Sunday, January 29, 2012

Is there a way to make the announcers talk less?

Question

One thing that is driving my crazy about Madden 12 is the repetition in the announcers' dialog. It seems that there's only one scripted conversation per team to introduce the offense and defense. I am sick of hearing how Troy Polamalu is destined for the hall of fame and Hines Ward leads the Steelers' offense.

I don't want to mute the announcers completely, just lower their verbosity - or at least these repetitive scripted introductions. Is this possible?

Answer

There's an option to turn on offensive/defensive coordinator speech and subtitles. If you turn on coordinator speech, then the announcers will only speak in a handful of situations (the beginning of the game is the only one that comes to mind).

EDIT: These instructions are from the Xbox 360 version:

From the main menu, go to the "My Madden" -> "My Settings" -> "Game Options" -> "Coordinator Audio" (#10). It can be turned on, turned on for the headset only, or turned off. It replaces most commentary with a tutorial-ish description of what to do on the play. They're certainly less annoying than the announcers. The announcers will chime in at the beginning of the game and a handful of other times for which I haven't identified a pattern yet.

I don't know any other way to get them to talk less other than muting the announcer channel: Main menu -> "My Madden" -> "My Settings" -> "Volume Control" -> "In-Game Commentary". But you explicitly didn't want to do that; I'm only including it for completeness.

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