Ea sports NCAA Football Video Game Is One Step Closer
Didn’t see this posted. Im sorry if the link doesn’t work.
I can’t wait to make this game part of my life again. Something about recruiting and getting that hidden gem out of Nowhere Virginia that becomes a star or getting a 5 star out of Columbus and winning repeated NC’s. What I do in this game Will feel very realistic to our current team. 15ish years ago, it was a pipe dream for what I was doing to be played out in real life.
Last point… teenage boys need this badly, many of them dont know what a fight song is, who Iowas head coach is or even the mascot/nickname for the majority of P5 Teams.
https://www.on3.com/nil/news/brandr-group-oneteam-resolve-dispute-over-ea-sports-college-football-game-nil-group-licensing/
December 1st, 2023 at 11:08 AM ^
I have spent 1000s of hours playing that franchise over the years. Much better than Madden in my opinion because of the fight songs, recruiting, dynasty mode and Heisman mode. Will love kicking OSU's ass at every point of the year again on the football field!
December 1st, 2023 at 11:34 AM ^
sup Shea. How’s the golf game?
December 1st, 2023 at 11:57 AM ^
Love’d the game
Have a hard time seeing them not F this up. EA makes enough mistakes as it is with all the extra hurdles and of course the always dependable death nail of people will buy it no matter how bad it is model. They will have all the bells and whistles to get us all excited prerelease but everything will be done half ass because that’s what ea does.
Recruiting will probably be done via NIL ie micro transactions. You want that 5 star? Better pay real money
I always thought they should have put a game years ago using just classic teams. Use the nba 2K model on getting old school players to be in the game. Get 25-50 classic teams and online play alone would have sold the game out
PS this is all my words didn’t mean to center it to look quoted my bad
December 1st, 2023 at 10:50 AM ^
maybe EA can retroactively get Denard the $ they owe him
December 1st, 2023 at 11:00 AM ^
Did he not get compensated for that? That came out after he graduated.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:02 AM ^
you might be right - he would have graduated by then so could have received $$$. If I have unfairly disparaged EA Sports or the broader Electronic Arts organization I issue a humble retraction etc. etc.
but it's a cool picture so I'll leave it up just the same.
December 1st, 2023 at 4:31 PM ^
Yeah the whole idea was to use a player who just left school so they could use their name, image, and likeness and compensate the player for it.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:37 AM ^
I believe he did. Wasn't the cover athlete always someone who had graduated the year prior?
December 1st, 2023 at 11:57 AM ^
These gems as well.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:57 AM ^
I still own all 3.
December 2nd, 2023 at 10:49 AM ^
NCAA 99 was my first video game ever. I got it for Christmas when I was like 8. Played it like every day lol
December 1st, 2023 at 3:12 PM ^
I put thousands of hours in that game. It's where so much of my love for Michigan originates. OP is right, kids need this game back.
December 1st, 2023 at 10:51 AM ^
I can't wait either. It was an amazing time! I spent the most time gaming on this game. And maybe Halo.
December 1st, 2023 at 10:53 AM ^
Kept me out of alot of trouble thats for sure.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:08 AM ^
Figured you more for a Tiger Woods PGA Tour guy.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:28 AM ^
+1 underrated
December 1st, 2023 at 10:52 AM ^
Hoping JJ makes the cover with Harbaugh hitting his shoulder pads.
December 1st, 2023 at 10:53 AM ^
I can't wait to run the 2007 VWU playbook with JJ, Corum, and Edwards and run for $TEXAS yards every week.
December 1st, 2023 at 10:55 AM ^
Good news but I trust EA is going to make the game awful, just an awful Madden clone as always.
December 1st, 2023 at 10:57 AM ^
Yeah I hate to be a cold shower here but "making the game happen" isn't even half the battle.
EA is not what it used to be; hasn't been for decades. This EA is a cybercapitalist: more machine than man, twisted and evil.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:01 AM ^
It was never a Madeen clone before. I Hope it doesnt become one. Madden is incredibly disappointing the last 7ish years. NCAA Football for me was always won based on the recruiting and overall management mode in Dynasty. I always had the toughest schedule and tried to schedule the highest ranked teams I could ooc.
I think Madden may stink to me cause the NFL is honestly boring to me. No idea how the ratings are so high. Its just uninteresting to me and seems like its all geared towards culture, fantasy points and little kids.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:24 AM ^
I thought that for a long time about the NFL, but the last two years have felt different to me. I can sit down and watch a random game in the NFL now and I find it to be exciting and offensively innovative. Honestly as much as I like him I feel like there was real Tom Brady-fatigue in the NFL. This new generation is a much better watch to me. It still is no where close to college football for me but I enjoy it a lot more now.
Yeah, Madden sucks though. No question about it.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:35 AM ^
Totally agree with your take on the NFL. I feel so much less interesting to me. There just isn't the same history and passion there. Maybe some of this is just being a Lions fan for forever but even in this season, which is nearly an unprecidented success for the Lions, it just all feels so corporate. I can't imagine Frank Ragnow going down with a broken leg and Gibbs scoring a TD and flashing Frank's number. It's just not that kind of game at that level... lacks that kind of heart. I'm sure the guys care about each other and want to win, etc. etc. its hard to put a finger on but there is definitely something lost.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:40 PM ^
they pushed the release date back a year to make sure it wasn't a Madden clone.
EA gets a lot of shit but this project honestly has the most potential out of all of them.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:49 PM ^
I hope you’re right. All the little things in Madden just irritate me, it’s just become an unwieldy game play (especially in franchise mode).
December 1st, 2023 at 10:55 AM ^
What I always did was put a terrible FCS team in place of the worst team of a power conference and build. I put the mighty Delta Devils of Mississippi Valley State in place of Vanderbilt. Took a few years but eventually won SEC and national championships. Good times when I had more spare time.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:21 AM ^
I started a dynasty with Idaho on Heisman because I became bored with annihilating the CPU. Boy, those first five years or so were rough!
December 1st, 2023 at 12:41 PM ^
I always started with ODU or Idaho and made them elite then jumped to a bigger program. One time I jumped to Michigan and we never lost to MSU or OSU. RB won the heisman too.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:00 AM ^
Hope it comes out on steam as well. Not trying to buy a new system for one game.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:42 PM ^
sadly this game looks like it's console only
December 1st, 2023 at 11:03 AM ^
If you apply yourself Shea, you could win the Heisman!
December 1st, 2023 at 11:04 AM ^
I am interested to see if the game play is superior to Madden as it was years ago when it was still around. I play Madden but there are some things I don't understand. I don't understand why the game makes it impossible to return a kick passed the 23 yard line. I don't understand how they have never been able to make a juke that doesn't take 4 seconds and that results in the player actually going backwards before getting destroyed. I don't understand why any reverse or jet sweep is a auto-4 yard loss, or why even the fastest of QBs cannot outrun a defensive tackle.
NCAA football was always just a lot more fun to play because you could actually do things offensively. Why Madden has never been able to get rid of these kinks is beyond me. It's the only football game to play so I play it, but it honestly kind of sucks.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:58 AM ^
You are 100% on the returns. Back in the day NCAA had juke set up as L1 and R1 and as far as controls go that was the best set up. The jukes were wicked! Madden is so boring compared to NCAA even from a decade ago.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:04 AM ^
And this latest iteration has a hapless boob of a commissioner handing a trophy to Harbaugh when player 1 wins as Michigan.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:08 AM ^
You just know they're going to use Madden animations out of pure laziness. You've lost a lot of control over your players with newer consoles. Ps3 gameplay was so nice.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:11 AM ^
Is that it? Did Madden used to be better on older consoles? It sucks now. Drop back pass is all you can do, or run up the middle for 3. I only started playing it after NCAA wasn't available so really XBox One was my first experience with it, and it has been ass ever since I started playing it.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:20 AM ^
I'm not a programmer, but I believe its all visual/graphic related. I have a PS3, PS4 and PS5. When you go back and randomly play games like NCAA or 2k on the PS3 you feel like you have much more control with your player. Madden throws you into crazy animations when you're close to a player on the newer consoles. There may be some input lag issues as well.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:59 AM ^
I remember playing the original Madden on Sega Genesis back in the early '90s and then Madden '92 and the early versions of NCAA that followed. It seemed like with every version, they would tweak the gameplay a bit so that you'd have more control, less control, more realism, less realism, etc.
I think Madden '92 was the first version where you could control the velocity of a pass by tapping/holding down the button. That was really a major step forward, comparable to the introduction of one-timers in NHL '94. But by the mid-90s I had pretty much stopped playing Madden altogether and was solely an NCAA guy.
One thing I never liked about those games was the "catch-up mode" that would often transform your team into a gaggle of bumbling idiots once you got up by enough points. Hopefully that will not be a part of the new release, but IIRC the designers always denied its existence anyway.
December 1st, 2023 at 12:30 PM ^
They've always struggled with difficulty settings IMO. I get that it's probably difficult. The cpu was very predictable in play calling on Madden games. All-Madden difficulty is usually laughable. Your players get slower and ratings are typically rendered useless. The comeback aka rubberband AI is prevalent in most sports games. 2k basketball, Madden and MLB the Show all have it. It's comical.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:12 AM ^
I didnt play NCAA 2014, but I played a ton of NCAA 2003. I think I started a dynasty with Kansas State back then...won it all 5 years in a row.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:14 AM ^
That's really weird. I, too, had a dynasty with Kansas State, after clawing my way to a competitive program at Army. Then I got a big offer from Florida State. I wonder if you were my successor?
December 1st, 2023 at 11:19 AM ^
Back in the PS2 days Army was my go-to for years. I'd always stay there until the Michigan job opened for me. It would always happen right when I had my team ready to be a terror for 3-4 years. Even I could barely touch them the first season or two after leaving.
December 1st, 2023 at 1:57 PM ^
HA could have been? I think it was because Sproles was their starting RB. He was one of the best in the game at RB.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:16 AM ^
I'm hoping for a level of conference customization that is better than what 2014 had. Basically, an ability to create new conferences is a must for me.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:24 AM ^
If they want to make it realistic, they'll have to add this feature. I wonder if the Pac-2 will break their algorithms.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:26 AM ^
Most likely, seeing as in 2014 you couldn't have a conference with fewer than 6 teams.
December 1st, 2023 at 11:22 AM ^
I will go the grave declaring that I was unbeatable in NCAA 2002 with FSU.
December 1st, 2023 at 2:34 PM ^
My Army dynasties were a sight to behold. 4x Heisman winners were not uncommon for me.