Official NCAA 12! Thread

[Point Blank]

This game looks like ass on my TV but Im enjoying the demo so far. I'll have some impressions later.

[Swarley]

I know some guys who have a reviewers build, apparently the demo is a super old build, the guys with the review build say the demo is near unplayable after playing the near complete game.

That's good to hear, and something else to look forward to. :D

[Point Blank]

My 2nd second game I was using Bama on All American difficulty. I had a nice 95 yard run for a TD, pretty nice blocking to set it all up. In the 4th qtr, I pumped faked and made the SS bite and I threw a TD off of a deep pass. Pretty nice to see the safeties bite.

Looks like cornerbacks still make interceptions when they aren't even looking for/at the ball.

[Point Blank]

Im the liking the dropped passes after a hard hit. I'm also enjoying the replays, they look good.

[OnlyOneBeerLeft]

Anybody else playing on Heisman? I haven't tried AA yet curious to see how big the difference is

[Saluki]

Anybody else playing on Heisman? I haven't tried AA yet curious to see how big the difference is

I only play on heisman.

[OnlyOneBeerLeft]

Just played using Bama on Heisman.

*They are dominant
*I had at least 4 sacks
*I recorded a safety
*2 user picks, one for a TD
*Ran the ball pretty easily
*Passing was on and off
*Defensively the one big play given up was called back on a hold
*Some of the hits were just awesome

Hopefully not every game on Heisman plays that way, I only won 12-0 but it seemed completely dominated by my defense and running game, draw plays specifically seem to give the opposing defense fits. Prob gunna run a few more games and see if it was a fluke or if these are trends.

[gaysex4lif]

well thats not normal...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWHpkyDxovg[/ame]

[Coked Up Elmo]

played a couple games on heisman here is what i noticed:

- letters and numbers look fucking retarded
- ai press coverage almost never works, thus leads to easy big pass plays
- zone D seems to be better this year
-defensive backs actually catch interceptions ( i had 3 picks and threw 3 in the 3 games i played)
-batted down balls at the line of scrimmage still happen too often imo, but not as bad last year
-running a normal option is nearly impossible

[Survivor]

My brother went on vacation and took all my xbox controllers until next monday... so now I am half tempted to go buy another controller juts to play this demo. f0ck me.

[OnlyOneBeerLeft]

well thats not normal...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWHpkyDxovg

was going to mention that, some PA plays are broken and leave you hanging

[Maynard]

is there any reason for me to DL this? i mean is it the same game as before

[Realist]

is there any reason for me to DL this? i mean is it the same game as before

no, no its not..

[krulmichael]

is there any reason for me to DL this? i mean is it the same game as before

Sound like my dad.

[Steel Mamba]

My impressions (Heisman Difficulty):

The Good:

Graphics
Presentation
EA Sports logo (apparently this makes the difference)

The Bad:

Passing game is still too easy.
Flats are easy to abuse
Post routes are still overly effective
Overall you can squeeze the ball in places you shouldn't be able to, and complete passes that would hardly ever be made in real life.
Unrealistic stats and feel to the passing game.

QB drop-backs and planting isn't there/unrealistic

Horrible blocking logic.
Specifically the WRs. They're hesitant, indecisive, and time and time again will fail to pickup the obvious assignment. I've noticed WRs go after one defender, just to change their mind midway, then go after another. By that time I'm tackled and that specific WR hadn't gotten a hand on anyone. This was also a reoccurring problem on both titles last year.

No realistic double team blocking.

No chips or shoves. They have to be face to face in order to engage in a block, which also makes the blocking horrible and unrealistic. Sometimes all you can do is push a guy out of the way, but you don't see that on this game.

Route running is not realistic. You don't see WR's plant and cut like they should, you also don't have any visible difference in route running between any of the WRs.

Cookie cutter defenses. You can't scheme by disguising your coverages, changing your shells, call delayed blitzs, etc (ala 2k8)

No bull rush and unrealistic play in the trenches

Too much time in the pocket.

Goofy defensive line play. I watched 3 D-linemen fall flat on their ass, all at the same, all exactly after the ball was hike, multiple times. Often happened back to back. wtf is that? Makes me feel that some of this stuff is fixed, because all 3 linemen can't fall flat at the same time, over and over coincidentally.

Player momentum isn't very realistic, should have been improved by now.

Too easy to return kicks.


That's all I can think of right now off the top of my head. But, it's only a demo, so we'll see how the final version turns out.