NCAA Football 10 Exclusive Interview Week #1

[Lava]

Great first post madskills. You are obviously well educated and know exactly what you are talking about. I appreciate you utilizing your experience to enlighten all of us.

[WolverinesFinest]

Formation subs was not in 09 and hasn't been since last gen. Sorry if it was already said but when asked the question about random plays in practice mode he completely misunderstood or dodged the question. What we have now is the ability to choose random play from a SINGLE formation or TYPE of play. A TRUE random play feature is when you can click random play and every play in the book is eligible to be used. And for those that ask why this is important, when your practicing and know what the D is runnning against you it doesn't help as much as if it was random and unkown

[JAYMO76]

I really hope Upper Management for EA SPORTS is paying attention to these boards. NOT HAVING FORMATION SUBS... YET AGAIN IS A COLOSSAL MISTAKE. Gamers are turing on EA/Tiburon for another gimmick fest insult to NCAA FOOTBALL (NCAA 10). The developers of NCAA 10 must be held accountable for their misdirection of this title. A once great game has clearly lost its way and it's time to implode the development team and start from scratch. Mediocrity cannot be tolerated. Clearly I suspect that the NCAA team has to see the writing on the wall with all of the backlash for this years game. They blew it; they know it... I guess there's nothing left to say.

[sportzbro]

Ha, I would vote to keep Adam & Russ.

[warrior310]

not buying

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by BORN4CORN

That man would be named Jeff Luhr, who (not surprisingly) has made ZERO appearances on the OS NCAA board..

He seems to be taking the position that the new big features will draw in a bunch of new casual players while maintaining an overwhelming majority of the hardcore fans, despite their anger toward the continued absence of so many long requested smaller features. Unfortunately for us, he's probably right.

I'd say that when push comes to shove 95% of the people around the Net who are upset will still break down and buy the game day one. NCAA 09 was the first NCAA game I didn't buy, but many people who seemed to be even more upset then I was at some of the design decisions still caved in right away.

Much of OS will be at a fever pitch, with complaining, name calling, and trolling running rampant, but the key part of the equation is that those folks will still have bought the game at retail price.

09 probably had the second most complaining ever(05 is number one) about an NCAA game, and we see what the big focus was for this year.

A serious reduction in sales is the only thing that will(may) cause Luhr to get the gate. Despite not a lot being said about gameplay, I expect the improvements to be strong enough to warrant a purchase from me this year, therefore I not going to whine if things remain status quo seeing as how I will have contributed to the sales numbers.

[Ziza9Noles94]

I'm still very excited for this year's game. But other than the defensive line issues, pursuit angles, and slider problems (all of which seem to have been addressed this year) I thought '09 was a heck of a lot of fun. Things like Season Showdown, much like the Mascot thing don't get me riled up in the least because I'll likely just choose not to do it and focus on Online Dynasty, regular Dynasty and Teambuilder, you know, to make those fake FBS teams.

[Palo20]

Quote: Originally Posted by WolverinesFinest

Formation subs was not in 09 and hasn't been since last gen. Sorry if it was already said but when asked the question about random plays in practice mode he completely misunderstood or dodged the question. What we have now is the ability to choose random play from a SINGLE formation or TYPE of play. A TRUE random play feature is when you can click random play and every play in the book is eligible to be used. And for those that ask why this is important, when your practicing and know what the D is runnning against you it doesn't help as much as if it was random and unkown

I actually like the way the random play works right now. If you select a 3 WR play, the defense will probably come out in some kind of nickel formation. Right now, it's easy to go to Nickel and pick random play and that's probably most realistic.

With a random play feature that includes all plays you could be practicing a 3 WR play against a 5-2 defense or a goaline play against a Quarters defense.