NCAA Football Video Games are back
What awesome news. 2021 looking up already.
February 2nd, 2021 at 11:55 AM ^
Hopefully they keep the Madden Developers away from this so they don’t ruin the game.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:09 PM ^
Unfortunately it'll still be Tiburon who makes Madden. I have little faith it'll be a "good" game but it's something at least.
February 2nd, 2021 at 5:33 PM ^
It was always Tiburon and the games were still very different. Honestly I would be happy if they took 14’ and just updated the rosters and made it playable on next-gen consoles.
February 3rd, 2021 at 8:41 AM ^
For me they were TOTALLY different games. I can't remember the last Madden I bought but still have NCAA '14. NCAA was one of the best games period.
February 3rd, 2021 at 9:40 AM ^
Agreed
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:11 PM ^
Still in the earliest stages of this process, but I wonder since this isn't necessarily under the same rules as before (even calling it EA Sports College Football instead of NCAA Football) if that'll open up the IP to other developers? Could we potentially have competing EA and 2K college football games?
A man can dream.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:18 PM ^
I don’t know how much you guys still play NCAA 14 but the guys at College Football revamped have done a killer job with the game. They’ve added Costal Carolina, App State, Charlotte University, they’ve updated most of the uniforms from 2017-2020, they’re adding a playoff 4/8 team mod. It’s really hard for me to switch back to a game that plays like madden to be honest.
February 2nd, 2021 at 2:03 PM ^
I just installed the most recent college football revamped update which included the B1G teams. Can't wait until they Crack the scheduling systems. It should make for an even better game than it already is.
I play mine on my pc, so it runs pretty nice.
February 2nd, 2021 at 2:55 PM ^
So I just looked into this since I game on PC at the moment, what is the legality on the revamped update since its an emulator. I bought the physical copy of NCAA 14 way back, does that mean I can legally download the PC emalulator version?
February 2nd, 2021 at 3:55 PM ^
If you have the copy it doesn't matter, so yes legally you are fine.. but honestly it doesn't matter either as you would never get in trouble for it either.
February 2nd, 2021 at 3:20 PM ^
I had only seen instagram posts about CFR before today, now that I know this is an actual playable game I am going to investigate this after I get off my pga tour kick to get me through spring and summer.
February 3rd, 2021 at 9:29 AM ^
So I checked it out and definitely it is what it claims to be. An emulated NCAA 14 with updated rosters, logos, uniforms, conference changes, etc. Does require a pretty beefy computer though to run decent surprisely. I have a 3700x and 3070 and it still cant maintain 60 fps most of the time. Still perfectly playable though.
February 2nd, 2021 at 1:46 PM ^
Anyone else ever check out RyanMoody21 on YouTube? He's been collecting glitchy Madden videos for some time now. There is some TRULY awful and unforgiveable gameplay going on there.
Madden hasn't improved its gameplay in over a decade now. The reliance on scripted events and animations has destroyed the core of the game.
February 2nd, 2021 at 1:58 PM ^
One of those videos is so hilarious.
February 2nd, 2021 at 3:00 PM ^
Every couple of years I think back to NCAA 14 days and give the current Madden a chance. Every single time I end up playing the thing about two or three times before I remember how different those games were.
February 2nd, 2021 at 11:56 AM ^
Well, looks like I won’t have to do year 10 of my Michigan dynasty on a now 2-generation behind console!
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:59 PM ^
I still play NCAA '09 on a PS2 emulator on my PC. Just something about it that makes it my favorite version.
February 2nd, 2021 at 3:01 PM ^
Only year 10? You gotta up those numbers.
February 2nd, 2021 at 11:57 AM ^
Our long national nightmare is over
February 2nd, 2021 at 11:58 AM ^
Posbang. Outstanding.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:01 PM ^
THREAD-JACK POSBANG!!!!!!
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:00 PM ^
Excellent news! I wasn't planning on buying one of the next-gen systems for quite a while, but I'll need to pick one up later this year now (when you can actually find them).
I'm still on '14 on the old 360 at least once a week.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:02 PM ^
Thanks for this news. I will immediately start recruiting for my next virtual dynasty team (or is now a recruiting dead period?).
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:02 PM ^
Beat my post by a split second.
This game was always the one game I cared about every fall. In fact, I don’t think there was a year I didn’t buy it from 2003-2014, so it coming back is the best news all day.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:08 PM ^
Split second, three minutes.. who's counting?! Incredible news.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:05 PM ^
Happysad.
Want 2k college, not EA. But will take what's available i suppose.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:12 PM ^
Actually, a 2K college BASKETBALL game would be amazing.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:46 PM ^
They used to make one and it was pretty fun
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:54 PM ^
Was top notch, unfortunately cancelled because college bball games didn't sell nearly as much as college football.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:05 PM ^
WOOOOOO!!!! I definitely can't afford to blow $700 on a new gaming console but once I can, watch out!
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:05 PM ^
I wonder if it's too late to sell my copy of NCAA 14 for decent money?!! They were going for around $100-$130 last I looked.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:08 PM ^
I have not been deep into console games for about eight years. Can't wait for this to change that.
Get it done, EA Sports!
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:13 PM ^
Now just keep the Madden development team away from it, thx.
February 3rd, 2021 at 12:07 PM ^
That's like one guy with a giant list of things to do for MUT, demands to make a new game mode to market to first time buyers and is then left with like 5 hours and a $1.50 to work on one the dynasty mode
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:15 PM ^
Awesome. I'm still playing NCAA 14 daily on 360. I love creating custom schedules and scheduling big home and homes. In my last season, Navy ran the table and I played them in the MNCG.
Hopefully this game comes out this year but I won't be holding my breath.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:18 PM ^
According to the ESPN article, it won't be released anytime this year, unfortunately.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:43 PM ^
Just saw a tweet where a dev said it was literally just starting any development and to expect a 2-3 year wait unfortunately.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:17 PM ^
What I still want is a NCAA basketball game. Imagine being able to customize your schedules to play big out of conference games! Customize who Michigan plays in the B1G/ACC challenge. Customize who you play in mini tournaments like Atlantis. Big time home and road conference games, the B1G tournament, NCAA tournament, recruiting, etc. It all just seems so damn fun to me. I will take NCAA football back but man do I want a basketball game.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:48 PM ^
It would be great to get a 2k college game again but unfortunately I don't think that will happen. They pretty much determined college bball games don't sell enough to justify the cost of licensing and development. NCAA football on the other hand never had an issue with sales.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:23 PM ^
Will not include the names of real players.
For now, EA Sports is planning to move forward without rosters that include the names, images or likenesses of real college players. Current NCAA rules prohibit athletes from selling their NIL rights while in college.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:34 PM ^
It never included the names, those were added by roster creators. The only issue they had is they skirted too close to the likeness issue. They might elect to go with totally random rosters, but no worries if people can still edit them and make an somewhat accurate roster.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
Yeah I mean in NCAA 06, USC had a halfback named RB#5 with 99 speed and was the best player in the game. I had no idea who it was lol
February 2nd, 2021 at 1:13 PM ^
Yep, exactly. I mean in NCAA 13 everything about Denard was pretty much 100% accurate except he didn't have dreads. Very easy issue to get around though if you randomize rosters but allow people to create a more accurate one with edits. I mean if they lock editing though I'm out cause I'm not playing a game with completely random rosters.
February 2nd, 2021 at 1:29 PM ^
Fine by me. I usually play on Dynasty mode and those guys are gone within a few years anyway. Plus, the guys at Operation Sports do a better job than the game developers when it comes to player attributes.
February 2nd, 2021 at 1:41 PM ^
Agree that roster creators do a much better job of rating players, which is why it's cool if they want to totally randomize the out of the box roster to prevent the issue before where EA's rosters themselves were to close on player likeness, but if they lock out editing entirely for roster creators that would suck.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:57 PM ^
Hard to care after what EA’s done with Madden.
February 2nd, 2021 at 12:59 PM ^
It would be even more glorious if it was also the return of 2k to football games, and it was them making it. I actually have Madden 21 and while it is not the worst game it is just so mediocre and uninspired in most areas, particularly if you are looking for more sim style gameplay. NFL 2K5 still does quite a few things better, biggest being oline vs dline interaction. But whatever as others said I will take any college football game at this point even if it's less than ideal with EA.
February 2nd, 2021 at 1:17 PM ^
This made my year!
February 2nd, 2021 at 1:30 PM ^
So I just read something about that could be a snag, licensing is not being done through the ncaa, its being done through something called the CLC, which currently 100 or teams are part of but there are notable exceptions. Namely the Big Ten and a couple big programs like Georgia. So they would have to individually work out deals with those schools or conferences or they would not be in the game.
Also I have a bad feeling there is a small chance they use totally randomized rosters and then lock down user ability to edit them. I would be out if its just random rosters without roster creators being able to create more accurate ones. Legally I don't know if it is an issue to have a user made roster that is accurate, as far as whether that encroaches on player likeness. My gut tells me that is ok if it is user created content, but idk for sure.