re: Stupid unnecessary things built into Madden that piss you off

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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.