NCAA Football 12 Title Update #4 Details, Available on Nov. 8

[H4wduk3n]

Saying the game is a sack of crap is pretty ridiculous. There are some damn frustrating bugs and I'm annoyed at EA as well. But over all, it's a solid game that I've been enjoying. Does no one remember the little glitches the ps2 era games had? Fumbles, deep passing, etc. I still wish EA would have fixed the recruit tendencies issue but I'm not going to be dishonest about what I feel about the game as a whole - still enjoying it.

[Aranor]

Your in the minority pal.

[H4wduk3n]

I'm fine with that . I'm just saying is it truly completely unplayable? It's at least as playable as ncaa 11 was imo - and better in a couple areas.

[TDAWG89]

Quote: Originally Posted by H4wduk3n

It's at least as playable as ncaa 11 was imo - and better in a couple areas.

this is the problem, its only a little bit better than 11

[gator3guy]

As someone said a while back, the foundation of this game was poorly built and as a result we suffer 5-6 years later. At this point they are just piling [poop] on top of [poop]. I would seriously not even care if they took a year off to rebuild the engine. It's tough to swallow that a game on a far less superior system (ps2) plays better with no patches than this. I might just dust off my ps2 and start playing those games again. At least those games were enjoyable.

[HokieTokie]

Unbelievably poor showing from NCAA this year. I can definitely sell the game now, and will not be getting 13 until the OS forum has time to dissect the game.

Let's hope next year's game has some semblance of QA testing.

See you in 10 months NCAA forums. Let's hope the community will have some good news for me.

On to the 2k forums.

[K0ZZ]

The problem is we try to rationalize buying a game every year and people defending Tiburon left and right.

Hell I defended Tiburon early on, but some things are inexcusable.

Jersey and stadium issues being a big one, how can a game claim to be authentic if they don't have all the stadiums in. I understand you may have to guesstimate some things, but go on EVERY college teams page and they have their field, it's name, and a picture. How some stadiums can be over looked is beyond me.

Jerseys are a bit complex since as I understand EA has to go school by school asking what to put in, but at the same time what I see on Saturday is sometimes in a big way different from this product.

These guys are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, getting to work in a top of the line faculty. (Go to the Tiburon page if you really want to see). The perks are undoubtably there, yet they are giving us a sub-par offering with superior tools around them.

The understaffed line is old, if your understaffed then people need to pick up the slack, they are designing video games, for a lot of money. Simply putting a band aid on it isn't acceptable. It's their job, not ours to make the product workable via sliders, rating tweaks and such.

We need to as a collective quit rationalizing and put the blame square on Tiburon. In a coy sort of way, even Ben Haumiller in the Patch notes admitted that the issues were far too vast to be fixed this year. That is unacceptable to release a product that in it's entire cycle cannot work AS DESIGNED.

Will I buy NCAA 13? Who knows, the football fan in me might force myself out to buy it. I can easily say in November that I probably wont. Things change around June when the hype is in full blast.

All I can say is this, we need to keep our eyes open. As a fan of football, I am disappointed with this generation. Don't blindly hate on EA, that is as pointless as being a sheep. Yet when July rolls around, be a bit more concious with our money. Don't trust the reviewers and MAKE Tiburon earn our money. The ball is in EA's court.

[z4ckdabeast]

EA is so frustrating... They're content with this game being merely decent, when it could so easily be great.