NCAA Basketball 10 Available, Post Impressions Here

[jetercanoturn2]

Quote: Originally Posted by davis420

Hey Jetertocano, What set of sliders are you using? I like this game alot! I'm just looking at what other people are using because maybe I'm missing something. Thanks!

My base set is Big DMO's sliders with some tweaks and I'm loving it.

[Guffers]

Here are a few little niggles that I've noticed afterplaying 50 games or so. The kind of stuff that could and should be patched...

- The CPU is much better at offensive rebounding than the human team. Even with their rebound sliders at 0 and the human ones at 100, they will still double you in this category most of the time. Also they never seem to miss when taking second chance shots under the hoop. Maybe this is player error on my part but its frustrating me a lot.

- Blocks from behind happen far too often and never result in foul calls. Its deflating to finally get a fast break chance only to have the ball snatched by a player behind you.

- Fouling on 3 point attempts seems to happen a lot as well. And of course Nessler chimes in with his 'that's a good foul' comment...

- Did they really only record two or three lines of commentary to be played when shooting fouls occur? Seriously? They realise that shooting fouls can happen up to 20 or so times a game...


Still, I'm having fun. It hasn't frozen up on me in a week or so and I'm having good games with my own custom sliders and some altered rosters. The CPU 3 point issue seems to have been fixed by the hard work of the guys on here editing the rosters. Notre Dame absolutely blew me out of the building last night, hitting 9 of 18 threes. It was lovely.

PS. Its really not cool that EA has walked away from this game when it freezes like the Dickens and requires hours upon hours of roster editing to get a realistic game of college basketball. I won't be purchasing any EA basketball games next year because of this, at least not new. Vote with your feet I say.

And even if they refuse to patch this game, the least they could do is release a new roster with the required 3 point edits for all teams. To save their loyal customers hours of tweaking.

[jake44np]

Well after defending this game on these boards for weeks I am now done.
I cant get in a whole game without the game freezing on me! Doesnt matter what I do if I am playing a game inside a dynasty the game freezes. I happened to me first in my season with IU in the NCAA tourney. It is really frustrating to play a whole season and then not be able to play the tourney.
Again my game never froze once until about a week ago and now I cant get it not to freeze.
I even tried to a new dynasty with a new team and it freezes over and over.
I have downloaded the newest roster for 2k8 and again am loving that game. It is crazy that a game 3 years old still works and plays great but a game a couple months old wont.

[HustlinOwl]

Quote: Originally Posted by jake44np

I have downloaded the newest roster for 2k8 and again am loving that game. It is crazy that a game 3 years old still works and plays great but a game a couple months old wont.

My NCAA 10 works and plays great and I would never go back to 2k8, game is tired and outdated. Engine is horrible compared to NCAA 10

[jake44np]

Quote: Originally Posted by HustlinOwl

My NCAA 10 works and plays great and I would never go back to 2k8, game is tired and outdated. Engine is horrible compared to NCAA 10

I was saying the same thing until I went back about a week ago and starting playing it again. IMO it is still an all around better game then NCAA 10. Oh and it has never froze on me once in 3 years.

[ThrillzNSkillz]

I love this game, it has put my Madden 10 on the shelf.

I have not had one freeze in my Dynasty since I hit the Start button when timeouts are called. I do AutoSubs, using Jasons rosters with some of my edits, and an edited BigDmo slider set for my own tastes. The stats come out extremely realistic.

This game really captures the College Basketball experience imo. I'm so glad I bought this game, and read this board regarding the freeze issue, which is no more!

[ThrillzNSkillz]

Totally jinxed myself, last night leading 38-28 St Johns over Penn State, game froze after first basket made in 2nd Half..so much for that...

[Omega Kid]

Nothing can prevent the freezing, and im afraid the game can damage the hd too... I get real spooky events. Watch out.