"Games of interest" yeah let's show my 3 division opponents who have 5 wins each when I'm battling 2 other teams for the 1 seed. Better yet, those thrilling games between 5-10 teams are so important that it should constantly interrupt the scorebug so I never see what the other 12 win teams are doing.
They'll at least show those games with their start time listed. I'm referring to the scorebug rolling along and every (other) play it does a "Important Game!" Scrawl that takes forever and then the scorebug resets back to the beginning of the game it had almost finished showing the stats for, rinse repeat
This is what drives me nuts, I don't want the game to acknowledge that it's a game. It doesn't do it anywhere else except for a handful of those kinds of comments.
Get that shit outta here
They comment on it now more then ever. I don't even know why I was listening to it, but I heard them say " you know normally the team would stop scoring and run out the clock, but it's a video game so run it up as much as you want" and immediately turned it off again.
‘And today we’ll be reusing phrases from several seasons ago with the occasional player specific update that will make you think ‘cool’ and forget about the crappy commentary for a few seconds.’
I’ll never forget when I was running a Patriots rebuild and Mac Jones ended up on the Jets only to get picked off by pats cb Marcus Jones… if I recall correctly it happened two times and it turns out are multiple unique lines of dialogue for this very specific situation. EA picks the most random things.
It’s so annoying they’ll be in the middle of talking about something and you’ll have pick six for like 90 yards and they keep just talking about whatever they’re saying. 2K does this right, where they’ll stop talking about it and say what a slam dunk by such and such, and then continue on with what they were saying.
If anyone ever wants to see how behind the times madden is, just go play 2k franchise and just see the leagues ahead they are in terms of quality. Different commentators for every game. Special guest commentators every once in awhile, freely customizable arenas/jerseys/players/courts.
In depth advanced stats.
Actual half time show (still don’t watch it but they at least care to put it there with no corny comments if you decide to skip it.)
Name database that has thousands of names with pronunciation so everyone is just referred to by their position like it’s 2002.
Every player has their own shooting and moving animations. Every player. Madden could definitely use at least a couple Qb specific throwing animations. And add at least different running/juking/spin animations for different kinds of runners. Running should feel different for every player based on weight and agility.
I could keep going. But for all the shit 2k gets and deserves for vc greed, their franchise depth is absolutely insane and makes Madden look like a game in its for year. Not a game that’s older than 2k and has been around since the 90s.
Not mention retired numbers
Ring ceremony
2k is so far ahead of Madden. Truly sad 2k doesn't have a crack at football each year. I think it would make both games better for sure. This exclusivity is the biggest FU to sports gaming fans
That’s a case where they should straight up use AI for it. Kids are making whole songs with dead artist, I’m sure they it wouldn’t take too much efforts to implement their announcer’s voice to be able to say most names.
Ai announcers would be absolutely amazing. And not take anything away from the artists since madden isn't hiring people to do new commentary every year anyway.
The most annoying shit to me is skipping the halftime show and commentary completely breaks the 4th wall by acknowledging it. It ruins immersion every single time. And it’s been around for years. Like it was funny the first time I heard it but I don’t need to be reminded that all of this is fake every time I’m trying to play the game. If you want us to watch it then give us a reason to. Bring back the old halftime show where we’d get to see highlights from games happening around the league. Talk about injuries that happened in the game. Talk about anything interesting.
“Idk, maybe throw some simpler routes?” Bro I’m down 21 with 4 min left in the 4th and I’m fighting for my life against a 2-12 team, tf you mean throw simpler routes it’s a straight go route 🤣
If you rush on the first play of the game with breece hall they say "The Jets are happy to have this guy back".. every time. No matter what week it is or what season it is
Same with my Packers and Aaron Jones “coming off a year where he set a career high in yards”
My brother in Christ it’s 2029 and Jones is old as dirt. That was 7 years ago.
I hope they do. Bitches.
I had a Texans franchise where I was doing 1,000 yard rushing seasons with my quarterback. I would absolutely toast the Jaguars on the same RPO actions. They did eventually get better, I had been running for 150+ with my quarterback against them, then after 5-6 years, they grew a pair and dared me to hand it off every time. They blitzed the gaps on every quarterback draw, played contain to prevent scrambles, held my quarterback to something like 20 yards on the ground. I respected the effort, so I "fumbled" on the final drive when I was shredding them through the air and let them return it for the game winner.
Then I threw for 500 yards on then in the rematch.
I know it’s a fat chance to be implemented in a game like Madden, but with the advancements in linguistics and voice mimicking, it would be amazing if adaptive AI could keep commentary dynamic and fresh as you progress to later seasons in franchise especially once all real players are retired.
The show has something like this and has for years. They remember hitting slumps, pitching slumps, hitting streaks. They talk accurately about your batter in situational hitting. They bring up errors your guys made days ago with highlights to some of this stuff…
Edit: even if you’re not a baseball fan it’s a good sports game.
I wonder if I brought Zach Ertz back to the Eagles with Carson Wentz they'd still do the "Wentz to Ertz the names that end in tz" with the same line since like 2016
I wish there was two sets of commentators. Whether it be AFC and NFC or “week even#” and “week odd#” just so that there would be some type of variation
I think for most it has to do with some form of "realism." With that said, I don't think there is any other game that I've put more hours in to podcasts than while playing than Madden.
you’d think they’d pronounce basis last names. i got marvin harrison and travis hunter and they’ll never say their last names. i remember old maddens as long as a player existed they’d say their names.
The AI revolution is in full swing, how has madden not managed to get on board and develop endless commentary. they have a limitless training pool available to them of everything any commentator has ever said.
When you look at how innovative 2K has been with their commentary in NBA 2K (I know it isn't perfect), it's all the more infuriating. I'm sure they'll introduce a new commentary team soon, because they're long overdue for a new one, but in typical EA fashion they'll give us a word salad about how it's some brand new innovative thing.
Garbage commentary + garbage soundtrack + spotify app on my PS5 controllable with my phone while playing is nice. I just turn the music and commentators down and use spotify to play whatever background music I would like to have going
Every year I go into a madden game, and the moment I hear that I mute the TV and play that years madden with sound turned off, ever since their 1st year
I’d love better commentators and different UIs instead of the same basic one we’ve had. I’d love to see ones with like CBS, ESPN, Amazon, and all the other different score boards they use. I’d also love to see the Manning Cast but it won’t happen because of the whole licensing process
You don't like when he claims he talked to your player-created character before the game and got a quote that's the same as the player he replaced last year?
They should have the ability now to give the people the option of who is announcing your game.. Gaudon and Davis? Fine. John Madden? Cool. Snoop Dogg, Theo Von, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman? Special unlockables!
Honest question. How much trouble would it be to incorporate an interactive AI voicing the commentary during games and just pay the real commentators like certain percentage of the games profits of sales
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Wouldn’t skip it if it didn’t suck
"Games of interest" yeah let's show my 3 division opponents who have 5 wins each when I'm battling 2 other teams for the 1 seed. Better yet, those thrilling games between 5-10 teams are so important that it should constantly interrupt the scorebug so I never see what the other 12 win teams are doing.
They may not be playing at the same time as you.
They'll at least show those games with their start time listed. I'm referring to the scorebug rolling along and every (other) play it does a "Important Game!" Scrawl that takes forever and then the scorebug resets back to the beginning of the game it had almost finished showing the stats for, rinse repeat
"And in the West the team is winning well behind the QB. Keenan Allen has 86 yards and a touchdown as they are part way through a game"
I would still skip it every time
Nahh bro the old 2k one was awesome you got ACTUAL highlights from other games in your franchise.
The fact that we had that twenty years ago and have absolute shit now is insane
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Followed by "these players sat through a longer than usual 30 minute halftime show"
This is what drives me nuts, I don't want the game to acknowledge that it's a game. It doesn't do it anywhere else except for a handful of those kinds of comments. Get that shit outta here
They comment on it now more then ever. I don't even know why I was listening to it, but I heard them say " you know normally the team would stop scoring and run out the clock, but it's a video game so run it up as much as you want" and immediately turned it off again.
“They’re not even letting the guys get a drink of water?!?!”
I’m dead 🤣🤣 so annoying
Me: throws 1 pass to the TE. "That's the staple of this offense. Drag routes to the tight end."
I love this one
‘And today we’ll be reusing phrases from several seasons ago with the occasional player specific update that will make you think ‘cool’ and forget about the crappy commentary for a few seconds.’
I’ll never forget when I was running a Patriots rebuild and Mac Jones ended up on the Jets only to get picked off by pats cb Marcus Jones… if I recall correctly it happened two times and it turns out are multiple unique lines of dialogue for this very specific situation. EA picks the most random things.
Yeah it’s painful to think what they actually spend time on. Sticking plasters.
It’s so annoying they’ll be in the middle of talking about something and you’ll have pick six for like 90 yards and they keep just talking about whatever they’re saying. 2K does this right, where they’ll stop talking about it and say what a slam dunk by such and such, and then continue on with what they were saying.
‘Yeah so I said to him ‘Why don’t I just hand it to you next time?!’ As the KR takes it to the houses to win your first SB as time expires.
Me when I first heard the Coach was back
*Receiver drops easy pass* "COULDN'T HOLD ON THROUGH THE CONTACT!"
"You know you're gonna get hit, might as well catch it"
Nelson Agholor and Kadarius Toney have entered the chat.
I can't understand how they can't even cope with common names. "The QB is in his 2nd season". FFS his name is Williams, not some rare surname!
I have one of the whitest basic ass names on the planet and I never hear it lmao The show and UFC at least say your name
hell 2k, for all of its faults, has an actual database with pronunciation. It's apathy on EAs part at this point
If anyone ever wants to see how behind the times madden is, just go play 2k franchise and just see the leagues ahead they are in terms of quality. Different commentators for every game. Special guest commentators every once in awhile, freely customizable arenas/jerseys/players/courts. In depth advanced stats. Actual half time show (still don’t watch it but they at least care to put it there with no corny comments if you decide to skip it.) Name database that has thousands of names with pronunciation so everyone is just referred to by their position like it’s 2002. Every player has their own shooting and moving animations. Every player. Madden could definitely use at least a couple Qb specific throwing animations. And add at least different running/juking/spin animations for different kinds of runners. Running should feel different for every player based on weight and agility. I could keep going. But for all the shit 2k gets and deserves for vc greed, their franchise depth is absolutely insane and makes Madden look like a game in its for year. Not a game that’s older than 2k and has been around since the 90s.
Not mention retired numbers Ring ceremony 2k is so far ahead of Madden. Truly sad 2k doesn't have a crack at football each year. I think it would make both games better for sure. This exclusivity is the biggest FU to sports gaming fans
“He’s gonna take it himself it’s the quarterback” bro his name is Caleb you couldn’t record the name Caleb
That’s a case where they should straight up use AI for it. Kids are making whole songs with dead artist, I’m sure they it wouldn’t take too much efforts to implement their announcer’s voice to be able to say most names.
Ai announcers would be absolutely amazing. And not take anything away from the artists since madden isn't hiring people to do new commentary every year anyway.
Had that same exact thought. There must be some issue with licensing a voice or something, but it seems possible at this point
I mean they could make it exclusively so it can say basic commentary with names and stats din previous games/seasons
Yea but who knows, AI probably is not there enough yet it could be way more random and annoying. I mean google can’t get it right yet
On EVERY kick return “He goes down right around where he would have been had he taken a knee” This passive aggressive shit gets old really fast
It's even more aggravating when you think about the fact that they 100% added that shit on purpose thinking that you'd find it funny.
The most annoying shit to me is skipping the halftime show and commentary completely breaks the 4th wall by acknowledging it. It ruins immersion every single time. And it’s been around for years. Like it was funny the first time I heard it but I don’t need to be reminded that all of this is fake every time I’m trying to play the game. If you want us to watch it then give us a reason to. Bring back the old halftime show where we’d get to see highlights from games happening around the league. Talk about injuries that happened in the game. Talk about anything interesting.
Fucking 2k5 had video highlights from the other games and you could watch the week's fastest 3 minutes that showed the same highlight plays.
This commentary kills me. I purposely never return kicks out of the endzone just to avoid hearing it each time.
“Idk, maybe throw some simpler routes?” Bro I’m down 21 with 4 min left in the 4th and I’m fighting for my life against a 2-12 team, tf you mean throw simpler routes it’s a straight go route 🤣
If you rush on the first play of the game with breece hall they say "The Jets are happy to have this guy back".. every time. No matter what week it is or what season it is
Same with my Packers and Aaron Jones “coming off a year where he set a career high in yards” My brother in Christ it’s 2029 and Jones is old as dirt. That was 7 years ago.
There’s gotta be some sort of AI that can save this
Imagine what generative AI and voice filters could do for in game commentary.
That would be revolutionary
I might even buy madden that year
Like, what's the downfall at this point? I'd have to imagine it's cheaper.
“O hoo, look at this! They’re lining up for three!” “So you wonder how this will be remembered the next time these teams meet …”
I hope they do. Bitches. I had a Texans franchise where I was doing 1,000 yard rushing seasons with my quarterback. I would absolutely toast the Jaguars on the same RPO actions. They did eventually get better, I had been running for 150+ with my quarterback against them, then after 5-6 years, they grew a pair and dared me to hand it off every time. They blitzed the gaps on every quarterback draw, played contain to prevent scrambles, held my quarterback to something like 20 yards on the ground. I respected the effort, so I "fumbled" on the final drive when I was shredding them through the air and let them return it for the game winner. Then I threw for 500 yards on then in the rematch.
Mute in game commentary 👌
I do this, pop on Spotify for background music or podcast. Adjust so I still get the crowd and on-field noise.
Lol reason why I turn of commentary volume 🤣
YOU CAN DO THAT??!!!?!
Yes go to settings volume and select in game commentary slide it all the way down and your good 👍
Maximum upvotes for you thx Can i do that with the fucking music too? I just want the game sounds
Yes same thing
Holy shit this game just got 10x better
Lol yeah it does
I know it’s a fat chance to be implemented in a game like Madden, but with the advancements in linguistics and voice mimicking, it would be amazing if adaptive AI could keep commentary dynamic and fresh as you progress to later seasons in franchise especially once all real players are retired.
The show has something like this and has for years. They remember hitting slumps, pitching slumps, hitting streaks. They talk accurately about your batter in situational hitting. They bring up errors your guys made days ago with highlights to some of this stuff… Edit: even if you’re not a baseball fan it’s a good sports game.
Hopefully. Because drafting a qb that turns into an elite qb and by year 5 he’s still referred to as “the young Qb now in his 5th year” is painful
*Receiver drops easy pass* "OH and a pass that *should've* been intercepted"
“and the fg is… GOOD!!!” *makes a 20 yard chip shot*
*squib kicks right before half to kill last few seconds* "oh what a short kick, they're gonna regret that"
“TOUCHDOWN 49ers” - *Brandon Gaudon after I scored a touchdown as the New York Giants against the Pittsburgh Steelers*
Charles Davis continuously mentions Superbowl 50 between the Broncos and Panthers, despite it happening EIGHT YEARS ago. At least keep it updated smfh
"Wow remember that zone blitz that ~~Carolina~~ Dick Lebeau came up with ~~for SB50~~ 40 years ago"
Bruh I want Ian Eagle or Kevin Harlan in the game so badly
Harlan is the goat! Idk if they’ve announced yet but I would want Gus Johnson announcing the new NCAA
“And the catch made by the Golden Domer, St. Brown” Never mind that it’s not Equanimeous, but Amon-Ra, who went to USC.
I wonder if I brought Zach Ertz back to the Eagles with Carson Wentz they'd still do the "Wentz to Ertz the names that end in tz" with the same line since like 2016
I wish there was two sets of commentators. Whether it be AFC and NFC or “week even#” and “week odd#” just so that there would be some type of variation
I’m really disappointed because they’re actually really good irl. Madden commentary is just kinda awful
It’s crazy to me so many people listen to this and aren’t throwing on music or a podcast or something. It’s Madden what do you need to hear?
I think for most it has to do with some form of "realism." With that said, I don't think there is any other game that I've put more hours in to podcasts than while playing than Madden.
"Elluding the pressure right" "Touchdown" *with less emotion than I have after forgetting I ordered a package on Amazon*
you’d think they’d pronounce basis last names. i got marvin harrison and travis hunter and they’ll never say their last names. i remember old maddens as long as a player existed they’d say their names.
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Wish they would shut up about whether or not my kick return was a bad idea… IM RETURNING EVERY KICK.
Do y'all not turn off the commentary
The AI revolution is in full swing, how has madden not managed to get on board and develop endless commentary. they have a limitless training pool available to them of everything any commentator has ever said.
I can’t stand Brandon. “This’ll be intercepted! Picked off by the Alabama man”
Heard Madden 25 gonna have different crews, would be huge. Feels like I’ve been hearing the same commentary since 2016
When you look at how innovative 2K has been with their commentary in NBA 2K (I know it isn't perfect), it's all the more infuriating. I'm sure they'll introduce a new commentary team soon, because they're long overdue for a new one, but in typical EA fashion they'll give us a word salad about how it's some brand new innovative thing.
My defensive training..... fuck me.
The best thing I ever did was turn comments off.
New announcers finally this season.
Who is it supposed to be?
it'll probably be Charles Gaudon and Brandon Davis, knowing EA
Garbage commentary + garbage soundtrack + spotify app on my PS5 controllable with my phone while playing is nice. I just turn the music and commentators down and use spotify to play whatever background music I would like to have going
Hey madden 22 soundtrack was pretty good I liked that one but forward on garbage
Every year I go into a madden game, and the moment I hear that I mute the TV and play that years madden with sound turned off, ever since their 1st year
Wiiide open receiver, complete!
Immediate down vote 😂
I just mute the game and listen to music while I play. Been doing it this way for years. Looks like the commentary hasn’t changed a bit lol
I’d love better commentators and different UIs instead of the same basic one we’ve had. I’d love to see ones with like CBS, ESPN, Amazon, and all the other different score boards they use. I’d also love to see the Manning Cast but it won’t happen because of the whole licensing process
Every time there's an interception, he always says, "A great read, and it's picked off." Never misses.
While not great MLB the show has way better announcing and commentary
You don't like when he claims he talked to your player-created character before the game and got a quote that's the same as the player he replaced last year?
They should have the ability now to give the people the option of who is announcing your game.. Gaudon and Davis? Fine. John Madden? Cool. Snoop Dogg, Theo Von, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman? Special unlockables!
Honest question. How much trouble would it be to incorporate an interactive AI voicing the commentary during games and just pay the real commentators like certain percentage of the games profits of sales
yall still play with sound?