Official NCAA 2010 Impressions/Q&A Thread

[1ke]

Ok...... So ill try to clear anything up. Ive had it since Friday afternoon.

I like the game yes. I also liked last years as well. There are flaws in this game as well. I also know for a fact, and many old schoolers know as well. That even the mighty NCAA 2004,2005, and 2006 had flaws.

The option is pitches are still broke, some dont like the running. And, i havent seen that many missed passes due to pure inaccuracy, a couple here or there, but not much.Yes it does play fast. Ive only played against humans so far so my experiences might be different from those playing the CPU.

For me, the game is fun, for me at least. I have done nothing but play online, and the game is a blast. The gameplanning is not over done. Did EA maybe over power these, yes, but hey also added a counter mechanism. Which is you. If you game plan correctly, you can negate anything that is being done to you. Just use your damn brain. Online, I played a game last night and the final score was 10-0 me. Defense is here and it works. The flats are a bit better, but still sometimes might be difficult. Pass rush is a blast as well too. There have been alot of passes batted down at the line, and a couple ducks that have been easy pickens.

Also, there are alot of drops when WRs get popped. If a receiver goes high up in the air for a jump ball, ive seen 85% of the balls dropped from from being hit. I like that, it stops any hope of continuously tossing bullet jump balls.

I have not seen any sub glitces, or high snaps turning out incomplete. The strategy aspect is fun and that not broken either.

Presentaion is pretty much the same and that sucks, now when a game starts, you see the field with the band on it, a quick little thing about an impact player and thats it. Not much new commentary, but i play with music in background any way i dot care much. EA fell way short in this area. Also, one of my biggest gripes, is the lack of anything related to online play history wise. In NCAA 04-06, there was a card that you pulled up that showed your stats and last 10 played. NCAA next gen stll sucks balls in this dept, and i dont like that.

And RTG, not much on the way to your school, and a different main hub screen when you get there. Erin Andrews, does a mini weekly update, with some help from Kirk H. You can also choose at the very beginning if you want this option on or not. You will need a hard drive though if you want the CPU to auto save your highlights for you.

All in all its fun for me, I like it, I know though many of you wont. Im all out of words for now, if you got questions ill do my best to answer em.

[Chadman]

After playing a handful of online and offline games, I'm noticing it's much harder to play defense against the CPU. The entire game is pretty offensively slanted, but EA always does this with the base sliders to appeal to the casual gamer who can simply pick up the controller and press buttons to score points.

Online has been a different story. I'm struggling bigtime, and I'm not too sure why. The pressure in the passing game online seems immense. Maybe it's the new camera angle and I just need to adjust to the newness of the game but boy passing seems a lot tougher. Pressure seems easy to get online especially up the middle.

Hopefully we get the slider patch soon, crossing my fingers.

D line aggressive ftl. I could see everyone now. At the start of the game...lets go this game being aggressive. I highly doubt coaches do that shit in real life.

[Chadman]

fuck yu ea. im tired of depending on a patch to make this game playable. and lol..bout time the damn patch comes out...this shit is useless. i feel sorry for those who look at this game like the majority of us look at madden.

[godspeed]

Careful with the punt selection guys. I've called a fake punt by accident now 3 times.

Regular punt for some reason is in a different spot sometimes when you call for it. I don't know why and how, but the times it happaned to me I was like holy crap i didnt not call that.

[NAHSTE]

In web design that is called bad web design. In game design, it's called annoying the customer.

This made me LOL. Chris has all the creativity and sense of humor as a hammer.

This review was terrible, no transitions made any sense, paragraphs had no correlation to the preceding one, and the jokes were lame. It read like a random thoughts or an impressions post, not a polished review by a legit gaming site.

Seriously, don't they have editors over there? This review is full of shitty writing, and barely tells me anything other than the gameplay is awesome and the rest is the exact same. Which tells me, it's a buy, since all that I didn't like about it to begin with was some flaws in the gameplay.

edit-also, is it just me or did he use the word "clunky" like 5 times?

Many folks (over 100,000 worth) have created their teams to be included in NCAA Football 10. The online app works well enough, but the implementation into NCAA is clunky and makes it a hassle to easily get a team and get it in the game.

I may be in the minority, but I was hoping once I downloaded a team, they would be instantly available in the game. However, you have to be connected to the internet at all times to use the team in game. I also had my end zone letters looks very pixelated, which it didn't look like in the TeamBuilder app.

Creating teams is cool. Doing it how EA Sports did it this year with Team Builder is not. It’s a huge clunky app that has so many limitations, I couldn’t see how someone would want to use it for putting more than a handful of teams in the game.

And what is the point of saying the mode has so many limitations when he only lists two examples? Having to be online, and pixelated end zone letters somehow equals "Creating teams is cool, but doing it how EA did it is not."

Um, ok? I'm gonna need more information than that I'm gonna have to stay online (not a huge deal but kind of annoying) and that the letters are pixelated (minor, probably fixed with patch 1)....Using vague adjectives like "clunky" over and over again does not equal a review, it's just him filling up space basically.

This review is terrible.

[Bomberooski]

First time in 5 years I didn't go to midnight release and I won't be buying the game today...

[NAHSTE]

I thought the OS review was pretty good. It was also very long so I don't know how many more examples you want given the length was long already and touched on all the major modes.

Personally, if we want reviews to be more hardcore and talk just about gameplay, they need to stop talking about EVERYTHING. But these guys get copies early and are expected to talk about team builder, road to glory, etc. Trying to hit everything usually waters it down and/or makes the review extremely lengthy.

He could have gone into more details on how the cpu plays and the running game but overall I thought it was good. I sucked in english so I don't notice bad writing unless it's worse than mine.

IMO, TeamBuilder was too major of a mode to only get 3 short paragraphs of treatment.

[DoubleDeuce]

Lol Bikaben! I did something like that over and over too

[Sportsbuck]

So far for me, I think RTG is good.

The menus are so slow to navigate... good god.

Other than that this game is complete shit.

[Dez]

I'm hooked to this game right now. Season Showdown is an AMAZING concept. It makes everygame you play much more meaningful. I'm repping my Oki. State Cowboys and we are currently 35th on the standings. I also love how they have a radio broadcast from ESPN updating what's going on in Season Showdown. I hope they do a broadcast weekly or maybe everyday lol. But I dont see anyone dethroning Ohio State from the top spot.

I also love the new animations. I was playing as OSU and Dez Bryant tried to make this riduclous one handed behind the back catch (something like that lol) but the ball got knocked out.

I dont have too many gripes..right now at least. Online is still full of cheesers and everyone is playing as Florida, LSU, Miami, and Ohio State. I try to avoid em. Not worth my time. Currently, I'm 1-8 online lol but my victory came over a Penn State cheeser. I got the game winning touchdown with 15 seconds left.

[Justo]

how do you load a teambuilder team in the team select menu?

[Tengo Juego]

Does anyone know the install size for the 360?

[FedEx227]

Is there anyway to change the camera or is that coming in a patch? This camera is fucking killing me, you can't see the left or right side of the field when passing, it leaves it to a complete guessing game.

Also, pass rush is TERRIBLE. I can't get through. I did FSU vs. ECU just to try it out and I only had like 4-5 pressures the entire game and that's while user controlling the DT and using swim moves. Am I missing something?

[Chadman]

After playing for a couple hours, I can safely say this is an improvement (minor) over 09 in terms of gameplay.. BUT, its still not as good as what last gen was able to provide. Outside of that, its LARGELY the same.

lol you bought the game..im shocked.

[1ke]

Does anyone know the install size for the 360?

6.2 gb