Official NHL 10 CAG Team REBOOT - CheapyD All Stars - Hockey Night Fridays @ 8-12 EST

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[quote name='Matt Young']Yeah, this looks awesome. I need to wrangle up some people to play OTP with on 09.[/QUOTE]

I've been meaning to play 09 to get back into hockey before 10 comes out too.
 
Has anyone placed their pre-order at GS/EB yet? If so did they have the pre-order card for the in-game Kane-Bauer Boost Pack available yet?
 
[quote name='GLOCKGLOCK']Has anyone placed their pre-order at GS/EB yet? If so did they have the pre-order card for the in-game Kane-Bauer Boost Pack available yet?[/QUOTE]


No.
 
[quote name='Vulcan2422']I have, but you don't get it till the game comes out. That's what I was told and that's what the link says.

http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=73760[/QUOTE]

Hmm, ok, I know that is what they say, but I think it depends on the store sometimes and if they have the pre-order cards in yet. I have had them give me the promo cards when I preordered in the past (NCAA 10 recently). I'm going to stop at my local store today and see if they have the cards available yet.
 
The cool thing for me is being able to have quests in your franchise mode. Now thats cool. YOu can still get juiced up while haveing some friends play too!
 
Threw my pre-order down today at GS/EB. They said they had more pre-orders for NHL 10 than Madden here. People are still lovin' the Pens winning the cup. They are doing a midnight release at the store so I'll have the game early on the 15th.

I wonder if the 9 point boost card stacks if you get multiple pre-order cards?
 
I pre-ordered on Amazon so I'll have a longer wait... but.
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[quote name='n8rockerasu']Bah! Why must they torture us so? Release it now! fuck Madden! We want hockey![/QUOTE]

Lippman is such a tease...

Amazing video. The only thing it needs is a release date...
 
[quote name='Pure Apathy']Well we know it'll be out on a Thursday. I'll guess either this Thursday or next Thursday.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, my guess is next Thursday. If it was this Thursday, you'd think we would have heard about it by now. So, maybe one more week? :pray:
 
Wow love that video. Demo should be great. Can't wait to re-live the Pens taking Game 7. I'm hoping sooner rather than later for that demo to show up on the marketplace, but with Madden just coming out they might wait another week or so before they release it.
 
Ya know... I thought I'd like having the after the play scrum time but, well that will make online play THAT much more of a fail. Almost like playing CoD4.

As for the rest of the game, it's pretty cool. Gonna have to figure out the new features a bit though. Like board play...
 
Good news on the demo, but this worries me:

[quote name='IGN']From what I've seen, the toughest piece of equipment is the gold helmet which forces you to play at least 40 games with your created player in three NHL seasons. That's a ton of hockey. Luckily for me I can just use my fake Microsoft Points on Partner Net (a set of test servers) to buy equipment. On retail systems each booster and piece of equipment will run you 240 Microsoft Points if you don't want to take the hard road and earn them for yourself.[/quote]
 
Well EA has really stepped up selling small pieces of content like that in the "10" line of games. Check out what you can buy for Tiger Woods, NCAA, and Madden when you get a chance. It is pretty insulting, but people buy clothes for their avatar so at this point you know these companies will sell anything.

All we can do is not buy them and hope that EA will not allow overpowered equipment to be used in OTP games. They did respond to complaints that the NCAA Dynasty boosters should not be allowed in online dynasty and they patched the game to allow the creator of the dynasty to disallow these items.

Although improving your individual player in OTP is part of the fun, the ability to buy overpowered equipment that boosts ability sounds like a bad idea. Didn't they learn with all the 99 glitchers last year that a level playing field (or at least one that rewards players for playing the game) is needed for OTP.
 
[quote name='Matt Young']Good news on the demo, but this worries me:[/QUOTE]

Yeah, Matt, that's pretty much become "the way of EA". It's not just NHL. It's practically everything EA makes (remember in Madden 07, they'd tried making people pay for the alternate uniforms and everybody went apeshit? I guess they found their golden egg by instead letting you pay to cheat).

It makes me wish that 2K would actually make better sports games so people would have an alternative to EA's money machine. But sadly, even paying for equipment upgrades is a more enjoyable prospect than playing NHL 2K10.

The only way I could think to get around this is taking your BAP character and simming as much of the seasons as you could to get the upgrades quickly (play 40 games, sim the rest). It sucks that we have to even consider something like that, but if anybody wants to compete with the people on Live whose only enjoyment in gaming comes from figuring out how to exploit the game, it's either that, or buy the damn upgrades (which I'm sure many chodes will do)

What bothers me most is that for the love of money, EA allows (and even encourages) their games to be exploited. It's bullshit and is the number one reason 2K needs to step up and make better games. I seriously doubt many gamers have "loyalty" to EA, and if 2K could make games at least on par with EA, they'd steal at least 50% of EA's business. The only solace I can take is that hockey isn't as popular as football, so there will probably be less asshats in NHL than in Madden. I'm still banking that the game will be solid though, so that should help.
 
But unfortunately 2K's games all suck. Is it really going to make it less fun for you guys though? Honestly if people are stupid enough to pay for dumb shit like this then that's their choice.
 
Sooooo much better.

Board play is sex, but I am a bit concerned that it may be a bit too easy to "engage" board play.

Goalies are definitely smarter, but still they still do some stupid shit. In my first game, in OT, I was on the defensive end of a 2v1. Puck carrier went wide to the boards, and I tried to pin him, but he got a pass that went about 5 feet in front of my goalie. He did a new "dive for the puck" animation, but he came no where near intercepting the pass, and left a wide open net for the loss. Also, "Well, we're going to a shootout.........................................Maybe..." is still in it lol.

Overall, lots of great improvements.

Unlisted controls tip: L Trigger + RB= drop pass
 
[quote name='moojuice']Unlisted controls tip: L Trigger + RB= drop pass[/QUOTE]

THIS! Ah, I'm going to fall in love with drop passes this year. There were so many times last year when I would carry the puck in on a break, and knowing how aggressive most people played on D, I wanted to just leave the puck for a teammate and skate free, allowing the D to totally destroy me, while the trailer behind me just rifled a slapper past the goalie.

Half the time, I'd end up firing the puck in a random direction, or worse, all the way back toward our own net. It's amazing what a difference actually being able to control WHERE you want the pass to go and not just "to the closest player" can do for this game.
 
[quote name='slickkill77']But unfortunately 2K's games all suck. Is it really going to make it less fun for you guys though? Honestly if people are stupid enough to pay for dumb shit like this then that's their choice.[/QUOTE]

NBA 2K9 is way better than NBA Live 09, at least. And yes, I know since I have Madden and did have Tiger '10 that it's all of EA's games. The "vote with your money" thing doesn't really apply to the game as a whole since those games are really good, and it's understandable that people will pay for them even while not liking certain features.
 
Yup, audio keeps going in and out on mine. I do like one of the options for my Defense character...."Tough Guy".......MUAHH HA HA HA

I probably will be one of those "chodes" that pays for the extra DLC. Hell I paid for avatar clothing and I got alot of free points from my brother in law. So fuck it. I'll use em for this lol.
 
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