i hate this game on the PS3...the controls are different, when you try and play someone they can see what play you are calling, the defense pretty much is terrible.

the graphics look great though...CF looks unreal...but I hate the control and play setup

8/18/2007 1:53:51 PM

on the xbox 360, you can hold the button down on the play you want and you can still cycle through the plays, release the button on another one and it gives you the original play. not sure if the ps3 is like that.

8/18/2007 2:48:47 PM

tackling is still horrid

8/18/2007 2:55:04 PM

Quote :

"when you try and play someone they can see what play you are calling,"

OMG dude this has been said like 100 times in the thread.

You press X on the play you want and hold it and let go on another play. You chose the first play you hit X on.

8/18/2007 8:32:37 PM

best transfer so far for me (after two seasons) has been a 94 overall QB from Notre Dame (I'm Navy)...he was a RS Soph and a scrambler, so fits perfect for the option offense

I do think it's a little bullshit that I can finish the season ranked #3 after beating UGA in the sugar bowl and start the next season unranked...but whatever

8/18/2007 8:41:01 PM

^Yeah the preseason rankings are on just the overall scale of each team usually.

When you start unranked....you have to go undefeated and get help a lot usually to make the BCS champs game.

8/18/2007 8:42:54 PM

just turned teh game off vs virginia 63-56 after sewell completed a td pass to stupar who broke 3 tackles and took it 40 yards to go 20-21 passing. the game is just not right and not fair playing vs the computer any way you cut it. some games its fine but if the computer doesnt want to be stopped theres nothing you can do. i tried everything on defense he was hitting through dense zones, finding the one hole in every d throwing tds off his backfoot under pressure you name it and even when i do stop a play tehn somebody breaks 5 tackles.

then anytime brown gets to the outside its a td. if i put it on all american it would be 80-14

best game ever for head to head. worst game ever for dynasty play.

8/18/2007 10:44:58 PM

for anyone who might be struggling with recruiting or doing things wrong, this should help out:

http://ea.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?...&ATCLID=776751

8/19/2007 2:47:31 PM

i sure hope State's fullbacks (#37 and #26) are as good this year in real life as they are in the game

8/20/2007 10:00:40 PM

just got through season 2 with oregon(on heisman) winning the national championship for the 2nd straight year...about midway through the season i changed the way i was doing my recruiting to the link i posted a couple posts ago. i used to go with the swaying everyhting to match your stuff to the recruits stuff, but that never worked during the season and id have to hope the good recruits would hold out till offseason when im pretty much assured of getting them if they are in my top 3.

anyway, i changed to just hard selling all my good points that are their good points too, and that finally gave me a 5* recruit during the season but i started this method midway through the season, so now im still having to pick up the rest of the recruits in the offseason...im hoping that with oregon now a 6* prestige team, and most of my recruiting options at excellent that i will be able to recruit well, so that i can finally figure out how to recruit(seemingly my only problem, other than defending the pass)

eventually i will try the 1*-6* achievement on heisman...should be pretty ridiculous seeing how im not the greatest pass defender right now and i will be controlling slow ass retards on backwoods louisiana state or whatever school i choose


/ramble

8/20/2007 10:16:02 PM

Ball State is a pretty good 1 star team to take to 6 stars...I'm in my 3rd season and have them to 3 stars...I mean if you can't recruit a kid out of high school by telling him its the state school for ballers, you need recruiting help

8/20/2007 10:18:21 PM

^iswydt


playing on heisman or AA?

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 10:20 PM. Reason : j]

8/20/2007 10:19:42 PM

only AA

i play on heisman when my buddies come over but not in my dynasty

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 10:22 PM. Reason : .]

8/20/2007 10:21:45 PM

yea i have a feeling its going to be ridiculously hard. i havent lost a game yet with oregon on heisman, but ive played about 5 or 6 games where they were decided by a TD or less(one of those a gw td pass this season with no time left to beat USC like 28-24).

im prob gonna have to accept losing a few games with a 1* team when i start that dynasty(ill prob look for a team with a mobile qb so i dont get destroyed in the pocket all game long)

8/20/2007 10:27:12 PM

i quit a couple games and restarted to play better and try and go undefeated...i lost 1 game in my first season (22-20 to georgia) and won the sugar bowl...national title the next year...i do think ball state has some decent weapons though for a 1 star school...and now in my 3rd season i'm able to get some 4 and 5 star recruits, even if only a few...program stability is ballin with my 6 year coach contract extension and fan base is "Great" so i'm getting there

actually a receiver and either a LB or CB were about to go pro after one year and i convinced them to stay, so i coulve got my nfl pro pitch or whatever higher but it just shows that ball state has a few solid players

Quote :

"This thing is like a laserbeam (Shwwww), comin out of his hand"

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 10:32 PM. Reason : .]

8/20/2007 10:31:03 PM

Quote :

"only AA"

Quote :

"i quit a couple games and restarted to play better and try and go undefeated"

8/20/2007 10:33:01 PM

dont feed the ernie

8/20/2007 10:35:42 PM

i try not to turn off the game and accept whatever outcome, but there are occassions that when your impact running back who is an overall 98 and has a carrying rating of 99 but somehow manages to fumble the ball on his first carry of the drive for 4 straight drives and the cpu scores on each of those turnovers...then i get a little upset

(that happened earlier this week, i couldnt believe the game made me fumble that many times)

8/20/2007 10:39:07 PM

i play heisman with my friends but if im trying to get a shit school far i know damn well that one loss will murder any decent bowl chances since SOS is so weak...but i jack off to porn, ernie jacks off to beating the computer on heisman

8/20/2007 10:45:10 PM

i found a glitch in recruiting last month

pretty much you can almost get anyone you want

all you have to do is when they get to the point they want to visit, pick the next or current week.

The week afterwards remove the prospect from the list. add him back. offer scholarship again, and you can have him visit again, rinse and repeat. This GREATLY gains ground in the interest meter.

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 10:56 PM. Reason : .]

8/20/2007 10:49:47 PM

^Hahah that is whack. All 5 stars here I come.

Im going to give it a try.

8/21/2007 10:13:00 AM

^^I'd actually consider doing this on those stubborn bastards who have me in 2nd place though my interest meter is the same as the first team and I always end up in 2nd when it's all said and done. Maybe this can help land those guys, haha.

8/21/2007 10:58:47 AM

dont be gay



you are one of those fuckers that uses cheat codes and shit arent you? whats the point?

8/21/2007 11:15:43 AM

Seriously that's the lamest shit I've heard of.

Why even play/recruit.

8/21/2007 11:26:08 AM

"yeah... I got this sweet code I can enter... I dont even have to pick up the controller and I win... the game doesnt even have to be plugged in and I automaticall win, I rule at this game"

8/21/2007 11:28:47 AM

cause clearly getting an advantage in recruiting is the same as winning without even picking up the controller

8/21/2007 11:39:33 AM

its not an advantage built into the game that has ANYTHING to do with football, its a glitch, its the same thing as being able to hit up up, down down, left right etc and all of a sudden get the best recruiting class

8/21/2007 11:49:36 AM

If the recruit doesn't want to visit, that glitch would never even work, so I can understand why it's an automatic victory cheat code that ruins the entire game.

You keep talking about realism and all this bullshit about how you would never run the option in the game because the real team wouldn't do it. Get over yourself and go with the realism factor -- not every recruit in the real world comes to a team without any sort of shady dealing. This is simply copying that trend.

Some people get a thrill out of playing on Heisman and getting their ass kicked by a super team, and some, believe it or not, play the game realizing that it's a fucking game and not some litmus test for hardcore badasses the world over.

8/21/2007 12:30:00 PM

^^sounds like its still a little more work than you're making it out to be

i'll probably try it on one "test" recruit just to see what it does..course i can ball out with a bunch of 3* players (on AA) so i'm good either way...its not like some code where you cant get tackled or throw picks though like the old Madden Cards you could play

[Edited on August 21, 2007 at 12:35 PM. Reason : ^^]

8/21/2007 12:30:31 PM

^^ the realism is what makes the game fun... if it was just totally random, unrealistic shit it might be fun for a bit, but would have no staying power at all, such as NFL Blitz and whatever that baseball game was back in the day where you could throw fucking fireballs and shit. Sure its a little fun, but wasnt really that entertaining after about 13 years old

8/21/2007 1:29:31 PM

just saying, its a glitch. you can all thank me

8/21/2007 1:47:56 PM

Haha I haven't actually used this recruiting glitch, I merely said I might try it on a "test" recruit like was said earlier to see if it is actually useful.

Recruiting isn't that hard anyway, no real reason to use a "glitch". I've had 2 top 5 recruiting classes and my current class is shaping up really well with already having 1 5-star and 2 4-stars with a lot of other 5 and 4-stars having me in their top 2 spots.

8/21/2007 2:04:10 PM

i use it when my create-a-player doesnt want to play for me

i am playing with FIU also. 2nd season after playing the easiest schedule possible and going 13-0 on heisman. This season I'm actually playing harder teams, as I accepted the invite to Conf USA and start out the season at rutgers (who still has rice)

[Edited on August 21, 2007 at 2:06 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2007 2:04:57 PM

Is there a way to play multiple dynasties? Everytime I try to create a new one it tries to write ove my old one. I'd like to have them renamed if possible.

8/21/2007 2:32:12 PM

^^how long did it take you to get a conference invite? I'm in my 3rd season in the MAC conference right now but I'm probably going to go from a 3* to 4* program after this season

8/21/2007 3:36:51 PM

I got conference invites after both of my first two seasons with Navy. I'm not doing it (fuck getting rid on Independent status), but it sucks balls when it comes to my conference tradition. I'm always Sub-Par, regardless of the fact I always schedule teams to give my SOS an A+ rating.

Maybe if the Big East, SEC, or ACC come calling I'll think about it. But that means 3 of 4 non-league games are taken by rivalry/tradition games (AF, Army, and Notre Dame). And Army/AF make it hard on the SOS.

[Edited on August 21, 2007 at 4:05 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2007 4:05:18 PM

Am I even ELIGIBLE to get invited to a BCS conference since I'm playing as Ball State in the MAC conference or are only independent teams like Notre Dame and Army eligible?

8/21/2007 4:10:37 PM

I've played with Boise State and got an invite to the Pac 10 after 2 years, and an invite for Louisville to the SEC after 1 year w/ a national championship.

8/21/2007 4:21:50 PM

^cool, thats good to know

did you accept? do they end up kicking a shitty team out? like if the ACC invited me would they just boot Duke or something?

[Edited on August 21, 2007 at 4:26 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2007 4:26:17 PM

hah. for the SEC they kicked out South Carolina and I can't remember who they got rid of in the pac 10. In ncaa 07, I was using Nevada and got an invite to the acc to replace carolina.

8/21/2007 4:41:31 PM

it's like one of my room mates........... he thinks he's awesome, but on closer inspection, he has all the game's sliders in his favor..... has like 400 yards rushing and passing every game and wins like 50 something to nothing.....

8/21/2007 5:20:35 PM

50 something to nothing is no fun unless its 1-AA East/West/South/North when its almost expected

now 38-35 late in the 4th quarter...thats what I'm talkin about

8/21/2007 5:24:02 PM

yeah, I still dont quite get recruiting... are you supposed to keep going until it says pitch complete or until the little lock shows up?

8/21/2007 6:31:32 PM

lock just means you cant sway it anymore

i recruit to "pitch complete" sometimes but if its taking awhile i dont

i just go for the cheesy grins

[Edited on August 21, 2007 at 6:36 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2007 6:35:20 PM

^ same...

I am in my 3rd year w/ State and recruiting is picking up a bit. I'm challenging for a few 5*'s, have mostly 4*'s, and 3*'s are a cinch.. Still can't get many 5* interested though...

8/21/2007 6:43:08 PM

http://ea.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?...&ATCLID=776751

thats the exact way you should recruit

8/21/2007 6:50:55 PM

just beat Clemson in triple overtime 44-41...on 4th down I could've kicked the FG to tie but I went for it and threw a TD pass to the fullback...only classic #6 rank tho

8/21/2007 9:45:18 PM

nice, i like throwin it to my backs, i dont ever play with a fullback(play a rb in that position) in my 'fun and gun' style playbook..if i do use a formation with a fb its only the shotgun 2-back formation...

and i could be possibly getting a 5* QB with an A- speed rating, so thats liable to change my playcalling for next season(first season i had a mobile SR qb, past 2 seasons ive been using a pocket passer)

8/21/2007 10:01:47 PM

the motivation thing swings the game way too much.

any time a team gets up by two scores, the game is over.

it's lame as fuck.

8/21/2007 11:27:16 PM

hahaha

Quote :

"Good job! You let the due date of the presentation slip your mind. You stand up in front of the class with nothing to show. Not only do you fail the presentation, but you know the head coach is not going to be pleased when he hears the news. Decreased Attributes: GPA (-0.2), Popularity (-1)"

8/21/2007 11:48:16 PM