[adayinthelife]

Quote: Originally Posted by FBeaule04

The problem with NHL is that the game is now build toward online (EASHL, HUT, etc) and you can't have long intro and long breaks that will make the game last 50 minutes instead of 30. For me, they should have an offline way to present the game and another one for online. Make people having the choice to live the experience of a full game with presentation and replays, tv-style intro, etc. Like I said somewhere else here, the problem with that game is that there's too much in it, and they can't have everything polished as it should be. Not an excuse, but when you have to work on 10-12 different modes, you'll have priorities and will left things without touching them that much.

That's what irks me about the series the past couple years. I play the hell out of these games basically year round, but since '09 it's rare that I'll go online.

It really has seemed like the game as a whole feels a touch unfinished in offline modes, simply because all the attention is paid to bull**** OTP and endless tuner sets, which typically do nothing for offline play. I understand there's a large online following, so by all means don't ignore them, I just wish they still gave a **** about offline to the degree that they do online.