{"id":1265,"date":"2008-08-01T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/01\/madden-09-demo-craziness-dont-go-away-mad-just-go-away\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T21:43:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T01:43:45","slug":"madden-09-demo-craziness-dont-go-away-mad-just-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/01\/madden-09-demo-craziness-dont-go-away-mad-just-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden 09 (Demo) Craziness.  Don&#8217;t go away mad, just go away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/misc\/motley_crue_dr_feelgood.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Feelgood\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>I just had a total \u201coh shit\u201d moment with the Madden 09 demo for the PlayStation 3.  After calling a play, the players walked to the line and got ready for Eli to call for the ball.  For some inexplicable reason, #69 (G, Rich Seubert) decided to walk away from the line of scrimmage.  I figured that I must have pressed L1 one too many times, resulting in a false start, but the flag never came.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, #69 just turned around and slowly started walking away from the line of scrimmage (towards the bottom left-hard corner of the screen), leaving a nice hole just left of the center, and between the tackle.  I was helpless to use my one time out or snap the ball.<\/p>\n<p>WTF was happening?  I repeatedly tried to call a time out, but could not.  I figured some bug had to be at work here, and when the play clock ran down to zero I would be called with a delay of game penalty (or false start).<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>After the play clock hit zero I called an audible.  Thankfully #69 got his head out of his ass and ran back to the line of scrimmage.  I ran a play without any consequence (no delay of game or false start).<\/p>\n<p>Un-f\u2019ing real.  I have never seen something so damn strange in a video game.  Well maybe I have, but words fail to express how strange it was to see this cowboy decide to walk away from the line of scrimmage.  I tried the replay option, but it did not show him leaving the line.  If it did I would have taken a picture of something to upload.<\/p>\n<p>Strange stuffs at work in this demo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a total \u201coh shit\u201d moment with the Madden 09 demo for the PlayStation 3. After calling a play, the players walked to the line and got ready for Eli to call for the ball. For some inexplicable reason, #69 (G, Rich Seubert) decided to walk away from the line of scrimmage. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/01\/madden-09-demo-craziness-dont-go-away-mad-just-go-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden 09 (Demo) Craziness.  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