Is NCAA 11 Worth It

[USCChiFan]

I've been hearing more bad than good lately, w/ all of the glitches, fumbling issues, and problems w/ ODs. I was gonna get it last week, but now I have my doubts about this game.

[payton 34ever]

They don't include FCS teams in the game (somehow they were able to back on PS2 in the early 2000s, but they can't figure it out now). Until they do that, my answer will always be "no".

[MRN]

Originally Posted by payton 34ever

They don't include FCS teams in the game (somehow they were able to back on PS2 in the early 2000s, but they can't figure it out now). Until they do that, my answer will always be "no".

So because they don't have Eastern Illinois and company, you are going to miss out on USC, Alabama, and the rest of the relevant teams?

Makes sense...

[cubsneedmiracle]

Originally Posted by MRN

So because they don't have Eastern Illinois and company, you are going to miss out on USC, Alabama, and the rest of the relevant teams?

Makes sense...

Everybody is relevant.

[MRN]

Originally Posted by cubsneedmiracle

Everybody is relevant.

Never said they weren't relevant.

I said there are more relevant teams.

[HighJump31]

I've read EA has some feature in the game completely turned off for now until they fix it. It's why when you start a game it'll say something like "download failure. This game will not count towards your team" or something along those lines. I've had no fumbling problems.

Only glitch I've encountered was when I was kicking an extra point and right as my place holder got down in his position, the kicker walked back like he normally does, but instead, he too got down in the place holder position. The long snapper then snapped it to the kicker instead of the holder, but the kicker didn't catch the ball, as soon as he stood up he performed his kick motion. No kick was made, and if the kicker would have kicked a ball there, it would've hit the press box. That's the direction he was facing. Nothing a patch won't fix though. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

[ClydeLee]

Originally Posted by MRN

Never said they weren't relevant.

I said there are more relevant teams.

Yes you did, you just said the word relevant teams, not more relevant. Which means the others are not relevant in your sentence. Although it really doesn't matter as long as they have that create a school thing from 10 because most FCS schools of merit and Illinois ones like ISU, SIU, ESU were on there made for you to download and add to your list.

Plus some people hate the majority of big schools and hardly have their schools set up like they should be with stadiums or mascots or logical player rankings. NIU at least this year for example has their stadium right again. Somehow it was fine on the PS2 version then they altered it incorrectly next gen until now, plus they still leave out the mascot but I didn't check the rankings of players this season but last season all the player rankings were solely based on grade which had mid 80 rankings to kids who never even played the previous years and players who were great the years before despite being sophomores were listed as low 70s. They don't care about no BCS enough to merit it.(in the past at least)

I don't think I'm going to get it, I hope 2K sports makes a college game next year I believe they say the college football monopoly contract ends this year with EA although the NFL one has a year or 2 left.

[tbo41fan]

As long as Arizona is in it, im ok with it

[Lefty]

Some of the glitches and miscues in this game are unacceptable: PAT and field goal camera glitches, the PA bootleg hand-off glitch, inability to make assignment audibles on defense during a hurry-up occasionally, the game shipping with a new add-on not working at all prompting annoying pop-ups every time you enter or exit a game, all things that should have been easily caught during testing; while others are more forgivable: instead of telling you that using the right stick to gain extra yardage will increase fumbles, they leave you to figure it out on your own, and the option-pitch issues can be attributed to this being their first year with a new locomotion engine; and others are the usual EA head-scratchers: the CPU is still unstoppable on any difficulty setting in the 4th quarter, the CPU AI seemingly never makes use of the squib kick, this being the first year the squib kick is available on next-gen systems, ridiculous morphing by defenders for interceptions and swats, some on-field injuries not popping up or cuing commentary until a few plays later (if at all), a carbon-copy Road to Glory mode with literally ZERO improvements or additions and ridiculously stale commentary by a broadcast team less Lee Corso (who somehow still manages to make his pre-game picks if you review the matchup before a game).

But really, all of this is par for the course for EA, and in the end this will be a game you will lament not having once college football season rolls around, as the graphics indeed have received a boost, the new recruiting system is, well, new, to say the least, and they don't seem to have fucked up OD's that bad.

In my opinion, EA has bought themselves one more year of this "well, there are these gloriously unacceptable fuck-ups but we didn't mess up the other stuff too bad" cycle, so pick it up this year and do the same thing next year: wait until the game drops, read reviews/rent/borrow from a buddy and then decide.

[Lefty]

Oh yeah, and remember Option Dash, Tug of War and those little minigames? You know, they were fun to screw around with and get a feel for the game while waiting for rosters to come out, get polished, and so on. Remember those? Yeah, they're gone, probably only to be re-packaged next year as "new" or this year as DLC that you have to pay out the ass for.