Do you feel like the fucking fool you look? Spent all that time hyping this shit product up only to sample it yourself and realize how wrong you were the whole time.
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i didn't spend that much time hyping it :-)

anyway, can't wait to pirate it to play fece of the franchise for 2 weeks and then discard
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bought the past few Maddens, definitely a no this year. They only care about how many Deion's, Lawrence Taylors and Mike Vicks they can sell in MUT.
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Yeah, I bought it last year because Mahomes was on the cover. First time since 18, and 18 was the first time since about 2005.

I won’t buy this year. And won’t buy again until they fix franchise mode.

It’s become too goddamn hard to find games that aren’t:
1) overly focused on multiplayer modes
2) overly focused on mini transactions inside the game

I understand why they do these things, but it isn’t the gaming experience I’m looking for.
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Our time is over dude. They don't care about what we want because the gamers of today spend tons on that crap and only play multiplayer games. I have several people i know that whenever I'm on PS4 they're only playing COD or Apex or Fortnite. Every single day for the past several years. You'd think they'd eventually get sick of shooting other players digital characters over and over.
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Oh, I’m aware. Finding a real, story-driven RPG that doesn’t ask me to give a shit about multiplayer or try to get me to buy a bunch of loot in-game is pretty hard these days.
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The AI needs an overhaul but we made Mahomes hair look even more realistic this year!!!
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Anyone who drops a dime on MUT is part of the problem. They put ZERO effort into making this a realistic sim experience.
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I think the most indicting thing I can say about Madden 21 is that they tried to do something I want - put the Tomahawk Chop in the game - and did in the worst way possible.

It doesn't sound like Arrowhead at all. It's like...background noise.
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The beta is trash. A few new animations and graphical tweaks but this game...this code/engine is old as sh*t. Skeletal hints of the Madden 00's are still visible beneath the player models and the way they move/interact.

And, outside of maybe the hitstick tackles, Madden has always had this underwater, cushioned and gentle tackling and player contact that kills immersion. The way defenders seem to ease ball carriers to the ground has always sucked. There's zero sense of the violent impact, explosion and physicality essential to the sport. OL/DL interactions are still trash as well.

I was already going to pass on Madden 21 and the beta simply cemented it. Couldn't care less what post-launch plans they have for franchise mode because they honestly need to rebuild the game from the ground up.

Not sure what 2k has planned for their football game next year but I'm definitely looking forward to it.
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We're a year away from next gen anyway.

EA wasn't putting a lot into the last version of old gen. They're likely already putting resources into Madden 22.
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It's bad enough the upcoming NFL season will either be canceled or suck ass.. Games without fans are madden level garbage. ..the only outlet is a piece of shit football game that's somehow gone BACKWARDS over the years
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Jesus Christ man....it isn’t going to be any better on next gen.
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We'll see. Madden 18 and 20 were very solid releases.
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You have low expectations. Madden hasn’t been good for over 10 years.
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