Waaay OT: Draft Day sports: College Football 2017 (Video game)

Submitted by ToledoBlue on
Debated on posting this but the 45 posts on Patterson and who the starting qb will be next year tells me that there's room. So ive had an itch since NCAA stopped being made. I did a search and found a cool game. Its a complete sim in the vein of football manager where you dont play the games but you can actively gameplan, recruit, call plays, and watch the plays act out on a 2d playing field where the dots move. I've found myself more than once cheering on the Michigan dots. Theres a demo up that lets you play for a bit before you buy. Fair warning: there's no NCAA licensing so they got real creative with the team names.
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Impetuous Pernell

December 12th, 2017 at 9:35 AM ^

I miss ncaa football so much. I would pay a large sum to have a new updated version that included cfp and updated rules like targeting etc. This has gotta come back at some point right? Cheering on dots doesnt sound fun.

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sarto1g

December 12th, 2017 at 9:51 AM ^

The community does a great job with roster updates for NCAA 14 but I would love a reboot with new conferences (instead of doing it manually) and the playoff.  Road to Glory badly needs an update too, since it gets really stale after a while.  Please pay the players so we can have our game back.

(and while they're at it NCAA Basketball 2K would be swell.  I'll upgrade my Xbox 360 if these ever happen)

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Tuebor

December 12th, 2017 at 10:39 AM ^

I've never understood why they don't this. 


Make it authentic as possible, but just use a random roster.  The true fans will create real roster content anyways.  

 

Honestly, having played 2014 now numerous times over the last four years with old rosters, if they came out with a new game that had an empty set for roster and had you press a randomizer button to create a unique local roster to get around the player issues I'd be happy.

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CRISPed in the DIAG

December 12th, 2017 at 10:21 AM ^

I love sports sims more than Madden-style arcade games because builder a roster and developing offensive/defensive gameplans interest me more than double-pressing the "A" button to execute a spin move.

Football Manager (soccer) has been a huge time waster for me over the years. 

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crom80

December 12th, 2017 at 10:56 AM ^

being a fan of the Football (soccer) Manager series, I also looked for similar manager type games for America Football and came across the above game.

read some of the reviews about the game and the most repeated criticisms were  

1) the lack of sophisticated AI response. same plays work the same over and over again. same play by AI results in same bust by player team over and over again.

2) no information regarding the plays being selected (no images to show what the play is)

3) the lack of information from the 2D field view. example given was a safety was taking a weird route for a tackle against a RB. was it because of bad coaching or lack of player intelligence or speed difference between safety and RB or just bad AI. No options to see the results and adjust approach of defender or coaching/practicing.

4) can't edit players inserted for individual plays. can't have RB in slot.

etc etc

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Tatar Tots

December 12th, 2017 at 12:06 PM ^

I've been debating getting Bowl Bound College Football for a while, but the Steam reviews have been holding me back on it. It seems like it would be a good substitute for the NCAA games, especially since it seems similar to Football Manager and Eastside Hockey Manager. I'm not sure if what I'm finding is the same game you're talking about, but it's on sale for around $10 right now until the 18th.

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