NCAA Football 10 Demo Now Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[fistofrage]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Ok my biggest issues are 1:Just doesn't feel exciting at all. Maybe that's just me. No life what so ever IMO. 2: I feel as though I'm guiding my players rather than controlling them. Very sluggish and animation oriented. Not really to impressed overall...

Yeah, I can't really explain it but it feels as though I'm moving 2-d cut-outs around rather than being immersed in the gameplay. Its hard to explain, the PS2 players from a few years back seemed like they had weight and momentum to them. These guys almost seem weightless. I don't know, hard to explain.

[Strummer101er]

Quote: Originally Posted by fistofrage

Yeah, I can't really explain it but it feels as though I'm moving 2-d cut-outs around rather than being immersed in the gameplay. Its hard to explain, the PS2 players from a few years back seemed like they had weight and momentum to them. These guys almost seem weightless. I don't know, hard to explain.

Yup. There's something floaty and airy about the demo.

It's weird, but adjusting sound levels in the finished game usually helps a bit. I usually turn down the crowd noise and turn up on-field sounds. It makes the action "feel" more lively and intense.

[SilverChaosVII]

Has anybody else experienced the glitch where you hike the ball. It goes flying back past the quarterback, the play is called dead and called an incomplete pass.

I've played 3 total games and had it happen twice. Pretty crap

[da ThRONe]

Quote: Originally Posted by fistofrage

Yeah, I can't really explain it but it feels as though I'm moving 2-d cut-outs around rather than being immersed in the gameplay. Its hard to explain, the PS2 players from a few years back seemed like they had weight and momentum to them. These guys almost seem weightless. I don't know, hard to explain.

Its not that hard to explain because you did a pretty good job explaining it to me!

[Drocks]

Alright, even though everyone else has pretty much broken this thing down to bits and pieces, I thought I'd give my two cents from the perspective of someone who is probably more of a borderline casual/hardcore gamer who just wants a fun game to play:

Gameplay
This is something that means so many things to so many people. But in any event, here are some of my thougts:
+ The game is slowed a bit, there's really no denying it and I don't understand how people can say it hasn't. It's not a lot, but it is there, and to me, it is a plus.
+ The catching is very solid IMO. The fade route work to perfection for me, where I lobbed it up with Tebow, and the receiver went up (not rocket style, but very naturally) and pulled it down and got a foot down in the corner of the end zone. It looked incredibly sweet. Maybe this was possible in 09 in some way, but I never got it as smooth and tight looking as I did in this demo.
+ Pocket definitely forms, no doubt about it. A vast improvement there.
+ QBs misfire, I likes A LOT. I overshot an open dude once that could have been six and I was mad, but happy all at the same time lol.
+ CPU burnt me deep and it wasn't just one of those wide open looks, but it actually challeneged me deep one on one, and won.
- Pass rush is struggling. It's more on my end though (of course lol) where I can't get as much pressure. The CPU got to me on many occassions though.
- The running period needs to be addressed. Momentum and physics will help this game immensely. When a guy cuts, there has to be an animation to address that foot plant and push. Not just a simple change of direction of the usual running animation. CPU is more guilty of this cause they'll be twitchin sometimes and it's just not good.
- Along with that, running animations need overhaul. Specifically for fast guys. That high knee thing is a trip lol. Ya'll need to take care of that EA!

Presentation
+ Bands were a good addition, better camera angles on that part would be good though.
+ I love the new look of the score layout and stats banners. I would recommend keeping something similar for future iterations.
- Pretty much same style commentary, this needs to be overhauled to freshen it up.
- Just the overall presentation needs an upgrade. I want to see players entering from the tunnels. Instead of just a pic of a player profile, show the player warming up like back in the day. Post game, I'm not sure if that really it or not, but something's gotta happen after the game as far as players leaving the field, coaches shaking hands, etc. The replay thing is cool, but I needs more.

Overall Impressions
The game IMO, is not even close to nearly as bad as people are making it sound. There are issues like pass rush (my only real main beef) that need addressing in the future, as well as tweaking the running and stuff. I can understand why people call it NCAA 9.5 (which I hate, cause it's so stupid, but whatever lol), but the game definitely feels different than it looks. The way the game is played is not like 09, but it defintely looks similar. If that bothers you, then you will never be able to get into this game. If you are a real HARDCORE SIM guy, you will also have problems because of some of the issues I noted. Like I said, I'm more borderline so although I notice these things and they kind of bother me, they don't ruin my experience with the game because overall it is a fun game to play.

BTW, this is on PS3 and I really didn't notice any graphical issues. The game looked and ran very smoothly. Not a bunch of jaggies at all for me, unless maybe my eyes just deceived me. And also, Uniform Mix-n-Match is the greatest thing EVER LOL.

So yeah, those are just my thoughts on it. Those who loved 09 will defintely still like 10, and those who hated 09 beyond just the issues of pursuit angles and stuff like that will probably still hate 10 lol.

[BroMontana82]

Quote: Originally Posted by Strummer101er

Ditto. I don't get it: I don't think we asked for a new gameplay camera (or a new coach cam) and I'm sure we didn't ask the dev team to get rid of L-stick jukes. Weird design choices there.

yeah epic fail. people can say how great these small improvements and team builder are but for me, you can sell me all the gadgets and gizmos for that american made car but if the car itself hasn't been fixed from last year and the car's going to break in a month...i'm not going to be happy and i'm not buying.

[Marv_Levy]

i remembered how much dynamic camera sucked lol. We better still be able to turn on classic

[GoBlue10]

i hate all the tackles around the shoulders, when they have the players of the game it doesn't show how much time is left on the playclock, on no huddle the clock stops entirely, the running game is hard as hell (even w/ a 96 spd rb)

but it is a demo so i'll wait till the actual game comes out to make a final judgement