EA Needs to Reinvent Itself

[dghustla]

[quote=HamTonks;2039557210]That's the completely wrong mindset to have when approaching a video game. It's very obvious at this point what video game studios are actually passionate about their product and which ones want to turn a buck or two. EA is the latter. What you're saying is that EA, instead of making a GOOD video game, decides to add novelty features to keep people saying "maybe next year". EA will soon realize that people will be tired of saying "maybe next year". If a separate company released a football game, regardless of not having the licensing -- and I had to play as the "San Fernando Hammerheads" or some other fake team, and there was no Campus Legend feature or Team Builder -- as long as the gameplay was realistic enough for me to say "that would actually happen on any given Saturday", I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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I like how you miss-quoted me there. Right before that i stated it was GENIUS on EA's part to add a feature to keep ppl hooked long enough until they fix all the problems with the gameplay.

[HamTonks]

Quote: Originally Posted by dghustla

I like how you miss-quoted me there. Right before that i stated it was GENIUS on EA's part to add a feature to keep ppl hooked long enough until they fix all the problems with the gameplay.

I'm not sure what you mean -- but I wasn't misquoting you -- I was pointing out what was wrong with EA's mindset when it comes to their college football games.

[moylan1234]

Quote: Originally Posted by HamTonks

I'm not sure what you mean -- but I wasn't misquoting you -- I was pointing out what was wrong with EA's mindset when it comes to their college football games.

you misquoted him because you took only a peice of his post and responded to that. common tactic employed by many bad reporters.

[sportzbro]

Quote: Originally Posted by moylan55

you misquoted him because you took only a peice of his post and responded to that. common tactic employed by many bad reporters.

*INSERT SELENA ROBERTS*

[HamTonks]

Quote: Originally Posted by moylan55

you misquoted him because you took only a peice of his post and responded to that. common tactic employed by many bad reporters.

Thank God I'm not a reporter then.

I wasn't trying to take his words out of context, I was just using what he said to emphasize my point.

[umd]

The NCAA series in no longer about gameplay. That's pretty evident in the feature set and marketing of the last few years.

[HamTonks]

Quote: Originally Posted by umd

The NCAA series in no longer about gameplay. That's pretty evident in the feature set and marketing of the last few years.

What I don't understand is how this is acceptable to the some of the people who play these games.

[umd]

Quote: Originally Posted by HamTonks

What I don't understand is how this is acceptable to the some of the people who play these games.

For some people features like Online Dynasty and Teambuilder are preferred to how the game play on the field. To each their own. Personally, this series has seen a focus shift from features that enhance gameplay on the field to features like Campus Legend, OD and now Teambuilder.

I'd guess it's some sort of balancing act by EA w/ Madden. While it appears Madden is moving more towards gameplay tweaks and improvements (successfully? who knows) NCAA is being "casualized" probably to balance and differentiate the football franchise.

NCAA has been lackluster on the field since 360/PS3 and it doesn't look (or sound) like there is an interest by the NCAA dev team to take big steps in the gameplay direction. Look at NCAA 09:

Online Dynasty (non gameplay) vs Wide Open Offense (gameplay)

*Wide open offense was pretty poorly implemented as has been posted all over this forum. Combined w/ the lack of working sliders at release, poor pursuit angles, inept line play, on field speed issues 09 wasn't as gameplay friendly as it could be.

Now look at 2010:

Teambuilder (non gameplay) vs ?????? (gameplay) - there is nothing. The gameplay info has been scant for 2010. Meanwhile Madden is all over gameplay. There's blog after blog covering gameplay related issues. NCAA not much.

It's a shame they've made this game Madden's 3rd cousing in the gameplay innovation department. Sure Teambuilder looks innovative, but whast the point of building teams when the gameplay is marginal at best lately.