NCAA Football 11 Video: Interview and Gameplay

[Solidice]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

I also thought they were adding chain gangs along with the refs. I guess there's another thing to ask for next year.

don't think they ever said anything about chain gangs. it's possible they could show them in cutscenes, along with coaches, similar to how they did refs in NCAA 10(and I think '09 as well), but just not show them in real time. they have fans in the stands in cutscenes for 11, so it's not that far a stretch.

[huskerwr38]

First off, the interviewer was really bad. I think he asked some like 3 questions, some awkward silences, he called NCAA 10 quite impressive...not good. Anyways, the game this year does actually quite impressive, however, I did not like that catch he had at 8:01 on the flag route when his WR caught the ball it looked like his momentum would have carried him out of bounds, but the WR almost cut on a dime and turned up field without really slowing down. That did not look good. However, I thought everything else looked awesome.

I am definately going to buy the game this year, and I haven't been this excited for the game since NCAA 04 or so.

[Rivals]

The 3rd and short cut scenes for Madden 10 were pretty cool. Just jack those.

[Lava]

While I like that players now have to stop to change direction, the still go back to full speed WAY too fast. They accelerate in the blink of an eye, so while it's marginally better than NCAA 10 it's still not as much of a factor as it should be.

This is especially apparent in the video when Russ is playing defense and takes control of the linebacker. He does some violent direction changes and the player appropriately stops to change direction. However, in the blink of an eye after he stops he is going back full speed the other way! Make ACCELERATION really matter, guys! Locomotion looks good and has the potential to be great, but it's not going to reach its potential until you make acceleration realistic! A 230 lb. linebacker isn't going to be able to get back to full speed in a fraction of a second!

[moylan1234]

I agree Lava, but that guy might just have high acceleration no?

[Lava]

I suppose it's possible, but I can't imagine a linebacker having the agility/acceleration to make those rapid changes in direction that quickly in real life.

Something tells me it's not just that player. I obviously can't say for certain, as I haven't played the game, but I don't have a good feeling about it.

[Magaman]

Hey everyone. I just wanna say some of you are brutal critics but I love the feedback. Yes thats my video, and me in it, and from my site VGrevolution. Believe me I hate being on camera and asking the questions, I'm actually supposed to be on the other side of the camera, it is what I drop 90k to go to school for. However we are a small site so the few of us running it where all hats.
If you have any questions feel free to ask. We did play a ton more of the game.
Some things:
Firstly the game was an early build. As you can see from some from the stuttering. The build was missing a lot of the extras, like the opening sequences and some of the in between play stuff, hence the quick button presses.
The demo was also strictly gameplay focused, and showing off Locomotion and the other on field changes.
It looks amazing, and as many have said the actual games BLOWS the replay videos EA released out of the water.
Some said my opinion of last years game was off. While I'm not a hardcore fan of the series, compared to prior versions of the game, 10 was rather impressive in my view. You can read my full review from that here vgrevolution.com/2009/07/ncaa-football-2010-review/ Road to Glory last year was a nice addition and a great thought but as I said in my review and even to Russ last week in the video, it was my least favorite. Him and I talked more about it after the interview, though he wouldn't give up any details other then that they are listening to the community.

Again thanks for checking us out, we are a young site and it's a side project to our real world jobs, and we are ever learning and adjusting. I'll read through this thread and answer any question I can, and of course ask away if you have them.

Quote: Originally Posted by moylan55

why do I get the feeling that the interviewer had no idea what Russ was talking about? Also, on the first play run from scrimmage it looks like the play clock bug is fixed, but the rest of the game I had a hard time telling which was mostly the fault of the camera guy who I'd like to punch by the way.

I'd like to punch my camera guy as well, since it was my brother. As his salary=$0 I can't smash him to badly, though it was a tight set-up, and he's learning. I promise our E3 footage will be much improved.

Quote: Originally Posted by prowler

I was thinking the same thing. Although near the end they cut away from the gameplay and showed stills. I'm wondering if that was to block out things we weren't meant to see yet... like coaches.

No the stills were because we had no other video to cover up some real bad camera work. Nothing was being covered up. Same thing at the beginning just trying to make the video look a tad better, in hindsight we should have shot a little more game footage after the interview.

[boredhusband]

is it possible for someone to upload this on youtube? the video won't load for me.