NCAA 13 release tonight... Who is going out and picking it up at midnight?
I'll be there
i think I have the last three. Until they use the same gameplay engine as Madden I'm not going to purchase it again. It's asinine how much smoother Madden is to play.
I agree - we can complain all we want about how NCAA "doesn't change that much" (which is true in certain versions, although I would argue last year's was a significant upgrade) but at least they don't ruin their game like Madden.
I think each year one stands out as being a much better version of the other. Madden 11 was great, while NCAA was poor. I still play NCAA 12, but gave up on Madden 12 after about a week (dynasty mode is fucking terrible).
...but you're crazy if you think Madden is smoother. I hate the Madden games and I think they're MUCH harder and just way too realistic. It's a video game and supposed to be fun. I don't have fun playing Madden. The first and only time I bought Madden was the 2005 version on Gamecube and I sold the game back to GameStop about three months later. I hated it. Except for last year's version, I have purchased the game every year since the 2003 version.
that is what the Freshmen difficulty is for. Not to mention the various sliders that can be adjusted to make certain parts of the game easier or harder based on personal preference. Personally I like realism in sports games. This is why the only sports game I have been able to consistently enjoy the last several years is MLB The Show. It's basically the only sports game that comes anywhere close to it's real life counterpart.
As for NCAA, I am taking a wait and see aproach this year. I'm not going to get suckered in again this year, in terms of buying on release day. I'll wait for some honest opinions from people (not biased reviewers) before deciding. At least from what I have seen it doesn't look the gameplay additions are that sigfnficant, instead EA sports would rather focus on adding gimmick modes that I would never use.
I wasn' talking in terms of difficulty level, as I either play on all-American or Heisman levels. There is just too much detail in Madden that I care to avoid. That's all I'm saying. If I want something that realistic, I'll get involved in real football.
I liked the NCAA games a lot more when they released them 3-4 weeks after the season started so they could tweak the game occording to realistic player stats.
I wish they'd make the game better instead of putting Desmond Howard on Ohio State
...though I may still buy the game. Why does EA get the only rights to NCAA football?
So if they can't beat them, what do they do? Take the cowardly way out and buy the rights for NCAA & NFL.
by 2k were trash. Not that competition now, wouldn't be a good thing though.
The year the contract was offered to EA by the NFL was the year 2k put out their sports games for $30 dollars brand new. The NFL felt insulted that they would market their brand at such a low price point. So they approached EA and EA took it. I would rather have the competition as I think we all would but ultimately 2k shot themselves in the foot.
I used to obsess over having all position groups having the same equipment, but I got so sick of doing it, so I quit doing that in the 2006 version. It's a lot of work. Regarding player ratings, I will be making Denard faster because I don't think EA did him justice.
For a charge cheaper than regular shipping, and a $45 price tag. I'm past the point where having it 12 hours earlier is worth $15 plus tax.
Also I noticed if you buy from Amazon you get some of the pro combat uniforms (Oregon, little brother, etc.) for those that are into all the uniforms.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VB2UO6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag…
I'm not saying you're lying and I hope it is true, but if you played the demo and recommended it to an XBOX friend, there were four or five other pro combat uniforms that were unlocked for your gamer tag.
Although I am not joining you this year. Pre-ordered from Amazon for 45 bucks, and it is supposed to be dropped off tomorrow, about the time I get home from work. Woot!
Im on my way! Go blue!
You must be going to a different store because GameStop said they aren't having a midnight release for the game this year. Perhaps that is just the locations near me in Ohio. I ordered mine from Amazon anyway for $45 out the door.
You don't need to go to a store with a midnight release party. Just head to a Walmart or Meijer and they stock the shelves with the game at midnight.
I didn't even think about that. I always forget that Walmart is open 24 hours, at least many of them.
I didn't preorder but I used the season ticket from FIFA to play it for three days. As it stands, I like it and would pick it up except for one huge bug. The game keeps freezing when I am loading my week 5 game. I have seen multiple reports of this in my dynasty.
I know I can sim, but that doesn't remove the problem and any random week could freeze, thus killing a dynasty. If they fix this, then I will buy it, but as it stands I am not going to.
Not going to buy it this year. Sounds like the gameplay is going to be basically the same as last year. I already updated the rosters on NCAA 12 to be accurate for this year.
The Air Jordan LB's have been fixed.
The zone read is MUCH better as well. That was the biggest frustration for me the last couple years.
ALLEGEDLY Air Jordan LBs have been fixed. We've heard that before.
I'm buying the game, but I will never go at midnight to pick up a game.
I did it once in my life....and when I got to the store I saw dudes in their 30's wearing their jerseys and talking about getting 5 or 6 seasons in tonight.
I then put my head down in shame and vowed to never do it again.
OMG what tools. I can honestly see that happening.
The only time I went for a midnight release was Halo 2 a long time ago. I played the game through until noon the next day and beat it.
I was referring to the guys wearing jerseys and talking about how they would get five seasons in one night, not the people standing in line for a game. I figured that was fairly clear.
Because beating the campaign took me only about five hours and playing five seasons would take a lot more than five hours. Really I was laughing at the honks wearing their jerseys like it was a tailgate party.
But you played from 12 to 12? What happened to the other 7 hours?
And it was probably a bit of hyperbole...you couldn't play 5 regular time full season in a day.
...I never said I played it from 12 to 12.
I played the game through until noon the next day
So while you may have meant that you played the game all the way through, playing till noon, it kinda looks like you said you played all the way through till noon.
What I meant was "through the entire game."
lmao i'm in my 30ies and I went to a midnight release for Harry Potter and the deathly hollows. ( book not the movie).
I wouldn't say our venture into nerdome was as bad tho because you didn't dress up like Master Cheif and I didn't dress up like Harry Potter.
Nothing wrong with midnight releases. I've done multiple Harry Potter books, COD games, Battlefield 3, Halo(s) etc. the best is taking the next day off so you can just stay up till 8AM and have the campaign finished before you knock off for a couple hours.
I still have my NCAA 2004 game for X-Box. I stopped buying them after that but I admire the upgrade in graphics over the years. It's nice that the team actually touches the banner now.
Meh. Work tomorrow. Just go pick it up after work tomorrow :) No point waiting in line
This might also be the first year I get in on the fun, since 2006. I wonder what online play is like. I've always been curious to go up against Mgobloggers in online battle.
The only reason why I am considering getting this game is because of the improved catching motions and lack of jumping LBs. That and I think they fixed the play-action DOOOMMM thing. The tackling in 2012 is hella realistic, but the catching/interceptions/passbreakups were terrible. Straight up terrible.
So in short, adding better catching + new uniforms + glitch fixes = me buying it.
Not to drive traffic to another site, but the impressions at Operation Sports have ranged from okay to awful, specifically that the option offense still doesn't work, the safety play is atrocious and allows for anybody to throw for 500+ yards with deep balls, and the computer runs screen passes way too much and just get sacked over and over and over.
Combine that with the lack of new features (minus the despicable Heisman Mode, which is so stupid it created its own black hole of idiocy) and I might pass on the game for the first time in years.
I think he was talking about the "LOOK, DESMOND HOWARD IN AN OSU UNIFORM! GIVE US YOUR MONEY AGAIN!" game feature.
I'm officially boycotting EA football games this year until they actually change them for the better. NCAA games have the same glitches year after year, but at least you can play mascot games and shit like that. Dynasty Mode is the same thing and Campus Legend/RTG gets worse every year. I'll save $120 every year and skip out on their updated rosters and new covers. Oh, and both game's commentary are atrocious.
Heisman mode sounds boring. All I want to do is run a dynasty. And, when that dynasty becomes too good, leave for another team and work them up to a dynasty.
I'll be fine with the game if I can hop from team to team like a football Larry Brown.