FOTF Disgrace
August 29, 2020 4:16PM
edited September 2020
I've been a hardcore Madden player since 1992, but I am sick. After agonizing through 2 hours of meaningless FOTF cutscenes, I finally get to play my career, only to find out the game simulates 9 weeks ahead!!?? If I am playing a career mode in a sports game, I don't want any games to be simulated. Hello!!!??? Seriously??? That's ridiculous!!! And for the record, anyone who is a real Madden fan does not give any dam about some hokey storyline. That said, some of the aspects of FOFTF are cool. I like the progression from HS to college to NFL, and I can deal with the cinematics, but for God's sake, let us play each game of the career. If EA wants to emulate NBA 2K, it's fine, but do it right! I never had to accept simulated stats/results in ANY OTHER SPORTS GAME. Absolute trash. Gameplay is much better than what most reviews state, so at least online play is still viable. In the end, I would not buy this game if I had known.
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*Spoilers ahead* you aren’t missing much
I get drafted in 2021, and retire in 2027? That’s my career? I just “played my last game”. Hit continue, watched a cinematic (without audio, a nice glitch or just a complete omission?) about dedicating a scoreboard. After that, I press continue and now the game is just simulating I guess endlessly. I’m on 2034 right now. Should I keep waiting for something?
Nothing made sense trying to shoehorn the story around user played games. The difficulty kept resetting to rookie difficulty and I got tired of changing it and decided to just own the AI. So every game was a blowout. So why does the college coach want to start that other guy over me when the previous year I took over in a title game down 6-3 and won like 42-6. Obviously I’m the better quarterback. That coach would’ve been fired for starting the other guy over me.
Speaking of the other guy, what a wasted opportunity. He should’ve been drafted the year after me by a division rival, and we should’ve had yearly battles to see who’s the best. At the end of the game, they asked if it was important to surpass “Tommy’s legacy”. I thought they meant Tom Brady. Then I remembered that **** from high school was named “tommy”. How am I surpassing his legacy? As I rose through the ranks, I never saw his name on the legacy board. I never played against him.
Back to the inconsistencies. Towards the end of your career, the game tells you you’re struggling. Despite winning the first game of the season 97-10. I watch the cinematic about how I’m having a rough year and the coach is thinking about making a change. The cinematic ends and I see the team is 10-3 at this point. I play the game to keep my position, and I see the season has simmed my player to have 45 TDS and 5 interceptions. That’s struggling?
There’s tons of issues with that throughout the story.
All of this, and I haven’t even mentioned enough that YOU MAKE US SIM MOST OF THE CAREER!!!
That was certainly a bold choice. And by bold, I mean it in the Apple sense, as in widely disliked and obviously bad.
Also, I really dislike that you removed the record book. I enjoyed trying to knock off the records as I progressed. Just very bad decisions all around.