NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3/360)

[countryboy]

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I know one other dude who has XBL but he works nights so I might not be able to get over to his place. But yeah, only nine more days anyway.

I'm not really worried bout the demo anyway, I've played enough of Live 10 and seen enough vids of the demo. I think the retail is going to be a lot better than the demo based on what I see in Live now and the difference between Live's demo and retail (and post patch).

Agreed, although I haven't played Live all that much. But given the fact that I enjoyed the hell out of last year's games despite its hiccups, I can't imagine having just as much, if not, more fun with this year's title.

New motion offense, the presentation, the talk of improved sim logic....yeah, I'm going to be fine.

[ehh]

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I'm curious to see if the game winds up being better than Live 10. For the last 4-5 years college games have pretty much always wound up better than the NBA version because the game comes out later and more improvements are made. We obviously won't know the answer until after the patch comes out probably around New Year's.

The DNA updates in Live sometimes do more harm than good, I'm excited to get into dynasty mode and see if there are less odd-ball things done by the CPU.

[JkA3]

too bad we didn't get a ps3 release.

[Bootzilla]

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Played more of the demo and it FEELS like a demo not a final retail. theres times when there's annoying hiccups as well. overall though if it's anything like the demo i'll be happy for once with a game out of the box

Do you like Live? I played Live and the NCAA demo back to back and I like Live so much more. I find myself playing the demo and thinking about sliders and how I'd change things to make it more realistic.

[chris11sg]

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too bad we didn't get a ps3 release.

second that

[RayAllen20]

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One thing I've definitely noticed is the fact that the player speed differential and momentum isn't like Lives. Everyone is like a guard. Brian Zoubek doesn't have someone like Yao's momentum.

There are a couple things we may be able to do. There should probably be a speed threshold slider. Which we could make 0 to make the speed differential bigger.

Or we might have to do a big roster project to change everyone's speed. I need to have so that Kemba Walker's speed differential than most players is huge. This could also make it so there are more fastbreaks, since everyone can catch up. For example what we would do is change Zoubek's speed to around 40, and lower his agility as well.

(I pray to god we don't have to do this!)

One thing I like is the lack of dunks. It's not a dunk show but when you get one it is special.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Yeah, after playing a bunch of games I have to echo everyone's complaint about how every player seems like they have the same exact attributes. I shouldn't be able to cross people up and drive to the hole with Brian Zoubek.

[KG]

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I'm curious to see if the game winds up being better than Live 10. For the last 4-5 years college games have pretty much always wound up better than the NBA version because the game comes out later and more improvements are made. We obviously won't know the answer until after the patch comes out probably around New Year's.

The DNA updates in Live sometimes do more harm than good, I'm excited to get into dynasty mode and see if there are less odd-ball things done by the CPU.

That's what I'm banking on but the demo feels worse than the Live demo to me and the fact that the college game doesn't have all the bells & whistles of the pro game makes me hesitant. That was one thing I could always count on with College Hoops, I knew it was going to be an improvement over the NBA game while still having it's own personality.

[tmacfan12]

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I dont know if anyones posted this because the thread is 25 pages long but...

Every SINGLE time I drive I either jump right into a guy and shoot over him or turn the ball over. It is the biggest joke I have ever seen. Honestly, that isnt realistic AT ALL.

[footballfanatic1]

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Kind of OT for this thread, but I didn't want to start a new topic...does EA allow you to give a player tattoos?

[ehh]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

I dont know if anyones posted this because the thread is 25 pages long but...

Every SINGLE time I drive I either jump right into a guy and shoot over him or turn the ball over. It is the biggest joke I have ever seen. Honestly, that isnt realistic AT ALL.

Yeah, any newb to EA's games have this problem. They have a thing called layup solutions, hold the joystick left or right (away from the D, the side of the hoop you want to lay the ball up on) and press the shoot button and you'll be fine. Also start it pretty far out, 15-18' from the hoop. It's easiest to learn this using the baseline cam so you can see the angles better.

[tmacfan12]

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Yeah, any newb to EA's games have this problem. They have a thing called layup solutions, hold the joystick left or right (away from the D, the side of the hoop you want to lay the ball up on) and press the shoot button and you'll be fine. Also start it pretty far out, 15-18' from the hoop. It's easiest to learn this using the baseline cam so you can see the angles better.

thanks man! Ill try it out tommorow. That was really the only bad part of the game for me, hopefully I can figure it out.

[blackngoldfan]

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I wonder why the Broadcast camera is different than the Live camera. Even on Broadcast Zoom the camera is farther away.

I think they did that to show off the crowd and atmosphere. The crowd models look very good this year. They're just like Live 10, but with much more intensity. I really wanna see the difference in atmosphere between the smaller schools and the major programs.

[sense]

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My impressions on the demo.

The presentation and Atmosphere is crazy. EA did an excellent job of making the game feel like a real college game!!!!!

But The gameplay for the demo however (IMHO) is mediocore!!!!! First, there's WAY to many deflections by the computer.....Far too many!!!! Second, the use of the triple threat isn't all that effective.....It seems everytime i try to create off triple threat and get to the lane to draw the defense, it's either A the cpu gets the charge or B my guy looses the ball.....And this would be just off of one or two dribbles. It seems the only way i get the majority of my points is just freestyling to death till i get space to shoot. Thats not too much fun or realistic. And my third issue with the gameplay is the cpu A.I on offense........The cpu rarely breaks there play if theres an opening....There's times i would leave shooters open to see how they would react and they would continue to run there plays....Or i'd give them the lane to the basket but they'll still be content running there offense. It get's so predictable that you actually know when the cpu is going to shoot.

I REALLY want to like this game because the overall presentation SCREAMS college basketball but the gameplay is not all that great (IMHO). I hope they clean some things up for the final version.

Just my 2 cents

Peace

[KG]

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Does anyone else see a lot of hitches in their jumpshots?

I don't remember seeing as many in Live.

The weird part is that I don't really notice that it impacts shooting success. I've shot some bad looking 3s with Sheyer that have gone in.