[Dayze]

Changed up my play a bit after doing some reading, and have been getting a much better experience. I mainly play as a player in CFM (or whatever it's called), and I'm pretty much a sim-style player. I like to keep things realistic, and try to play the game as close to normal as possible with 12 minutes qtrs

After getting burned out with dumb shit in the game (the list is long), I decided to change up a bit. Started from scratch as a MLB, but basically built/chose my style of player for the kind of play I like to be/play as; then pick my team accordingly, instead of playing with the Chiefs everytime.

Personally, I hate the 3-4 defense in real life (won't get into it here etc), and REALLY hate playing with it in Madden. For whatever reason, i've just never been successful with it. So I basically wanted to only play with a team that used a 4-3 as it's base. So that narrowed it down. And i wanted to have a decent offense to sim with. Narrowed down even further. Finally Chose.
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Detroit.

Man, I've been having a ball playing games. I chose a Balanced 4-3 MLB as my player. I haven't made a ton of tweaks to sliders, and play on Pro (I'm not that great).. STill get frustrated at times that XP is basically all about tackles, and you don't get any sort of reward for "Doing Your Job" in the defense. I liked NBA 2Ks system of rewards if you were basically doing what the play called for. One game for shits and grins, I basically just freelanced ALL game; ended up with nearly double my normal tackling stats. But it wasn't as fun, because it was just too reeruned. I just wanted to see if I could totally ignore the defensive "play" and still be successful.

I still don't like the training XP, where the scenarios are you have to make a stop as a Defense, the play never comes your way, so you have no way of contributing. I'll still do some individual tackling and running drills. but I skilp all the Zone Defense stuff.

Still gotta tweak the sliders I think, because there have been quite a few games where it sems no matter what you do, you're wrong. Blitz, get burned. Hang back, QB will have 10+ seconds to pass since the DL get zero pressure. Nearly every game predictably comes down to the last 4 minutes of the game, and you as a defense have to make a stop to win the game. So, that's sort of lame/frustrating at times. there have been 3 games so far where my simulated offense got me less than 3 1st downs all game.


Rant over.
Re-ignited my interest once I changed up my team/position selection based on my play, instead of just playing with the Chiefs over and over again.