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Originally Posted by AR_Six
^Fully, 100% agree. There is still a lot of holdover from the 16bit games where it obviously was just a video game loosely based on hockey. The technology is now available where they could make it into a reasonably accurate simulation but haven't taken that step yet for fear it would narrow their market. Which is fully understandable. But I'd love to play the "flight simulator" version of NHL.
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This is probably going to come across a little douchy, but I don't intend it to be....
The only version of hockey that will be realistic is actually playing hockey. No video game is going to have the same intangibles that playing a real game of hockey has, and I'm ok with that.
I really like what they have done with NHL this year and it looks very good. All sports games will always have an arcadey feel too them, they aren't meant to be a true simulation of the sport; If they were the game would be too frustrating to play. I don't think people would enjoy the 82 games grinding it out playing a perfect version of hockey, look at how much you invest into just watching the 82 games. These sports video games do need to have arcadey elements to them or they wouldn't be fun to play for a huge amount of people.