I've been playing for about an hour or two, checking out some of the things that have been frustrating me about C22 and just getting an overall feel for the game and like so many other people over here I feel the game in its current state is really disappointing. I was happy to see one of the many items on my wishlist being added to the game, the licensed pads/gloves. But we still have the exact same shoes and glasses as the previous iterations. Nothing has been added there. And whatever happened to body logos? Last appeared in C19. I see we have an option to choose umpires, because personally, I just can't stand playing a test match and seeing Mike and Ross as the umpires. But, choosing umpires doesn't work, because you get two random umpires anyways. The Stadium creator is exactly the same as C22. FFS!! How hard can it be to add some new scoreboards and GRASS EMBANKMENTS!? I still wanted to see if the end names actually works this time. If I'm not mistaken for all user created stadiums in C22 the commentary would default to the North end and the South end? Can anyone confirm this? Will check it tomorrow.
The commentary... sooo many lines just recycled from C22. Some new ones but too many old ones used again.
The sound of the bat hitting the ball... what sound is that?? That hollow sound will haunt my dreams tonight.
Flying stumps STILL in the game. How does a spinner send two stumps flying?? What sorcery is this?
Fielding... not impressive to be honest. Fielders chasing hard and then they just about stop dead in their tracks before they pick up the ball in slow motion. The great Geoff Boycott's mum could have fielded better, and she didn't have any arms. Wish he could do some commentary, on a side note.
And my other favorite... Man buns and ponytails in club cricket. And the very first bowler I see... man bun. Why? Just, why?
Speaking of club cricket and generated players... please please tell me from which website did BA find the South African names?? Good Lord, I have never ever in all my years living here, heard 90% of these names. I just want to be able to edit these poor schmucks so they can have semi decent names that I've actually heard of before.
The licensing... I find it to be a pain in the arse. I look at the works of art you legends have created in the academy and then I look at the NZ domestic kits and I think wtf are we supposed to do with those boring uniforms? Just a team logo on the generic kits. No sponsors, nothing. AND no option to add any of our own kits to any of the licensed teams. I don't play online, I only play career mode, so why is it impossible to give us an option to play offline and have the freedom to customize the licensed teams and players so we can actually have a decent time playing the game.
The only positive or two I've seen is a stumping on one of the YouTube video's and the fact that when I scroll through the bats at high speed the game doesn't freeze anymore. Other than that, I would seriously recommend you lads wait before spending your cash on this game. And if I hear the words "the game had so much potential" and "Big Ant is a small studio" I am gonna lose my mind. We've been seeing so much potential in BA's games for almost 10 years, and with all the feedback and ideas from our little community here alone, it could have been light-years ahead of where it is currently. And the small studio excuse isn't valid anymore when you charge AAA prices, sorry.
Come on Big Ant, you have an entire community wanting to support you and everyone here is looking for the smallest positive details to buy the game, stop stuffing around lads. You're better than that.
I'm off to bed lads. Sure I'll wake up yo another 20+ fresh pages when I get back. Hahaha
Also... I know this is my Little Timmy's list of issues. I know the gameplay issues are far more important, but I reckon a 100 pages of complaints about gameplay covered the major issues. I'm out...
