jymden
December 11th, 2003, 02:55 AM
I havent played that many games yet, but already there are a few things that really annoy me and id really like these things removed for the next version (or possibly earlier, but since you cant "patch" a PS2 game, ill have to wait)
thing to fix :
lets start with the most obvious, the gameplay:
the players are acting like the NHL dont want them to, hooking and interfering alot of players in the offensive zone, this is tolerated to some point, but at times it just gets rediculous when you circle the net over and over and the player in the goalmouth is getting pounded on the ice time after time... i havent tried to experiment that much with the sliders though, maybe i can find some middleground that in happy with...
breakaways, same thing there, as soon as you get a breakaway there is always a D-guy hooking you, and rarely a penalty...
The information displayed on the screen should ALWAYS be cleared when the puck is about to be dropped, and any information popped up on the screen during play should be just a sec or two, the biggest thorn in my side right now are the "line changes" boxes that always appear when the play comes to a halt, there should be an option to have these boxes removed and have the commentator say "and the flyers are changing offensive men, looks like the second line is on the ice" or something like that, or just have the boxes (greatly reduced in size!) shown in the screen for 1 second, no more then that!
the game time, id like an option where you can set the powerplay and the final minuite to realtime and all the other time to "accelerated" so that your chances of scoring while on the powerplay are way better then they are today (in accelerated mode at least), if you loose the draw it will be almost 1 min in accelerated time before you are in the offensive zone, thats just crazy!
the presentation of the game is ok, but to have an intro sequence that isnt possible to bypass is quite annoying, the same goes for the menues, it all looks fine but when you try to move around there are just to many "confirmation" warnings, like when you first start the game up and want to load a season, the game says that all the changes will be lost... What changes ???
the controller is another really big thing... if i cant control my players with the D pads instead of the joystick, im simply not buying the next game, there are no reason not to be able to remap the controller to change lines and stuff with the analog stick, or by pressing another button on the controller, the R2 or L2 for instance... and while im on the "swapping buttons" issue, i want to be able to swap the "pass" and "flip pass" buttons... but they are the same button, only one is with the L1 pressed in, i want a simple press of the "pass" button to trigger a flip pass... cant be done! - every button should be "swappable"
some other issues as well, as the problem with loading saved games, but i have not to experiance that so ill just take their word for it and say: please fix it.
Injuries, i havent had to many injuries yet, but im still early in my season so ill shut up about it, or maybe im lucky...
other then that, the game rocks
/jymden
thing to fix :
lets start with the most obvious, the gameplay:
the players are acting like the NHL dont want them to, hooking and interfering alot of players in the offensive zone, this is tolerated to some point, but at times it just gets rediculous when you circle the net over and over and the player in the goalmouth is getting pounded on the ice time after time... i havent tried to experiment that much with the sliders though, maybe i can find some middleground that in happy with...
breakaways, same thing there, as soon as you get a breakaway there is always a D-guy hooking you, and rarely a penalty...
The information displayed on the screen should ALWAYS be cleared when the puck is about to be dropped, and any information popped up on the screen during play should be just a sec or two, the biggest thorn in my side right now are the "line changes" boxes that always appear when the play comes to a halt, there should be an option to have these boxes removed and have the commentator say "and the flyers are changing offensive men, looks like the second line is on the ice" or something like that, or just have the boxes (greatly reduced in size!) shown in the screen for 1 second, no more then that!
the game time, id like an option where you can set the powerplay and the final minuite to realtime and all the other time to "accelerated" so that your chances of scoring while on the powerplay are way better then they are today (in accelerated mode at least), if you loose the draw it will be almost 1 min in accelerated time before you are in the offensive zone, thats just crazy!
the presentation of the game is ok, but to have an intro sequence that isnt possible to bypass is quite annoying, the same goes for the menues, it all looks fine but when you try to move around there are just to many "confirmation" warnings, like when you first start the game up and want to load a season, the game says that all the changes will be lost... What changes ???
the controller is another really big thing... if i cant control my players with the D pads instead of the joystick, im simply not buying the next game, there are no reason not to be able to remap the controller to change lines and stuff with the analog stick, or by pressing another button on the controller, the R2 or L2 for instance... and while im on the "swapping buttons" issue, i want to be able to swap the "pass" and "flip pass" buttons... but they are the same button, only one is with the L1 pressed in, i want a simple press of the "pass" button to trigger a flip pass... cant be done! - every button should be "swappable"
some other issues as well, as the problem with loading saved games, but i have not to experiance that so ill just take their word for it and say: please fix it.
Injuries, i havent had to many injuries yet, but im still early in my season so ill shut up about it, or maybe im lucky...
other then that, the game rocks
/jymden