NCAA Football 14 Demo is Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[DELUS1ONAL]

Here are my demo impressions after five or six games:

The good:

This years game feels way different compared to 12 and 13. To me the overall gameplay feels more like 11, which was my favorite NCAA of this generation.

The running feels more "organic" this year. This year you have more control over the player when running with the ball in open space. Years past the running has felt robotic.

The CPU's defense is much improved, I have to punt way more often in this years game.

Not all games are shootouts. I just had a game where the final score was 14-10 with me scoring a touchdown on the final possession. This is a nice change of pace compared to years past where every game felt the same because of the high scores that I was able to put up.

I have seen a couple of new overlays, which is a nice touch.

The IE physics feel improved to the one that made it into Madden 13. The bodies are not flopping around after they hit the ground as much, in fact I believe I have only seen this occur once in the few games that I have played.

I like how you can finally change the difficulty for offense and defense.

The new interception animations are nice.

The colors are a big improvement.

The bad:

Deep passes are still too easy to complete on certain plays.

There are still some plays that work every time.

The graphics are still too cartoony for my liking, Hopefully this will be addressed in the next generation of consoles.

This only pertains to the demo, but I wish they didn't add the fake names, they should have just kept the players blank, or just have shown their numbers like in past demo's.

P.S. This game went from not even thinking about purchasing this years version to picking it up soon after release. Great job EA!

[seasprite]

The more I play, the more I'm liking the LOS interaction. While not perfect, it's a ton better than I can remember any version being. I'm able to get pressure, even from the RE. Love how I can attack the outside of the RT and bullrush through his outside shoulder. Thinking its a buy for me this year, but hope they don't ruin a great game out of the box with bad patches like in the past.


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[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by booker21

Until they patch the db glitch and make qb more inacurrate I won't be playing 2014 this year. These are basic things on today standards. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2 Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2

How many different threads are you going to post this exact post in?

Wait earlier in the thread you said zero was too inaccurate, and 5 was too accurate. Then you said the sliders don't matter.

Which is it? You also failed to answer my earlier question, on exactly what metric are you using to determine too accurate or not accurate enough?

[booker21]

Quote: Originally Posted by nortobc

DB glitch is fixed. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using Tapatalk 2

Where? Not in the demo.

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[Fist Of Kings]

Quote: Originally Posted by Quint75

Not coming out on the new consoles this year.

My mistake, I saw a next gen Madden 25 vid on youtube and assumed NCAA 14 would be released on the new consoles too. Oh well, saves me some money at least, I'm in no hurry to spend $400 for a new system.

I wasn't planning on buying this game at all, and while I'm not blown away by it, it's nice to see my blockers executing their blocks. For so many years, my lineman would be solid on one play, and confused the next. After playing the demo, I think I can have some fun with this game.

[Gosens6]

Quote: Originally Posted by booker21

Where? Not in the demo. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2

For the 100 billionth time.. A fellow OS member played a newer version at E3, said the DB "glitch" was fixed. If you believe it, good, if not, okay. Either way, wait until the retail version and find out. How many times do you have to post about it before it gets redundant? The guy who played a newer build said it was taken care of so all you can do is wait and find out.

Also, how is anyone else not excited about the ball finally being the correct size!? It's crazy how much better the game looks without a blimp sized ball.

[reverend_heat]

Quote: Originally Posted by seasprite

The more I play, the more I'm liking the LOS interaction. While not perfect, it's a ton better than I can remember any version being. I'm able to get pressure, even from the RE. Love how I can attack the outside of the RT and bullrush through his outside shoulder Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Definitely agree, engaging the tackles with ends feels much better, not like in the past when you were waiting for a random animation to play to beat your blocker. It seems like if you get a good jump to the inside/outside on the tackle you actually have an advantage and can beat him to pursue the qb.

[BigDofBA]

Quote: Originally Posted by DELUS1ONAL

Here are my demo impressions after five or six games: The bad: This only pertains to the demo, but I wish they didn't add the fake names, they should have just kept the players blank, or just have shown their numbers like in past demo's.

Why is it a big deal if they used fake names on the demo? That has pretty much no effect on the game. You will be able to edit those in the final version and thankfully we still have the ability to do that.

In other words, Johnny Football is Johnny football in the game we just have to type in his last name.

That chump Sam Kellar tried to ruin it for all of us.