NCAA Football 11 Blog: A New Game Plan

[coogrfan]

If I had to guess I would say long hair didn't make the cut due to the cost effectivness test I spoke of previously (amount of time and effort required vs the number of gamers likely to care, or some other variation on that theme).

The fact that there are basically two people beating the drum for this here at OS tells me that hair just ain't a major concern for most NCAA fans.

[dmick4324]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

You know it's pretty scary when I read some of the posts in this thread as to how daunting EA has managed to convince the community that adding hair must be. It's almost as if we are asking for something pretty much of the highest technical complexity at this point, like adding hair would take 3 months of development time of programmers working around the clock on it exclusively. Wishing for the moon I say, the MOON! LOL...don't know whether to laugh or cry at this point. Mission accomplished EA.

It's not that EA has convinced us, the truth of the matter is having long hair doesn't compare to most of the problems in the game. Maybe after they fix the invisible wall Shonn Greene runs into when trying to hit the hole I'll jump on the long hair bandwagon.

[Hova57]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

Hova57 - it's not just the hair, it's the fact that having no hair makes everyone look the same. It really serves to give the game a very generic, everyone is interchangeable, robot look. Go look at Madden and see how much hair can add to how unique it makes a team look. I'm sick of hearing folks saying "it's just hair". Hair is part of what makes people individuals in real life and dismissing it as such is part of the problem with this game and it's overall philosophy.

First off i think the hair hanging out of the helmets have gone way too far in real life. secondly I have none lol so its real life for me. and Lastly i think the physics , presentation of stats and team. and overall gameplay is way better than the look of hair flowing out the back of the helmet. I get what your saying but its just not something i saw in the game i would be like now we are playing football

[ODogg]

It's not just two people, it's two people that you see in this thread. Everytime I have buddies over to play the game they always notice it. And yes I agree that there are major issues that need fixed but that doesn't excuse everything else.

And again, the common theme I hear about this game is how the players look so generic and the game just looks so awful, this and other details like it would go a long ways towards fixing that. Just take one look at Madden and then look at NCAA and that is apparent.

[coogrfan]

1. I don't think the game looks awful. Far from it, in point of fact;
2. From a purely selfish pov it's a non-issue, as I don't believe my Coogs have a single player with hair that is long enough to be seen outside his helmet.

[RynoAid]

yea... hair priority seems kinda like this to me..

1. Gameplay functionality (blocking logic, locomotion etc)
2. Online Dynasty enhancements (more teams per dynasty and web enabled stats
3. Playbooks and Packages (custom playbooks and mods to the playcalliing screen.
4. Game saving options (allow disconnected Dynasty games to be restarted at the point it disconnected etc..)
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100. Dreadlocks and Mullets.

[ODogg]

And some people enjoy playing text sims too, what's your point?

[RynoAid]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

And some people enjoy playing text sims too, what's your point?

i think the point is, the majority of NCAA gamers would like to see more "core" game issues resolved before addressing cosmetic issues.