NCAA Basketball 10 Available, Post Impressions Here

[mike24forever]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Available, Post Impressions Here

I guess everyone is supposed to be positive in threads like these but...I cant get into this game...everything about the gameplay is terrible to me...the court environment and announcing is really good...I love the different games with espn and cbs...love that...they have captured the college excitement like no other game Ive played...

But EA needs to scrap this whole gameplay engine and start from scratch...Ive tried playing this over and over...sliders and rosters all loaded...the whole right stick dribble moves are horrible...the collision detection is garbage...all players run at the same speed...I can get up the court with a PF at tremendous speeds...lol...the turnover animations are terrible and come out of nowhere...the shooting and free throws are horrendous...Im hitting crazy shots with 3 men on me in the air and cant make an open elbow jumper to save my life...the CPU takes dumb shots...

I LOVE college basketball and its killing me that this is the only game out...If you are going to monopolize the college basketball gaming series with licenses and expect everyone to come over and buy it...at least put out a decent product

sorry to be so negative...just my opinion

First off, EA is not Monopolizing college basketball. 2K decided not to make a college title anymore. If you do not like it, go play 2K8 with updated rosters. The motion offense in this game is awesome.

[ianlast]

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I'm pretty happy with this game overall, but the CPU offensive AI is just obnoxious. I'm getting so sick and tired of them feeding it to the low block and then launching that stupid, awkward-looking jump shot from 5 feet away. Sure, you can defend it...just sag your perimeter guy back into the key and cut off the entry pass, since the CPU will almost never attempt a 3-pointer. If only there was some kind of "inside shot tendency" and "3-pt. shot tendency" rating or slider, then this problem could be easily fixed.

[jetercanoturn2]

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Everything that you guys are having problems I had problems with. But now with 3 point edits, a good set of sliders, a great roster set. This game is good as gold. EA put alot of potential in this game, but nobody knew how to tap that potential out of this game. Out of the Box it's just not very inspiring. But with alot of tweaking this game plays college basketball like no other game, and is fun as hell in the process.

[deadlyCane]

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ianlast, the roster set Guru and I did will help with your complaint. I have an update scheduled this weekend, which will likely be my last update. It will add more teams and tweak some I've already done for even better results. You can download it from my locker. Check out the details here: http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ter-edits.html

[davis420]

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Hey Jetertocano, What set of sliders are you using? I like this game alot! I'm just looking at what other people are using because maybe I'm missing something. Thanks!

[jetercanoturn2]

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Hey Jetertocano, What set of sliders are you using? I like this game alot! I'm just looking at what other people are using because maybe I'm missing something. Thanks!

My base set is Big DMO's sliders with some tweaks and I'm loving it.

[Guffers]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Available, Post Impressions Here

Here are a few little niggles that I've noticed afterplaying 50 games or so. The kind of stuff that could and should be patched...

- The CPU is much better at offensive rebounding than the human team. Even with their rebound sliders at 0 and the human ones at 100, they will still double you in this category most of the time. Also they never seem to miss when taking second chance shots under the hoop. Maybe this is player error on my part but its frustrating me a lot.

- Blocks from behind happen far too often and never result in foul calls. Its deflating to finally get a fast break chance only to have the ball snatched by a player behind you.

- Fouling on 3 point attempts seems to happen a lot as well. And of course Nessler chimes in with his 'that's a good foul' comment...

- Did they really only record two or three lines of commentary to be played when shooting fouls occur? Seriously? They realise that shooting fouls can happen up to 20 or so times a game...


Still, I'm having fun. It hasn't frozen up on me in a week or so and I'm having good games with my own custom sliders and some altered rosters. The CPU 3 point issue seems to have been fixed by the hard work of the guys on here editing the rosters. Notre Dame absolutely blew me out of the building last night, hitting 9 of 18 threes. It was lovely.

PS. Its really not cool that EA has walked away from this game when it freezes like the Dickens and requires hours upon hours of roster editing to get a realistic game of college basketball. I won't be purchasing any EA basketball games next year because of this, at least not new. Vote with your feet I say.

And even if they refuse to patch this game, the least they could do is release a new roster with the required 3 point edits for all teams. To save their loyal customers hours of tweaking.

[jake44np]

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Well after defending this game on these boards for weeks I am now done.
I cant get in a whole game without the game freezing on me! Doesnt matter what I do if I am playing a game inside a dynasty the game freezes. I happened to me first in my season with IU in the NCAA tourney. It is really frustrating to play a whole season and then not be able to play the tourney.
Again my game never froze once until about a week ago and now I cant get it not to freeze.
I even tried to a new dynasty with a new team and it freezes over and over.
I have downloaded the newest roster for 2k8 and again am loving that game. It is crazy that a game 3 years old still works and plays great but a game a couple months old wont.

[HustlinOwl]

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I have downloaded the newest roster for 2k8 and again am loving that game. It is crazy that a game 3 years old still works and plays great but a game a couple months old wont.

My NCAA 10 works and plays great and I would never go back to 2k8, game is tired and outdated. Engine is horrible compared to NCAA 10

[jake44np]

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My NCAA 10 works and plays great and I would never go back to 2k8, game is tired and outdated. Engine is horrible compared to NCAA 10

I was saying the same thing until I went back about a week ago and starting playing it again. IMO it is still an all around better game then NCAA 10. Oh and it has never froze on me once in 3 years.

[ThrillzNSkillz]

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I love this game, it has put my Madden 10 on the shelf.

I have not had one freeze in my Dynasty since I hit the Start button when timeouts are called. I do AutoSubs, using Jasons rosters with some of my edits, and an edited BigDmo slider set for my own tastes. The stats come out extremely realistic.

This game really captures the College Basketball experience imo. I'm so glad I bought this game, and read this board regarding the freeze issue, which is no more!

[ThrillzNSkillz]

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Totally jinxed myself, last night leading 38-28 St Johns over Penn State, game froze after first basket made in 2nd Half..so much for that...

[Omega Kid]

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Nothing can prevent the freezing, and im afraid the game can damage the hd too... I get real spooky events. Watch out.

[K_rob11]

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Nothing can prevent the freezing, and im afraid the game can damage the hd too... I get real spooky events. Watch out.

I am still thoroughly enjoying this game.....however, I still do get freezes (even using the 'no d-pad for subs' technique). I usually get freezes during the opening sequences just before tip off (usually on ESPN presentation package). Every now and then I will get a freeze in the middle of games.

And through all of this, I start to worry about the effects the freezing, and the turing on and off of my 360. I really don't have any idea if constant freezing of a game can cause damage to the hd, but it is something that I have always been afraid of. I had a freeze last night, and I just decided to play NBA 2k9 instead because I didn't want to go through the trouble of wasting any more gaming time by playing a dynasty game only to have it freeze before I finish. Damn you EA!
Me----> <-----EA

[jetercanoturn2]

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That's terrible guys, That really must ruin this awesome game for some of yall, I guess I'm lucky, I haven't ever seen a freeze on this game, but it still bothers me others are havin to deal with it. EA need to give those people a patch. and patch up other little things, and give us DL content, I hate seeing EA just leave this game out to dry.