NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[TDenverFan]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

This is just a question so please don't bite my head off. Could the reason for the poor audio/commentary be due to it being a Demo. To keep it a decent size they may have weakened the audio/commentary and maybe even cut lot of it out. But then again maybe they didn't, so unless they said this is the full audio files I'm just testing the game out. And to me it plays smoother than last year, which makes it enjoyable

Maybe. I hope so, at least. The commentary is slightly better (With a few new lines) and Rece is a nice add to the commentary.

[FedEx227]

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I'm guessing no. Commentary has been largely unchanged for about 2-3 years now, so I'm not too confident that's the reason.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Played K-State vs Baylor. I'm a coach moder, but since it's not available, I turned on auto pass.

* I actually was able to run a HB Slip Screen successfully. Last year, it resulted in a sack 9.5 times out of ten.

* I like the feel of the passing game so far.

* AI clock management is horrid. I'm purposely running the ball to run the clock down so I can kick the game winning FG and Baylor doesn't use a timeout until after I call time out with three seconds left so they can ice the kicker.

* I do like the Bottom Line and the studio updates.

Still on the fence though. If my dynasty brethren can confirm the tendency bug is gone and a few other idiotic things are fixed, then it may move to a purchase. Maybe.

[ghettogeeksta]

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Not enough broken tackles. Its just pitch, catch, tackle. picth, catch, tackle, over and over again. It gets really old fast to me. Canned animations ruins this game for me. This is the main reason jukes dont work in this game.
I hope they increase the broken tackles when you juke or truck before release, this would make the game a little less predictable, but I doubt they will. And I dont care about sliders cause I play online.

[Russell9]

I like the demo so far the passing is AWESOME! This is how it should have always been.
I don't really know what the guy above me is taking about I get broken tackles all time.
So far no complaints but I will soon have some.

[Russell9]

Oh also wish the studio update would have a video clip off the big play that was made!!!

[Phobia]

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Not enough broken tackles. Its just pitch, catch, tackle. picth, catch, tackle, over and over again. It gets really old fast to me. Canned animations ruins this game for me. This is the main reason jukes dont work in this game.
I hope they increase the broken tackles when you juke or truck before release, this would make the game a little less predictable, but I doubt they will. And I dont care about sliders cause I play online.

Sounds like NCAA 09 is right up your alley

[Sdrawkcab321]

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how do you do the shovel pass? i cant figure it out

[micksharp]

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I've probably played 10 games so far and I am sold. I think it plays pretty smooth.

I have both systems both hooked up hdmi on a 55"Sony Bravia and I can certainly say the Xbox graphics are better. I'm not saying if all I had was a PS3 I wouldn't buy it. I'm just saying if you have both you may wanna go XBox. The gameplay felt identical on the two systems though.

Pros, new catch animations, play action is usable, screens work great, 4 verts isn't a guaranteed completion, passing trajectories are much better, the crowd (even though I think they should have went even bigger) reacts better, anyone who says the graphics are no better is just plain wrong (after reading some of these comments I popped in 12 to check a side by side and although not huge 13 is certainly better), the players move more realistic and last but not least the score ticker at the bottom is just awesome

Cons, can't adjust difficulty, choppy especially the ps3 version (loading), return game still felt unrealistic, although better the CPU still sucks a little at running the option (hopefully its only on varsity), CPU qb decision making was no good (hopefully difficulty will help that), still not one PI call in all my games

I would say my biggest con is that EA keeps spending resources on dumb game modes that no one plays. I will never even try Heisman Challenge. It along with the mascot game, the dumb bring your player up from high school thing and all the other side stuff just isn't fun. I guess that has nothing to do with the demo. That was just something I wanted to say.

[thevaliantx]

I'm not invalidating anyone's opinion, I'm asking a question. If you played 12 back in December and had enough, the game play isn't fresh. If the game play isn't fresh in your mind then yeah, 13 is going to seem like 12 because the last time you played collegiate football was around Christmas.

Its the same with people saying "oh it looks just like 12". Well yeah, most yearly releases do. NHL 12 looks like 11. Halo Reach looks like Halo 3. FIFA 12 looks like 11, etc. Obviously a company isn't going to go all out to change their models unless they completely overhaul the game which we all knew EA wasn't going to do with NCAA.

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There is a difference between asking a question becauase your sincerely don't understand something, and asking a question because you are trying to discredit someone else's opinion. I've played the demo, it's more of the same (as in same problems). It *may* be worthy of a purchase when its price has hit rock bottom, but it's EA as usual. I'm sure you've read the impressions here.

[BA2929]

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I think from my perspective I'm not asking for new models or anything but literally everything but the ESPN Bottom Line and Studio Updates is pretty similar. Play call screen is same, commentary is the same, audio is the same.

Yearly games are of course going to have their similarities but they shouldn't be near carbon copies. Game play is definitely improved but I can't help but still feel like I just picked up NCAA 12 again from a presentation standpoint.

NHL 11 is nearly identical in all in-game aspects to NHL 12 and NHL is one of the best sports games out there. In all honesty, if you showed me both games playing at the same time on tvs side by side, I wouldn't be able to pick one out. I'm sure NHL 13 will look exactly the same as well and many people don't have a problem with it.

Seems like some NCAA video game fans want complete change to nearly everything every year and that's one of the reasons we get the "It's just NCAA 12.5" comments all the time. Football games have have had nearly the same playcalling screens since Tecmo Bowl in the 80's. Why change something that works?

[TracerBullet]

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Sounds like NCAA 09 is right up your alley

Ah, the days of Wide Open Gameplay.

Also, I found the juke more effective in this game than it has been in the past.

[TDenverFan]

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Wait, if NCAA 11 was 10.5, NCAA 12 was 11.5, and 13 is 12.5, aren't we really just on 10.7?

[JHusker13]

Does anyone on here understand proper grammar? Geez, people, no wonder EA doesn't listen to what we say....we can't even put an argument together that actually makes sense the first time you read it.

On the other hand...I sure hope Teambuilder isn't a bust again this year. I can live with the gameplay (I'm use to it), I just want my created team to look as cool and realistic as every other school on the game.

*Jeez

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[BA2929]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

Wait, if NCAA 11 was 10.5, NCAA 12 was 11.5, and 13 is 12.5, aren't we really just on 10.7?

We're actually on NCAA '98.15