NCAA Football 09 New Features Announced

[jdrhammer]

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You guys think we'll see coaches on the sideline again?

We need to. It would be cool if the backup QB's are close by in the background. Hopefully the sidelines will be pretty full with actual players. That would be nice.

[SageInfinite]

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They shouldn't have been gone in the first place.

Ding! We have a winner.

[nxt]

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I hope they include in-game saves.

[BSherrod]

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I am hoping they they show us like an official trailer in a couple off weeks and it shows off this amazing next gen experience, but I am happy that 09 will have the roster sharing and online dynasty. Even with the flaws of 08 I would play the crap out of it with those two features alone.

[Jethown]

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I'm psyched we can finally play co-op on next-gen.

[Village Idiot]

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What's up with the grass in that pic above? Is that supposed to be snow on it? Chalk? Flour?

[uraz3r0]

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Random play selection in practice mode

Awesome. Also the returned field goal thing is a must. I'm so glad they have it.

[Ninjoid]

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Having CPU V CPU back is great...hopefully this extends into being able to select any game from any side's schedule and being able to play/watch it.

[edubbs]

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No mention of the weather channel feature from last year? I guess that was just one of those one year 'hype feature' deals.

I would have hoped that they expanded this for Madden and NCAA this year, so online games would have varying weather.

I'm hoping that somehow they kept this for both games, I thought it was announced as a multi-year deal last year.

[SirNigel]

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It looks like we will have to wait another year for DI-AA schools to be added.

[rudyjuly2]

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Random play selection in practice mode

Awesome. Also the returned field goal thing is a must. I'm so glad they have it.

The returned kicks is good simply for the fact that the NCAA team might actually recognize that most college kickers don't have the leg strength to routinely kick 55 yard field goals. The strength of the kickers legs in the past couple football games has been insanely high.

I'd really like to see the elimination of the analog kicking system altogether. The old button system was much more consistent in misses from both outside the hashes and inside them. The analog stick makes kicking from the middle too easy and from the wide hash too hard.

[davin]

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The returned kicks is good simply for the fact that the NCAA team might actually recognize that most college kickers don't have the leg strength to routinely kick 55 yard field goals. The strength of the kickers legs in the past couple football games has been insanely high.

I'd really like to see the elimination of the analog kicking system altogether. The old button system was much more consistent in misses from both outside the hashes and inside them. The analog stick makes kicking from the middle too easy and from the wide hash too hard.

Man I couldn't believe it when a lower level MAC team would run out their kicker for a 58 yard field goal. They might miss, but it will not be because of lack of distance. That was the first warning sign I had to change their kick power. I'd like to see them make kicking very hard. There is a reason why kicking field goals in college football makes a fan hold their breath every time, either for fear of a block, bad snap, or pressure causing the kicker to misjudge something.

[UNC_Pete]

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Hopefully super human LBs are gone from this years game. If not then looks like I'm out of luck..

[feeq14]

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Is there any word on them fixing super sim mode?

[ODogg]

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All I know is we damned well better have the ability to not only have weather, day/night and alternate uniforms online but select it as well.

I'm really glad to see shared online rosters, that will be nice to not have to fool with that stupid Transfer Kit nonsense. Oh and I LAUGH now at the clown who paid all that big money to buy Fairdale's site when this is the first year the rosters will be shareable. Turns out Fairdale got out when the getting was good.

Also, it'll be great to see HFA back, i really have missed that from the last-gen. It adds tremendously to the excitement and uniqueness of college football.

And I think what they mean by post-play continuation is something my friend ghostrider76 and I have complained about for a long time, when you score a TD as soon as the nose of the ball is over the end zone line everyone, including the running back, just stops as if they somehow magically know the ball is over the line. In real football they play situations like that sometimes even a little beyond the whistle blow. That's just one example of post play continuation. As someone else said another example would be players helping other players up, WRs going from a full sprint to a fast jog then a slow jog, etc instead of just going from full sprint to the same walking speed as the other players.