Hockey is the best sport ever. Unlike basketball, scoring once makes a huge difference. It's not a given than a rush down the ice will end in a goal. Unlike football, it's 60 minutes of action, not 12 spread out over 60. It's physical and fast.
Of all the games Playstation 3 games I own, NHL 10 is the only non-fighting game that gets any regular play. I started playing it on season mode, following the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Ottawa Senators and the Vancouver Canucks. I like the Penguins and the Canucks and I picked the Senators on a whim. I've played all the games for those three teams until January '10, but recently I haven't touched season mode.
The mode that has won out is Be A Pro (BAP) mode. I've created a goalie with my name, and he uses a butterfly style to protect the net. BAP mode lets you either play your created player in a prospects game, or immediately start on whatever professional team you want. I like a bit more realism so I decided to do the prospect game so that I would be drafted. I think I was chosen 12th overall by the Buffalo Sabres.
What's great about the latest incarnation of EA's NHL series is that you can play the AHL teams. Under BAP mode, if you aren't good enough (or if you don't start with the prospects game), you will be sent down to your chosen teams AHL team. I have yet to experience that. I would really like to play for the Syracuse Crunch, but that would require playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets (who I couldn't care less about). If this was 2007, then it wouldn't be a huge problem to be sent down for the Sabres because then I would be playing for Rochester. If I get sent down, I'm going to the Portland Pirates.
In my first season with the Sabres, we were fourth in the eastern conference and we got all the way to the eastern conference finals where we lost to the Penguins. Maybe my second season will end better.
People ask me if its boring sitting around for half the game as the goalie while the puck is at the other end, being played with by the AI, but I have no problem with it. When the puck is in your zone, there's enough excitement. What I find most interesting about playing as the goalie is that if you lose, its basically your fault. The only time that I feel that the computer is being unfair is when I lose in a shutout. I have no control over the skaters, so it's basically the computer deciding that I'm not allowed to win. My other biggest problem is when the computer decides to pull me from the net. A lot of the time, its will 10 seconds left. By the time I get to the net, its 8. It's stupid when my team has the puck in the offensive zone for 30 seconds and I haven't been pulled.
One thing I need to stop doing is quitting a game halfway through if I don't like how it's going. I've only done it three or four times so far (out of 40ish games), but still, it is cheating and its me being a sore loser.
The title of this post isn't entirely true. In my previous post, I made a comment on how to do a cannon strike that is barely off the ground. I was wrong in my idea of buffering the jump during the back dash. What you do is perform the quarter circle back first, then jump forward and kick. That is all.
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I could never get into sports. It's all so boring to me. I can't watch them in real life or in games. Playing them is a bit more entertaining, so maybe it's the same when it comes to playing in in games too? Hockey sounds pretty okay. I got 358/2 days for my birthday from my other friend Peter, and that's pretty okay so far. It's cool that you can make your own character in sport games. I like doing that, even though most of the time by the time I spend like an hour making my character I don't want to play anymore. As for quitting halfway through the match - you should watch Tu play Fire Emblem. Characters level up with random numbers and he will reset for HOURS if the numbers aren't high enough. So with 3-4 times you've got nothing on him. He's done it I bet 3-4 hundred times.
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