OT: Denard Robinson, Freshman All American
Include this among the many, many bugs in NCAA 2012: I just finished the regular season and Denard was awarded the coveted Freshman All American status...as a Junior.
I've been buying this game regularly for 13 years now, and I'm finally done with it. There's so many goddamn bugs and so many things that have maddeningly not been fixed for years now (like defensive backs magically making interceptions while never looking at the ball).
Was maddeningly meant as a pun?(Madden-ingly)
Same here. I've had at least a half dozen instances of a ball going straight off a receiver's helmet.
The Day 1 patch fixed that issue.
Sure didn't.
I've had defenders literally turn around in a circle while a running back walks past them
The game designer is from Japan and doesn't take in much football. He saw the Gator Bowl on New Year's and thought this was the norm.
This sounds like you are describing Michigan's defese of late. But I feel that is coming to an abrupt stop.
I finished my junior year as Michigan's running back with 4,400 rushing yards, 47 rushing touchdowns, 1,200 receiving yards, and 19 receiving touchdowns. I lost the Heisman in a LANDSLIDE to another running back having around one third of my stats.
I remember the same thing happening in NCAA Football 11 - was hoping they might fix this awfully silly bug.
He must have went to a "sexy" school
if you'd consider NIU a "sexy" school.
Just another example of the media's "Midwestern Illinois" bias.
well done
That other RB probably played in th SEC, which makes it somewhat realistic.
That happened to me a number of times last year. Can't believe they didn't fix it this year.
I like Turtles
I played a guy online this morning, he was Georgia. It was a close game the whole way, but every possession he had he threw a ball right to one of my dbs. I didn't have one pic all game, but he threw at least 6 right to my hands. Then it's a tie game, my ball on his 40. I scramble with denard for the first time all game... boom fumble and he returns it for a td. Even worse denard's out for the game from the tackle. Now I gotta make a last minute drive to tie it with devin. I take it to his 30 with about 40 seconds left, I scrambled with Devin and he's out of energy already, and apparently we don't have a third string qb, because it didn't let me switch. He obviously can't throw an accurate pass, because he got hit once, and I lose.
It's frustrating, I just can't wait until operationsports rosters come out so I can start my OD and coaching carrousel
Judas priest, adjust the sliders!!!
It was online, you can't adjust them....
Online Dynasty you can. Who plays just exhibitions online?
I'm with the OP. They didn't make the coverage better they just made the qbs throw to the cb's. I've had many instances where the wr was wide open on a post and they throw to the top side DB.
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<br>As far as the run game goes it almost to impossible to edfectivly use the sliders. If you guess wrong it goes to the house. Ive found the best way to stop the run is to adjust the pre play big hits to conservative and widen out the dl and lbs. You'll give up 2 yds every play but it's better than the alternative.
What difficulty are you playing it on? That makes a huge difference too. When I played it on Heisman, ND smoked me under the lights 35 to 3 with 10 minute quarters, but when I played it on All-American and adjusted the relevant sliders, everything seemed to go how it would in real life... Michigan's D got a couple 3 and outs and dayne crist seemed paralyzed with fear when I called a OLB blitz causing him to assume the fetal position as van bergen and roh slammed into his stationary body, causing him to have a broken collarbone and bring Tommy Rees in who completed a grand total of 1 of 12 passes. Michigan won 29 to 22.
However, playing against Northwestern, Michigan was up 23 to 10 in the 3rd and denard got the turnover bug and the nwu defense had a pick 6 and a 30 yard int return. We got the ball back with 26 seconds left down 23 to 25 and a 4 verticals play was called and yes, the slot receiver was open, but the opposing crowd and a slowly developing blitz were cause enough for denard to completely miss the open receiver, and michigan lost 23 to 25 under the lights. It all seems reasonable to me... I'm in love with the game so far.
I only play online. Not to sound like a douche but against the AI on any level isn't that difficult for me.
Sounds like if ya been playing video games for 13 years then maybe you're old enough to stop playing video games?
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<br>haha I know video games are popular but I give all my friends a hard time who still play them.
You are in a minority of human beings, now.
Says the guy with the World of Warcraft junkie as his avatar ;)
The average age of a gamer is 37:
Guys who play video games have 100% less sex than guys who don't.
They almost certainly count every game, and then count you as a "gamer" if you have played a game in the last year. Then they don't weight the study for how much you actually play or how much money you spend. If you actually weighted the number for hours played and money spent, I think that it would end up somewhere in the early 20s.
I'm guessing that they get those stats by counting anyone who plays solitaire once a year as a "gamer". If you weighted the numbers by taking into account money spent or hours played, they would probably indicate that the average is somewhere in the early 20s.
They're popular for a reason.
It is a videogame. I play them too. I get pissed when I get shot with a miracle bullet in Black Ops. But, it is a game...
Same. I had to turn injuries off. Four straight games, Denard was injured in the first half.
Also, I've never in my life seen a quarterback miss a receiver by 20 yards or more. In this game though? Run Denard once or twice and you'll be lucky if he can place the ball on the same side of the field as his receiver.
2008?
the radio call commenced as Sheridan threw it straight to a Utah defender in the season opener right before the end of the half.
Didn't Denard get hurt in almost every game last year?
Believe it was nine games. Five with dings, four where he didn't come back until next week.
Why anyone would be complaining about the realism of Denard injuries is beyond me.
Maybe we're complaining about Denard injuries because in NCAA 12 he doesn't carry the ball 30 times a game. Do you expect to see him knocked out of nine games this fall?
But all we have to go on is the many wasted hours people have spent on computer models to be able to tell us now. So apparently it's looking ole yes he will be hurt in almost every game even when he isn't carrying 30 times a game.
Yeah because EA is the pinnacle of accuracy.
In the first half vs. ND Denard went out with a concussion and Devin broke his collarbone. This happened after I bumped Denard's injury rating up about 10 points because he kept getting hurt vs. WMU while I was experimenting with sliders.
I have it for PS3 and i've only played 4 games so far. (all online, I won't play the computer) But Denard hasn't gotten hurt in any game. He hasn't even had to leave the game at all. So i don't know if that injury thing is just an Xbox issue or what? But it hasn't affected my game. Overall i think it's a good game, but key word is GAME. They will never make the game perfect or fix all the bugs.
When I first heard about the offensive/defensive coordinator feature I was really looking forward to it, but it was a major disapointment. It seems like a feature they really wanted to add but they rushed it, because it's almost the same as a regular dynasty.
I feel like this is a massive cryfest for some. The freshman thing will be fixed in an update so calm your jets. The guy that is complaining about dropped balls. Try user catching for once. I know it takes a little more effort but not as much as getting on your comp and complaining about it. Overall great game and I love the new modes. There are things that need to be fixed and the update should do that.
I've had the game since thursday and I too have noticed some issues.
I played a friend of mine Uof M vs. Boise state we went 3-16 passing . The only routes i could connect on where swing routes to the RB, every time i threw more than 10 yards down field the passes where waaaay of their mark.
We had a lot of drop int's during the game also. Usally when you drop into coverage as a player the game give you a break on INT's.
I played my son U of M vs. notre dame and i can't tell you how many easy pitch and catch , wide open, nobody with in 15 yards dropped balls I had that game.
Have you tried rubbing a stuffed animal in anyone face?
It's really annoying. The linebacker stands complely still but when you throw the ball he jumps 10 feet straight up into the air for the INT.
Operation Sports is supposedly going to lower every LB's jump rating by 30 to even things out for version 2 of their rosters.
I posted in this in another thread but the play on my PS3 has been choppy and slow. I shit my pants thinking the game is going to freeze about 2-3 times everytime I play. Pretty ticked off about this.