NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

[mjussawalla]

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Wow...this is absolutely unacceptable. WTH is up with taking features out of the game?!?!?! Especially something thats been in for years. Geez.

Heres my take on the demo. Good for what it is. I'll buy the game still, despite what I just found out about the lighting.

-I think the players are too slow. I got in the open filed with LSU's RB, and it's like he started taking choppy baby steps even when I was holding down turbo
-The up front pass blocking is still too iffy for me.
-The evening lighting looked terrible. Way too washed out and orange-ish

It's def a step in the right direction from 2008. But we cant keep taking steps back.....by the way, does this lighting issue mean there will no longer be moving shadows across stadiums?

Yes, there will be NO moving shadows. This is probably the second worst part of the game thus far. The worst? As someone mentioned above, the demos is just Meh.

Did anyone else notice the ball physics look odd? If there is a punt that hits the ground, it just bounces once or twice then just stops dead.

[Skyboxer]

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Wow...this is absolutely unacceptable. WTH is up with taking features out of the game?!?!?! Especially something thats been in for years. Geez.

Dude read the QA threads. It's all explained there. It will be back..

[MillerTime89]

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I love it... now these next couple of weeks are going to be rough to wait for the game to come out.. god have mercy on all of our souls for this waiting game

[drlw322]

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for those that have played both version of the demos, do you find the PS3 demo super glitchy compare to the 360 one. the 360 just seems smoother??

[countryboy]

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Played my first game and won 3-0 on a last second field goal. The ice the kicker "mini-game" is cool.

Its a breath of fresh air being able to play this game at 60fps. Animations are nice, the lighting is gorgeous(although no progressive lighting really puts a damper on it), and the player interactions seem better.

But.......
3 things really stood out as sore thumbs to me:

1) Commentary is downright awful. Not sure if its due to the build or not, but it was almost as bad as the radio guy from Madden

2) Turnovers - Not sure again if its the skill level, the build or what, but the cpu threw 3 picks that were head scratchers. He just dropped back and fired the ball right to my guys. I threw one, but it was my mistake of confusing the L1/R1 receiver

3) Atmosphere: The crowd was lifeless. No emotion, nothing. I kicked a game winning FG with 6 seconds left and after the ball sailed thru the uprights, the crowd was so quiet you could've heard a mouse fart.

Just my .02 after 1 game

[Spectre]

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Played my first game and won 3-0 on a last second field goal. The ice the kicker "mini-game" is cool.

Its a breath of fresh air being able to play this game at 60fps. Animations are nice, the lighting is gorgeous(although no progressive lighting really puts a damper on it), and the player interactions seem better.

But.......
3 things really stood out as sore thumbs to me:

1) Commentary is downright awful. Not sure if its due to the build or not, but it was almost as bad as the radio guy from Madden

2) Turnovers - Not sure again if its the skill level, the build or what, but the cpu threw 3 picks that were head scratchers. He just dropped back and fired the ball right to my guys. I threw one, but it was my mistake of confusing the L1/R1 receiver

3) Atmosphere: The crowd was lifeless. No emotion, nothing. I kicked a game winning FG with 6 seconds left and after the ball sailed thru the uprights, the crowd was so quiet you could've heard a mouse fart.

Just my .02 after 1 game

Funny- we must have played the same game. Those are my exact feelings about the demo too

[mjussawalla]

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Seems to me that those who are really happy are PS3 owners who had to suffer 30FPS last year.

To be perfectly honest, up until I played the demo I was more excited about NCAA 09 than Madden 09. But now I am looking forward to Madden.

[PVarck31]

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Just played 2 games PS3 version. I was so pumped for this game I started to think my expectations were to high. WRONG....I love it.

IMO its leaps and bounds better than 08. The players have weight to them, you can feel the momentum. Graphics are sick. Best looking player models to date.

Some positives

1. Animations, they look great.

2. Overall feel of the game is more last-gen, IE weight and momentum.

3. Nice playbooks.

4. Just feels like football.

Negative.

1. Saw a few weird animations.

2. Could have better presentation.

The game overall just feels good. Everything looks and acts right. The crowd is even much improved. I am no super pumped for July 15th. But damn Just think what Madden will be.

[ODogg]

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I think that the game is great, but I always have a lot of fun with NCAA. My only complaint is that it is very hard to see the formations on the play call screen, because of the team logo in the background.

I agree, I wish they'd re-think that and/or make it more subtle.

[ODogg]

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That doesn't matter just get some of the lesser known college commentators to come in for a month or two and start over from scratch. Until then the presentation in this series will be lackluster.

That would work for one year, then the next year it'd be back to the same situation.

[Anti Honor]

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2) Turnovers - Not sure again if its the skill level, the build or what, but the cpu threw 3 picks that were head scratchers. He just dropped back and fired the ball right to my guys. I threw one, but it was my mistake of confusing the L1/R1

We all need to hope it's just the difficulty level, because the demo is just awful, turnover wise. This demo equals out to one full quarter on many peoples franchises, and I'm getting 2 to 3 picks per demo game, which is 2 to 3 CPU turnovers per quarter. I'm not even happy with 3 CPU picks per game, but per quarter? No Thanks.

I'm not as confident in this turnover ''fix'' as most people here. This is a 100% game killer for me, and I'm going out to buy the game as soon as it's released - I'm a bit concerned, to say the least. The guy in the Madden section completely avoided any questions about the turnover ''fix,'' so I'm not sold on Madden either.

I wish more people would address the issue, though.

[doublerballa20]

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4 onside kick recoveries and 5 user sacks wit the DL in 2.5 games

[jestr962]

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After two game LSU has thrown 6 interceptions (4 as CPU and 2 while I played) OSU didn't throw any. However OSU had two fumbles (one was right after an interception and the other was a QB getting sacked) while LSU had 0. Turnovers are beginning to scare me. This whole post-TD celebration thing is going to be a disaster if the player is allowed to walk through people like he can in the demo. And I agree with whoever said that the game seems slow. Maybe I just really really suck but I had no big running plays b/c i couldn't outrun anyone. I also saw a few phantom tackles which scares me. All in all I'm disappointed but I'm not shocked at all. Last year I wasn't expecting it but this year I'm ready.

[ODogg]

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Wow...this is absolutely unacceptable. WTH is up with taking features out of the game?!?!?! Especially something thats been in for years. Geez.

If you'd been on OS reading what the producers would have to say then you'd know the reasons behind this and not be ranting about this.

[Geauxldenboy]

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for those that have played both version of the demos, do you find the PS3 demo super glitchy compare to the 360 one. the 360 just seems smoother??

I guess everyone has different experiences but, so far through a few games on both systems, I think the PS3 controls are a little more responsive. In fact, the only control issue I have with either system is the formation subs being mapped to the right stick. It seems like it takes me alot longer to get the grouping I want compared to previous versions.