Five Essential Fixes for NCAA Football 11

[RaychelSnr]

NCAA Football 10 was a disappointment. While new additions like Team Builder and Season Showdown initially impressed gamers, faulty gameplay mechanics coupled with a lack of collegiate presentation and atmosphere, ultimately doomed the game in many consumers' eyes (myself included). So as college football gears up for its final month before the beginning of bowl season, I thought it would be a good time to look at some things I want to see included in NCAA Football 11.

As a start, I will be outlining the five most important changes that the series needs to make if it is to ever going to become as relevant as it once was on the Playstation 2 and Xbox gaming consoles.

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[The GIGGAS]

Re: Five Essential Fixes for NCAA Football 11

Some kind of Coach Carosel is essential in my eyes. And it wasn't a horrible game by any means, it just needs some attention and some elbow grease. Of course, that's my opinion.

[JkA3]

That's a great start. But NCAA feels so outdated compared to Madden. What you listed is a great start.

[RynoAid]

I disagree with your recruiting suggestions... I'm not for dumbing down the process.. it only takes 10-15 minutes to do and is as least as much a fun part of the dynasty as playing games are.

I do agree with slowing the gamespeed down just a bit, not to the extreme Madden did with the "slow" online speed. But it could tap the breaks a bit and make for a more realistic timing system.

[boxboy99]

Coach Carosel is a must. Love it in CH!. Slow the game down. I kinda like the recruiting, it does feel like something is missing sometimes. Add better presentation. Slow down the pass velocity. Oh and make sure to add coaching carosel.

[jyoung]

There are so many things wrong with NCAA Football that it's hard to bring it down to five bullet points, but what you have are some good starting points.

Gameplay, presentation, dynasty logic -- you name it, NCAA Football needs a major overhaul in just about all of them.

[bigsmallwood]

Agreed!

[Hova57]

I really don't see the need for a Coaching Carosel it doesn't happen as much in real life , but to see some coaching changes would be cool

[ODogg]

Re: Five Essential Fixes for NCAA Football 11

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[NoDakHusker]

Great post. Except i dont think you mentioned crowd noise A HUGE FACTOR in college football. In the past several years the fans, even at the largest of stadiums, have been too quiet. We all know how loud games can get, and the bigger the game, the bigger the stadium, etc etc, the louder it should be. I want to feel like I'm actually at the game.

[da ThRONe]

Re: Five Essential Fixes for NCAA Football 11

Long hair

Yeah player models need a real boost.

[mgoblue678]

Re: Five Essential Fixes for NCAA Football 11

I agree on some things but I think there aren some more important things that you left off the list.

1. The overall AI needs a huge upgrade. Things like blocking AI and the cpu AI in certain areas like making dual threat cpu qb's scramble more and be more effective with their legs.

2. The o-line vs d-line interaction still has a long ways to go, it is still very poor. At the very least more animations need to be added to give it more of an unpredictable feel.

3. Fix the poll logic, this has been broken for a long time and it keeps on getting ignored for whatever reason.

4. This may be asking too much but implementing some kind of momemtum physics. Players being able to cut and change directions on a dime espcially 300 pound defensive linemen is a problem.

5. Make the ratings matter more.

The three biggest things to me are presentation being improved, the ai being improved and the o-line vs d-line interaction. I doubt they will look at all three of these areas though and just add more fluff.

[sportskid84]

Three things that EA needs to fix in this game is, presentation,gameplay and the Dynasty mode.

[hcopenhagenh]

Re: Five Essential Fixes for NCAA Football 11

I couldn't disagree more with this blog/article or whatever. If these are the 5 Essential Fixes then this game will stay Doomed to mediocrity forever.

Here are the Fixes.

1. New Physics Based Engine.
2. Programming that starts with OL/DL Interaction.
3. Programming Blocking based on schemes.
4. Presentation On and Off Field.
5. It really doesn't matter.

Until numbers 1-3 are fixed, nothing else really matters. Game Speed, Presentation, Recruiting, etc. don't many anything unless you have the core of the game playing well. The core, the actual Game Play, isn't very good.

[ANDROMADA 1]

reasonable requests.