Is Madden even fun anymore?

With all the knockouts on db's and angry runs, I feel the game is not good anymore, anybody else think angry runs and knockouts need to go away on next madden.

edub072378 said:

With all the knockouts on db's and angry runs, I feel the game is not good anymore, anybody else think angry runs and knockouts need to go away on next madden.

KO's are a problem but tbh I don't think they're necessarily ruining the game. Learning to possession catch when you know the ball is gonna get knocked out is a key skill at this point in the year. Angry runs and moreso any ballcarier ability that forces you to have secure tackler or 2 guys on them is a much bigger problem. to shut down the run you have to load the box, which ends up killing you overtop. That's the only argument I have for KO's being important, simply because of the god awful experience playing run defense.

I think they just need to make KOs more realistic, frustrating when my receiver catches and has possession for  a good second then gets knocked out or makes the catch takes like a yard of steps then still gets knocked out. The KO should only work instantly on the play.

Depends on what you play for the diehard H2H people I can see it being kinda iffy right now with certain abilities going crazy. I mostly stick to offline solos and challenges and Team build most of the time so I’m still having a blast till College Football 25 comes out and I can get my Dynasty going.

Really depends on what you find fun. For players who enjoy difficulty, it can be really fun to find holes in the defense with all the KOs at this point in the year. But it's also understandable why all the abilities on the field at this point can provide bad gameplay experiences. It's frustrating when nothing seems to be clicking on offense. Both experiences are valid. This is why it's important to have a variety of gamemodes. Unfortunately there's no option for a no ability mode with your MUT team.

edub072378 said:

With all the knockouts on db's and angry runs, I feel the game is not good anymore, anybody else think angry runs and knockouts need to go away on next madden.

KO’s are irritating but makes me just change up my routes more to get away from the defenders……im gonna be easing away from h2h anyways cause once i hit the bnd 99 pack i dont care about how high i get on the field pass after that so i will just have fun with the bnd squad once in a while when i need a little madden fix

max4pf said:

KO's are a problem but tbh I don't think they're necessarily ruining the game. Learning to possession catch when you know the ball is gonna get knocked out is a key skill at this point in the year. Angry runs and moreso any ballcarier ability that forces you to have secure tackler or 2 guys on them is a much bigger problem. to shut down the run you have to load the box, which ends up killing you overtop. That's the only argument I have for KO's being important, simply because of the god awful experience playing run defense.

Everything you said doesn't really work. Possession catch doesn't stop KOs and secure tacklers don't do shit either

As bad as FIFA 24 rage

SportsPerson94 said:

Everything you said doesn't really work. Possession catch doesn't stop KOs and secure tacklers don't do shit either

Oops, I meant enforcer supreme not ST. For possession catches, players with the sliding animation negate KOs if you give them enough space. Obviously if youre throwing at a receiver with a defender 2 yards behind him its getting KOed.

I’m having fun. I’ve won 12 superbowls since March.

I don't understand I thought everyone loved abilities that take over games allowing trash players to win more games so they spend more money. 

If anything we need more abilities to carry players to victory I bet if we try hard enough the players can just pay a monthly fee and have one of our exclusive abilities carry them to victory.

Apologies in advance if I give EA the idea to further pay wall this game via placing premium  abilities behind a premium field pass.

I was only being sarcastic and believe abilities need to be taken out of the game completely #BringBackTheSkillGapPleaseEA

this time of the year is i def slow down......only die hard and try hards left, rewards are still meh, arcade trash gameplay, abilities and xfactors everywhere lol o line has the IQ of a rock, receivers still stop running routes, sideline kos that count as catches, etc etc etc just a bad bad football game

f is for friends who do stuff together

u is for u and me

n is for nytime and anywhere in the deep blue sea

but sometimes. when you run into someone else who adjust with you it gets entertaining.

I love the ko's after the catch and you ran like 3 yrds.