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Suggestions/ideas for Rugby 2012

Bounce of the ball to be unpredictable.

Sidestepping

Real boots.

Manager mode.

Be a pro mode

More leagues like top 14 and magners league and more licences so you can have the real jerseys of teams and not just a mock up.

just everything more realistic.

more stadiums too like the aviva stadium in ireland and the etihad in melbourne.

maybe the weather permitting on what country your in like ireland sometimes rainy and south france sunny.

definatley a lower division of rugby to so you can be a team and bring them up to european level.


just have it fun to play because everyone is looking forward to it :)
 
Why could licenses be a problem now when they weren't before? I'm sure that many of you realise that the game was developed for EA Sports in the past. EA have fairly deep pockets financially speaking and I'm fairly sure that with EA not being involved this time around that it could make a massive difference to financial resources for the first ***le this gen.

If this ***le sells really well it might not be so much of an issue for future ***les.

Still, this is all hypothetical, maybe HB have worked very hard with the IRB and individual unions and made it clear how unprofitable the last games were. Maybe there are deals for licenses much better than before due to the IRB etc, realising that they can't milk this cash cow for anything other than promotion. I don't know, but I do know that HB will try their best for us. How do I know? Quite simply the more licenses they get the better it also will be for them.

Still, no-one is saying that we are hoping that they don't get a lot of licenses, we're merely saying to not raise expectations over our heads.

I see your point, lets just hope that this small point doesnt ruin what will probably be a great game
 
The two things i'd really like to see on the next game are;
***Tournament creator***
This is the one thing which let 08 down. Once you've done the competitions once you're pretty much done, a group randomizer or selection tool would help. The tournament creator on FIFA is incredible so maybe something along those lines.

***British & Irish Lions***
Really missed this from 08. Would like to see this put back in. If you can select squads and build a tour schedule you can get a lot of mileage out of it.

Other nice touches would be;
* An improved chip kick function
* Added reality option with more forward passes and knock ons in ad weather
* Alternate weather - Weather in a lot of games eems to be just for show so real weather effects would be good (i.e handling, sliding effected)
* Confidence/momentum - Massive in rugby games is the confidence, should a kicker miss his first kick then the next should be more difficult, this could also be applied to other aspects of the game i.e. handling, tackling etc.
* Stat Bank * - Gamers could choose one player or they're created player and can save all their stats throughout the life of the game.

One thing i'd also love to see is a career mode. When a gamer ets up a pforile they pick a club and country. These seasons could run symmetrically so its all club games and then internationals come in in the autumn and 6n's. Likewise for the Super 14 and Tri-Nations.
 
Dare i say it??????

Scrap classic matches and the world league and have a 7's option. With the 7's annual competitions and the 7's world cup imagine all those stats.....sorry....bit of a stats freak here
 
I'd probably ditch the footag eof past world cups. This probably takes a lot of space and memory and is one thing i haven't really looked at.
 
The use of the video ref, Be able to prevent the grounding of the ball over the try line if possile.
Real referees and there charicteristics.
 
Yeah I am loving the player signature aspect of the nest rugby game. How about a player has a signature at the breakdown, for example a team goes through 10 phases, thats another point the scoreboard I would love too see example the abs making 60 m momentum and on the scoreboard it indicates how many phases you have been through. But say wallabies go through 10 phases and gain 60 metres, on the goal line and you can select to richie for example, and you have to press a certain button with precision at the right time and riche for example could turn it over, as that would be his signature. Be a pro should ne included in the next game, franchise like in rugby league 3 should be included, the drop kick system shoulde be gooone, npc in the next game. Man of the match would be good, would love a system during the game, example player makes 10 or so tackles their is a indicatior by the player they get bronze star, and than eventually make more tackles, win lineouts, score tries they get silver, but only one player can get gold, so monitoring the player stats. I know players have goal kicking special abilites, but the special abilties are to vague, should have more special abilites such as turnover king, I realise their is rucking but that is more for retention of ball than turnovers, rucking should have more emphasis on turnovers, and their should be two classifications of goal kick specialists, and it should be based on power and accuracy; goal kicker/power goal kicker accuracy/accuracy, hence fancois steyn would be classed as a goal kicker with power and carter with accuracy. The rucking system should be more like jonah lomu allowed to compete, obviousley more state of the art in the system. Obviousley more star players; Luke Mcliaster still beleive is world class, nonu, smith, speiz, smith, f steyn, du preez, thorn, matfeild, bekker, roberts, s williams, r jones. Strategies should be implemented, attack, defenseive strategies should be able to be employed, and the charcter in teams should be improved, when teams are under pressure example all blacks on own goal lines they should reveal different traits of holding their line or not. Star players should have more of an influence, more of an obvious influence, last 10 minutes, tournament finals, stats should improve all be more tenacious, example close to line nonu should be almost impossible. Anyway their are my thoughts.
 
add more complex commentary i.e. commentators mention the bledisloe cup when its an NZ vs AUS match or currie cup etc.
more sophisticated world league/manager mode gameplay e.g. like fifa- talk to the press in conferences, manage trading/selling/buying players better, more realistic funding, no cap on amount of star players u can buy;.
 
Yeah I am loving the player signature aspect of the nest rugby game. How about a player has a signature at the breakdown, for example a team goes through 10 phases, thats another point the scoreboard I would love too see example the abs making 60 m momentum and on the scoreboard it indicates how many phases you have been through. But say wallabies go through 10 phases and gain 60 metres, on the goal line and you can select to richie for example, and you have to press a certain button with precision at the right time and riche for example could turn it over, as that would be his signature. Be a pro should ne included in the next game, franchise like in rugby league 3 should be included, the drop kick system shoulde be gooone, npc in the next game. Man of the match would be good, would love a system during the game, example player makes 10 or so tackles their is a indicatior by the player they get bronze star, and than eventually make more tackles, win lineouts, score tries they get silver, but only one player can get gold, so monitoring the player stats. I know players have goal kicking special abilites, but the special abilties are to vague, should have more special abilites such as turnover king, I realise their is rucking but that is more for retention of ball than turnovers, rucking should have more emphasis on turnovers, and their should be two classifications of goal kick specialists, and it should be based on power and accuracy; goal kicker/power goal kicker accuracy/accuracy, hence fancois steyn would be classed as a goal kicker with power and carter with accuracy. The rucking system should be more like jonah lomu allowed to compete, obviousley more state of the art in the system. Obviousley more star players; Luke Mcliaster still beleive is world class, nonu, smith, speiz, smith, f steyn, du preez, thorn, matfeild, bekker, roberts, s williams, r jones. Strategies should be implemented, attack, defenseive strategies should be able to be employed, and the charcter in teams should be improved, when teams are under pressure example all blacks on own goal lines they should reveal different traits of holding their line or not. Star players should have more of an influence, more of an obvious influence, last 10 minutes, tournament finals, stats should improve all be more tenacious, example close to line nonu should be almost impossible. Anyway their are my thoughts.

... Okay, what?
 
Hi Guys IF YOU LIKE WORLD LEAUGE READ ON HERE ARE SOME GOOD IDEAS BUT I WANT THIS ASWELL AS IMPROVED AI IN THE NEXT GAME.

Yeah, great suggestions so far so im happy with what everyone has said, so from a lighter side, i think that there should be more comentators. For Example.

There should be at least one comentator from each of the major rugby playing teams in the world, ie a french comentator for french top 14 games in the french language for those people who speak french and if France were to play South Africa on a tour then there should be a south african comentator with him or a choice of either as well as if it were a Australia England match there should be two comentators one from each country ounce again, maybe a poll to see who people would like to hear, this will make the game global and interesting. Another thing make some games where the stadiums are really empty and some games where they are really full and use photographic graphics instead of moving pixels shaped liked copy paste figures.

And This is my thoughts on a TOTAL MANAGER CONTROL OF FRANCHISE AND COUNTRY MODE.

I think that they should scrap the world leauge idea (not because i don't like world leauge i do but listen to my idea) World leauge is not realistic and will never happen.

There should be a manager mode where you start by choosing a nationality for instance because i'm from RSA i'll explain it on our format. Lets say you choose Western Province ie the Stormers, then you become the manager Coach of the team and of all the divisions in it so that means Currie Cup, Super 14 and Later Tri Nations and Springboks coach. So you start the Season off in the Currie Cup with your Star players gone because of the Tri Nations and you have to take a pretty average team and make do, come end season and if you make it to the Semi Finals , your Star Players Return and so do the other stars from the other teams making it a ballance ounce again just like real senarios today. All this time there are trials for the spring boks coacing postion ie if you complete the goals set out in the beggining of the season the closer you get. After the currie cup is finished you still havent been selected as head coach for the country so your next season is super 14 for the stormers staying with the same franchise and if you do well there again then you complete your goals to become head coach for the springboks obviously you will have all your players for that season as they do in real life bar injuries where if you can have a connection to the internet you can actually update and represent real injury and form senarios for each and every player. Now it gets even more fun because now you have taken on the job as Coach for both franchise and the Country ie Springboks, so you start your tri nations or four nations by selecting the players that played well that year as well as having a panel of selectors who base their selection on who played well in the super 14, but you can Choose who you like. Having said that the players average stats should be in the 80's barring really good and really bad players and the stats should be really flexible when your star player is out of form then hist stats come down from the high 90's to the low 80's making him harder to play with but if he is in form the the stats should go through all the way past 100 to a limit of 110 making him excellent to play with and the same goes for all the players. As well there should be a system where you have to implement a training calender where you can actually boost up your centers speed levels and focus on weight training ie giving the different stats and ounce again the better they play the higher their stats will rise taking a player from a 85 to a 90 over time but he can loose it with an injury , this i believe will give room for people to select their fauvorites and work with them and make them better virtually. Ounce the tri nations is finished and you do badly you could be sacked as head coach and you will have to wait another season to try again or if you do well then you go on to do a Northern Hemisphere tour as well as every 4 Seasons an inbound British and Irish Lions tour and the ever loved IRB rugby world Cup. There Should also after the 4 succesfull season be a Champions Leauge Which means the top 4 teams from the super 14 and the Heineken Cup meet to face each other in a head to head series between north and South.

This is total manger mode and fifa almost got it right but they lack the option of becoming head coach of the country as well. Now you might think ok well now that you take the head coach for the country job then you cant play with your franchise any more and thats just it you'll have to play with both Franchise and Country. And i've checked it every country has some form of a Currie Cup and Some Form of super 14 and the only major team that might be hard to get around is Argentina, But then i thought you dont have to choose the country from where you are playing with the franchise you can choose any country to become head coach, Example you could be coach Of Toulon and Argentina or Italy, make it flexible in those departments, but make the gameplay really tuff to beat so that you dont win every game. I also think autoplay option should be fitted before the match.

REMEBER YOU ARE STILL PLAYING THE GAME AND THIS WILL TAKE NOTHING AWAY FROM THE GAMEPLAY BUT YOU HAVE MORE OPTIONS TO MAKE THE PLAYERS BETTER AND, NOT JUST FOR THE 10 MINUTES MATCH TO MATCH LIKE IR RUGBY 08. IF THE PLAYER STATS INCRESE FROM THE 1 GAME THEY STAY INCREASED TO THE NEXT GAME AND IF THE DECREASE THE STAY DECREASED TILL THE NEXT GAME BUT THEN OF COURSE YOU COULD DROP HIM AND WORK ON HIM IN TRAINING AND BRING A NEW GUY OFF THE BENCH. This will be so much fun if they do it.

Have a think about it i like it and im sure all the rugby fans that play the game would love to be in the hotseat of being able to control everything. From the Air new Zealand cup to the All Blacks touring South Africa to the currie cup and the british and irish lions giving it their all, lets make the options simulistic.
 
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Include the Air New Zealand cup (itm cup).
2010 rugby world cup.
A manager mode type of game mode.
A harder difficulty than elite.
Cut scenes, for example before a line out it shows one of the jumpers or the hooker walking over to take the line out.
different types of tackle animations.
Player sizes. for example a front rower will be bigger than a half back.
 
Include the Air New Zealand cup (itm cup).
2010 rugby world cup.
A manager mode type of game mode.
A harder difficulty than elite.
Cut scenes, for example before a line out it shows one of the jumpers or the hooker walking over to take the line out.
different types of tackle animations.
Player sizes. for example a front rower will be bigger than a half back.

If would excellent if they changed the year of the world cup....
 
Hi Guys IF YOU LIKE WORLD LEAUGE READ ON HERE ARE SOME GOOD IDEAS BUT I WANT THIS ASWELL AS IMPROVED AI IN THE NEXT GAME.

Yeah, great suggestions so far so im happy with what everyone has said, so from a lighter side, i think that there should be more comentators. For Example.

There should be at least one comentator from each of the major rugby playing teams in the world, ie a french comentator for french top 14 games in the french language for those people who speak french and if France were to play South Africa on a tour then there should be a south african comentator with him or a choice of either as well as if it were a Australia England match there should be two comentators one from each country ounce again, maybe a poll to see who people would like to hear, this will make the game global and interesting. Another thing make some games where the stadiums are really empty and some games where they are really full and use photographic graphics instead of moving pixels shaped liked copy paste figures.

And This is my thoughts on a TOTAL MANAGER CONTROL OF FRANCHISE AND COUNTRY MODE.

I think that they should scrap the world leauge idea (not because i don't like world leauge i do but listen to my idea) World leauge is not realistic and will never happen.

There should be a manager mode where you start by choosing a nationality for instance because i'm from RSA i'll explain it on our format. Lets say you choose Western Province ie the Stormers, then you become the manager Coach of the team and of all the divisions in it so that means Currie Cup, Super 14 and Later Tri Nations and Springboks coach. So you start the Season off in the Currie Cup with your Star players gone because of the Tri Nations and you have to take a pretty average team and make do, come end season and if you make it to the Semi Finals , your Star Players Return and so do the other stars from the other teams making it a ballance ounce again just like real senarios today. All this time there are trials for the spring boks coacing postion ie if you complete the goals set out in the beggining of the season the closer you get. After the currie cup is finished you still havent been selected as head coach for the country so your next season is super 14 for the stormers staying with the same franchise and if you do well there again then you complete your goals to become head coach for the springboks obviously you will have all your players for that season as they do in real life bar injuries where if you can have a connection to the internet you can actually update and represent real injury and form senarios for each and every player. Now it gets even more fun because now you have taken on the job as Coach for both franchise and the Country ie Springboks, so you start your tri nations or four nations by selecting the players that played well that year as well as having a panel of selectors who base their selection on who played well in the super 14, but you can Choose who you like. Having said that the players average stats should be in the 80's barring really good and really bad players and the stats should be really flexible when your star player is out of form then hist stats come down from the high 90's to the low 80's making him harder to play with but if he is in form the the stats should go through all the way past 100 to a limit of 110 making him excellent to play with and the same goes for all the players. As well there should be a system where you have to implement a training calender where you can actually boost up your centers speed levels and focus on weight training ie giving the different stats and ounce again the better they play the higher their stats will rise taking a player from a 85 to a 90 over time but he can loose it with an injury , this i believe will give room for people to select their fauvorites and work with them and make them better virtually. Ounce the tri nations is finished and you do badly you could be sacked as head coach and you will have to wait another season to try again or if you do well then you go on to do a Northern Hemisphere tour as well as every 4 Seasons an inbound British and Irish Lions tour and the ever loved IRB rugby world Cup. There Should also after the 4 succesfull season be a Champions Leauge Which means the top 4 teams from the super 14 and the Heineken Cup meet to face each other in a head to head series between north and South.

This is total manger mode and fifa almost got it right but they lack the option of becoming head coach of the country as well. Now you might think ok well now that you take the head coach for the country job then you cant play with your franchise any more and thats just it you'll have to play with both Franchise and Country. And i've checked it every country has some form of a Currie Cup and Some Form of super 14 and the only major team that might be hard to get around is Argentina, But then i thought you dont have to choose the country from where you are playing with the franchise you can choose any country to become head coach, Example you could be coach Of Toulon and Argentina or Italy, make it flexible in those departments, but make the gameplay really tuff to beat so that you dont win every game. I also think autoplay option should be fitted before the match.

REMEBER YOU ARE STILL PLAYING THE GAME AND THIS WILL TAKE NOTHING AWAY FROM THE GAMEPLAY BUT YOU HAVE MORE OPTIONS TO MAKE THE PLAYERS BETTER AND, NOT JUST FOR THE 10 MINUTES MATCH TO MATCH LIKE IR RUGBY 08. IF THE PLAYER STATS INCRESE FROM THE 1 GAME THEY STAY INCREASED TO THE NEXT GAME AND IF THE DECREASE THE STAY DECREASED TILL THE NEXT GAME BUT THEN OF COURSE YOU COULD DROP HIM AND WORK ON HIM IN TRAINING AND BRING A NEW GUY OFF THE BENCH. This will be so much fun if they do it.

Have a think about it i like it and im sure all the rugby fans that play the game would love to be in the hotseat of being able to control everything. From the Air new Zealand cup to the All Blacks touring South Africa to the currie cup and the british and irish lions giving it their all, lets make the options simulistic.

i like that idea. it might be a bit much for a first gen game on this console to have the currie cup. npc etc but even if you had to take control of a made up club team before you got to super 14 level, e.g western counties instead of western province, then they dont have to worry about licencing for that because it might cost too much. i really like the idea of improving players and controlling their strengths and wieght etc. for instance if i was playing with the brumbies i'd get hoiles to beef up to 105/110 kg. i think he's about 98 ot so thats why he cant make the wallabies anymore.
would be real cool to develop players and combinations over a few years for the world cup.
 
Thats impressive. You appear to have foregone the formalities and gone straight into "projecting my opinions onto everyone".

The game would be ruined for me.

If you had said that the first time...

(My trying not to be confrontational isn't going well, is it?)
 

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