Madden 19

There is ZERO run game. The offensive like cannot block at all. I’ve bought the last 4 and I think I’m going to pass this year at least as of now. There’s not a big enough jump from 18 to this one.

Figured that. Reason I haven’t liked the last few. Guess I am in the minority but I like to run the ball

I enjoy running the ball as well. Last few maddens have started making it increasingly difficult

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added custom draft classes

Can anyone explain what this is? Or provide a link?

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At the start of your franchise mode you can import custom draft classes that the community has made with the real life college players.

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This will be the first time in a long time I won't be purchasing. Leaning that way with 2K too. When there is no competition, this is what happens.

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Same, I'm venturing more and more away from sports games because they've started to become pretty underwhelming. Which is too bad.

People buy the game early for more $$ once again, and yet still complain before the actual launch date of standard version, once again. Never gets old.

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At the start of your franchise mode you can import custom draft classes that the community has made with the real life college players.

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That's cool. I just can't stand how the game looks now. The running animation looks so blocky and stupid. I try to rent it every year but I guess it was just better when I was younger.

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Same, I'm venturing more and more away from sports games because they've started to become pretty underwhelming. Which is too bad.

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yep. i spent the majority of my life playing sports games and now it just feels like the genre is done. Frostbite engine hasnt helped, we get all these fancy expensive animations and they end up dictating how the game plays. last years 2k was the worst i've ever played, Madden has been the same core game for 4 or 5 years. how they completely broke the offensive line is inexcusable.

i tried it at a friends house and wont be purchasing

FIFA has become entirely focused on ultimate team mode because whales will dish out thousands of $$$ on it.

i'm putting a hold on purchasing sports games until we get some actual core gameplay changes

If I were you, check out what 2K is doing with MyLeague.

They’re adding draft classes going back to 1976... if you’re a MyLeague fan this year’s 2k is a must. Also they’re adding varying degrees of difficulty to MyGM. It won’t be as scripted as last year’s addition which was garbage.

Problems I had with it

1. (isolated incident) a slot WR deep post route over the middle to Meredith. When Meredith looked for the ball he looked over the outside shoulder of the route towards the trailing defender(2 yards of separation), away from the QB, instead of looking to the inside of the route where the ball ended up hitting him in the facemask. It looked glitchy as frick and all out retarded.

2. Instead of improving the run game they just made it more difficult at the expense of logic. You can still run on people but they want you to treat every back like Leveon Bell in terms of patience and when to hit the gas. In addition they have an overly complicated juke, stop n go, and stiff arm feature that you will need to know in order to have a prayer for establishing the running game. The system requires you to predetermine the best of the 3 moves to use and the best of the 3 variations of that move that will work best on a case by case scenario.

3. The screen game is no where near as effective as it can be in real life when set up properly. Teams usually sniff it out in the game quickly regardless of context.

4. Defenders make unrealistic plays or breaks on the ball causing turnovers far more often than simply breaking up the play. based on the gameplay you would think turnovers in the NFL are at an all time high.

all in all I think it is better than 18 but still nowhere near what Madden was in the mid 00s