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Originally Posted by StormJH1 |
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Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed it! It's always the downfall of the "runner-up" franchise when they change the gameplan dramatically year after year trying to catch up. NHL 08 was a superior game that year, there was no denying it. Doesn't mean that NHL 2k8 was so terrible that they had to scrap everything about it. I like the goalies in 2k8. I like how responsive the ProStick is on offense, faceoffs, and defense, even though I don't like the shoulder buttons controlling shooting (changed it). And I hear the franchise mode was very detailed, which was the reason I debated between the EA and 2k products quite a bit at the time.
Look at what happened with the MLB 2k series, and it's very similar. 2k7 was a very attractive looking game that didn't play well. So, in 2k8 they screwed with all the controls, but also started over on graphics (and they were worse). 2k9 improved the controls, but they basically started over again, so the things was filled with glitches that were never properly fixed.
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It was a switch from Kush to Visual Concepts as the developer of both NHL and MLB that resulted in the scraping of so much that was previously right. It sucks, but VC had their own plans for each series and I feel they are on the right track. The question is, will the NHL series survive long enough to see the complete turnaround? They have already improved the graphics greatly over what Kush had in place and in half the time, as with the Offensive and Defensive AI. EA didn't build a champ overnight, so it's not really fair to expect VC to.