05-23-2009, 03:21 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Gainesville, FL
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Re: NCAA Football 10 Blog: Season Showdown: Show Your Skills
"There are a ton of great games released every year, and we have never had a feature that gives you a specific reason to keep playing months after we launch."
"In addition to all of this, the goal of every game is to reach as large an audience as possible, and a feature like Season Showdown reaches out to college football fans in general as well as the NCAA community of gamers. While your sisters/girlfriends/wives might never put a controller in their hands, you can get them involved in Allies & Rivals, while your old man might own a console, he may be willing to help out his school through the Trivia Challenge, and while you might not be interested in a mode like dynasty, but still want some persistent element to your gameplay, Season Showdown is a feature that allows you to be involved as much or as little as you want to."
This was from a post by Ben Haumiller on NCAA Strategies posting about SS that basically sums up why I have no faith in this game being good.
For the first part, MLB the Show doesn't have some feature to try and keep players playing their game, instead they make a game that has great gameplay, great presentation, and gives a fun, challenging experience. They do not need a gimmick to bring people back, or aim to the casual consumer. Instead they build a great game that gets played year round because it is a good game.
As for the second part, do we really need a feature that is catered to our girlfriends or "old man." How about making a game that aims to the hardcore as the cashual gamer is just going to play, play now games against the CPU on pro difficulty.
They write about SS as if school pride is on the line and that will draw all NCAA fans in when in reality it is a stupid video game contest that I could care less if my favorite team wins or finishes dead last in. Where is the motivation that will bring people back playing it to keep there team above the NCAA rankings. Unless they add the ranking onto the BCS (which probably wouldn't hurt the system) there is not much point in having this.
Instead, make a game that plays great and people will continue playing it throughout the year. Online dynasty is a great mode they added last year that keeps people coming back but it sounds like they barely did anything to improve upon it.
Right now I personally hope Madden blows NCAA at of the water in the hopes that EA sees what focusing on the community can do and they decide to put a guy with the passion that Ian Cummings has as the lead designer of NCAA '11.
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