Stupid unnecessary things built into Madden that piss you off

I personally hate the X A Y user decision when catching the football (and when running).

^ Half the time it doesn't let me choose what I want, sometimes it will auto choose aggressive catch when my receiver is running wide fricking open down the sideline. Sometimes when I just want the first on a precarious situation, I can't possessive catch because it thinks I should RAC. Very frustrating.

Franchise mode still fricking sucks.i It would be nice to have the commish to have complete control over the league (because things always go wrong).

I do like the unreliable saving of a game when your internet cuts out or ea servers go down in franchise mode.


But the most frustrating thing is lineman not blocking the right guy. Pretty much any play to the outside the linemen go straight up retard and just run down field and not even attempt to block anyone. Like they are stuck in the sprint animation and they don't give a damn

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1. Worthless cut screens that force me to push A to skip between plays and timeouts. Who wants to watch a CGI coach clap? Or a slow motion replay of a 5 yard catch on second and 10? Why is that even in the game. Is there an option to disable this? Why doesn't play selection just come up automatically after every play?

2. Pressing A is not necessary after every play it's random and it also selects plays, so if you press A to skip the cut scene and the cut scene didn't play you auto select a play you didn't want. A simple fix would have been to make the skip button not also a play select button.

3. Challenged plays that are clearly a mistake. Why did they build into the game a call of a completed pass when he clearly caught it out of bounds and the booth immediately reviews it and turns it over?

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1. YES.
2. YES. Every time I play I have at least 3 playcalls wasted because of this
3. It's been a while since I've played competitively, but I know Madden used to suck as far as not being able to challenge the correct thing. For instance, I want to challenge that a receiver was out of bounds, but the only option is to challenge the spot. Don't know if that's improved, but it was a completely useless feature for a while.

I'll add that I've never liked Madden's player progression compared to NCAAs. First, it seemed like rookies were never very good and it took way too many seasons to improve them. I would lose interest in the franchise before any of them were decent. Also, I'm personally not a fan of having to do drills or go thru a bunch of training that improves 1 tiny insignificant stat EVERY week. It is way too tedious for what little improvement you get. Again, don't know if this has been improved in the last couple installments.

4) Receivers inexplicably dropping wide open passes constantly.
Has been an issue since madden moved over to current gen. I thought they'd fix it after their first game in Xbone. But if anything, it's gotten worse

5) Not just madden, but any game.
If you're blowing an opponent out, you deserve to pound them with no mercy. But I find that Madden and 2k have some form of a comeback system that makes your AI players start making mistakes to allow the other team to catch up. Idk if it's something that's implemented or not, but it sure as hell feels like it.

Bonus:
I was lining up for an onside kick. My kicker ran 5 yards past the ball and did the kick animation. The ball (still on the tee) flew straight into one of my players hands.
I recorded it. I paused the game to let a little rage out. And whenever it came back on, I got a sack that forced a fumble. The ball was rolling towards my endzone and I had nothing but green in front of me. Time expired right as my linebacker picked the ball up. Only to drop on top of the ball instead of picking it up and running.


And don't even get me started on playing in the snow. My QB slipped 90% of the times I dropped back. And I'm not talking about he just kinda got tripped up and recovered. I mean he slipped to where my passing icons disappeared for a couple seconds while he recovered. Meanwhile, the other team had 0 problems with the snow.

Haven't played Madden since and I'll probably skip out on Madden 18.
It's becoming like Call of Duty with the same recycled bullshite every year.

EA will introduce the PAT-commercial-kickoff-commercial in Madden '18. Unskippable.

People will still line up to buy it, too.

When you are about to go up 3 scores and be able to ice the game but your receiver randomly fumbles and the computer returns it for a TD just to keep the game close.

Then the computer QB all of a sudden becomes Joe Montana and drives the field when they couldn't complete a 3 yard crossing route for the entire game.