Personal Gaming Thread

[BoomerSooner]

Two commentary teams is nice, the three man team Rece Davis, Palmer and Pollack do most of the games and do a good job. Fowler and Herbie do the big game of the week and is a bit underwhelming and large gaps of silence at times.

There is a pretty decent selection of uniform options in the game. Oregon was odd with only 5 base uniforms in the game, of course you can mix and match from the base options. Not as many historic unis as i would like but it also seems like EA put in the uniforms that each school submitted. Kent State has like 15 different helmets available to pick from.

They did say they would be adding new unis over time, along with any stadium changes. They got the new additions to Texas Tech stadium in the game that are not even completed yet.

[BoomerSooner]

A few other bits. The snow is the same crappy painted on white mess from Madden. Teambuilder is providing some great looking FCS teams to add to play now but does not let you edit downloaded rosters. So you are stuck with how they rated and edited the rosters. You also can't replace the generic FCS teams with real FCS teams in an online dynasty. They will only replace an existing team using custom conferences, which is almost as broken as the simulated games. For example, while you can recreate the Pac 12 back to last year it frontloads all the conference games to the early part of the schedule with non conference at the end. You also have to leave two teams minimum in the Pac 12 and can't create new conferences. Only moving within the existing ones. This also can cause certain yearly rivalries (protected) to go away. They say in the conference customization you can protect rivalries but there is no option to do so. You can edit your teams schedule for each year but only non conference games and are limited to teams without a game scheduled that week.

[BoomerSooner]

For all the flaws I am still loving the game. More than excited to have college football back. The CFB25 team seems to show passion for the game that I have not seen from the Madden team in years. With some patches to the simulation issues and some tweaking to gameplay, plus some basic progressive lighting changes I will be a happy camper.

TLDR;

Hi everyone, long time no see. Happy to be playing cfb again.

My apologies for any typos or unintelligible thoughts. Typing this with Xbox controller with dim lights.

[Jason]

I'm glad to hear you're in remission after a tough year. I hope you continue to improve. BTW, I doubt anyone here holds anything against you for taking an extended break from the site.

I'm excited about College Football 25. I haven't put a lot of time into a football game in many years now. I bought Madden 24, but I couldn't get into it. I read that the players in CF 25 have a more weighted feel to them, which I'm hoping is true since all the players in the recent Madden games have a weightless feel to them.

[BoomerSooner]

It definitely feels more weighted. Also running backs are much tougher to get down. Even a solid hit stick tackle is no guarantee with a power back.

[Jason]

I played two games for College Football 25 and enjoyed them more than any football game I've played in years. The running game is especially good. I'm going to try to play Madden 24 again to see if it's just placebo or if CF 25 really plays that much better than it.

I also on episode 3 of 6 in Alan Wake Remastered. I've been wanting to play this for years and it hasn't disappointed so far. The story and atmosphere are great and shooting is a lot of fun too.

[BoomerSooner]

Loved the original Alan Wake and the DLC but did not care for Alan Wake 2. It felt more like movie based on a walking simulator with the occasional combat tossed in. Game looked great but was to slow and cumbersome and a ton of backtracking. I stopped playing a few hours in. May one day give it a second shot since I own it.

[Jason]

I finished episode 4 of Alan Wake last night and think this may be one of the best games I've ever played. I do have have 2 minor complaints though - I wish the dodge button was separate from the sprint button and was a face button instead of L1/LB. I also wish there were health packs available during some of the longer fights. I like games with regenerative health, but that doesn't help much in some fights when you're over-whelmed by the Taken.

To be fair, these complaints may be based more on my skill level as my son doesn't share my opinion on these. Either way, I highly recommend playing Alan Wake Remastered if you haven't already.

[BoomerSooner]

I might have to get the remaster on sale since I loved the original so much.


I don't play games on PC due to it being a relic, that struggles with Windows 11 updates. One game that always amazed me was Sunday rivals. Pretty much a one man team that did things with weather in football games not seen in forever. Light and heavy rain and snow. Also the lighting for the snow in different times of day is just beautiful.

[Jason]

That looks nice. It's like the football version of Super Mega Baseball. I'd get that if it was available on console.

[Jason]

I finished Alan Wake last night and absolutely loved it. My son already owns and finished part 2, so I'll probably give it a shot.

[BoomerSooner]

That looks nice. It's like the football version of Super Mega Baseball. I'd get that if it was available on console.

Speaking of Super Mega baseball 4, here was the 32 team Fast Food league I created.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuperMegaBaseball/comments/15exk50/32_team_fast_food_league/

[Jason]

That's very impressive. Too bad there's no roster sharing available for the game. 

I didn't give that game nearly as much attention as I should have, but I'll make up for it at some point.

[BoomerSooner]

Madden 25 Franchise and Presentation deep dive.

https://www.ea.com/en/games/madden-nfl/madden-nfl-25/news/gridiron-notes-madden-25-franchise-and-presentation

Nothing mind blowing, nice to see they are doing a few things with Franchise. Bought the MVP bundle because the price was really good to pre-order both. Still see myself playing CFB25 far more.

Would be great if 2K brought back a college basketball game.

[Jason]

Of course no gameplay was shown...