The release of EA Sports College Football 25 is less than 2 months away.
It’ll be the first college football video game to hit the market since NCAA 14.
The hype is enormous.
Expectations couldn’t be higher.
Everything I’ve seen thus far has been encouraging.
But there is one thing I’m not thrilled about.
In the past, your Road To Glory started with your player as high school senior.
I’d create dual threat QB John Rich of the Bowling Green Bobcats.
It was truly the best part of the game.
R. Kelly echoes my sentiment.
That’s a miss.
If anything, they should add MORE build up.
Honestly, they could go back even further than that.
If I had things my way, I’d dial it wayyy way back.
It’s your senior year of college.
Your Road To Glory character hasn’t even been born yet.
You’re playing as his future dad.
The game doesn’t even start with football.
It starts with you at the bar.
It’s closing time.
You’re 12 drinks deep, and it’s time to make your move.
You choices will determine what jot down of kid you’ll have.
You’ll end up going through a nasty custody battle that will deeply affect your child’s mental state.
So that’s pretty neat.
The secret will be to take home the wheelchair girl and stay up talking.
You fall in love with her despite her terribly inconvenient disability.
It couldn’t be a more ideal situation.
That won’t necessarily stop the game, but it will make things much more difficult.
But at least you’ll get a 4-minute segment on Sportscenter.
once you nail your kid, the game fast forwards 9 years.
They come home from school one day with a flier for youth tackle football.
He’s begging to play.
All of the cool kids are doing it.
You’re all about it, but your crippled wife is staunchly against the idea.
She just watched the Aaron Hernandez documentary like a week ago.
“, she says.
As soon as you make your choice the perspective of the game changes.
You are now in control of the kid.
The rest of your career is in your hands.
You’ll have all sorts of choices to make throughout your formative years.
Which could be a whole ass thing in it’s own right.
I could go on forever, but you get the picture.
Road To Glory mode is far too rich with possibility for them to simply start you off in college.
We’ll be missing out on the recruiting process entirely.
What an incredible journey you’ve been on.
You look up and there’s whole sea of girls making eyes at you.
You sire a kid and Road To Glory starts all over again.
It’s an ever ending cycle.
you’re able to play as generations of players.
Maybe you could even have multiple kids at the same time and play 2 careers at once.
Create the greatest football family in the history of football.
God damn it EA Sports!
That’s how you do Road To Glory mode.
