Camera Angles ?

[RedmanR]

More like a lack of interest from EA sports not the public... Or should I just say "LAZY and UNEXCUSABLE" EA sports

[brijeshb]

I am also fed up with this I have had to resort playing ncaa 2006 on the xbox because of this.

[rudyjuly2]

Adam did say they are working on additional camera angles for the next year.

[babyfat9]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

Adam did say they are working on additional camera angles for the next year.

Next year.....EA has heard all our comment bout camera angles ages ago...they had 3 years to incorporate this into Next Gen and still it's not an option....shows how much care EA cares bout consumer complaints!!!!

[ODogg]

The default camera angle is not that bad though, jeesh guys.

[King_James]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

The default camera angle is not that bad though, jeesh guys.

Easy to say when your playing in a view you like. Not so easy to say when your playing in view you don't.

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_James

Easy to say when your playing in a view you like. Not so easy to say when your playing in view you don't.

yeah that's true, they should just add one camera view - usercam and be done with it

[Craigsca]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

I'm sure the frame rate is a big issue. The Show used to have issues with the frame rate in certain camera angles. The frame rate was already low for NCAA last year on the PS3 so I'm sure they wanted to get at least one camera angle up to 60 fps before they worked on the others. At least I'll have 60 fps this year. It would be nice to know the exact reasoning though.

I think you're dead-on with this. Really, I think it's a matter of having to design for two consoles that are so different programmatically it hampers the entire process. You try to standardize the game between the two and then you slowly have to tweak in order to make both of them run at 60 fps. Anytime you change the camera angle, you're completely changing the paradigm - I can see a conversation like this:

-oh crap, there's more of the crowd in this angle, plus the players on the field, now we need to cut the polygons on the "whatever" model in order to still run at 60

- it's still not enough for console B, we need to cut it more

- well, now it looks like crap on using the default camera

and so on, and so on.

Really, I wish both manufacturers would realize that the strength of their system is NOT just tied into the power of the CPU(s). It's also in it's ease of programming. Hopefully next time we get both and the re-writes of our favorite games don't consist of an extremely scaled down version the first iteration.