It Should Be NCAA Release Week...

[dso122783]

I remember last year when the game came out I was away for work. On my way home I stopped by Game Stop and picked up my pre ordered copy. I was riding with a co worker (who I asked to go out of the way and to the strip mall were GS is located.) and he got a kick out of the fact that I opened it in the car. Just to see the disc. I started a dynasty that night, before my bags we unpacked.

This really blows. I remember watching a YouTube video afrew weeks before the game was released. It was a video of every single uniform for every team in the game. I watched the whole thing, as I'm sure most of you have also.

At first, I was against college football players getting paid. That was when I had a new NCAA game to play. Now that there is nothing, I don't care what they get I just want new NCAA football game. Maybe that's selfish of me. Maybe this whole thing just makes me understand that players do deserve something for use of their image.

As for this game being too old for me to play after this season only time will tell. It will seem extremely out dated after this year though.

[Twenty Four]

Went out and re-bought NCAA 14 yesterday. I was going through college football withdrawals.

[MAGboyswifT27]

This has been tough not having a NCAA game out this year. It would've been nice to see what it would've been like on Next-gen. Hopefully there'll be another NCAA game in the future.

[gator3guy]

It sucks not being able to pick up NCAA as that kind of kicked off the start to football season for me. But I think this is a blessing in disguise. I know there are some on here that enjoyed the game the last couple of years, and if you did more power to you, but let's be honest, the games have been pure garbage on gen 3. It started with the foundation and they played catch-up the entire generation.

If and when the game comes back, there will be new perspective leading the ship. No disrespect to the last dev team, but it didn't seem like they were college football fanatics (as a whole). The work reflected it. They needed some fresh blood anyway. Hopefully they will have authentic rosters and ratings by the time of the next release. One thing I thought hurt the series is how they randomized ratings (I think they had too many ratings) as a way to try and cover up the layer likeness issue. One thing that made the Gen 2 games so great is the ratings were pretty damn good considering the amount of teams and lack of resources back then- they even included transfers and the equipment was almost spot on for the top guys. Ratings make the game go and as someone who is almost exclusively an online player, having to play with default rosters the last few years (and who could forget the 09 fiasco when they "forgot" to put the right rosters on the disc) killed my experience. Can you imagine 128 teams, full of real players, updated throughout the season to reflect what is going on during the season? If they can make that happen, it would be worth the wait.

[Brandwin]

Quote: Originally Posted by Twenty Four

Went out and re-bought NCAA 14 yesterday. I was going through college football withdrawals.

I might end up doing that today. Rosters don't really matter for me because I'll just start as an OC at some small school anyway.

NCAA Football release kicked off the football season for me every year. This really blows. Hopefully one day we get another game in the series.

[XxJustAguessxX]

What's crazy is that if EA made this game again with new rosters, uniforms and added the new schools and playoff mode and no gameplay improvement I would still buy at $60.

[B Easy]

I recently bought Phil Steele's College Football magazine, like I do the beginning of every July. I usually thumb through conference by conference, beaming with excitement and anticipation. This year obviously, the fire just isn't there. I've barely read a few team reports so far. I know that will change once the season rolls around. For now, this really sucks man... Hopefully a new roster for '14-'15 will release shortly, maybe that will get me and us back in the swing of things...

[Scrapps]

Quote: Originally Posted by Twenty Four

Went out and re-bought NCAA 14 yesterday. I was going through college football withdrawals.

I took my withdrawal, even further. Not only did I re-buy NCAA 14. I also, re-bought a used ps3, because I traded mine in, when I got the ps4.


Even though the game certainly has its shortcomings, I needed my college football fix. The lead up to the start of the season, just seems wrong without it.