EA Sports still Sucks (NBA Elite 12 cancelled)

[killgod]

Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide

Cliffs:

-They are going to resell one million idiots NBA Jam again
-Elite won't return until 2012 because they moved the franchise to Tiburon and everyone knows Tiburon sucks.

[jms493]

EA Sports should just make Hockey and Soccer. Leave everything else to the other publishers

[jms493]

Well I guess they can still make NCAA....that is still playable.

[Twigg4075]

I like NBA Jam, a lot. But fuck them if they think I'm going to buy another version when they offered ZERO support for the first one.

[BrntO4Life]

I laughed when I saw this yesterday on their Twitter (why I follow is beyond me).

Basically, you pay $60 for a couple new modes, "highly advanced AI", and the ability to get your rosters updated.

EA SPORTS. WE BRING THE LULZ.

[BrntO4Life]

Double junk.

[Irish]

EA Sports should just make Hockey and Soccer. Leave everything else to the other publishers

To be honest, the people who live for hockey and soccer complain just as much about FIFA and NHL as most of us do about Madden. It is just we don't notice it as much. We can pick apart Madden because most people that play it know the ins and outs of football. But then play FIFA or NHL and have very little idea about the minor details to the sport and just play it for fun.

NHL has fake real time physics, broken franchise modes, glitch goals and I am sure guys like Ravin, PP, KG will tell you NHL is far from great.

Same for FIFA. Broken manager mode, patches that fix Ultimate Team instead of gameplay, and the CPU is straight up retarded.

As I have played most EA sports games recently (never played Tiger Woods) I would not be surprised if they all run on a similar engine. They all have the same exact feel to them, with broken modes, and no real fixes. But then they make a new gimmick and sell the new one year after year.

[killgod]

What he said ^^

NHL is overrated as fuck because it took a great step forward with EASHL/Skill stick in 08 and 09 then completely shit the bed the next two years.

[Tengo Juego]

I laughed when I saw this yesterday on their Twitter (why I follow is beyond me).

Basically, you pay $60 for a couple new modes, "highly advanced AI", and the ability to get your rosters updated.

EA SPORTS. WE BRING THE LULZ.

I thought it was going to be a download-only release? Can't imagine a downloadable being sold at a standard box retail price.

[BrntO4Life]

I thought it was going to be a download-only release? Can't imagine a downloadable being sold at a standard box retail price.

I didn't check. If it's $15, I guess it's not horrible. Anything more and they're a bunch of loons.

[Twigg4075]

I didn't check. If it's $15, I guess it's not horrible. Anything more and they're a bunch of loons.

Yeah, maybe if it's that. Which is kind of what people have been screaming about for years. I wonder if it's a test project? People have been wanting EA to just release $15-20 roster updates/upgrades for years. I guess trying it with an arcade game like Jam isn't a bad idea.

[jms493]

well thats a shame...I thought Fifa and NHL will well deserved games of the sport..........bah.

[Ravin]

To be honest, the people who live for hockey and soccer complain just as much about FIFA and NHL as most of us do about Madden. It is just we don't notice it as much. We can pick apart Madden because most people that play it know the ins and outs of football. But then play FIFA or NHL and have very little idea about the minor details to the sport and just play it for fun.

NHL has fake real time physics, broken franchise modes, glitch goals and I am sure guys like Ravin, PP, KG will tell you NHL is far from great.

Same for FIFA. Broken manager mode, patches that fix Ultimate Team instead of gameplay, and the CPU is straight up retarded.

As I have played most EA sports games recently (never played Tiger Woods) I would not be surprised if they all run on a similar engine. They all have the same exact feel to them, with broken modes, and no real fixes. But then they make a new gimmick and sell the new one year after year.

I just look at it this way. The ratio of football to hockey fans on this site is like 100:1 if not more, so we hear nothing but what is wrong with football games. Hockey is probably the lowest sport here, so you'll know what is wrong in a basketball/baseball game before a hockey game.


NHL 09 - great step. Adding EASHL changed the way we played. It turned it from a 1v1 all the time game into something different.

NHL 10 - A little step up with the changes to EASHL and some add little things, but not as huge of a change from 08 to 09.

NHL 11 - Is broken in so many ways. For those of you who don't play, here is just a great example of it.

Krebs and I were remaking our guys for our EASHL. Now for awhile I had been playing with my players speed at 65 and I didn't feel as if my player with 99 speed was going any fast. So we first started out with krebs guy as the basis for it. I forget his guys height at the time, I believe mid-sized, and he had 87 speed and acceleratin. I jacked my guy up to 99 speed and accel and made him the same height. No difference in a foot race, with and without speed boost. Repeat with me putting my stuff down to 65 on both, again no difference. We would do this for about 20 minutes, remakings, having a 6"9' 230lbs beast vs a 5"7' 130lbs tiny guy with full boost race, and it results in a tie every single time. The only thing that gave any sort of "advantage" was me saying "1..2..3..go" over the mic.

So now when you see our EASHL team, we all are 6"9' 230lbs, speed/accel 65, Strength/Balance/Agility/Endurance (things the actually matter) all jacked up to 90+. Hitting is 95 for us all, so basically we now just bull over teams, averaging I'd say 40 hits a game, and what I would do with my 6"0' 200lbs player, I can do with my 6"9' 230lbs player. I make a sniper, so all my offence stuff is jacked to 90's, I put 90 into hitting and aggression and call it a day.

And is it any surprise this is the same year that 2kSports decided to not make NHL2k11?


And as pointed out, GM is fucked when you see guys like Eberle and Tavares sitting on the free agency list because their teams didn't make cap space for them and they end up going to other places because they can't afford the money.