NCAA Football 14 Video - First Look at New Gameplay Engine

[buickbeast]

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you have seen one video, game doesnt come out for another three months..way to jump to conclusions my friend. I on the other hand will buy it even if it was ncaa 13 titled 14 cuz its 60 bucks and 60 bucks doesnt affect me. luckily its not ncaa 13 its ncaa14 and its new and improved and by definition a game that is improved means it has something the previous one didnt and so far it has physics engine, nice looking foot planting, good trucking animations that looked real (except for the smaller rb running over the larger defender but im sure they will fix that as they still have THREE MONTHS to work on it) the stiff arm battle looked interactive.so im looking forward to a new football game to ENTERTAIN me for a bit...not let ruin my life cuz it doesnt live up to my high expectations...its safe to say i wont kill myself over a game.

Take a writing class if $60 doesn't bother you.

[johnnyg713]

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I kind of have to agree with you on this one. I'm kind of beside myself with the excitement of a lot of you, when a few months ago it was nothing of the short. I understand everyone want's the game to be good-great, but I really see nothing different in this game other than the IE that was in madden.

I hope more comes from other videos, but nothing in this excited me at all. If you want realistic foot planting, copy madden 10. I still to this day don't understand why they don't copy that. This ice skating stuff just has to go.

And the excuse of it being on an old console system has got to go. There are wayyyy too many games on these consoles that have pushed their games to the limit and gotten way better out of it. Ncaa/Madden are probably 60-70% pushing it right now. They aren't near the max of what they can do. But hey that is my opinion, but that what it seems like.

I respect your opinion. This year it seems they are making a lot of improvements to gameplay. The reason I play games are because of the gameplay. Fifa and NHL both have addicting gameplay and this year it seems NCAA is really taking elements from both games and implementing them into their game.

Sure the running animations don't look great but I personally don't pause the game and watch instant replays to analyze footwork. I don't see why this bothers people so much. My advice is to play the game and see how the new running mechanic feels. If it feels right and the cutting feels natural then who cares what the animation looks like.

[DorianDonP]

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I respect your opinion. This year it seems they are making a lot of improvements to gameplay. The reason I play games are because of the gameplay. Fifa and NHL both have addicting gameplay and this year it seems NCAA is really taking elements from both games and implementing them into their game.

Sure the running animations don't look great but I personally don't pause the game and watch instant replays to analyze footwork. I don't see why this bothers people so much. My advice is to play the game and see how the new running mechanic feels. If it feels right and the cutting feels natural then who cares what the animation looks like.

You don't have to pause the game to see the awful animations. It literally plays out for you every single play. It's 2013. I don't see how people are still giving it a pass.

[Big FN Deal]

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You don't have to pause the game to see the awful animations. It literally plays out for you every single play. It's 2013. I don't see how people are still giving it a pass.

I feel johnny though, EA football games animations just haven't been very good this console gen and that ain't going to change. I have been willing to settle for stuff, like player movement, penalties, interactions, etc, to at least be represented in the game, in spite of being poorly animated. I went on Youtube at watched some video on Madden's animations and all I could do is smh, you have no choice but to give them a pass this gen after seeing something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCl7xJJdPzE

Why would anyone need to be told that this is a poor animation, let alone it actually being showcased and making into the game?

[Cre8]

Meh... Haven't been excited about an NCAA game in years.

[mtoo22]

It's just so sickening to me that last gen was sooooo much better!

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[doctorhay53]

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Video is unimpressive to me. The cuts are not very fluid and the trucking looks kind of silly and unphysical.

[carnalnirvana]

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I feel johnny though, EA football games animations just haven't been very good this console gen and that ain't going to change. I have been willing to settle for stuff, like player movement, penalties, interactions, etc, to at least be represented in the game, in spite of being poorly animated. I went on Youtube at watched some video on Madden's animations and all I could do is smh, you have no choice but to give them a pass this gen after seeing something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCl7xJJdPzE

Why would anyone need to be told that this is a poor animation, let alone it actually being showcased and making into the game?

because the only football the animators have seen or know came from watching ncaa 09,10, 11 so you go in thinking how can i add to this, its like practicing bad technique, yeah you are improving but you are becoming better at being bad

bugs aside 13 is a tech marvel under the hood if you are a programmer, but when its time to replicate football it fails because no one building it understands football.

and this is so obvious when you look at the unis, accessories etc, its the attention to detail thats lacking, getting some arm bands arm sleeves right does not require writing a new code or beta testing or 2 production meetings..

[Big FN Deal]

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because the only football the animators have seen or know came from watching ncaa 09,10, 11 so you go in thinking how can i add to this, its like practicing bad technique, yeah you are improving but you are becoming better at being bad

bugs aside 13 is a tech marvel under the hood if you are a programmer, but when its time to replicate football it fails because no one building it understands football.

and this is so obvious when you look at the unis, accessories etc, its the attention to detail thats lacking, getting some arm bands arm sleeves right does not require writing a new code or beta testing or 2 production meetings..

If that's the case, how on earth do so many animators and programmers not suited for replicating football end up under one roof at Tiburon? There is a thread right now about presentation and the biggest head scratcher is why was EA's NCAA Basketball 10 able to put out an authentic broadcast package, with not one but two actual networks and commentators, ESPN/CBS but not NCAA Football. Even more bizarre is in-house, NCAA and Madden are both EA football games that have so many unnecessary differences from each other. One of the reasons I stopped buying NCAA football was because I hated going from one to the other once Madden came out because unnecessary things like the player control scheme were different.

I am really not some nitpicky gamer, as it would seem, I played NCAA and Madden this gen without complaint or going to any internet forum until 2008, NCAA/Madden 2009. At that point I just wanted to find out WTF was going on and why weren't the games getting better than this and sharing more core football aspects. I have still purchased every Madden and a few NCAA's since then but the decisions made for creating these games are baffling.

[Bama man 42]

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I realize its early , but with all the talk being about the spread , spread option , and option in general I was wondering if there is any good news for us pro style guys ? Such as , will playaction work this year ?

[Broken Stixx]

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I cringed looking at the video posted by Big FN Deal, it's was quite terrible. They have the funds to bring in actual players to motion cap, but they put their own guys in those suits to capture them seriously? The guy playing the offensive linemen doesn't even move like a one, same with the one playing the defensive linemen. So it has me rethinking are the problems really tied to the engine or is the lack luster patchwork animations, because it's really go me thinking its the animation cause back then they actually brought in players.

[Gap Integrity]

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That youtube video makes me a sad panda...

[SageInfinite]

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I cringed looking at the video posted by Big FN Deal, it's was quite terrible. They have the funds to bring in actual players to motion cap, but they put their own guys in those suits to capture them seriously? The guy playing the offensive linemen doesn't even move like a one, same with the one playing the defensive linemen. So it has me rethinking are the problems really tied to the engine or is the lack luster patchwork animations, because it's really go me thinking its the animation cause back then they actually brought in players.

I remember they didn't think to have an animation for QB's to walk up to get under center, so Ian went in and did the walk up animation . I mean sometimes it does seem like these guys are clueless.

[SageInfinite]

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If that's the case, how on earth do so many animators and programmers not suited for replicating football end up under one roof at Tiburon? There is a thread right now about presentation and the biggest head scratcher is why was EA's NCAA Basketball 10 able to put out an authentic broadcast package, with not one but two actual networks and commentators, ESPN/CBS but not NCAA Football. Even more bizarre is in-house, NCAA and Madden are both EA football games that have so many unnecessary differences from each other. One of the reasons I stopped buying NCAA football was because I hated going from one to the other once Madden came out because unnecessary things like the player control scheme were different.

I am really not some nitpicky gamer, as it would seem, I played NCAA and Madden this gen without complaint or going to any internet forum until 2008, NCAA/Madden 2009. At that point I just wanted to find out WTF was going on and why weren't the games getting better than this and sharing more core football aspects. I have still purchased every Madden and a few NCAA's since then but the decisions made for creating these games are baffling.

Just so many things are head scratchers. Like why does NCAA have those replay packages that highlight certiain players or the defense/offense as whole, yet Madden has nothing like this? I mean do they think the NFL doesn't show stuff like this? I mean some of the stuff they do, I just don't get.

[JughedJones]

Looks good. That fumble/recovery at the beginning was beautiful.

Especially since it was ND raping USC.

I agree!