I saw the name of your channel and instantly liked and subscribed! As a 37yr old gamer dad, this game is cherished part of my HS years. Lee Corso saying "he can scoot!" is burned into my brain, lol. great video.

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Agreed these games are a special part of my life with so many good memories tied to them.

I’ve been the Playing the hell out of NCAA Football 2004 on the GameCube. NCAA 2003 & 2005 were Classics as well!

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

The only downside to the GC games at least back on release is a franchise mode would take up the whole memory card. I do think the ea games of that era looked the best in the GameCube

@canttrustasoul.

17 күн бұрын

​@LameDadRetroGamer *you can do progressive scan mode on maddens on gc, which means the picture would be in 480p instead of 480i. Lmk if you can do progressive scan mode on ps2.*

I’m an anarco-communist gender fluid Buddhist vegan person of colour that’s from Seattle...I absolutely love the fact that someone like you and someone like me can connect with shit like this..mad respect to you man and big ups. Glad I found your channel

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

I love a comment like this. Thank you. At the end of the day we are all just people and need to treat everyone as such. Thanks for watching!

@pipingpepsi6665

Ай бұрын

Trans football-loving POCs unite!

@JimmiStone

Ай бұрын

@@pipingpepsi6665 damn right

I have to say man, reviewing sports games are your bread and butter. The knowledge and passion you have for this is clearly evident, and has me intrigued to fire this game up one day soon. Also, lmao at the StarCraft box scene 🤣. Great review man!

The very 1st NCAA football game I’ve ever brought NCAA Football 04 is where it all started

@LameDadRetroGamer

17 күн бұрын

And a fantastic game for you to get started with

This game was my childhood since it came with our PS2

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

It's such a classic and so easy to go back to.

I would agree that the NCAA games were more fun than Madden. I think it has a lot to do with the atmosphere around college football and the traditions, rivalries, and different stadiums. Interesting that you mention playing on higher difficulties results in the pocket collapsing faster. That's something I probably wouldn't have noticed but I did notice that coverage is much tighter instead of your receivers getting open by three yards. While I'm very nostalgic for this era of sports video games, the AI just cheats when you ramp up the difficulty. I'm not sure how they could have tweaked it but IMO it's much less based on skill when the difficulty is cranked up, and just sheer luck of how much you can stop the COM from cheating. Oh wow, I totally forgot about the Sports Illustrated portion... that stuff used to jack me up so much. I miss those details in sports video games. As you know, my first ever PS2 game was NCAA Football 2002 and I played that for an infinite amount of hours. Never got another college football game afterward but that series was great. I hope if it ever returns it comes back to the core gameplay and presentation that made it so special to begin with. Nice video, LD.

2001-2004 [NCAA/Madden 2002-2005] felt like a lifetime, and in some ways it was. Then you had the whole ESPN 2k5 and exclusive license nad switch to Xbox 360 and so forth. It was never the same again.

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

No it has never been the same. I really wish Madden would try and duplicate the ESPN broadcast now as I think that would go a very long way

@paulgaither

Ай бұрын

@LameDadRetroGamer - To be fair, in Madden 13 or 14, they copied CBS with Jim Nantz and Phil Sims. They worked with the TV crews where cameras were; they already had the stadiums built since Madden 2006 and made the press box accurate to each stadium; the end of the 1st and 3rd quarters had the then stylized commercial break cut and return anggles and replays. It was good, but everyone hated 13 and didn't give 14 a chance, and it was forgotten. Go check it out JUST FOR PRESENTATION and tell me what you think.

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

Yea 13 was terrible. I will have to check it out as I am curious. I know NCAA did the whole ESPN presentation for a few years which was really nice but not much since then. Yea hearing Phil Sims and Jim Nantz wasn't terrible.

I still play the classics on PCSX2 on my PC, it scales it up to 2K at 60FPS as well. These games kill anything out today STILL

@LameDadRetroGamer

2 ай бұрын

They are so much better than anything released today. Thanks for watching!!!

@oaklandtraphouse

Ай бұрын

Facts brother untouchable

In the early 00s Live was better than 2K, but NCAA 2004 is underrated. Could be the best one. My user skills in this game is crazy.

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

I agree it's definitely one of the best in the series. NBA Live had some great years as well. Being a rockets fan I loved seeing Steve Francis on the cover of Live 2002

Loved this vid man! Keep it up

You aint lien brother it was a great time to be alive. I myself didn't realize how good we had it in gaming back then

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

We had it so good. Better times back then

Question, you mention a stretched image, but also an HDMI. I really only have familiarity with 05/06. But in each of those games there is an option for widescreen display. You might already be aware of that, but if not it greatly improves the experience on modern displays.

Greatest sports game ever

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

It's an absolute banger. Thanks for watching

Ps2 era was the greatest era for sports gaming..

@LameDadRetroGamer

29 күн бұрын

We had it so good back then

@travissimmons174

29 күн бұрын

@@LameDadRetroGamer u aint lyin. I still have my ps2 lol.. All the 05/2K5 games.. Arguably the greatest year in sports gaming history (2004)

I honestly think that 04to 06 where the best years for this game I just think 14 gets so much hype because it was the last one but honestly the way the players run on 13 and 14 makes me sick the motion wasn’t realistic to me.

Unfortunately, NCAA Football 2004 on the original Xbox has a bug where the draft classs are corupted when transfered to Madden. They only work on PS2 and Gamecube. I read that EA offered some kind of a disc swap, and I don't remember which was to blame - the college game way it saved filed or how Madden read them - but if you don't specifically have that replacement disc, you are out of luck.

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

I had no idea about the bug

@paulgaither

Ай бұрын

@LameDadRetroGamer - I have a softmodded xbox and ran into the problem 2 years ago. I looked it up, and there are archived threads and conversations about it + an archived reply by EA from 2003. Back in the day, I played on Game Cube and never had this problem back then.

Amazing game! How about the lower level D2 games or non ranked games that didn't have any tv coverage thus no play by play commentary during gameplay. This game had it all!

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

I remember that aspect! I played a lot as UH and there was never any commentary. Such a classic game, truly one of my all time favorites

thats the game that had the new facemasks and dreadlocks

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

Hell yes it did!!!

GREATEST games during that time period!! Wtf happened?? 🤦‍♂️ I REALLY hope NCAA 25 knocks it out of the park!!

@LameDadRetroGamer

11 күн бұрын

Agreed! These games were bangers and some of the best in the series. Hopefully 25 is decent and not a half @$$ Madden clone

I picked up this game used back in 2020 and played the shit out of it (It was the game cube version)

@LameDadRetroGamer

11 күн бұрын

The gamecube version I believe looks the best out of the 3 systems but yes this game is so much fun to play.

I just finished a dynasty w umass , won heisman with a 72 over WR , finished with 3500 yards and 27 touchdowns. Great game. Hardest level on this video is very challenging to say the least especially with a garbage team like umass

I have every ncaa football game 2002 to 14 for ps2 and ps3

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

Such great games

Not ever played an American football game but this looks fun 👍

7:12 poltergeist confirmed!

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

They're here!!!!!!

Strangely enough NCAA wasn't a thing over here 😂 I have a NTSC PS2 now, so perhaps I can give them a look now 😉

And brad nessler

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

Yup absolutely

video gets a like just because wayne

6:00 Florida State looks awful! How many different shades of garnet and gold is that?

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

At least 37 LOL 😂

NBA live was better than 2k for a while when I was a kid probably till 06 when 2k made all the games $19

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

2k was going for the kill when they pushed out their games at $20.

Then a xbox game falls off hahaha

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

Just got to roll with it sometimes

@rcgodandretti2017

Ай бұрын

@@LameDadRetroGamer just had to do it for the playstation people keep up the good work

brock berlin was NOT that fast

@LameDadRetroGamer

Ай бұрын

That wasn't Brock lol but good catch

@rcgodandretti2017

Ай бұрын

Everyone was fast in the game

I got ncaa 2004 for original xbox

@LameDadRetroGamer

13 күн бұрын

That's honestly the best version of the game