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NCAA Football 10: Time to Consolidate the Wishes

05:26 PM - January 12, 2009 by RaychelSnr

Now that the dust has settled and a new National Champion has been crowned, college football fans now face a harsh truth: We must endure the long, prosaic, football-less interim until the 2009 season kicks off in August.

For many of us, the culmination of the real-life NCAA football season signals the demise of the annual love affair with EA Sports� NCAA Football, and shifts the focus to the future. While the introduction of the Online Dynasty mode will likely give NCAA 09 some added momentum this year, many gamers -- if they have not already -- will begin to discuss the new features and improvements the 2010 version will bring to the table.

There is already a lengthy NCAA Football 10 wish-list thread here on OS, but I felt it was time to begin the consolidation process.

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# 21 Dante_X @ 01/12/09 10:03 PM

I wish the Create-a-School feature could come back.

# 22 Cdenz @ 01/12/09 10:03 PM

Deep Dynasty....nothing new has been done with Dynasty in years
Better online play
Better Gameplay
Presentation (it sucks now)

# 23 harman @ 01/12/09 10:13 PM

I think it would be nice to have the little things back in dynasty mode like players getting in academic trouble and such and the coach(you) having to discipline them or face NCAA action like I remember in the PS2 version of the game.
Just my two cents.

# 24 xirdneh132 @ 01/13/09 12:13 AM

I would like for NCAA 10 to allow us to edit players attributes like NBA 2K9 at anytime, before, during, or after the season. How many times have we seen a highly rated player coming into a season like Georgia's Quentin Moses a few years ago turn out to be just average as the season went on. In contrast to that, how many times has some unknown guy coming in turn into a dynamic player. Glenn Dorsey a few years ago was rated as one of the top 100 high school players but he wasn't in the top 25 and he turned out to be one of the five best players his senior year. At ASU we had Derek Hagan who came in as a 3 star recruit and turned out to be one the best receivers in college football.
Let us control everything to make the game how we want to play it including editing players.

# 25 thescoop @ 01/13/09 12:15 AM

I want to see a new mode in dynasty mode, AD mode. I've written out my ideas in my blog found: http://www.operationsports.com/thescoop/blog/

I just think it is time to finally give us a new mode that will give us more to do outside of the game itself. It would sort of be like owner mode in Madden, but even more you'll have to keep up with.

# 26 JAYMO76 @ 01/13/09 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by harman


	I think it would be nice to have the little things back in dynasty mode like players getting in academic trouble and such and the coach(you) having to discipline them or face NCAA action like I remember in the PS2 version of the game. Just my two cents.

Discipline was a great component to last gen. However, for those who don't like it, they should have the ability to turn it off. The community has informed EA plenty about this and the response back.... "we want to get lots of last gen features back in the game but we can't promise when." Well, let's hope for discipline in 2010.

# 27 JAYMO76 @ 01/13/09 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by xirdneh132


	I would like for NCAA 10 to allow us to edit players attributes like NBA 2K9 at anytime, before, during, or after the season. How many times have we seen a highly rated player coming into a season like Georgia's Quentin Moses a few years ago turn out to be just average as the season went on. In contrast to that, how many times has some unknown guy coming in turn into a dynamic player. Glenn Dorsey a few years ago was rated as one of the top 100 high school players but he wasn't in the top 25 and he turned out to be one of the five best players his senior year. At ASU we had Derek Hagan who came in as a 3 star recruit and turned out to be one the best receivers in college football. Let us control everything to make the game how we want to play it including editing players.

CUSTOMIZATION is huge. EA just doesn't get it. It's our game and we should be able to play it as we wish. Give 2k games credit... they understand that the gamer should be in complete control of the gaming experience.

I want to be able to edit speed, weight, captain status, superstart status, etc. And, I should be able to do this for every single NCAA FOOTBALL team, not just my own. This would allow me to determine what I think attirbutes for players should be. I don't play online so what's the big deal with full user customization?

# 28 steebu @ 01/13/09 01:54 AM

I'm gonna ask for the same thing I've asked for the last 10 years:

Allow me to pick from which hash to run a 2 point conversion. SHEESH!

Implement the option the way it should be. Without googling for an answer, does anyone at Tiburon know what an arc block is? If you don't, then you don't know how to implement the option.

Customizable playbooks.

Formation subs, or a better way to sub in and out.

# 29 BoomerSooner11 @ 01/13/09 02:10 AM

1-AA.

# 30 BisonPride @ 01/13/09 02:22 AM

1-AA and Create a School like in the older versions. Not either or.... BOTH!!!

# 31 BoomerSooner11 @ 01/13/09 02:30 AM

I really think..or maybe just wishful thinking..that alot of things will be improved..I just would like to see some indication that 1-AA will is in the making..or coming soon..

# 32 rudyjuly2 @ 01/13/09 07:11 AM

1. Improve the anemic cpu rushing attack. With the horribly watered down sliders this year, that wasn't possible.
2. Bring back the deep ball! The cpu never threw it deep and it was rare to see a WR actually get behind a DB as well. Better cpu QB AI in general.
3. Improve the DL moves and map them to the R-stick. Playing as a DL sucks and is no fun currently.
4. Better player control on defense. It's too hard to manually defend the pass.

# 33 jdrhammer @ 01/13/09 09:31 AM

I actually like the fact you can't edit a player's height and weight throughout a dynasty. People would abuse that and make tall WR's. If we get the discipline feature back I'd love to be able to turn it off. I'm not a fan of it.

# 34 jdrhammer @ 01/13/09 09:38 AM

I never played the ps2 version where you promised a guy a jersey # but this would be cool. EA would have to get the numbers right for the positions.

# 35 Bad_Intentions @ 01/13/09 10:15 AM

Good article, I would also like to add that they need to show us the difference between all-american, good, average, and poor players at all positions(and not just with SPEED!!!)

Needs to be some difference in route running between great and bad receivers.

They need a TOTAL overhaul on presentation. It should be just like an ESPN telecast, there is no reason for it not to me. We should have dynamic commentary. Even if you can't get the guys in studio to say some things, they can be pulled from the tons of TV coverage that these guys do. That is what they did for the commentary in the UFC game. I see no other reason than laziness that this is not implemented.

Also it was touched on the article but blitzes rarely affect pass protection. I want to see bad lineman make mistakes in blocking, and sometimes even good ones, depending on if the defense is confusing them upfront.

Last but not least is this the year that we see an actual pocket?? I don't know if I remember this game ever having a pocket, hopefully this is the year!

# 36 D.J. Houlton @ 01/13/09 10:37 AM

Great article, I agree with all of your points. My greatest problem though has been the crashes. I have an Xbox 360, and have had NCAA Football for the past four years. Both the 2008 version and 2009 version broke on my 360, giving a disc unreadable screen after only a few weeks of play. I ended up getting 6 different copies of 2009 version because I liked the game so much and stores continued to let me turn it in, but they all broke. Help?

# 37 RynoAid @ 01/13/09 10:56 AM

a Couple additional points..

1. They need to fix the buggy chat when doing the offseason with everyone online... it's a crapshoot when advancing through the stages regarding who will get dropped from the chat and have to reboot.

2. When doing the offseason, there is a bug that is causing some guys to see 0 minutes when the recruiting is advanced from week to week. Sometimes rebooting is a solution, sometimes you have to delete them from the dynasty and re-invite.

3. As commisioner, there is a bug after week 3 of offseason recruiting that takes away the "advance past week 3 recruiting" option. You have to logout and log back in for it to re-appear.

all of these things contribute to a buggy offseason experience when trying to get everything accomplished in one night for a 12 man dynasty.

# 38 fistofrage @ 01/13/09 11:08 AM

1. Tone down the speed. Make very few sub 4.4 guys. Put more speed on defense. Currently all of the fastest recruits are on offense and it breaks the game.

2. Make Fg's harder. Go back to the button system. Anything, but they are too automatic right now. Make the FG accuracy rating mean something.

3. Make all ratings count. A B+ speed receiver with excellent hands and route running should be much more valuable than a 2* A speed recruit.

4. Make the AI trhrow deep more.

5. Ditch the RE, LE, RG, LG stuff. Just recruit DE's and Guards and Tackles. Make the AI properly recruit enough of the right positions.

6. Make all ratings editable in dynasty this way if EA can't change the 2* 99 speed recruits, we can.

7. Make editable playbooks and allow us to assign them to the computer This will take away the crappy QB choice option by the AI.

8. If we can't edit the playbooks, make it so the AI will only run them with QB's with a speed of 85 or better.

9. Penalties. Make the penalty sliders work. Have a penalties on/off button for people who don't want them, but for those of us who do want them, have them called much more frequently. Have 5 to 10 holds called per game, have false starts occur out of the blue without a hard count. Have AI controlled players on both teams jump off-sides as a result of awareness ratings,etc.

# 39 sportyguyfl31 @ 01/13/09 11:14 AM

Defense: Put it back in the game.

CPu AI. Implement some.

# 40 jmik58 @ 01/13/09 12:05 PM

Get rid of momentum... it ruins the game. Or at the very least give an option to turn it off or a slider to minimize it.

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