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Should NCAA Football 10 Get Your Business? (Who Needs Rules)

07:08 PM - June 18, 2009 by Steve_OS

Who Needs Rules has posted an article entitled, Should NCAA Football 10 Get Your Business?

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	"t's almost time, you can hear the bands warming up, NCAA Football is getting close to being released to the masses. The thrill of the hunt to find the game early will start around Independence Day, and then the game will slowly arrive in everyone's hands. The question is, is the game worth your $60 this year? The demo has been released today on XBox 360 and later tonight on the PS3. Considering the demo is only 2 minute quarters, I'm not so sure that it's going to make anyone feel that this game is not just NCAA 09.5. I look at what's been changed and added for the '10 iteration, and shake my head when I look at Madden 10's feature set. It's like night and day. You would almost think these teams should probably work together..right?"

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# 61 the onizzle @ 06/19/09 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Dollar Theater


	For the first time since '98, I don't think I'll be getting it. I may rent it first to see if it's any better but $60 is a lot to ask for a mediocre upgrade considering Fight Night Round 4 and Madden 2010 coming out within a month of NCAA.

Sound a lot like me dude. Long time NCAA'er, but this year the buck stops. will NOT buy the game or rent it. With Fight Night dropping next week, Madden in August, and even Backbreaker rumored to come out in 2009, NCAA is easily the weakest sports title on the market.

# 62 drae2 @ 06/19/09 04:12 PM

Well no way they get a dime of my moolah for this. They should've paid me for even downloading that demo.

# 63 Speedy @ 06/19/09 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Exonerated


	I remember this exact same thread last year. Everyone says no. But the poll I saw earlier this week had like 108 people out of like 190 buying it so I unno. Is this a case of the vocal minority, or a true hiatus?

Last year's version was a bit of progress from '08's version. The same can't be said for this year...

# 64 Dollar Theater @ 06/19/09 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by the onizzle


	Sound a lot like me dude. Long time NCAA'er, but this year the buck stops. will NOT buy the game or rent it. With Fight Night dropping next week, Madden in August, and even Backbreaker rumored to come out in 2009, NCAA is easily the weakest sports title on the market.

I know man. It's tough. College football is by far my favorite sport, but Teambuilder and Campus Whatever isn't enough to sell me. On the bright side, FN4 and Madden look like they've taken nice leaps forward. So you can play the former until the latter is released and hopefully not miss a lot.

Maybe the NCAA team will put together a quality upgrade for 2011 and I can start my streak over.

# 65 jyoung @ 06/19/09 04:25 PM

Moved from the thread that was just locked to reduce clutter

What you are endorsing if you choose to buy this game

Companies who lie to their consumers

We've got a huge thread on these forums already, so I don't think I need to say much here. Fact is, very specific changes for NCAA 10 were promised on these boards, and as of the demo, many of those promises have not been fulfilled.

Broken products

Two years in a row, the NCAA series has shipped with a handful of the game's major features being broken right out of the box. Last year it was dynasty bugs (online and off) and broken sliders, this year we have the infamous roster goof and *shock* the same broken sliders.

Keep in mind, those are just features that shipped broken. The actual gameplay is another story all together.

Last-gen experience on a next-gen console

Aside from the quality of the player models and stadiums (which still, don't look that great compared to other next-gen games), virtually every aspect of this series' presentation screams last-gen.

Crowds and sidelines look like they belong on the N64.

The commentary and overall game presentation hasn't made any significant changes since the PS2 heyday.

College atmosphere remains virtually non-existant in pre/post game activites and on the actual field of play.

Arcade, not sim gameplay

The developers themselves have stated on these boards that their grand design for NCAA is to not make it a simulation football game.

In other words, the turn-on-a-dime running and laser-arm passing are there by design.

If this is a design you do not agree with, and you are supporting the NCAA series financially, expect this design philosophy to remain constant so long as it remains profitable for the NCAA team.

Features first, gameplay second

Think about it: how much has the gameplay really changed in the last five years? Hardly any, if at all.

What we seem to get instead, every year, is a bunch of "back of the box" features thrown in there to hide the fact that core gameplay in the NCAA series is still stuck in the caveman era of robo-passing, players on ice skates, offensive and defensive linemen with no real-life logic whatsoever, not to mention the complete lack of real-life physics or momentum.

But hey, if you're fine with that, feel free to keep buying the game.

I, for one, will not be buying this game, as I have not bought any EA football game (including Madden) since the '05 editions.

This is not because I don't like EA (NHL '09 is my most-played game of the last year), but because I do not support inferior sports franchises that are heading in the wrong direction.

# 66 fistofrage @ 06/19/09 04:28 PM

There was a time when I didn't think I'd ever go a year without buying Madden. I had the original PC version back in 1989 when it was just X's and O's on the screen and every incarnation since. Come 2004 I just stopped buying it. And I don't miss it. I am certain with Call of Duty, The Show, Fight Night, and all the RPG's and solid adventure titles out there, I could live without NCAA football too.

They are treading on very thin ice with me a loyal customer right now.

# 67 jyoung @ 06/19/09 04:28 PM

Exactly.

The time between this game and Madden is what, a little over a month?

You've got some serious problems if you can't wait that long to hold out for what looks to be a vastly superior football product, not to mention one that's actual under great leadership and seems to be heading in the right direction, even if it has some shortcomings this season.

Even if Madden ends up being unplayable this year, there are, as others have mentioned, tons of other games out there to take up one's time/money.

Not to mention the numerous other things one can do with one's time that don't involve sitting on a couch and playing video games.

# 68 marcoyk @ 06/19/09 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by da ThRONe


	They have us by the short and curlies!

Hahaha nicely put. Too bad it's true...

# 69 jsquigg @ 06/19/09 05:21 PM

The NCAA Golden Age: NCAA 06

In studio pre-game show.
Stat overlays.
Home field advantage (even if you didn't like it, there was a visceral difference from stadium to stadium in atmosphere)
Freaking formation subs
Custom playbooks
The ability for superior D-lines to dominate
D-1AA Teams!!!

Why are we still waiting for these things? I will play 06 barring a divine patch.

# 70 canes2008 @ 06/19/09 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by VikingFan4Ever


	If they can fix the roster and slider issues I will purchase it. If not I'll buy it used sometime.

I 2nd that

# 71 da ThRONe @ 06/19/09 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by buckeyes787


	YOU GUYS WON'T GET NCAA BECAUSE 1 YOU SUCK AT 2 SLIDERS ARE NOT BROKEN I AM ABLE TO GET TO THE QB AND SACK HIM EVERY TIME. AND 3 STOP THE CRYING BECAUSE IT'S REALLY REALLY DUM FOR THIOSE WHO CRY IS THE ONE WHO SUCK'S AT NCAA.

HUH?

# 72 bosstalk @ 06/19/09 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by BORN4CORN


	I'll be skipping out on NCAA this year.. I'm tired of wasting money on a game that is actually worse than one produced 4 & 5 years ago.

Basically.

# 73 SageInfinite @ 06/19/09 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by buckeyes787


	YOU GUYS WON'T GET NCAA BECAUSE 1 YOU SUCK AT 2 SLIDERS ARE NOT BROKEN I AM ABLE TO GET TO THE QB AND SACK HIM EVERY TIME. AND 3 STOP THE CRYING BECAUSE IT'S REALLY REALLY DUM FOR THIOSE WHO CRY IS THE ONE WHO SUCK'S AT NCAA.

Good post.

# 74 Happyvally74 @ 06/19/09 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by buckeyes787


	YOU GUYS WON'T GET NCAA BECAUSE 1 YOU SUCK AT 2 SLIDERS ARE NOT BROKEN I AM ABLE TO GET TO THE QB AND SACK HIM EVERY TIME. AND 3 STOP THE CRYING BECAUSE IT'S REALLY REALLY DUM FOR THIOSE WHO CRY IS THE ONE WHO SUCK'S AT NCAA.

Typical Buckeyes fan.

# 75 DLaren @ 06/19/09 10:19 PM

I thought the demo was ok...not bad, not great, kind of fun...I can see how someone who is a die-hard college football fan may be able to tolerate many of the games deficiencies in order to have a digital version of their favorite sport.

Thankfully, I'm not a huge college football fan...

I don't think I'm a particularly picky gamer, I can live with mediocre presentation and spotty gameplay; I can get a game to play decently with slider-adjustments. But I have a hard time playing a sports-game that animates poorly and does not account for basic physics/momentum; the 'turn-on-a-dime' movement irks me very much.

I'll be keeping a watchful eye on these forums to see if a patch or two is released that may prompt me to purchase this game.

# 76 jsquigg @ 06/19/09 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by buckeyes787


	YOU GUYS WON'T GET NCAA BECAUSE 1 YOU SUCK AT 2 SLIDERS ARE NOT BROKEN I AM ABLE TO GET TO THE QB AND SACK HIM EVERY TIME. AND 3 STOP THE CRYING BECAUSE IT'S REALLY REALLY DUM FOR THIOSE WHO CRY IS THE ONE WHO SUCK'S AT NCAA.

You must be from Ohio. I could be wrong, but judging from grammar, spelling, and mostly thought behind the post, I'd say Ohio is the place. Normally I'd say you're seven years old, too, but you're probably just a typical Buckeye fan in their mid thirties.

JKBTW

# 77 Cusefan @ 06/19/09 10:40 PM

Why are people blaming EA for this and not Tiburon? Perhaps you guys have been absent for the past few years but EA has been releasing amazing games. NCAA will take the throne of the weakest EA sports title, it had to go to someone i suppose...

# 78 TedMoseby @ 06/20/09 12:56 PM

Bottom line:

EA should fire everyone at Tiburon and hire the OS members with the most posts.

# 79 Happyvally74 @ 06/20/09 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by TedMoseby


	Bottom line: EA should fire everyone at Tiburon and hire the OS members with the most posts.

Greatest and most logical posts ever. Thank you Ted.

# 80 Pared @ 06/20/09 01:03 PM

Guys, keep the thread civil.

If you're unhappy with the way the game is shaping up, express that. But don't take shots at anyone.

You want interaction with the developers and you have that here. But I'm not going to allow anyone to be tasteless.

This isn't what we're about at OS. We've never been like that and we're certainly not going to start.

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