NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

[Memberz_09]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

Woo-hoo! The first person who noticed how commentary is different! The best play by play lines are when you catch the ball and go immediately out of bounds or when you are hit on the throw or throw across your body and it gets picked.

Yea the commentary is very different because when I did the game winning run in OT they said a new line like this has to be the top 5 finishes of all-time and what not. I thought it was pretty cool!

[Gamecock]

OT is in the demo?

I've yet to try out OT just because I was afraid the demo would end at regulation, but i'll be sure to keep the score a deadlock just to try out OT.

Honestly I feel like i'm doing my own testing.

And the wide receivers have no sense of where the sidelines are at all.

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gamecock

OT is in the demo? I've yet to try out OT just because I was afraid the demo would end at regulation, but i'll be sure to keep the score a deadlock just to try out OT. Honestly I feel like i'm doing my own testing. And the wide receivers have no sense of where the sidelines are at all.

Yep, OT is in...I had a 3 OT game recently.

[Russell_SCEA]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

I'll be saying this for so long it might be on my gravestone! Mascot games are simply loading a different player model and adding an team select interface. It was a one day task. It takes up NO space. None. Zero. Team entrances, sideline interaction, coach carousel? Those takes months to do, they require new technology, they require memory budgeting... these are BIG features, whereas mascot games are a small feature. At least in terms of budgeting. We can only do a finite amount of things to the game in one year. Would we like them? YES! We'd love to have them! We try to get them in every year. Comparing features like those to mascot games is like comparing apples to pencils. There IS no comparison.

I have waited about 4 years to hear this

[OMT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gamecock

Did you all test the demo? - Not that it mattered, but just wondering Well hopefully your testers can see the gaps in the offensive line as well as the receiver going the opposite way with the ball.

Yes, but they were testing demo specific stuff. The bugs you mention should have been found by the gameplay test team. These two I read here over the weekend, and on monday I am going to check the bug database to see if they were found, and if so... when they were fixed. I know the date that the demo was branched, and based on when they were fixed, I'll be able to say if they are in the final product.

So wait until Monday and I'll see what I can find out.

[Gamecock]

just referring to Russell's quote of your post about all those features. I fondly remember them on the old xbox which what exactly did that have that this didn't in order to produce such?

Don't you all get paid for putting ads in places like the EFFING defensive audible selection?

[OMT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Memberz_09

Yea the commentary is very different because when I did the game winning run in OT they said a new line like this has to be the top 5 finishes of all-time and what not. I thought it was pretty cool!

Ha! That isn't new. Actually, I've never heard it! But I can tell you it isn't new to 09.

This is the tough thing with commentary. We have all these lines for things that will not happen very often. However, we also have lines for things you will do every game. Those are the ones that are repetitive and give commentary that "same ol same ol" feel.

One thing we did this year was go through the script and identify the most common situations. Then we removed any lines that were memorable and recorded a bunch of extra lines to give it more variety.

My main focus this year was on play by play... the Brad Nessler stuff. This guy is a real pro and is great in the recording booth.

I have plans for improving the Kirk and Lee stuff on 2010.

[Rhudey]

Just finished playing two games on the demo, here's some comments

First game I was OSU, I couldnt get any pressure on the qb and he shredded me, next game I was LSU and I was able to get good pressure just with the front 4. I pressured the QB into several off throws and was able to get a user sack. To be honest, it was alot of fun playing D line in the second game.

In two games no cpu ints, although I threw two. I've been playing ncaa since ps1, on AA, but for some reason I didnt get in the endzone in either game....I must suck, lol.

I thought the demo looked and played great, yeah, theres some bugs, but so far nothing that would make me not want to buy the game and play the hell out of it. I think so far its a huge step over last years, don't really understand how some people can say its only a minor upgrade.

One thing that still dumbfounds me tho is the "QB mask" that the OSU qb has. Where did EA come up with the QB mask that no quarterback in college or the NFL ever has worn? Maybe I'm wrong, but I've never seen this mask. Not really a big deal, I just thing it's kind of funny.