re: OLD CFB25 Thread - THREAD IS OFFICIALLY ANCHORED

I don't understand how there's a huge argument here. I'm excited and glad we'll finally have a college football game again. I'll buy it day one with no questions asked.

But I'm also well aware that Madden has been so bad in recent years I stopped buying it. The same company that makes Madden is making NCAA even if they are different teams. So I'm aware that it's possible a different team will come up with something much better than the Madden team using the same engine. But I wouldn't bet on it based on history even if I'm hopeful.

Two things matter to me in a sports game. Gameplay and simulation reality. By simulation reality, I mean do the stats at the end of the year make sense? Do teams draft/sign players in a realistic way (not Bengals drafting a QB in round 1 or college team signing 10 TEs). I'm a Franchise type of player so I'll take average gameplay with great simulations over the opposite. The broken franchise on Madden is the main reason I stopped playing it. If they can get the simulation of college football to be even just okay I'll call it a win because that seems like something that would be easier to tweak in future editions.

Good, bad or indifferent...if it doesn't sell this year it's gone forever. Even if I hear it's bad I'll roll the dice for a year or two in hopes it improves. One thing I do know for sure...LSU will win the championship next year in my house with another Heisman trophy for Nuss. And after that some small, barely known school will turn into a Heisman producing Championship juggernaut within a few years.