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Five Things to Improve NCAA Football 13

12:50 PM - January 30, 2012 by RaychelSnr

For years, the NCAA Football series has sold well and enjoyed great reviews.

But this year, it feels like the tides of public opinion have shifted, and a series that once seemed immune to criticism is now subject to a growing wave of discontent. It doesn’t take more than 5 minutes in the OS forums to see that dedicated sports gamers have a whole laundry list of complaints and suggestions.

In this article, I discuss five things that the NCAA Football 13 team could do to restore gamers’ faith in the series.

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# 1 sactown_13 @ 01/30/12 01:36 PM

I couldnt agree more with the crowd noise. I remember on last-gen consoles during mid-play and approaching the endzone the crowd would start to ramp up then bust out when ya crossed the plane. I remember pausing the game and smiling the first time i heard it. It seems to be such a simple thing compared to what games are implementing today. Not sure why this is overlooked every year in both football games.

# 2 DickDalewood @ 01/30/12 01:50 PM

Presentation/atmosphere should absolutely be one of the main focuses this year... this game is in DESPERATE need of some personality.

# 3 Bamafan3723 @ 01/30/12 01:54 PM

NCAA 13 won't be a first day purchase for me, might not be a purchase at all honestly. I can still play NCAA on PS2 and be happy.

# 4 blkrptnt819 @ 01/30/12 02:01 PM

I liked this and the Madden list. I think it touches on obvious things that need to be fixed.

# 5 LambertandHam @ 01/30/12 02:08 PM

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs. It's the only EA sports game I've ever trade in.

# 6 stcloudgopher @ 01/30/12 02:09 PM

When the gameplay is tightened up, I'll be back. I can't sit here and whine about old features being in or not being in. If I saw a custom entrance, it was because I wasn't paying attention to skip it. I could not care less about the bells and whistles at this point. I simply want the game to mimic the actual sport. Too often I watch a game on TV and think, "That's simply not possible in NCAA/Madden." Happens with the 15-yard out, the fade, the spread/triple option, punt return TDs, blocked kicks, missed FGs, dominant defenders, a defender getting run over... (Sigh)

# 7 mestevo @ 01/30/12 02:21 PM

"Custom playbooks and the coaching carousel were welcome additions, but not exactly genre-defining features. "

...followed by 2 paragraphs of things that aren't 'genre-defining' to me. I probably get more from coaching carousel than any other feature in any football game since franchise was added.

# 8 twindaddyj @ 01/30/12 02:28 PM

I do agree with a lot but playing quite a bit I can tell a difference in the RB with power vs speed speciality with pretty much the same stats. The feel is different IMO. I do wish a lot more plays actually worked in the playbook though. I have quite a few but there are tons that just won't work

# 9 BlingBling19 @ 01/30/12 02:46 PM

Presentation/Atmosphere/Stat overlays/CPU D fixes. Those are the 4 things that I hope they fix in the next game.

College games are ridiculously loud but when playing this game it's hardly exciting at all.

# 10 goNAVYbeatarmy @ 01/30/12 02:56 PM

How to make recruiting more challenging. My 2 cents. Recruits should start the year with no stars. After an inital scouting/recruiting phase. The players with the most interest from schools should get the highest stars (which i think how it works with the scouting systems). SO, stars should be based on demand.

Also, coaches should have scouting ratings (A - great eye for talent, F- throw in the dark). You might peg a player high based off scouted ratings, but he might be worse/better when he shows up on campus.

These are what I call recruiting curve-balls that would make recruiting more challenging, realistic, and different. The way it is now, its too clean cut.

# 11 elementz09 @ 01/30/12 02:57 PM

The NCAA and Madden series are starting to become a virtual gaming reality TV series. Nothing really changes in American Idol, Survivor, The Amazing Race, etc. It's the same product with different players and locations. NCAA developers need to go back to the point when not only playing a game was fun and entertaining, but controlling a school was too. Bring back suspensions, pre-game predictions, a deeper RTG mode, make it fun and challenging and not just by boosting tendencies like the super LBs. I can appreciate the challenge of being a real head coach, OC or DC in college football so add some drama to it.

# 12 moneal2001 @ 01/30/12 03:06 PM

head coaches play editor was good, but i remember NCAA 00 or 99 for the PS1 that had an amazing play editor. I remember creating a quad option from the I were you could either hand off to the FB, pitch to the RB, pitch to the WR on a Reverse or keep with the QB. You could even select what direction you wanted players to block like: run block left, middle, or right and same for passing.

# 13 SkillzKillz719 @ 01/30/12 03:12 PM

Please ALL I ask is make me friggin care about my team/ each game.
Do that in the way of atmosphere. I'm not even gunna say presentation because to them that means adding 15 more entrances.

Yes, I hate all the gameplay issues, trust me, but okay you can play a football game but the crowd is TOTALLY dead. Wtf?
That's why I LOVE college football. If I wanted to watch super polished football I'd watch NFL, but i prefer NCAA.
The players care more.
The fans care way more.

Make a good new superstar mode! Ever since they've used the name 'Road to Glory' it's been horrible. I hope they just change the name and go a totally different route.

Gosh I want this game to be good. So bad.

# 14 All-Vol @ 01/30/12 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goNAVYbeatarmy


	How to make recruiting more challenging. My 2 cents. Recruits should start the year with no stars. After an inital scouting/recruiting phase. The players with the most interest from schools should get the highest stars (which i think how it works with the scouting systems). SO, stars should be based on demand. Also, coaches should have scouting ratings (A - great eye for talent, F- throw in the dark). You might peg a player high based off scouted ratings, but he might be worse/better when he shows up on campus. These are what I call recruiting curve-balls that would make recruiting more challenging, realistic, and different. The way it is now, its too clean cut.

I like it. Recruiting definitely needs a change of direction.

# 15 SkillzKillz719 @ 01/30/12 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goNAVYbeatarmy


	How to make recruiting more challenging. My 2 cents. Recruits should start the year with no stars. After an inital scouting/recruiting phase. The players with the most interest from schools should get the highest stars (which i think how it works with the scouting systems). SO, stars should be based on demand. Also, coaches should have scouting ratings (A - great eye for talent, F- throw in the dark). You might peg a player high based off scouted ratings, but he might be worse/better when he shows up on campus. These are what I call recruiting curve-balls that would make recruiting more challenging, realistic, and different. The way it is now, its too clean cut.

Yes this too.
Just seeing how national signing day is coming up and they havent hardly done anything to recruiting to make it better.

Ugh. You gotta question how much they really like college football.
Isn't there some one in there that just gets in there and says he's tired of being average?
Bring it above and beyond.

Make it so the recruits I'm recurting aren't just stars, but people i want on my team. (Attitude, Discipline, Heart)

Very good point Navy!

# 16 jyoung @ 01/30/12 03:18 PM

It's funny that they put so much effort into the team intros for NCAA and Madden.

I bet most people just skip over them every time after seeing them once.

The developers' time would be better spent trying to improve the broadcast presentation that occurs during the actual game, not the pregame ceremonies that maybe 5% of users will watch.

# 17 statum71 @ 01/30/12 03:21 PM

Agree with everything except dropping some mascots in favor of old time players.

Couldn't possibly care less about guys with leather helmets. Besides....they wouldn't have the license to use their real names anyway so what good is it?

# 18 oldman @ 01/30/12 03:31 PM

To me it is all about the little things. Bring back Medical redshirts and NCAA sanctions. More varieties of school band music at each stadium. More than one broadcast team so you really know when you are on the big time Saturday evening game on ESPN or the afternoon game on CBS etc. Give us the ability to hire/fire assistant coaches and have those coaches actually change player ratings(right now you have no control over whether an assistant is hired or fired). Include graphics about rankings and upcoming games in the broadcast to really make each game you are playing feel like part of a season instead of an individual event(It would be really great if they would reference past seasons results).

# 19 xirdneh132 @ 01/30/12 04:07 PM

Great article and I'm sure we can go into more detail. I actually loved NCAA 12 but the glitches did drive me crazy to the point of swearing out loud in psychotic rage and that was even when I was comfortably ahead. I always buy it on the first day and spend a ton of time fixing ratings and entering names so I don't mind buying it on the first day since I'm not going to play it for some time anyways.

Another nice small addition is when you name the coaches there should be a save option for that alone. I entered every coaches name and then after turning it off and coming back to the game they were all gone (and this was after entering their names and having the game freeze on me). I didn't discover until later that in order to save their names you had to go back into player edit mode or depth chart mode then save, that's stupid.

It would be really nice if they could make an awesome game because I'm sure we could deal with a few issues here and there but some of the glitches just drive us crazy and I loved the game and it drove me crazy.

# 20 bmxnw @ 01/30/12 04:11 PM

I agree with almost everything said in the OP and in these comments, and I just want to add one thing: LET US SPECTATE OTHER USER'S GAMES IN OD!!!! I have been calling for this since NCAA 09. When your Dynasty is waiting for 2 people to play each other to advance, do you want to just sit there and stare at the menu for 30-45 minutes? Of course not! We want to watch them play!!!

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