Xbox NCAA 11 Glitchonomics
I finally received my copy of NCAA 11 in the mail today and have so far found myself frustrated beyond belief. I started a dynasty choosing to rock Dillithium to the max. Four games in and a crazy amount of high profile recruits ready to visit, I saved. Then all hell broke loose. I decided I would try to see how horrible I am when not going against the CPU and the game immediately froze. Rebooted, tried again. Freeze. Rebooted, tried yet again. Freeze. Frustrated, I installed the game on my hard drive and tried again, only this time I looked around to make sure Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't hanging around in a Mr Freeze outfit. Didn't matter. Rebooted and decided to roll with the dynasty instead. Faster than a Lee Corso "not so fast my friend" the game froze and proceeded to do so for the next three tries. Is anyone else experiencing this garbage? I loved the demo and bought the game because of said awesomeness. Quickly I am regretting it.
but then again I bought mine right from our Gamestop store here in Hilliard. Might want to get a replacement dude.
Most people said they hadn't experienced it, but I have and a friend of mine has as well.
It is a shoddy piece of software. If you go to the customer service page on EASports.com you can either live chat with a representative or send them an email. They gave me an avenue to return the game even though I bought it from Gamestop.
That said, there is the possibility a patch will fix this. $60 bucks for a piece of incomplete software is outrageous.
I agree. I was playing last night and for every extra point (for both teams) the view point was from the opposite end zone and you could barely even see what was happening. Not earth shattering, but still ridiculous.
That happens to me a lot. I'm not sure what causes it, but I think it might be defensive touchdowns cause it quite frequently. The game thinks action is still going the other way so it fixes the camera in the former offense's endzone, then flips it around to look down the field at you kicking an extra point.
It would really suck if the camera did that and you needed to run a 2 pt conversion to tie late or something,
im almost done with my second season of the dynasty. i havent had a freeze at all.
im also using autosave, not sure if that makes a difference.
I had autosave on then saved on top of that. Maybe that is somehow glitching the game?
just go on your XBox and delete the save files of the game from the Dashboard. see if that works
though i've seen on other forums there may be a new online exploited glitch where the other player can change your playbook.
When I first bought it had a ton of glitches. I could only play 3 quarters and then it would just freeze and I'd have to reboot it and then hope it didn't do it again. I can remember playing campus legend and I made an amazing quarterback and half way through the state championship game it froze. Man I was pissed. I tend to stay away from buying games in the mail. I'd rather buy them from Gamestop or another game store. Hope you can fix the problem.
I should clarify. I got it from best buy.com, the closest video game store is about 45 minutes away on a good day. Usually around 75 minutes.
mine is right down the street from my house.
this is an absolutely inane reason for potential issues with a game. buying a game through the mail is less reliable than buying it from a store? seriously?
as long as the game is factory sealed and the sticker of authenticity on it, its the same. these arent groceries. they dont spoil. theres no shelf life.
buying a game from a reputable online store (like bestbuy.com or amazon) is no different from walking into gamestop and grabbing it.
no, the reason why this poor dude is having trouble is probably a bad disc, or issues with his console.
I saw packages thrown, kicked, punched, ripped open, stuff stolen, torn apart you name it. I'm not buying anything in the mail anymore unless it's from USPS. I use to wonder how some of those packages even passed for mint condition after what I saw. I just have my suspicions when buying things online or from a catalog.
Yes packages that have Michigan or Michigan logos in the Columbus hub become re-tapes almost everytime. Just wanted to give you a heads up.
if it comes thrown, kicked, punched, ripped open, stuff stolen, torn apart you name it, notify the company and send it back. also, given the fact that half of the descriptions you noted would not affect the playability of a disc... it's irrelevant.
It's put into a new box or they just order a new one and throw the old one away. PD-2 the belt I worked for was notorious for damages. "Hand to surface" is a rule nobody listened to. Nor was drug free working environments sadly, ask my sup.
also, i gotta wonder, how many accounts do you have? its gotta be at least 3.
its uncanny. unless he has a lot of mgoguardianangels, he actually takes the time to posbang himself.
i remember once he jumped up 500 pts in one night after getting negbanged.
You can't gain points from +1ing yourself. What happened was someone made good on a threat to go back and +1 every single post he had made, which caused a jump of 500+ points.
try it
im suggesting he has multiple accounts, one of which is primary, and the others of which are used to posbang himself.
That I could definitely see. Thanks for the clarification.
or his points are just so solid that 3-5 people see him at -4 and bring him back to 1
that isn't around here in Columbus. My father doesn't care for college football anymore, my mother went to Ohio State as did the rest of her side so when it comes to Michigan football the only place I feel I fit in with (fan wise) is with my two friends who love Michigan Tommy and Steve and here at Mgoblog. If nobody want's me on here then I'll leave. I don't feel I fit in here anyways since half of the talk is about what goes on in Michigan and there are Columbus teams I like and grew up with like the Clippers, Crew and up in Cleveland the Indians.
and it's not a personal anger towards you. rather, it's more of a response to your posting that draws the negativity IMO. you have been prone to really negative stuff and some of your posts are a little odd.
the_big_house_500th.
How do you like the Red Wings' chances in the 2010-11 season?
When Tecmo Bowl froze you just blew the crap out of the cartridge and presto, up and running. Then you would shoot a page to all of your friends break out some Molson Ice and play a tourney. Things were much simpler in the 90's. Best of Luck.
didn't want to comment on this thread for fear of it happening to me too. But this was a hilarious comment.
Last night when I was playing 360 downloaded updates for ncaa, maybe that will help you guys out.
I save manually because of my worry that autosave doesn't save(I know it saves, I just don't want to have to re-play games). And I've never had a freeze. Sorry you had a problem. Sounds like a rare incident.
sounds like it's your game. I'd ask for a new one
I have had glitches in the past but could alleviate said horrors by installing the game on my hard drive.
from what you've said here, your might have an issue with your optical reader. id say try a new disc and see if that helps. long term, you might wanna get your xbox checked out.
This could be true. Most games (Mass Effect 2, Fable 2, GTA IV, ect.,) however, have had glitch problems and I didn't want to wait for a patch to fix it. I can't find much on the internet in relation to the game freezing upon a load request. Looks like I have a horrible excuse of a $60 paperweight until the weekend.
I was at the last game of the regular season. Michigan vs OSU. I saved it, so I could play later.
Later happened, but the dynasty refused to load. It said it was "damaged." It still won't load. I had an awsome recruiting class and was undefeated.
Now I'm staring a new dynasty, but I wish the other would magically load...
(Edit: I lost my dynasty, and now people are negging me for it. Thats some heartless stuff...)
Thats why you don't play on a 360
My advice, as it's been said on here, is to delete the dynasty and start over. It sucks, but the file is corrupted for whatever reason.
But it sounds like your Xbox is failing.
I"ve got a question for you guys. I was actually hoping this thread was about what just happened to me 5 minutes ago. I turned the game on, first time since last night, and my roster is completely different! I've got guys out of position, white guys who are black and vice versa. Not just for Michigan either, all teams. All the time I spent tweaking guys was all for not. This is fucked! Has this happened to anyone else on 360?
I was just on a couple of minutes ago and it looked OK.
Here, download my rosters. I have edited the equipment and everything to make the players look like their real life counterparts. Spent a lot of time doing it.
Gamertag: Ninjafootball
use Ccaarrssoonn3
ccaarrssoonn3's is the one I had originally. I thought the same thing, that maybe he edited his and it changed mine as well. But I just re-downloaded his and it's not the crap that mine turned into. Thanks for the help guys.
The Progression issue is a deal breaker for me at the moment since I play 10+ years. I have my dynasty on hold right now and hoping to god for a patch. I dont want to play rocket football after year five.
Do you get freezes with other games? What you're describing seemed to be what started happening to me about a week before getting the red ring of death a couple years ago.
I'd be playing, boom, freeze. Try a different game, everything fine for a few minutes, boom, freeze. Soon thereafter, Red Ring of Death.
If it's just NCAA, then yeah it sounds like a corrupted dynasty file on the hard drive. You might even have a dying hard drive.
I'm with this guy. What you're describing is exactly what started happening to me about three days before my 360 RRoD'd.
Same here.
This is a very bad omen for your Xbox.
Could be true. I have had the RRoD once before and promptly sent the unit in to be fixed as it was still under warranty. Six weeks later I got an xbox returned and received a RRoD three days later. Countless phone calls and complaints later Microsoft sent me a new one. That was about two years ago. I would like to think the average Xbox lasts longer. I take good care of it. This weekend I will exchange the game and see what happens.
I've been playing video games for 13 years now I have or had every system known to man. Maybe I am just lucky but, I've never had a game freeze. Then again I take super good care of my systems and cleaning them and free of dust and they can be cooled easily.
As far as rosters go you can download mine
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