NCAA Football 09 Official First Look: NCAA Strategies

[stewaat]

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I want to focus on the positive but...INTs=game killer.

I'm getting the game but I just hope that the INT slider will mean something this year.

[cch99]

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As I've said before. One Camera Angle=No buy

Like someone else said, three years in and still one playable camera angle when PS2 had about 6.

I just don't get it.

Another thing about the whole casual gamer-sim gamer. I am sure I am wrong or they wouldn't do it this way, because the bottom line is making as much momye as possibel, but it would seem that making one of the games, either Madden or NCAA more sim would benefit them, probably NCAA because if players are more casual why would they be buying two games that are almost the same thing. Plus I would think Madden would be the first buy.

Massive run-on sentence there but you get the point.

When you make 2 diffeernt games every year why can't one lean more to the hardcore.

I am sure no one cares but back to 08 ps2 NCAA and probably Madden as well.

Thanks.

[callmetaternuts]

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Add me to the list of people who are hopeful it will be good, but is concerned with a few issues in that write up........Cmon EA, youve still got time

[SteelerSpartan]

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Well after reading NCAAstrategies and pastas impressions it appears that these games still have the casuals in mind in terms of gameplay.

Big Emphasis on Big hits, Ints, fumbles, Juke Moves, higher scores.....instead of the meat and potatoes of the game of Football.

Our only hope is that they have better functioning Sliders this year

[Cardot]

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EA's love affair with the big play has always been a bummer. I think a pick-6 is amongst the most exciting plays in football. But in '08 they are so common, they are ho-hum events. The same could be said of 80 yard passes or hailmary's in previous versions. For '09, it sounds like long runs could fall into this category.

[LBzrule]

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Defense will still be based on how well you can blitz. If you can blitz well you should be able to keep the scores down. But scoring will be inevitable since the game design is predicated upon big plays.

[FlyingFinn]

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Disappointing... seems the only real presentation upgrade is cutscenes of cheerleaders. No pre-game,half-time or post-game shows... most likely the same old commentary, no intros, one camera angle...

In the words of Aerosmith... Same ole song and dance!

[SteelerSpartan]

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Disappointing... seems the only real presentation upgrade is cutscenes of cheerleaders. No pre-game,half-time or post-game shows... most likely the same old commentary, no intros, one camera angle...

In the words of Aerosmith... Same ole song and dance!

And what makes it so disappointing is that they haven't even been able to fix the most crucial gameplay aspects yet..

[SidVish]

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I'm very disappointed. I'll just wait on impressions to see if both qb ai and int returns for td can be adjusted by sliders. I mean if these still aren't fixed why would I want to buy 09? The qb ai and turnovers were a huge game killer for me in 08and I don't want to put myself through that kind of frustration again. Not happy.

[FlyingFinn]

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And what makes it so disappointing is that they haven't even been able to fix the most crucial gameplay aspects yet..

Thing is... if the game is immersive with a wow factor and has great atmosphere, it becomes easier to look past gameplay faults. NHL 08 is a game like that and ESPN NFL 2k5 was one as well.

[thelasthurtknee]

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You are correct.

All of the hard code is already been put in place by this time in development. This game will not see 'major' changes before the retail version is done.

If the INT issue and the lack of a QB pocket is not in by now, we will not see either corrected by the final version.

there is still about a month or 5 weeks to change things. they said the game is much more advanced than just two weeks ago. alot of that is polish but things that they don't have to rewrite but just tweak can be change. i would think that the qb accuracy would fall into that but not sure about the cpu qb's aggresiveness. last year the game was much diffrent from community day to release date from what the guys that went said. annimations are done but i would expect the feedback to used to the best they can.

[LBzrule]

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there is still about a month or 5 weeks to change things. they said the game is much more advanced than just two weeks ago. alot of that is polish but things that they don't have to rewrite but just tweak can be change. i would think that the qb accuracy would fall into that but not sure about the cpu qb's aggresiveness. last year the game was much diffrent from community day to release date from what the guys that went said. annimations are done but i would expect the feedback to used to the best they can.

There really is only about six to seven weeks to change it. All of May and maybe the first two weeks of June, then they gotta prepare for pressing and all that other mess. They'll address some of it.

[thelasthurtknee]

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There really is only about six to seven weeks to change it. All of May and maybe the first two weeks of June, then they gotta prepare for pressing and all that other mess. They'll address some of it.

yea, about all of may and then they will be done with code. they start testing, i guess they test but it didn't look like it last year. then get little things right with graphics and errors in graphics.

[SteelerSpartan]

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Thing is... if the game is immersive with a wow factor and has great atmosphere, it becomes easier to look past gameplay faults. NHL 08 is a game like that and ESPN NFL 2k5 was one as well.

Yeah theres really no excuse for how big EA is to not have significant improvements in gameplay and presentation

[mdgoalie37]

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No mention of in-game saves - why is this feature so hard to implement?