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Originally Posted by sl8b
see Smooth,some people like me :D ( braces for smart ass retort I know is coming :D )
I've heard the tuner is the reason you cant user catch on offense or user defend a pass ? But you cant delete the tuner if you want to play online games ?
But its annoying if you have to that helpless against a pass :mad:
Ok, I am majorly fucking freaked out.
I'm going through naming and setting the Alma Maters for OCs in my roster file (already got all the head coaches done), and I just hit a stretch where 5 out of 6 coaches, including 3 coaches in a row, all had the exact Alma Mater selected in game as I have listed in my spreadsheet. The 6th coach, his Alma Mater was NMSU and the game listed Ohio State (damn close) and OC I just did for Duke, the game listed Tulsa and his Alma Mater was Syracuse (again damn close).
And this isn't EA's doing, because these coaches (HC, OC and DC) that I am currently naming and setting Alma Maters for are what all of the HC, OC and DC coaches were in 2014 in my dynasty on NCAA '12, so almost all of the OC and DC coaches aren't even the same at these schools as what the real life coaches are.
That is one hell of a massive fucking coincidence.
I auto-named players in my fake practice dynasty and you guys should check out Clemson's kicker.
http://img.tapatalk.com/63bcbd05-caae-8b53.jpg
Edit: LOL! Check out the ticker as well.
does he have a brother named M. ?
Buddy and I tried to play a ranked game. Last year we'd go to Lobby, then Leaderboards, then L1 over to "Friends" and highlight your friends name and click X to invite to game.
When I tried this tonight it locked up the controller. All we could both do was hit the PS button on our controllers and Quit game, start again and went into the Lobby and just met up there.
Anyone else have this issue?
Maybe this needs to be moved to the correct thread. Mr G can you help me on this one sir?
Thank you,
Gus
amusing small things..I dont remember seeing it last year? Theres a cut scene of a coach putting his arm around an officials back while chatting a little bit :)
dont really see the point of having motion blur ?
last year if you scored a TD in Virginia Techs Stadium you could hear the Turkey crow loud and clear..now you cant really hear anything :(
I'm reading a lot of people on OS have made the move to Heisman and are much happier. How many guys here have tried it out?
I'm going to see if I can rent the game but with BB out of business, very few Canadian rental stores will carry NCAA Football. They will have a ton of NHL copies to rent along with Madden but NCAA Football is tough. I went to EB Games yesterday at lunch and they had almost no pre-orders (3) total. They had 20 pre-orders for MLB the Show which is PS3 exclusive so that just tells you how it is around here.
After going through all the coaches and renaming them (several hours worth) I finally set up my dynasty and began playing as OC of Hawaii. With 34 seconds left in the 2nd Q the game freezes on me. It 's 3:35 AM and I need to be up in 4 hours. I'm going to bed. This better not be a sign of things to come.
I started on Heisman with 3 Play Now games last night. Haven't tried any other level. Posted about it here: http://www.thegamingtailgate.com/for...l=1#post150954Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
The games have been quite entertaining and close against nearly equivalent teams in terms of talent.
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Originally Posted by Rudy
There are a number of people around here that are leaning towards/testing out Heisman. I played 2 games last night and it seems pretty good.
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Originally Posted by psuexv
Didn't seem as cheap as in past years. So far...
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Yeah and you didn't seem to have many issues with zone defense last night :smh:Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
That's what she said.Quote:
Originally Posted by psuexv
I'm currently testing out Heisman sliders in a Dynasty. So far, they've been pretty good. I am 4-2 playing as :Colorado: and all but one game have been very close and competitive. However, I still need to beef up the CPU offense. They tend to score by big plays only. No long drives, no sustained drives. It's a work in progress, but as I get something really good, I'll share it here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
One thing that I have thought of is the fact that I play vastly different than anyone else. I throw a ton. Mostly short passes, I love long, time-consuming drives. I had a drive last night that was 17 plays, 88 yards and took 6:22 off the clock. I play 10 minute quarters. But I would be curious how someone who plays a more traditional style would feel about these sliders. I have tweaked them from a guy on OS... and a lot of people there like them, so we'll see. I'll post some sliders and game results soon.
Reading people's comments today and I don't recall seeing/experiencing some of the complaints that people are posting here today, as I started on Heisman right away when I put the game in last night out of the box. Maybe I didn't play enough or didn't notice them, but some of them definitely don't seem valid....Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
God damn it people. STOP SAYING IT'S FIXABLE! YOU'RE MAKING ME WANT TO BUY THIS DAMN GAME!!!! GAH!!!!!
It's definitely a fun game. I'd definitely recommend it. Especially with Heisman and some sliders tweaked.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
I think some people just want to seriously see it fail, otherwise they'd have nothing to talk about.
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Don't even set yourself up.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
Bingo.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
This game sucks, there's no rastas. Don't buy, 0/10.
Yeah my zone defense with a D rated team was working okay :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by psuexv
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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
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+1
Heisman mode- Jim Plunkett-1st game
on All-American setting
24 for 37, 424 yrds,4TD's, 2 ints.
sacked 3 times
sure it was easy but at least that was a tad more realistic LOL
i know everyone was harping on this like 4 days ago, but arkansas state pulled off the upset over oregon in my offline dynasty too....37-14 at oregon. :D
Playing 7m quarters on Heisman has been pretty good so far.
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Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Well, after an amazon complete debacle, I finally got the game a day late only to find out everything that I had done on the early release was a complete waste. For whatever reason the game does not recognize the early release saves. 2 dynasties, rosters, saved videos, nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
If anyone has a workaround to get the game to see it, please reply. I can see it when I back out to look at it on the harddrive, but when the game starts and I go to load/delete it is not there, and I can't pull it up anywhere in the game what so ever.
edit: It did recognize that I had played the game, I got the achievements that I earned.
the cutscenes take forever to skip over. how many times do i have to mash the :360a: to skip over em?
That was intentional this year, if I remember correctly. A bunch of us were mashing the :360a: button last year to get to the next play, only to completely accidentally skip over gametracks and stuff. So this year, EA either put in a second or two delay or they made it so you had to hold the button down for a second or two, can't remember the exact thing they did, to help prevent skipping over the gametracks, the studio updates, etc, by mistake, and so you were only skipping over it because you intended to/wanted to.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
i know it was intentional, but it takes way too damn long to skip over em. i dont care about the cutscenes; and if there was an option to turn em off, i'd do it. i know i'm in the minority when i say that, but the same applies to gametrack too, imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
rather than having a forced 2 second delay before you can skip over it, they should just do a button recognition of holding down the :360a: skips over it, whereas a quick press doesnt do anything. its just pisses me off when i'm mashing the :360a: button, with the intention of skipping over the cutscene, and its not doing it.
waiting for a play now game against just the AI offline seems to take a little longer then in 12 too?
Wow, what do u have ADHD---chill out--a whole 2 seconds lol
I’ve played two games of NCAA 13 which isn’t enough for a full review of course but my initial feeling is that the game is average. I didn’t see a lot of crap but I don’t see any excellence to this game that wants to me to keep playing other than I want to get my monies worth after renting.
Presentation and Atmosphere
This just isn’t good enough imo. The commentary is so stale now it’s white noise. I can’t even tell you if I heard any new or interesting things because Herbie is so boring after this many years you just tune him out. I know one time my TE dropped a wide open pass down the middle and he commented that there was a defender in the area when there was nobody. I do know they don’t comment on players getting injured and many times I don’t know I lost a player until I see the injury report on the ticker. Very few stat overlays (two in two games, 7 minute quarters) and they aren’t commented on at all. I saw only one game track and accidentally skipped it. Not sure how that happened. We desperately need a new commentary team just to change it up.
The crowd is mediocre. It helps to turn the other volumes down and crank the crowd up. Sometimes there is an audio glitch in the sound as well where you can tell the sounds aren’t spliced together correctly. The pre-game introductions are very stale and I already skipped over them for game two. The entire design needs to move towards a TV style broadcast with more team and individual stats. I really enjoyed Madden 12’s TV style focus and I think NCAA needs to commit more to this approach. One negative note for freezing, my game froze right after the end of the second game so that’s another concern.
Passing Game
I think this is the biggest improvement in the game. I hated the super LBs and super zones of NCAA 12. The new pass trajectories really help let you put the ball where you want to. I didn’t see a single crazy swat in two games by a super leaping LB. I used the lead passing a couple times and it was nice. I have seen the issue with the safeties leaving WRs running free down the middle of the field. I burned the defence twice for TDs on this. I tried not to take advantage of this stuff but its hard not to over the course of a game. This needs to be fixed.
The cpu calls a lot of screens and this needs to be toned down a little and also made more effective. On Heisman I did see them run this successfully a few times but the majority of time it’s a sack. I saw Alabama run an option play in the last minute of a game in hurry up. Why? Also saw them run a fake punt on 4th and 20 early in the 4th quarter (they were down 1 or 2 TDs, can’t remember). That was so long it would have been nearly impossible to convert and they didn’t.
Running Game
My first game was with Michigan at home against OSU. I got over 100 yards rushing with Denard using the read-option and I thought it was nicely done. I did have a long TD run where a defender was just stuck in a back pedal motion and didn’t even try to tackle me. That wasn’t good as it should have been an average gain and not a 40 yard TD run. I didn’t see the cpu run it too often with Braxton Miller and when they did it wasn’t that great. Miller did scramble quite a bit so I liked that. I didn’t see many broken blocking assignments but those happen all the time in real life and it’s not something I look for. Nothing in two games bothered me here.
I think the tackling engine is old and stale. Not only does NCAA 13 not have the Infinity engine but the variety here is weak and significantly worse than Madden 12’s tackling engine imo. Warp tackling is in full force. Hit the tackle button and your defender will leap forward a couple yards for the wrap tackle.
Player movement still lacks momentum and the animations seem twitchy and unnatural and this was while playing on Slow speed. It doesn’t look or feel right imo. I do like how the r-stick juke is better this year. Made a nice move with Denard using it although it looks a little goofy. I'll still take it over last year's neutered move. Why the heck does Georgia have so many option plays in their playbook? Now I realize why I saw cpu Georgia running so many options with Aaron Murray in some pre-release videos.
Difficulty
I started right out on Heisman difficulty (I’m not that good, trust me) after reading people say it was the way to go. I tweaked my old NCAA 12 slider set based on some things I read and beat OSU 38-7 with Michigan. I took Georgia into Bama and the game was tied 7-7 going into the 4th and I broke it open with three TDs to win 28-7. The game is definitely easier than it was in the past. I saw nothing cheap on Heisman and quite honestly, this is probably what All-American should be (unless they create a difficulty between AA and Heisman like I think they should).
Overall
I used to consider NCAA 11 to be the best game of this series but this is probably the best. However, I also consider the NCAA series to be largely disappointing this generation. NCAA 13 is an improvement but it doesn’t wow me. It still has a long way to go to be considered a great game like the Show. Improvement is needed in almost every area. Most of all they need to change something so that the game actually feels fresh and different. That includes player movement, animations and presentation. You will get the same feeling while playing the game you did in the past (good or bad). The strength of the game has always been the ability of dynasty mode to suck you in and overlook some of the average game play while you recruit and build your dynasty. I don’t see this year as much different.
Great write up Rudy.
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Originally Posted by skipwondah33
I think you hit the nail right on the head Rudy. The game playable and can be enjoyable, but there is so much more it could be.
overall this game satisfies. im okay with gameplay. my zone defense works and the cpu picked me off 5 times last night... it was FCS northwest. on heisman difficulty. im not all that good but it was ridiculous. needed improvements:
1. Pre-game- i like Rece Davis. but he has about 2 or 3 intros for every stadium so after 5 home games its sounding very repetitive. i usually skip right through the entrances. they are so bland and boring. its a good idea but can be done so much better. please EA get me hyped up to play this game.
2. i love what they did with dynasty. i can see how my school stacks up the next 4 years, and how i can improve my recruiting pitches. all that is great and scouting is cool but i wish i could scout exactly what i wanted to know. id like to see the randomness out of that.
3. COMMENTARY.
i dont hear erin andrews at all! why is she even in the game if she doesnt talk to me??? i like gametrack. i like how i cant accidentally skip over it. but if i want to play as an OC i cant see that cool cutscene. which is sad for me because i suck at defense. i miss the days of lee corso pregame 2004.
biggest wish is college gameday and college football final. a show before the week starts and after the week is over. i think its do-able. if nfl 2k could do it on my ps2 i think it can be done now on next gen consoles
thats really all i have for now. im a big presentation guy. the gameplay is good. of course it could be better but i am satisfied i give the game 8.5/10
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Originally Posted by procops1