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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
At the risk of being the fly in the punchbowl, I'd like to add a brief note here:
A lot of people are already comparing the WTHM game to EHM, and suggesting which parts of EHM should be saved, which should be improved, and which should be discarded. That's fine, I'd like to see the WTHM game take the best elements from every hockey simulation and incorporate them (I used to play Strat-O-Matic hockey -- there are a lot of good ideas there too).
But I've never played EHM, and I imagine there are more than a few people here who have also never played it. I'm excited about this game because I play OOTP, and it is a fantastic sports simulation. The only thing that draws me to the WTHM game, then, is the expectation that it will share many of the attributes that make OOTP such a great game. In short, I'm not looking for EHM 2.0, I'm looking for OOTP on ice. So I urge the designers to keep this in mind as they consider the suggestions offered here.
And besides, as I understand it, EHM is no longer being supported. If it was such a good game, why is it defunct?
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I agree with joe. I keep reading all these comments about taking this or that from EHM.
I'm not knocking the ideas, but I'd like to see what the developers have to offer with their version of a hockey sim game before saying it needs this and that from EHM.
I played EHM for a number of years, and it had a lot of good things, but it had plenty of weaknesses too.
I just get the impression that a lot of people are saying "base this on EHM".
EHM may have been the best at the time, but it wasn't the only hockey sim around. I'd really like to see what is in store for features, etc, and then be able to say - How about adding this or tweaking that.
Just my opinion but EHM is/was not the be all to end all when it comes to hockey sims, and jumping on the EHM bandwagon saying OOTP Hockey needs all that EHM stuff is jumping before looking.
Let's see what the developers have offer us first. As was stated elsewhere, this is not EHM 2, nor should it be.