NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

[dan_457]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

Stream them from your laptop. It takes about 5 min total to set a team's playlist via streaming and then simply input the instances before the game.

Literally....5-10 min tops. Well worth it for the added atmosphere it brings.

Not streaming? Hassle. Streaming....piece of cake.

I had issues when streaming, there would be a second or two delay before the audio clip would start, so I found it better just to manually do it.

[AuburnAlumni]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

I had issues when streaming, there would be a second or two delay before the audio clip would start, so I found it better just to manually do it.

You are sharing too many files from your shared folder. That's the reason for the delay.

The best way to set it up is to set your sharing location to only be one file. Name it "Current NCAA Stadium Sounds"

Then have a second file containing the rest of your library.

Each time you play a game, simply move the new team's sounds into the Current Stadium Sounds folder and move out the old ones..putting them back into the main library.

Then just boot up the game, go into Stadium Sounds and input the instances for that new team. Since you are only sharing one team's sounds...it takes about 5 min to do this because you don't have to cycle through 50 different team's sounds to find the ones you want.

AND...since you are only sharing one team's sounds at a time, there will be little to no delay at all because of the small amount of files that the CPU has to look through to find the correct one to stream.

I'm telling you..it's quick as hell. I can't play NCAA without Stadium Sounds. It adds way too much.

[berad88]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

Even if it sounds robotic the in game updates will add a lot to the game.

[TDenverFan]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

Does anyone know if the game has to be downloaded to a Hard Drive for this to work?

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

I think this might be the first year I ever buy NCAA. Usually my brother buys it and I got the previous year's version, but this looks too good to pass up.

[balcobomber25]

The biggest thing I notice about this video is a problem that has plagued this series for quite sometime: rehashed lines by Nessler and Herbstreit. They have had some of the best commentary in sports games for sometime, but it has reached the point where there is not much more you can do with them. It is time to follow Madden's example and go in a new direction. Sometimes change is a good thing.

[Bamafan3723]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

Besides Rece Davis talking and the pre-game cutscene, I don't see anything different from last year. Absolute dull intro.

[dan_457]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

Even if it sounds robotic the in game updates will add a lot to the game.

For how long though? After how many times of hearing Reese's hot glued together segments before it just gets old, or on your nerve's? I just wish they'd put more thought and effort into this. If this is the best they can manage, no wonder they haven't added hardly any commentary in however many years.

[inchez34]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

Anyone know if we're going to get another video like this one today? It says new clip every Thursday at the end.

[stylee]

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GT HB #17 (Orwin Smith) had 24 rushes, per the studio update.

A-Backs don't get this many carries, ever. GT offense still nerfed.

[SafetyGreen]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - USC Intro with Rece Davis In Studio Update

Anyone know if we're going to get another video like this one today? It says new clip every Thursday at the end.

That's why I'm here. What's up with this? Anybody know?

[kennethxD]

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Are we getting a quick clip today?

[nazzman]

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Or they could bring in a second B-team crew to call local games. Something like that could add variety to the commentary and make games feel different.

Terrific idea there, Nole. Even if we only get the B-team one in five games. What would kick the commentary over the top is having the ability to choose between three or four teams.

Another cool commentary thing would be having some in-game bits developed just for the conference championships and NC. "Kirk, this is what happens in the SEC championship games, the players come out tight and we get these early interceptions."

Hoping these upset alerts/look-ins happen now and then, once maybe twice a game. That would be fresh. Having a couple a quarter would be annoying. Would be nice to have an option like the penalty sliders, where you can control the look-ins frequency to some extent. Let's hope you can click past these when not in the mood.

I usually half-watch the pregame stuff while setting up the Diet Pepsi and such, so I don't mind them. The out of conference game pregame bits I will watch, assuming the venue is new to me.

[bmasters1981]

Wow, that was incredibly underwhelming. No, that was flat out terrible. I'm hoping that was just a rough preliminary cut-up of how things are going to be and it will get polished up because if that was the final product, all I see are more things to X through during the game.

I liked the idea and execution of Rece's intro, but the audio/dialogue was horrid. The tunnel entrances continue to be incredibly bland, although when paired with the right custom music they are okay. EA has found itself stuck in no mans land between wanting a true broadcast experience and wanting a true on the field experience. That is not something you can mix and match with, you're either in or you're out. If they want to focus on the broadcast part, which they clearly do, you cannot have so much dead air and you can't keep approaching cut scenes on a micro level. Things have to be macro, wide panning shots of a full team running on the field. Wide pan shots of a stadium full of people, etc. Then, and only then, do you go small and focus on a mascot at midfield or a player carrying a flag, or things of that nature.

This reliance on cut scenes has got to stop because they do not flow at all. We went from a few bad cut scenes to open the game in NCAA 12 to now 2-3 MORE bad cut scenes, none of which flow together at all.

The crowd noise during the entrance and during the kick return continue to be subpar, I'm hoping this is just because the crowd noise system hasn't been installed.

Worst of all was that post-kickoff throw back to Rece for a studio update 45 seconds after we just left him. That was more awkward than an NFL game with their patented score, commercial, kickoff, commercial sequence. In a 5 minute quarter game, I want to see Rece 4-5 times max. Ideally towards the end of the 1st quarter, coming in and out of halftime, ending the third and starting/midway through the 4th (as more games reach the late quarters). There is no reason for us to be getting a 24-17 Final Score update during what is very clearly an early afternoon game, even if you take into account the 2 hour time difference.

Among other things I noticed, an UPSET ALERT banner on the ticker and then showing Unranked Cal take the lead over #5 Washington 6-0 with 13:56 left in the FIRST QUARTER.

So far the attention to detail is completely absent. But hey, maybe it's an early model.

What I definitely would have liked to have seen (and what I hope they can do for 14) is to use the "College Football Report" title of Jim Nantz's first years at CBS; they could call it the "EA Sports College Football Report." Why do I think so? Because, generally, "EA Sports Studio Update" sounds very generic, at least to me.

And by the way, re: your comments about presentation in this game, if you want a true example of how it is/was done right, at least in my opinion, look at either the 1982 Orange Bowl (Clemson/Nebraska) or the 1987 Red River Rivalry (Oklahoma/Texas), among others. I have those on DVD, and in my opinion, both were handled superbly and flawlessly, by NBC and CBS respectively.