Madden 19 wishlist franchise mode
Okay so I’ll make this short and sweet Add the pro bowl back so we can actually make it a game because the tv version sucks Add the senior bowl back if possible this was one of your hottest feat...
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Please bring back legends and have announcers actually say their names, imagine having Peyton Manning come back for one really good season or have him start over again, this could have the announcers joke "oh,he looks like he's 23 again" or something silly like that. Would love to see him spend a career with the Titans or go back to the Colts and supplant Andrew Luck.
Also, please make the announcers say rookie names, you generate the names, why can't the announcers say them? That's why I only draft offensive linemen and it KILLS the depth for me, really kills the franchise mode, what's the point of just having the commentators awkwardly avoid saying the name of a rookie? It's basic and it's pretty poor that EA have taken it out. It NEEDS to come back and have the announcers freely use the name. Or have a data base of names and have the person select one, or type one, if it's in there - the announcers will say it, if not (it's a foreign name or difficult to pronounce) then have the awkwardness. However going into Madden NINETEEN and this is still an issue is unacceptable. It's simple (I believe anyway, I could be completely wrong and please, feel free to point that out as I have no experience in game design - point is, it should already be in there).
Crowd noise also, make the routes go fuzzy or just have a really random and odd snap of the ball if the crowd noise is so loud, obviously it's a 1 in a 1,000 play, but that element of randomness makes football. I personally prefer playing on the road, as the opposing crowd noise and hostile environment is fun to play in, but I'd love to have that really emphasized. Going to Seattle, Pittsburgh, Foxborough, intimidating, but it creates an atmosphere.
Wear and tear also, maybe when a running back is 20-27, playing a full season at a high volume of carries does not deteriorate the proposed wear and tear bar, but as the player gets older or carries are exceptionally high, this decreases and so does the overall. Same with a 39 year old Quarterback, why continue to play him in a blow out? Sure you can avoid injury, but you also want him fresh (a small reason why Tom Brady has lasted so long and Peyton hasn't, Peyton refused to be benched, as an All-time great that's understandable - he commands that respect, but ultimately it may have cost him another year or so). The same with the end of the season, why should we rest our starters? They either get injured or not, that's not a real incentive. However if they're worn down, tired, that rest is required.
Also, fatigue isn't really a factor in Madden, it doesn't seem possible to tire a defense out, make them "gassed", introducing that would make Madden an even better experience
EA needs to allow all formations to be customized. I've been looking for the near and far formations since September and just found out that all of them are in the West coast playbook. And not only that, you can't customize that playbook at all. Crazy. They only give you one formation and it's trash. Madden 19 or in the next update please bring back all the formations in the near and far, and just don't put all of them in one playbook that we can't customize.
