Dynasty Musings: NHL 11's Be a GM Completely Misses the Mark

[TDKing]

You left this off your list, " The option to customize season length in GM Mode 20/40/82".
Not wanting to sim any games and the daunting task of having to play 82 games a season
makes this mode unplayable for me.

[GlennN]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrPhibes

Come on fellas. It's not THAT broken and it's not unplayable IMO. Of course it would be nice to have semi-realistic simulation stats and to have the in season XP fixed, but I can deal with it. Players still progress in the offseason at a very fair rate and as long as someone starts the season at the draft you won't have top prospects hitting the UFA market at age 18. Yeah the trade market may be off compared to previous years, but blue chip young talent is worth their weight in gold because a) young b) cheap c) have them under control for several years. I like that one can't pull the sheep's wool over the CPU's eyes and load up on stacked young blue-chip talent while they agree to take back Wade freaking Redden. Go look at NBA 2k11 My Player and how nobody can get past 20 games in because of a freeze. Could be worse.

I agree, Doctor! Yeah, things could certainly use a tweaking, but it is not unplayable at all. I am in my third year of BeAGM and the prospects are progressing reasonably. Also, I have managed several trades (nothing unrealistic that I noticed).

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by GlennN

I agree, Doctor! Yeah, things could certainly use a tweaking, but it is not unplayable at all. I am in my third year of BeAGM and the prospects are progressing reasonably. Also, I have managed several trades (nothing unrealistic that I noticed).

Put me in the same boat, the sim engine does need some work, noone's going to dispute that, but claiming BAGM is unplayable is going a bit over the top. I haven't seen crazy trades and my players so far are progressing fine.

[Jgainsey]

^ Agreed

This article does a fine job of pointing out some the main issues, but the sky isn't exactly falling here. It's still very playable, and if you've played FIFA's Manager Mode over the last few years it almost looks sparkling in comparison.

EDIT: Also, I don't wanna sound like a dick here, but this is a game that OS gave an overall score of 9. If a game mode as important as this one completely misses the mark, what is OS doing rating the game so highly?

I know, I know.. some of these issues take time and hours of gameplay before they become apparent, but many of these problems can be singled out after some siming and maybe a couple of days with the game. I'm just sayin'...

[savoie2006]

JGainsey, because it takes time with the game to discover all these issues. If they rewrote their review now, I'm sure the score would be considerably lower.

[Jgainsey]

Yeah, I have no doubt that they would. It's just that many of these issues really don't take all that long discover. Most of them would become apparent just by simulating a few season.

I don't wanna make a big thing out of it, or bash OS, or anything like that. I just found it odd that the game was originally praised by this site, only to have one of it's most important game modes basically declared broken.

[stlstudios189]

I just need to know with all these bugs should I get NHL 10 instead? I have been playing 2k10 and looking for another game to play

[onlybygrace]

Quote: Originally Posted by stlstudios189

I just need to know with all these bugs should I get NHL 10 instead? I have been playing 2k10 and looking for another game to play

Get NHL 11. Its not as bad as its being made out to be and the gameplay is really sweet. It's, by far and away, the best hockey game I've ever played.