(04-25-2019, 02:28 AM)Jagfan44 Wrote:

(04-01-2019, 09:44 PM)Bullseye Wrote: I am playing Madden 19 and just saw the damndest thing.

I just gave up a long run to Houston on the first play from scrimmage and something did not look right at all.  

They were in a 3 WR 1 TE 1 RB grouping, so I countered with a nickel defense.

Not a 3-3-5...not a quarter or dollar defense.  A base nickel, which is supposed to have  four down linemen.  As soon as we lined up, I sensed something was amiss.

It turns out, my RDT was not on the field!  That down was run with TEN PLAYERS ON THE FIELD!  The RB conveniently ran where the DT was SUPPOSED to be!  

I ran instant replay and counted the players on defense three different times.

How in the blue hell does that happen in a Madden game?!?

Un [BLEEP] real!

Now I'm wondering how many times that has happened before.  Not just on running plays, but overall.

I am pissed! 

Edit:  later in the same game, FB Tommy Bohanon (of all people) appeared in that same DT spot.  Abry Jones is injured, and Bohanon was nowhere to be found in the depth chart at DL.  I still had Bryan, Dareus and Ankou available specifically at DT, to say nothing of those situations where Campbell slides inside.

Isn't there a way to take a snapshot of the still instant replay?

Sounds like a Madden thing. My buddy and I have an inside joke where while watching a football game we wish for a "Madden BS", the type of thing that can only happen in an awful, glitchy game such as Madden. We often wish but it never happens.

It's a shame how bad of a game Madden is nowadays. I was so excited that the Jags were coming off a good season and were going to be good in Madden, that I went out and bought Madden 18 when it came out. Played it a few times and was done with it. A few years ago I switched to playing Fifa which is very enjoyable especially playing with friends. I think it's pretty bad when a football fan such as myself has to resort to playing a soccer game, ultimately Fifa has made me develop more of an interest in soccer which I now find to be an enjoyable sport to watch. 

It's just such a shame because back in the PS2 and even Xbox 360/PS3 days Madden used to be so much fun. I would think that many can relate, basically everyone on my high school football team played it.

I imagine this has been talked about but it's just simply because they buy the exclusive rights and have no money left for development, for this reason they have no competition and can put out the same bad game year after year.

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As for current games. I bought and played through the Resident Evil 2 remake on PS4. Awesome game, I enjoyed every second of it. I didn't bother playing it through with the other character, a once through was enough for now.

I have noticed that video games do not hold my attention like they used to, I suppose this is a good thing. Even though I saw this as a negative regarding RE2 at first, I think the fact that it's a relatively short game was a good thing since I didn't lose interest like I do in so many others.

As for the initial problem I reported, when I went to the screen that showed the formation, the icons showing where the DT should be in a given formation would show the icon with jersey #0 attached to it.  If you replace that icon with the DT, it fixes the problem.  While it isn't universal in terms of the DT always being missing, it is missing from several personnel groupings, and when the game starts, you will have to go back and replace the #0 players with the guy you want.

On another note, I am not sure exactly how they program the players, but when I replaced Bortles with Foles, the TEs suddenly became way more productive.  Simming games, guys like O'Shaughnessy have had 100 yard receiving games.  he is also more accurate than Bortles, but takes some just strange sacks.

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