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

[muddrow23]

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

I will buy this game since I'm a college football nut and this is the only Monopoly game in the store but I'm starting to get this feeling this is the same old junky house with new shiny paint on the walls.:

[TheTruth437]

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Some stuff in NBA 2k12 can get repetitive the commentary doesn't sound robotic. It is 100 times better than NCAA or Madden. It flows much like a real broadcast. There is a bit of banter between the guys in the booth, and they go into detail about how a team did last year, or has been doing the past few years, or something to make it sound authentic, though they say the same ones, at least you can tell the audio team made an effort. The commentary in NCAA makes me want to stab myself in the side of the head with a screwdriver after a couple games.

I just can't see why they can't have both guys in the sound booth AT THE SAME TIME, and just call a game or portions of games.

I agree with you.

[shanew21]

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

I will buy this game since I'm a college football nut and this is the only Monopoly game in the store but I'm starting to get this feeling this is the same old junky house with new shiny paint on the walls.:

I'll enjoy the new passing game and updated rosters, but I agree with you. We need another NCAA game for EA to compete with.

[bigsmallwood]

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There is nothing impressive nor immersive about this video. It is sad that some of you are willing to act like EA made a huge leap forward this year, and all they have done is attempt to patch in some new commentary and pasted a scoring update into the game. I don't want to hear about this being an earlier build or anything that people keep saying annually to try and cover up for the fact that EA Sports is telling you what they can't do and forcing you to accept the minimal updates.

This is why we need competition....I guarantee that EA Sports would have fixed the issues plaguing this game and we would have witnessed true innovation. #Notimpressed

[TheTruth437]

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I agree to an extent. Theirs is still much better than anything that EA does commentary wise (so far * crosses fingers), but NBA 2K's still isn't as good as MLB 2K's. At least with MLB, you don't hear the same anecdotes every. single. game.

Yep. NBA 2k12's commentary system is better than any EA game I've played. But no sports game I've ever played has done that well with commentary, as far as I'm concerned.

[DorianDonP]

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

Will there be late season BCS drama in-game commentary?
Will it be like Madden's commentary system where they are aware if standings and all that?

Recognition if busted or gem recruits that are playing??

Idk let me stop dreaming

Apparently, there will be.

Details like BCS or poll positioning, rivalries and upcoming games, and individual performances are all part of the mix.

http://kotaku.com/5909126/ncaa-footb...with-an-update

[Lekcots11]

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i dont know. i still feel like its lacking in crowd. thats a HUGE stadium, and it sounds like a MAC stadium. It should gradually get louder when the teams runs out of the tunnel, but it sounded the same. and the USC intro bored me. the crowd never changed pitch when he put the sword in the ground. I know at Michigan State, our drum majors bend their backs so their hat touches the grounds while they are standing up, and the crowd goes nuts. Im just sayin, still make the crowd louder

[chipper_kobe]

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

Yes believe it or not 2K is not perfect in everything they do...though this board will come to that realization the same time Satan starts wearing a coat.

[PowerofRed25]

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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.

[Black4track]

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I agree. With the exception of some new audio, this game looks like last years.

But why should EA try, when people will eat this up and pay $60 for the patch update.

[fearme504]

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I agree. With the exception of some new audio, this game looks like last years.

But why should EA try, when people will eat this up and pay $60 for the patch update.

And you'll probably be one of them, I know i will. But im not trying to sit here and sound like I wont be purchasing this on day one.

[PowerofRed25]

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And you'll probably be one of them, I know i will. But im not trying to sit here and sound like I wont be purchasing this on day one.

Oh I already pre-ordered. I'll buy this game every year, I know how to make the most out of it, regardless of what EA does to it. Even last year when custom playbooks (amongst other things) were glitched out, I managed to make it work. I'll always get great joy out of the game, no matter what. Kills me to see EA flail and miss so constantly though.

[Rivals]

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I like that they allowed the pregame animations to play out. The flow of Rece Davis' commentary with the video was good, but the actually team intro is awkward and inaccurate. The horse Traveler is not on the field with the drum major sticking the sword in the ground. That's just a cut and paste from 2012, which people complained about last year. And the crowd noise still seems to be lacking presence. Crowd noise in 2012 was horrendous.

[stoncold32]

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I suppose this is nitpicking, but the clock doesnt move on the ticker bar. I did see the score chaneg once, so I guess that's good

[tlew09]

They showed an "upset alert" that took place with 14 min left in the first qrt after 1 td... I wouldnt put a game on alert until the second half, at least.