NHL 12

[PP]

First mention of HUT in this thread....

Fuck that mode.

Worst mode in the world.

 

[killgod]

First mention of HUT in this thread....

Fuck that mode.

The best part about all the HUT nonsense was last year during one of the developer chats.

HUT was already announced but they were spilling things and it was their "big juicy info" for this chat. They had a poll going for what are you most excited about and it was like HUT, EASHL Improvements, Battle for the Cup and Be a GM.

HUT was a real distant 4th and the Andy Agostini guy was moaning and crying because nobody gave a shit about the stupid mode.

 

[wingsfan77]

First mention of HUT in this thread....

Fuck that mode.

Yeah I really don't understand the appeal o fit, I played it for a few games and got bored.

 

[Irish]

EA will always boast about Ultimate Team. I think for FIFA, Ultimate Team alone made around a couple million dollars. It probably makes them the most money for how easy it must be to create it.

I don't think it really works well for Madden or NHL. NHL had potential because of all the leagues, but it really isn't that much fun.

 

[leaffan]

HUTs beauty is it has that WoW grind feel to it. You have to play a bitch load of games to get anywhere or you can just dish out 20 bucks and buy yourself a stacked team. I put probably 60 to 70 games into it playing all offline mainly just during the day when I had 20mins to kill and I thought I had set myself up with a little decent team. I go into a tourney with teams the same star rating as me and it was just a rage fest. Thats when I said f it and quit playing it.

 

[wingsfan77]

I guess it's just because I prefer to play either EASHL or random OTP games, I've barely played off-line franchise and in comparison not a lot of on-line 1-v-1

 

[Rivers17ncsu]

I need to play online more on NHL 12. I mostly just played BAP.

 

[Ravin]

The idea of HUT is ok. But how it played it sucked. As leaf said, you could sit there and put hours into the game and still get no where. LIke I should be able to go play online tourny's and play against similar teams. By playing the lower ranked tourny's I should play similar teams, but instead, you get teams still stacked with all 89+ players, and you have no chance in hell of winning the tourny and getting the pucks you need. Much like buying boosts, by allowing people to just buy a team, they again defeated the purpose of playing. It was EA's attempt at the online franchise without actually making the online franchise. I probably won about 10 of those offline tourny's, and I still 3 1/2 star team. I got sick and tired of beating the piss out of the computer, then going online and getting owned.

 

[killgod]

The idea of HUT is ok. But how it played it sucked. As leaf said, you could sit there and put hours into the game and still get no where. LIke I should be able to go play online tourny's and play against similar teams. By playing the lower ranked tourny's I should play similar teams, but instead, you get teams still stacked with all 89+ players, and you have no chance in hell of winning the tourny and getting the pucks you need. Much like buying boosts, by allowing people to just buy a team, they again defeated the purpose of playing. It was EA's attempt at the online franchise without actually making the online franchise. I probably won about 10 of those offline tourny's, and I still 3 1/2 star team. I got sick and tired of beating the piss out of the computer, then going online and getting owned.

It's exactly how they want you to feel, like you have to spend to win. Can't imagine how many people actually decided to spend...then realized that they just paid money to defeat the whole purpose of playing the mode.

 

[Ravin]

First video should come out this week on IGN. If the video spends 3 minutes talking about a fucking sticker like other EA games, I'll snap.

Other then that, NHL video's are generally decent for us, and always have good shit in it.

 

[killgod]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/117/1170039p1.html

 

[Ravin]

Physicals still looking great, and I do like the goalie stuff, I just hope it isn't over done. The goalie fighting thing might get annoying as everyone will want to do it.

I like they are brining back all the old hitting stuff, glass breaking, hits over the boards.

 

[leaffan]

Well this game continues to shit on the other EA titles.

 

[wr50l]

I'm calling it now the goaltending this year will be the glitchiest it's ever been and the developers are going to be so busy all year trying to patch the hitting power and interference call frequency to sort it.

 

[Ravin]

I'm calling it now the goaltending this year will be the glitchiest it's ever been and the developers are going to be so busy all year trying to patch the hitting power and interference call frequency to sort it.

That is what scares me about it. Is every touch of the goalie going to be a call. Is the goalie going to have either a) some sick animation or b) some bubble that if you go in, it causes said animation.

I don't want 10 interference penalties a game on a goalie.


Although I will now say, OTP is offically dead. If human goalies were not bad enough when they wanted to go fuck around in a game, now they have the ability to fight and you just know some punk ass is going to want to do it all game.

 

[leaffan]

I'm calling it now the goaltending this year will be the glitchiest it's ever been and the developers are going to be so busy all year trying to patch the hitting power and interference call frequency to sort it.

Sounds like more easy goals for us defensemen. No problem there :smug:

 

[Fappin Raptor]

Although I will now say, OTP is offically dead. If human goalies were not bad enough when they wanted to go fuck around in a game, now they have the ability to fight and you just know some punk ass is going to want to do it all game.

Isn't that what hockey is all about? :shifty:

 

[killgod]

That is what scares me about it. Is every touch of the goalie going to be a call. Is the goalie going to have either a) some sick animation or b) some bubble that if you go in, it causes said animation.

I don't want 10 interference penalties a game on a goalie.


Although I will now say, OTP is offically dead. If human goalies were not bad enough when they wanted to go fuck around in a game, now they have the ability to fight and you just know some punk ass is going to want to do it all game.

Won't they have to sit in the box and thus put in a shitty CPU backup?

It'll be a quick lived trend I think.

 

[Ravin]

Won't they have to sit in the box and thus put in a shitty CPU backup?

It'll be a quick lived trend I think.

Well, by real hockey standards, no they don't. Unless they get kicked out of the game, I believe they just go back to the pipes and someone else takes the penalty for them. Which will be so fun sitting in the box while the goalie gets to play.

 

[killgod]

Well, by real hockey standards, no they don't. Unless they get kicked out of the game, I believe they just go back to the pipes and someone else takes the penalty for them. Which will be so fun sitting in the box while the goalie gets to play.

Yeah that's gotta be changed by EA then cause it'll be a huge troll opportunity.