Pucking Ridiculous: The Gospel of NHL 11

[PhillsPhan26]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vikes1

I'm a fairly big hockey fan, with being born and raised in northern Minnesota. You couldn't escape the sport up here if ya wanted to. But the last hockey video game I bought was Blades of steel. Fun game by the way. But anyway...that was until my son bought me NHL '08'. And I've been hooked ever since! Like the article says...hockey translates well in video games...and I agree. It's nearly non stop action, and a blast, and a very rewarding game to play, imo. Other sports games I've gotten bored me within a matter of a few weeks. Whereas with NHL...I'll play it from release to release.

I agree with everything you said here. I have a love affair with hockey (the sport and video game) that alot of my friends dont understand.

[Dazraz]

I'm still playing around with the sliders. What I have settled so far is to put all penalty sliders to maximum & aggressiveness to maximum for both the player & AI. This way you get a reasonably realistic number of penalties called per game. I've put the injuries slider to max also but so far it seems it only affects the injury frequency in played games & not simmed games.

[cepwin]

I enjoyed the article! I followed hockey in High School as we went to a number of Islanders games (this was so long ago that the one negative of going to the games was your clothes had to go strait into the wash afterwards because they still allowed smoking in Nassau Coliseum..ick!!) I didn't follow much afterwards until I tried NHL 10 and bought the game. Followed the league and played a little last year but with NHL 11 and the fact I'm not playing in a time consuming Madden league I suspect I'll play NHL 11 a lot more (and following hockey more too.) Personally I played my first two on-line matches last night and while I lost both I never felt I was being blown away as my attempts at on-line Madden. Two other things I loved was the fact I felt I was always in the thick of battling for the puck and that the games are fast...30 minutes or less.