Despite Flaws, NCAA 09 a Great Experience

[Hey_Rebby]

If EA wants to make an Arcade, offensive shoot-out game, I'm fine with that. All I'm asking is they make the sliders work, so people like me can have a realistic game.

[Mhancock]

Deep pass withstanding, this is the best college game I've played!!! I am a true Madden-head and have never bought a college game when it was released until now(I miss football/hate baseball). I don't have a problem playing good defense, and the dynasty mode IS better just from the recruiting facial. I've never had more fun prepping for Madden than this year!!!

[FORMULA316]

Most of the issues out of the box can be band-aided with a right set of slider settings, but it's hard to discount the game favors the offense heavily right out of the box.

- Chris Sanner

Thanks Chris - please post your slider set

Not sure how this game is getting better with all the flaws now coming
up via online dynasties. When will EA Sports patch these problems?

[RAZRr1275]

I like this game too. I would like to see your sliders too. Also which team are you running with?

[bkrich83]

Re: Despite Flaws, NCAA 09 a Great Experience

Jeez...If I had a dollar for everytime I heard that on these forums for any given game, I'd be rich. Somehow every game is "returned at a greater rate than any other year," according to every ones local gamestop.

LOL, you beat me to it. I was just going to say that we hear how Game X is the most returned game ever at EBGames/Gametstop.

[mgoblue678]

Re: Despite Flaws, NCAA 09 a Great Experience

Sure if you enjoy no defense and offensive football the game is great but since I prefer a sim style of football this game is useless to me at the current moment. I have adjusted sliders all I can but no sliders can fix some of the holes in this game. For example this video was with pass blocking at 0 and human break block at 100

http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/39643

Yep that's realistic.

I guess EA wants to catar to people who prefer arcade style football this year therefore screwing over the people who prefer a sim style. What will they do next year to neuter the defense even more, make the defense play with one less player.

[bigjigger]

...my only 2 problems with this game are the roster bug, and the sliders being all sorts of messed up... fix these two things and i can make it work

[MizzouRah]

Re: Despite Flaws, NCAA 09 a Great Experience

Sure if you enjoy no defense and offensive football the game is great but since I prefer a sim style of football this game is useless to me at the current moment. I have adjusted sliders all I can but no sliders can fix some of the holes in this game. For example this video was with pass blocking at 0 and human break block at 100

http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/39643

Yep that's realistic.

I guess EA wants to catar to people who prefer arcade style football this year therefore screwing over the people who prefer a sim style. What will they do next year to neuter the defense even more, make the defense play with one less player.

That's brutal...

[distauma]

I understand that some of the sliders seem to not work...

But one thing I have noticed is a lot of people have complained of a lack of a pocket in the madden and NCAA games of past, and now they created one, although a little to the opposite extreme, and people seems to want the D Backs to run wild again. Sometimes there needs to be stepping stones so that you can cross the gap... The gap in this case being the legendary football game (which may very well be this year's madden if it comes as advertised)

[mgoblue678]

Re: Despite Flaws, NCAA 09 a Great Experience

^^It is not about the db's not running wild anymore. It is the fact that they are clueless, can't cover certain routes and run the wrong way in coverage alot. I would rather have superhuman cb's than ones that belong in the special olympics. Also let's be honest the pass rush is broken. Watch this play and tell me otherwise.

http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/39643

That is North Texas online maintaining your so called "pocket" for 12 seconds against Mizzou's d-line with pass block at 0 and human break block at 100. The pass rush and pass coverage are broken as simply as that, don't know why people keep on defending EA for breaking three parts of the game: pass rush, pass coverage and punt/kick returns. To think this is the third year in this gen. Maybe we will get a great game by 2011.

[bwall24]

If you improve your user skills then defense becomes a lot easier. Stop allowing the computer to make plays for you. Take control of the situation.

[mgoblue678]

Re: Despite Flaws, NCAA 09 a Great Experience

^^^Hmm really I didn't know you could control more than one defensive players. Oh that's right you can't. I normally play as the safety but if the other cpu controlled players like the cbs and lbs can't cover at all what good does that do. You can only do so much controlling one player.

[distauma]

I have haven't had the same issues on defense as everyone... I have noticed a ton of pick 6's to my dissapointment, but I have also had a lot of good defensive battles with low scores and low production from both the running and passing games on their parts.

I also have no proof in that video that the sliders are as you state. So for all I know you did the complete opposite trying to really beat a dead horse with your piont. Not to mention I've played plenty of games and gotten plenty of sacks, leading me to believe the system isn't as broken as people state.

If you would stop nitpicking the game maybe you could allow yourself to, I don't know, actually have fun? Try it against human opponents as well, it's an entirely different experience and takes away a lot of the issues. This game is solid, I don't care what anyone says. A lot more things are right about the game than the few things that are 'broken'.

[mgoblue678]

Re: Despite Flaws, NCAA 09 a Great Experience

^^^Let's see the majority of people feel the pass rush and pass coverage are messed up but you think your right and everybody is wrong even though your in the minorty.

Lets summarize the things that are either broken or messed up: Pass Rush, Pass Coverage, Sliders, Rosters, Glitches like the magnet catch glitch that are still in the game for whatever reason

That doesn't leave much.

[distauma]

Re: Despite Flaws, NCAA 09 a Great Experience

If you want to be technical about it... in actuality you are part of a vocal minority. One of the biggest problems with internet forums are that people join together in anonymity and just start complaining about everything, somewhat warranted but not to the degree that it goes on.

The true majority are the people who don't give a damn about these technical errors and don't go to a forum to find out what other people think about a game. They make up minds for themselves and just go out and have fun playing.

You want a broken game go play MLB 2k8. NCAA '09 is very far from broken, and could have been something great if it didn't have some of the flaws, and yet it still is an awesome experience.