Twelve Ways to Improve Dynasty Mode

[CurryStorm]

"I've been wanting Coordinators fo a long time."

You're not the only one. That list as a whole is great but there is one thing that I've always wanted. I wish that you could start off as an offensive or defensive coordinator for a school and only be able to play that part of the game; with the way you can sim through whatever part of the game you want on the PS3 and X360, I don't see why this can't be done. So if you decide to be offensive coordinator for Oregon (or whoever), you would only be able to actually play the offensive part of the game for Oregon but the rest would be simulated.

After your first season is over, the game would take into account what size school you coached for and how well your offense/defense did statistically. It would then give you a list of colleges that would be willing to hire you as their head coach. So if you had an amazing offense with Oklahoma (or a team of their caliber), you would have offers from bigger schools than if you did so-so at a team like Tulsa for instance. Or even if your offense/defense didn't do so well, no schools would offer you a head coaching job, and you could just stay another year at the school you're at and try to get better.

I feel you could do so much with this, and it would feel like you actually had a reason for becoming a head coach instead of just selecting it at the beginning of the game. You could get an offer to become the offensive/defensive coordinator at Florida or become the head coach at Buffalo. I always thought it would be neat to do something like this- create me as the offensive coordinator and my brother as the defensive coordinator for a school like Utah State. We both do well and get job offers from other schools to become their head coaches. Then I could keep up with what my brother is doing at his school and see who ends up with the better career.

Here's to wishing...

[MSU ILLEST]

These are the best ideas I have seen. I know it may be a long shot, but it would be great to see these things. I would even wait for a two year period (as long as I get roster updates) to get them.

[exeter]

some of the points are good in the article....however, they MUST do the following:
1) as mentioned by someone-roggie?-above bring in elements of NFL head coach. One in particular: CREATE A PLAY (WORKING CORRECTLY offensively: with all blocking, pitching, receiver's routes, motions, pre-play shifts, etc AND defensively: blitzes, coverages, stunts, crosses,etc... left free form up to the designer/player...............there may be some "cheese" on this at first but--if that occurs players can just agree to not allow that beforehand.
MOST ALL PLAY CREATION INNNOVATIONS COME FROM THE COLLEGE RANKS AND SO IT MUST BE THERE.
2) FIX THE OPTION (or optioning on the unblocked defender)!
3) along with the above introduce the shovel pass
4) bring back the opening toss and team/school specific entrances

[andy4theherd]

Differentiate TV Games - I know having more than one announce team is impractical, and it's understandable. However, why can't the broadcasts for regional, national, and game of the week type of games all be handled differently? One little touch is different intro music for each type of game. Another thing you could possibly do is have some sort of a different ESPN branding for each type of game. There are a lot of little things you could do to make big games seem bigger and lesser games seem more normal.

this would be sooo easy! just throw an ESPN2, ESPN U, Gameplan, ect logo up for lesser games! i too remember how sweet it felt to finally get a game on national tv with a small school. if i'm playing on ESPN on a Thurs. night, it should be a better atmosphere than playing at noon on Sat. with no TV.

[exeter]

GREAT THOUGHT andy4theherd,
Here's another vote for differentiating the audio/broadcasts. I think it could very easily be done by having EA release all the event specific commentary as user customized plug-in points. With all the unused memory on these next generation consoles--it is more than doable. True, there may be hundreds or even thousands of spots but it would give the user more customization--and that is what most want.
Example: upon 1st down event--replace brad nessler's commentary with either one's own voice (OR even-- for those with copies of historic games from ESPN or dvd or old radio broadcast--classic commentators doing old school games.........Think about having KEITH JACKSON or HOward Cosell or Curt Gowdy or EVEN THE VOICE from NFL FILMS john fucenda----TALK ABOUT SPINE TINGLING EPICS)

[exeter]

GREAT THOUGHT andy4theherd,
Here's another vote for differentiating the audio/broadcasts. I think it could very easily be done by having EA release all the event specific commentary as user customized plug-in points. With all the unused memory on these next generation consoles--it is more than doable. True, there may be hundreds or even thousands of spots but it would give the user more customization--and that is what most want.
Example: upon 1st down event--replace brad nessler's commentary with either one's own voice (OR even-- for those with copies of historic games from ESPN or dvd or old radio broadcast--classic commentators doing old school games.........Think about having KEITH JACKSON or HOward Cosell or Curt Gowdy or EVEN THE VOICE from NFL FILMS john fucenda----TALK ABOUT SPINE TINGLING EPICS)

[Onions]

I wish NCAA Football, or Madden, had some type of competition. Generally speaking, football games haven't evolved too much since the 2k Series went down. And since we all know NCAA Football follows Madden, without competition for one is basically killing the other. Hell, part of the reason people are so excited for Madden this year is because it seems like half the of the new features is being taken off of 2k5. Imagine where football games would be now if there was a competition to better one another?

Ohh, what could have been.

[AbsoluteFury]

Worst feature: In-season recruiting!!! It makes the dynasty go so slooooow.

The quicker to the next game the better.

[Roggie]

Quote: Originally Posted by AbsoluteFury

Worst feature: In-season recruiting!!! It makes the dynasty go so slooooow. The quicker to the next game the better.

If this isn't sarcasm, you should be slapped.

[six]

Quote: Originally Posted by wEEman33

The sad thing is, a lot of these features were in past NCAA Football games. I remember how awesome it felt to finally get a TV game for your small school back in NCAA '05 after playing most of the season off the national radar. A lot of this stuff has also been featured in College Hoops 2K8, which for my money, has the best dynasty mode in the history of college sports games.

I agree with the CH2k8 game...I wish EA could take what they did and implement it into their hoops game this year...but they won't, ugh.

That selection show was so amazing...he would even update each year...if I took UK to a national title in year 1...year 2 selection show "And the 1 seed in the Midwest regional, Kentucky, looking for their 9th national championship and looking to repeat as champs."

I love that game...wish they would make another, but back on subject, yes EA should do what they did in CH2k8 and it would be awesome presentation wise.