DizzyCaffeine
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You have way too much faith in Blake Bortles.
Anyway, I'll pick it up. I usually get my money's worth out of Madden every year.
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Madden NFL 18 Longshot
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You have way too much faith in Blake Bortles.
Anyway, I'll pick it up. I usually get my money's worth out of Madden every year.
I'm hyped to have fournette in the backfield. And yet again out defense looks good on paper...gotta BELIEVE!
CPU and Online. Didn't play a lot online this year tho. Stuck mostly to franchise and figuring out why the patches kept fucking with the gameplay. Kinda hard to have fun when I can put 40+ on the CPU even with sliders made by people I usually trust
Deadpool_X
Banned
AJ and Jalen are gonna feast week 1, regardless of whether it's Savage or Watson under center. Also, that Calais/Malik/Dante/Yanick line will be dangerous for sure.
Of course, the team goes as Blake goes, though. Hopefully his work with 3DQB will result in a 2015 or better showing again.
Namegoes_Here
Member
Wow, you're going to drop that far in the draft??
Lions would blow that kind of pick anyways. 
Stiler
Member
My main problem with Madden games that I wish they'd fix is the speed and animations of the palyers. Players move WAAAAAAAAY too fast, it doesn't feel or look like real football.
It's like half way between a football sim and an over the top arcade game, but not as good as either could be.
see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWC4IwAgOes
2k nailed the speed and momentum of more realistic animations and overall gameplay with the 2k nfl games.
NFL Blitz nailed the over-the-top arcade gameplay.
Madden is just in the middle of them and since it's the only one with the NFL license it's the only game people will play.
Really wish Madden would at least try a more sim like approach to the gameplay , at least make it an option.
It's like half way between a football sim and an over the top arcade game, but not as good as either could be.
see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWC4IwAgOes
2k nailed the speed and momentum of more realistic animations and overall gameplay with the 2k nfl games.
NFL Blitz nailed the over-the-top arcade gameplay.
Madden is just in the middle of them and since it's the only one with the NFL license it's the only game people will play.
Really wish Madden would at least try a more sim like approach to the gameplay , at least make it an option.
I was excited for Madden and the Longshot campaign and was going to be the first one I purchased in like 8 years until I read a quick preview on Operation Sports. You don't even get to play one NFL game during the story mode. Go through Pop warner football through college until the combine...
I like character created career modes that are not structured or acted out in linear ways but have procedural interactions with coaches/team owners/players/the press, stuff like refusing to sign with teams or demanding trades with realistic team behavior. So I'm still not going to care about Madden this year unfortunately.
Stealthcobra
Member
They addressed speed in m17
lol I read the same thing on games radar
They had it seem like it'd be like my career but it's more like Friday night lights a tell tale game
Ninja Scooter
Member
So it's a Johnny Manziel simulator?
Blitzrules240
Banned
Apparently this is an FMV and you're not even going to play a down in the NFL...
LFMartins86
Member
And where did you exactly hear that lie?
Elwood Blues
Member
Hopefully it ends with you getting drafted by the Browns, and then it picks up next year with you soul being slowly destroyed.
LFMartins86
Member
That's very weird. They had it right with The Journey but this seems messed up.
I somehow hope because of that we get a new NCAA again.... Fucking miss that franchise.
Yup info is here - http://www.gameinformer.com/games/m...tory-mode-tells-the-tale-of-the-longshot.aspx
This sounds so disappointing, I will get Madden since I get it every year but this story stuff mode should have been so much better.
Yea they could have did like NBA 2K16 Spike Lee story, once the story ends you just continue your career normally with no more story, it sounds so dumb, I knew EA would screw it up somehow.
Tyraniboah
Member
The Jags aren't winning the division when Luck will be healthy for the first time in two years lol.
Anyway it's always nice to see more content added to these sports games. Though I won't be buying because I'm not interested in owning a single piece of merchandise with a Patriots uniform on it.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
lovely ladies
Member
If it's anything like FIFA (and if it gets a positive response), I'm guessing the story might continue in next year's edition. That's what I saw in this upcoming year's editon of their game, it follows his pro career after he made it. But I'm sure people don't want to buy annual editions just to play story mode.
Deadpool_X
Banned
No one has any clue how healthy Luck is or isn't, coming off of a very serious surgery on his throwing shoulder. He hasn't thrown a ball since January. On top of that, Jax's defense will destroy Luck and smother his pathetic receivers to the point where it won't matter if he's healthy or not.
BeekleMatter
Member
No team play no buy
I imagine it will be like Fifa, where the story is told through multiple games, each one being a new season.
Memorabilia
Member
To each their own I suppose... But this comes off like something I'd maybe play for a couple hours tops and never touch again. It makes me wonder how much better the actual game could be if they put the budget into mechanics, AI, gameplay improvements....
It's nothing like FIFA. I'm actually playing the journey now and you actually get try out, sign and play as a pro in that mode. This Longshot mode in madden you never play a second as a pro in the NFL. Not to mention it looks like there's not a lot of actual football gameplay in the mode. Probably don't get to play a full game at any level rather its high school football or college and it looks very scripted. EA has missed the mark entirely with this. Like someone suggested they could have told the story in Longshot and then when you make it to the NFL you get to continue your career until you retire like the spike lee story in NBA 2k...
The Albatross
Member
I'm a serious player, I'll play through it because why not, but I'm still only focused on Franchise. I assume I'll cringe at all of the cut scenes and it'll be heavily scripted, but I don't care, I enjoy campy videogame stories.
For me, Madden has had a story mode since 1999, because building franchise has always had an inherent story for me.
Wait... You don't actually play in the NFL in the mode...
Hahaha what ea
Nope you don't. Imagine an NFL game with a story mode where you don't get to actually play in the NFL. Only EA could think of this. Imagine playing call of duty and having a campaign where you only went through Army basic training and the campaign ends with you never getting to fight...
richman555
Member
I eagerly await the Switch version!
StereoVsn
Member
What's weird is that FIFA has the story and allows career mode as a Pro player. I guess EA is going after "Friday Night Lights" audience or something.
JustinBbad
Member
<--- This is me every year too with the Jags...ever since NCAA stopped and I couldn't play with my Gators, I've had to resort to pretending the Jags are good in Madden.
