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Originally Posted by kirant
I'm not sure it's exactly a failure of a game...just what you'd be expecting from NHL11. The feel is actually quite different and is definitely worth the money if you play BaP on a regular basis. As a player who loves to play pylon in front of the net, the jostling for position and the goalie interaction is amazing...combine it with the skip to shift button and it actually feels like a game as oppose to a tacked on feature...and regular games don't end up being "crank shots from the point" anymore (as my last few BaGM series have turned into). I really haven't noticed any freezing errors and don't play online, so I can't speak to the annoyance of them, but this actually feels like a game different than NHL10.
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I was mostly speaking about the lack of quality assurance. Freezing has been prevalent for years. I distinctly remember 2 years in a row where there was a "Disc Read Error". Last year Be A GM was glitched to the point where a fundamental feature, player growth, was all but useless as it capped XP at 1500 points. That latter error wasn't fixed until the end of November of this past year. I paid full price for a broken game, and had to use that broken game for over 2 months. Now, not every game is going to come off the production line in perfect order...especially when your production cycle is about 12 months. The issue lies in the fact the support for said game is so poor.
The offline modes are stale and recycled. It's good that Be A Pro got a little love, but how innovative and revolutionary is proper ice time and the Action Tracker...which was adapted from another franchise? And why, if the AT is adapted, not the in depth Be A Pro features from a franchise like Madden?
I would hope it feels different from NHL 10. It should feel different than NHL 11...or at the very least, more engaging.
Past and current mistakes, and their constant inability to address them, have cost them a loyal customer of 18 years. I might be the only one right now, but if someone with the kind of passion for the game of hockey and love of playing it on any level can become a discouraged consumer, I'm sure more will follow.
I still, perhaps foolishly, hold out hope for the next installment. If they fix the flaws with haste and to a satisfactory manner this year, that would be an excellent first step.