2KHS lite (work in progress)

[DJ NEO]

"2KHS lite" is an NHL 2K3 graphical/gameplay/content mod developed for PC by djneo.

Hello hockey friends
Here is a 1st look at the 2KHS little brother...

[Fiddy]

Oh well, hello!

[DJ NEO]

Stay tuned...

[capnlarge]

I've had a hard time getting NHL 2K3 to even work properly on an emulator

[nikethebike]

I watched this, then played 2KHS. 2K came a long way in 7-8 years...


If you want to make a light version you should try to make 2KHS able to run constantly in 30FPS. That will make it available for many more. But my guess is that would probably be like redoing the entire mod from scratch?



But on the other hand considering the work you've spent you definitely deserve to spend some time on something else... 🤣


Good work mate!

[DJ NEO]

Quote: Originally Posted by nikethebike

I watched this, then played 2KHS. 2K came a long way in 7-8 years... If you want to make a light version you should try to make 2KHS able to run constantly in 30FPS. That will make it available for many more. But my guess is that would probably be like redoing the entire mod from scratch? But on the other hand considering the work you've spent you definitely deserve to spend some time on something else... 🤣 Good work mate!

You've got it wrong tho 😀

Watch it again then play some 2k11 on Wii and then tell how long way this game came.

The only thing I really miss is def stick and crossovers, everything else is worse and look worse (even for the Wii standards) vs 2k3.

There are some potentially great animations and neat features (in 2k9/10/11), but most of it so crippled together that I'm not sure if that can still be considered as bad direction, incompetence or straight sabotage.

It sometimes really makes me mad knowing how really far this game could and should be, but yeah, it's all very questionable.

[nikethebike]

Watched again.
Then watched 2K5 clips.



2K5 really had the best presentation of all NHL hockey games. I mean just the menu music... Damn.


It also strikes me how thin the models are in the newer ones.

[DJ NEO]

2K5 its where they started with the unrealistic chase camera angles, which totally breaks the immersion of a proper TV broadcast. 2K3 is a little bit better in this regards, but it is already flawed (when in 2K1 they build a great foundation with realistic camera angles and slowly ruined it)

After 2K5 they revert it back.
So if you want the best presentation search for NHL 2K6. But it lacks ESPN graphics, so ya again, 2 steps forward, 2 steps back

...Then again they started ruining it with 2K7 and 2K8 and the circles repeat with 2K9/10/11 where they have realistic cameras but haven't bother with stats overlays etc. So again.. 2 steps forward 3 back.

Anw., here is 1 st look at a proper broadcast camera (not a side view).
Still many pieces missing like better zooming and UP/DWN panning etc.