Worth buying on sale?

[PuffyTheMagicalDragon]

Is Madden worth buying on sale? I tried it once, and thought it played horrible with very little "playing" with all of the A.I. All I ever see is everyone complain about the game in reviews and on the forums, but is it actually that bad? As far as sports games, I know that soccer is the most popular, followed by basketball. I barely see over 1k players online for PC for Madden, which seems like it is impossible to play PvP. The Twitch for Madden looks abysmal as well, with barely any viewers.

[Twigzy]

No game is dog shi* on pc no matter how good your graphics are the game will run in slowmotion and lag

[Alexander336BC]

depends what you play when you play madden. This game feels like its name sake has passed away, and some idiot is now making his own game. If you like 3v3 have at it.

[Alexander336BC]

i paid the 20 because i hear a rumor that franchise mode was improved. Haven't dove into franchise because i wanted to check out super star. for some reason they took out like 75% of the player creation details. No white or European faces say for 2 out of 50. And you can't just change the skin color. every skin color is attached to its own face layout. like it or leave it. And don't get me started on those Tom Brady arms. Wow

[Mahjik]

Valve has a 2 hour / 14 day return window. Buy it, install it. Set a timer on your watch/phone for 90 minutes. If you don't like it when the 90 minutes is up, refund it.

[Mahjik]

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/784C-923B-A4A1-C825

[DaddiesLoad]

I dont play online. I just play franchise mode. I bought it when it was onsale for like 20 bucks and its fun and worth that price imo. Runs fine if you have a good PC, I dont know what "kangawooz" is talking about as I dont have any graphical "lag" or stuttering.

[CJM]

Originally posted by FathersGravy:

I dont play online. I just play franchise mode. I bought it when it was onsale for like 20 bucks and its fun and worth that price imo. Runs fine if you have a good PC, I dont know what "kangawooz" is talking about as I dont have any graphical "lag" or stuttering.

I've got Madden NFL 23, and I still wasn't convinced it was a full generation upgrade (8th Gen PS4, to 9th Gen PS5). So I let this sale pass by.

I'm not a Madden NFL fan, I'm an I.T. guy. I've been trying to decide it if would be worth spending money on it from a technical perspective.

Optimization guides. Running frame statistics tools like Riva Tuner. Seeing if Mini PCs can achieve 4k/30.

Is the issue CPU compute on the character animations like has afflicted a number of 9th generation releases? Are the background Crowd animations set too high?

Is there a texture streaming issue? Bandwidth congestion on CPUs, RAM, PCI-Express lanes?

Is there something wrong with the VSync function? Does disabling VSync and using a Variable Refresh Rate display improve the smoothness of the output?

[Locus]

First Madden game I've bought, and for $20 I'd say it's a steal. Runs super smooth and plays really well