OMT, can you answer this?

[Bigdmo9999]

Quote: Originally Posted by MtneerManiac

I REFUSE to believe it takes some ungoldy amount of intelligence to get a couple people, put them in mo-cap suits, and have them run. How hard can something like that be. EA acts like (in all the next gen games) that getting how someone runs right is hard or something. Good lord, MOCAP people.

Haha I know. I heard they are doing some new mocap technology or something this year though. Hopefully they can get running right. Something that always confused me was when after a play a player would stop running you know, that would look completely real. But the running motion he just came out of looked like he had a poll in his butt.

[canes21]

It's been 4 years and they still haven't figured it out? I don't even think they really tried. I mean in 4 years they should have been able to do something to where we could have a clone of that engine with better graphics. Switching to that engine would be one of the smartest things EA Football has ever done.

[stoncold32]

You dont even have to look back that far....just look at vids from NCAA 08 and you'll see the players ran properly on there. They broke it in '09 for some reason.

[Bigdmo9999]

Quote: Originally Posted by stoncold32

You dont even have to look back that far....just look at vids from NCAA 08 and you'll see the players ran properly on there. They broke it in '09 for some reason.

Are you kidding me? The players were worse in 08 than in 09

[OMT]

I don't think the "engine" was much different... though the term "engine" gets thrown around way too often.

The reason why the last gen stuff plays better is because it has had 8 years of iteration ironing out the kinks. NCAA 09 was only the 3rd year for this generation.

[Bigdmo9999]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

I don't think the "engine" was much different... though the term "engine" gets thrown around way too often. The reason why the last gen stuff plays better is because it has had 8 years of iteration ironing out the kinks. NCAA 09 was only the 3rd year for this generation.

This is true, however since the release of the next gen games the last gen games have pretty much been all stale. In fact it seems like I've been playing the same game since 06. So I mean there were minor changes here and there.

[stoncold32]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

I don't think the "engine" was much different... though the term "engine" gets thrown around way too often. The reason why the last gen stuff plays better is because it has had 8 years of iteration ironing out the kinks. NCAA 09 was only the 3rd year for this generation.

Well why is it that basically straight out of the gate, NCAA 2002 still moves more fluid in some ways than this game does currently?

[stoncold32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bigdmo9999

Are you kidding me? The players were worse in 08 than in 09

The running animations are 10x's better in '08. Go look at the vids.

Now when players get in the open field, they start this weird hop-jump type of run.