| vizunary said: According to EA chief executive John Riccitiello, in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, "We're boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play." God forbid you have to have some skill. I too enjoy NHL but I would NEVER want the game to be any easier, those people need to play Mario Party or something. Though I agree, most EA games are "boring" LOL Are you surprised that EA is shifting to the Wii??? They have always been the whore of the video game industry. Now all the piece of sh!t games that they made for the PS2 got last gen will go to the Wii, just with waggle now ;) |
well, i'm talking about all those extraneous moves. like left spin, right spin, fake right, fake left, deke, special move, drag, flip pass, saucer pass, direct pass, on-target pass, normal hit, big hit, ... etc etc etc.
needless to say, i don't even need anywhere close to all those moves. some of them are so ineffective the game is made more fun be eliminating those functions. i've trained myself to know how to use all of them, but it's just not fun. (i liked deflection, since it's perfect on a powerplay, but then they took it away for some reason. maybe it's too easy to score goals.)
what's worse, there're things you that you CAN'T do on a keyboard, only on a controller since you need the analog sticks and those shoulder buttons. that's just flat-out ridiculous. the keyboard has 101 keys at least after all...
they need to focus on what makes the game fun. like skillfully running a powerplay, better gameplay along the boards (this absolutely needs to be fixed... the dump-ins right now are stupid), better player positioning, etc.
the line-up adjustment screen from NHL 94 is still the best. i don't know why they moved to much less friendly interfaces in later NHL's.
there are just so many things that can be improved. i still use the top-down camera the most since i can see where all my players are and can make a pass that i intend to. yet they spend so much time making the graphics look nice in the more close-up cams.
yeah, EA NHL has really become boring.
the Wii is an epidemic.
