Madden 15 is out August 26th!

[The Buscher]

Sounds amazing. Thrilled at being able to boost players during game prep as well, will certainly need to do that for my offline game as they made the Giants horrendous.

Love love LOVE the draft classes being random. Now I'll feel a real motivation to actually do proper scouting rather than getting to the draft, realize I ignored scouting altogether, and then have to use a draft guide from online.

Glad free agents consider scheme fit as well. Only potential concern I have is that sometimes the schemes seemed a bit wonky last year. I'd have offseasons where nearly every free agent was a bad scheme fit for me even though I was running a Balanced offense that theoretically should have fit most players. Hopefully they've fine-tuned things a bit on that end.

[Dan]

Replacing coaches mid-season, taking a player off IR, and the free agency changes are a breath of fresh air. I've always hated FAs just taking the cash, no matter how realistic it is in some cases.

Sim 10 years is awesome

Spoiler alert:

Jags will still suck.

Imagine how big their jumbotron and stadium pools will be in 10 years time though!

Imagine how big Mrs. Bortles tits will be you mean?

[DYSI]

No demo this year.

[Maxx]

Oh fuck off

[Meacon Keaton]

This summer has flown by. It'll be out in less than two weeks.

[Maxx]

Don't try to stifle my rage.

[Cactus Drags]

The front-end for MUT looks massively improved. Hopefully there's a better range of legends this time around.

[Hugar Twriker Eats Spam]

So which system is going to do a league this year? I think I have faith this year that I'll be able to keep up with it.

[Maxx]

PS4! Hugarrrrr! Get one, I want you in our eventual Evolve team so we can relive the glory days of Left 4 Dead

[Dan]

Getting it now, I'll let you know how it is once it eventually downloads. Though I think I'm getting the FIFA15 beta too today so I might wait on Madden until the weekend.

[The Buscher]

I could have opted for the digital download and potentially be playing the game a little earlier, but screw it...opening the packaging on a video game I've been anticipating and popping it in for the first time is just a wonderful feeling.

[Dan]

I'm trying to head all digital. They're increasing my internet speed 13x in a few weeks so I'll able to get digital games much faster. Currently 22% of Madden 15 done. Hopefully it'll let me play something around 50%.

Having kids and discs is horrible.

[Meacon Keaton]

I'm not sure if I'll ever move to all digital. I trade in games way too often to give up having the physical copy.

[Dan]

Wow, graphically this is a big jump from 25. I'm only 57% done downloading but it let me play the little intro game and it looks amazing, the player models seem a hell of a lot better.

[Chris2K]

I kinda wish I was getting it this early particularly with the Bank Holiday weekend, I think I even have an EA Season Ticket from last year's FIFA but do they even work on the PS4 versions?

[Cole]

Looking forward to scooping this next tuesday, didn't even realize pre-order and digital was a thing but i've been out of touch a bit.

Only used to have the EA Season Pass thing to get all the games early but that's old

[Toe]

I'll probably grab this on Tuesday.

[Krone]

Went and pre-ordered an XBox One bundle that includes the Madden 15 game for $400. I've been wanting to get one for a while so why not get a new game with it? Back in the day I was a fiend for Madden and would get it every year, but then after I think Madden 08 (with Vince Young on the cover) for the 360, I was pretty disappointed and stopped buying them.

This year I'm really excited. The game looks really well and the emphasis on defense get's me giddy. Even gauntlet mode looks pretty sick. Can't wait to start some online leagues - just as fun as fantasy football if I do say so myself.

[Dan]

I've had about 4 hours messing around on CFM and MUT, enjoying it a lot. Defense is so much more fun this year, switching to the D camera and chasing down the QB with a DE is awesome, the new button prompts and tackling cone are really well done.

[Maxx]

Woo, got the day off tomorrow so I don't have to wait until Thursday to play.