NCAA Football 10 Blog: Season Showdown: Show Your Skills

[boritter]

Quote: Originally Posted by firktaf

If teams could go for it in real life on 4th down and convert 80+% of the time, then teams would go for the 1st down the majority of the time. If the video game could accurately represent the difficulty of achieving this, then most people would play the game correctly. This just seems like an unnecessary addition to influence playing the game correctly instead of making the game play more realistically.

Well said. Instead of fixing the gameplay issue they put a "good sportsmanship" band-aid on to try to hide the flaw.

[Gossennator]

Player lock looks interesting..but thats about it.

[jello1717]

I didn't read all of this thread so I'm sure someone mentioned this already, but I searched for this quoted phrase and it didn't show up.

For those of you who're sick of season showdown, here's a lovely quote from the beginning of the blog.

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This week we will focus on one of the three main pillars of Extra Credits that center around gameplay

I wonder what the next 2 blogs will be feature.....

[Lava]

I hate SS as much as the next guy, but I do have a question.

Can you play online without selecting a school? If you can, how will the game determine their sportsmanship/skill ratings? Or will it simply not show up?

[ChargerHawk]

Quote: Originally Posted by Wet Bandit

But people who go online onto blogs run by developers regarding the game they're making are not the sort of casual fan they seem to be targetting with these blogs. I get that they have to market the casual stuff to the casual crowd. But don't market casual stuff to the hardcore crowd, and the people waiting around for these blogs are obviously the hardcore crowd.

I couldn't agree more with this. Well put.

[SHO]

We had this a couple years ago - it was called profile points.

SMFH.

[MSchneider84]

I'm going to go insane if Season Showdown took time away from putting in Formation Subs.

[Moostache]

Quote: Originally Posted by firktaf

Here's what I don't get about them trying to encourage sportsmanship through Season Showdown. Football teams don't punt the ball on 4th down out of sportsmanship. They punt because there's a low chance of converting and would rather not risk giving the other team good field position. If teams could go for it in real life on 4th down and convert 80+% of the time, then teams would go for the 1st down the majority of the time. If the video game could accurately represent the difficulty of achieving this, then most people would play the game correctly. This just seems like an unnecessary addition to influence playing the game correctly instead of making the game play more realistically. And, the other sportsmanship areas that I can think of(excessive onside kicks, running up the score, celebrating...any other ones?) won't be as much of a factor as the 4th down punts. ....oh, and it was nice to see the some of the game in the video.

I think that you are wrong here....people would not necessarily start playing the game better or more like reality, they would simply quit more games. This option is NOT going to force people to play differently, it is simply going to report - in more detail than ever before - HOW you choose to play the game to other players.

I have been playing online since Madden NFL 2003 and I can safely say that no matter what the games are like - even if they somehow made the perfect football simulation - the choices of the other player in play selection and online sportsmanship (including quitting before the game ends instead of playing it out or accepting mercy/conceding defeat) is what matters most in online play quality. I can have a lot of fun with any online football game given the right kind of opponent...it does not mean to stop trying to make the game better, but it does help when you can go online and find more like minded players...

High "Skills", Low "Sportsmanship", Low "Upset" #'s?
What do you think that player is going to be? Think they use UF in every game, never punt and run a bunch of crap no-huddle all game long? I am guessing probably and unless I could find no one else to play, I would immediately avoid them...

Medium "Skills", High "Sportsmanship", High "Upset" #'s?
This kind of user profile is what I would be looking for, and I would be willing to bet would give me a much higher chance of finding a sim-style or more like-minded opponent...

Should the game itself be better and more sim? OF COURSE it should!!! But, since a perfect game is impossible and this game engine is far from perfect anyway, giving players more information to find players that are more like them or more like what they want to play against, is a great advance IMO.