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NCAA 08 Game Impressions

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Adam Locked;897909; said:
Man I really love the menu music... it's so epic!!
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You have to play this game. If you do not there will be 13 terrorists arriving in the Pentagon.

I think Jack Bauer composed the opening music...
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So, I play my first season (with OSU) and everything goes fine. So dirty disc error, no stat issues, no problems at all.

Today I turn on my 360 and play Cincy in the first game of my second season. I beat them 56-0, give up 2 rushing yards, Wells has 4 TDs, etc. Everything seems fine.
Afterwards I simulate the rest of the week. Then I go to the stats screen to see who the league leaders are, and there are no stats for OSU there, team or individual. The player names don't show up, it just says "no stats available" or some shit like that.
Then I go back to my schedule, look at the box score of the game, and every column is blank except for "points scored."

I am confused.
 
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The only problem I have with this game is injuries.

In my Ohio State dynasty on MaddenMania (Shameless Plug), I had so many injuries in the Michigan game. Both Henne and Hart missed some time due to injury in the game, and Adrain Arrington was knocked out for ten weeks because of broken ribs. Then on my side, Chris Wells was knocked out for two weeks with a sprained elbow, Brandon Saine knocked out for ten weeks because of a foot stress fracture, and Rory Nicol for the remainder of the season due to a broken tibia. And all this happened in just one game!
 
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Ya, Henton has got injured for me already 3 times in 1 and a half seasons. Ranging from game to 6 weeks. I think the top 25 rankings are bs. I started year 2 at #3... scheduled Ole Miss, Southern Cal and Army and moved up to #1 going into the Penn State game. I beat USC at #1 and they were #2 by like 4 touchdowns.... all of a sudden I'm #2 by the PSU game.
 
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Buckeye513;899854; said:
Today I turn on my 360 and play Cincy in the first game of my second season. I beat them 56-0, give up 2 rushing yards, Wells has 4 TDs, etc. Everything seems fine.
Afterwards I simulate the rest of the week. Then I go to the stats screen to see who the league leaders are, and there are no stats for OSU there, team or individual. The player names don't show up, it just says "no stats available" or some shit like that.
Then I go back to my schedule, look at the box score of the game, and every column is blank except for "points scored."
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Has anyone else had this problem yet?

It happened again this morning. I beat Florida, at home, with OSU, in the 2nd game of my 3rd season, and again none of the stats were accumulated. Seems to only be happening after home games (that I play). Pretty annoying.

I've looked on IGN and Google/Yahoo and haven't been able to find anything about it.
 
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I realize that the Points Pursuit mode is by far not the reason for buying and playing this game, but I gotta say it's a complete joke. I can live with the computer doing some crazy superhuman stuff in a mode like that. What I can't live with is the completely arbitrary and unfair scoring system. You complete a 15-yard pass, and you get 15 points for the yardage while the CPU gets 20 points for tackling you. If that's not ass-backwards, I don't know what is. All the scoring values are stacked for the computer, to the point where you can score 4 touchdowns for every 1 they score, but the "arcade style" scoring has them even with you or even in the lead. I've tried playing it for the unlockables it promises, but at this point I've determined that whatever it is that can be unlocked is not worth all the bullshit.

I have also completely shut off unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. I had a Dwayne Rudd moment the other day. I was up three late in the game and the CPU was trying to convert a 4th down late in the game. I got a TFL that would've sealed the game, and it was one of those kinda intense moments where I had to unwind for a second after a big play. In the few seconds where I set the controller down, the player who made the TFL starts clapping his hands in a close-up, and I get flagged. The CPU got a first down out of it and scored three plays later. I was pissed! Basically, it seems that if you don't mash the A button after a good play, your player's gonna automatically do something to draw a penalty.
 
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BrutuStrength;881039; said:
There's a DE on the roster that left the team a month ago (Ryan Williams) and all other RS-Sophs from the real roster exist on the default roster. So for all real roster fanatics, you basically gotta kill off this character (lower key attributes and the like).
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I found a solution to this the other day. DE Ryan Williams can be converted to C Andrew Moses, and CB Brandon Underwood can be converted to K Ryan Pretorius (I gave him the same KPW and KAC as Pettrey, but slightly higher AWR).

Thanks to this weeks release of the depth chart and roster, I made some additional roster moves:
I set Pretorius as the K and Pettrey as the KO.
Moved Eugene Clifford from S to CB and improved his SPD and AGI some.
Improved Sanzenbacher's ratings to get him to 78-79 OVR with 92-93 SPD.
I think I lowered some ratings for WRs Lyons and Dukes to make sure they weren't higher than a 78 OVR.
I think I bumped WR Wahington's ratings a bit too, to get him up around a 78 OVR.
Moved Whaley from C to FB (#42), and adjusted his ratings to lower his blocking and bumped his SPD to around 65.
Shuffled around some of the backup LBs to put them more in line with the depth chart.
 
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