NCAA Football 14 Ultimate Team Preview (Kotaku)

[saunders45]

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Not a fan of pay2win modes. This is ridiculous.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

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Ultimate team seems like a natural fit for NCAA because it lacks a fantasy draft mode. But it drives me up the wall that there's no team overall matching, leaving my 67 OVR newbs ready to get shellacked by team after team of 99 overalls. There's no way to build yourself up without grinding the CPU or buying a team. They need to have weight classes.

Also, it breaks immersion for me to make my team Whatsamatta U or whatever, but be forced to play in a stadium branded DUCKS everywhere with uniforms that say GATORS. They should let you customize your own unis (even if only from existing parts) and have generic or customizable stadiums.

[kingsofthevalley]

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I'll tell ya the only thing thats on my mind honestly. Fingers crossed that all of the scanned face models and any unique equipment in this mode is open for use in the standard editor. I.....will......be.....in......heaven if it is. If any of the game changers or ANYONE that has a link to the devs please tell them not to lock the aesthetic options. Any equipment, face models, etc need to be available in the standard dynasty mode editor.

Actually, does anyone have one of these guys twitter? Is it Chase B thats on the team now thats a member here? Seriously, I need to get at one of these dudes most expediently before its too late. I dont think this would be a complicated task at all. Its just if they're prompted to do it or not is what it comes down to I think.

[iamgramps]

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This mode is not for everybody. Some will like it, some will not.

[bgdg824]

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no reggie bush no play for me its a joke ea!

[TryHard_Nation]

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no reggie bush no play for me its a joke ea!

You should discuss that joke with your school my friend.

[thedudedominick]

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I don't get the backlash for this mode. Well I do get it because a lot of people here bash EA for every choice they make. I personally wont play this mode, but it can do nothing but help the series. If the microtransactions bring in extra revenue that can't hurt future development or in season support. Besides I am not going to say "adding this probably ruined everything else" because we have no clue what kind of dynasty changes there are at this point. People that don't like the game will continue to not like it because one year isn't enough to completely rewrite the game engine.

I have people on my friends list that play MUT, FUT, and HUT pretty much exclusively. It's a smart move by EA to get this mode in NCAA.

[jello1717]

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no reggie bush no play for me its a joke ea!

EA?

EA asked USC if they could put Reggie Bush in as a Trojan. USC told them "no."

[BV11]

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EA?

EA asked USC if they could put Reggie Bush in as a Trojan. USC told them "no."

Sucks too, he would have been probably the most exciting player in the mode to me. College Reggie Bush was something else.

[canesfins]

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Pay to win, no thank you.

[Ice_Cold345]

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Pay to win, no thank you.

Yes and no. Paying real money gets you to the finish goal faster, but you can compete just fine if you know how to save coins/collections and what not. It takes longer, but it's not that hard to do. Also, you are normally pitted against people of your team level, so you won't be having team overall of 83 facing a team of 95.

[VTPack919]

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sorry, i won't simplify my expectations because the people at EA can't put out as good of a product as other companies. I simply won't buy it once again. Why would I settle? I have no problem shelling out money for NBA 2k, MLB the Show because those are quality games. My expectations aren't over the top. If you claim to eliminate sliding, i expect to see no sliding. If you're going to tout the fact that this year's focus was the run game, I expect the running motions to look real and not like they currently do. That's not asking a lot for them to deliver on what they're trying to sell us.

No one is forcing you to. NCAA will never reach your expectations considering it's current market and the amount of crowds it caters to. That's all I am saying. No need to rage about it when it comes out. Just learn to enjoy it for what it is.

[moylan1234]

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Any word whether teambuilder will work in this mode or not? that's the only way I'll mess with it at all. And I agree with IlluminatusUIUC I have no interest in playing in a stadium with another teams branding all over the place either. Those two issues are what keeps me from playing Madden's version as well.

[jwilphl]

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I understand why they added this mode and it makes more sense to me now that I see how it works. Unfortunately I have no personal interest in this so it is another mode in a long line of added modes for NCAA that have been a waste (for me anyway).

The most I've played any of these modes was one game of UT in NHL '12. But every company loves more greenbacks, right? Apparently these modes are pretty popular. I'd be curious to see how many people actually play UT--obviously a poll of this forum might be underwhelming.

[DorianDonP]

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I'm not going to complain about this mode because obviously some people like it alot. I personally don't like the idea of mixing and matching random players and then playing a game with them because I like to "sim" real world football when I play a game. Not just in football either.

I never saw the appeal of putting Larry Bird on the 2012 Memphis Grizzlies in NBA 2K either, because it totally breaks the narration. Only way I could play it is if I made up in my mind that scientist have built time machines (that they for some reason use for basketball fantasy games).

I do realize that some people like it and that it offers re-playability so that's cool. It's just irksome that some other things that are in every other sports game, like in-game saves, go overlooked for years.

I will say I think it would be fun if NCAA or Madden added a fantasy football league to dynasty/franchise. I play FF every year in real life so it would be a nice touch if they had one represented in the game. A game within a game within a game lol.

I could foresee a ton of problems with online dynasty if there ever was a FF league tagged on though.