KevSkillz4
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Autumn of 1997. was really heyday for NHL games. NHL 98, NHL faceoff 98, Wayne Gretzky 98, NHL Breakaway 98, NHL Powerplay 98, NHL All star hockey 98.NHL 98 PS1 version- I hope one day they find a way to mod this game. I love this hockey game.
NHL 2K11 Nintendo Wii
NHL Legacy Edition
NHL 2004
NHL Championship 2000 PC version...hope for a modded version one day.
NHL 09
NHL Face-off 2000
NHL Hitz Pro
NHL 2000 PC version
It's been mentioned around here before, but the lack of competition really has made EA a 'stale' brand. I'm saying this as someone who is behind on playing titles. I'm currently finishing an NHL 18 Franchise run after not playing for six months.
Growing up on the PS1, I actually never enjoyed the EA style of game. It was too 'back and forth, one timer in the slot' type of game-play that was constant even on a more difficult setting. Their 'only' competition at the time was 989 Sports (Faceoff Series), and the random one-off games (Konami - Blades of Steel 2000, Fox Sports - NHL Championship 2000, Virgin - NHL Powerplay series)
I don't know the 'politics' of it - if that's even the right word, but are licensing fees that expensive where only one game company can afford it?
You would hope they would learn their lesson if it ever comes down on them they have to remove microtransactions, but all it'll most likely do is move into a subscription-based setup where depending on your "level" will account for how many bonuses and multipliers you get for playing consecutively. In that essence, they'll just gamify the game.More to do with exclusivity deals to kill off the competition. All these microtransactions is what EA care about. Rakes in fortunes. Forget about improving AI and simulation.
It can be done. Computing power for the consoles and current desktops are immense and going to get even better. But EA are not interested.
It's a shame as their founder Trip Hawkins never envisaged this. He has the same mindset as me when it comes to sports games. To make them as realistic as possible by including a huge amount of statistical analysis and actual strategies alongside the visual recreation.
Fingers crossed that legal cases to stop this scourge of microtransactions (kids pestering parents to buy packs) win through and force EA into a change of strategy or that other studios develop their own non licensed but playable games or that the regulators see EA Sports monopoly for what is. Anti competition.
Sports games could and should be far more advanced than they are currently but the dead hand of the money men as in film making and popular music where churning out product, style over substance in the name of mammon is all pervasive and they are not.
It's not the licensing that is the issue, it's the small target audience that profits are lowIt's been mentioned around here before, but the lack of competition really has made EA a 'stale' brand. I'm saying this as someone who is behind on playing titles. I'm currently finishing an NHL 18 Franchise run after not playing for six months.
Growing up on the PS1, I actually never enjoyed the EA style of game. It was too 'back and forth, one timer in the slot' type of game-play that was constant even on a more difficult setting. Their 'only' competition at the time was 989 Sports (Faceoff Series), and the random one-off games (Konami - Blades of Steel 2000, Fox Sports - NHL Championship 2000, Virgin - NHL Powerplay series)
I don't know the 'politics' of it - if that's even the right word, but are licensing fees that expensive where only one game company can afford it?
It's not the licensing that is the issue, it's the small target audience that profits are low
It's not the licensing that is the issue, it's the small target audience that profits are low
Correct. I don't see anything that states exclusivity as it did for Madden. It most certainly is a small audience and probably why EA has held supreme with it for this long. It can just take what it does in other games from basically the previous year and mash it into NHL and we'll all be happy with a new game.
KA-CHING! Blades of Steel!What is your top 10 or 5 nhl games?
mine would be
1.NHL 14
2.NHL 13
3.NHL 11
4.NHL 08
5.NHL 07
You actually got them backwards. '92 had team names but not player names. '93 had player names but no team names(hence the NHLPA name). '94 and onwards had both.I've been playing video game hockey since Blades of Steel on original Nintendo around 1990. These aren't just nostalgic, but I played all of these when released-
NHL Hockey (1992,Sega)- rock em sock em hockey, score goals and fight afterwards. Lacked team name licensing, so teams were named by their cities with appropriate colors
NHLPA Hockey 93(Sega)- Now teams have names and logos at center ice, plus fighting. This version was WAY better than massively overrated NHL94.