Here is a new NCAA Football 10 video that features some adjusted sliders. More specifically, AA, Pass Blocking 0, Break Block 100. I'm going to try and grab a user vs. AI clip before bed.
I get catering to the casual crowd. Do that for Varsity. Even AA on default. But you have to give us sliders to fix it. Customization is huge. Everyone has different styles, desires and abilities. They have completely removed that option for us. And the slider issue has been brought up time and again. They clearly don't listen to us. They might as well leave OS. I hope we get a new NCAA lead next year that is like Ian. We deserve it.
I get catering to the casual crowd. Do that for Varsity. Even AA on default. But you have to give us sliders to fix it. Customization is huge. Everyone has different styles, desires and abilities. They have completely removed that option for us. And the slider issue has been brought up time and again. They clearly don't listen to us. They might as well leave OS. I hope we get a new NCAA lead next year that is like Ian. We deserve it.
I agree with everything that you said. I was just trying to understand why this flaw would basically remain untouched, with no explanation given as to why it wasn't fixed. The only thing that I could come up with is that it must have been left "as is" for a reason and that was the only reason I could think of, other than some truly negative things that I probably shouldn't say.
I could be wrong, but maybe they feel that tough defense would negatively impact sales. Just like the old phrase about "offense selling tickets...." Well I'm sure that in their minds offense sells games. Playing good defense is more of a "sim" desire and its already been established that this game isn't really aimed toward the sim crowd.
however good sir, that is why we ask for WORKING sliders. They could leave the default to where the QB has 30secs to pass for all I care. But when I move the slider, I expect it to have an impact.
I get catering to the casual crowd. Do that for Varsity. Even AA on default. But you have to give us sliders to fix it. Customization is huge. Everyone has different styles, desires and abilities. They have completely removed that option for us. And the slider issue has been brought up time and again. They clearly don't listen to us. They might as well leave OS. I hope we get a new NCAA lead next year that is like Ian. We deserve it.
QFT.
You can have it both ways.
Little Timmy or Joe "I don't know a damn thing about football" Shmoe can still pop the game in on default settings and get their 8 TDs a game with no punts on 5 minute quarters.
But if you give us sliders that work and VASTLY improved CPU AI on the higher difficulty settings...we "sim" guys can have an experience as close to a real college football game as a video game can get.
But they keep dropping the ball.
They keep showing a severely skewed interest in catering mainly to the casual "arcade" crowd and much less to us sim guys.
See "Season Showdown"....an absolutely useless feature in the ACTUAL game. It doesn't affect anything in the actual game..and yet this is a huge addition that is plastered all over 3 blogs by EA and is constantly brought up in interviews.
By that same token...an absolutely essential aspect of football...a pass rush...is still left unattended.
Even after 365 days of screaming at the top of our collective lungs to fix it...dear lord...FIX IT.
They don't.
"Then at least give us more and effective sliders to make the game play more realistically."
They don't.
This isn't an exaggeration...we have someone with the game, posting visual EVIDENCE that neither of these near "game killing" (yes I used the phrase) issues have truly been fixed. Not one bit.
Again...I am completely flabbergasted and very upset about this.
And to top it all off...we were lied to about these aspects getting a major overhaul.
Again...a picture is worth a thousand words. 10 videos are worth a million words.
all i have to say is, if this were any other product, this would've been nipped in the bud along time ago. If there were any product that didnt function properly over and over, it'd be fixed pronto..but since it's "just a videogame", no one seems to care
If I were a developer on the NCAA team, I would be embarrassed to have my name attached to this piece of ****. Is it possible that any of the devs can actually man up and respond to these issues instead of dodging each thread that asks legit questions about the lack of improvements to key elements of gameplay???
I'm going to wait for the User vs. AI video before I jump on this bandwagon.
Very discouraging nevertheless.
Sorry I just don't see how user vs. ai will change anything. Even if you are able to get some pressure controlling a d-linemen that still leaves cpu d-linemen out to dry. The human player who doesn't control d-linemen and the cpu would be at a severe disadvantage if that were the case.
It wouldn't change the fact that the basic interaction is still flawed.
Yikes. This video didn't do much other than make me lose more faith that this game is going to be good.
I was really excited about this game a few weeks ago, but now I think I'm probably more excited for Madden (And I haven't bought Madden since 07 and haven't played it extensively since Madden 2004). I said originally that Madden and NCAA won't be all that different, but now I'm not so sure. Madden looks a good deal better from everything I have seen so far. It's not perfect, but still. Of course, I'll have to hold off until we see some videos from Steve before I make the final call on Madden.
I'm starting to lean towards not buying NCAA now. I'll try the demo when it comes out soon, but if that doesn't impress me, this will not be an instant pickup for me. I'll read the impressions from you all after the game comes out and make a decision, but I can't stand to play a game with no defense.
Little Timmy or Joe "I don't know a damn thing about football" Shmoe can still pop the game in on default settings and get their 8 TDs a game with no punts on 5 minute quarters.
But if you give us sliders that work and VASTLY improved CPU AI on the higher difficulty settings...we "sim" guys can have an experience as close to a real college football game as a video game can get.
But they keep dropping the ball.
They keep showing a severely skewed interest in catering mainly to the casual "arcade" crowd and much less to us sim guys.
See "Season Showdown"....an absolutely useless feature in the ACTUAL game. It doesn't affect anything in the actual game..and yet this is a huge addition that is plastered all over 3 blogs by EA and is constantly brought up in interviews.
By that same token...an absolutely essential aspect of football...a pass rush...is still left unattended.
Even after 365 days of screaming at the top of our collective lungs to fix it...dear lord...FIX IT.
They don't.
"Then at least give us more and effective sliders to make the game play more realistically."
They don't.
This isn't an exaggeration...we have someone with the game, posting visual EVIDENCE that neither of these near "game killing" (yes I used the phrase) issues have truly been fixed. Not one bit.
Again...I am completely flabbergasted and very upset about this.
And to top it all off...we were lied to about these aspects getting a major overhaul.
Again...a picture is worth a thousand words. 10 videos are worth a million words.