Exactly. ODogg over there has put huge amounts of time into the game already and he hasn't posted about seeing it at all. Until I see more than 1 poster talk about it or until I see it with my own eyes tomorrow, I'm not worried.

I think I count 4 guys who mention it. One who says it's happened a lot, two of the others mention it in the demo, and one other guy in the real version. The other guy who mentions it in the real version does only have one post at the forums. Maybe it isn't as bad as it might seem.

Well, it was copy/pasted by jbmagic. What more do you want?

Could you guys please make sure and start lots of dynasties using the uploading replays feature? It will be the only way I get to enjoy this game. I'm a Wii only guy now (and I'm not buying a watered down version of the game for my old PS2. I just refuse on principle). I demand immediate dynasties. Thanks in advance.

Someone needs to do it. I might. I remember I started on one a couple of years ago, and it was a pain in the ass to record/edit/encode/upload the video. It looks like that's a thing of the past now. :)

A couple of questions on the uploading of videos. First, are you locked in to only uploading to EA/Xbox Live? If not, is the limit of five videos applicable across all sites?

I was one of the demo guys. :) I'm not going to worry too much until we all get the game, but from the sound of it your holder gets up and changes position before the snap. If that's always true we can at least take a delay of game or something.

I would imagine that you are. But as someone said, once you upload it to EA's site, you (and everyone else) can download it as a .FLV file. What I plan on doing is uploading 5 videos per game, downloading them and then reuploading them to a site and linking them that way in my dynasty. I already tried YouTube, but they don't recognize the .FLV file format for uploads (which is weird since the videos you see while watching YouTube are .FLV)

Ah, that should work. I didn't know how EA stored the vids.

As for YouTube, most of their stuff is being re-encoded, so it won't be flash dependent. I'm pretty sure that the native FLV format can't be encoded in H.264, which is the new codec that YouTube (at the prodding of Apple) is moving to.

Try the following website:

hxxp://www.brightcove.com/

That is what I plan to use.

I haven't kept up with every page so I am curious again, how does one get the videos from the game?

Whatever whatever where are the dynasties lets go.

Testing...

sweet....

Question, do you have to wait until you are done playing a game before you upload a video or can you upload while you are in the middle of a game?

I think I'm more excited about this than you guys are and I'm not even going to play it.

ODogg over there has put huge amounts of time into the retail game already and has seen only a very few deep passes.

Actually, if you read his posts, he says there are few deep passes if you play a lot of cover 2 or 3 deep zone. He says there is more when you play bump and run or M2M. The computer passes well in the short and intermediate game which allows them to move the ball well. Shrug. Only about 22 hours til I'll be home and seeing these things for myself :)

Good. Teams don't throw 30+ yard bombs in real life nearly as many times as they have in NCAA and Madden (and not nearly as many times as a lot of people seem to think they do). In playing the demo, the AI team hasn't gone really deep on me except when they catch me single covering the WR going deep, just like in real football. That's a positive, not a negative.

I getting the game tomorrow at Circuit City after work. That $10 gift card you get is pretty cool deal with it.

Overall the game looks impressive. Some flaws but not as many like last season first impressions. The positive posts out does the negative by a wide margin so far.

cpmagic? :D

Just played a great online game, as Rutgers vs Miami. Unfortunately I lost, 45-42, after getting out to a quick 21-0 lead. I just couldn't keep up with them in pass coverage, and their pass rush was too much for my OL (COMPLETELY unrealistic -- we're still getting screwed by EA :)).

Let me ask you guys something...was this Weather Channel Online Feed thing that's used to choose the weather in last year's game? Very cool.

has anyone used supersim yet? it sounds like its running 10 plays in 30 seconds. I hope not I dont want to sim a 4th quarter blowout and have 120 plays run.

edit this may be just campus legend mode

Nope, that's a new feature. I can't wait for hurricane season to try and play a game in an actual hurricane! :D

Anyone have any suggestions for a fun build 'em up college to do a dynasty with? I would like to start with someone who isn't in a major conference but could realistically move into one at some point.

I'll test it out in a real game soon and get back to you.

"No, Mr. FEMA guy...I'm not evacuating. I've been waiting MONTHS for this!"

That sounds like the superstar mode in last year's Madden. You'd think that the clock would run a little more realistically in the sim, but I guess not. I'm going to try the campus legend mode when I get back home after midnight, and I'll see how that works out.

Dat boy run so good...

He might turn SkyDog into a 'faggoty joystick jockey'!

:D

Okay, I was playing Cal, was down 14 with just over 4 minutes left in the 4th, and threw a pick so figured that was a good time to give the supersim a shot for you.

Cal took over possession, up 28-14 with 4:13 remaining. Two rushes for short losses, a 31 yard completion, and a 5 yard rushing TD. Extra point good at 3:40.

Kick return took 12 seconds off the clock to 3:28. Dropped pass, 20 yard completion, incomplete pass, pass thrown away, 27 yard completion, incomplete, intercepted. Call takes the ball over at 2:36.

Short rushing loss, short rushing loss, defensive penalty, short rushing loss, punt (timeouts used on this drive?). Rutgers ball at 2:07.

4 yard rush (by a non-scrambling QB so that was probably with a lot of pressure), short completion, 12 yard completion, incomplete pass, dropped pass, 16 yard completion, 28 yard completion, dropped pass, 14 yard TD catch. Extra point good at 1:02. Cal 35-21.

Onside kick recovered by Cal at 0:56. 12 yard run, 6 yard run, 5 yard run, 4 yard run, 7 yard run, fumble - recovered by Rutgers at 0:09.

Incomplete pass, 2 yard QB scramble. Game over.



First glance...everything looks fine with the number of plays run. I guess you can question the constant running by Cal on the last possession, when taking a knee would have ended it sooner.

Messing around with the uploading highlights feature. Saved my first highlight during the above-mentioned Cal game. I also snapped some pics of one of my LBs separating a guy from the ball in mid-air. One thing I noticed, as I hit the main menu (oh, sabotai...you can only upload things from the main menu...not in the game) and am in my "shrine," my one video highlight is playing on the screen in the background, and my pics are being cycled on screens to the side of the video like a slideshow. Very cool.

Okay, a message for all you defenders out there...don't fuck with Kenny Britt.

http://www.easportsworld.com/#video-990/HOME/565

And some pics (taken from some different angles to be fancy):

thanks guys. I really want to play this game. but my 360 needs to be repaired. Im actually considering buying a ps3 tomorrow and ncaa 08 so i can play

Just surfing through the video site a little bit. Some of the plays are amazing to watch. I can't wait to pick this thing up tomorrow.

Any school in the MAC. It's a small scale Big 10 as they get the castoffs in the midwest with the occasional stud.

San Diego State in the MWC. To me it would be the perfect place to play College Football, but they have to compete against USC, UCLA and Cal for talent and always seem to underachieve. I would think if you can build them into a power the Pac 10 could be a possibility.

Kentucky or Miss State is a challenge in the SEC.

Whee! I'm leaving the house in about 15 minutes. It's almost time!

I'm going to take on UK...most likely on the 2007 version, though.

As I detailed in the 2007 thread, I had a futile time trying to take Eastern Michigan to the title game. No matter how well I stacked my schedule or how bad I blew everyone out, I never made it.

Oh, and for those who are waiting a few days to buy, BB is running one of those weekend sales with the 10% coupons for Reward Zone members. So that's $5 off the game if you wait until Friday.

I hate you. 90 minutes for me.

I expect a dynasty when I wake up in the morning. I am not joking.

Very nice play.

http://www.easportsworld.com/#video-967/HOME/560

I pre-ordered from Amazon and it shipped this morning from Philly, so I should have it when I get home from work. Some kind of dynasty will be started (even if it is to test out formats and such for a real dynasty)

I got it, but not sure how much play I can get tomorrow.. We will see though.

Got it:)

Got it. Lost 3-9. Haven't been able to upload my videos tonight unfortunately.

I'm interested in hearing more impressions on the game and particularly the campus legend mode. I liked the concept last year on Madden, but there were a lot of little "nagging" issues IMO.

I want to buy it but I'm not sure I want to settle for the PS2 version. I have been thinking about getting an XBox, but not sure I can pull it off just yet.

I'll be heading out within the hour (I just can't do the midnight thing), but I've been summoned to a customer site, so my "release day" will be later this afternoon and tonight - bleeh. I hate when Christmas gets delayed :).

Ah, my wife will hate me if I get it.

Tonight, tonight!!!!

I'm gonna try to go fetch mine at lunch. Stupid GameStop still hasn't called me...

I'm just looking forward to more potential opponents on XBL. It took me like 5 minutes to find someone to play against last night.

Sorry, MJ4H, I don't have a dynasty ready for you yet. I just kinda screwed around a bit in my first hour of play. The serious stuff doesn't start until tonight. :)

While I was messing around with the game, I played a quarter of Memphis vs. Southern Miss, and I set the weather to rain. The game seemed quite a bit choppy, to be honest. I don't know if that had anything to do with the rain effects on the screen or if it's actually a problem with my 360. I'm planning to play a lot tonight, so I'll try rain again and see how it goes. The choppiness I experienced last night wasn't enough to make me dislike the game, but I was a little disappointed.

+1

I'm looking forward to this as well. I'm gonna bite the bullet and change my Xbox Live name from MoneyG to cartman-FOFC, since most of the folks on my list are from here.

Just played an exhibition with CU vs. CSU in the rain. (set to high) and saw no lag or slowdown at all. Simming through a season for kicks. Then I'll start my slow sim through 4 years to get all fake names. :)

I'm not surprised. I really think that there's some type of mechanical problem with my 360, but I don't know for sure.

Get that shit fixed before the headset gets to your house and Pumpy Talk begins!

Picked it up at Best Buy today. Only three more hours of work to go. :(

Simmed through the season. Hart won the Heisman. About 1800 yards and 20 TD's I think.

Nobody finish undefeated. LSU, USC, Michigan, Nebraska, Virginia Tech, West Virginia won confernces.

West Virginia and Virginia Tech played in the championship game. West Virginia won the game and took the title.

Other BCS games were - USC/Michigan, LSU/Ohio St., Nebraska/Florida St.

I think I'm missing one, but those were the big matchups.

I think I'm going to have to play a game just so I can get some highlights and pictures on my mural. :)

My brother says he wants to get it. Otherwise, I'll be waiting at least a week.

I find myself taking videos of all the nice little incomplete passes, but that might be because I haven't scored a TD yet.

anyone figure out how to medical redshirt yet? My starting QB went down for 9 weeks in the first game of the season .. seems like I should be able to redshirt him at that point.

What version are you playing on?

Bought the last one at Wal-Mart this morning, and counting down till 4pm so I can play alllllllll night!

Been playing for a few days now and I'm still not used to this. It took me awhile to have it locked into my brain that sprinting is done from the back R button, but I am still not flicking up on the stick to lob it. It's a bullet everytime. I need some sort of therapy to control this.

This is hardly scientific by any stretch, but it's somewhat interesting to see the number of replies to the OS "Impressions/Questions" threads for each console:

360 - 2094
PS3 - 184
PS2 - 132
XBox - 8

The 360 is where it's at, yo!

It turned out that my online store could actually pick up a copy of the game (Xbox version) just for me, and send it here with the FedEx 2-days shipping. Well, even without the supersim, I decided to get the 2008 version. It costed me only 40 € (I payed the US price of 39.95+shipping), and I wouldn't have played 2007 anyway. Plus, I realized I haven't actually bought a single game for my Xbox in more than a year... Yeah I know, I'm weak.

Ksyrup, what you're going to do? I saw your post on OS...:)

That's really not that surprising.

360

At the very least, I'm going to wait until the weekend. If I buy at BB, I'll get $5 off, which isn't a huge deal but since I am going to wait anyway, why not save a little money. However, I'm also thinking about firing up 2007 again and seeing if I can get back into that game with a new dynasty. If so, I may just stick with 2007. I didn't even get that game until Christmas last year, so I've really only played one dynasty and had a lot of fun with it. Not to mention, this was my first arcade football game in well over 15 years, so my standards are probably a lot lower than most people's. Then I could use the money I didn't spend on 2008 to buy GH 80s next week.

In fact, I might have just talked myself out of purchasing 2008. :)

I'm 90% sure that medical redshirt is one of the current features that didn't make it into the next gen versions. That and QB evade were the two biggest features that were exlcusive to the PS2/Xbox versions.

WTF?!?

Post whore.

Your stuttering problem is way out of control. You need to seek help immediately.

:D

I'm deleting them. Not sure how that happened.

You'll catch Jebs in no time!

I am not happy, but very not surprised, that the United State Postal Service could not deliver a package no more than two dozen miles within a single day (while UPS can get it to me from 500 miles away in a day - without "next day" or "2 day" shipping). Wonder what I have to do to make sure Amazon stops using the USPS for my orders. They always take forever to deliver something to me.

If I want something on release day, I never order online. I always pre-order at a local store.

When I pre-ordered, I didn't think I'd get it on release day. I generally don't really care if I do. But I saw it was shipped from Philly, a city I can see from my house, Monday morning so I figured I would probably get it today and got my hopes up.

Apparantly impact players still never get tired on the PS2. Just played against West Virginia online; he would just do the ole run the quarterback all over the field routine. Stop and throw from 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage across his body right on target. ALL GAME! My Dline was exhausted; his QB was ready as ever the next play. Guess I'm never playing against West Virginia again.

That probably explains why WVU won the title in Troy's sim.

I don't know about in simmed games, but by all accounts fatigue is very well done in played out games on the 360 and PS3.

How many minutes per quarter are people playing? In the one quarter I played last night, I had it set to 9 minutes per quarter, and it seemed like an awful lot of plays were being run, but that could've just been perception.

Ah yeah, I just noticed he said PS2. That's funny because the only game I lost in 5 or 6 years with Eastern Michigan was to WVU.

I plan on going with 8 my first game and going up to 9 if needed, but I've heard of people using anywhere between 7 and 10 get a realistic number of plays, depending upon how quickly they select plays. Only 1 more hour of work to go.

Dola -

From reports that I've read in both Campus Legend and dynasty games, Super Sim produces a high number of snaps if the minutes are too high. People are using 5 minute quarters for CL games and that is what I plan on trying in a test career. Also, if you plan on using Super Sim quite a bit to finish games, you might want to trend towards 6 or 7 minute quarters.

Right now I think I am going to do a dynasty with Colorado State. There is some decent competition in the MWC. I also wanted to avoid being a team in California, Texas or Florida because I think it might make recruiting a tad too easy. I am going to go through and name all of the teams in the MWC, and then whenever I play a team outside of the conference I will just name them before I play them. That should get me started into a dynasty quicker.

Does anyone have a good resource for roster names? I've been using Rivals and ESPN but am still having trouble with a few guys.

Actual team websites are pretty helpful as well. Biggest issue is for incoming freshmen. Whenever I have a true freshman on the team I try and find the teams recruiting class by doing a search on Google.

Thanks. Marshall needs to get their site updated. :mad:

Well, I'm about ready to play. I just need to decide whether I want to wait for rosters from Fairdale Kings or if iI just want to auto-name rosters and go from there. I'll think about it for a little while. :)

I'm just starting playing now. I'm just going to mess around with exhibition games and maybe the beginning of a CL career tonight. FK has repeated that he will have rosters ready by "late tonight or more realistically Weds."

Just auto name. The Fairdale King's rosters going to change names in 4 years anyway.

fkrosters.com seems to be down, everytime I try to go there it states "This account has been suspended"

Anyone else seeing that?

Also can't get on the board at psxsports.com

both sites are probably getting flooded

FK's site probably just exceeded its allotted bandwidth. It should be back up and running soon, I would think.

Recruiting is fun, but REALLY tedious. Much more so than in past years. It's going to take me forever to get through the five years worth of sims to play. Yuk.

I started a campus legend dynasty and true to form, Park High is relying on their power running game against Oak Creek in the first round of the WIAA Division 1 playoffs.

In fact the starting RB had 63 yards in the 1st quarter alone.

Only problem? I'm the QB.

I'm doing okay, hitting some missing some, but Drew Williams is clearly the star of this Panthers team.

We're up 14-0 late in the second when the old ball coach decides to give me a few touches. Incompletion, followed by a big-time sack that has us at 3rd and long.

Coach calls for a HB Draw, figuring we can fake out the defense.

I call bullshit. Williams is great, but he's not -that- great.

So I audible out into a cross pattern. The Knights' DBs are caught offguard, but recover quickly on the jump.

I see a small opening for our FB and throw it to him. He catches it and then proceeds to show off his own athletic skills by splitting the two DBs on him and racing all the way down the sideline from our 25 where he first caught the pass, down, down down and into the end zone!

82 yard pass TD reception!

We're up 21-0 at half and suddenly I'm looking like a genius for my audible call and read of the defense.

Does anyone know if the rosters are up? I know the page is down but I am wondering if there is any confirmation they're up?