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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

NCAA Football 2012 Impressions

Posted on July 13, 2011 at 06:46 AM.

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As I said in my post reviewing NCAA '10, I've been a fan and a player of EA's college football games since 1994 and a yearly buyer of the series since 1997. I'm not one of those who nitpicks about little things like running animations and roster accuracy and I certainly don't get bothered by the occasional texture bug or cheesy celebration. When you've played these games as long as I have, you come to appreciate how far we've advanced and how hard these developers work to put out new iterations ... Read More

Saturday, July 25, 2009

The only reason I'm glad I'm not the Madden Ratings guy

Posted on July 25, 2009 at 05:55 AM.

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I�ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter lately, and recently I've started following members of the development team of Madden 10. Lately, the ratings guru of Madden, Donny Moore has been tweeting a lot, and the tweets have reflected a struggle that I think would be a pain in the ***. Don�t get me wrong, I would love to have his job. He gets to sit and watch football and play video games, and get paid. I mean, there�s a lot of really intricate analysis and crazy unknowns in the ratings game that ... Read More

Monday, July 20, 2009

NCAA 10 Impressions and '11 Wishlist

Posted on July 20, 2009 at 06:48 AM.

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First of all, I want to say I've been a player of the NCAA series since "BILL WALSH COLLEGE FOOTBALL '94" when Penn State was State College and there were no licenses. Granted, I was 10 years old, and I haven't owned every years installment, but I haven't missed many. I've also been a HUGE college football fan for as far back as I remember, so I think I have the right to give my opinion on what works and what doesn't in these games.

So far, my experience with NCAA 10 has been pretty ... Read More