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

[TDavis45]

WAAAAAAAAAY too many bugs for a released game... If this roster patch comes out erases all of the roster-creators work I will consider trading this game right back in.

[jkra0512]

When I first played the demo, I hated it. Then, read the OS impressions. I got the game for free and liked it a little. Read the OS review and thought to myself, "I'm not totally sold on everything this guy is saying, but I'll hang in there." Lo and behold, while much of what he wrote (and many other reviewers wrote) was right, seems like they missed many of the key issues. I remember reading somewhere on OS that the Super LBs were gone...nope, still there. Realistic DBs, nope. OL/DL interaction better? NOPE. All of which are essential to a good football game, you know...the nuts and bolts.

EA tends to overlook gameplay enhancements in favor of innovation. Well what happens if they innovated the AI? Kills two birds with one stone, no? CPU RBs are better, why can't LBs, WRs, DB, OL and DL get the same love? No instead they go out and add features that don't work up to their potential or at all. NCAA team, you are officially a First Round Bust to me, all hype, no results, total disappointment. You are like a player who has all the tools but can never seem to put them together, its sad. TEST YOUR PRODUCT BEFORE RELEASING IT AND YOU'D SEE WHAT THIS COMMUNITY SEES. Anyway, enjoy your 2-week post release vacation, because you have a lot of work to do when youse get back.

Here's to using this game toward a preorder for NHL...glad I got it for free.

[NDAlum]

I have griped several times about the tendencies issue but I can say that I have honestly not seen any issues with CPU DBs being "psychic".

[jkra0512]

You've never seen a DB completely mirror your WRs and get no seperation? It happens waaaaay too many times for it to be realistic, which this company strives for.

[TDenverFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by jkra0512

You've never seen a DB completely mirror your WRs and get no seperation? It happens waaaaay too many times for it to be realistic, which this company strives for.

Never seen it before.

[SECElit3]

How do I feel about the game now?

I feel like I will be waiting a month or more before I can start my dynasty. (Explicitives)

[jkra0512]

hmmm, happens to me and I seem to see the DB knock passes down without looking all the time...That seems pretty psychic to me.

[amoore0192]

I feel like Im trading it in for Madden. NCAA, while looking pretty, is completly flawed. The roster bug ruined it for me, especially knowing now that even four years into the dynasty the bug still effects players..this game truly is the worst of the series bc of all the bugs.