Sony San Diego Making Hockey Game?

[SoAwesome]

I guess for competition is good but their hockey games was garbage. NHL Faceoff was a terrible series.

[Fiddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoAwesome

I guess for competition is good but their hockey games was garbage. NHL Faceoff was a terrible series.

it wasnt terrible at all..

if they would have kept at it, it could be on the level with the show etc.

sigh, what if? bah..

[JimmyDeicide]

AHH many a late night spent playing faceoff 98 co op franchise and the sound of hits against the boards was just awesome.
Me and a buddy would pound coffee and stay up all night (had to get the kids to bed first you know)

Great fun. Great game.

[Simaofan-20]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoAwesome

I guess for competition is good but their hockey games was garbage. NHL Faceoff was a terrible series.

Gretzky(Faceoff) 2005 got great reviews
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2004/12/0...hl-2005?page=2

I remember their baseball games got 4's and now look at them.

[bigbob]

Quote: Originally Posted by Simaofan-20

Stanley Cup finals had around 6 million viewers

..and the World Series averaged over 17 million viewers. Almost 20 million watched Game 6. The NBA Finals averaged over 14 million viewers. NFL Wild Card Weekend had 37 million viewers.

6 million, comparing it to other top sports, isn't good.

The WWE averages over 4 million per Raw. The Stanley Cup, by viewers, is closer to the WWE than any of the other three major sports in America.

[daflyboys]

I love hockey and hockey gaming, but hockey fans are a different breed of animal and therefore, like soccer fans, can sometimes see the sport as superseding all other sports. I mean hockey gamers get worked up about the goalie's drink bottled not popping off the net on a goal and lack of group hugs, even if the game itself (2K) plays very similar to the actual sport.

It would seemingly make more business sense to produce a game that would contain a sports package which would include hockey. EA hockey makes it because of the EA name and the appeal to the younger, arcade minded crowd.

[jyoung]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoAwesome

I guess for competition is good but their hockey games was garbage. NHL Faceoff was a terrible series.

The early FaceOff games were a lot of fun on the PlayStation, but the series definitely had a hard time handling the transition to the PlayStation 2.

I doubt Sony San Diego is working on anything other than more MLB The Show games.

Sony as an entire company is struggling, outside of the relatively minor success their games division is having.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

Im all for more sport games but the last thing I want is another un interactive game like MLB The Show where its good to watch but not fun to play do to forced sim factors .

As a gamer and a huge sports fan I cant understand why anyone would wanna play a game thats lacks any true skill or interaction at key moments as the gameplay just comes off as a fraud regardless if the advantage favors you or the cpu .