Official Madden 2012 Thread

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

this rain **** every game prevents me from doing **** offensively outside of Helu.

I drafted a stud QB but the rain makes every non-Brady/Manning/Rodgers/Brees QB suck

[skns4life]

In my profile, I take clock acceleration off. However in my franchise, it accelerates it anyway and I don't have the option of turning it off. At the end of the game, I have about 50 yards rushing and 100 yards and my players aren't gonna improve any. How do I take the clock acceleration off in Franchise mode?

[terrifNick21]

Was playing a friend. He was Cleveland, I was the Redskins, obviously.

Game starts, and I get a FG first drive, 3-0. Next possession, off the stretch run, Hightower 69 yards to the house, 10-0. I then get a pick 6 with Atogwe, 17-0.

Halftime comes, and I have a comfortable lead. Well, he scores on two long passes on blown coverages, 17-14. I then return the kickoff with Banks for a TD right up the middle, 24-14. 4th rolls around, and he scores two more times, the second time off of great field position after a turnover. So, with just over a minute left...I have the ball, and this happens.



I couldn't complete anything the entire game it seemed. I won, 31-28.

[stoney26]

RD and Slacky, I know you guys were in the NCAA dynasty that has pretty much stalled, but if you want in a very active 30 team (if you guys join) Madden lg then let me know. We have been running this thing with most of the same people since Madden '10, so it goes pretty smoothly. Hopefully we fill it up. If you guys played, it would up the percentage of Skins fans to about 20% and give us majority.

Is this for 360 or ps?

[terrifNick21]

is this for 360 or ps?

ps3

[Sweet Sassy Molassy]

Presentation and Franchise Rain issues aside, I think this is the best Madden since the previous generation of Maddens from a gameplay standpoint. The Presentation in Madden has sucked forever, imo, so it's no surprise that it sucks yet again. Granted the omission of names and completely botching a number of players names is ridiculous (hopefully this is something that they can fix with a patch). I'm about 5/6 games into my franchise and I've had maybe 3 games that have been in the rain, it was a little annoying but it's also nice to not play every game in perfect weather either, it could definitely use some tweaking though.

I am still waiting for the day that EA just copies the 2k5's presentation system, which was one of the best in any sports game I've ever played. The halftime and post game this year is atrocious, it just seems like they don't know what they want to do with it. I don't know why it's so hard for them to figure it out, they seem to do a solid job with their other sports titles.

Having said all of that, the gameplay is great. It would seem that the development team spent all of their time fixing the gameplay and AI as opposed to working on the glitz and glam of presentation ... and I'll take that tradeoff every time if that's what it comes down to. As someone who skipped Madden 11, I feel like Madden 12 is worth the money.

The Scouting Menu is really weird, like I cannot add more player or remove players from it.

Gameplay is MUCH smoother. Collision system is well done. I like the game overall, but those glitches need to be fixed.

Also, is anyone else irked by their pronunciation of Gano?

It looks like with the new scouting you have to check back in after a couple of weeks and you'll be able to add new guys to your scouting list. That's what happened for me anyway. I actually like the new scouting though. It makes it more of a crapshoot (which is how it should be). And yes, GAN-no is definitely irksome.

[ixcuincle]

I take everything I said about Madden back, seems alright other than default commentary (NSFW)

[Hitman21ST]

How do you upload highlights?

[Drew_Fl]

How do you upload highlights?

after a game, go to "game recap" then "highlights". i think this is the order of the menu. then just navigate to a specific play in a quarter and you can view it from different angles and upload it to the EA server from there. you have to sign in to the EA sports website to see them.

...or you can do it the old fashion way with smartphone camera and youtube.

[PokerPacker]

...or you can do it the old fashion way with smartphone camera and youtube.

[Soup]

Just to let you guys know, made a redskins madden cover of Hightower, I'm going to make more when I have the time.

http://sonofwashington.com/2011/08/3...e-madden-12-2/

[TheREALJBird]

Heads up about scouting, you can scout 15 players during certain points of the season. I can't remember them all off the top of my head but it's week 1,5,9,13, and 17 I believe. You can't scout a previous player. It's a bit glitchy though seeing how you scout a QB and it shows their kicking ratings (lol) but after the season you get to have pro days and individual workouts at the combine. If you scout a player enough you can get his full rating. I exported my NCAA roster so I was able to nab Andrew Luck, 85 overall as a rookie. Landry Jones was an 84.

---------- Post added September-4th-2011 at 02:47 AM ----------

I'm on my 2nd season now, the Free Agent bidding system is definitely hectic, and teams AI for evaluating player personnel is much better. The FA market had some names in it, but all were 30+ years of age. Love the scouting though, you can get a much better idea of a players actual potential and rating, instead of just taking a shot in the dark at someone with a 1st round projection.

[KDawg]

In my first draft, Carolina selected a punter with the #2 overall pick in the first round.

Well played, Ron Rivera, well played.

[SonOfWashington]

Seems like the ES community is frowning upon this game. Might not buy it anytime soon then.

[Sweet Sassy Molassy]

Seems like the ES community is frowning upon this game. Might not buy it anytime soon then.

What gives you that impression? Seems that most of us have said the presentation is pretty terrible, but the gameplay is leaps and bounds better than any of the previous "next gen" Madden games.