Building a Better NCAA Football 12

[Dashdagreat]

DOUBLE HIT TACKLING!!!! THATS ALL!!!!!

[Dashdagreat]

Reading through these comments what with these simple minded wants? Facemasking, presentation.. how about FOOTBALL! That should be the goal! On the field make it play like NCAA FOOTBALL! Period! Allow me to play defense! 2 players to be able to tackle the ball carrier! Allow a Option Qb to RUN THE OPTION! All the game to be played like FOOTBALL! Once NCAA and Madden accomplish that, than give me a facemask and a good mascot... some of ya silly

[illwill10]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

Coaches. The abilty to see coaches on the sideline. Coaches need to play a bigger role. Along with Coaching Carousel. Instead of a possible AD mode, have a coach mode like in NCAA Basketball and CHOOPS. Starting out with low team and playstyle, and building your legacy(possibly imported to Madden). Coaches being fired. Emails from AD, players, recruits, scouts, coaches, and ESPN.
Little Things Chain gangs, More official booth reviews, More Emotion, More Cutscenes and Stat overlays, offensive and defensive lineups, team record for the last few years, team record against rival, half and post time shows, more celebration, more animations, Real time presentation, Better Commentary, Email, Reporters.
little things that are not "back of the box features" or commercial worthy, but makes a big difference
ex. Assisant coaches, presentation overlays, Half and post time show in NBA 2k11

[JerseySuave4]

they also need to make the college atmosphere more authentic. They need to start getting more songs from schools with what they play during certain situations so we dont have to do it ourselfs. It doesnt sound as good then if they had it done. Bring back the camera shake, bring back the authenticity that makes college football so special. Players should have eye black, mouth pieces, you should be able to use both team colors for accessories, more types of cleats (think of how much just changing the cleats did for the look of the game), these guy need to look and move more athletically.

[SynShadowzz]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

.2 cents...

- I have my sliders set so the CPU actually has a decent running game. However, a lot of the time... the CPU will run up the gut and get into the second level. Meanwhile, my DL will break from his blocker, running up field but away from the ball carrier. It's like he has no idea the ball carrier just ran into him.

- I'm not sure what the gripe is about predictions. Herby and Corso make their predictions before every game. You just have to view info on the game first...

- Dynamic bowl patches and conference logos are definitely a must. Field, jersey, etc...

- Dreads and long hair would be great. I guess the NCAA has a problem with this? I don't know. It would be nice to be able to edit my players facial features and expressions.

- Kicker / Punter recruit ratings need to be adjusted. I'm pretty sure 90% of the other teams I play in Dynasty have a 60-68 rated Kicker. It's college; kickers miss PAT's frequently... but not THAT frequently. I guess I could fix this with sliders.

- Drop the nonsense parts of the game (i.e. Mascot Mashup).

- Fill up the sidelines. In RL the sidelines are packed with camera men, chain gang, reporters, coaches, redshirts, people with NCAA credentials, and random people. In NCAA 11 you see the team, some photogs, and then a vast space. Nitpicky, but still would help with the "experience of Saturday."

- It would be nice to see some 5-star and more 4-star recruits head to lower prestige schools. Let these teams have a chance to raise their prestige. Maybe a new college powerhouse can arise from the East Carolinas and Akrons of the world. You never know. I've seen NIU have some great seasons in my UConn dynasty, but in the end they're just going to keep recruiting lower-level talent, and get crushed by bigger FBS schools.

- Coaching carousel definitely a must, as well as coordinators. It means nothing to me if I'm offered the Alabama job at the end of a season. Why isn't Nick Saban there? They just won the Sugar Bowl, and he's been fired? Did he leave for the NFL again? What's the story?

- Give us Brent Musburger for BCS games, conference championships, and Top 25 matchups.

- Access to our offline Dynasties via internet. Stats, recruiting, historical stats from your previous seasons without having to save 500 different versions of your dynasty.

- News stories on top recruits signing and with whom.

- Have progression be more performance based in the off-season, with the possibility for the occasional radical progression. Maybe CMU's QB is a 77 OVR, but he has a stellar Junior season, is All-American and / or All-Conference, and an award semi-finalist. It would be cool if he got a random (+13) heading into next season, giving him a chance to be drafted.

- Give seniors the opporunity to progress after their final season and improve their chances at getting drafted.

I have other ideas, but not the time to write them.

Thanks for reading.

[SynShadowzz]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

I just wanted to add:

While I would love to see those ideas implemented into '12, I'm still really happy with NCAA 11. I don't want to come off like I'm not thrilled with NCAA 11.

It's a wonderful game, and probably the most fun I've had with a video game in quite some time.

It's satisfying on a gaming level, a college football level, and a realism level.

[SOBAY310]

I want to see a spectator mode for online games and dynasties. If they can't incorporate you to actual view the game, then at least give us the live play by play the way that MLB The Show does for their online games.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

Some more thoughts:

Improve the blocking on bubble screens, WR screens and HB screens. Those plays never work, in particular the bubble screen and WR screens because the blocking is so piss poor, your players gets tackled as soon as he catches the ball.

[BlastX21]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

I want to see a spectator mode for online games and dynasties. If they can't incorporate you to actual view the game, then at least give us the live play by play the way that MLB The Show does for their online games.

This would be amazing. Would really expose the leaderboard cheesers to more people, and making dynasty championship games all the more interesting.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

Well with EA MMA, for those who have played the game, we all know Live spectator mode is possible. Me and my friends use to have Live Spectator mode tournaments all the time with up to 10 people.

[MrOctober430]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

I don't want every game to be on ESPN. Why would Ball St. & FCS West be on ESPN?? Please go back to the PS2 days where it's the crowd and the PA announcer.

[JerseySuave4]

every game is on some sort of tv these days. If the cameras are there for the replays, theyre there to broadcast as well. They also need to fix reviews. You should be able to see the replay before reviewing. They show the replay after a play then you can't challenge. And too many close plays aren't automatically challenged.

But going back to your original thought, they do need to incorporate other stations. They had CBS for college basketball why not add it for SEC football and some bowl games? Use the ABC for big games and ESPN2 or ESPNU for smaller games. You have the partnership for a reason. Get Mark May, Lou, Brent, Todd or whoever you need to get to come in and add different broadcasters for the stations. Heck you can even get people looking to get into the business to do it who cares it would just add some authenticity.

And why is it that the fans and officials and cheerleaders have more normal looking faces than the players? Go back like it was in the ps2 days where you pick a face type, facial hair, hair style, eye black, mouthpiece, breath right and make the helmets fit those faces normally. Certain helmets looks funny on certain faces the way they sit. And the player model faces look dumb. And where are the coaches? Go back to where we could change our coach's appearance and show them on the sidelines for once so it doesnt look like the players are running the show.

And please bring back camera shake HFA

[reignjah11]

Also taking another idea from mlb the show, we should have custom soundtracks. When your doing recruiting, editing depth charts, etc. the background music kinda gets annoying after a while so if we could play our own music that would be cool.

[illwill10]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

There needs to be replays, commentary, recruiting process, Quarter length, and KR/<ACRONYM title="Page Ranking">PR</ACRONYM>, TE in RTG.
With these features I would and a drastically improved dynasty mode.

[Fredonia]

Re: Building a Better NCAA Football 12

We can haz Teambuilder fix? If we don't get some of those bigger additions, maybe we can actually get a turf fix so that when we pick ARTIFICIAL or Blue, it's actually fake turf and not grass... The helmet issue(the numbers), and probably one or two other things that wouldn't take much to fix at all.