The Athletic article on Denard: NCAA 14, CFL, and becoming a father
Nice what're-they-doing-now article on Denard over at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/429878/2018/07/13/denard-robinsons-ncaa-14-cover-legacy-and-the-one-hes-building-beyond-football/
Paywall, but he goes into his affinity for the EA Sports NCAA games (RIP), the CFL, and becoming a father.
Such a likable guy - proud he went to this Michigan of ours
Miss you Denard
If there is any Michigan athlete that I would go through the free trial hassle of that site for just so I could read an article about them, it would be Denard.
I still play NCAA 14
I do as well. Such a shame they just can’t do an update with rosters and the CFP.
Although you can't play the CFP, you can download up-to-date rosters. A team on Operation Sports builds current rosters every year to keep the game going. Go to team management, then to download roster, then type in the name of the current PS3/XBox file at the top of the Operation Sports post.
Good to know. Thanks!
Hell, I still play NCAA '10 on a PS2 emulator on my PC. Always liked the PS2 versions best for some reason. I guess I could try to find a PS3 emulator to give the newer ones a shot.
I also still play the PS2 NCAA Game (NCAA 11). I firmly believe that EA hasn't made a playable game since that gen. I don't think they're simply bad but literally unplayable. Stiff, robotic animations, bad player models and atrocious physics. True Fact: the ball didn't even spin more than once on any pass until NCAA 09, IIRC. 40 yard throw? One rotation. 4 yard dump? One rotation. Oh, the UI was atrocious even up to NCAA14. Slow, buggy trash. Literally unplayable to me.
Horrible games starting with the PS3/360 generation. Anyway...
I currently play NCAA 11 on PS4 via the 5.05 exploit. It has a built-in PS2 emulator and I made my own PS2 Classic to run on it. After tweaks I'm playing it in 1080p, 60fps. Looks so crisp.
As for emulation, there is not a viable PS3 emulator available. PCSX2 is a great PS2 emulator (Sony basicslly stole that for PS4, even uses similar config files). Works great on a moderate PC. Similar PS3 emulation is at least a decade off. PCSX3 technically exists but you'd get about 10fps and major glitches from even a very strong sytem. The PS3 architecture was just too strange to emulate on what is common hardware in PCs.
Just glad to see another that agrees the PS2 era football games were best. I don't know why they messed with them in later gens as Madden is garbage to this day for the same reasons. They merely polished a turd.
Why not have generic rosters with no look-alikes? I’m sure the roster industry could easily come up with patches and/or the user can change the names and looks/sizes of the players.
Thread fail again. If you link to a paywalled article, give more information or don't start a thread.
Well, it's kind of helpful to those who subscribe to the Athletic but haven't seen that. I dunno. I'm not an Athletic guy but I know who they are and maybe I need to subscribe if they're going to post unique Michigan pieces. I say thread stands. You're charged a timeout.
You make a fair point. Also, at least the OP has an active link in the post. However, it is only 2 marginally informative sentences and a link better than a worthless post. For me, it failed to justify the space on the blog. More would be better.