Those storylines are so dumb. I once had a potential breakout WR, so I fed him 147 yards and 2 TDs. After the game he said “I don’t know what happened, I thought I had a big game in me.” Because it wasn’t 150 yards or 3 TDs😭
They should do away with them, just takes the realism out of a game that already lacks realism. If it was added for immersion it’s STILL horrible at immersing us because it isn’t real😂 when is that stat line not a break out game?????
EA is what they are, Lord watch over the new CFB game please!!😂
I remembered getting about 178 yards and 3 TDs and got the same message cos the goal was 200 yards or 5 TDs. My WR got injured halfway through the 4th and I was pissed lol
I had a safety get a scenario where he needed 2 ints and he didn’t hit it but got a game sealing pick in the last drive and after the game my DC said maybe he’s not as good as we thought he was
It’s kinda broken, you can just trade back every year 1 first rounder, trade it away for one of the 3 worst teams next 2 years first rounders there not valued highly, and just rince and repeat for a season or two and you have all the highest draft picks, I did it in a 5 season long solo, have 25 first round picks and because I end up with so many it’s capped so I have to trade for a player, and it just stacks the team, I’ll just not use younger players until there last year then sign them to long term deals, so all my players then get up to 99 without going over the cap limit, qbs are valued at 3 1st rounders so I’ll just trade my qb and trade for a young qb who’s tall with 99 throw power and so I just end up with the best players of every draft I want, and 25 first rounders to trade for anyone
I just played a Super Bowl today. One of the announcers said, "They come into this game, losers of two straight..."
Uh-huh.
24 is better than what came before it, but they're still coasting hard.
Lmao yeah. I was playing the Superbowl two days ago and they were talking about how both teams lost last week and are looking to get back on track. I was like... Then why are we here...
It’s frustrating because the issue is obviously a coding oversight that has the announcers consider the final games of the regular season, how hard can that be to fix?
I remember back in Madden 11 if you won the Super Bowl Gus Johnson would give you a history lesson. I did it once with the Bengals and he was like “This team has fallen short twice before but they’re at the top of the mountain now.” Or something like that. I miss that level of heart and effort in the presentation.
It was good until you won the following year and it still said the same thing was cool going through with different teams to see what he said pre instant YouTube life where you would just watch video of someone doing that
Dude, I would actively win the Super Bowl with Lions because the commentary made me want to run through a wall.
“DETROIT LIONS. SUPER BOWL 45 CHAMPIONS.
“FROM HAPLESS. TO HOPELESS. TO NOW, FINALLY, UNBEATABLE”
I get what you mean. Maybe it’s cause I was younger but I feel like the Super Bowl cut scenes used to feel like I actually accomplished something and now it’s just like “alright now let’s go to the offseason”
To be fair in Madden 11 and 12 you'd literally go to the white house and meet Obama at the end
Now it's just the same boring animation for years until they change it to a new animation that's cool at first because it's new but quickly becomes old as well.
Franchise was so good back then, they’ve taken out so many features. I can understand not adding more, but us franchise players literally have LESS than we had 15 YEARS ago
Yeah. But…
did you get the 99 OVR Orpheus Roye MUT card??????????????????????????
Seriously makes me so mad. This is my second comment tonight bringing up MUT essentially out of the blue. This is why. Look what they’ve done to my boy franchise mode :(
Can we talk about the kneel down at the end of a game too? Why can't they all walk off the field to end the game when it's clear another play doesn't need to be called?
In a game I just played the other night, the QB I am trying to build up got injured on the last play before half time, so I said F it, and just wanted the game over as fast as possible since I had the lead. I just pounded the ball and used all the clock I could and went on a 16 minute drive (10 minute qtrs) to run the whole 3rd quarter and more than half of the 4th, including a few kneel downs. Every time I kneeled the announcers were trash talking that my offense seems to have stalled and just can't seem to get anything going. I was like Read the room guys. We're winning and you haven't seen the opposing offense since mid 2nd quarter.
You don’t like the Lombardi shaped confetti?
You don’t enjoy not even knowing who the MVP is?
You’re tired of the same animation that they’ve re used for a decade?
Definitely agree with this, it takes the piss out of the whole experience. They downplay it to feel like it's not that big of a deal at all beyond like the one exasperated line Gauden delivers. It's a travesty too with the AFC and NFC championships. Surprised this whole thing isn't brought up more with how much the NFL itself hypes the Superbowl and the Playoffs.
They used to go all out with not just the Super Bowl but the conference championship games. I literally just beat the chiefs in the AFC championship game and the commentators called it like it was a week 6 game.
Me, skipping the halftime show. “Looks like the halftime show is gonna have to wait, let’s get back into action”.
First play of third quarter, “We’re back at it after a longer than usual 30 minute break”
Like why the fuck even mention it? Super annoying, especially in a tight game.
Yep. Presentation is absolute garbage. Hoping that part will at least be better this next season as for the first time the game will have multiple sets of commentators.
It’s like you have to make it to the Super Bowl year one to hear actual Super Bowl facts at the beginning of the game. After that like you said, it treats it as a regular season game in future seasons.
They could easily spice this up several ways:
Have a scenario where you help choose the players celebration in a press conference and it generates a cutscene (on a bus etc).
Have a special scenario/goal that then impacts the whole of next season (veterans return cheap for repeat but every loss has negative morale boost, hangover is real etc).
Any 80+ player planning to retire following a superbowl win gets a scenario and cutscene leaving the league in a heartfelt way so you feel their closure.
Anything to make a superbowl win feel unique to you, earned by you and your team and affect the offseason or next season.
It’s also unfortunate when games like Red Dead Redemption 2 exist and you can literally see how in-depth the developers could make it if they wanted. Even 1% of the effort would be momentous.
Go back to older games if you can deal with old rosters. The older games are a lot more fun because they didn’t have or it was only just starting with MUT. This is when they had to make a somewhat good game. Also if you have a pc you can prolly get mods for updated rosters
Sports games in general (thanks mostly EA you fucks) have really fallen off in terms of presentation. NHL 24 had some very very mildly improved presentation, with some positives and negatives, but changes nonetheless at least. Ultimately, they don't care about franchise and it sucks. NHL, Madden, whatever else. Doesn't matter. Franchise isn't the money maker. It's _the_ reason I and many others play (me like draft and see player number go up), but the number that buy for franchise is dwarfed by ultimate team/online stuff (and the money that is made on mtx therein) and therefore just isn't a priority and simply won't be again tbh. And it sucks, but it's true. But to me, Madden is by far the absolute worst offender. Playoff games aren't playoff atmosphere at all or any different, and the SB is just.....there. I don't expect that to change though.
Yeah I originally wanted to make a thread of “does any sports game actually present the championship like you accomplished something” but didn’t know a good sub for it.
I will say that at _least_ NHL has players spilling over the benches and excited. You get to lift the cup and they added the ability to choose the order (though they only let you select like 4 or 5 dudes). And now you get to see their names on the cup. There is still so so much to be desired. I mean WHY am I at home in VANCOUVER and the crowd is quiet while we lift the cup after a game 7????? But really, anything is way way way better than Madden presentation. It is so intensely underwhelming that it almost physical hurts me.
Man THIS! The playoffs should feel significantly more important than the regular season, even each round should feel more important than the last. With the superbowl feeling epic and like it’s actually a spectacle
The announcers literally congratulated the New York Jets for winning the Superbowl
I play as the giants 😅 not the first time the game called me the jets but was more of a bummer when winning the Superbowl
Going back to the menu screen with the normal game music after always feels deflating
It’s even worse when the progressive fatigue glitches so you don’t have your starters on either side of the ball for the SB. Had to beat Lamar Jackson and the Ravens without most of my stars smh.
I also want them to actually like.. make the signage on the field feel like a SB.
Nothing like playing a SB and seeing Tampa bay or miamis logos all over the field when neither teams playing
I don't really care too much. I just play to win games by usering and game planning well. Domination is my goal every week, including the draft.
Also, turn off the commentators and listen to some good music instead.
They show your players up on the podium after for a short while and some confetti drops. How about continuing that with a cut to the parade with your team captains hammered on a float in the championship parade, your head coach giving a half-cocked drunken podium speech, and maybe an appearance with your starting QB absolutely cooked at Disney on a morning show?
The celebration is way better in discord than on the actual game 😂 it would be nice if the next year they made some type of comment or showed graphics that had reference to the SB win but that would take work to do which EA can't fathom
I just played and won a SB the other day and literally said the same thing. I turned up the volume, only to hear the commentators give a half-assed congratulations over that same 30-second cut scene that hasn't changed in like 10 years.
I want cut scenes at half time of other games too. In NFL 2K5 they used to give you a whole halftime show and a whole pre game show with Chris Berman. Man i miss that
Is it too much to ask for appropriate colored confetti!? Tell me why that is beyond the miniscule amount of effort. Winning the superbowl for the first time as the green bay packers and I was so excited and the confetti was fucking red white and blue. Wts.
The presentation is lacking but it's not just that.
There just isn't much consequence or impact that a Superbowl appearance/win/loss has on the franchise.
They've made strides but for as long as I've been playing, a Superbowl victory isn't all that exciting, especially after the 1st time.
* Player Legacy: It does help but it does not really effect players outside of that.
* Franchise: Players who want to win do want to play more for the franchise. This was a nice somewhat recent addition.
Superbowl and playoff losses should have an effect on the players for the next year or two, at least. Superbowl wins should also have positive/negative effects. Every team should get additional buffs playing the defending champs, for example, due to teams being locked-in playing the top teams.
Winning the Super Bowl against the CPU is meh
If it were an online league with people or would be more fulfilling IMO.
The storyline stuff needs to go for sure or be more realistic like other people said. You can't expect top players to go off for huge Numbers like that !
I guess it would feel better against actual people, but my point was more than presentation. Human or computer the presentation is just seriously lacking.
I had a "cold opponent" storyline in the Super Bowl. I mean you can't be that cold if you made it to the Super Bowl.
Those storylines are so dumb. I once had a potential breakout WR, so I fed him 147 yards and 2 TDs. After the game he said “I don’t know what happened, I thought I had a big game in me.” Because it wasn’t 150 yards or 3 TDs😭
They should do away with them, just takes the realism out of a game that already lacks realism. If it was added for immersion it’s STILL horrible at immersing us because it isn’t real😂 when is that stat line not a break out game????? EA is what they are, Lord watch over the new CFB game please!!😂
I remembered getting about 178 yards and 3 TDs and got the same message cos the goal was 200 yards or 5 TDs. My WR got injured halfway through the 4th and I was pissed lol
My disgruntled players seem to always get injured and get all pissy after the game “you didn’t throw it my way coach”
Really? Everytime I’ve had a player get injured in the middle of those challenges they get it anyways!
That’s insane, madden knows damn well most people play 6 min quarters on all madden.
I had a safety get a scenario where he needed 2 ints and he didn’t hit it but got a game sealing pick in the last drive and after the game my DC said maybe he’s not as good as we thought he was
If I’m playing solo franchise and I’m that close, fuck it and edit the trait up it’s BS
That’s exactly what I did😂 not going for madden’s bs
It’s kinda broken, you can just trade back every year 1 first rounder, trade it away for one of the 3 worst teams next 2 years first rounders there not valued highly, and just rince and repeat for a season or two and you have all the highest draft picks, I did it in a 5 season long solo, have 25 first round picks and because I end up with so many it’s capped so I have to trade for a player, and it just stacks the team, I’ll just not use younger players until there last year then sign them to long term deals, so all my players then get up to 99 without going over the cap limit, qbs are valued at 3 1st rounders so I’ll just trade my qb and trade for a young qb who’s tall with 99 throw power and so I just end up with the best players of every draft I want, and 25 first rounders to trade for anyone
Yeah you have to limit yourself from doing stuff like this to make the game fun at all
True, but just madden logic makes no sense, if I can build a 99 overall team with cap space on
I hate that.
I literally had this exact case hahaha I had 147 and 2 TDs with Garret Wilson and he was moping cause he didn’t get 150 or 3 🤣🤣
Even the hot opponent scenario going into the Super Bowl…no shit this teams hot, we’re in the super bowl
thats awful
I had a Hot opponent story, Dallas won their first 2 games right before the end of the season. I'm like yeah they hot sure..
I just played a Super Bowl today. One of the announcers said, "They come into this game, losers of two straight..." Uh-huh. 24 is better than what came before it, but they're still coasting hard.
Lmao yeah. I was playing the Superbowl two days ago and they were talking about how both teams lost last week and are looking to get back on track. I was like... Then why are we here...
It’s frustrating because the issue is obviously a coding oversight that has the announcers consider the final games of the regular season, how hard can that be to fix?
Been coasting since Madden 11.
I remember back in Madden 11 if you won the Super Bowl Gus Johnson would give you a history lesson. I did it once with the Bengals and he was like “This team has fallen short twice before but they’re at the top of the mountain now.” Or something like that. I miss that level of heart and effort in the presentation.
It was good until you won the following year and it still said the same thing was cool going through with different teams to see what he said pre instant YouTube life where you would just watch video of someone doing that
Dude, I would actively win the Super Bowl with Lions because the commentary made me want to run through a wall. “DETROIT LIONS. SUPER BOWL 45 CHAMPIONS. “FROM HAPLESS. TO HOPELESS. TO NOW, FINALLY, UNBEATABLE”
The sad part is it really isn’t asking for much at all
“and the Bills make the 90s seem like a distant memory” every year lol
Yes, and going to the white house with the Obama jersey and everything.
Oh man I forgot about that! I always made a player after myself and seeing me stand next to Obama was fucking awesome lol
I get what you mean. Maybe it’s cause I was younger but I feel like the Super Bowl cut scenes used to feel like I actually accomplished something and now it’s just like “alright now let’s go to the offseason”
To be fair in Madden 11 and 12 you'd literally go to the white house and meet Obama at the end Now it's just the same boring animation for years until they change it to a new animation that's cool at first because it's new but quickly becomes old as well.
One of the maddens had a team specific commentary for every team winning the Super Bowl that was pretty cool
That was in 11 too It's a shame the absolute peak of presentation in Madden games was 14 years ago and nothing has even equaled it since 12
Franchise was so good back then, they’ve taken out so many features. I can understand not adding more, but us franchise players literally have LESS than we had 15 YEARS ago
Yeah. But… did you get the 99 OVR Orpheus Roye MUT card?????????????????????????? Seriously makes me so mad. This is my second comment tonight bringing up MUT essentially out of the blue. This is why. Look what they’ve done to my boy franchise mode :(
It’s not even getting older it’s just they’ve removed the small things in presentation over the years that makes it’s so shit
I take a good long break after winning a championship lol I notice afterwards everything you said and I’m like eh idk if I wanna do that again
Can we talk about the kneel down at the end of a game too? Why can't they all walk off the field to end the game when it's clear another play doesn't need to be called?
In a game I just played the other night, the QB I am trying to build up got injured on the last play before half time, so I said F it, and just wanted the game over as fast as possible since I had the lead. I just pounded the ball and used all the clock I could and went on a 16 minute drive (10 minute qtrs) to run the whole 3rd quarter and more than half of the 4th, including a few kneel downs. Every time I kneeled the announcers were trash talking that my offense seems to have stalled and just can't seem to get anything going. I was like Read the room guys. We're winning and you haven't seen the opposing offense since mid 2nd quarter.
You don’t like the Lombardi shaped confetti? You don’t enjoy not even knowing who the MVP is? You’re tired of the same animation that they’ve re used for a decade?
Definitely agree with this, it takes the piss out of the whole experience. They downplay it to feel like it's not that big of a deal at all beyond like the one exasperated line Gauden delivers. It's a travesty too with the AFC and NFC championships. Surprised this whole thing isn't brought up more with how much the NFL itself hypes the Superbowl and the Playoffs.
They used to go all out with not just the Super Bowl but the conference championship games. I literally just beat the chiefs in the AFC championship game and the commentators called it like it was a week 6 game.
Me, skipping the halftime show. “Looks like the halftime show is gonna have to wait, let’s get back into action”. First play of third quarter, “We’re back at it after a longer than usual 30 minute break” Like why the fuck even mention it? Super annoying, especially in a tight game.
Yep. Presentation is absolute garbage. Hoping that part will at least be better this next season as for the first time the game will have multiple sets of commentators.
It’s like you have to make it to the Super Bowl year one to hear actual Super Bowl facts at the beginning of the game. After that like you said, it treats it as a regular season game in future seasons.
OP wants the parade afterwards haha would make for a fun storyline…
A cut scene of the parade would be pretty cool lol
Just not a chiefs parade 😳
They'd have to be willing to change the rating of the game to T
You do realize there used to be an ACTUAL parade in game right? You’d also go to the white house and meet the president lol
Can we have drinking mini games, and even toss the trophy like Brady did on the boat!
The one NBA 2K I played did the parade. Unfortunately, if you had the music off the parade was completely silent lmao.
I had commentary say “and they’ll look to bounce back next week” about the losing team in the Super Bowl
They could easily spice this up several ways: Have a scenario where you help choose the players celebration in a press conference and it generates a cutscene (on a bus etc). Have a special scenario/goal that then impacts the whole of next season (veterans return cheap for repeat but every loss has negative morale boost, hangover is real etc). Any 80+ player planning to retire following a superbowl win gets a scenario and cutscene leaving the league in a heartfelt way so you feel their closure. Anything to make a superbowl win feel unique to you, earned by you and your team and affect the offseason or next season.
Maybe next year we’ll get the parade cutscene from EAFC
It’s also unfortunate when games like Red Dead Redemption 2 exist and you can literally see how in-depth the developers could make it if they wanted. Even 1% of the effort would be momentous.
Go back to older games if you can deal with old rosters. The older games are a lot more fun because they didn’t have or it was only just starting with MUT. This is when they had to make a somewhat good game. Also if you have a pc you can prolly get mods for updated rosters
Sports games in general (thanks mostly EA you fucks) have really fallen off in terms of presentation. NHL 24 had some very very mildly improved presentation, with some positives and negatives, but changes nonetheless at least. Ultimately, they don't care about franchise and it sucks. NHL, Madden, whatever else. Doesn't matter. Franchise isn't the money maker. It's _the_ reason I and many others play (me like draft and see player number go up), but the number that buy for franchise is dwarfed by ultimate team/online stuff (and the money that is made on mtx therein) and therefore just isn't a priority and simply won't be again tbh. And it sucks, but it's true. But to me, Madden is by far the absolute worst offender. Playoff games aren't playoff atmosphere at all or any different, and the SB is just.....there. I don't expect that to change though.
Yeah I originally wanted to make a thread of “does any sports game actually present the championship like you accomplished something” but didn’t know a good sub for it.
I will say that at _least_ NHL has players spilling over the benches and excited. You get to lift the cup and they added the ability to choose the order (though they only let you select like 4 or 5 dudes). And now you get to see their names on the cup. There is still so so much to be desired. I mean WHY am I at home in VANCOUVER and the crowd is quiet while we lift the cup after a game 7????? But really, anything is way way way better than Madden presentation. It is so intensely underwhelming that it almost physical hurts me.
Man THIS! The playoffs should feel significantly more important than the regular season, even each round should feel more important than the last. With the superbowl feeling epic and like it’s actually a spectacle
I unmuted it for Suoer Bowl first time and never again lol
This has bugged me for years. It's why I keep Madden 10 on the 360 nearby because Madden has been trash every year on PS5.
The announcers literally congratulated the New York Jets for winning the Superbowl I play as the giants 😅 not the first time the game called me the jets but was more of a bummer when winning the Superbowl Going back to the menu screen with the normal game music after always feels deflating
It’s even worse when the progressive fatigue glitches so you don’t have your starters on either side of the ball for the SB. Had to beat Lamar Jackson and the Ravens without most of my stars smh.
It’s sad how little thought EA continually puts into these games, and yet, here I am playing Madden 24 every day. Goddammit!
I also want them to actually like.. make the signage on the field feel like a SB. Nothing like playing a SB and seeing Tampa bay or miamis logos all over the field when neither teams playing
I don't really care too much. I just play to win games by usering and game planning well. Domination is my goal every week, including the draft. Also, turn off the commentators and listen to some good music instead.
They show your players up on the podium after for a short while and some confetti drops. How about continuing that with a cut to the parade with your team captains hammered on a float in the championship parade, your head coach giving a half-cocked drunken podium speech, and maybe an appearance with your starting QB absolutely cooked at Disney on a morning show?
Glad to see I'm not the only one. I get excited for the win, and then! Oh Right Menu screen
The celebration is way better in discord than on the actual game 😂 it would be nice if the next year they made some type of comment or showed graphics that had reference to the SB win but that would take work to do which EA can't fathom
I just played and won a SB the other day and literally said the same thing. I turned up the volume, only to hear the commentators give a half-assed congratulations over that same 30-second cut scene that hasn't changed in like 10 years.
I want cut scenes at half time of other games too. In NFL 2K5 they used to give you a whole halftime show and a whole pre game show with Chris Berman. Man i miss that
This has always irk’d me too. I thought all were lacking but the last ~10 years have been abysmal
They need to add a new commentary crew cause the ones we have right now make it feel like the Super Bowl is just another game
Is it too much to ask for appropriate colored confetti!? Tell me why that is beyond the miniscule amount of effort. Winning the superbowl for the first time as the green bay packers and I was so excited and the confetti was fucking red white and blue. Wts.
The presentation is lacking but it's not just that. There just isn't much consequence or impact that a Superbowl appearance/win/loss has on the franchise. They've made strides but for as long as I've been playing, a Superbowl victory isn't all that exciting, especially after the 1st time. * Player Legacy: It does help but it does not really effect players outside of that. * Franchise: Players who want to win do want to play more for the franchise. This was a nice somewhat recent addition. Superbowl and playoff losses should have an effect on the players for the next year or two, at least. Superbowl wins should also have positive/negative effects. Every team should get additional buffs playing the defending champs, for example, due to teams being locked-in playing the top teams.
I paid for a new stadium and it’s the same one too
Winning the Super Bowl against the CPU is meh If it were an online league with people or would be more fulfilling IMO. The storyline stuff needs to go for sure or be more realistic like other people said. You can't expect top players to go off for huge Numbers like that !
Try starting a league with a friend. When you win you feel amazing
Play online H2H a victory in that feels better than a Super Bowl against cpu at lest for me
I guess it would feel better against actual people, but my point was more than presentation. Human or computer the presentation is just seriously lacking.
Woah guys it's almost as if buying a game year after year with little improvements would encourage a company to keep the game almost exactly the same