NCAA Football 10 Pre-E3 Hands-On (IGN)

[boritter]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

I hope you are right OMT. That IGN review was terrible. The fact he said the camera was the same made me feel that he was clueless. I'll take your word for it that the review is brutal.

Actually, IGN said the DEFAULT camera is the same. The exact words were:

"The default gameplay camera angles are the same..."

Yes, IGN should have said there are new camera angles. But I doubt they even noticed.

[Teddy_Long]

let me get this straight, we get no real new animations, no presentations, no camera angles, but we get team builder and some lame showdown gimmick? lol

[JerseySuave4]

i think a lot of it is that a lot of us grew up starting from the Bill Walsh days and have gotten older as the series has gotten older and now are in that 21-30 yr old range for the most part and we've seen technology advance, and now have a place to voice our opinions as opposed to during the ps1 days when internet forums werent as big as they are now. Along with that is the access the game designers give us by having these blogs and giving out more and more details earlier and earlier instead of just reading about stuff in a Gamepro magazine a month before the game comes out. When we were younger all we really wanted was a fun game that looked good, now our wants are much more advanced and lean more towards making the game as close to real life football as possible so we've grown from fun to sim more.

Thats just my 2 cents because although i didnt play last year's game as much as i have in the past (because i spent so much time doing custom stadium sound requests for people, plus work, plus college, plus coaching football) and i didnt really enjoy the game as much as year's past. But with the addition of teambuilder its added something thats going to have me playing this game whenever i get a chance (since i still coach h.s. football, work, and am finishing college).

Since the Madden guys have been able to come out and really talk about and show off the new additions in terms of gameplay, appearance, accessories, etc. and NCAA hasn't, we're all getting that feeling like NCAA is the red headed step child thats not getting the same attention as Madden which disturbs many of us that prefer the NCAA series over the Madden series. But its unfair to sit and judge a game without ever even playing it but thats what happens when theres internet forums to talk on 24 hours so people gotta talk about something.

This game isn't going to be perfect and i dont think we're expecting it to be, but hopefully the gameplay tweaks and additions as well as accessory additions make us feel like there has been an improvement so we can enjoy the game more than past years.

People are always going to pick out the negative things, but as long as you enjoy the game thats all that should matter to you personally.

[mercalnd]

Quote: Originally Posted by boritter

Actually, IGN said the DEFAULT camera is the same. The exact words were: "The default gameplay camera angles are the same..." Yes, IGN should have said there are new camera angles. But I doubt they even noticed.

Actually, there is still only one camera angle in the game but it's been modified so they definitely should have noticed.

[adembroski]

Quote: Originally Posted by eritraj

"the real bread and butter is in the Season Showdown and TeamBuilder modes..." AWESOME! Two features I will never use...

Good, because I'll use Team Builder enough for both of us.

I wish people would stop acting butt hurt because there's a feature others might like but they don't. I doubt too many of us give two ****s about Season Showdown, but I'd say a very good sized portion care a great deal about Team Builder... and I have no problem saying, "sure, go ahead and throw in a mode for the casual fan since you've thrown me a bone with TB." I'm perfectly cool with that.

I personally don't think NCAA is going to be, on the field, better than Madden this year. Hard to fault them, they've been the better game all but two or three of the past 10 year in virtually every department... game play (has been back and forth until NextGen, where NCAA's ran away with it), franchise vs. dynasty (no contest, never has been), superstar vs. campus legend (again, no contest), online options (duh), atmosphere and presentation... name an area Madden's been better over the past 10 years.

I can think of one, and that's playbooks. Madden's gonna win the battle this season on the field, but NCAA will win, once again, off of it. However, I do anticipate a highly improved gameplay, and to me, with the retuned adjustments to the draft classes in Madden, that makes it worth the purchase.

It's always been one game too me. NCAA + Madden, the paradigm. I can't have one without the other.

[Child Rebel]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

Good, because I'll use Team Builder enough for both of us. I wish people would stop acting butt hurt because there's a feature others might like but they don't. I doubt too many of us give two ****s about Season Showdown, but I'd say a very good sized portion care a great deal about Team Builder... and I have no problem saying, "sure, go ahead and throw in a mode for the casual fan since you've thrown me a bone with TB." I'm perfectly cool with that. I personally don't think NCAA is going to be, on the field, better than Madden this year. Hard to fault them, they've been the better game all but two or three of the past 10 year in virtually every department... game play (has been back and forth until NextGen, where NCAA's ran away with it), franchise vs. dynasty (no contest, never has been), superstar vs. campus legend (again, no contest), online options (duh), atmosphere and presentation... name an area Madden's been better over the past 10 years. I can think of one, and that's playbooks. Madden's gonna win the battle this season on the field, but NCAA will win, once again, off of it. However, I do anticipate a highly improved gameplay, and to me, with the retuned adjustments to the draft classes in Madden, that makes it worth the purchase. It's always been one game too me. NCAA + Madden, the paradigm. I can't have one without the other.

I'm sorry, but team builder doesn't really do much for me. I'm not going to knock anybody who wants and will enjoy it, I mean to each his own. However Team builder doesn't do anything to improve the overall experience of the game. It doesn't improve gameplay, presentation, cosmetics, or any other vastly important aspect of the actual game. From what I've gathered, and I could very well be wrong, but you're getting a rehash of last years title with some new custom teams. That's enough for you?

[zoltan]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

I can think of one, and that's playbooks. Madden's gonna win the battle this season on the field, but NCAA will win, once again, off of it.

so are you saying that Madden is going to have better playbooks than NCAA this year???

well i certainly hope that is not that case

[adembroski]

Quote: Originally Posted by zoltan

so are you saying that Madden is going to have better playbooks than NCAA this year??? well i certainly hope that is not that case

No, I'm saying Madden has already had better playbooks. When I say that, I'm talking in terms of "replicating what the team really runs".... NCAA's playbooks are all fairly generic and far from 100% team specific.

NCAA has better playbooks in the sense that there's much more variety of styles in college football, but in terms of team-by-team flavor, you've got 120 teams vs. 32... it's a lot easier to get 32 to be fairly faithful to what the teams actually run than 120.