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Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)
I'm being lazy, avoiding lawn work, reading the board. But I can't answer a lot of this stuff cause I'm not at work and can't ask anyone to get answers I don't know.
Actually, all of next week I'm going to be in day long training... can't wait to see all the posts of people saying I ran away!Comment
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Check out my Tampa Bay Buccaneers CFM Thread.
You too can be a 5* recruit at FSU.......
Originally posted by TwelveozPlaya21Originally posted by MassNoleComment
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Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)
Adam,
Try to track the guy responsible for allowing us 7 seconds to choose a play after the offense selects their formation. It was patched last year but it's screwed up again this year. Add this to the fact that the online lag has been God awful and it's almost unplayable online.
BTW, great work on the commentary this year! In my last game I heard the Braveheart line! Maybe it was in there last year but the commentary is better this year. Now just get rid of the "beep beep beep...."!Comment
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Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)
Makes me think they did not agree with you, and made a conscious decision not to work on those things. Either they wanted "wide open gameplay" or were hoping everyone else would like the game as is so they wouldn't have to do any extra work on this game so they could move on and could start on 2010. But, we will not know unless they tell us what their intentions were.
By the way, how do you change your defense from locking onto a man like you could in the past? Or can you?Comment
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Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)
idn why all of you guys think that the game is unplayable i mean some of the stuff is messed up but its not that bad. the only main concern with me is the lost connection to ea servers that you get online so muchComment
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Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)
Because Madden is THE game for EA. It's their cash cow, and God forbid something goes wrong with that game. The NFL is the most popular sport in America today. Hence, Madden is the most popular video game EA has. You see on TV all the real athletes playing Madden. It's in movies, TV, hell its got its own televised tournament. The Madden Challenge is turning into the World Series of Poker meets The Real World. EA Sports' lifeblood revolves around that game, especially considering Madden is the only game you could say that was consistently the best title in its respective sport and genre.
In all seriousness, for a great majority of NCAA's life it has always taken a back seat to Madden. I'm sure the suits at EA still see it that way to an extent. Maybe its just me, but I remember in the 98-02 days it seemed like NCAA was a hand-me down of the previous years' Madden installment with some extra window dressing (ie: NCAA 01 was the bastard son of Madden 2000). For a long time NCAA was almost a niche game for a niche market, not as mass-marketable as Madden.
A few years ago that started to change as College Football reached an all time popularity high. NCAA was becoming its own game, different from Madden. The atmosphere, the option game, recruting, polls, bowl games and the BCS. Some of these things are what made me prefer the college game to the pros IRL, and in gaming too.
Face it, Madden has Madden as a spokesman. It's easily accessible by hardcore sim gamers and casual gamers. It has staying power. And its successes has allowed EA to become a titan in the gaming industry. This status gave them leverage to pull off the worst thing to ever happen to sports gaming: exclusive licenses. Now they can get away with releasing an inferior product. Think about it--at one time you could argue EA was #2 in the holy trinity of sports. NFL2K5 was a great game and many people preferred it to Madden. NBA 2k and College Hoops 2k are/were VASTLY superior to Live and March Madness. Don't get me started on baseball.
Now I'm deprived of College Hoops 2k, after 2k8 was possibly the best basketball game I ever played. But we are all going to have to get used to this as I doubt things will change. As long was a vast majority of the public is willing to shell out $60 for NCAA, EA won't have a reason to put out the best product possible.
Last edited by MegaHusker; 07-27-2008, 03:40 PM.Comment
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Does any know about the second patch containing any fixes to pursuit angles which are appalling on this game. Is that even fixable? I hope so; it is real letdown to have a saftey planning his angle of pursuit to tackle me at the tunnel entranceComment
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Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)
It seems to me like next-gen platform technology in general has outpaced the actual tools to develop the games. We hear about how everything is more expensive and takes much longer to do, so it's unfortunate that tools don't exist to allow developers a process that is much more intuitive and streamlined and allows for a similar yield of productivity as last gen.Comment
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Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)
I agree years ago it was the Madden bastage child and had more in common with the previous years Madden with a more college feel.Because Madden is THE game for EA. It's their cash cow, and God forbid something goes wrong with that game. The NFL is the most popular sport in America today. Hence, Madden is the most popular video game EA has. You see on TV all the real athletes playing Madden. It's in movies, TV, hell its got its own televised tournament. The Madden Challenge is turning into the World Series of Poker meets The Real World. EA Sports' lifeblood revolves around that game, especially considering Madden is the only game you could say that was consistently the best title in its respective sport and genre.
In all seriousness, for a great majority of NCAA's life it has always taken a back seat to Madden. I'm sure the suits at EA still see it that way to an extent. Maybe its just me, but I remember in the 98-02 days it seemed like NCAA was a hand-me down of the previous years' Madden installment with some extra window dressing (ie: NCAA 01 was the bastard son of Madden 2000). For a long time NCAA was almost a niche game for a niche market, not as mass-marketable as Madden.
A few years ago that started to change as College Football reached an all time popularity high. NCAA was becoming its own game, different from Madden. The atmosphere, the option game, recruting, polls, bowl games and the BCS. Some of these things are what made me prefer the college game to the pros IRL, and in gaming too.
Face it, Madden has Madden as a spokesman. It's easily accessible by hardcore sim gamers and casual gamers. It has staying power. And its successes has allowed EA to become a titan in the gaming industry. This status gave them leverage to pull off the worst thing to ever happen to sports gaming: exclusive licenses. Now they can get away with releasing an inferior product. Think about it--at one time you could argue EA was #2 in the holy trinity of sports. NFL2K5 was a great game and many people preferred it to Madden. NBA 2k and College Hoops 2k are/were VASTLY superior to Live and March Madness. Don't get me started on baseball.
Now I'm deprived of College Hoops 2k, after 2k8 was possibly the best basketball game I ever played. But we are all going to have to get used to this as I doubt things will change. As long was a vast majority of the public is willing to shell out $60 for NCAA, EA won't have a reason to put out the best product possible.
Yes, I think Madden will always get priority since it is their flagship title. They did really mess up Madden last year and it was a stinker in my opinion. I hated that Madden more than any ever made.
And Yes, exclusive licenses stink when EA has them and when 2K has one (baseball). Competition will always make things better in my opinion.Comment
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As a consumer I would tend to think that it is EA's obligation to imform us of broken concepts in their games prior to release. Especially when basic gameplay functions are defective making the game unplayable. It is false advertising to have prior knowledge of a products disfunction without informing the public. I appreciate the work that goes into the game, and some of the new features are nice, but good Lord when it is this screwed up we should be aware prior to release.Comment
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Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)
different software has different levels of authorization
some healthcare companies develop software that is regulated by the fda - if they make a major code change, it has to go through testing/validation by their IT, Quality, & Regulatory departments, then has to be approved by the fda via a 510k submission. the FDA has 90 days to approve it (and they normally take most of those days). If they have any questions that need to be answered by the developer, the 90 day approval clock starts over, giving them another 90 days to approve. obviously this isn't fda regulated software, however I believe Sony and Microsoft both need to give their blessing before anything's released.
this also isn't a pc game like ootp or the mogul series where a developer can work all weekend to release a patch, only to realize that the patch creates a bunch of other problems. you should see the baseball mogul support forum for examples. i think Adam intimated that they have ONE shot to get this right because any patches after the 2nd one would take directly from their ncaa 2010 budget dollar wise and man-hour wise.
personally i'd rather wait to make sure they correct as much as possible in one patch. the season doesn't even start until late august and i don't get into madden much so i won't have to split time between the two games but i realize (as they do i'm sure) that many people play both games.Comment
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