NCAA Football 12 (Glitchy) and Madden 12 (Released) Thread

[Danville_Wrestling]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Ditto me for the EA class action suit.

 

[Broward83]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Hell yeah...Dominick Davis just ran a 55yd TD against the Browns.

Gonna play this shit and make Houston a fuckin dynasty...

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Now Madden is being pushed back to August 30th. I seriously fucking HATE ea.

 

[Broward83]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

yeah...might also wanna point out that a few key members of the EA Tiburon team have left.. like you know, Ian Cummings and others.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

They said the reason they are doing this is because they want to match it up with the start of the regular season. They also said they will be doing this from now on.

I can't tell what you are meaning to say with your comment. I don't know who that guy is.

 

[Broward83]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

http://www.operationsports.com/MMChrisS/blog/12749-should-madden-fans-be-worried-about-the-ex-tiburon-gangs-departure

...and Ian Cummings was one of the leads on the game and pretty much --THE-- public face of Madden. The whole "Oh, we're aligning the game with a launch closer to the actual season" is just a way for EA to cover their asses to both media and fans.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

I see. So you're saying we better pray those dudes win the anti trust lawsuit and 2K Sports gets to come back into play?

 

[bps21]

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The Madden cover tournament has come down to famed dog executer Michael Vick and a Cleveland Brown.

Either way it's funny.

 

[Mik]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

EA is starting to float out their NCAA hype videos and they REALLY stepped up the presentation this year.

 

[MillenniumMan831]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

The Madden cover tournament has come down to famed dog executer Michael Vick and a Cleveland Brown.

Either way it's funny.

I would have guessed the Browns' rep would have been Josh Cribbs . . . and no, not because he's African American.

 

[Aero]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

I think Hillis makes much more sense than Cribbs given his emergence last season. Definitely hoping that he wins, too, if only because Vick was already on a cover.

Talking about strange representation: How was Danny Woodhead the Pats' rep over Tom Brady who's never been on a Madden cover? We're talking about surprisingly (moderately) successful vs. an MVP season. Perhaps the Pats were only willing to sacrifice Woodhead to the curse.

 

[oldskool]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Brady turns the offer/request/opportunity down. Peyton does too, I believe.

 

[Tino Standard]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Darren Rovell of CNBC tweeted today that if the Madden cover vote ended today, Hillis would win. Given the fact he's from Cleveland, though, I'm fairly confident he'll fumble it away around an hour before the deadline on Wednesday afternoon.

 

[Mik]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Pretty sure he's gonna win. Rodgers was the heavy overall favorite and he beat him.

 

[Just Burny]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Looks like Hillis won, congrats.

 

[Aero]

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http://www.ea.com/madden-nfl/blog/franchise-mode

A lot of info about the revamped Franchise mode, including 75-man preseason rosters with cut days, player progression based on performance, and more. Most of it sounds pretty good to me.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Reading that has made me a shitload more excited and honestly about 95% certain I'll be pre-ordering Madden this year after initially being around 20% certain.

A - Love that the guy was behind the Franchise Mode in Maddens 2004 and 2005 as they are often touted as arguably the best of the series.

B - Love the weekly progression/regression system. That's something that has also always mildly annoyed me about games and will likely make my attempts at signing 38/39/whatever year old Ryan Leaf to my squad more fun.

C - Being a Franchise nut, I also like the idea of the 75 man roster cut downs and hope that this will mean "lesser names" are made in the initial Madden. I LOVED being that Franchise GM who takes over the Buffalo Bills and signed losers who never amounted to anything like QB Ty Detmer or RB Kijana Carter just to see if I could make them have a halfway respectable career.

D - Like the return of the player roles. I used to keep a QB with "mentor" simply to well... mentor.

E - Edit ANYBODY in Franchise Mode? Took long enough.

F - Gameplanning AI? Awesome. "In Franchise mode, if Manning gets hurt or retires, the team will adjust their play calling so that they run the ball more if they have a lower rated QB at the helm until he progresses enough to be able to throw the ball 30-40 times a game."

G -

Re-Tuned Simulation Stats

We’re working on fixing OLB sacks, rushing yards and all of the other small issues we had last year.

As always, trying to replicate what 32 teams and 1800+ human players accomplish over a five month period in the NFL is tricky…but we’ll get it as perfect as we can.

This work isn’t done yet…it’s always one of the last things we fix before we ship the game.

FINALLY...

 

[oldskool]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

I wouldn't say finally about G, they do that every year. I'm really excited about the free agent system overhaul, and hoping the draft from Head Coach 09 makes it in.

 

[Kageho]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Free agent system overhaul, the Madden team behind 04 and 05 make me a happy person. I'm glad that the weekly progression system is in, because I'd like my damn QB rewarded for when I go 19/21 for 275+ and 2 scores with no INTs. Or to be shell shocked when I decide to be stupid and throw 4 picks and only make 50% of my passes for barely 150 yards.

I'm hoping with the 75 man roster that this will allow the lesser names to be in. About freaking time.

Player roles mean you actually need to keep some veterans on the team now, as they can help the team out.

Most of this stuff though sounds like they finally took a look over at The Show and went "hm, let's take these ideas and actually use them since everyone buys The Show".

 

[2GOLD]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread


Aren't these the same stupid promises they make every year? We all get interested and hyped about it. Then we get the game and it's a roster glitch filled mess of teams making signings that make no sense, veterans who wouldn't just sit there are left sitting there in FA and it turns into just trade your vets for free draft picks when they have one year left since you'll be able to snag them in FA when nobody wants them as they sit on the island of lost toys?

It seems like the only thing they couldn't screw up is the 75 players thing. But somehow that will probably turn into teams with 9 FBs and 3QBs, and they cut 6 WRs, one of the QBs and keep 7 FBs.

 

[Vitamin X]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

If they've finally made some adjustments to Franchise mode, I am definitely in to buying the game, particularly if they've made some improvements to AI. Would be nice to have an NFL video game that is worth playing again. I've only bought Madden twice in the past 5-6 years, and the NFL is my favorite sport (although FIFA is catching up).

 

[oldskool]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

NCAA 12 allows completely custom conferences (4-16 teams), re-aligning bowl bids, and a coaching carousel.

Good thing I'm going back to work just after Memorial Day, because that's 2 football games I'm buying this year.

 

[Mazto]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

NCAA 12 allows completely custom conferences (4-16 teams), re-aligning bowl bids, and a coaching carousel.

Good thing I'm going back to work just after Memorial Day, because that's 2 football games I'm buying this year.

Also you can start as a OC or DC, custom play books are BACK~!~!~!~!~!

NCAA Football 12: Dynasty Preview

"RPG" elements to Road to Glory interest me as well.

 

[2GOLD]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread


Whoa whoa, I can start as a OC or DC? Does this mean you have the option to work your way up to a major program as a coach like the NCAA 2k college basketball used to do?

 

[Mazto]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

From the video... yes.

You can raise your Coaches rating by completing goals on the season, at the end of the year when you'd get "job offers" you can look at what schools are hiring due to firing or their coaches retiring. From what I've read your coaches Alma Mater will give you a "break" if your rating isn't quite what they want as well. So you could start off as the OC for UL-Monroe, move to HC of West Virginia, to OC of Florida from what I understand. Jobs (OC, DC, HC) open up and you can apply, you'll likely get the job if your ratings are what they are looking for. Also your Created Coaches age will play a part if they hire you, since they might want someone to stick around longer.

Really opens up interesting stuff.

I'm going to make a Norm Chow knock off and bounce around the Pac-12.

 

[2GOLD]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread


Too bad they can't bring back the subdivision, cause I would love to start at Delaware and work myself up to a major college. Maybe even bring Maryland into the hey offense matters century.

 

[Aero]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Dynamic Player feature info

http://www.ea.com/madden-nfl/blog/dynamic-player-performance-features

http://www.ea.com/madden-nfl/blog/dynamic-player-performance-examined

Like the franchise improvements, this all sounds great. Just have to hope that the execution is as good. What scares me is that I feel like some of the traits will be too strong an influence (which won't be a bad thing necessarily for some elite players), particularly something like "Drops Open Passes", which will be really frustrating, but hey, I guess that would mirror real life.

Here's a couple quotes pulled from the article:

Each and every player in Madden NFL 12 will have a genuine and noticeable gameplay style, resulting in more divergent AI and skill sets. Mike Vick will no longer just stand in the pocket waiting for a receiver to get open as you continuously rush three and drop eight. Ed Reed and Ray Lewis will no longer react to a pass in the same way. Ed Reed will seek every opportunity to cut in front of the receiver and pull down that big interception, while Ray Lewis will look to punish those receivers who dare run routes over the middle.

This one makes me laugh:

Oh, and one more helpful tip, you might want to consider getting those receivers known for mental lapses, like Terrell Owens, involved in the gameplan early or you might find out that they won't be there for you late.

 

[Mik]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

That's pretty awesome. LOL at video game TO jogging routes in the 4th quarter.

 

[Kageho]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

I'd actually sign TO just to see that seriously happen.

Also, if you can actually fiddle with these features on create a player (and the RPG segment), I'll be even more impressed.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

NCAA Football 12 and Madden 12 Early Thread

Some more news on the player dynamic feature... Seems that it may literally carryover play to play now during the actual games. Although the big question will be whether the implementation results in true representation of players or turns games into full bore cheese fests (e.g. controlling Vick to run every down and seeing him jump up to 99 OVR).


http://ps3.ign.com/articles/117/1172066p1.html

Jay Cutler can throw a pick and quickly start dropping down to a 75-rated passer. But he can also string together completions and leap up to an overall 90 rating in a game. Peyton Manning won't have those severe swings in either direction. He might have a tough game here and there or a particularly sharp performance, but overall, Peyton is Peyton every time he steps onto the field.

When pressured, Brady is unlikely to run and tends to throw the ball away rather than sling it wildly into traffic. Vick isn't afraid to tuck and go when he feels a little heat. The traits get pretty specific, such as the tendency to cover the ball against a medium hitter.

Get a good hit on Eli Manning, for example, and he starts pressing. He might get rid of the ball a little quicker, start misreading the defense in his hurry. Peyton Hillis fights for every yard, but if he coughs it up early, he'll become more conscious of protecting the ball. He'll cover up more often, doing his best to secure the ball. That might cost him a yard here or there, but also limits the risk of another fumble.