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Things NCAA is missing; Annoying
Topic Started: Jun 10 2009, 07:52 AM (990 Views)
Rudy
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Dan Marino

I'm really starting to get annoyed with the NCAA team and the NCAA forums are starting to get really angry at OS. Can't really blame them. The Madden team is adding so much in terms of presentation and gameplay and it seems the NCAA fans are just getting hosed. All we get are Teambuilder and Season Showdown. If it wasn't for the fact that it's college football and recruiting and dynasty are like crack, people would be bailing on this game left and right.

It appears the rosters are terrible and the devs are really avoiding the questions on them. Ben Haumiller said the sliders worked the same as last year and they were terrible. Any follow up questions are being ignored. NOT a good sign. I'm really thinking of buying Madden only this year. They still haven't implemented the correct play clock - it will stay at 25 seconds due to online play. Why not add a real accelerated clock?! Madden was ready to release it as a patch last year!

Let's break down in the next couple posts of what Madden has and NCAA does not for some stupid reason or another. This will be a bit of a bitch fest. Sorry but I need to rant right now.
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Rudy
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Things that Madden has and NCAA doesn’t

* No accelerated clock and correct play clock
* No new QB ratings or signature styles/releases
* More realistic passing speeds (the ball was slowed down)
* No fully implemented Pro-Tak.
* No pre game shows.
* No new momentum system.
* No new sliders and game speed settings.
* No multiple camera angles (Madden has two while NCAA has an updated one)
* No formation subs

The new QB ratings (accuracy short, medium and deep) along with signature styles for quickness of release in Madden sound fantastic. I'm probably most pissed about this.

Why no accelerated clock? Chew clock is just to speed up the end of game process. Dumb.

No formation subs! Stupid! No new sliders for fatigue, injuries, game speed. They can't even fix last year's mess!

Players still changed directions on a dime!
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Rudy
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Things that NCAA has and Madden doesn’t

* Player Lock Camera
* Game planning strategies
* Season Showdown!
* Teambuilder

I think Player Lock could be pretty cool on defense. I'll give them credit for that.

The game planning and linked play features do sound good but with slanting my DL and shifting my LBs, I should be able to handle most run based schemes. Plus Madden lets you covers WRs with specific DBs (another thing NCAA doesn't allow) and I think they let you shade your DBs as well. Probably not a real advantage for NCAA here but I'll note it.

Season Showdown - possible the biggest waste in gaming resource history. People do love Teambuilder but selfishly, I don't care about it. I did check out the site and there is a ton of stuff you can do with it.
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I've got this dumb game pre-ordered only because I traded in a bunch of games at EB. I might just switch it to Madden. I really don't think this game is worth full price anymore and I might wait for a deal. The demo better be damn good or I might just pass this year. I'm serious.
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What's wrong with the rosters?

I've already decided that I'm not getting NCAA this year until I find it cheap, even at all then. I really liked 09, online dynasty was great, but I am so tired of sports games not offering much new stuff each year. Last year they had online dynasty which was a big new feature, so I was happy to pay full price. This year I don't give a crap about Teambuilder or Season Showdown. Season Showdown is a total waste of effort whereas Teambuilder isn't, so I won't come down too hard on them taking time to put that in.
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