NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3/360)

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by ehh

I know one other dude who has XBL but he works nights so I might not be able to get over to his place. But yeah, only nine more days anyway. I'm not really worried bout the demo anyway, I've played enough of Live 10 and seen enough vids of the demo. I think the retail is going to be a lot better than the demo based on what I see in Live now and the difference between Live's demo and retail (and post patch).

Agreed, although I haven't played Live all that much. But given the fact that I enjoyed the hell out of last year's games despite its hiccups, I can't imagine having just as much, if not, more fun with this year's title.

New motion offense, the presentation, the talk of improved sim logic....yeah, I'm going to be fine.

[ehh]

I'm curious to see if the game winds up being better than Live 10. For the last 4-5 years college games have pretty much always wound up better than the NBA version because the game comes out later and more improvements are made. We obviously won't know the answer until after the patch comes out probably around New Year's.

The DNA updates in Live sometimes do more harm than good, I'm excited to get into dynasty mode and see if there are less odd-ball things done by the CPU.

[JkA3]

too bad we didn't get a ps3 release.

[Bootzilla]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomba

Played more of the demo and it FEELS like a demo not a final retail. theres times when there's annoying hiccups as well. overall though if it's anything like the demo i'll be happy for once with a game out of the box

Do you like Live? I played Live and the NCAA demo back to back and I like Live so much more. I find myself playing the demo and thinking about sliders and how I'd change things to make it more realistic.

[chris11sg]

Quote: Originally Posted by JkA3

too bad we didn't get a ps3 release.

second that

[RayAllen20]

One thing I've definitely noticed is the fact that the player speed differential and momentum isn't like Lives. Everyone is like a guard. Brian Zoubek doesn't have someone like Yao's momentum.

There are a couple things we may be able to do. There should probably be a speed threshold slider. Which we could make 0 to make the speed differential bigger.

Or we might have to do a big roster project to change everyone's speed. I need to have so that Kemba Walker's speed differential than most players is huge. This could also make it so there are more fastbreaks, since everyone can catch up. For example what we would do is change Zoubek's speed to around 40, and lower his agility as well.

(I pray to god we don't have to do this!)

One thing I like is the lack of dunks. It's not a dunk show but when you get one it is special.

[BunnyHardaway]

Yeah, after playing a bunch of games I have to echo everyone's complaint about how every player seems like they have the same exact attributes. I shouldn't be able to cross people up and drive to the hole with Brian Zoubek.

[KG]

Quote: Originally Posted by ehh

I'm curious to see if the game winds up being better than Live 10. For the last 4-5 years college games have pretty much always wound up better than the NBA version because the game comes out later and more improvements are made. We obviously won't know the answer until after the patch comes out probably around New Year's. The DNA updates in Live sometimes do more harm than good, I'm excited to get into dynasty mode and see if there are less odd-ball things done by the CPU.

That's what I'm banking on but the demo feels worse than the Live demo to me and the fact that the college game doesn't have all the bells & whistles of the pro game makes me hesitant. That was one thing I could always count on with College Hoops, I knew it was going to be an improvement over the NBA game while still having it's own personality.