Does it feel real yet?

Look I know I’m late to this party but it will make sense, I think.

NCAA 25 has been the biggest let down since I realized college football was the biggest scam on TV. As someone who has kept their Xbox 360 running for almost 2 decades solely so he could play NCAA14, I was ecstatic when EA announced NCAA 25. Unfortunately, it’s been all downhill since.

Firstly, you can absolutely get bent if you think I’m going to buy a $600 console so I can play your $70 game. You don’t want to release on PC in the current gaming environment then so be it. Spin it however you want, I don’t care it’s your loss. However, to not release the game on older generation consoles is an absolute disgrace. I hope this new generation of games fails for that reason alone.

Secondly, I’m not sure EA has a single person coding this game that has ever watched a single down of a football game. There is no comparison to the real world game and what happens when playing this game. I am 100% heisman difficulty no matter the game mode but in Road to Glory it is infuriating to watch my lineman stand up, turn around, and flip the bird to my QB or RB when the ball is snapped (that’s when the play starts, so we don’t confuse the coders and programmers). Should they get beat more often than normal, of course it’s the hardest difficulty. For a computer controlled player to not perform an assignment all together is ridiculous. They just stand up and stand still while the now super human defenders DC Flash passed them allowing an average of just shy of 2 seconds for the WRs/TEs to run routes and guess who will be open. Then I’ve got God’s gift to defenses in Superman like DBs. Full sprint, stop on a dime like they know the route, high jump 360 somersault interceptions while my WR never turns around. If I'm lucky sometimes I can just bang the ball off my RBs facemask as he stares at me like he lost his parents in the grocery store.

Im not asking to win games by 100 points. I simply want to be able to know that when I play the game it will feel like a true game as much as possible.  No  one who has ever suited up for a football game has gone out and just stood there. If they miss a block fine go find someone else. If the QB is running for his life then you should probably move the F around and come back to him as a potential receiver.

You can keep your NCAA 26 because I know you won’t fix the game play aspects and you already released the game to only new generation consoles. As ridiculous as it sounds I am sad to say goodbye to a game that I’ve played since the release of Bill Walsh football in the 90s.

I hope better days are ahead for those who refuse to accept the idea that this game takes a certain individual to enjoy it and is just not that good. There are changes that are positive for sure. Enjoyed the new recruiting process but it didn’t take long to learn the pattern and then that positive disappears. While there are other positives, they just don’t hold up against nor negate the overwhelming and egregious amount of negatives.

If you made it this far I appreciate it. I just needed to say my piece so that I don’t break my setup here. Maybe I’m the only one who feels this way or who has as much of a problem with it. I just think people should know that this game isn’t good. It’s just the first time some people have actually seen it so they have no baseline. Others have waited years to play it again and can’t let go of the nostalgia of it. All of this is my own opinions of course.