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Originally Posted by Dave Hansen
I have played OOTP extensively since v4. I am on the fence about this hockey sim.
OOTP is the sports management sim I use to benchmark against many other sports titles I currently play.
I am more interested in the NCAA option vs. an NHL career.
I've spent a fair amount of time in this forum and watching various on line videos.
My "take"...the NCAA option in its current state stacks up against OOTP 23 at a level of maybe 35%. The NHL option...75%.
I would appreciate in comments/insights, because I am looking at adding a hockey sim to my collection of sport sims.
TXS
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The NCAA element was only added this year, so it's very much in its infancy. I'd say from my experience that stacking sports sims up against each other almost always leads to disappointment. I grew up on Football Manager, any other sports sim seemed lacking in comparison, then I moved to OOTP and fell in love with that for it's own reasons, moved to FHM some time afterwards and kept comparing it to OOTP and it really affected my ability to enjoy my time with the game despite putting in >200 hours. Now when I play these games I just try to enjoy them each for their own nuances and I'd say that FHM is my favourite for many reasons currently.
If you're a Hockey fan and you're looking for a Hockey sim then this is hands down the best, it improves each year and has a passionate team creating it, the community with visual mods is engaged and always provides great content to help with immersion. If you're mainly looking for the NCAA mode I'd say just remember that it's not likely to stack up to your experiences with OOTP as it's just too new to be that polished.