NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

[hdaniel1]

GameSpot has posted their On the Spot Demo video of NCAA Football 09.

[Scott]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

Checking it out right now, thanks HD

[Solidice]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

wooo, Varsity gameplay!

"more mascots in the game, more scenes with cheerleaders, which, cheerleaders, you know, are never bad" lol

[JohnDoe8865]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

Looks pretty good from that video.

[Scott]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

My impressions after the video...the user sucked (lol), the OL/DL interaction looked pretty good.

[Skyboxer]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

Well another video that does almost prove in fact, that the CPU does snap the ball right away.... Bummer.

Everything (well most everything) else I'm liking so far.

[AuburnAlumni]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

Apparently one of the lead developers is an Auburn grad. Because he mentions "We have to use Auburn so Brad won't get mad in all of our demonstrations."

Whoever he is, he needs to use his Auburn mojo and get us some better team ratings each year.

Oh..and I dug the video. I just want to PLAY now!

[J-Unit40]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

Dang. I already watched this last week. Still NCAA Football though.

[ProStylez]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

LOL @ the guy in the background saying the Auburn mascot was crip walking

[2krules]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

Where are the instant replays? No replay for the interception? You've gotta be kidding me. The only replay I saw was on the TD, and even that was truncated by that annoying photo feature. Last year, that feature couldn't be disabled. I hope it can be disabled this year.

Secondly, for all their talk about upping the college atmosphere, all they seem to have done is add a couple of cheerleader cutscenes and the mascot interaction thing, neither of which does me good at all, since my team, Texas A&M, has no mascot and no cheerleaders. Where are all the cutscenes of the fans in the crowd, like they had on Xbox and Ps2? Heck, Xbox and Ps2 even had team-specific cutscenes, like the cannon for Texas A&M. That's what college atmosphere is all about - the team specific stuff. It's inexcusable for the next gen consoles to leave that stuff out.

[Brandwin]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

Well another video that does almost prove in fact, that the CPU does snap the ball right away.... Bummer.

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Damn... why would they do that?

[Skyboxer]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

Damn... why would they do that?

I have a theory.....

So they have all the new D movements before the snap etc..

What if by implementing that they made a new problem where the pre snap D movements actually screwed of the "DICE" throw calculations of thier Offenseive AI. Of whatever they use to calculate how the O will react etc..
So the quick fix? Have the CPU AI on offense snapp right away to negate that problem.

I'm probably totally off on this but it just stands out so much that EA has to see the quick snap by the AI. and chose to leave it that way or they meant it to be that way in the first place because it was neccessary.

Maybe it's just a fluke and the game isn't like that at all in the final version.

[Solidice]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

I have a theory.....

So they have all the new D movements before the snap etc..

What if by implementing that they made a new problem where the pre snap D movements actually screwed of the "DICE" throw calculations of thier Offenseive AI. Of whatever they use to calculate how the O will react etc..
So the quick fix? Have the CPU AI on offense snapp right away to negate that problem.

I'm probably totally off on this but it just stands out so much that EA has to see the quick snap by the AI. and chose to leave it that way or they meant it to be that way in the first place because it was neccessary.

Maybe it's just a fluke and the game isn't like that at all in the final version.

the CPU quick snapped in '08 too. except when winning within 2-3 minutes of the end of game.

[Skyboxer]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

the CPU quick snapped in '08 too.

I'm still playing to this day and there isn't a problem with the AI Offense quick snapping at all in 08. You have time to adjust your D etc....
So far in 09 the CPU snaps right as soon as the qb gets set. This wasn't the case in 08....

Maybe I'm on crack though...

EDIT: No I'm not. Can't be...

[Brandwin]

Re: NCAA Football 09 On the Spot (5/15/08) Demo: GameSpot

I have a theory.....

So they have all the new D movements before the snap etc..

What if by implementing that they made a new problem where the pre snap D movements actually screwed of the "DICE" throw calculations of thier Offenseive AI. Of whatever they use to calculate how the O will react etc..
So the quick fix? Have the CPU AI on offense snapp right away to negate that problem.

I'm probably totally off on this but it just stands out so much that EA has to see the quick snap by the AI. and chose to leave it that way or they meant it to be that way in the first place because it was neccessary.

Maybe it's just a fluke and the game isn't like that at all in the final version.

How are we going to make pre snap adjustments on D though?