wingsrule
August 3rd, 2006, 06:56 PM
Does anyone else hate the cumbersome, large, fighting windows that cover half the screen when two players are challenging each other for a fight? It's absolutely ridiculous, I think, to have such a huge distracting window to block the actual game play to show a fight breaking out. On the same token, the strategy windows are just as much of a bother. If it was a "training mode" fine, but in the actual game, to have those giant headers come up is a joke. The line change menus too, are way to big. I like that you can adjust the actual time with the slider bar on how much time they appear on the screen, but still, waay too bothersome.
My suggestion to remedy all these scenarios is to create a " score / header bar " on the very top of the game screen, and have ALL the above info included in it, w/ out interfering in the game by blocking the game screen and game play. The transparent windows are a good thought, but are still an "overlay" and take away from the game I feel. Simply show both team name abbreviations, the score, time in peroid, which period, highlighted team who may be on the power play, pp/pk time, and possibly a momentum bar if applied, two players who are currently challenging each other for a fight, icon for a delayed penaly, and an icon for stragegies which are called by each team.(ie. H for help, C for crash the net...and so on, as not to take up too much space) I realize this seems like a lot of info for one title bar, but just look at an actual hockey game on espn or oln and you'll see what i mean. It's very neat and non-interfering to the game play, easy to see all info and quickly reference too, and would look just like a true sim hockey game, which the 2k series has had pride in doing since 03'.
My suggestion to remedy all these scenarios is to create a " score / header bar " on the very top of the game screen, and have ALL the above info included in it, w/ out interfering in the game by blocking the game screen and game play. The transparent windows are a good thought, but are still an "overlay" and take away from the game I feel. Simply show both team name abbreviations, the score, time in peroid, which period, highlighted team who may be on the power play, pp/pk time, and possibly a momentum bar if applied, two players who are currently challenging each other for a fight, icon for a delayed penaly, and an icon for stragegies which are called by each team.(ie. H for help, C for crash the net...and so on, as not to take up too much space) I realize this seems like a lot of info for one title bar, but just look at an actual hockey game on espn or oln and you'll see what i mean. It's very neat and non-interfering to the game play, easy to see all info and quickly reference too, and would look just like a true sim hockey game, which the 2k series has had pride in doing since 03'.