NCAA Football 09 Postmortem

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

Bumble wrote this? Between these comments and the NBA Live comments he really enjoys causing quite a stir, eh? I think you hit a great point about allowing this sort of article to include multiple opinions on the topic being discussed. It would allow readers to discern who they trust (or don't) regarding a sports video game. Perhaps even allow a few forum goers to provide their input as well.

I know, he is such an EA fanboy this year, jeez.

Jokes aside, yea I agree with you for sure about how to deal with these going ahead.

[Keith121212]

Thanks for letting me know whose articles and posts I'll be ignoring from here on out Chase(Bumble).

[ftball11]

Here is my quick "postmortem" review of '09.

Graphics/Presentation: D

The stadiums and players look great, but the in-game animations are a little stale, too "last-gen" for my taste. Presentation? There is no presentation or atmosphere. Every game you play is just another football game.

Gameplay: D

I am not going to go into too much detail here, these boards are filled with the obvious problems. Over all, the gameplay feels more like a PS-1 game rather than a "next-gen" game. '09 reminded me too much of Gameday.

Feature Set: D
Not enough features, Dynasty Mode makes absolutely no sense most of the time and I won't even go into the problems with recruiting. On-line play is the only feature that saved this game. This game does have replay value, only because it is the only college game on the market.

Overall: D

I have been playing football games for 16 years, '09 is not the worst game I've ever played, but it doesn't even crack my Top 20. Definitely not worth the price tag.

[jyoung]

I think people would be a lot less forgiving of the numerous flaws in this series if it didn't have the online dynasty feature this year, because the gameplay to me still doesn't play anything like real football, and the presentation is second only to Madden in terms of being the worst in sports gaming.

But if the author enjoyed the game, I really don't have any problem with him saying so.

At the end of the day, it's his opinion on the game, and he presents it fairly well, even if I completely disagree with many of the grades.

[cameldunginit2]

Campus Legend was broken. It needs to be retooled to reflect a hurry-up offense at the end of each half. The QB needed to make more changes at the line and God forbid he audible to another play entirely. The QB camera angle doesn't allow the player to see the receivers. It would be awesome IMO if they ported the game from NCAA 07 for ps2/xbox to next gen. Those games were awesome and had good mini games that actually had something to do with football. Madden also needs to port to next gen from 06. Just my opinion.

[Bumble14]

All-

I just wanted to clarify this article as it has garnered a lot of passionate response from our community (which is what OS is all about).

The point of this retrospective review was more to touch on the things that NCAA 09 did right, before we start tearing the game down in our wishlist threads for NCAA 2010. I felt it was important to talk about the positives in 09, as we can not fully know where we want to go in the future without knowing where we have already been.

Sure, the game is not perfect, and there are always areas to improve on for us rabid sports gamers- but I really enjoyed NCAA 09 this year. The game was very enjoyable, and the scores that I posted were based on my enjoyement with the product in the noted areas.

Also, please be aware that a retrospective postmortem review is not the official OS review of the game. As I said before, the purpose of this article was to touch on NCAA 09 one last time, talk about what it did right, what was enjoyable about it, and to give an overview of what exactly it brought to the table this season for the NCAA Football genre.

Postmortem=game officially dead- time to tear the game apart, and put our improvements into the OS Consolidated Wishlist that we already have posted. I believe you will even find some posts from "Mr. NCAA 09 lover", Christian McLeod/Bumble14 in there as well ;-) You will find I love this series just as much as many of you, and am just as passionate about improvements in certain areas.

[bangpow]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

I agree that they are our voice, in a sense. That is why I suggested an article highlight the issues the community has with the game. I think this is just one individual's take on the game but much like you said can be interpreted as to being the general consensus of OS. That, IMHO, would be a shame. I just feel claiming they are on the take is unfair as someone may honestly feel the gameplay is an A. Would I or others agree with them? No... but that doesn't mean they don't have a right to their opinion. But yes, when it becomes the voice of the community I can understand the resulting worry and frustrations.

Actually, Pared. A LOT of these issues were brought up at the NCAA Community Event that took place last year.....before the game was released. Like, a couple months before, if I remember correctly.

There's no need for a community article.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by bangpow

Actually, Pared. A LOT of these issues were brought up at the NCAA Community Event that took place last year.....before the game was released. Like, a couple months before, if I remember correctly. There's no need for a community article.

I know that but I'm making the comments in reference to the articles that get posted at OS...

I know all about the community day "fiasco" that went on. Hopefully the scope of community day changes as well as what the "suits" deem as what is necessary to sell an NCAA football game this year.