NCAA Football 11 Blog: A New Game Plan

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by da ThRONe

I'm almost positive if long hair was in they would have mentioned it with the rest of the equipment. As bad as I want it in I have to be honest with myself and realize it's probably not.

I agree, I doubt it's in. I'm going to keep pounding EA about it and eventually they will cave.

[Sting]

Quote: Originally Posted by da ThRONe

I'm almost positive if long hair was in they would have mentioned it with the rest of the equipment. As bad as I want it in I have to be honest with myself and realize it's probably not.

I will go ape-dodo if it isn't in.

[Blaxican8504]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sting

I will go ape-dodo if it isn't in.

It's been said a bunch of times already that in order to get dreadlocks in the game, they would have to redo the player models. And if they had done something like that, they would have mentioned it.

[St3fN_sTrApS]

Why don't they just make all the players bald and give you the option to add a fade, buzzcut, dreadlocks, long hair etc. and hair color. I mean thats how it was on Last GEN, if they were able to do it then, why not now? I'm sorry if I don't get it but it just doesn't seem like it would be that big of a pain in the kneck to add.

But then again I really don't have the slightest clue at all as to what it takes to develope a video game. I would really LIKE to see the addition of long hair, but if it doesn't end up in, I'm already used to it being snubbed every year.

[Sting]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blaxican8504

It's been said a bunch of times already that in order to get dreadlocks in the game, they would have to redo the player models. And if they had done something like that, they would have mentioned it.

I remember reading that. I don't buy it. It just doesn't make sense. ps2 Madden were still "individual" players and they were able to port that into the college version. There's no difference now. Of course the Madden players are "individuals" but there's no reason that they couldn't port over long hair besides lack of talent on the EA team. Period.

Edit: I'm gonna add on that as well. The player faces we have in NCAA are generic. There's X number of faces that we can choose from or they're randomly generated for recruits. There's not a ton of them. Make HAIR an option as well like mentioned above. Buzzcut, fade, dreadlocks, long and wavy, etc. I don't buy the reason they've given us. Give us those options EA. Or don't, and continue to do what you've been doing.

[Solidice]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sting

I remember reading that. I don't buy it. It just doesn't make sense. ps2 Madden were still "individual" players and they were able to port that into the college version. There's no difference now. Of course the Madden players are "individuals" but there's no reason that they couldn't port over long hair besides lack of talent on the EA team. Period. Edit: I'm gonna add on that as well. The player faces we have in NCAA are generic. There's X number of faces that we can choose from or they're randomly generated for recruits. There's not a ton of them. Make HAIR an option as well like mentioned above. Buzzcut, fade, dreadlocks, long and wavy, etc. I don't buy the reason they've given us. Give us those options EA. Or don't, and continue to do what you've been doing.

I don't think madden and NCAA use the same player models though. and if they just "port" over the madden models to NCAA, they would likely have to remake all of the uniforms for every single team since the uniform template from the NCAA player model probably wont fit on the Madden player model. (120 teams x2 for home/away + any additional uniform combo a team may have = a ton of work)

from what I remember, the player models for NCAA do not even had a head, it's just a helmet with a face in it, so there is no head to even add hair to. I believe that was what Adam, or some other NCAA Dev said once(I could be wrong though).

I'm not sure how they handle the art/templates/models, so I'm not sure how hard or easy it would be to make adding hair possible.

[Sting]

It's just lame that they can't add hair. I mean, really? Just add hair as an option on the templates and stop telling people that it can't be done. They basically try to make it sound overly complicated to shut people up. Ridiculous.

[PantherBeast_OS]

Well it all sounds good to me. Can't wait to see actual gameplay in a few months from now. It's going to be a long 3 months.