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Quote: Originally Posted by gator3guy

Yep, the foundation of this generation was poorly built and the series suffered because of it. They have been playing "catch up" if you will. Hopefully in the next gen game, they build their engine on the basic fundamentals of football, starting with physics and player movement. They just have not been able to capture that on this generation for whatever reason and it has hurt them and us.

Some people might think I'm crazy for saying this, but I would have no problem if the first iteration of NCAA on the next-gen consoles was nothing more than Play Now, a single-season mode, and Online Quick Play, as long as it meant getting a solid foundation for realistic gameplay.

EA seems to have an easier time adding/expanding features/game modes from year-to-year. But they seem to have significant problems fixing gameplay problems in such short development cycles. Get some solid gameplay at the start, then you can focus your attention on the back-of-the-box additions/innovations for the rest of the generation.

Basically, bake a good cake first, there's plenty of time to worry about the icing later. I really don't want to have to wait 3 years into next-gen to hear "we finally made acceleration mean something this year."