Madden '10

[Vitamin X]

This amused me for some reason:

Czech: I play a little Madden
Czech: but i'm not very good
Czech: I pick defensive schemes so randoml
Czech: I don't know what Double X is
Czech: DE Contain sounds good. I like the idea of containing.
Czech: and spying on a quarterback sounds smart.
Czech: and blitzing. who doesn't love blitzing

 

[fazzle]

So, I just finished the 2012 season in my offline franchise. I'm not sure what happened, I didn't mess with any settings, didn't move any sliders, but Madden has decided that 2012 is the year that running backs will take over the NFL.
29 backs rushed for at least 1000 yards. 13 hit the 1500 yard mark. 3 hit the 2000 yard mark.

Michael Turner broke Eric Dickerson's record of 2105 yards...in week 15! He finished with a new NFL record 2354 yards. Clinton Portis and Adrian Peterson both averaged over seven yards per carry. No team managed to have two 1000 yard backs though.

 

[2GOLD]

Apparently franchise relocation is broke for me. I moved the Jags to LA, renamed them Heatwave and decided to go with it. The game will not let me go to halftime, it will glitch and freeze and it only does it with that franchise. Not to mention I get to the Super Bowl and it leaves the Jacksonville Jags on the field. I was really pissed off and I had to dump that franchise.

Overall team rating does not show up, the uniforms will randomly go back default, at times apparently Peyton Manning is not only quarterback but he is also the head coach and wide receiver. Who knew he was so multiple talented? Additionally playing football in LA is seemingly like asking someone to play in Butte, Montana since NO ONE wants to re-sign!

Uggh fucking Madden.

 

[Smues]

Weird, I moved the Lions to Anchorage and had no problems.

 

[fazzle]

Oh my holy fucking shitballs. Doing the playoffs of the 2012 season I just mentioned.

Michael Turner was just using the regular season as a warmup. Wildcard round of the playoffs, he fucking rapes the Cardinals with the single greatest performance by any player in NFL history. 30 carries for 431 fucking yards and 7 touchdowns.

Holy shit.

And just incase there's any confusion, no, I'm not the Falcons, this is a CPU controlled team doing this.

 

[oldskool]

Trucking is broken; you need to turn it down about 30 points per running back in the roster file before starting the franchise or else they break tackles at an ungodly rate.

 

[fazzle]

Is that something that got broken in a new update or something?

Cause it hasn't been like that before this season. (and would broken in-game trucking really affect simulated games?)

 

[Kageho]

The stats players have does affect the simulation games.

I always fiddle with the game rosters before starting a franchise to try balancing, simply because of that reason.

 

[oldskool]

If there were injuries, it could've gone unnoticed. You looked at the stats and saw the Petersons & Turners with 1800 yards and think "That's OK", but you don't look at their stats and see they only played 10-12 games that season; happened to me a lot when I was fucking around with the rosters to figure out what was going on.

 

[fazzle]

If that's the case, then I still don't understand why it hasn't exploded before. Hell, last year there were only three 1000 yard rushers, and nobody with more than 12 TDs.

Fucking Madden.

Edit: speaking of Madden being broken, I'm playing the Patriots in the AFC Championship..and they have Gostowski as the starting right guard? what the fuck