NCAA Football 14 Presentation Podcast w/ Christian McLeod, Cliff Notes Included (TGT)

[Hooe]

Let's redirect the discussion back to presentation elements off the game, please. AI, while a valid topic, has no place in a presentation discussion.

To the end of presentation, if Tiburon can deliver on all the things they've talked about here, I think we will have a pretty dynamic game from a broadcast perspective, which will help keep it fresh. I'm looking forward to trying it out.

[BLACKjersey53]

I hope they've added a few more commentary lines for Brad and Kirk concerning read option plays. Options are a great bit of the offense I run; read options more than pitch options. Seeing as how that is a majority of my offense, it's become normal for me to not only hear the same few lines per game about my failed/successful read options, but Kirk will also mistake the read option for a pitch play and say things along the lines of "I thought he would pitch it there," or "he definitely should have pitched the ball." Minor gripe, but it's kind of silly to hear that I should have pitched the ball when the play isn't even designed for a pitch. Almost as silly as Phil Simms ragging me for being greedy and "throwing it short" on a screen play.

[AZwildcats]

Let's go Arizona Wildcats

[w00dy Hayezz]

Quote: Originally Posted by phantomremix

Can you do user coach vs user coach in dynasty mode??

This would be awesome. Ran a coach mode OD last year but hated that we couldn't coach against other users.

[jello1717]

Quote: Originally Posted by BLACKjersey53

I hope they've added a few more commentary lines for Brad and Kirk concerning read option plays. Options are a great bit of the offense I run; read options more than pitch options. Seeing as how that is a majority of my offense, it's become normal for me to not only hear the same few lines per game about my failed/successful read options, but Kirk will also mistake the read option for a pitch play and say things along the lines of "I thought he would pitch it there," or "he definitely should have pitched the ball." Minor gripe, but it's kind of silly to hear that I should have pitched the ball when the play isn't even designed for a pitch. Almost as silly as Phil Simms ragging me for being greedy and "throwing it short" on a screen play.

I agree. It's pretty annoying that Kirk thinks every option play involves a pitch. Another thing I'd like cleaned up is positional awareness by Kirk. As a couple examples:

• For all of my dual back formations I package sub (RS left/right on play calling screen) to 2 HBs instead of HB/FB. But, anytime my power back gets the carry Kirk goes on about how sometimes you gotta let the FB carry the ball too.
• I use an empty set that's 3 WR, TE, HB with a lot of option plays for the HB that's auto-motioning and Kirk talks about how my WR is trying to get involved in the running game, despite the fact that it's actually my #1 HB carrying the ball.

[cparrish]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sundown2600

All I want is to see a CPU ball carrier run to daylight and cut across the field instead of running straight in to the teeth of a defense.

I've actually seen the CPU players run towards daylight a lot with the rosters and sliders I use. The problem is you have to tweak the game to get it to play like that.

[Husker_OS]

Sounds like solid progress to me.

The in-game updates added last year did a lot for dynasty to me. It's interesting to watch upsets unfold while I'm playing.

Also, good to see about crowd palettes. Penn State, Nebraska, Tennessee, etc. all have mostly one color of apparel in the crowd.

[ncaafootball14markus]

i think what upsets me the most is that the madden guys do a pretty darn good job of keeping us up to date with the equipment, especially the facemasks last year. what irks me is that its the same friggin company, and all the NCAA team has to do is walk down the hallway and ask someone from madden to shoot over their graphics for the 2-bar revo face mask and others. HOW HARD IS THAT? REALLY?

If these face masks are not in the game, i'm considering not buying this game until it drops to 39.99: