| FTBL NCAA Football 2008: Who plays?

[Swamptick]

I talked to Jay yesterday and the game has been finnished for 3 weeks. All the coding and such is done. For those who are interested, Madden will be done sometime late next week.

Maybe I will be able to nab a copy of NCAA before I leave Orlando. It looks like I will be headed back to Alabama sometime in the next few days.

cough....BS...cough

Why do you think I am full of it? Honestly I don't care..I was just curious as to what made you the expert on my goings on. Regardless of what you think, I may very well get a copy a week or two before it comes out...if Jay will mail it to me. Either way, I have played the game alot and I promise you it is good. EA Sports, as I have mentioned, has it's HQ here in Orlando. They hire alot of the Full-Sail grads from just down the road. They let visitors in (Orlando residents and friends of employees) to check out the builds of the game viewable by the public. In the case of this game, since it is done, I have gotten to play the production version of the game.

It is good. I hope I get mine early. If I do, I will take a picture of it, along with my XBL gamertag and a copy of that days newspaper so that you can see that I am not *cough* full of it.

*cough* jealous *cough*

 

[Guest]

I don't know if I should get it for Wii or for Xbox360......ohh decisions decisions

That is easy...Xbox 360. The Wii version will probably look like NCAA 2003 on PS1.

 

[Guest]

I talked to Jay yesterday and the game has been finnished for 3 weeks. All the coding and such is done. For those who are interested, Madden will be done sometime late next week.

Maybe I will be able to nab a copy of NCAA before I leave Orlando. It looks like I will be headed back to Alabama sometime in the next few days.

cough....BS...cough

Why do you think I am full of it? Honestly I don't care..I was just curious as to what made you the expert on my goings on. Regardless of what you think, I may very well get a copy a week or two before it comes out...if Jay will mail it to me. Either way, I have played the game alot and I promise you it is good. EA Sports, as I have mentioned, has it's HQ here in Orlando. They hire alot of the Full-Sail grads from just down the road. They let visitors in (Orlando residents and friends of employees) to check out the builds of the game viewable by the public. In the case of this game, since it is done, I have gotten to play the production version of the game.

It is good. I hope I get mine early. If I do, I will take a picture of it, along with my XBL gamertag and a copy of that days newspaper so that you can see that I am not *cough* full of it.

*cough* jealous *cough*

I will believe you then guy.

cough...you will never get that copy...cough

 

[Swamptick]

I talked to Jay yesterday and the game has been finnished for 3 weeks. All the coding and such is done. For those who are interested, Madden will be done sometime late next week.

Maybe I will be able to nab a copy of NCAA before I leave Orlando. It looks like I will be headed back to Alabama sometime in the next few days.

cough....BS...cough

Why do you think I am full of it? Honestly I don't care..I was just curious as to what made you the expert on my goings on. Regardless of what you think, I may very well get a copy a week or two before it comes out...if Jay will mail it to me. Either way, I have played the game alot and I promise you it is good. EA Sports, as I have mentioned, has it's HQ here in Orlando. They hire alot of the Full-Sail grads from just down the road. They let visitors in (Orlando residents and friends of employees) to check out the builds of the game viewable by the public. In the case of this game, since it is done, I have gotten to play the production version of the game.

It is good. I hope I get mine early. If I do, I will take a picture of it, along with my XBL gamertag and a copy of that days newspaper so that you can see that I am not *cough* full of it.

*cough* jealous *cough*

I will believe you then guy.

cough...you will never get that copy...cough

In all honesty, you are probably right. Jay has been harder and harder to get a hold of now that he no longer works for Replays and is under increasing pressure at EA. He is a Madden tester for original Xbox now. They are in what they call "crunch time". They can work as much overtime as they are able to stay awake for.

*sigh*. One cool thing I can say is that I have played the finnished build over and over. I will most likely never get that chance again since I am moving the Orlando Replays to Anniston. After that we may be opening a new store in Dothan which would put me closer to Orlando and my friends here. Who knows?

 

[lilstat]

I am moving back towards Dothan in a couple of months. A place called Abbeville right outside of Dothan. Small world huh....

 

[Guest]

I talked to Jay yesterday and the game has been finnished for 3 weeks. All the coding and such is done. For those who are interested, Madden will be done sometime late next week.

Maybe I will be able to nab a copy of NCAA before I leave Orlando. It looks like I will be headed back to Alabama sometime in the next few days.

cough....BS...cough

Why do you think I am full of it? Honestly I don't care..I was just curious as to what made you the expert on my goings on. Regardless of what you think, I may very well get a copy a week or two before it comes out...if Jay will mail it to me. Either way, I have played the game alot and I promise you it is good. EA Sports, as I have mentioned, has it's HQ here in Orlando. They hire alot of the Full-Sail grads from just down the road. They let visitors in (Orlando residents and friends of employees) to check out the builds of the game viewable by the public. In the case of this game, since it is done, I have gotten to play the production version of the game.

It is good. I hope I get mine early. If I do, I will take a picture of it, along with my XBL gamertag and a copy of that days newspaper so that you can see that I am not *cough* full of it.

*cough* jealous *cough*

I will believe you then guy.

cough...you will never get that copy...cough

In all honesty, you are probably right. Jay has been harder and harder to get a hold of now that he no longer works for Replays and is under increasing pressure at EA. He is a Madden tester for original Xbox now. They are in what they call "crunch time". They can work as much overtime as they are able to stay awake for.

*sigh*. One cool thing I can say is that I have played the finnished build over and over. I will most likely never get that chance again since I am moving the Orlando Replays to Anniston. After that we may be opening a new store in Dothan which would put me closer to Orlando and my friends here. Who knows?

Figures.....at least you are a bama fan. I give you a BS pass for that.

 

[FordForHeisman]

Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but if you have played the finished version of the game can you tell us some of the ratings or impact players for Bama?

 

[Guest]

I would like to know that as well. Good point.....good point. Swamp?

 

[Eabama]

*sigh*. One cool thing I can say is that I have played the finnished build over and over.

Thats the first thing i would look for if i could see the finished version!!!

 

[Guest]

*sigh*. One cool thing I can say is that I have played the finnished build over and over.

Thats the first thing i would look for if i could see the finished version!!!

Yea I would look at the ratings too. The problem is Swamp has not actually played it and he would just have to make up numbers. You could at least guess and get close...

 

[Swamptick]

*sigh*. One cool thing I can say is that I have played the finnished build over and over.

Thats the first thing i would look for if i could see the finished version!!!

Yea I would look at the ratings too. The problem is Swamp has not actually played it and he would just have to make up numbers. You could at least guess and get close...

LOL!! You tickle me Bullies. How do you know I have not played it? I have played it. There are a couple of problems with the requests to get player ratings. The first and foremost is that the games we play are not entirely up to us in terms of the teams we get to use and the places we get to play. I have had to play as a number of teams in a variety of stadiums and weather conditions. EA Tiburon is pretty cool about letting locals (primarily friends of employees) come in and play, but they keep you on pretty tight rails as far as what you can and cannot play. That being the case, it is not just like they let you sit down in a private room with a system all your own and just play as you will. Even the testers don't really get to do that very much. They certainly do not allow the public to come in and start copying stats and features so that they can be leaked ahead of the game being released.

The second problem is that in the environment they put us in, playing another person and all, no one else wants the "dude from Alabama" really scouring the playbook and the player ratings. Doing this would postpone EVERYONE else in the room from playing for that much longer. Even if I COULD browse those types of features, the people that we play against do not want to wait for me to examine those details.....even if EA Tiburon allowed us to see them. I can't say I blame them. If I was had access to that part of the game I would love to see it, but in the company of 15-20 other gamers on 7-8 machines, it would be bad form to say "Hey guys, please wait while I check all of this out". I know y'all don't know how the situation is there, but for games that are not out yet, there are alot of things they DON'T want us to see.

For instance, they will not let you see the title screen or the bonus feature screens. They won't let us have ANYTHING to do with the Capmus Legend feature and the new recruiting system. Essentialy all they let us do is play the actual game itself. I have played a finnished copy, but what you might not understand is that the copy we play is played on a development kit. It is not like we just pull a shelf copy out of a normal display case and pop it in a production 360. The machines they let us play are for the testers and public to play. Even the disc just says "NCAA Football 2008: 360 Pre-Release" and also has some other numbers and esoteric gibberish on it that I do not understand. When the Tiburon guys say that this is a "finnished" copy, what they mean is that the coding will undergo no further changes.

I am sorry that my information has caused such vitriol from Bullies. I do not understand why he seems so upset that I claim to have played it. I am not sure why me saying I have played it bothers him so bad but oh well. :shock:

 

[AlaphaMale]

It's strange what people are skeptical about and what they aren't skeptical about.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

It's strange what people are skeptical about and what they aren't skeptical about.

I disagree.

 

[Guest]

*sigh*. One cool thing I can say is that I have played the finnished build over and over.

Thats the first thing i would look for if i could see the finished version!!!

Yea I would look at the ratings too. The problem is Swamp has not actually played it and he would just have to make up numbers. You could at least guess and get close...

LOL!! You tickle me Bullies. How do you know I have not played it? I have played it. There are a couple of problems with the requests to get player ratings. The first and foremost is that the games we play are not entirely up to us in terms of the teams we get to use and the places we get to play. I have had to play as a number of teams in a variety of stadiums and weather conditions. EA Tiburon is pretty cool about letting locals (primarily friends of employees) come in and play, but they keep you on pretty tight rails as far as what you can and cannot play. That being the case, it is not just like they let you sit down in a private room with a system all your own and just play as you will. Even the testers don't really get to do that very much. They certainly do not allow the public to come in and start copying stats and features so that they can be leaked ahead of the game being released.

The second problem is that in the environment they put us in, playing another person and all, no one else wants the "dude from Alabama" really scouring the playbook and the player ratings. Doing this would postpone EVERYONE else in the room from playing for that much longer. Even if I COULD browse those types of features, the people that we play against do not want to wait for me to examine those details.....even if EA Tiburon allowed us to see them. I can't say I blame them. If I was had access to that part of the game I would love to see it, but in the company of 15-20 other gamers on 7-8 machines, it would be bad form to say "Hey guys, please wait while I check all of this out". I know y'all don't know how the situation is there, but for games that are not out yet, there are alot of things they DON'T want us to see.

For instance, they will not let you see the title screen or the bonus feature screens. They won't let us have ANYTHING to do with the Capmus Legend feature and the new recruiting system. Essentialy all they let us do is play the actual game itself. I have played a finnished copy, but what you might not understand is that the copy we play is played on a development kit. It is not like we just pull a shelf copy out of a normal display case and pop it in a production 360. The machines they let us play are for the testers and public to play. Even the disc just says "NCAA Football 2008: 360 Pre-Release" and also has some other numbers and esoteric gibberish on it that I do not understand. When the Tiburon guys say that this is a "finnished" copy, what they mean is that the coding will undergo no further changes.

I am sorry that my information has caused such vitriol from Bullies. I do not understand why he seems so upset that I claim to have played it. I am not sure why me saying I have played it bothers him so bad but oh well. :shock:

Good rant but it does not prove you have played the game. What I understand from your posting is that you have no proof that you have played the game and will never play it until after it is released, if and when I decide to let you play the game. Dude....chill. If you played it you've played it. It is not that big of a deal. I was just messing with you. No reason to get so upset. I am sorry if I hurt your feelings.

 

[Outlaw]

*sigh*. One cool thing I can say is that I have played the finnished build over and over.

Thats the first thing i would look for if i could see the finished version!!!

Yea I would look at the ratings too. The problem is Swamp has not actually played it and he would just have to make up numbers. You could at least guess and get close...

LOL!! You tickle me Bullies. How do you know I have not played it? I have played it. There are a couple of problems with the requests to get player ratings. The first and foremost is that the games we play are not entirely up to us in terms of the teams we get to use and the places we get to play. I have had to play as a number of teams in a variety of stadiums and weather conditions. EA Tiburon is pretty cool about letting locals (primarily friends of employees) come in and play, but they keep you on pretty tight rails as far as what you can and cannot play. That being the case, it is not just like they let you sit down in a private room with a system all your own and just play as you will. Even the testers don't really get to do that very much. They certainly do not allow the public to come in and start copying stats and features so that they can be leaked ahead of the game being released.

The second problem is that in the environment they put us in, playing another person and all, no one else wants the "dude from Alabama" really scouring the playbook and the player ratings. Doing this would postpone EVERYONE else in the room from playing for that much longer. Even if I COULD browse those types of features, the people that we play against do not want to wait for me to examine those details.....even if EA Tiburon allowed us to see them. I can't say I blame them. If I was had access to that part of the game I would love to see it, but in the company of 15-20 other gamers on 7-8 machines, it would be bad form to say "Hey guys, please wait while I check all of this out". I know y'all don't know how the situation is there, but for games that are not out yet, there are alot of things they DON'T want us to see.

For instance, they will not let you see the title screen or the bonus feature screens. They won't let us have ANYTHING to do with the Capmus Legend feature and the new recruiting system. Essentialy all they let us do is play the actual game itself. I have played a finnished copy, but what you might not understand is that the copy we play is played on a development kit. It is not like we just pull a shelf copy out of a normal display case and pop it in a production 360. The machines they let us play are for the testers and public to play. Even the disc just says "NCAA Football 2008: 360 Pre-Release" and also has some other numbers and esoteric gibberish on it that I do not understand. When the Tiburon guys say that this is a "finnished" copy, what they mean is that the coding will undergo no further changes.

I am sorry that my information has caused such vitriol from Bullies. I do not understand why he seems so upset that I claim to have played it. I am not sure why me saying I have played it bothers him so bad but oh well. :shock:

Yeah, I know what you're saying about being restricted when testing games out.

Don't worry, you'll get used to him. :wink:

 

[Guest]

...or maybe he won't...muahahhaha :twisted: