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

[JZ2]

There's no deals on NCAA Football this year. I have pre ordered it for $40 or $45 the last few years.

I am happy with the demo but you never know what pops up at release. I can not remember the last time I purchased a sports game this gen and didn't have to wait for a patch to play 2-3 months after it came out.

Since there is not 1 deal I will be waiting a week before I purchase.

NCAA and Madden seem to be the last two games I buy on 360 before I switch over to PS4. I'll be waiting a extra month for NBA 2k14 on my PS4.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by JZ2

There's no deals on NCAA Football this year. I have pre ordered it for $40 or $45 the last few years. I am happy with the demo but you never know what pops up at release. I can not remember the last time I purchased a sports game this gen and didn't have to wait for a patch to play 2-3 months after it came out. Since there is not 1 deal I will be waiting a week before I purchase. NCAA and Madden seem to be the last two games I buy on 360 before I switch over to PS4. I'll be waiting a extra month for NBA 2k14 on my PS4.

How is this an impression of the demo? What does this have to do with the demo?

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by Armor & Sword

Yeah normal plays at a far better pace than in Years past. Slow almost feels like very slow from years past. Big dilimma for me! I am getting this game no doubt about it now.

I was on the fence about the game.

Other than the speed, for me the Coordinator Cam is the cats meow, and I love the improved CPU offense, particularly in the run game.

All in all the game screams fun to me, which is a feeling I haven't gotten from an EA football game in some time.

[Corliss X]

I hope the full version Custom Playbooks section has a browse by Play Types would be much easier to add certain plays

[Pappy Knuckles]

I don't follow college football as religiously as I do the NFL, so the NCAA series has never gotten that much play from me. The last one I owned was '11, which I kept for a couple of weeks before trading it in. Before then, it was '07, which I picked up long after it dropped for four dollars. With that being said, I wasn't really expecting a whole lot out of this years version. To my surprise though, I'm finding it to be a very fun game.

Since the demo dropped earlier this week it's been the only thing that I've played. I'm not sure how many games I've completed at this point, but I'd probably guess in the 12-15 range. The majority of them have been using Texas A&M against Oregon on Heisman difficulty. I managed to win one game on that setting somehow, but most of the time I found myself getting ate up by the read option. It's like my defensive line gets swallowed alive every play and the QB is off to the races. For my skill set, I'm finding All American to be a much fairer challenge. I've still managed to lose some on that setting too though, so that's good to see. I don't know if I'll have to make any slider tweaks, but I'm feeling good about how the game feels out the box right now.

I just finished losing to Alabama 14-10 in a very fun game. I've gotta say, even though I lost it was a nice change of pace facing a pro style offense after chasing around qb's these last couple of days. These teams in the demo definitely have their own distinct personalities. With the PS4 on the horizon I wasn't sure how many more Xbox games I'd be buying, but this is definitely on my purchase list. I look forward to starting an dynasty.

How long does it usually take before someone does the real roster names? That would add a lot to the game for me and I'm kind of curious.

[AUChase]

I think I have had the most fun with the Michigan/tOSU matchup thus far.

Something I would like to see changed is the un necessary CPU hurry up from teams that are running and sort of spread offense.

Not every spread team runs hurry up all game.

Oregon may be the most diffcult team for me to slow down. On Heisman, their offensive linemen always blow my my defensive line up.

Either way, I've been having some fun when I do stop and play a quick game from time to time. I like the animations. Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, the speed burst combined with the smoother halfback cuts make running the ball fun again. It was stale and annoying last year.

The constant getting stuck behind an offensive tackle really turned me off of NCAA 12 and ultimately became a deal breaker for me.

Quote: Originally Posted by BadAssHskr

You know what kind of surprises me about ncaa this year, is it didnt go the way of madden last year with the connected careers, and the online aspect with server side fixes amd such. I didnt spend anytime playing madden but for what it was worth i kind of like the CC idea. Did they do away withh it?

Spoiler

Thankfully they didn't implement anything like that. That's the biggest reason I
couldn't get into my copy of M13 last year, I felt so disconnected with what was
going on around my virtual NFL.

[prototype561]

The more and more I play the demo the more I start to see things that irritate me:

-While I like the fact the cpu offense is harder on Heisman, the run blocking is way too good. I have a really hard time slowing down VT offense with the best team on the game, makes me wonder what will happen with lesser teams.

-On the same note, they really dumbed down the human team cpu players to make cpu offense seem like its much harder.

-I'm still seeing robo qb, completion % remain in the high 80's throughout the game, I know most of the teams on the demo have good offenses, but they also have good defenses.

[wolverinemaniac]

absolutely Love the demo, Ea has hit a homerun this year I believe. To me this is personally the game I have been waiting on since ncaa 2006.

Cannot Wait to get my hands on the full version!