NCAA Football 14 Preview and Video Interview with Ben Haumiller (IGN)

[moylan1234]

Is it possible for someone to youtube or embed the video? I can't get it to play at all.

[noplace]

Can someone upload this to youtube?

[mrMagic91]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Calling plays based on personnel groups? Hallelujah.

This is huge for people with football knowledge.

i was really bothered by seeing a defensive player getting trucked by the ballcarrier's forearm! With the ball in that hand...

[Big FN Deal]

My favorite part was the mention of hand fighting and procedural awareness so players are aware of other players when moving through traffic. Hopefully this transitions to the WR/DB interactions too. Least favorite part was the end discussion about that dreaded "balance" of "fun" vs realism, please just let that notion go, realism IS fun in a sim. The straw man of an unexpected fumble in a big game as a reason for capping capable realism should stop. Fumbles and mishaps period are a part of football, so there needs to be variety in a football game, not just oversimplified win/loss.

For example, there can't be just two shotgun snap animations, one that playsout for a high snap over the QB and one for a successful snap. There needs to be several types of snaps ranging from ideal to potentially disastrous. In a basketball video game with passes and lobs for dunks, there are variations of these things in-game so when one of these result in a complete mishap, ie pass flying well over the intended targets head, it seems dynamic and organic, not like a win/loss dice roll.

For all the strides they seem to be making that "fun" balance POV is still holding EA football games back from being as good as the top sports sims, imo.

[UMhester04]

Is Greg the guy that reviews the football games????? At the end of the video he says "the game is getting too real" and "i like to just put a WR and TE and drop back and throw a 50 yd hail mary"


Well if that didn't solidify why people don't listen to those reviews, then I don't know what else will. I truly hope that the developers don't listen to those type of people.

[NicoFrost]

For a moment I wondered if they were brothers. It was like Haumiller and Haumiller in glasses.

Not hating. just an observation

[krildog]

ND's helmets still look lousy in the dark based on that video. FIX IT.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Procedural awareness ? Oh God I hope that means the scrambling QB and returners on special teams don't run directly into defenders anymore and actually try to AVOID being tackled. Last year in the beginning that had scrambling QBs done right, then they broke it with their patches to the point every time the QB tried to scramble he went directly into the defensive tackle.

But anyway, nothing pissed me off more then to punt the ball, they would have all this space to the left and to right of them and they would just run up the middle into 3 defenders.