NCAA Football 14 Impressions Thread

[mebby]

I've played the snot out of the early release. I'm not an avid gamer but I've been playing sports video games since... forever. I'm 38 and mostly enjoy FIFA and Tiger Woods but each year I always get either NCAA or Madden.

I am absolutely enjoying this game. Best yet in my opinion. I'm playing on Heisman with some slider modifiers (QBA down to 5, increase pass coverage, increased CPU RB ability, decrease CPU run blocking, and a few others). I can post my specific sliders if anyone is interested but I'm getting some fantastic games! I'm loosing when I should and I'm winning when I think I deserve to.

My only moderate complaints are that I feel zone defense is unusable and the background imagery is very jaggy. I went back and played NCAA 11 with my son and the crowd imagery is FAR better in that version. I'm guessing they had to skimp on this in more current releases due to using more system resources on more critical gameplay type items. Again - a very minor issue for me.

I think the sliders really work on this game and allow you to tweak it in such a way that it can play to whatever level you are comfortable. I like a challenge so I'll always push it to where I have to play really well to win. But at the same time I don't want to make it impossible to beat a severely inferior team. I think I've found that balance so I'm happy.

I'll be buying this one on release day.

Every one is always entitled to their own opinion but I honestly feel like a lot of the complaints that I'm reading on here are from people that just expect TOO much from a game. I'm having fun and that's what it's all about.

[BlackBetty15]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

Just trying to follow your logic.

No logic my good friend, just posting some bits and pieces that either frustrate me to no end or excite me. I am reserving an honest review a couple of days past Tuesday so I have some time playing the hard copy version as well as an opening day patch which I am sure will drop.

[SageInfinite]

The game is just broken for me. It has frozen my 360 so many times. I hope they can figure out what is causing this because if not I'm going to have to sit this year out.

[BlackBetty15]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

The game is just broken for me. It has frozen my 360 so many times. I hope they can figure out what is causing this because if not I'm going to have to sit this year out.

Did you dl the tuner. If so delete it and try

[Matt10]

Zone aggressive adjustment is screwing a pretty great game up. It's always just one thing with EA. I thought someone interviewed Josh H about the DB Glitch - well the formula for the DB Glitch stems from the nucleus that is the Aggressive Zone coverage adjustment.

Try for yourself:

Around the 3rd quarter, pause game - settings and select sides. Switch to CPU and then in the play select screen press L1 (adjustments) and see the defense is set to Coverage = Aggressive. Notice it is the only value that has been changed, nothing else.

I'm still testing for a fix - but this is the exact reason the DB glitch occured in NCAA 13 - and has been around in NCAA 12 (possibly 11). I'm posting this in the bug thread - doubt it will be looked at, but hopefully it will gain ground before the next damn game is out.

[The JareBear]

Quote: Originally Posted by Matt10

Zone aggressive adjustment is screwing a pretty great game up. It's always just one thing with EA. I thought someone interviewed Josh H about the DB Glitch - well the formula for the DB Glitch stems from the nucleus that is the Aggressive Zone coverage adjustment. Try for yourself: Around the 3rd quarter, pause game - settings and select sides. Switch to CPU and then in the play select screen press L1 (adjustments) and see the defense is set to Coverage = Aggressive. Notice it is the only value that has been changed, nothing else. I'm still testing for a fix - but this is the exact reason the DB glitch occured in NCAA 13 - and has been around in NCAA 12 (possibly 11). I'm posting this in the bug thread - doubt it will be looked at, but hopefully it will gain ground before the next damn game is out.

I hope this gains attention. It needs to be fixed. It's one fix that could solve one huge problem and go a long way

[DELUS1ONAL]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

The game is just broken for me. It has frozen my 360 so many times. I hope they can figure out what is causing this because if not I'm going to have to sit this year out.

Season Ticket or disc?

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by DELUS1ONAL

Season Ticket or disc?

Season Ticket.