Beta gameplay reviews

[Solidice]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

No Steve does have a beta as he stated in the post with the team ratings "EA Sports has sent us a beta copy of NCAA Football 09, so you know what that means! For starters, here are the screenshots of all the team ratings." As for his gameplay impressions I would say give it some time since he just received the thing and has a busy life just like the rest of us.

yea, give him/them time to actually play the game before he/they talk about it. looks like the first thing done was take screen shots of team/player ratings for us.

[rudyjuly2]

The ratings of the players are still subject to change and they can also be edited by everyone. I'd rather hear gameplay impressions.

[Keyser Soze]

ok... so I guess I was correct and I am correct in assuming that there aren't any gameplay threads out there yet. I am not trying to be pushy (well maybe a little) but I am way more interested in gameplay versus ratings since I can edit ratings if they are screwed up enough, I can't do that to gameplay. Last year there was nothing I could do to keep the CPU from throwing tons if INTs. Also, last year's CPU man coverage was horrible and one could run the option against it all day. These are the type of things that I am anxiously waiting to hear about.

[mercalnd]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

No Steve does have a beta as he stated in the post with the team ratings "EA Sports has sent us a beta copy of NCAA Football 09, so you know what that means! For starters, here are the screenshots of all the team ratings." As for his gameplay impressions I would say give it some time since he just received the thing and has a busy life just like the rest of us.

Serves me right for speculating without looking at the threads. I don't care at all about player and team ratings so I never even entered either thread.

[Keyser Soze]

Out of curiosity, what does it mean by Comments: 1 next to my name and yours has 46? What is a comment and where is it at?

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by soce

Out of curiosity, what does it mean by Comments: 1 next to my name and yours has 46? What is a comment and where is it at?

Comments are just comments made on stories that end up on the front page.

[bad_philanthropy]

Quote: Originally Posted by mercalnd

Serves me right for speculating without looking at the threads. I don't care at all about player and team ratings so I never even entered either thread.

My main interest is the impressions as well but this is how the beta coverage here at OS has been done forever so it can clear up the threads of people asking "What's so and so's rating?" ahead of the more important content.

[JeffHCross]

Quote: Originally Posted by mercalnd

I'm thinking this footage could come from Steve's visit to EA in Vancouver but I'm not sure.

Just to clear this up, the ratings appear to have vastly changed between the Draft/Community day a few weeks ago (or wherever Steve had the previous video from) and today's posting.

Now, our eyes weren't 100%, but NCAA Strategies users were convinced we saw some team ratings in the 30s-50s in the previous video, but 60 is the lowest rating I saw today.

EDIT: I just remembered that Dave from PSU said that he started to write some of the ratings down, but when they were at the Draft Day the ratings kept changing every time they went over a team.