Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - EA Sports College Football 25 Review (So Far) - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: July 16, 2024

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Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, July 16th, 20, 24. I'm Andy Cortez and I'm joined by the crew representing Colorado and Mizzou, Greg Miller and Mike Howard. Welcome in gamers. Y'all are excited. You've had a couple of days playing NCAA football 2025. Nope. Don't do this. He infected you.

What? He infected you. E.A. College football 25. EA sports college football. It's in the game. Nice job. Good recovery on that.

We're going to be talking all about it. We're reviewing it. They're reviewing it. I'm going to be asking them questions about this video game. This franchise has been long dormant for about 11 years, Mike. And we're ready to talk about it right now. Remember, this is a kind of funny game cast. Each and every weekday, we get together to talk about the biggest news, previews,

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So I'm asking before, you, Kind of Funny Games Daily is in 11 or Kind of Funny Games in 11 person, small business that's all about live talk shows. Today, you've already gotten us talking about the reviews for Kunitsugami Path of the Goddess. You're going to play that? I want to, yeah.

That's going to be a Steam Deck game for me, Greg. Oh, wow. When we did the games cast last week, we were talking about different games that are going to be, this is number one with a bullet, I'm going to play this. Here's another topic that or another category, which is if this game is bad, I'll quit my job. Like, there's a lot of different fun topics that Blessing thought up of. And the one that we thought up on the fly is like a steam deck game. This is one of them steam deckers you play late at night where it's like, I got an hour to myself. The Steam Decker is a good name.

Oh, Steam Decker. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I want to try that one out. I definitely want to try that one out. But yeah, thank you everybody for watching. You can get kind of funny games daily on YouTube, Twitch, and podcast services. Up next, you're going to the parking lot with the team for the Missou-slash-Colada tailgate on YouTube and Twitch. Mike and Greg and the squad are going to be barbecue and drinking and throwing the old pigskin before coming back to play the Missouri-Colado matchup in EA.

College football, 25. Here's how you know I've only had half the beer. Because my feet went down and I tapped Mike because I was going to say, hit me on the slant route and I was going to run off that way and I'm going to throw the football. But I then caught my, I caught the camera there and I'm like, Mike'll take that camera down. I'll run into the darkness.

He can't see. He's like a T-Rex when you get that far. But he feels. He feels. He does feel the receiver. He feels the ball. It's one of the things like you throw the receiver open. The good quarterbacks throw them open, Mike.

Not to where you're going to be. Not to where they're going to be here in a bit. if you're a kind of funny member today's Greg Way is going to be recorded after the tailgate so we imagine he'll be drunk for that

so you're going to want to tune in to that one Greg I'll talk about find out when I find out Greg walked up to meet him trying to crack open some what did you call

Bud Heavys? Well there's Bud Heavis But there's Bud Lights But there's Bud Heavis I don't know this It's got to be This is the last great American here All right

It has got to be some sort of a, like a regular thing for you to come up with a nickname for it. You know what I mean? A bud heavy is like, well, it's just the easier way to order. I mean, I know this doesn't happen much anymore,

but back in Missouri, you're going to go to the bar, you're going to order, can I get a bud wise? They're probably going to try to give you a bud light. Ah. So you just got you saying bud heavy. Yeah,

but heavy. I like that. You know, come on now. Three two beer. What does that mean? You know. You know.

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We'll tell you about that later. But for now, start with topic of the show. Topic of the show is the EA College Football 25 reviews so far. If you all don't know, gamers, it came out today and early, or it comes out on the 19th and early access with the deluxe editions. And, oh, early access.

It's coming out full release on the 19th. Early access was yesterday with deluxe editions. And there's some internet issues. People are not able to play online. A lot of people trying to play. More than 600,000. people were playing an early access game last night. So yeah, the servers have

been struggling here. These sales are going to be buck wild. They are going to be fucking insane. Holy cow. Developer is E.A. Tiburon, which is, by the way, a shark, Mike. Did you know that? Pretty sick. Because I remember that logo way back in the day. I was like, yeah, you do. Yeah, pretty sick. First cause football game since NCAA football 14,

which was released on July 9th, 2013. Absolutely buck wild. And here's a little fun question for you. Where were you when this? came out. On July 9th, 2013, where were you? It sounds

boring, but it's also then crazy of how long kind of funny's been around that I was working at IGN. That I was doing IGN. It would have been our second year of up at noon. Like, try to give you things there. You know what I mean? I would have already started

the Game Over Gregory Channel, which would go on to become kind of funny. Yeah. Theoretically, we would probably be doing the game where Gregie show. at that point. But it's still like a lifetime ago. I mean,

this is just on the other side of my cancer as well. Like that's, it's, it's a time capsule onto a different era. I can tell you exactly where I was. Where were you? I was, I was working my shift at Rainforest Cafe

down in a pier 39, San Francisco. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I'm right outside of a high school. Damn. That's where I was too. Really?

Your order. Crazy. Where were you? Probably setting up my connection. so I could yell at the football game because it had Connect capability. Oh my gosh. No way, that's so right.

You could yell hike and it would snap the road. No, no, no, hike? Remember back in the day that a couple sports games where if you cursed, they would give you technical fouls with the connect? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that was crazy stuff. For me, it was just Xbox on, Xbox off, Xbox, Xbox, open Netflix, Xbox, pause, all that stuff. I was all about that, volume up, volume down. I forget how we changed the channels, but I remember doing that, too. Oh, you know, why I didn't have the TV sort of ad on?

I was just Netflix in, or whatever the heck I was doing. But pausing volume up and volume down worked great when I was in college. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where was I? I was in, I was almost graduated from college

and I was working at Best Buy, nonstop, going to school. That was a full-time worker, full-time class, exhausted all the freaking time, pulling like all-nighters and then going to work and doing like a 2 to 11 p.m. shift.

A nightmare. Definitely didn't know. we'd go on an 11-year hiatus. No. I don't think I appreciated how good it was back then getting all these different years. You know, Tim Tebow, one of my favorite players, was on 2011. So it's like

you're getting all these cool ones. I remember GameSpot at the local Boulder, Colorado one would print out Ralphie or your favorite player and put it as the book cover of it. Which was really cool. Like, they did a really good job with that of, oh, you don't like this player from Georgia or whatever. We're printing

out CU Boulder copies, which was sick. That's really, really cool. That's clever. That's a great way to kind of capitalize on that. You say that right, yeah, and it's that idea of, right before we did this, I went on Twitter, and I put live, not a lot, I guess, I tweeted what up until this

moment, because we all know the tailgate we're about to do in the debauchery we're about to do to then come in and play Mizzou versus Colorado drunk. Of course. We'll become my favorite NCAA video I've ever been a part of. Before that, I had done at IGN a video called Madden versus NCAA football, the Greg Miller comparison.

It was the 2012 version of NCAA versus the 2012 version of Madden. And I really feel, I'm hazy, but I really feel that might have been the last NCAA game I went like all in on. I probably reviewed it for IGM, I assume, and I probably reviewed Madden that year, I assume. And so that was like, I made this video because it meant so much to me. But I remember for 13, but especially 14, not like it was, oh, that happens and that's going to happen. and these games have been such a big part of my video game life for so long that it's just like

mad and it's just like NBA, it'll be there. Oh yeah. It'll be there. And not at all. Yep. Not at all treasuring what we had and that 14 would be the stopping point for 11 years. And then going through this dark age of like, it's got, I remember I've had this conversation so many time over the years.

Like it has to come back. We, they will figure this out. Like it's not going to get less complicated, uh, the rights of the athlete, student athletes who are It's only going to get more complicated as everything continues to evolve technologically, social media-wise, having your own profile, you know what I mean? And obviously that's what we've seen. That's what forced the hand here of like, well, no, this doesn't work, especially in a day and age that we are right now.

And so to go back and watch this video that I'm still so proud of that I'd like everybody to go watch again. There's my camera. Madden versus NCAA football, the Greg Miller comparison over on IG. It's on their YouTube. And I tweeted it today. It's fun to go back and look at this. but then yeah, so crazy to not understand that that was that.

And like to be back at it and be down in the basement at night now. And, you know, my lovely wife, she understands last night. You know, it was very much like I sat down after doing the dishes, getting bent down. And it's like, so hot. She's like, just go play. Hell yeah. Just go play. I know you got to go play.

I know you want to go play. Go down there and do your little football game. And I was like, thank you so much. But yeah, it's crazy that we have gone through this and we have been in this dark age for so long. Well, after the long hiatus, it's back. After so many years of wondering, will it ever return? It's here. I want both y'all's top-level thoughts with the kind of funny review score as well.

Hold on. Hold on, hold on, Andy. Time out. Time out. Everybody, we're throwing up a timeout. The challenge flag is on the field. So, as everyone knows, the way. Bear, can you get me on the camera real quick?

That's disgusting. You took your sock off. fast. What the fuck, dude? Were you wearing shoes? God damn. I'm impressed. I'm going to get my sock while yet.

That's fine. And I'll explain it to you. So, EA, if you're watching, but also everybody watching. Of course, the way video game reviews work is that you get the code, you get an embargo, you're told what you can do when you can do blah blah blah blah. Early access makes things murky, right? Because of course there's early access to a game and yet, idiot, yaddy, yeah. what we agreed to when we got our codes on Friday

was that Monday is the embargo you can talk about the game you can go into everything about the game on Monday however they said no review scores until Friday and at the time it was like okay that's kind of weird and they mentioned oh well you know servers and stuff like that

online features being added as you reported on games daily today right like there's a what's the mode I don't have the mode in front of me but there's a mode today that's not even accessible yet. Yeah, create a team. Thank you very much. I couldn't remember what the original was.

Yeah, that isn't going to be live until the 19th. Well, no, no, no, no. They're going to announce on the 19th what their plans are for the release. Oh, I misunderstood. Sorry, sorry. So, long story short is that when we got the codes early, the embargo we agreed to was no scored reviews until the 19th. However, we are kind of funny.

And as you clicked on it when you saw, this is a review so far. So if you're new around here, what that means is this wouldn't be our final review. This would just be, we've been playing for a weekend and here's what we think. So we don't need to use numbers, but we can use adjectives. And just, you know, Reddit, be cool and don't make a graphic. You know what I mean? Just be fucking cool about it. And it's fine.

Everybody's cool. It's fine. I'll definitely make that social post with your little cartoon pages. Don't do it. Greg, what are your top level thoughts with maybe a word that could possibly coincide with? For me, I would say it's a flat great. I'm excited to be back. A great out of 10.

Wow, that's great. A great. No great. Again, if you're watching E.A. be cool. What we're saying is we don't. I might even go great point five. It's what we do here. It's all right.

It's all of you so far. So if you know the numbers scale, but I'm not saying that's my final score. I'm just saying I think it's great. You know what I mean? I'm really, I've been looking forward to this games cast, obviously for 11 years, but especially since Mike and I talked on Games Daily yesterday. Because I love the two perspectives you're getting on this game from us.

And that is Mike who has never left video game football and still plays mad and has kept up through this hiatus and this drought and yeti, yada, yada. And me who really did say goodbye, I would say, based on my video here, NCAA 2012, the last one I was like, fucking. deep into all about it. I played 13 and I played 14 and I've played a Madden here there and I've had the fun Madden nights where Sean Norton's in town and Mike Mitchell was over and we did you know what I mean like yeah touch them but I haven't lived them right so I am very much part of the audience that is like pushing the 600,000 concurrence at night where it is like lapsed fan let's go we're back da da da da da and for me college football 25 is delivering the experience I want and expected and I know Mike has

different opinions on that. And so I'd like to get to there and then really get into discussion. But top level, I'm having a great time with this game. And I think it's got a great core to it. Mike. Yeah, I love that comparison of what Greg is going to bring and what I'm going to bring and the expectations and what has been delivered. And I'm having a good to okay time. Oh, okay. A good time. An okay to good time. You know, on field. Wow. It is fantastic to be back. the pageantry, the colors, the teams, the logos, just the memories come flooding back as you jump in

and you get to go into all the different stadiums and go, man, I remember when me and Timmy Cuffner were playing Texas versus Colorado or we would go into the swamp with coal cap salas when I was a kid, right? And it's like wild to think, like we brought up earlier, the good years of you're in the middle of this, you never thought it was going to go away. And now it's returned. And there is expectations of this is EA sports.

This is a team that makes NHL, FIFA club, and of course Madden every single year. So there are some things that I expect that I'm looking for from this. But when I'm playing the game, I'm having a really good time. And that's all I could ask for. And so, yeah, I'm looking forward to diving a little bit deeper into that. So if I can take over for one second with a question, then. Here's where I think our biggest discrepancy is, is that yesterday on Games Daily, when we kick this off, you might talk so much about presentation and this,

that in the abyss muscles. Would you say you're saying you're having a good time when you're playing. Would you say the experience of playing is great? Are you having a great time when you're playing? Yeah, in terms of when you're doing. When you're in the middle of a game. No, good. Wow. What I'm trying to decipher here is, is it the surrounding package that is lowering your overall thoughts or is it when you're in the game, you're having a good time, but maybe the other stuff you're seeing in menus and features that maybe are incomplete? Yeah, I think there's a lot that, but also when I'm playing moments a moment, there is frustration points. There is moments where the game hitches or lags or stopped completely. Like, I have not had a smooth time

whatsoever since Friday evening to now playing the game. I've had multiple instances where the game just crashes mid-game. And so for me, it's like, oh, this is not a great experience. And so I'd love to jump in here, and this is Greg Miller, the actual critic, not Greg Miller, the character. You are playing on Xbox and I'm playing on PlayStation. Correct. I have had zero crashes. I've had no crashes. In playing, I've had no hiccups in terms of like I'm assuming a stutter. Is that what you're saying? Oh, no, I'm talking like long pauses

of like 10 seconds, 15 seconds. Nothing is moving. No menus are coming up anymore. We are just locked in. Which version of the console? The camera is panning. I've played on both Xbox series as and X, so I'll give you a kind of a visual look of what those look like there. But yeah, I've had more problems with

it than I've expected. Yeah, and I am you know, I gave it. I chalked up to like, hey, it's early access. We have it before maybe a day one patch. Online servers aren't clicking as well as they should, but there are many of instances where we've had to restart multiple times. Are there guarantees about a day one patch? Is that something that you know it's on the horizon?

Not that I've heard of. No, I haven't seen that at all. Yeah, that's usually something that's pretty upfront from marketing or from publishing or from PR to be like, hey, day one patch is coming. A lot of people over here in the chat are saying they haven't had the experience. Mike, you need to reinstall, blah, blah, blah. I want to call it this is your experience. This is my experience so far.

You theoretically could have bought this game and gone and done Exactly. That's a great point. That's the catch is. I've also played on a work Xbox, two home Xboxes and an Xbox series S up in the Tahoe House. So I've played on, I've reinstalled and installed and installed multiple different versions of this game. Captain Mark says there is a day one patch confirmed, so that's gone. But that's crazy.

So then this is where I really like getting into this. Not only our perspectives on it, but then what we're doing on it. Because again, that makes so much more sense for me of like, last night, even coming off of what the little bit we did, the morsels, the little cookie crumbs. We did, yeah, I gave you a lot, unfortunately. The bagel crumbs. When I, man, you're getting a good bagel burger out there in a second. I got you, I got you a cheddar bagel.

So it's got the cheese melted on top of it or whatever. That sounds awesome. Yeah, it's going to be good. Don't worry about it. I just need a really toast, you know that. Like, I need this shit to be like really, really crunchy. Yeah, yeah. You know, put a crack of saltine on there.

You know what I mean? That makes so much more sense because, again, Yesterday we had that conversation last night when I went home. And I was really like, okay, am I enamored with the gameplay the way I think I am? Am I missing something here? And like I jumped into online and played randos. I went and did more stuff. I was, you know, trying different teams a little bit.

And I was still the entire way like this, I think, you know, your comments yesterday on the presentation were one thing. And playing last night, I was just like, I think that's why I think it's a great game is that I think on field. it is so great. It plays so well. It is so much fun. Like I'm finding holes with the running game I wouldn't. The amount of times I go and I throw, I'm like, that's a pick. It's a pick. You know what I mean? Or this, that, the other, like, even experimenting around of like, you know, trying to get back into ball hawk and trying to find all these different things.

Like, the on-field gameplay, I think, is just so great. But to come back. And that's why I was like, man, Mike's really dinging it for presentation, menus, songs to get here and see you're having this many troubles. Technically-wise, I get that 100%. How about, you know, online, me and Andy always. talk about online, especially with 2K basketball, right? And that feel of when you are in play now, couch co-op having fun or playing solo, there is this flow to it that it feels right. When you go online, it starts to feel like you're playing in the mud. It slows down the connection, of course,

bouncing off all these different internet connections. Doesn't feel good. By the time you're jumping to deflect a shot, the player's already like halfway to the basket. How do you feel playing online? Because I saw you play in Rando's, which was cool. I had no problems. Again, I Honestly, last night's online experience was so good, even though my performance was so bad. It was like one of those games where it's like, oh man, we're competitive. Okay, he's up 14.

And then it was like, I kept having really great jobs and getting the red zone and then I would turn it over. And so then at the end it's like, well, now I just got to start fucking throwing bombs. Then I'm getting picked on. And I'm like, at the end, it was like, this score doesn't reflect the game.

Like I feel like I played well, but we got to this 28 nothing or whatever. No, I thought it felt so good last night. that it really was something struggling isn't the right word because God there's so many things to struggle with in life but like dynasty this time around

that I've been tinkering with and playing with I'm enjoying but when I get to the recruiting phrase even though I can automate I have been like oh man I just want to play I just want to play and last night's online was so good and I'm like I'd love to get to a point where it is I'm gonna play Diablo tonight

but I'm gonna do one game of college football and get out there but of course everyone's picking teams that are in the 90s and I'm like I'm still the fucking tigers Let's go. You want to bring it to Oregon Ducks? Let's go. Teams are in the like overalls.

Overalls. Well, he's playing like Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State. He's playing as his true favorite team. I thought you meant like, you know, the 90s Gators or whatever. The 90s. No, they don't have historical teams like that. Miami hurricanes or whatever. Yeah, I mean, when we talk about on the field gameplay, right, it is a blast.

It is great to be back. It is a good experience for me that is having fun of dolling in the plays, right? I love the Madden comparison. We always hear like, oh, it's just a madden. copy. Well, that's because it's 11-11 football. Like, it's very difficult to change up that unless you make NFL Street all of a sudden with game breakers and style

points. So, of course, a casual fan will look at this and go, well, you hike the ball, you bring up four different icons, you throw the ball. Yes, it is exactly like Madden that way. But there's different smaller tweaks that make it feel a little bit different. You brought up the running game, right? Sure. The slider's a little bit faster, so it feels like

everything's moving a little bit faster. You have wider holes because they are college athletes and it feels a little bit different, which is nice. Passing game, a little bit looser than on the Madden side, right? It does feel like you throw passes and they are either, you know, inaccurate or the receiver drops them very often. I am surprised at that, but the running game feels very tight. See, that always goes to it, and I think there's so many kind of funny best friends who

are amazing who just hang out and want to watch and don't care about football or don't know. And one of the questions I've seen pop up over and go over again in my Twitter is like, I don't get the difference. why are you excited for this and not Madden? Like, why would you be, and like, it's the same reason somebody loves NCAA football and not the NFL. Like, I don't think it's that different.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right? Of course. And it is your team and it is this thing. But for me, it's also that collegian experience where you have these athletes who know that these are their four years to go out and play. But what that means and what leads to, I think, in not in an insulting way, is a sloppier game where there's going to be the off pass. Like last night was a great reminder of it where I forget, I forget,

was the online game or another game, but I'm out there, and I'm doing my normal thing where I go out there, and then, you know, me, I got to compose the keyboard, right? I'm like, you know what? I want you running the slant.

I want you running over here. You just bomb it. And like, I'm just, I'm hot routing everybody I brought out, and then one of my dudes jumps off. And I'm like, okay, that's fun. That's cool. I went out and like, two other plays did it later.

Same dude jumps off again, and I'm like, that's, on the bench. Exactly. It's like such a thing where it's like the passing precision of an NFL quarterback, right?

When you get down to the 32, starting NFL quarterbacks who could possibly doing that job versus the hundreds. And only 10 of them are really good. Yeah. And then you get into these college kids that are doing it. You get more drop balls. You get more fumbles. You get those things where it can be. I think you see the Cinderella story, the, you know, the crazy comeback.

The way Stadium Pulse really makes people's hands shake in real life, let alone. You're getting me jazz up about Stadium Pulse. Shoot. Craig, I'm excited to talk a lot more about these features. But remember, you're watching Kind of funny. If you're watching Kind of Buddy. You're so close. God, God, he had it all. Could have just said, but here's a word from our sponsors. The show gets you ad-free, but there's a whole thing you've got to read here.

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Yeah, I want to talk about the game modes and stadium pulse for sure. I think it's what a lot of people will see and attach them to on early. But of course, game modes-wise, I have five. I think you have a little bit more than that, but they're kind of the same. They're not really different. You have play now, Dynasty,

Road to Glory, Ultimate Team and mini-games. There's, of course, head-to-head, which is online, but that's just play now online. You have Road to College Football Championships, which is just online playing against kids in a mini-tournament. But it's right. Isn't that the deal? I jumped in there and they're like, do this to do that.

I'm like, huh, okay. Yep, sure. That's what I'm doing. And so I think a lot of people will spend their time in Dynasty and Road to Glory. Ultimate Team has yet to really show me something yet. It is the initial click on it. It is the mad and feel of like, welcome to Ultimate Team. We got a whole lot of cards, challenges to get money to unlock these cards.

I have spent money already in that and was very disappointed quickly. Well, don't do that. Why did you do that? Real cool. Because I wanted to see the presentation because when you first greeted and Ultimate team. If you are been playing any sort of FIFA, NHL, and or Madden, or even NBA,

you have seen that the presentation of these Ultimate Teams, the card opening backs, the card. They want to make you feel special. And when you first open Ultimate Team, holy cow, you are quickly disappointed by looking at these cards going. This is absolutely unbelievably bad. You cannot get away with this. It's bad, y'all.

It's bad. You cannot get away with that. Hold on, hold on. Okay. So this is surprising to me, first off, because I didn't know that they were doing an Ultimate Team equivalent for college, because who are you on, are you

unlocking college stars, like legends in the game from the past? No legends. I think they're off the current roster, right? I think that's what will happen when we launched the game. They will move into legends of the past and actually bring it up to that Madden quality. I think what you're seeing right now is just

actual players in the game and you were getting these base set cards, just like any Madden Ultimate Team of 60 to 77, but the card itself is like you are a computer-generated image of you. There's no photo of you. There's no presentation that looks cool. It is like, oh, man, that's just like a really bad-looking photo of this.

That's unfortunate. Okay. But, you know, we'll talk more about that later on, but maybe when we do the full review or, you know, onward. But like, as of right now, Ultimate Team is not the look, right? So the fanfare isn't there? No, not at all. The visuals don't look very... I opened up a pack for $22.

They gave me four cards. two were green cards that are in the 60s and then two were blue cards that were 80s. And it was the most lackluster pack opening experience I've ever seen from any of these Ultimate Team games that we played. Just got to a YouTube video of a guy like, wow, what are we doing? The ultimate team is such an interesting addition here. Where so many sports games have found

success with it through the monetization of it, right? And for me, I thought, what a dumb addition to the game. It doesn't feel like it makes sense here. I jumped in and I do the Tiger. and I start getting people and I'm like, okay, I'm building better tigers and there's challenges in there and there's the sweet feel of, that's cute, the sweet ding of XP

and leveling up and hitting the next thing and doing it. But like, I was so overwhelmed with it. Or I shouldn't say, I was overwhelmed, where I'm like, I don't know, I was like, I would never spend money on this. And again, I think one of the differences from Mike and I, in terms of what it is, is like, I think the game plays so well

that I'm way more invested in either do the dynasty. and if I don't want to recruit, set it to auto recruit, which is a nice feature. Or if I just want to play, jump into an online and go, go do the thing. Because it's, again, such a weird mix of, I want to be the Missouri Tigers, right? Like that everybody, one of the things that they've talked about in the past, right, is like, every college team is someone's favorite team. And so it is such an idea of like, I want to go in there and be that team.

I want to go in that school. I want to be in foro. I want to go play over here. that like me turning it on and even getting a decade into my college season it's always fun in a dynasty but it's not like I'm going to turn it on and then want to play with this quarterback

who's great from another team or go do this or even get a necessarily a legend that eventually they'll add maybe and bring it on to the Mizzou Squad because that's not the history of what it is. It's like such a weird mix of what you're doing here and why it would be added. And so I had more fun on night one with it

than I thought I would because I jumped in. I was like, oh, there's mini challenges, there's this, I'm getting that, I'm popping a bunch of course. I didn't go monetize right away. But then I, like, last night had no interest in jumping into it. Yeah, that's why I want to focus where I think most people will spend their time is Dynasty and Road to Glory.

But we do have to highlight Ultimate Team, right? Because that is the moneymaker. They're paying these kids finally. Shout out, which is the right way to go. But, like, we have seen it in all of these sports games. It is the card games, right? This is what people are going to. So we have to highlight that and talk about that.

It is exactly what you get out of Madden. I just lackluster presentation right now. We'll see if that elevates. But yeah, for me, it's like you get college legends, right? The idea of having these cards of my favorite players building that team. That is the draw of ultimate team when you have that. So hopefully, yeah. And that's not even, these, I would say these are the standouts, Andy.

If you want to, I know Barrett's resizing right now, but if you want to jump back, Barrett and scroll around to where you just see the face on the cards, there you go. This is what you get in. This is what you're normally getting out of every one of them. I paid $22 to get two of those cards. and then two cards that have green outlines. Please expense it, Mike. These are one of those ways.

It's like, how is my question of like, how do we do this after decades of FIFA, Madden, and NHL on the EA sports side? That guy's name was Kobe Bryant. C-O-B-E. They have this already. So that's why sometimes when I bring up this presentation, it's like, yes, NCAA football is back.

That's great. It's been 11 years. But this is a company that has made millions to billions of dollars building these sports games for the past 20 years. There is no, there's no excuse to be like, oh, well, you know, here's where we're at now. It's our first year, though. It's like, no, you've been building this a long time.

So that's sometimes when you'll hear me talk about that, and we'll talk about that later. But Dynasty and Road to Glory is where people will spend their time. Yeah. Let's talk about Dynasty first because that's the cool one. You become the coach and you get to recruit. There will be NIL deals. That's where people, I think, are going to spend a lot of their time

and, of course, Road to Glory. Now, Greg, tell me about Coach Eddie Guerrero. Barrett, if you can bring up my tweet from the other day of Coach Eddie Guerrero. One of Mike's understandable things to it is that when you log into Dynasty for your first time and you create a coach, you're not doing like the, I'm face morphing, I'm face scanning, I'm doing that. They give you a bunch of different faces. It's like hundreds of just generic. Yeah, we made these. They're presets.

And so I ran through and I was like, maybe I can find somebody who looks like me. And there was enough guys that did. But then I was like, well, can I put glasses on anybody? Can I not? Whatever. I was like, you know what? screw it. I'll just go and I'll do my what I do now with Diablo characters where basically I find a

preset that I'm like, you look enough like, you look enough like Eddie Guerrero. I love it. He looked enough like Eddie Guerrero. So of course I looked Eddie Guerrero up because I don't remember off top of my head where he was from and where he put him in from New Mexico, put his right height, his right weight. And then we set off as Eddie is the he would have been great before the NIL period for like lying and cheating and stealing. He would have been paying off so many athletes of Ferrari's. Did you go to apparel at all?

Apparel is my favorite shirt. It's so, And you click on, you go, what? And then it's just literally the polo he has. And then this insane windbreaker. Under armor. It's just trash. There's two options. Why do you put into apparel section here if there's two options?

We've done this for 20 years. We can't get away with this. You got to assume there's a library of assets somewhere that we could just like, here's another jacket, here's another t-shirt, here's another whatever. But you see, here's what's interesting about it. And Mike, tell me if you've seen something different is that in, my games where I'm playing as Missou, and I'll go to other, you know, opposing schools.

I'm not seeing the head coaches. No. They, they have done a very good job. In Dynasty, when you create your coach, they will pan to him, very minimal, but occasionally, but like, you are not seeing coaches at all in this. And so, Andy, I think there's the reason, and Mike, there's the reason, obviously, that there aren't a million

outfits where it's like, oh, we're not going to prioritize the coach. Like, you know, most people are going to have one dynasty, two dynasties. They're not going to really think about the fact of... They don't cut to you on the sidelines? Well, they do, but it's just... in Dynasty, for your coach. Yeah.

So the guy you've made. Like when I'm playing play now, you don't see Dion in the cowboy hat and the prime sweatshirt on in the background, right? Like they have, there's no Dion in this at all when you're playing play now. You're not seeing Lane Kiffin over there. There's nobody over on the sides. So I think that again, since there's, you know, we're not cutting anybody wire. Why would we put in a polo and a button down in a suit and this, that and the other?

I'm sure next year, though, will be. They'll add as they go. They won't get rid of these two options. They'll just keep adding on to it. But Dynasty is cool of like, yeah, you... Dynasty's awesome. It's the historic NCAA football, college football now experience, right? Of like, boom, I'm jumping in and I'm picking my favorite school, mid-Tennessee State,

and I'm going to take this one-star program. And I'm going to play out the fantasy of rebuilding the schedule. I'm playing Alabama at Alabama week one, right? I'm going to Clemson Week 2. And then you put the smackdown on these teams and take your one-star team to a five-star team. It's the dream. And it's, and it is, again, what I... would want and what I expected out of this game to return to.

Now, could they've done a whole bunch of bells and whistles and out of course? But it is Andy the idea of being the head coach. And it is what I remember so well from the college football single aughts. You know what I mean of 0102.03 of like you go in there. You're the coach. You put these on the prospect boards. Week after week, you see if you're going up,

if you're going down. You're making phone calls. You know, you're, you're DMing them now. You're sending the house to visit. You have a lot of amount of points that you're, you can send out, offer them scholarships,

but don't do too many because you only have so many. What are your needs? Your needs are highlighted. Keep track of that. I'm going to be the Michael Scott and, like, falsely, I offer everybody a scholarship. I'm so sorry.

I have that much right now. And then it is the idea of, like, there is the National Signing Day. Like, they've done really cool stuff there in a way that it does feel like pomp and circumstance. And again, authenticity and pageantry from what we see from college football. And it's cool of,

like, depending on what school you pick, right? Like, I think a lot of people will pick their favorite schools, or maybe you'll just go pick Georgia, which is a five-star school. But a lot of- You know all the real players are going out there and getting Appalachian State.

I'm going to build this up, get a new job, get a new job offer. And you go to the recruiting board and you get to see where these kids are from. And like, you can choose some of a motivator, a recruiter, or tactician of like, you know, my coach, he's got a pipeline to the Colorado kids because he's a Colorado guy, right? And so you can see, you can go by state and recruit them.

You can go buy five-star, four-star, three-star, and they all have different requirements, right? of like if you are a two-star school, a lot of these five-star recruits aren't going to mess with you until you've proven that that program can be better, right? And so there's things that your school now has to meet, whether it be your coaching security,

whether it be your school and the ranking and how good they are, the school atmosphere, right? And so... Proxatingate me at home is a big one for a lot of people I'm trying to recruit, because I'm using the Missouri pipeline, right? Eddie Guerrero's using the Missouri pipeline. So you have a lot of kids from St. Louis or Kansas City

who want to be close and it's like, to them that is an A plus and... To them it's a B minus and you have an A plus ranking, which is good for you, right? And you can go through what their wants and needs are to try to match and try to do that. And so, yeah, you have to, you know, week one to week four is going to be difficult if you are a lower ranking school because they don't, they're not going to talk to you yet. So you do have to like kind of get the ball rolling and start getting yourself up from that one star to two star, three star to get better recruits.

But it is a very well done system. And I think a lot of people heard me on the impressions when I talked about presentation and the surprising lack of a soundtrack. People are like, well, I'm playing the game. I'm not hearing that. But if you're recruiting, if you're spending time in that, if you're spending time outside doing mini-games recruiting, building your road to glory character and having conversations on the cell phone, what's the ambient noise? It's going to be the same drumline soundtrack every time. And it's like, oh man, these are the small things that I'm getting at that I'm surprised that we didn't hit, right? After 20 years of building sports games, it is very surprising

that like I'm sitting there spending 20 minutes recruiting all these kids and it's just the same soundtrack that I've heard from Friday night to now Monday morning. So one thing I want to talk to. I'm just exhausted. I want to come back to that. I do want to come back to that. One thing I want to talk to in of course that I liked a lot about this

dynasty mode was the XP for your coach. Yes. As you're doing coach challenges, your coach is leveling up which gives you a bevy of new options and things to do. But even in game, you're getting little pop-ups of like, oh, you know, you got out first down, this is what's happening. I like that lot. But back to this. I hear you, Mike.

Yeah, and I'm not... I don't think you're wrong by any stretch the imagination. It's just that in the world we live in for video games. And I guess, you know, before I even start making excuses and quotes, everything's part of the same pie chart, right? Where it's like, how much time can you dedicate as a developer to this, that, and the other, right? I think when people are looking at this and what they could have done differently here, for me personally, it is so rare to find a video game soundtrack that I like a lot.

Like Madden, like so many times. Lucky Boys Confusion was on at once. Shout out, that was great. And there was like another one. Madden, 2000, all better get that. Before I have to sack you to the ground. Look, it's real on the field. So believe that.

This ain't two hand touchdown clown. Look, I'm making you bleed for the touchdown. Like, I heard that so many fucking times when I'm adjusting the price of my fucking hot dog and mad. Yeah. You know what I mean? But it's like, I don't remember that as like a song I love. I think so many people, sorry. That section of the game for me is a podcast game.

Is a play. on portal upstairs with no sound on is open Spotify on my phone or my PlayStation, which you can do, and play the songs you want. I get that that is all excuses, but I just think it's an interesting hang-up. No, I like that. The hang-up

is EA sports and all these sports games have been touchstones for each year, and those soundtracks are iconic, that when you turn it on, you remember the moment where you were, right? You remember Ocean Avenue and Madden O'3, right? You remember hearing pump, pump it up all the

time. And yes, I get that, but like, at the same time, you don't even have the fight songs playing. And so that's where it's like, step one, I get that you might think that that's a crazy point that I'm bringing up of, like, music, but you're not even playing the college football fight songs. It is just generic drumline beats. I agree with that. And so, like, these are, like, these are the same one of any of that, because I remember being able to say, like, I want this fight song from this university being played. There's no soundtrack on this. Wow. And so it's, these are just the things of like, I get that. One hundred percent correct. Hey, it's year one, and I'm giving them the pass on that buck,

but it's also year 30 of building these games, and it's a billion-dollar company. These are easy things to get done. And then on the same time, it's like, you're going to play mini-games, which they have a nice, robust mini-games, and you would experience a madden. It's nothing new.

As somebody who hadn't ever played them, Andy, I was like, this is fucking awesome. Every time I go in there, I'm like, yeah, hit me with the gauntlet, all right? The fucking, I don't forget what they call up, like the ladder of laterals or whatever, or you're just insane. How can I survive?

When you're playing these mini-games, there's no music at all. It's like, okay, well, we can elevate that. We've done that in many other sports games here that you've already made. And so those are my small hangups of, you are spending time outside of just between the lines that people need to understand of like, you are going to sit there and recruit, and it's going to be the same. And you're like, okay, well, I'm on hour 15. And when we are three months down the road, you're going to hear the same thing.

And it's just like, we talked about the pomp, the presentation, the prestige. and you turn it on for the first time and you go, missing that. Is there any feature or mode that you feel like they absolutely nailed? Dynasty, Road to Glory. Nailed that. They're right where I want them to be. I mean, there are small tweaks that you will elevate over the years if we do this.

You said Dynasty, so just to be clear, the presentation of the song sucks, but you still love the mode. Oh, yeah. I mean, when we talk about the bones of it all, right? Like, here's the real thing about this game. If we're getting real real about this, This is a bare bones college football game. It's a bare bones E.A. sports title.

You are running off the nostalgia and the fun of playing as these college teams. The moment-to-moment game play between the lines is good to great. Outside of that, you are getting the most bare-bones experience. EA sports has probably ever put out since the beginning, right? And that's where we're at right now. And so if you're down for that, if you're riding the high of, I haven't played college football in 11 years, I'm so happy to finally play as CU. Yes, I'm in on.

that with you. But on the flip side, you're looking at the list going, okay, so here's the three big modes that everybody's going to love. Here's the ultimate team where they're just going to get after my wallet. And then that's it. Here's my thing. So that's my thing. That's all. There's no creative team. That sucks, man.

But there will be. There will be on the 19th. We'll talk about it. They're going to announce when it happens on the 19th. There's something in there that I haven't done that I see. Do I click on it and says, oh, nothing here? Am I thinking of a different thing? I try to buy this game on PC.

It's not available. That's for the best. Here's the one thing I want to say. I totally love you and understand you and respect what you're saying. I just think to say it's the most bare bones college football could be is off the mark. I don't think you're raising a lot of things about the authenticity of music and this, the presentation, the palm of circumstances. But if we're going to sit here and be like, the gameplay is good to great, dynasty is good to great. Dynasty is like, media as fuck.

It's just like, yeah, there's no. songs and yeah you get text messages or whatever. It's like, and I haven't done enough with Road to Glory to tell you one way or the other. I enjoyed what I played. I'm being QB. I like the, you know, lower perspective. It's different. It's changed.

I like the, you know, the choices and the, but it's like. I saw the tweet, there was a tweet from in game where one of your teammates text you or something like that in road to glory is like, man, girlfriend just broke up with me. I need some, I need some guy time. You want to hang tonight? They were like, what is going on in this game? That's cool, that's cool. It's cool.

It's cool, man. And so, like, to my point of, like, that is an interesting thread to it. So I've played sports games, I feel that are way more bare bones than this, that are exhibition, online. Franchise. Shitty, yeah, franchise season, done. So I just, I take issue with that because I don't think. I think there's a lot of meat on the bone of these modes. Could there be more modes?

Sure. But I'm sure they're also, like, these are the modes everybody wants. So why go waste our time doing something else? Am I making excuse? Am I wrong? Maybe. I don't know. We're also riding the highway.

It's only four days in. Come talk to me when it's a month, three months, six months. I'd like to do it two or three years in my dynasty and come back to this. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, what's the... They give you what you want. How do you feel the game has nailed the, like, you go to that stadium, you're getting that experience. You go to this stadium.

It feels night and day from what I experienced to that other big stadium. These motherfuckers didn't put Truman the Tiger in the goddamn game. Oh, wow. And as I brought up yesterday when I was bitching the red one, about this. I'll bring it up again. It's not, you get out of. Okay, you're on my side. Sorry. Barrett often shows up to, I'm being against me. I'm glad you're with me. Like, I'm shaking my head at the game.

I love you, thank you. How could you do this to Greg? For the record, I almost ran Barrett over yesterday. So I wasn't sure what kind of energy I was going to get today. And then he drove in, rolled down his window as I was getting into the studio. He's like, I'll get you yet. Well, you got to make a joke when you almost kills me. Anyways, uh, Truman's not like a nobody mascot. You know, Tigers are pretty dang good last year,

pretty dang good this year. They're ranked number 10 in the game. when you started or whatever, which is weird because that doesn't make sense because when they put out their top 25, we weren't ranked. And so then I'm like, wait, did they give them the 10th ranking? Because I pick, that doesn't matter. AP has a weird ranking. Sure.

Anyways, though, Truman's known. So the fact that he's not there, I was like, damn, like, who else isn't there? And so I haven't, I mean, I played Oregon last night. The fucking duck is there, of course. Cut to Truman on the phone. He's like, look, you're going to have a lot better than that. Exactly, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's like, I've gotten around and like, I think they do a good job of it. But back to Mike's, I think honest to God, it's the year of our Lord 2024, like comments on it. Like for, and now that I'm on the spot, I'll probably fuck it up. But like, you know, one of, I played so much NCAA football back in the day, right? And I forget if it was multiple years or one year, but I played so much that like, we're here in Columbia, Missouri, the quality city for what should be a quality college

football showdown. I heard so many times, right, from Brad Nestler. Yeah. Maybe. To jump to 2024. And I haven't memorized it yet, but to get the same. Columbia, whatever. They are doing the same thing

where it's like they only have like one line maybe two lines for what Columbia is. And for a game that again I'm picking to play because it's going to be my favorite thing. It's crazy that you only have that few.

And I understand of course there's a much of other stuff happening where it's like, I think cool. You know, there's the A prestige team or a commentary team that'll call your game that you'll get throughout your season

when it's a big game and then you get the other guys when it's not. So it's that kind of thing I think that I'm playing in exhibition right. so I'm getting the A team, so I wouldn't be getting them every week in the year. I think that's really cool.

Yeah, I wish it's really cool, but it's like back to Mike's point of like, seven variations for every season. Yeah, and then like when you have the intros, there's like Ralphie the Buffalo running. Ralphie the Buffalo does not look great. He looks good, right? And I'm talking about the real Buffalo, not the mascot, right? Ralphie, the Buffalo, then they run on field. And it's like two seconds, right? Like there's this intro that will probably last you while the game is loading in maybe 10 seconds maximum of like,

hey here's the pageantry Ralphie's running in the Buffaloes are coming on to the field the cheerleaders are dancing and the crowd still looks the same from 2002 right and like that's unskippable the halftime stuff unskippable you cannot skip at all right

and so on the presentation side if I'm going to watch this I'm on the downfall of like when you think of Penn State you think of the whiteout game when I think of CU Buffalo Thursday night in October but I can't set that parameter

when I'm playing with you they should have these of like, if you're going to make a big stink of, these are the iconic moments. Why can't I in exhibition mode say, I want this on a, you know, night game, I want it to be white out mode, let's go, right?

Because I feel, I'm trying to set these up and I can't get that, which means I have to now play Penn State through the season, which I'll get the one game out of the season, which is the whiteout mode. No, I want to be able to set those. That's cool. That's kind of weird.

You can't do that. You know, yeah, I don't like that. When you said the Buffalo was not looking good, the real buffalo, not the mascot is what Mike said. I just imagine like the actual real buffalo in Colorado looking really sick. This dude is on. Ralphie's not doing well, yeah. Ralphie's on death's door.

And so, yeah, I also want to bring up, if we're talking about the look right, I played my first three nights on the Xbox Series S. And it was like, oh man, we took all the sliders and put them on low. It does not look good. The Xbox Series S version needs a big day one. You got sliders? No, no, I'm just saying like, when we play and you go,

oh, let me change all my stuff to low, that's what it looked like on the Xbox Series S. Now, when we were on the Xbox Series X, yes, it looked way sharper. It looked more to find it was a much better experience. But playing on the S, it was like, oh, how much are we charging for this game? Like, this is the full price title,

and we're going day one. I don't think that I wouldn't be recommending that to people on the series. $70? $70. Yeah. Obviously, yeah. And so, yeah, you got to play it on the X, on the PS5. Road to Glory is cool

You know It's just Did you create your player What position you play in? You have quarterback running back Middle linebacker CB wide receiver Right You can choose from like the big stays there

And yeah I mean It's fun to create a player And try to get playing time Depending on what school you want to go to Right No high school games You just automatically get drafted So like there is that

I liked those pre games I know we've moved away from that with Madden in the college games of like hey here's four games show me what you got I thought that was all cool I loved that right of like raising the stakes going from a one chip to you know blue chip over there would be cool but they don't have that anymore

I was always wanting to get to the meat I was what I want to get the heart of the matter so yeah I was like I know you all motherfuckers think I'm a three star but I'm a four star I'm gonna show you like Corey Graves from WWU is amazing broadcast teams are solid though I wish when we're talking about the pomp and elevating it right college game day is such a big thing

and I think that's when we're talking about ESPN in these sponsors, but you have Allstate in there, you have progressive, like they have sponsors but like, if we're going to do this where I can't skip the pregame, get college game day in there, show me this set have the guy, Lee Corso put on the headset like we used to. Not so fast. They were doing that before

now it's crazy that like it's day, it just feels like we're back to, it's day one, everything behind us, we've never done that before. This is day one. It's like, well, that's not true. We've done many of titles before here. That's fair. I mean the college game day stuff, right, that's all going to come not a business dealing.

And I imagine, again, after the juggernaut success, this is having one day in that when we get to Friday when this drops and it's insane, I think next year or probably two years out, more realistically, you've a better shot at. All right, cool. Yeah. Let's get some real partners in here. That's why I say, like, it's bare bones, but this is the framework of now I want more of this. I want this next year. And I hope that we can be in a world where, you know, EA sports college football survives. And it's solid.

And it's like, hey, we're paying those kids. We're making the deals. Let's go back next year. Right, because we did live in a world where it was you had choice between Madden and EA college football. And sure, they were both very similar. And you could call copy and paste, but you just picking whatever, you know, look that you would prefer of college teams and Madden teams. I want that again. I liked when we had that, right?

And so hopefully this will snowball into something good. Well, hopefully we'll get more and more updates for NCAA. College. What's the full title? Greg, give me the full title. EA. College football 25. EA sports.

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It's a Colorado Smackdown, ladies and gentlemen. It's a Colorado Smackdown, really? You think it's going to be that much of a... You think you're going to whoop his ass that badly? He's so terrified. He's so caught. He beat your ass and Madden. Oh, you remember that?

He beat your ass and Madden that one time. Silence for 20 minutes out of Greg after that one. I actually don't remember. It was real bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one where I mentioned how Gronk had, like, brain fluid coming out of his head or whatever. That was a great one. That was before the Super Bowl.

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We got dogs. And of course, we got EA sports, college football 25. So come with us. As we get set up, we get that beautiful sunny San Francisco. I'm going to buy new football. He's going to buy new football. Oh, come this way, Mike. Oh, we're going this way.

Take me there. Hey, everybody. It's me, Greg Miller. Welcome to your college football. football tailgate. It's going to be dark back here. You're going to be okay. Don't worry about it. We're coming back this way. There's ladders and things. Don't watch out. Nick, watch the ladders. Okay. We're coming out here. A beautiful day in San Francisco as we step outside and we get ready to tailgate. Because that's what it's all about. College football, is it about the game. Sure. But it's more

about the eight hours you drink outside. Yes, it is. You know what I mean? You got to come outside. You got a party. It's about the hours before, Greg. It's called putting in the time, putting in the work and giving love to your school and team. It's like, does the victory or the loss matter in the long run, no. It's about the friendships and beers you drank along the way. I'm putting down a couple of beers. Yeah. A lot of beers, actually, ladies and gentlemen.

Because we're going to party outside and having some fun. Greg, of course, it's the ultimate kind of funny tailgate. We've been outside before, but today it's a little bit different. Yeah. You can hear the drums behind you. You can hear it. We got the game over here. We're all set.

Yeah, yeah. I feel it. We got some Missou. Thank you, too. Mazoo. Thank you, Missouri. We sent us a bunch of shirts and hats. Yeah.

But Truman the Tiger, that if it isn't covered in beer, gets to go home to Ben tonight. He'll be excited about that. Heck yeah. We're going to make sure to protect that Tigers right now.