Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

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  • bucfan47
    Banned
    • Jul 2008
    • 235

    #16
    I am enjoying the game but I cannot help but notice all the problems surrounding the bugs and the fact the game still looks so much like last year's version. I can't help it. The animations are different and the gameplay is somewhat better, but worth $65, I'm not so sure...I'm leaning towards saying NO at this point. I just don't value the substance added to warrant the money spent as compared to last year's version. If I could have roster updates to last years game, I'd probably have just kept it and played it.

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    • Gotmadskillzson
      Live your life
      • Apr 2008
      • 23425

      #17
      Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

      Watching the how it is made, NCAA 12 tv show, I've noticed some things.

      1. Their staff is way too small.

      2. Not enough diversity in upper management. Seen way too many guys that look like they are in their late 40s early 50s. Need some younger blood mixed in there at the top.

      3. Too many of them come from a tournament play style background. Seems like everybody that is there got in there from winning a Madden tournanment back in the 90s. It is the same way with the Game Changers, good number of them come from winning tournaments and that style of play.

      4. IMO they tried to flood all aspects of the media at once and that probably wore them thin. I mean think about it, they filmed the tv show, started using Facebook a TON, interviews with ESPN, etc.

      5. More testing definitely needs to be done, however they need to split it up more. Have some people looking at Game Play, another looking at dynasty, another at custom play books, another looking at RTG, another looking at coach mode, another looking at all the online parts.

      6. Game is great with default rosters.........

      Conclusion.........

      Need more new younger blood, especially at the top. And maybe add more producers.......Have a producer for each aspect of the game, like the following:

      RTG
      CPU Game Play AI
      Dynasty offline
      Dynasty online
      Custom Playbooks
      Presentation

      Roy Harvey needs some serious help at the top. In the show he looks like he doesn't get much sleep at all. And now they want him to run NCAA and Madden at the same time, poor man, get that man some help.

      Anthony White needs some help too. Somebody needs to tell him QBs needs 360 degrees of motion when scrambling. Especially when it comes to a defender coming up the middle.

      When a DT or blitzer comes up the middle, the QB does one of three things.

      1. Stand there
      2. Go left in a straight line
      3. Go right in a straight line

      That is unrealistic. They need to arc away from the pressure. They don't in real life go in a straight line when they presured up the middle.

      Don't know how they have it right in Madden 11 but wrong in NCAA 12.

      Also DEs don't always rush to the outside of the offensive tackle all the time. They do rush to the inside shoulder of the offensive tackle too you know in real life. That needs to be represented in NCAA 12.

      Also.......special teams needs to be improved. How is it we still don't have CPU punt blocks and FG blocks ? Or no bad holds on FG attempts or bad snaps on punts ?

      That would be like playing MLB The Show and there was never any wild pitches, or any other error. Errors happen in sports and in every other sports game EXCEPT for Madden and NCAA.

      There is no difference between a 40 awareness punter or kicker from a 93 awareness one.

      People been talking about robo QBs, well hell we been suffering from Robo Kickers for years now.

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      • TDenverFan
        MVP
        • Jan 2011
        • 3457

        #18
        Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

        Originally posted by I3RIS3H
        The new features in dynasty are virtually useless.
        What's the point of even adding any of these features when they are BROKEN?!?

        I feel like I'm testing a game in the alpha stage to be honest.
        Coaching Carousel? Useless.
        Recruits that come in with decent ratings? Pointless.
        Starting as a coordinator? Who needs that.
        Custom playbooks? Garbage.
        Improved recruiting menus? Worthless.
        Football: Denver Broncos
        Baseball: Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs
        Hockey: Allentown Phantoms
        NCAA: The College of William and Mary Tribe


        William and Mary Class of 2018!

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        • Marcus34
          Rookie
          • Jul 2011
          • 151

          #19
          Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

          This game is a joke. It's like the people at EA didn't even test the Dynasty Mode before sending it to the stores.

          Just a slap in the face to the customers
          Venni Vetti Vecci

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          • SGMRock
            Pro
            • Jul 2009
            • 991

            #20
            Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

            Originally posted by Gotmadskillzson
            6. Game is great with default rosters.........
            Accept in Dynasty your recruited players are messed up too! You recruit a one player type and once you sign them they are something else, even without editing anything on them according to people in that roster thread. I think thats a game breaker for dynasty until they fix it.
            Go Lions, Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings, Wolverines!

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            • Marcus34
              Rookie
              • Jul 2011
              • 151

              #21
              Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

              Originally posted by TDenverFan
              Coaching Carousel? Useless.
              Recruits that come in with decent ratings? Pointless.
              Starting as a coordinator? Who needs that.
              Custom playbooks? Garbage.
              Improved recruiting menus? Worthless.

              Coaching Carousel is useless after all the coaches go to A+ Prestige
              Recruits come in with decent ratings but don't even have the same tendencies as the player you recruited
              Starting as a recruiter IS Cool
              The custom playbooks don't work
              Recruiting menus don't effect anything
              Venni Vetti Vecci

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              • JerseySuave4
                Banned
                • Mar 2006
                • 5152

                #22
                i dont like the fact that you aren't able to just select 12 users for dynasty right off the bat, that you have to create a new coach to go around it and when you do that it sets the Coach's Prestige to a D so if you recreate Nick Saban you lose his prestige.

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                • bkrich83
                  Has Been
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 71574

                  #23
                  Originally posted by SGMRock
                  Accept in Dynasty your recruited players are messed up too! You recruit a one player type and once you sign them they are something else, even without editing anything on them according to people in that roster thread. I think thats a game breaker for dynasty until they fix it.
                  That was not my understanding. Maybe I misread though.
                  Tracking my NCAA Coach Career

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                  • frankrizzo380
                    Pro
                    • Dec 2007
                    • 522

                    #24
                    Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

                    I just wanna know what happend to diving catches?
                    PSN-FORDTUFF504
                    NFL- SAINTS 49ers
                    NBA- HORNETS PACERS
                    NCAAF- MIAMI LSU
                    "IM SO UPTOWN AND IF U AIN'T MOTHA#$@ DONT GO UPTOWN, YEAH"

                    How often can the bug be reproduced? That's a question for the developers...I'm not testing this for them...

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                    • bkrich83
                      Has Been
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 71574

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Marcus34
                      Coaching Carousel is useless after all the coaches go to A+ Prestige
                      Recruits come in with decent ratings but don't even have the same tendencies as the player you recruited
                      Starting as a recruiter IS Cool
                      The custom playbooks don't work
                      Recruiting menus don't effect anything
                      For some reason I have had no probs with custom playbooks.
                      Tracking my NCAA Coach Career

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                      • Marcus34
                        Rookie
                        • Jul 2011
                        • 151

                        #26
                        Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

                        Originally posted by bkrich83
                        That was not my understanding. Maybe I misread though.

                        Yep, if you recruit a "Run Stopper" OLB, He's going to come in as "Balanced"

                        A "Scrambler" QB is going to come in as "Pocket Passer" ect.
                        Venni Vetti Vecci

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                        • mkharsh33
                          Hall Of Fame
                          • Nov 2006
                          • 12761

                          #27
                          Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

                          Besides the major roster glitch that makes players totally irrelevant to their player types (ie. scrambling qb's) and the fact that cpu pass defense is useless and you can break long td plays on any given pass play, this game is great.
                          STEELERS INDIANS CELTICS

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                          • Marcus34
                            Rookie
                            • Jul 2011
                            • 151

                            #28
                            Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

                            Originally posted by frankrizzo380
                            I just wanna know what happend to diving catches?
                            I won a game on a diving TD Catch last night
                            Venni Vetti Vecci

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                            • ezio
                              MVP
                              • Jun 2003
                              • 2853

                              #29
                              Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

                              Originally posted by fcboiler87
                              I can't stop playing it.

                              Don't get me wrong, I'm infuriated with all these problems. It's ridiculous. But I still can't stop playing it.
                              Originally posted by Phobia
                              Pretty much my exact thoughts
                              I feel the same way. I am enjoying playing it. I went back to default rosters with numbers and am enjoying the game.

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                              • Gotmadskillzson
                                Live your life
                                • Apr 2008
                                • 23425

                                #30
                                Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

                                Diving catches have to be triggered by the user. If you wait for the cpu to do it, you won't see it, not the new animation one anyway.

                                Same thing with bull rush animation. You not going to see the cpu do it at all. The only time I ever seen it is when I did it myself. Even though it slows you down for no reason and it really takes you out of the play because you are stuck in that animation for 2 seconds.

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