Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

[LambertandHam]

Ended up sending mine back to Amazon. Wasn't playing that much after getting hit with my first batch of freezes mid game. Sure it's a loss of 5 bucks, but it's more like a rental fee. I'll probably put the money towards Madden, since I still have the 20$ credit for NCAA and Madden has a 20$ credit for pre ordering.

[Old School SD Fan]

Quote: Originally Posted by teammaxwell

neutered basically every person that has the ball in their hands. I can't juke anyone. however I can roll over people with a FB pass. its like the ball handler is stuck in syrup.

Man I don't get these quotes, but maybe its a sliders/level issue. I'm a single player guy, and with the right level/sliders in my 1 player OD, the run game is amazing and the juke move is my go-to move. Passing game drives me nuts, but the animations in the run game are the best ever. The number of times I've cut and lost defenders that do the broken ankle animation is gold. Even going off center, little jukes going forward shake guys off. Spin move works for me if I hit it early enough but love the juke, most realistic I've seen in my 30 years of gaming. Just looks right and feels right.

I should note, that I checked my gaming ego at the door years ago, I play on lower levels not Heisman. Heisman gives you a tough game, but is far less realistic and always has been in my opinion. I don't care how low the level, there are slider adjustments that will make the game a fair challenge in single player.

[phade3]

I for one won't make excuses for EA putting out a game and charging $60 just to have the game half playable ! The d line gets unbelievable pressure on the qb and the lbs and cbs at times display super human awareness and intercept skills not to mention a lb roaming who can literally tip almost any pass without ever ;leaving the ground ! WRs stand and watch balls sail over their head, there's a glitch in certain hb screen plays where the def seemingly rush to the opposite side of the play leaving open field ahead for rb after the catch !

This game is broken bad ! I didn't pay $60 to be a tester !

[SGMRock]

So this is one of the things I would really like to see EA fix. I was just in practice mode and saw this blatent issue. I have seen this before in other places were elbows go through my WR head and stuff when you think they should have gotten pass interference instead the clip right through your WR. This video I just recorded has to be the worse of it I have ever seen though. This is the reason I set the INT slider down to like 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGoQSU7_LM

[aarontab]

Quote: Originally Posted by SGMRock

So this is one of the things I would really like to see EA fix. I was just in practice mode and saw this blatent issue. I have seen this before in other places were elbows go through my WR head and stuff when you think they should have gotten pass interference instead the clip right through your WR. This video I just recorded has to be the worse of it I have ever seen though. This is the reason I set the INT slider down to like 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGoQSU7_LM

I don't see the problem, that's pretty realistic.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by SGMRock

So this is one of the things I would really like to see EA fix. I was just in practice mode and saw this blatent issue. I have seen this before in other places were elbows go through my WR head and stuff when you think they should have gotten pass interference instead the clip right through your WR. This video I just recorded has to be the worse of it I have ever seen though. This is the reason I set the INT slider down to like 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGoQSU7_LM

I have yet to see this happen in a game.

[Critical Kills]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

I have yet to see this happen in a game.

Me neither and I've played over 50 games. Its a glitch and must be a pretty rare one at that.

[NDFan1029]

This will probably be the first year I don't buy an NCAA game since I started buying them in 2004. I was already pretty lukewarm on this game after seeing they didn't add a ton of new features in this year's game, but after reading about all the issues this game has, some features advertised not even working properly, I've pretty much made up my mind on this one. I used to get very excited for this game, even when the new features were lame like in the NCAA 10 version, I still bought it because I was a colossal football fan and thought maybe just maybe the game would eventually be great, but now I realize that this game will never be where i want it to be, so until they come out with something drastic, either on this gen or the next, I will withhold my money for a different title.