{"id":995,"date":"2007-07-18T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T01:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/18\/frustrated-with-passing-in-ncaa-football-08\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T21:23:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T01:23:54","slug":"frustrated-with-passing-in-ncaa-football-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/18\/frustrated-with-passing-in-ncaa-football-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated with Passing in NCAA Football 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a few more game, I am completely frustrated with passing in NCAA 08.\u00a0 Things are getting better, but at this point it appears that all passes are on the same plane.\u00a0 There is no concept of airing one out, lobbing a pass, or putting touch on the ball.\u00a0 Maybe I am missing something, but I do not have time or the inclination to mess around with sliders.<\/p>\n<p>Past versions of NCAA football suffered from being able to lob the ball over defenders and they hapless (and helplessly) watched receivers pull in the ball.\u00a0 NCAA Football 08 goes to the opposite extreme.\u00a0 Time after time I have a defender beat, but they manage to easily step in front of the ball and knock it down.\u00a0 I guess I am going to have to start searching various message boards to see if this is a problem or if it is just me showing my age and inability to grasp the complexities of modern video game football.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated in Columbus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few more game, I am completely frustrated with passing in NCAA 08.\u00a0 Things are getting better, but at this point it appears that all passes are on the same plane.\u00a0 There is no concept of airing one out, lobbing a pass, or putting touch on the ball.\u00a0 Maybe I am missing something, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/18\/frustrated-with-passing-in-ncaa-football-08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frustrated with Passing in NCAA Football 08<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}