Five Things to Improve NCAA Football 13

[SkillzKillz719]

Quote: Originally Posted by goNAVYbeatarmy

How to make recruiting more challenging. My 2 cents. Recruits should start the year with no stars. After an inital scouting/recruiting phase. The players with the most interest from schools should get the highest stars (which i think how it works with the scouting systems). SO, stars should be based on demand. Also, coaches should have scouting ratings (A - great eye for talent, F- throw in the dark). You might peg a player high based off scouted ratings, but he might be worse/better when he shows up on campus. These are what I call recruiting curve-balls that would make recruiting more challenging, realistic, and different. The way it is now, its too clean cut.

Yes this too.
Just seeing how national signing day is coming up and they havent hardly done anything to recruiting to make it better.

Ugh. You gotta question how much they really like college football.
Isn't there some one in there that just gets in there and says he's tired of being average?
Bring it above and beyond.

Make it so the recruits I'm recurting aren't just stars, but people i want on my team. (Attitude, Discipline, Heart)

Very good point Navy!

[jyoung]

It's funny that they put so much effort into the team intros for NCAA and Madden.

I bet most people just skip over them every time after seeing them once.

The developers' time would be better spent trying to improve the broadcast presentation that occurs during the actual game, not the pregame ceremonies that maybe 5% of users will watch.

[statum71]

Agree with everything except dropping some mascots in favor of old time players.

Couldn't possibly care less about guys with leather helmets. Besides....they wouldn't have the license to use their real names anyway so what good is it?

[oldman]

To me it is all about the little things. Bring back Medical redshirts and NCAA sanctions. More varieties of school band music at each stadium. More than one broadcast team so you really know when you are on the big time Saturday evening game on ESPN or the afternoon game on CBS etc. Give us the ability to hire/fire assistant coaches and have those coaches actually change player ratings(right now you have no control over whether an assistant is hired or fired). Include graphics about rankings and upcoming games in the broadcast to really make each game you are playing feel like part of a season instead of an individual event(It would be really great if they would reference past seasons results).

[xirdneh132]

Great article and I'm sure we can go into more detail. I actually loved NCAA 12 but the glitches did drive me crazy to the point of swearing out loud in psychotic rage and that was even when I was comfortably ahead. I always buy it on the first day and spend a ton of time fixing ratings and entering names so I don't mind buying it on the first day since I'm not going to play it for some time anyways.

Another nice small addition is when you name the coaches there should be a save option for that alone. I entered every coaches name and then after turning it off and coming back to the game they were all gone (and this was after entering their names and having the game freeze on me). I didn't discover until later that in order to save their names you had to go back into player edit mode or depth chart mode then save, that's stupid.

It would be really nice if they could make an awesome game because I'm sure we could deal with a few issues here and there but some of the glitches just drive us crazy and I loved the game and it drove me crazy.

[bmxnw]

I agree with almost everything said in the OP and in these comments, and I just want to add one thing: LET US SPECTATE OTHER USER'S GAMES IN OD!!!! I have been calling for this since NCAA 09. When your Dynasty is waiting for 2 people to play each other to advance, do you want to just sit there and stare at the menu for 30-45 minutes? Of course not! We want to watch them play!!!

[jmik58]

The author is spot-on in regard the the first point with gameplay improvements, but i feel that real issue is that a change needs to be done regarding the programming logic that is used.

The psychic defenders, super-linebackers, etc. are a result of there not being a read-and-react setup.

The programming is done in a way that works such that "Action A" is going to result in "Reaction Z" and then we'll fill in the middle with animations to make sure we get there. For example, you press pass (action A) and the game decides it will get swatted (action B) and fills in the gap with a super linebacker or psychic DB. This is due to the fact it's all about a result that is determined before the subsequent actions take place.

NCAA and Madden both need to incorporate more of a chain reaction (read-and-react) programming logic to the gameplay. This would be done by establishing keys or "anchors" for each player on the field (mostly on defense).

For example, linebacker A focuses on his key (or anchor) and responds the action of the key (an offensive guard). The skill of the linebacker determines how well he executes his job, etc. Does he bite on play action? Does he not step up fast enough to get in position to stop the run?

Or, a dback is in man coverage and reads his "keys", etc. Or defensive lineman, etc. Stop predetermining the outcome and give us a sequential setup for gameplay.

If this is ever accomplished, football video games may overtake all other sports games as the most realistic and fun to play in regard to gameplay alone.

[macdaddy71]

Does it really matter what we want???????? EA has always did what they want and want us to have'!!!! But it's simple to answer...(EA make a game that GAMERS want to play more than 2 times) & (EA make a REAL football game) If they do that..We would get a GOOD game....Sad thing is None of the Gamers above has asked for anything that CAN"T be done or SHOULD have already been done'!!!! how long has EA been making football games and we still don't have Half of the items gamers ask to see in the game, I know why EA removed (It's in the game) Now it's just IT"S A GAME........LMBO