NCAA Football 09 Official First Look: NCAA Strategies

[SageInfinite]

I don't hate EA, just the combination of EA and Tiburon .

[Scott]

Well there goes my anticipation of NCAA

[bad_philanthropy]

I don't think people hate EA, if they did they wouldn't have any reason to even be in this forum. I think it is mainly that a lot of us have in the past had some of our best gaming experiences playing EA football games in the era where they were constantly pushing the envelope in terms of innovation with their football games to make them more realistic, in recent years we have been disappointed because the games have lacked the qualities that previous titles did that really engaged us.

We were used to every year being able to be excited about the new football games from EA and having them deliver a package that brought us a ton of enjoyment. I can't forget that upgrade between 2001 on the PS1 and 2002 on the PS2. That is probably the ultimate example of my expectations being exceeded.

Many of the efforts of last-gen were fantastic and I feel those games really did achieve a lot in terms of being a football simulation. To me it's more like I know that they are capable of making the kind of game that we all want, because they have before, but for some reason they keep taking steps backwards which is very frustrating to those of us who have enjoyed the series for so long.

[Russell_SCEA]

Quote:

it the must buy game of the year EA would not have had them take them down.

Again you don't get it for better or for worse those previews are only going to reach the hardcore gamer. Not the casual gamer that is 90% of their consumer base not the hardcore guy. To many people fail to realize this FACT we aren't as important as we think we are. The moment you realize this the easier this process becomes.

[MassNole]

Quote: Originally Posted by russell05

Again you don't get it for better or for worse those previews are only going to reach the hardcore gamer. Not the casual gamer that is 90% of their consumer base not the hardcore guy. To many people fail to realize this FACT we aren't as important as we think we are. The moment you realize this the easier this process becomes.

Okay, so when I was a moderator at NCAA Strategies (then called Utopia) I must have imagined EA sending the owner of the forum a message basically stating if they weren't more favorable to EA then EA wouldn't provide them with an advance copy of the game.

[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

I don't think people hate EA, if they did they wouldn't have any reason to even be in this forum.

Where the heck have you been for the last five years?

[eaglesfan27]

Quote: Originally Posted by russell05

Again you don't get it for better or for worse those previews are only going to reach the hardcore gamer. Not the casual gamer that is 90% of their consumer base not the hardcore guy. To many people fail to realize this FACT we aren't as important as we think we are. The moment you realize this the easier this process becomes.

If they keep having close to double digit percentage sales losses, that is going to have some effect on the suits at the top. It has happened with Madden in previous years and it will happen with NCAA if they keep losing the hard core gamers..

Also, great post, Bad-Philanthropy.

[SidVish]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scott

Well there goes my anticipation of NCAA

Yeah pretty much but I thought they would at least tone down a few of the glaring issues. Hopefully, the sliders actually work this year because I'm not going to play the NBA Jam edition of NCAA football again. I swear if they just switched the coding for punting and incompletions with int ret for td and qb ai I'd be happy as all hell.