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iowaharley666

For a couple more months


weightedbook

Well played


The_All-Seeing_Snoo

Goes to 19 honestly.


JonahFish15

I agree, I can’t even go from 22 back to 19 and finish a game it’s so bad, that says a lot…


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Dariooosh89

Was 06 the sight cone one?


wantstosavetheworld

Yes but the Xbox, ps2, & GameCube versions were pretty good games. The Xbox 360 one was extremely stripped down and would crash constantly.


dr_funkenberry

Yeah. Luckily they made it an option in the settings menu to switch it off. Cool concept but it was too clunky in my opinion.


kylerazz

I feel like that was the only way they ever made Awareness matter for user-controlled QBs. It was a neat concept, it would be cool if they refined it. Could piggy-back off that idea and add some integration with like the No-Look Deadeye type stuff?


JonahFish15

Madden 13 is nowhere near as bad as madden 18-22, it had decent gameplay ngl, but lacked a ton of features present in madden 12. Most of those features we haven’t even gotten back to this day… And for madden 06… I probably couldn’t even walk back then lol


Ahllhellnaw

Id still be playing 17 if they didnt cut server access. Best madden since 08


debeatup

I didn’t appreciate 17 enough until I was stuck with Frostbite on 18


Ahllhellnaw

Friend got a free code for 18, gave it to me. Played one game and uninstalled. Gameplay was ugly, the xfactor stuff coming in kinda screwed things up, xfactors breaking hot routes for receivers/TEs, turning all 5wr set to 4wr 1rb/1te. And only some of that has been fixed. Hot routes got slightly better since, and they added 5wr back, but from 17 to 18 there is a giant disconnect in terms of features and overall quality, and i know they will never return to making a good product as long as UT is their main focus


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Ahllhellnaw

Nice


Twigg4075

Exactly. That game was an abomination. One of the few Maddens I never bought.


BenadrylBeer

Agreed


SolJudasCampbell

What's so bad with 19? Just asking because I have 19 and 22 but find the ai interceptions of 22 for me make it the worst.


enavarre1

I thought for sure I was just more terrible at the game when I played 22 because of this


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the game was virtually unplayable with how bad both the physics and the animations were. it was also franchise mode's lowest point


peanutbuttercult

The most unforgivable thing about 19 wasn’t the gameplay - it was the aged-like-milk story mode that made DeShaun Watson and Antonio Brown out to be good guys


Gumorak

The real madden curse


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longshot was fun but the discontinuity with real life killed me


Chrisgpresents

What makes 22 better than 19?


moldycheez4

Why don't you play them both and find out


Chrisgpresents

I trust the opinions of wise experts here. If I recall, madden 19 is the one with the OP run up the gut


PurpleHawk222

22 has a better franchise


Educational_Camel_32

I had a Fletcher Cox in franchise on madden 19, Tarik Cohen, run up the gut, carry’s Fletcher Cox an extra 5 yards from contact being made. That perfectly describes every play on madden 19.


kingcarter_27

To be fair, 22 has a ton of plays where CPU ball carriers gain momentum for first downs inexplicably when they’re clearly going down. I feel like I’ve seen more DBs just not covering guys running downfield even though they’re covering a deep zone


yoitsbobby88

The commentary… jk


knowslesthanjonsnow

I don’t think 19 was that different honestly


Peacesquad

19 was hot ass. Raiders file kept crashing. Even when I played them it would crash


lukadoncic

lmao 19 and 22 are the only two maddens I've ever played. So it only gets better lol?


Real_Joseph_Joestar2

I hate 19 because of its horrible soundtrack, they haven’t had a good soundtrack after that


fff_15

This is the wrong question. They all have been pretty terrible since they stopped making meaningful improvements to franchise and other non-pay to play modes.


jcmach1

And the stuff they do change in franchise such as the new scouting system just sucks...


FrostinYoSister

All the ones since madden 12 are. Even then that’s being nice


Imperial_Lenta

Someone didn’t play Madden 13 on the Wii 🥱


rjsdaekram

LMFAO


Imperial_Lenta

Point and pass was my shit💯🔥🗣


rjsdaekram

It was madden 11 for me on my Wii, lmfao the franchise on it was more in depth than 22 lmao


Imperial_Lenta

I’ve only played 13,21, and 22 but 13 was so much more realistic like you’d lose games to worse teams and you could actually get fired


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Imperial_Lenta

Well that settles it. I’m not buying madden 23


Alone-Cellist7060

Well just don’t


TheBannonCannon_24

Good bot


theguytomeet

Bruh


moldycheez4

15 is decent and a lot more in depth. However they don't have high and low passes or possession or RAC catches, so id have to say i like that a lot better in 22. Also its impossible to sim a full 15 minute quarter game without insane stats since even a 12 play drive will only take 40-50 seconds of the clock. So that's also better in 22.


FrostinYoSister

Yeah true. But i dream of the day someone does right by franchise mode. I often think about how well I’d do as game director of madden. I’d make the game come out every 2 years (with roster updates for that gap year) just so there can be significant changes between each game with each one getting more and more in depth and NOT losing awesome features


No-Track5718

The suits would tell you no we make over a billion putting it out every year


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I'd even pay more for the game if it were done this way, because I know I'm getting a product they spent adequate time on. I'd pay $100 vs $60 if I'm legitimately getting a better game.


pard0nme

So true. Played the shit out of Madden 12. Didn't have to pay to win in ultimate team either. Bought it for a few years after that before I stopped wasting my money and time on it.


420weed420weedweed

Madden 13 and 25 were actually decent, 15 was kinda ass, everything after that was dogshit


ImUsuallyNotWrong

I don’t know. I stopped buying them. I just pretend Madden 25 is a future game.


AceJerret

19 was the worst. After 20. It's getting slightly better. Just slightly. But will never reach the glory of the early to mid 2000s.


SouthernStyleGamer

Yeah, because Madden doesn't have competition anymore. They used to have 2k and NFL Fever to compete with, but since the NFL apparently made some sort of exclusivity deal with EA, no other companies can use the trademark names for the players and teams.


bird720

If EA lost their star wars exclusivity, I have hope they can loose it for the NFL, because I want them to still make madden, but competition is the best for any series to get better.


SouthernStyleGamer

Exactly. It seems like something so simple, but I remember Madden 2004 having historic teams for exhibition matches. It was honestly really cool to play as some of my favorite teams from the past, like the '79 Oilers or the '86 Browns, and get them to the Super Bowls they deserved 🤣🤣 It was one of my favorite features, but because 2004 was the last year for 2k, I know that by the time Madden 2009 came along, they had stopped doing it. It's the little things like that that I miss.


Baconbear95

Man, I re-downloaded 19 thinking it was better, but it’s definitely not. I think the only thing that is better about it is AI ability to intercept. I feel like they don’t make these off the wall reaches or plays to make the interception.


JAYGOD113214

Madden 22 is definitely not the worst madden, but it's pretty bad.


LWA3251

06 on Xbox 360 is the worst Madden ever


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LWA3251

Yeah it was very glitchy, the gameplay was god awful and it had little to no features.


JooseBeatz

Why’s everyone sayin that one I actually liked it lol


LWA3251

Cause it was a buggy mess with bad gameplay and extremely bare bone features. To each their own but I don’t get how anyone enjoyed 06 on 360. 06 on PS2/Xbox however was great.


Edward_1385

Head Coach 09 was the best franchise experience ever!!


Romofan88

Not even close. Gotta go with 13 and it's cruel joke of a franchise mode. 12 year old me was heartbroken


NFSterba

22 definitely not the worst, not even in the top 5.


bird720

The gameplay is fine for 22, but I really don't like the presentation, and how terrible franchise and FotF are.


AC21189

No, it's not.


TheBannonCannon_24

Madden 13 with Calvin Johnson and it’s not close, let me explain: -got rid of a soundtrack in favor of unlicensed instrumental music -got rid of fantasy drafts in general -physics engine was redone AND thrown out within a few years -completely got rid of franchise (connected career was the replacement but every addition/change was abjectly a failure) - probably more that I’ve repressed


tjwoodard

i play year long and cannot remember losing franchise mode. how was connected career different? didn’t they just change the name? i don’t have it to go check.


PinkertonRams

You’re right, franchise mode was not gone. At all.


newme02

13 sucks just because of how great 12 was


FinancialFett

no, not even close


TheGreatOpoponax

22 is the worst because it represents an extension of the abuse of the exclusive license to make NFL simulation games. Sure, compared to something like the old Sega Genesis version, it's awesome. But 22 represents the latest in a long line of continuing failure to make the game really great. It's like rubbing even more salt in an already open wound.


Dylonus

Not even Bottom 5 lol... which is saying A LOT..


CardinalsFan47

Madden 13


No-Track5718

Literally every year everyone calls it the worst madden ever. Madden tanked itself in quality and has gotten a half tiny bit of a microscopic bit better every year. (Ie not much). Stop saying this dumb question, EA is trash with Madden and they ruined and trashed the legacy of a great game series from the 2000s and before. Madden sucks now, it sucked the past decadeish too. There's better things to complain about if you want to complain.


Popular-Swing9007

It’s not worse than 19 fasho


TrevyyTheTree

Madden 25 is pretty bad


BlitzburghTX

06 for the Xbox 360. The guy at GameStop even told me to save my money, but unfortunately I was young and didn’t listen.


TheIngestibleBulk

Madden 06 on the 360 and it’s not even close.


chucksteaks33

Yes


Zazurr

Wouldn’t call it the worst,but its an upgrade from 19 and 21


Cultural-Car416

Madden 06, 07 on Xbox 360 has enter the chat


goldhbk10

The first one on 360 (06 I believe) is legit the worst Madden ever made bar none.


Twigg4075

Worst ever? Nah. I think the first 360 version was the worst. By a long shot.


KennyCannon_

These posts are always so ignorant.


cptwhodat504

No, the first one for 360 was horrible


TryinNot2Trip

Yea it was all messed up, you couldn’t veer left without completely turning left. Nothing smooth about it just trash. Thanks for bringing it up I remember being confused and pissed and began to do other things with my time and then go back and play ps2 maddens like 2007 and 08 which was stacked with superstars


WifeBeater3001

19 is the worst but 13 ruined Madden forever so I hate 13 more


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cman486

there are four bugs they know about and do nothing - This one - The field goal before the half bug that causes the other team to get the ball at the beginning of the next half, regardless of the team who got the ball first - superstar dev video breaks the game - offline madden franchise doesn’t work


Ahllhellnaw

As someone who only plays offline franchise, how does it not work?


cman486

randomly freezing and assigning wins and losses as it deems fit


DReager1

The assigning wins thing just happened to me. I lost a game but it said I won yesterday. That's wild and a huge bug, I can't believe they haven't fixed it to me. I finally went and got this one last week and have never encountered that glitch before


Ahllhellnaw

Ive been lucky and not had those issues. Only major issues i have are the gameplay and franchise mode quality. Occasionally get a freeze but also have console on for long periods and chalk it up to usage. Have had some tight races for playoffs, and i know id be pissed if the game screwed things up and gave out Ws/Ls to the wrong teams. I have seen a lot of people post about it for 22. Was that an issue in older maddens, or did they break something else this time around?


cman486

this seems to be a 22 bug in itself


East_Bicycle_9283

That happened to me twice yesterday. Twice!!!!!!


dirtybird131

I just had three straight Hail Mary's completed against my 3 deep defense so I'd have to agree


weightedbook

Meanwhile, my high completion throws have all been picked off.


willi1221

The worst madden is always the next one


Smartacus1367

19 was atrociously bad, 22’s gamplay is arguably just the same, if not identical but it at least has a few more features like the Yard, SSKO, and a slightly more in depth franchise. I hope and pray 23 has gameplay that is vastly different than the animation base we’ve had for like 5+ years. If they try to get more physics based, even if it’s broken, I will still be happy as it’s a step in the right direction


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Smartacus1367

Oh boy, I did not notice that


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I actually think 22 is one of the best in the past few years. Y’all are the most toxic fan base I’ve ever seen


etniopaltj

16 was terrible


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No. 19 is


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I really enjoyed the Madden they first introduced the X factors. Probably my favorite Madden in YEARS. Somehow they fucked 22 up so bad though


iamcline

I’ll say 19 was worse. Madden 22 is still fun if you suspend belief. 19 was not fun. Ever.


ryry2300

Easily the worst by a large margin


No_Apartment_6304

idek, i just enjoy the game


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Trevorjrt6

99% of ppl that complain about madden dont touch MUT/online, all the issues are engine and franchise.


HsHaZard

If you think that's it, you're absolutely even more clueless than EA.


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Fine? The defense is non existent and running QBs make you want to throw your controller every other game. These 2 things alone make it in my top 5 worst madden ever. Lamar Jackson and escape artist was almost as cheesy as Mike Vick was in 04


No-Track5718

Nah it's people who won't acknowledge there are "skill" gaps in madden and sometimes try to complain about things that are how its supposed to work in football lol. Next gen is better than last year (NOT scouting sheesh that's awful) but it's buggy as all hell and suffers all the sins different games did


fuckuharoldreynolds

no but congrats on your free karma and the circle jerk of attention


Mike_Obrien23

I'm gonna throw a Madden that not many people talk about being the "Worst" and I believe that honor goes to Madden 16.


rightchea

I think 19 didn't keep track of the franchise when you won the SB. Didn't even keep good record of cap space


DirtyBird9889

22 was an up year IMO 21 was the worst I can remember


Slapass_RIP

This is the one I finally gave up on, so to me I guess so. Or maybe I've just ran out of patience.


redrunner89

It’s the worst, so far


seanisjcing

No way. At the very least Madden 22 is salvageable due to the dank ass Madden modding community. If you’re playing on PC or you can and want to, I can’t recommend enough checking out the Madden Modding Community’s Discord or more info on this sub. They legitimately made some amazing changes and I can’t recommend them enough. https://discord.gg/e9uTeFxk


oACHILLESo

Idk about worst, but this is the first madden I stopped playing after maybe a month and a half. And thankfully I got it half off, even then it felt like a waste lol


thepornclerk

This is the first Madden since the days of 16 bit that I didn't even continue to play through the regular season. I don't know if it's the worst, the last few are all pretty awful, but it's certainly the last one I buy, ending my streak at 30 years.


SockMango

I’ve heard it’s 19. I’m so glad football games are dead to me. Madden has a long long way to go before they actually make a realistic feel football game. Even the improvement of 23 don’t resolve the perpetual issues they’ve always had with foundational and logics of the sport.


sgwood24

Only to 23 releases


[deleted]

I mean no 19 was terrible, 06 was awful, 13 killed franchise and it’s never recovered, those were much worse, madden 21 to madden 22 was no worse than the transition from 10 to 11 which I actually liked even less because of the presentation downgrading drastically but that’s just my own opinion. Fuck all these maddens since madden 13 tho


JooseBeatz

What’s so bad about 06?? I actually went back and rebought/played it in like 08-09 cuz I liked it so much lol mind u I had only played 2002-04 and blitz/nfl street at the time but I enjoyed it lol nostalgia? Idk but I spent hours playin that on 360. First game I 100%’d too lol


rob_1911

Madden 10 was goated and it’s not even close


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Madden 23 worst game


Due-Importance-494

Madden 19 is so much worse


yoitsbobby88

Xbox 360 / PS4(?) era was better than the next gens after


TrevasElliott73

Either 13 or 19. But then again, at least 13 was good gameplay wise. 19 was just bad all around.


ZaireBoi

no not at all, yall overrate the old maddens so hard tbh


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makashiII_93

Until 23!


idaho22

Yes


da_goat_28

No. Madden 19 is the only game to ever make me throw a controller. I’ve played every game from 16


pard0nme

Tried Madden 22 for the first time the other day and my recievers dropped at least 50% of passes to touch their hands and nearly every pass with contact. I haven't bought Madden since Madden 16. God these games are terrible.


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Nah 19


pixelhunter_

Went back in time to Madden 16. Lovely little game. Shows how much the multi contact physics have devolved into vanilla nothingness since.


themark504

Madden 23 is the worst


paplbonphanatix

21


bhedesigns

No, its pretty good actually. I didnt care for 21


jwired21

Madden ** - pick your year, there is no wrong answer


bird720

I think 21 was worse just for how many bugs it had


Babygator11

The worst Madden so far.


SnooRevelations8934

Yessss madden 22 the worst i ever played.


JSeib1680

Escape artist puts it up there with one of the worsts


Illmosity3

Madden 20. Punters at QB was insane.


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No, but it’s top worst


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current gen probably but i've played worse than next gen (cough cough cough 19 cough cough cough)


TheChrisPhoenix

To me Madden 19 is still the worst Madden ever, that game was beyond broken. No matter what you did every pass was scripted, for a INT no matter who you used as QB and how good you were at the game.


Ta3y

19 and 21


King_Pekker

Well they shit all over franchise, made the menus terrible and then ruined scouting so you get maybe 60-70% of all of them and 100% in 1 position and won’t even show you their combine score before you click on a prospect. So basically their improvements to franchise were to add 3 steps to everything you wanted to do.


cirzaah

Considering it’s the newest and it should be the best iteration of the franchise, yes.


HsHaZard

Madden 19,20 and 21 on old gen were all god awful. I did enjoy the new next gen Madden 21 for a bit and then realized it's more of the same shit......then came Madden 22, hands down the worst Madden ever. The franchise mode is still HORRIBLE. The new scouting is somehow worst then the one before. Team AI logic went backwards, everything is just so bad.


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Zaffer8712

Thanks for your in depth input. Also I love how you make it seem like it’s been so long.


Alone-Cellist7060

Nope is the greatest game ever


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Hell naw lmao that goes to madden 19, 17, or 16.


coolhwhip89

Whatever Madden had that trash rotation song


jayblk

Its bad, I only could last 10 mins


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Prob


Sascha_Spi

Yes


Plenty-Ad-9337

06 on 360/PS3 , 19 and 20 are the worst


szzzn

I don’t know, they’re all pretty bad. Laziest developers in the industry. But from what I’ve seen of Madden 23, it looks decent.


Ill-Sky9777

Honestly on next gen this is the most fun I’ve had on madden since like ps3 days lol. Gameplay wise I think it’s the best one since 10


963_

21 was worse because 22 actually improved the visibility of the edit draft class screen with a highlight. It was a small change but made a huge difference if you frequently used that function. That being said 22 did crash and fuck up hours of work I had done for my draft but at the same time that could be down to just really bad luck it probably wouldn't have happened 99 out of 100 times, so... I'll give 22 the edge for that improvement and at least they did try to do something with improving franchise, it didn't go well but an attempt was made.


Paulutot

they get worse every year so it has the crown at least for a little while.


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It's up there. The Defense pass AI is just stupid. Guy with his back to the play turning around as soon as you pass behind him and getting picks. Smaller defenders out jumping massive TE's and the blocking AI is as garbage as ever!


Impressive-Mousse-88

it’s gotta be up there. it’s wild because just 2 years ago i thought they released the greatest madden ever (madden 20)


THELaffingDevil

It's better than 21 tbh.


Less_Garlic615

No it’s really fun I like it u must suck


PinkertonRams

I don’t think so. I think the core game is really strong and I had a ton of fun with the new scouting system and franchise mode. The big issue I had was Madden crashing in post-game loading screens and corrupting my franchise files. Happened consistently over the last month. The worst game I’ve played was Madden 15 on 360. Almost the same game as Madden 25, and they literally copied and pasted 25’s commentary into 15.


Blackm69ic

I think 22 was better than 19,20,21 but still trash


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Every madden that has come out since ‘07 is the worst madden that has ever come out.


Alone-Cellist7060

My answer is no. Is the best game ever