Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

[Gotmadskillzson]

Watching the how it is made, NCAA 12 tv show, I've noticed some things.

1. Their staff is way too small.

2. Not enough diversity in upper management. Seen way too many guys that look like they are in their late 40s early 50s. Need some younger blood mixed in there at the top.

3. Too many of them come from a tournament play style background. Seems like everybody that is there got in there from winning a Madden tournanment back in the 90s. It is the same way with the Game Changers, good number of them come from winning tournaments and that style of play.

4. IMO they tried to flood all aspects of the media at once and that probably wore them thin. I mean think about it, they filmed the tv show, started using Facebook a TON, interviews with ESPN, etc.

5. More testing definitely needs to be done, however they need to split it up more. Have some people looking at Game Play, another looking at dynasty, another at custom play books, another looking at RTG, another looking at coach mode, another looking at all the online parts.

6. Game is great with default rosters.........

Conclusion.........

Need more new younger blood, especially at the top. And maybe add more producers.......Have a producer for each aspect of the game, like the following:

RTG
CPU Game Play AI
Dynasty offline
Dynasty online
Custom Playbooks
Presentation

Roy Harvey needs some serious help at the top. In the show he looks like he doesn't get much sleep at all. And now they want him to run NCAA and Madden at the same time, poor man, get that man some help.

Anthony White needs some help too. Somebody needs to tell him QBs needs 360 degrees of motion when scrambling. Especially when it comes to a defender coming up the middle.

When a DT or blitzer comes up the middle, the QB does one of three things.

1. Stand there
2. Go left in a straight line
3. Go right in a straight line

That is unrealistic. They need to arc away from the pressure. They don't in real life go in a straight line when they presured up the middle.

Don't know how they have it right in Madden 11 but wrong in NCAA 12.

Also DEs don't always rush to the outside of the offensive tackle all the time. They do rush to the inside shoulder of the offensive tackle too you know in real life. That needs to be represented in NCAA 12.

Also.......special teams needs to be improved. How is it we still don't have CPU punt blocks and FG blocks ? Or no bad holds on FG attempts or bad snaps on punts ?

That would be like playing MLB The Show and there was never any wild pitches, or any other error. Errors happen in sports and in every other sports game EXCEPT for Madden and NCAA.

There is no difference between a 40 awareness punter or kicker from a 93 awareness one.

People been talking about robo QBs, well hell we been suffering from Robo Kickers for years now.

[TDenverFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by I3RIS3H

The new features in dynasty are virtually useless. What's the point of even adding any of these features when they are BROKEN?!? I feel like I'm testing a game in the alpha stage to be honest.

Coaching Carousel? Useless.
Recruits that come in with decent ratings? Pointless.
Starting as a coordinator? Who needs that.
Custom playbooks? Garbage.
Improved recruiting menus? Worthless.

[Marcus34]

This game is a joke. It's like the people at EA didn't even test the Dynasty Mode before sending it to the stores.

Just a slap in the face to the customers

[SGMRock]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson

6. Game is great with default rosters.........

Accept in Dynasty your recruited players are messed up too! You recruit a one player type and once you sign them they are something else, even without editing anything on them according to people in that roster thread. I think thats a game breaker for dynasty until they fix it.

[Marcus34]

Quote: Originally Posted by TDenverFan

Coaching Carousel? Useless. Recruits that come in with decent ratings? Pointless. Starting as a coordinator? Who needs that. Custom playbooks? Garbage. Improved recruiting menus? Worthless.

Coaching Carousel is useless after all the coaches go to A+ Prestige
Recruits come in with decent ratings but don't even have the same tendencies as the player you recruited
Starting as a recruiter IS Cool
The custom playbooks don't work
Recruiting menus don't effect anything

[JerseySuave4]

i dont like the fact that you aren't able to just select 12 users for dynasty right off the bat, that you have to create a new coach to go around it and when you do that it sets the Coach's Prestige to a D so if you recreate Nick Saban you lose his prestige.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by SGMRock

Accept in Dynasty your recruited players are messed up too! You recruit a one player type and once you sign them they are something else, even without editing anything on them according to people in that roster thread. I think thats a game breaker for dynasty until they fix it.

That was not my understanding. Maybe I misread though.

[frankrizzo380]

I just wanna know what happend to diving catches?