Should NCAA Football 10 Get Your Business? (Who Needs Rules)

[rckabillyRaider]

Having bought 09 and playing the demo last night.......... I have 0 anticipation for this game.

With those 60 bucks, I will probably re-buy a ps2 and get it on there along with madden, in case madden doesn't pan out this year again.

[da ThRONe]

Quote: Originally Posted by marcoyk

That is exactly how I feel. I absolutely love college football but I don't want to give these people my money. I don't feel like they deserve it at all with the incompetence that they've shown regarding broken sliders for 2 years in a row and horrifically wrong rosters. I also don't appreciate being lied to. They told us that we could get pressure on the QB this year but that's a flat out lie. They've also ignored our thousands of requests for other types of game-play improvements. Then they add a completely unnecessary feature in Season Showdown while actually mandatory features like rosters and sliders are incomplete and broken, respectively. Then you just look at the Madden team and get blown away by how much more/better they've done in their developmental cycle. They've done so much to improve game-play and have only added online dynasty - an actually sensible feature - as a new feature to the game. I'll be upset with myself if I buy it or not. If I buy it I'll be saying "They don't deserve sixty dollars for this," and if I don't I'll be saying "Ugh I'm craving college football right now. Why haven't I bought NCAA 9.001 yet?"

They have us by the short and curlies!

[the onizzle]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dollar Theater

For the first time since '98, I don't think I'll be getting it. I may rent it first to see if it's any better but $60 is a lot to ask for a mediocre upgrade considering Fight Night Round 4 and Madden 2010 coming out within a month of NCAA.

Sound a lot like me dude. Long time NCAA'er, but this year the buck stops. will NOT buy the game or rent it. With Fight Night dropping next week, Madden in August, and even Backbreaker rumored to come out in 2009, NCAA is easily the weakest sports title on the market.

[drae2]

Well no way they get a dime of my moolah for this. They should've paid me for even downloading that demo.

[Speedy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Exonerated

I remember this exact same thread last year. Everyone says no. But the poll I saw earlier this week had like 108 people out of like 190 buying it so I unno. Is this a case of the vocal minority, or a true hiatus?

Last year's version was a bit of progress from '08's version. The same can't be said for this year...

[hcopenhagenh]

I went NG for EA NCAA Football. I have to give EA a big thank you. If it weren't for crappy EA Football games I would have never been introduced to first person shooters.

[Dollar Theater]

Quote: Originally Posted by the onizzle

Sound a lot like me dude. Long time NCAA'er, but this year the buck stops. will NOT buy the game or rent it. With Fight Night dropping next week, Madden in August, and even Backbreaker rumored to come out in 2009, NCAA is easily the weakest sports title on the market.

I know man. It's tough. College football is by far my favorite sport, but Teambuilder and Campus Whatever isn't enough to sell me. On the bright side, FN4 and Madden look like they've taken nice leaps forward. So you can play the former until the latter is released and hopefully not miss a lot.

Maybe the NCAA team will put together a quality upgrade for 2011 and I can start my streak over.

[jyoung]

Moved from the thread that was just locked to reduce clutter

What you are endorsing if you choose to buy this game

Companies who lie to their consumers

We've got a huge thread on these forums already, so I don't think I need to say much here. Fact is, very specific changes for NCAA 10 were promised on these boards, and as of the demo, many of those promises have not been fulfilled.

Broken products

Two years in a row, the NCAA series has shipped with a handful of the game's major features being broken right out of the box. Last year it was dynasty bugs (online and off) and broken sliders, this year we have the infamous roster goof and *shock* the same broken sliders.

Keep in mind, those are just features that shipped broken. The actual gameplay is another story all together.

Last-gen experience on a next-gen console

Aside from the quality of the player models and stadiums (which still, don't look that great compared to other next-gen games), virtually every aspect of this series' presentation screams last-gen.

Crowds and sidelines look like they belong on the N64.

The commentary and overall game presentation hasn't made any significant changes since the PS2 heyday.

College atmosphere remains virtually non-existant in pre/post game activites and on the actual field of play.

Arcade, not sim gameplay

The developers themselves have stated on these boards that their grand design for NCAA is to not make it a simulation football game.

In other words, the turn-on-a-dime running and laser-arm passing are there by design.

If this is a design you do not agree with, and you are supporting the NCAA series financially, expect this design philosophy to remain constant so long as it remains profitable for the NCAA team.

Features first, gameplay second

Think about it: how much has the gameplay really changed in the last five years? Hardly any, if at all.

What we seem to get instead, every year, is a bunch of "back of the box" features thrown in there to hide the fact that core gameplay in the NCAA series is still stuck in the caveman era of robo-passing, players on ice skates, offensive and defensive linemen with no real-life logic whatsoever, not to mention the complete lack of real-life physics or momentum.

But hey, if you're fine with that, feel free to keep buying the game.

I, for one, will not be buying this game, as I have not bought any EA football game (including Madden) since the '05 editions.

This is not because I don't like EA (NHL '09 is my most-played game of the last year), but because I do not support inferior sports franchises that are heading in the wrong direction.