OT: College Football video games coming back
I know there's always been some talk on here about people missing the days of college football games which they stopped making since NCAA College football 2014. It became official just a bit ago regarding that apparently changing.
-It won't be EA making it this time, but rather Gridiron Champions .
-It's set to release not until some time in 2020.
-Football game by having 126 fictional teams. However, gamers will have the option of customizing their teams in the game, allowing for the option to recreate official teams right down to the player names.
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/04/23/new-college-footbal…
https://247sports.com/Bolt/College-football-video-game-releasing-in-202…
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If the developers are smart, they should give beta access to the OS folks who would be able to get the custom rosters ready on official release date.
I believe companies often send out pre-release versions so people like OS can start working.
Yep, best example is probably MLB The Show, as the OS folks spend tons of hours doing the full minor league rosters. Althought I believe there was some major glitch they found pre-launch that delayed consolidating all the work.
Uniforms and helmets would be easy to customize, but I doubt stadiums would be as easy. If they could develop a way to export graduating classes to Madden, they would be heroes to a lot of Dynasty/Franchise players like myself.
I'm still killing the CPU in NCAA '08 with Chad Henne!
He would get to the edge so fast and be gone. Didn't even have to pitch the ball very often.
Ehhh. I'm skeptical as to whether or not this is going to be any good. In my experience, these types of ventures from less reputable companies rarely turn out good, or even end up happening at all.
Plus, I imagine it will be really hard to create an authentic-feeling CFB experience with whatever customization tools are available.
I was going to say my experience (as limited as it might be) on games where "fictional" teams are used was they sucked. No matter how much customization was available.
But then I deleted it for fear of the wrath of the gamers.
Eh. I'm no lover of EA, but I'd still rather have them doing it than those guys.
creating my own team and placing it in a conference and then winning it all with them. I would expect with 2-3 years of development they will be able to come up with a decent game to play. I miss the old NCAA games, so will probably at least give this one a try when it comes out.
Excited about the prospect, but EA is a huge company, and had the added benefit of developing Madden alongside and they still had issues that were annoyances to players. I would like to see more games by this company and what they look like before buying this one. I don't care so much about the generic teams, because there are downloads for that, but the game play, graphics, will there be online play/dynasties, unique playbooks, coaches, recruiting (which I think was a lot of the fun in previous years). EA put out a good game every year, and they are talking about releasing a game in 2 years. Not saying I'm against it, and if it's $40 or so, I'll probably buy it, but my expectations aren't super high.
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So basically, it's a generic football video game that, if you're willing to put tons of hours of your own work in, can be made into a "college football" game? Hooray.
It sounds like you will be able to download other peoples' work and import it into your own system. Similar to roster downloads for the NCAA games
not sure what else they can do. At least they are giving it a run, there is obviously a market for it. I think they could do it in a way so as to not make it too complicated for players to customize the rosters and teams to basically replicate Division One. My guess is the game will come without designated conferences for the teams and that players will be able to create the conferences themselves as well in anticipation of further re-allignment.
I think this is a good idea, even if just one year of the game is made. The biggest issue with EA Sports discontinuing it when they is the fact that it came one before the Playoff started and it not having that feature kind of ruins it for Dynasty Mode. This would solve that problem. If players are willing to do some up front work to customize the game just once they will be golden because after a couple "years" on the game all the players are newly recruited players anyway.
I think this will probably do well if the gameplay itself is solid.
For the record, I will still buy it. Probably. The dearth of college football video games means that anything someone puts out will be devoured.
I just don't have a lot of faith that it'll be any good.
I never understood why EA couldn't keep the series going in the first place. It seems like all they had to do was some minor changes to uniforms and stadiums etc.
That midnight release launch used to be almost better than Christmas.
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Yeah, the games look decent, but I read a couple of reviews and the thru-line was "dodgy controls and poor gameplay", so I'm not optimistic. Making a game look good is pretty easy with the right engine, but gameplay is so much harder, and that's my concern.
I'll believe it when I see it. I'm just hoping by 2020 we can allow the players to be paid for their likeness and open the door for EA to make NCAA games again.