2011 Wish List Tournament - "Best of the Best" Voting

[JeffHCross]

And now there are threads crying for more presentation items to be added ahead of gameplay fixes. Wow.)

There are a lot of people who think the game plays perfectly fine (because they really care about playing "football" rather playing, y'know, an actual simulation of real football), and so they want the game to look better, because that's the only improvement they notice. Unfortunately, developers are generally caught between having to cater to both audiences.

Personally, I think the NCAA audience is even more influenced by the people I describe above, because you get a lot more casual college fans, particularly college students, who don't care for the game beyond parties/competitions in the dorm. One of my better friends in college took his copy of NCAA (probably 2004 at the time), instantly created himself as a 99 OVR RB, along with a 99 OVR QB and WR on the same Ohio State team, and playing dynasty after dynasty with that team. I never saw the point.

[Oneback]

That's the problem though there are so many people that enjoy beating everyone on their schedule 100-0 with "their team" and don't really care if the game plays decent as long as they win the MNC every year the game plays great.

The question does have to be asked though: Is this a product of people not caring what the game plays like, or is it a product of them knowing the game doesn't play true to life so they would rather get whatever enjoyment out of it they can?

[JeffHCross]

I think it's the former, OB. For most of them, at least. I can't imagine that people mashing the spin button and expecting to break every tackle would say "well, that's real". Maybe some of it is naivety, but only so far as they haven't thought about it. If you forced them to say whether or not NCAA (or Madden, or even APF2k8, for that matter) was "true to life", I don't think they'd say "yes".

[ram29jackson]

6 votes for improved WR-DB interaction ..? come on ?

[ram29jackson]

There are a lot of people who think the game plays perfectly fine (because they really care about playing "football" rather playing, y'know, an actual simulation of real football), and so they want the game to look better, because that's the only improvement they notice. Unfortunately, developers are generally caught between having to cater to both audiences.

Personally, I think the NCAA audience is even more influenced by the people I describe above, because you get a lot more casual college fans, particularly college students, who don't care for the game beyond parties/competitions in the dorm. One of my better friends in college took his copy of NCAA (probably 2004 at the time), instantly created himself as a 99 OVR RB, along with a 99 OVR QB and WR on the same Ohio State team, and playing dynasty after dynasty with that team. I never saw the point.

LOL..I do multiple dynasys so O can do both= a real/sim type thing..and one with over rated players so you can see various animations and or what ever else the game has to offer....i'm sure they put plenty in the game that some never see because they do the same thing over and over again...like they say: four verticals is still the number one play call LOL

[beartide06]

In my opinion, the WR needs to be able to actually contest for the ball and have better logic. The WR hardly ever goes up for it and he constantly reaches for the ball where the ball is not. For example, I lead a guy on a post the other day and my WR reached behind him at his hip and the ball was in front of him near his head and this resulted in the safety stepping up and picking it off with ease. So I feel your pain. I know the strafe on O can be cheesy and somewhat unrealistic, but I think madden implemented it great... I mean in reality, a WR can also strafe and square up to the ball and go up for the catch just like the DB can.

[beartide06]

6 votes for improved WR-DB interaction ..? come on ?

In my opinion, the WR needs to be able to actually contest for the ball and have better logic. The WR hardly ever goes up for it and he constantly reaches for the ball where the ball is not. For example, I lead a guy on a post the other day and my WR reached behind him at his hip and the ball was in front of him near his head and this resulted in the safety stepping up and picking it off with ease. So I feel your pain. I know the strafe on O can be cheesy and somewhat unrealistic, but I think madden implemented it great... I mean in reality, a WR can also strafe and square up to the ball and go up for the catch just like the DB can.

Sorry for the back to back post, I clicked the wrong dang button and forgot to add the quote with it lol.

[DerkontheForum]

O What I would give for good OL/DL interaction.

[jaymo76]

Out of curiosity are you guys going to do another MADDEN TOURNEY as well???

[ram29jackson]

this is all well and good but I expect to see some improvements/additions to teambuilder as well. make a better effort with it , give it some growth.