NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by JerseySuave4

NCAA 11 was a big improvement on NCAA 10. NCAA 12 was a step back from NCAA 11. NCAA 13 is a slight upgrade from NCAA 12. If you're satisfied that THIS is what they were able to accomplishment within a development cycle then its time for a new team because other games improve much more in a year and this game has so many issues that still don't seem to get touched.

So, if the Infinity engine was added this year, would you feel differently?

[PowerofRed25]

Quote: Originally Posted by BA2929

NHL 11 is nearly identical in all in-game aspects to NHL 12 and NHL is one of the best sports games out there. In all honesty, if you showed me both games playing at the same time on tvs side by side, I wouldn't be able to pick one out. I'm sure NHL 13 will look exactly the same as well and many people don't have a problem with it. Seems like some NCAA video game fans want complete change to nearly everything every year and that's one of the reasons we get the "It's just NCAA 12.5" comments all the time. Football games have have had nearly the same playcalling screens since Tecmo Bowl in the 80's. Why change something that works?

The bold points is where your argument loses its merit. NHL (and I'll throw in The Show for baseball and NBA 2K for basketball) have consistently been some of the most refined and authentic sports games available. They don't need to reinvent the wheel every year because they had already perfected it. So they simply polish a few things up, add a feature here and there and call it new and it works because they've already got the basics perfected.

NCAA is not like that. NCAA has never been a perfected game and the closest it has ever come was about 6 years ago. In the case of NCAA 12, the game didn't work. That is why we all get on here expecting massive changes, because the NCAA series is not to the "refine and polish" stage, it is still at the "how do we get this right?" stage and that requires massive changes, not tiny little tweaks here and there and calling it new.

That is why people call it NCAA 12.5 and not in an endearing way.

[TheBleedingRed21]

For those who say the DT gets more pressure than DE, well just to test it out, I used USC's LE and broke the NCAA record for sacks, I had 8 in one game.. with this on varsity, it was simple but on harder settings with sliders, it will be harder but end in realistic stats.

[MarylandMan]

I'm not getting it. I see the demo, but it redirects me to the full game. Do you need Gold?

[PowerofRed25]

Quote: Originally Posted by JerseySuave4

NCAA 11 was a big improvement on NCAA 10. NCAA 12 was a step back from NCAA 11. NCAA 13 is a slight upgrade from NCAA 12. If you're satisfied that THIS is what they were able to accomplishment within a development cycle then its time for a new team because other games improve much more in a year and this game has so many issues that still don't seem to get touched.

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

So, if the Infinity engine was added this year, would you feel differently?

Not to speak for Jersey who has his own feelings, but yes and no. Yes in that it would show a significant and necessary step forward which this series so desperately needs. But no in that I personally don't feel that is the first step that needed to be taken.

I am of the belief that atmosphere needed to come before technological advancements of gameplay. The animation system works well enough, the demo shows that as much. But the atmosphere is truly poor. Sound is poorly mixed and implemented and the experience as a whole needs to become more immersive. My worry is that the improvements they have claimed to atmosphere this year WERE that step and if that is the case, they truly failed.

But hey, we'll see right? The demo is a month old build, I wouldn't be surprised if they had to really make some significant cuts in the demo for memory purposes, it was already fairly large and took some people forever to download. I'm guessing things like 3D grass, final layers of graphics rendering and more extended sound mixes got pulled. I have more hope for success in NCAA 13 than I did for 12.

[NINJAK2]

It still feels like there is still a delay between when I hit the pass button and when the action is pertformed like in ncaa 12. Also feels like they did very little work on OL/DL interaction. Primarily played coach mode last year so a.i. is more important to me than anything and the jury is still out. Also after seeing RTP in Madden it makes watching the NCAA tackles play out when I know that person is going down a little disheartening. Overall, looks to be an upgrade over 12' but still uncertain on purchase.

[raughton55]

can any of you ps3 guys help me I jus bought a ps3 an have tried to download the demo and it tells me this content cannot be accsesed on this account?

[jpdavis82]

Quote: Originally Posted by LastExit

+1 I took some time last night to watch one of EA's webcasts where they previewed what they did to this year's game and aside from the much improved passing game, the scrolling scores on the bottom of the screen and the studio updates the demo does not match up to what they promoted in those webcasts. Case in point - in the "sights and sounds" webcast they promoted "a richer, louder, more robust and realistic crowd" in NCAA 13. Going by the demo, did they deliver on that? This is what makes me afraid that we are going to be hoping for the best and reliving last year. I really hope not as I love this series but the demo does not inspire confidence.

Are you on Xbox? The crowd sounds pretty great on my stereo and they react to every thing happening on the field, even get excited when the receivers go for the catch and then if the defense breaks it up, they go awwwwww or yeahhhhhhh if the home team is on defense.