NCAA Football 11 Screenshot and Nine Changes Listed and Detailed

[mm boost]

Oh, and while this is a small thing, did anyone else notice where the cleat is meeting the grass/turf, how realistic it looks? Instead of the player floating on the field, it looks like they have weight and are actually planting their feet in. That looks killer to me. Plus the overall detail in the cleat...instead of looking like a solid shoe, you can count the individual spikes and such on the cleat. Very impressive in my opinion. I am so excited to see these blogs.

[SmoothOlaf]

I've been begging for one feature ever since I started playing the NCAA series nine or ten years ago. Please EA, pretty please, I'm on my knees here, please allow me to give to players on the same team the same jersey number. I edit my rosters. I like them to be accurate. The default rosters have two guys with the same numbers. TeamBuilder allows everybody on the team to have the same number. All I want to do is be able to edit it in the game myself.

[mm boost]

Um, can you please explain why exactly you want 2 players on the same team to have the same number? That's just...dumb in my opinion? You can't in real life, why would you want to on a game simulating real life college football?

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by stoncold32

Basically, until I see YouTube vids of real people playing the game on the field, this game is on my no buy list. I'm buying The Show with the money that I always put towards this game....then if I see real improvement, effort, it will warrant a purchase.

This is the relevant point. Message board euphoria or cynicism doesn't matter. What matters is, has the development team made enough improvement in the core area that you care about to convince you to purchase the game. This won't be known for sure until July.

Quote: Originally Posted by Crimsontide27

I think we can all agree that we would like to see the best possible product released. But 10 pages of praises for tshirts is ridiculous given all that is wrong with this series.

Being put off about the excitement of other people concerning the improvement of secondary and tertiary issues is wasted energy.

I might, and you might, but not everyone is going to adopt a stance of grim skepticism about the game because of the long standing problems with the gameplay mechanics, A.I., etc.. Trying to convince someone else to temper their enthusiasm about a game, is a like trying to put out a fire with an eyedropper.

[Solidice]

Quote: Originally Posted by mm boost

Um, can you please explain why exactly you want 2 players on the same team to have the same number? That's just...dumb in my opinion? You can't in real life, why would you want to on a game simulating real life college football?

there are plenty of teams that have 2 players with the same number in college football. they just can't be on the field at the same time.

[stoncold32]

Quote: Originally Posted by mm boost

Um, can you please explain why exactly you want 2 players on the same team to have the same number? That's just...dumb in my opinion? You can't in real life, why would you want to on a game simulating real life college football?

You said you played college ball??? I dont even see how you can make this statement above. Plenty of teams have players on offesen/defense with the same number.

Quote: Originally Posted by mm boost

You people on here blow my mind. Did ANY of you take a second to read the first few paragraphs thoroughly? This means that blogs are starting next week showcasing the new improvments and such. Also, they said that these small things added to the game were the first MINOR things added . !

Yes, we all saw that blogs are starting next week.....same as last year. They have to do this now b/c, imo, it's simply a marketing ploy to get the ball rolling. They never needed to do this in the past. But there's so much negativity (and well warranted) out now that they need to do something to shift it back in their direction.

[BLACKjersey53]

ready to see some screenshots of the new facemasks.. Im a huge facemask guy lol

[TracerBullet]

Quote: Originally Posted by Crimsontide27

A few things to add to this... The Community has been asking for an upgrade to presentation for 5+ years now...and we still havent gotten it. The Community has been asking for ratings besides speed to actually matter for years now ..and still dont have it. The Community has been asking for Bowl atmosphere...and still hasnt gotten it. The Community has asked for the removal of Robo QB for years....and still hasnt gotten it. The Community has asked that lineman actually block for years now.....still hasnt gotten it. The Community has asked for the ******** AI on defense to be fixed for years now...still hasnt gotten it. The Community has asked for some sort of interaction between the DBs / WRs for years....still hasnt gotten it. The Community has asked for some sort of momentum to be in the game instead of turning on a dime for years now....still hasnt gotten it. But yet people are tickled to death to get an undershirt.... Field goal nets, windsocks, mouthpieces...etc, cant possibly take more than a few days to put in, and yet people are squealing like pigs at a slop trought because we can now add Cups to the players jock straps. As to your comment about community day, its nothing more than hype , propaganda , and a marketing opportunity. Last few years we heard many amazing things coming from the community day and then all of a sudden people all rushed out and bought the game.... Next thing you know , we realize that what we heard from the community day people, and what we were playing were not exactly the same things we were seeing. Onward comes the community day people to state that " EA must have changed the build" after we previewed it etc.. The majority of us are not stupid. EA and their NCAA series has fallen flat on its face for years and each year the hype machine gets rolling and the chants for " just wait till next year guys" starts back up. Your $60 and my $60 are the same, and I understand that. They are losing their customer base on a yearly basis that just wants a good game of pigskin, but gaining consumers such as yourself that are so easily pleased that all they need to do is change the picture on the cover of NCAA 10, and resell you the same garbage with NCAA 11 as the title. At the end of the day its about money, and they will lose some faithful fans, but gain some new ones in the process. Every 5 years there is a ton of new people that enter the market and those are the people they are catering to, and I dont blame them. The Community has been asking for more realis

I think everyone here understands your frustration with the series as only about 10-15% of the people on here are placing this on their must buy list just from the screenshot. No one is saying that you shouldn't be. But at the same time there is no reason to try to get pissed at others who enjoy the things they showed. It's February, and if you expected them to let the flood gates open with gameplay info on the first day of new info then you couldn't be further off. Most people are glad that this year they actually listed some good things instead of windsocks and fieldgoal nets. This update gives them a lot more to be optimistic about than last year's.

If we get about halfway with these updates and you see no improvements to gameplay, then you more than likely see the majority of people in these boards side with you. However, there's no reason to come on here undermining the intelligence of the other posters who like this info just because you don't.

Same goes for the people who do like it. They shouldn't tell you to be happy about the info becasue some of you could care less about equipment and graphics.

I'm not saying be happy about it but I do believe some of you guys are jumping the gun on gameplay. I'm one of the people who likes the screenshot. But at the same time if we find out that they haven't gotten rid of the 90 degree running in this series I will be pissed as well. I don't expect them to tell us major changes right at the beginning. Most games usually start off with a teaser or a screenshot with a small feature in it.

You guys have every right to be mad at the shape of this series but that doesn't mean take it out on the people who like this. Just say you're not impressed by this and move on for now. A lot of people are playing the wait-and-see game and I think you should to. If it gets later on and you don't like what you see then don't buy it.