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Quote: Originally Posted by Hal Fowler

I'm with you. It's easy to find reasons to not be satisfied. But the reality is, I get more bang for my buck from the NHL series than pretty much any other sports series of games. They could have added a fricking Kinect mode and it wouldn't deter me. If I could have had them add anything, it would be a mode like the 2K games, NHL Today. A living roster with updated lines and the same kind of awesome commentary throughout the season would have been awesome. 2K could have gotten my money had they just came out with this in a new hockey game. But NHL 12 will still generate 100's of hours of play for me. I like how the devs have improved gamesplay slowly but steadily over the last several releases. The game never feels brand new, but it always feels just a little bit better.

In your opinion Hal, the gameplay as improved. That's your opinion. I found that the gameplay this year was the worse I've seen for the last 3 years. I'm unable to play a game offline which I was doing in previous years because the AI is too dumb to my liking.

Did I play that game all year long? Yep, I did. Over a 1000 games online, maybe around 125 offline (previous years was aroun 500) and most nights, especially online, I had fun. It's just that offline, it's not been fun and it's cause the dev. team did a poor job with the AI.

I've bought NHL 2K10 just to see and the EA game is so much better in many areas that there's no comparison to make. Still, I can't understand how the little thing so much evident with the AI wasn't seen and corrected before going on the market.

Will I get NHL 12? You bet I will. I will expect a better gameplay offline and another great game (still with glitches and cheating but still fun) online. It's just like we all know it can be better and that's why it makes me so tough on EA at times.