NCAA Football 12 Review

[Armor and Sword]

Re: NCAA Football 12 Review

I won't be on the NCAA board often, but I will check back when patches/tuners are released. Hopefully they are mindful on how there changes affect the A.I. Actually I will probably message you to stay in the loop, lol.

No prob buddy.

[Armor and Sword]

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I agree. As a MLB The Show Junkie they do have their share of issues at release, but that team is always quick to patch and if they can't, they say it will be fixed in the next years product if they are working on the release. But I honestly believe The Show is in a whole separate category, it's just that good. It's unfair to compare it to anything else, you're better off asking Joe Dirt to be like Eisenstein.

Beside CC, how are others missing suctionless tackling??? That is huge in my book. Plus broadcast presentation in RTG, full (custom)HS season in RTG, custom conferences for Dynasty... those are four of the top additions to this year that put this game above '11 in my book.

Just like last year, I expect some of the issues to be patched, as this is the norm with EA Sports games, it always have been like this for years. But the core product is much beeter than last years and I loved '11. The NCAA team has done well this year and have been outshining the Madden Team as of late. I always used to buy Madden at release but due to the NCAA team's progress these past few years I switched up. To me, the games is that much better. In a few years time, if the NCAA team continues down the current path, maybe then it can be compared to MLB:TS

I created my high school team (North Miami Beach SR High class of 88) with a bunch of my friends as players, guys I play softball with now etc. Just trying to have fun with it. The problem though is when I load the team into RTG it does not use the names I made in Teambuilder? I am just not seeing them. Or...maybe they are not being played by the coach? I can't check because I have no access to the depth charts etc. Maybe because I made them all SR's? I don't know.

Any advice?

[Vikes1]

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The overwhelming positive comments about NCAA'12', are truly impressive.

As of the '09' game, I simply just gave up on NCAA after years of playing it. The turnaround that the Tiburon NCAA team has seemingly made is well, impressive.

For the first time in three years I'm actually tempted to at least rent it.

[ODogg]

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With as many bugs and things that don't work, absolutely not. It's a solid game and a solid place to move forward for the series, but the best game of all time? C'mon. Two of it's "features" don't even work (custom playbooks and the completely botched grass).

All games have bugs...as for your examples, custom play books work but apparently have issues which will no doubt be fixed in the patch and the 3D grass works just how it was intended to work, in the replays..

[ODogg]

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Seriously? This game plays like NCAA 13? I hope to god that isn't accurate because otherwise i'll skip next year's game. Is it a good game? Yes. But to say its a drastic improvement on NCAA 11 is crazy talk. Its a minor improvement gameplay wise.

Everyone has their own opinion, to each his own, but yes I do feel the game plays so different from NCAA11 it's as if they worked two years on it, not one.

For anyone who thinks it's "minor" improvement gameplay wise from NCAA 11 all I can speculate is that anyone saying that did not play very much of either game because I don't see how it's possible to play much of either and hold that opinion..

[TDenverFan]

I wouldn't call the gameplay NCAA 13, but it's pretty dang good

[duc748s]

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I created my high school team (North Miami Beach SR High class of 88) with a bunch of my friends as players, guys I play softball with now etc. Just trying to have fun with it. The problem though is when I load the team into RTG it does not use the names I made in Teambuilder? I am just not seeing them. Or...maybe they are not being played by the coach? I can't check because I have no access to the depth charts etc. Maybe because I made them all SR's? I don't know.

Any advice?

You can view the position dept in teambuilder (seems to be OVR based). I just looked and it seems that the roster I had had me as #2 HB. I got some playing time but i remember that I didn't get a lot of touches, but i chalked it up to HS ball where #1 and #2 usually alternate due to stamina and playing ironman. I still managed a 3* rating for college with decent ratings. Don't know if I should continue or do another RTG with my teambuilder roster fixed to have me at #1 HB starting......

I'll link the thread that has my ratings in it in a few....

Here is the link - http://www.operationsports.com/forum...post2042609723

now I am confused... I'm looking over the TB roster and I don't know if it used me in the roster or a created me. I think I am going to run another quick RTG to see. I wish there was an easy way of printing out the roster from the TB site (and the ability to see stats and dept charts during RTG HS games)

[Armor and Sword]

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You can view the position dept in teambuilder (seems to be OVR based). I just looked and it seems that the roster I had had me as #2 HB. I got some playing time but i remember that I didn't get a lot of touches, but i chalked it up to HS ball where #1 and #2 usually alternate due to stamina and playing ironman. I still managed a 3* rating for college with decent ratings. Don't know if I should continue or do another RTG with my teambuilder roster fixed to have me at #1 HB starting......

I'll link the thread that has my ratings in it in a few....

Here is the link - http://www.operationsports.com/forum...post2042609723

now I am confused... I'm looking over the TB roster and I don't know if it used me in the roster or a created me. I think I am going to run another quick RTG to see. I wish there was an easy way of printing out the roster from the TB site (and the ability to see stats and dept charts during RTG HS games)

I made sure I named 4 of the 6 WR's my buddies...none of them were used in RTG...it's strange.

[duc748s]

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I made sure I named 4 of the 6 WR's my buddies...none of them were used in RTG...it's strange.

I just sim'd through a quick game using my HS team created in TB in RTG. It seems that RTG is not using TB rosters at all. Don't know if it's a bug??

*I posted it in the bug thread...don't know if it's a bug or not though.

[gilljon26]

there's nothing wrong with asking. they patched it on madden 10 and we had been asking for it every scene madden 06 and now madden has it in 2011 & 2012 .so you have not because you ask not .and thats why i ask

[Nakeja71]

The 360 version does not look as good as NCAA 11.

[blklightning]

i have yet to see even a smudge on my white uniforms. on the home unis with the chicago maroon jerseys, i think i've seen a stain or two. but that's it. it's not a huge deal. but it's still annoying that we can't get proper uniform degradation after all these years on this gen of hardware. i remember one of the games on ps2 having really great degradation and here we get next to none.

[blklightning]

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Perhaps this is all true for the Xbox version, but the PS3 version has loads of framerate issues and other glitches. Unfortunately I opted for the PS3 version.

i haven't noticed any frame rate issues with this game. when are you experiencing them?

[blklightning]

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Everyone has their own opinion, to each his own, but yes I do feel the game plays so different from NCAA11 it's as if they worked two years on it, not one.

For anyone who thinks it's "minor" improvement gameplay wise from NCAA 11 all I can speculate is that anyone saying that did not play very much of either game because I don't see how it's possible to play much of either and hold that opinion..

i think the lack of suction makes it 10 times better than any game in recent history. that one aspect is the most noticeable to me. and i haven't even put many hours into recent games because i haven't bought them for lack of quality. but i remember that when i was playing the ps3 versions of the series that the suction really ruined it. now that it's gone, i feel the game play is years ahead of where it was. so i can agree with you on this.

[bigdoc85]

Just played my 1st game against the CPU. On the first play of the game, I busted a kick-off return 98 yards. On my 1st punt return, I broke it for 30 yards and then on my 2nd punt return I broke it for 27. However, on my 3rd, the CPU nailed me right after I caught the ball. I NEVER had big returns in NCAA 11. This is interesting!