NextGen Player writes:
"Sports videogame franchises have it rough. Year after year, you have to crank out your product and make a case to the consumer for buying your incrementally better game (at least better in theory). Not only do you have to bring something original to the table to set the new game apart from previous years, but the core gameplay can't change to the point where you risk alienating long-time fans of the series. NHL 10 is a game that offers a robust feature set that should keep hockey fans busy long after the Leafs have been statistically eliminated from playoff contention."
Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "With all this hockey hype in the air, we figured, what better time to look back at the best hockey video games to ever hit the ice."
That dude know nothing about nhl lol
To put Wayne Gretzky it a insult
He forgot blade of steel on nes
Nhl 94 is the #1
Nhl 2019 is terrible
Go play soccer game kid
"Downloadable Content is supposed to enhance a game after it's conclusion, expand the multiplayer or add new features to promote extended play. The problem is for every masterpiece of DLC like The Lost and Damned, a Grand Theft Auto IV expansion, there are just as many duds or cash ins. You may have your own list but here at GamePlayToday is our list for the worst DLC this."
That beautiful Katamari DLC was the worst. It was, as far as I think, worse than even the way EA bends people over.
But it all comes down to whether people are dumb enough to pay.
Why is it that anytime someone doesn't like a certain release of DLC, people are "dumb" for buying it? Is it at all possible that the DLC sells because there are actually people out there who want it?
Sometimes it's as simple as unlocking stuff in the game. What's the difference from people buying GameShark or CDX back in the day to unlock stuff?
I only disagree with you on the "unlocking stuff" part.
Devs could easily program a cheat code in...but they don't do that anymore.
There are a lot of games with cheats this gen. Multiple games I buy have "cheats" or "codes" right in the menu. They just disable trophies and achievements on my PS3 and 360. There's ntohing to disable on my Wii, so I put in cheats on that all the time.
@kennykramer
Yeah, but what I'm saying is the devs could easily program a cheat code for those who 'don't have time to unlock characters'. That way the people that don't have time can unlock everything right away (even if you have to punch the code in every time the game boots).
This gen many developers have removed codes like that, and instead you basically pay for the code through DLC. It is stupid and should not be allowed to happen. They can spin it like they want, but it is just greedy.
If you want to play with all Street Fighter characters (or whatever) right away, then the dev just has to program in a cheat code. It is a no brainer for all fighting games. People that don't want to earn characters get them right away (although I'd make them enter the code at every boot and disable it for online play).
If they want to play online with the characters, then I guess they could make the customer purchase them, but how long are these people gonna last online if they don't want to play the game to unlock people?
Either way you say it, it still works. xD
Plus, the PC had DLC before. Just saying. :E
Game Judgment's Patrick O'Rourke has been playing EA's NHL franchise for years, here are his impressions NHL 2011.
The be a pro mode is actually kind of cool, building your own play from the ground up has this WoW like character development addiction to it. I know a lot of guys that play it that have no interest in Hockey specifically just because it's a great time to play with a few friends.
