Picked up NCAA 2006 today...

[MrRant 0]

I had to switch the controls back to 2005. Madden controls = El Suck.

[The Tino Standard 0]

For those who are iffy about NCAA 2006, at Gamestop if you reserve Madden as well and decide you don't like NCAA 2006 you can trade it in when Madden comes out and get Madded for 19.99.

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Man, that's tempting, especially considering both me and my roommate view NCAA as little more than a nice warmup for Madden and a way to get the rosters for future seasons.

[Guest Vitamin X]

^^^ Strongly agreed.

 

That's why I'm just renting it out through Gamefly until Madden comes out. I'm a year removed from EA Sports games, since I was a NFL2k5er last year, but I was a Madden fanboy for the past, oh I don't know 10-12 years beforehand. Shame that once I found another game worth playing just as much as Madden, EA kills it. I still think that Madden is generally more fun to play, since let's face it, no sports video game is ever exactly like the real thing, so might as well make it as fun and arcadey as possible.. without going over the top like Blitz.

[fazzle 0]

Is anyone else getting unnaturally large pancake stats? This HAS to be a bug in the game.

 

I just checked my offensive linemen's stats, and they have: 110, 87, 86, and 72 pancakes this season. The highest Non-Iowa player has 33.

[Vampiro69 0]

Yeah, I have noticed that the Pancake stats have been seriously inflated this season. I know I had to linemen with 30 after 2 games. I am OU though so I attributed some of those to Adrian Peterson running over people near the line while running over the linemen.

[Agent_Bond34 0]

Playing this on Xbox Live, I've found that the lag during gameplay isn't as bad as it was last year.

 

Maybe it's just me, but it's not as bad with this year's game.

[fazzle 0]

Woo-hoo! Just won the Heisman in my Freshman year! My Heisman winning stats:

 

104-219 passing(shitty completion percentage), 2093 yards. 175 carries, 1363 yards, 48 total TDs. (34 passing, 14 rushing)

 

I got 235 first place votes, 225 second place vote, and 176 third place votes for a total of 1331 points.

 

Close race, beating out Jarrett Hicks (who finished with 1237 points) and Cody Hodges (1200 points).

 

The other finalists were Reggie McNeal and Matt Leinart.

[Damaramu 0]

Doesn't completion percentage usually kill you on the Heisman race? I know it has to me in the past.

[fazzle 0]

Well, obviously this year, the voters were well informed, and were able to look beyond that and see just how important I was to the team.

 

 

I dunno.

[Guest Vitamin X]

That's okay, you'll probably stink in the NFL anyways..

[fazzle 0]

Probably, but I'm not gonna make it that far.

 

I won the Heisman, that's all I wanted to do in this mode, now I'm gonna go into dynasty mode and create UNCW, make them a shitty 1 star school, and build them up.

 

My player will be in a never-ending offseason.

[jimmy no nose 0]

I picked up the game at Best Buy yesterday night and they had a deal where the game was $40, it came with a free preorder for Madden which means $5 off, 2 free Cokes, and a free entry in some $50 EA Fantasy Football League. Pretty good deal. I've been playing the Heisman mode a little today and I'm liking it. I'm kind of wondering how interested I'll be in the game after I finish that and a few years of a dynasty though.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Probably, but I'm not gonna make it that far.

 

I won the Heisman, that's all I wanted to do in this mode, now I'm gonna go into dynasty mode and create UNCW, make them a shitty 1 star school, and build them up.

 

My player will be in a never-ending offseason.

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Just like Chris Weinke! (joke actually, believe it or not, Weinke is a 2nd or 3rd stringer on the Panthers, but I don't see him sticking around for much longer.. maybe he'll become a Doug Flutie type later on though, who knows?)

 

And your player doesn't have to be "done" once you get the Heisman and finish it off. In Madden, they have a career mode which is identical to the Heisman mode in NCAA football, and you can bring in the character you got the Heisman with into the draft in Madden. It's far more in-depth as well, from what I hear.

 

I'll probably do that and try to make UCLA into a dynasty when I get NCAA. Not sure if I'd trade it in for Madden, though, since I'm getting a bit more into the college game, but what do I need two football games for? Anyone who has both NCAA and pro games of the same sport care to comment as to why?

[JJ Johnson 0]

Now if only they'd put the PlayMaker on NCAA, so I could reverse running plays at the line, we'd be golden.

 

You can do that anyway. On a running play, press the Hot Route button, then the opposite direction of the run.

[fazzle 0]

And your player doesn't have to be "done" once you get the Heisman and finish it off

 

Yeah, I know, but I don't WANT to continue playing as him. I want to build a shit program up.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

It's harder this year faz. I was going to do my usual (create Hampden-Sydney as an academic school) but I just couldn't get anywhere. I had to start over and make them a middle-of-the-road program to get anyone to go there.

 

In-season recruiting is nice, I just wish there was a way to gauge interest before you select them to recruit, or a way to add someone when someone drops off your list.

[Danville_Wrestling 0]

Anyone who has both NCAA and pro games of the same sport care to comment as to why?

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I have the 2003 version of NCAA Football and of Madden. I just liked having them both because I could play a season of NCAA, export the draft class to Madden, have the draft, and play a professional season with those players. Since my NCAA school is Kentucky a lot of my prospects don't get picked up.

 

However, in Madden I am the Green Bay Packers and my big time rival for the NFC Championship every year in the playoffs in the St. Louis Rams (b/c Warner is big in that game). One year the Rams drafted Jared Lorenzen (my starting QB @ UK) in the draft and in the divisional playoffs Warner got hurt. So for the NFC Championship game I got to play against my old QB from UK and that was a pretty cool moment. Since I knew his strengths/weaknesses well he went like 2-25 with 5 INT's and we rolled to the Super Bowl 49-0.

[A Happy Medium 0]

I've been playing the game rather heavily since I bought it last Monday. I made this running back. 82 coming into Virginia Tech. I believe I won the Heisman during my Junior year. I saved it after the Senior season. I can't wait to draft him into Madden.

 

90 speed

89 strength

 

oh yeah...

 

I enjoy the in season recruiting in the dynasty mode and I also find that if you recruit enough players from a certain state they become a state that always has interested prospects.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

I enjoy the in season recruiting in the dynasty mode and I also find that if you recruit enough players from a certain state they become a state that always has interested prospects.

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Yeah they become a "pipeline" state that has more interested prospects than usual. I'm not sure but it may have a lower recruiting cost as well. Not sure, I'll check it tonight. Once you get states like Ohio, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, and Texas as your pipelines the game basically becomes "how many 4 and 5 * players can I get?". It's still fun, although I cuss the shit out of the game when I lose a prospect I had the lead on going into week 5.

 

I also like the highest recruiting tactic being called "Bring the house". I can just imagine some kid opening his door and finding the entire coaching staff, cheerleading squad, and marching band sitting on his front lawn. Kinda like something out of The Program or Johnny Be Good.

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Does anyone have any hints to defend against the pass online. I can never get a interception or swat at the ball. When I do, I get burn and they get a td. Also does anyone know if there are different weather effects in this game or is always sunny?

[JJ Johnson 0]

80% of the time, it's sunny.

 

What kinds of routes are your opponents running? Just deep bombs, or what?

 

I've been playing the game rather heavily since I bought it last Monday. I made this running back. 82 coming into Virginia Tech. I believe I won the Heisman during my Junior year. I saved it after the Senior season. I can't wait to draft him into Madden.

 

I also made a running back (84 though. *testosterone-fueled generic "Better than you" sound*) for VT. Your junior year? Jesus, with VT's wussy-ass schedule (except for Miami, and MAYBE Maryland) you should have rolled all over everyone on your way to the Heisman. Of course, I'm playing on Varsity to get my traditional ego-boosting undefeated season, so who knows.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Old news probably, but what's the story on a Gamecube version? I can't find an answer anywhere.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

The one thing that does piss me off about this game is the computer's ability to hit the deep bomb on an annoyingly regular basis. I can't get my receivers open despite high 80s-low 90s ratings, and the computer magically is able to throw a bomb over my SS's head (and him with an awareness in the 80's, so it's not like he's going to miss a WR breaking deep down the middle). I adjusted my sliders to make the game more realistic, but the computer just keeps hitting the deep bomb whenever it feels like it.

[Matt Young 0]

Old news probably, but what's the story on a Gamecube version? I can't find an answer anywhere.

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It doesn't exist. Third party support for our precious little purple box is dwindling rapidly.

[JJ Johnson 0]

Conspiracy, deep bombs are as much a part of college football as running up the score, and both are intertwined with each other. Without deep bombs, where would Doug Flutie be? I'll tell you where he'd be, he'd be riding the bench for the Chargers.

 

 

Wait.

 

EDIT: On a side note, I've been amusing myself with create-a-sign. "No first for you, bitches!" is always good for a laugh.

[Guest MikeSC]

A few quick thoughts:

 

The EA soundtrack is the worst one I remember. The ones in the past had at least 1 or 2 decent songs --- this is pretty brutal. Also, and this just might be might copy, simply navigating the screens is a bit of a tedious bore. Nothing seems to be all that quick. I'm not huge on in-season recruiting, but that's likely because it seems really random to me. Also, while I don't mind them, the controls just seem --- a bit "off". I do not know what the problem is exactly, but they just don't seem all that responsive.

 

It's a good game, don't get me wrong. But there are some annoyances in it that really shouldn't be there. I'd say "Well, that's what happens when EA has no competition", but there hasn't been an NCAA football game besides EA'S since, I believe, the Dreamcast.

[Ripper 0]

No sega sports had the college football games for the last few years. But no one really bought them. I don't think...

[JJ Johnson 0]

Sega's strengths were basketball and hockey. Football they sucked a big one at.

 

The EA soundtrack is the worst one I remember. The ones in the past had at least 1 or 2 decent songs --- this is pretty brutal.

 

Agreed. Thank God for the option to listen to fight songs instead.

[Ripper 0]

Well I know plenty of people that would disagree with that, saying that Sega was bad at football games. The 2k games were pretty damn goodn.

[JJ Johnson 0]

2k through 2k2 were excellent. The quality just started slipping from there.