Dynasty Musings: NHL 11's Be a GM Completely Misses the Mark

[HeroWorship]

Re: Dynasty Musings: NHL 11's Be a GM Completely Misses the Mark

Oh god, what a nightmare.

And here I am, getting really excited to finish my first season in BeAGM, and I begin to hear about all this. I knew of the prospects, but the XP glitch and development makes this a bummer. Well, I can hope they patch it, so I don't have to worry. Because the game is excellent, much better than NHL 10 in terms of gameplay and features.

This almost compares to the lefty glitch in MVP Baseball 2004. That game literally got me re interested in baseball again. But seeing how I never could hit homeruns with left-handed hitters made me disappointed. (Thank god for MVP Baseball 2005. I still believe that is the best baseball game ever made. Sorry The Show fans.)

I pray for a patch. I still love the game, but damnit.

[canucksss]

I TOTALLY AGREE!!!! my biggest concern is that why on EA keeps udating the Tuner (now we have version 1.04) in a matter of 3 weeks and the bulk is to address the issue on ONLINE games. Neglecting the OFFLINE users!!!??? By the way, this could have been avoided if PRIOR TO THE RELEASE they addressed this issues that are ALREADY THERE IN 2010!!! (with the exception of 20 years old cant play in AHL). It's been more than a month now, we still dont have any sign that these issues are being addressed (cmon now EA at least addressed one of these issues raised during the tuner updates).

i really like this game.... but im afraid i like the game BECAUSE I DONT HAVE ANY OPTION but to play EA's NHL 11 fro there are no other NHL game outthere for this year. im still hoping that EA will addressed these issues before December.

[patsfan188]

Ok I just tried to trade Joni Pitkanen 81 OVR 27 YRS, 1st Round 2010, 2nd Round 2010, Washington's 2nd Round 2010 and 1st Round 2011 from Carolina to New York for Marc Staal 83 OVR 24 YRS and it got declined.

[DrPhibes]

Re: Dynasty Musings: NHL 11's Be a GM Completely Misses the Mark

Come on fellas. It's not THAT broken and it's not unplayable IMO.

Of course it would be nice to have semi-realistic simulation stats and to have the in season XP fixed, but I can deal with it. Players still progress in the offseason at a very fair rate and as long as someone starts the season at the draft you won't have top prospects hitting the UFA market at age 18. Yeah the trade market may be off compared to previous years, but blue chip young talent is worth their weight in gold because a) young b) cheap c) have them under control for several years. I like that one can't pull the sheep's wool over the CPU's eyes and load up on stacked young blue-chip talent while they agree to take back Wade freaking Redden.

Go look at NBA 2k11 My Player and how nobody can get past 20 games in because of a freeze. Could be worse.

[Segagendude]

Re: Dynasty Musings: NHL 11's Be a GM Completely Misses the Mark

...which is why I'm playing Season Mode and just enjoying the game.

I get to play as the Pens, Caps, and Blues along with the real schedule. When I have the time, of course. I'm gettin' old.

That sounds good. Question----if I create a team,(Not relocate, create from scratch) can I also just play a season? Or do I have to enter BEAGM mode?

[moochu2]

Re: Dynasty Musings: NHL 11's Be a GM Completely Misses the Mark

Any of you guys encounter an issue with guys demanding way too much money compared to their overall ratings? I had an 81 overall Adam Larsson demanding 6 million/year before he had even stepped on an NHL rink.

[onlybygrace]

That sounds good. Question----if I create a team,(Not relocate, create from scratch) can I also just play a season? Or do I have to enter BEAGM mode?

You can just play a season with a created team as well, Segagendude...

[Segagendude]

Re: Dynasty Musings: NHL 11's Be a GM Completely Misses the Mark

Thanks, Onlybygrace. Sounds like I'll be doing the same.

[Dave Pearson]

Thanks for the comments guys. I echo a lot of your thoughts, especially the lack of communication from EA Sports even identifying the glitches that currently destroy the mode.

[TDKing]

You left this off your list, " The option to customize season length in GM Mode 20/40/82".
Not wanting to sim any games and the daunting task of having to play 82 games a season
makes this mode unplayable for me.

[GlennN]

Come on fellas. It's not THAT broken and it's not unplayable IMO.

Of course it would be nice to have semi-realistic simulation stats and to have the in season XP fixed, but I can deal with it. Players still progress in the offseason at a very fair rate and as long as someone starts the season at the draft you won't have top prospects hitting the UFA market at age 18. Yeah the trade market may be off compared to previous years, but blue chip young talent is worth their weight in gold because a) young b) cheap c) have them under control for several years. I like that one can't pull the sheep's wool over the CPU's eyes and load up on stacked young blue-chip talent while they agree to take back Wade freaking Redden.

Go look at NBA 2k11 My Player and how nobody can get past 20 games in because of a freeze. Could be worse.

I agree, Doctor! Yeah, things could certainly use a tweaking, but it is not unplayable at all. I am in my third year of BeAGM and the prospects are progressing reasonably. Also, I have managed several trades (nothing unrealistic that I noticed).

[RealmK]

Re: Dynasty Musings: NHL 11's Be a GM Completely Misses the Mark

I agree, Doctor! Yeah, things could certainly use a tweaking, but it is not unplayable at all. I am in my third year of BeAGM and the prospects are progressing reasonably. Also, I have managed several trades (nothing unrealistic that I noticed).

Put me in the same boat, the sim engine does need some work, noone's going to dispute that, but claiming BAGM is unplayable is going a bit over the top. I haven't seen crazy trades and my players so far are progressing fine.

[Jgainsey]

^ Agreed

This article does a fine job of pointing out some the main issues, but the sky isn't exactly falling here. It's still very playable, and if you've played FIFA's Manager Mode over the last few years it almost looks sparkling in comparison.

EDIT: Also, I don't wanna sound like a dick here, but this is a game that OS gave an overall score of 9. If a game mode as important as this one completely misses the mark, what is OS doing rating the game so highly?

I know, I know.. some of these issues take time and hours of gameplay before they become apparent, but many of these problems can be singled out after some siming and maybe a couple of days with the game. I'm just sayin'...

[savoie2006]

JGainsey, because it takes time with the game to discover all these issues. If they rewrote their review now, I'm sure the score would be considerably lower.

[Jgainsey]

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Yeah, I have no doubt that they would. It's just that many of these issues really don't take all that long discover. Most of them would become apparent just by simulating a few season.

I don't wanna make a big thing out of it, or bash OS, or anything like that. I just found it odd that the game was originally praised by this site, only to have one of it's most important game modes basically declared broken.