Excited for the Ramblin' Reck in NCAA11 and other customized team entrances? DON'T BE! B/C IT'S NOT HAPPENING!
by Winfield Featherston on Jun 16, 2010 4:53 PM EDT
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PrintNo Ramblin' Reck in NCAA 11 via @SeriousZone currently at E3 :-(
My guess is that it has to do with licensing and copyrights through the schools. I guess Clemson doesn't own a copyright on that rock.
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- NCAA Football 11 has custom team entrances, fans, but no animals or vehicles.#E3
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ugh
lame…. i think the president of the reck club should call up EA and tell him/her that its okay to use the Reck
by The_GT_LineageX11 on Jun 16, 2010 5:12 PM EDT reply actions
I don't think
Reck Club is even allowed to use the image of the Reck. It’s a sad convoluted system we have for licensing.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
It's probably mostly because they'd have to make specific models just for Tech, Tennessee, Fifth Down U, Texas, LSU, Arkansas, etc...
If they only try to replicate fans and costumed mascots, they can base everything off the same humanoid model. Just sounds like a development time issue to me. There’s some (FSU and USC, Auburn and Air Force, Washington and Texas A&M) that could be based on the same model, but otherwise it would be a total from-scratch thing for each one.
Of course, once they get around to including the Reck once, it’s good to go for the game’s next twenty editions.
That said, the demo is pretty sweet.
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We're talking about EA here
This isn’t a small-time game developer, this is essentially the monster of sports games, and it’s a development issue? They’ve got more developers and resources than most so I can’t see how this is a development issue. Heck, I’d bet one of your group could whip a model up by the Monday.
"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.
Madden gets the lion's share of resources. Not to say NCAA is slapped together (I've got a strong feeling it'll be better than Madden this year), but still.
Animating the Reck wouldn’t be hard at all — spinning wheels and flapping flags are the only moving parts. But then they’d be obligated to do the Oklahoma wagon too, which would be a whole lot more complicated. (Are there other vehicle mascots? I think Purdue does.) And that’s not even getting into the whole menagerie of animal mascots. So yeah, doing the Reck by itself would be easy, if no other teams used vehicles — but adding the Reck opens up a can of worms, worms that must be individually modeled and animated.
If each one took a team of developers and artists two days to create at 100% release quality, we’re talking two months of that team doing nothing but mascots that run onto the field and then disappear for the rest of the game (and most people skip entrances anyway, once they’ve seen them once). I’d rather they spend that time on ramping up online dynasty, which it sounds like they have. (Sure, I pulled “two days” out of my ass, but I can’t imagine a mocap-quality, lifelike, running and walking buffalo could be thrown together in under a day.)
On the other hand, EA does always like to hold a something back for the next year. I’m picturing their marketing for NCAA 12 revolving around Bevo.
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The Demo is awesome, and nothing got me more hyped then seeing Howards Rock and the Players touching it. Sorry to hear the Reck didn’t get shown, it would have been awesome for it just to be seen on the sideline, or coming out. Looking forward to our game this year, Death Valley is ready.
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