Re: NHL 09 Preview
Great post Cat. and I agree 100%. I expect the focus on defensive tools this year should make it easier to play defense on the whole, but I suspect that if the devs did something along the lines of making passes connecting much harder, a more looseness of the puck that can hop over sticks and make passing less tape to tape on the whole. It would make getting quality scoring chances that much harder.
Its a fine line to cross trying to appeal to the casual base that makes up a majority of your sales who would hate the game that way, and us sim players who would relish it. I'd love to see them do it through sliders or at least have slider settings that really make a difference pending on which end of the bar its set to. Something like setting pass accuracy to zero would make it very difficult to make crisp passes when teammates aren't in open ice, as opposed to setting it on say 5 or 6 would add that magnetic puck to stick property for the casual guys that just want to play to score or what not.
Though you are right, its much more difficult to carry over all the neuance's of real life hockey to the video game equivalent than it is some other sports.
Great post Cat. and I agree 100%. I expect the focus on defensive tools this year should make it easier to play defense on the whole, but I suspect that if the devs did something along the lines of making passes connecting much harder, a more looseness of the puck that can hop over sticks and make passing less tape to tape on the whole. It would make getting quality scoring chances that much harder.
Its a fine line to cross trying to appeal to the casual base that makes up a majority of your sales who would hate the game that way, and us sim players who would relish it. I'd love to see them do it through sliders or at least have slider settings that really make a difference pending on which end of the bar its set to. Something like setting pass accuracy to zero would make it very difficult to make crisp passes when teammates aren't in open ice, as opposed to setting it on say 5 or 6 would add that magnetic puck to stick property for the casual guys that just want to play to score or what not.
Though you are right, its much more difficult to carry over all the neuance's of real life hockey to the video game equivalent than it is some other sports.
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