin at gamestop for $8. Worth the $35 off and I think you can still get something for your 360 game as a trade in at Best Buy. Otherwise, you can always wait for the Black Friday. They have this deal every year. It's worth it to me since you get a brand new game for $25 on release day and get to play while Football is happening. If I didn't get it that cheap, I probably wouldn't buy it.

I'm disappointed in myself too.....because I'm going to buy this. And I'm only buying this because of Mahomes.

seems like the delay in releasing gameplay vids is because it basically looks like the exact same game.

Seems like the same random wandering of players after they're tackled. They get tackled, get up, and sort of just wander if some random direction instead of back to their own huddle.


random question...is there a way to listen to your own music, or customize the music that's played in the game?

I absolutely can't ****ing stand the shit in Madden 17. so far as I mute the TV while I'm navigating menus, or training etc.

Did that guy learn his clock management from Andy Reid?

Here's what I noticed:

1. The lighting is incredible.

2. Uh...fumble slider needs tweaked. Consecutive fumbles for TDs on a punt/kickoff.

3. There's still way too much pass rush pressure, too quickly, on play action passes.

4. The OL run blocking looks really good. Double team blocks.

5. Dion Lewis breaking three tackles at the goal line was stupid at 10:29

6. The tipped pass at 19:10 going for a pick was pretty awesome.

7. QB AI at 23:10 is horrible. Brady would never just sit there and take a sack.

8. At 23:50 the scramble/pass rush/fumble interaction is actually really awesome. That looks new to me, and quite realistic.

I'm not nearly as excited as I'd like to be, though. It does seem like Madden 17 with a slight graphical upgrade.

That's sort of where I stand with it as well; at least based on my 2 minutes of viewing game play footage. :D

LMAO