I'll wait and see, but I definitely value games that have tight controls, innovative ideas and fun gameplay over ones where the selling point is mostly great graphics.
EA Sports NCAA Football game
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I'm someone who is probably going to play for Dynasty mode only, maybe some Online Dynasty, so I don't really care about the microtransactions part of this. NCAA14 had microtransactions too when it was still supported. You could buy additional uniform packages, coaching, and recruiting boosts. 14 also doesn't have the smoothest movements. For me, it's always been the speed of the game, the ease and ability to throw and move the ball downfield, and above all else recruiting.
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It's not exactly atypical for an announcement trailer to not show a lot of gameplay. RDR2 comes to mind, among others. I'm sure there will be a specific gameplay trailer down the line. That's how they used to do it with previous versions anyway.
Yeah, no doubt. I'm just not really into cut scenes and stuff like that (I mostly skip them), but don't blame them for releasing this kind of video now, because I'm sure a lot of people are.
Think you're overestimating how many people will be disappointed in this. There will be plenty who hate it/complain, sure, but many more who will enjoy the hell out of it.
I could see a lot of people just stick with this one and not buy every year if it's just a reskin, though.
It doesn't have to look good. It has to feel good, be consistent and run smoothly. That's what makes a great game, especially one that has a competitive element.
I thought looked great - At the end of the day it's a video game.
There's some folks in here that I'm pretty sure wont be satisfied regardless of what EA does with the game. I'm just pumped to have the series back.
There's some folks in here that I'm pretty sure wont be satisfied regardless of what EA does with the game. I'm just pumped to have the series back.
Only 2 Big 12 teams were shown (Baylor and Colorado) for a total of 8 seconds. G5 schools got more time. Lame.
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There's an entire cottage industry devoted to hating on Madden every year. EA definitely doesn't have the best track record, especially with yearly sports releases, so you can't blame anyone for being skeptical, but Madden remains very playable, if a bit uninspired. The micro transaction angle is unforgivable for some, regardless of how they might be implemented.
I think a lot of people are forgetting how cut and paste a lot of the NCAA years were. The biggest tweaks they usually made were to recruiting, adding game modes, maybe some new tackle graphics. The gameplay was, for the most part, the same from year to year.
I definitely get the micro transaction hate, but that is mostly limited to one specific game mode and cosmetics. I don't like them either so I avoid those modes.
Micro transactions have started extending into every day life in a lot of different ways and will only get worse.
They've got a month, they'll get at least a couple more trailers out before it hits. And EA will probably get it in the hands of some youtube/twitch folks in a couple weeks. Which you should take with a grain of salt but you'll get your gameplay video.
Looking at the feature list it looks like they're hitting all the tentpoles, personally a lot of my enjoyment comes from the recruiting system, so I want to see some detail about what that'll look like.
I remember in the old games in my first year at ISU I'd make sure to take some guys from Missouri so it'd be a pipeline state. Missouri always sucked so I'd have a good shot at landing the top handful of their recruits the next year.
Looking at the feature list it looks like they're hitting all the tentpoles, personally a lot of my enjoyment comes from the recruiting system, so I want to see some detail about what that'll look like.
I remember in the old games in my first year at ISU I'd make sure to take some guys from Missouri so it'd be a pipeline state. Missouri always sucked so I'd have a good shot at landing the top handful of their recruits the next year.
Rookie mistake Bigman. Begin your coaching journey some play like California, Texas, or Florida, then move to ISU. That way you keep your pipeline states as long as you keep plugging them. I really liked how 14 improved recruiting and streamlined it. I used to take hours recruiting and determining how their visit should go, it was nice to just focus on getting the guys you wanted/needed.
Yeah I wasn't sure how excited I was or wasn't for this. Then I watched this video and there was some evident swelling going on below the belt.
Reason I may not be excited is just because it's been so long. The last time one of these games came out was probably the last time I binge-wasted hours every day playing a video game. My life has changed a lot in 10 years and even when I think I want to pick up a video game, life usually gets in the way. So in essence, I am not sure how I am going to make time for this when it comes out, but I know I want to try.
Agreed. I also liked the offseason skills development where you could run drills to improve your players’ ratings.
I was meh on that and liked it better in the Madden setting. I preferred my guys to improve throughout the year or game to game. I would almost like them to slow down the progression this year as it was almost too easy to get your star players to 99 no matter where you were playing/coaching.
All this NCAA chatter is going to force @ChrisMWilliams to reopen the gaming forum and I'm here for it.
Who’s setting up the CF online dynasty? Either having everyone in two 16 team conferences or 8 in four different conferences would be so much fun. I’d volunteer but have a wacky work schedule at times to run it well
The last time (2013 I think) it didn’t last that long because people didn’t play their game because they were busy. So everyone got stuck. Hopefully there would be guidelines and ability on when the commissioner could just sim their games
