NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

[michigan21]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

Ok, since you understand that we still only have a finite amount of time to make the game. We'd love to do entrances, and we are looking at it again right now. But this year we went with online dynasty. People were wondering why haven't done this yet... the reason is that it was such a big feature, it was always looked at the feature that would take away from improving all the other aspects of the game... IE we'd have to put all our resources getting it in and everything else would be the same. That wouldn't sell many copies. This is America... sales are the name of the game, right? Everyone on NCAA this year did a hell of a job to get Online Dynasty in and at the same time, improve the look and feel of the game overall. It really was quite an accomplishment and NCAA 09 is a great game because of it. We knew when/if we did Online Dynasty the game would otherwise be feature light.... however, we'd get it out of the way and be able to add features for years to come as the online dynasty stuff was out of the way. We took that hit this year and the game turned out wonderful in spite of it!

I understand the need to focus on online dynasties and online play, but to the detriment of presentation? Alot of gamers are getting older and have responsibilites such as a wife, kids, jobs, etc and dont have the time to put in hours for online franchises. I think EA is capable of doing both presentation and online to please both camps. I dont see a reason EA couldnt add a spring game, or add at least a pre-game, halftime, or post game wrap up show. I just dont see the desire to add to the presentation of the game. The game gets really mundane after a few months of play and this year looks no different than the last few years. On the other hand, madden's presentation has gotten a little bit of a facelift that is a step in the right direction. I havent bought madden in the last four years because after renting them, I didnt see a difference in the game. This year looks different and better. Ncaa 09 presentation, not so much.

Online dynasty >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> entrances

As much as I would love to see them, you made the right choice.

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by stewaat

Online dynasty >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> entrances As much as I would love to see them, you made the right choice.

Got that right...

[mike1409]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

HAHA! When I was a tester I put this in as a bug. The engineer ran it against the AI script and said it called to take a knee again and he invalidated my bug! Yes, this is totally wrong! Our AI script needs a lot of work.

You can't write this on a message board and not get hammered. It might get taken out of context.


I added this to my signature as a joke.

[slickzeus]

if you can get entrances back next year and work on the overall presentation of the game, ie bowl games, mid week games...etc then that would be awesome!! i think the gameplay is finally where it should be! the more and more i play the game the more i like the wide open gameplay! You really have so much more control over your players!

Quote: Originally Posted by mike1409

You can't write this on a message board and not get hammered. It might get taken out of context. I added this to my signature as a joke.

Honesty >>>>>>>>>>> saying the AI is great, which everyone knows it is not

[OMT]

Quote: Originally Posted by stewaat

Honesty >>>>>>>>>>> saying the AI is great, which everyone knows it is not

Our AI is pretty impressive though. It will never be perfect... cause when you perfect computer AI, the computer starts to teach itself. Since computers are so fast, within 3 days the game will have turned all your household appliances against you. Within a month it will have already taken over all the missile systems in the world and destroyed humanity. We don't want that to happen, do we?

[PVarck31]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

Our AI is pretty impressive though. It will never be perfect... cause when you perfect computer AI, the computer starts to teach itself. Since computers are so fast, within 3 days the game will have turned all your household appliances against you. Within a month it will have already taken over all the missile systems in the world and destroyed humanity. We don't want that to happen, do we?