OT: The All-Purpose Video Game thread: Part IV

[RangersFan1994]

Rangers improve their roster in the NHL 25 franchise mode. Rangers GM Lewis gets Kreider, Igor, Panarin, Mika, Smith, Borgen to waive their NTC and NMC contracts.


Rangers bring in Seider, Byram, Sanderson, Edvinsson, Vlasic (Blackhawks), Tkachuk, Sillinger, Laferriere, Farabee, Grieg, L'Heureux, Knight


Kreider 1st, 3rd and 7th for Tkachuk, Greig and prospect. Fox for Seider, Edvinsson and 1st. Etc etc etc


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[haohmaru]

Man, I love Civilization but $70.... woof. Who am I kidding? I'm getting it.

BTW, I sell a ton (3000+) of games on Mercari if any of you collect.

 

[LokiDog]

Rangers improve their roster in the NHL 25 franchise mode. Rangers GM Lewis gets Kreider, Igor, Panarin, Mika, Smith, Borgen to waive their NTC and NMC contracts.


Rangers bring in Seider, Byram, Sanderson, Edvinsson, Vlasic (Blackhawks), Tkachuk, Sillinger, Laferriere, Farabee, Grieg, L'Heureux, Knight


Kreider 1st, 3rd and 7th for Tkachuk, Greig and prospect. Fox for Seider, Edvinsson and 1st. Etc etc etc


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To each their own, of course. Personally, I can’t enjoy sports games if I don’t keep it realistic. It’s such a buzz kill when I would be 3 seasons into a franchise and see Crosby on like Philly because the AI is dumb.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

You got Jerry Lewis to play RW??

 

[nyr2k2]

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To each their own, of course. Personally, I can’t enjoy sports games if I don’t keep it realistic. It’s such a buzz kill when I would be 3 seasons into a franchise and see Crosby on like Philly because the AI is dumb.

AI trade logic in sports games has always been the one thing that ruined franchise modes for me. It just becomes so completely unrealistic it ruins the immersion. And if you don't begin with an updated roster pack it's even worse, because random dude who was an 82 at the begining of your franchise rapidly shows he's a 73 a few weeks into the IRL season, and yet he's getting traded for legitimate assets.

I don't really play sports games anymore--I swore them off after The Show and NHL 23--but I always wished there was some sort of live roster update feature in franchise where it would update player ratings and positions and things like that. Maybe that already exists and I don't know. But it would also be cool because often you start the season and there's a prospect on someone's AHL team and they're like a 70 or whatever but by mid-season IRL they're on the first pair playing 22 minutes and putting up points. Would be cool to automatically have that adjusted.

EDIT: Also the names of players that come in through the draft and free agency. I loved finding a catcher from Netherlands Antilles named Dontrelle Fernandez or a Japanese pitcher named Hyoshi McCallister.