Gameplay Equals Payday - jmik58's Blog

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Gameplay Equals Payday

Posted on April 19, 2012 at 02:23 PM.

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After purchasing MLB The Show and NCAA Football in 2011 I swore I wouldn't buy either version in 2012.

Interestingly enough the decision was based on two opposite perceptions, but now I find myself doing an about-face because of two crucial gameplay improvements.

With MLB 11: The Show I decided the game was good enough to survive two cycles. I wanted to save my cash. Then a little concept called ball physics came along and changed my world. Not only was the addition of ball physics something I'd hoped for in a long time, but SCEA pulled it off with flying colors.

NCAA Football, on the other hand, was so horribly flawed in the realm of gameplay that I sold my copy after only a couple weeks of playing. The only thing, in my mind, that could ever make me want to buy another NCAA game was if they incorporated read-and-react defensive AI.

Naturally I assumed that would never happen for years to come and naturally my pleading has correlated with EA Sports adding read-and-react defense (how accurately is yet to be seen).

In three months I may be $120 lighter in my pockets than I promised myself a year ago. But, if NCAA can deliver in substance as The Show did with ball physics, I'll consider it a success.

Stampeding buffaloes and flaming spears may get the masses excited, but nothing sells a game for me like realistic gameplay.

Comments

# 1 JerseyDevil23 @ Apr 19

Valid points. MLB 12 did a nice job and I think NCAA will not disappoint either!

# 2 jmik58 @ Apr 19

I grabbed The Show on release day because I knew it would come through. I don't have any confidence like that in NCAA and will wait for reviews and the honeymoon period to pass before deciding on a purchase.