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Regarding the passing game:

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I feel the other way around. One of my problems with NCAA is the inability to precisely control the touch I put on my passes. I feel far more in control of this in Madden.

I use Playmakers Varsity Sliders where QBA is set to 5 [NOTE: VARSTIY difficulty, I accidently was using All-American and the results were terrible.] With those sliders, I could just lob a pass up and it would LOB. It didn't matter if it was a drag route to the TE [a route I love in Football] a deep post or a corner route. The opposite was true on bullet passes. My QBs will try to fire the ball in there. choosing the right kind of pass, along with having a QB who's accuracy you could trust to fire into tight coverage or not makes playing QB in this game a lot of fun to me. Nate Montana and Andrew Luck feel very different to me.

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I would like to agree, because I see where you are coming from, but my problem with Game Planning in NCAA is that it isn't anything like game planning. Many of the categories within NCAA's gameplanning aren't "Game Plan" type things, but team personality sort of things... a mentality you would instill in training camp and expect to be carried through the season.

See, I agree with you. I just look at the game plan feature like accelerated clock. I see it as a feature for a video game to help recreate what happens in real life. I see it as a way to have my players play the way I want them to. All game long I have them use conservative catching and conservative ball control instead of trying to break tackles. All game long I have my defenders go for the pick over the swat and conservative QB containment. it's those key situations where I want ym team to hold thier blocks a little longer or be more aggressive on screen passes or counter runs.

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I like the idea of having control over your teams personality, but it's not something you can change on a play-to-play or even game-to-game basis. Do you think Mike Singletary takes Takeo Spikes aside and says "I want you to play less intense for this game."

Again, I look at it more like "We need to force a turnover here, go for the strip!" This is very realistic. You see and hear about teams making these little changes all the time. Special teams acting differently at the end of a game and so on.

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IGN was referring to the ball bouncing off players and on the ground. I agree, it's a bit ridiculous in both games. If you're talking about pass trajectory, however, it's improved from the '10 versions of both games, but far better in Madden.

I was refering to just that. In NCAA and madden the ball bounces off of players nad gets "stuck" on them. However, in the Madden demo it has been happening a lot to me. In NCAA it happens, but not nearly as often or for as long as it does in Madden. In NCAA it tends to get un-stuck faster. The most noticeable part of it is when you swat the ball and it doesn't fall to the ground but keeps poping up in the air over and over again like a volly ball.

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For the record, I don't fault anyone for feeling NCAA 11 is better. I think I prefer NCAA 11 to a certain degree myself, I just can't see someone hating Madden and loving NCAA, and I've seen lots of posts to that effect in the impressions thread. I believe many of them are overreactions; people accustom to hating Madden, people who are somewhat disappointed it's not quite as polished as NCAA, etc.., but I'm sure there are those who believe firmly that Madden is crap and NCAA is outstanding, and I'm trying to figure out why.

I agree. In reality though, I was impressed by NCAA11 and not impressed by Madden. Let's say that the two games have a lot of things in common, however I can't list much of anything that I like more about Madden compared to the things I like more about NCAA. keep in mind, i don't care about College football. I love NFL football. I think that if the two games WERE just the same I would trade NCAA in to get Madden, but they aren't.