NHL 08 Online (PS2)
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Printed Date: 04-20-2024 at 7:33am
Topic: NHL 08 Online (PS2)
Posted By: JasonSGN
Subject: NHL 08 Online (PS2)
Date Posted: 11-05-2007 at 10:10pm
Great games tonight Ted. I didn't realize until halfway through the 2nd period of the first game that I was using classic controls. I couldn't figure out why my guys weren't shooting when I pushed the analog stick  .------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN"> 
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-05-2007 at 10:12pm
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DOH!
Well, you certainly figured it out by the second game. Nice spanking. I may have to consider replacing my headset.
Lots of fun tonight. Gonna create a ladder?
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Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-05-2007 at 10:16pm
It was alot of fun. I'll create a ladder to track our games, but I'd like to do some sort of league too. Have any ideas? ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-05-2007 at 10:21pm
The ladder is up: http://www.sportsgamingnation.com/sgnladders/ladder-view.asp?categoryid=55 - NHL 08 Ladder (PS2) ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-05-2007 at 10:26pm
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How many games do you think we can play? |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-05-2007 at 10:28pm
Let's start off with about 12 - 20 games. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-05-2007 at 11:03pm
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Playoffs too or a straight best record wins the championship? We can always have a single tiebreaker game if necessary. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 7:48am
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I'd love to have a best-of-5 playoff series, but it would make the regular season pointless with only two players.
Also, when are you available to play again online? ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 12:53pm
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I am available any night this week. By best of 5 do you mean a playoff tournament instead of a season...or playoffs tacked on to the season? I guess the question is do you only want to play with NJ? Or are you willing to play with other teams like we did in the NCAA Football season? I think and East-West format would be fun. If you take NJ I'll take Vancouver, which is the closest team to where I live. We can play just within our own divisions, a home and away for each. That would be 16 games total, 8 for NJ and 8 for Vancouver. If we were close to even at the end of the season we could have a simple single game or best of 3 championship. How did you like 5 minute periods? Long enough? The medium game speed seemed just fine to me. Also, I joined the ladder so you can post your two victories. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 12:59pm
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I'm available any night this week too. Let know what nights are better for you. I can also play as late as 10pm during the week since the games are quick.
I was thinking about playoffs tacked onto a season, but would like to do what we did with NCAA Football. Can we work in a home and away series for NJ and Vancouver during the season to extend it a little bit. Hopefully it's close at the end of the season so we can have some type of championship.
5 Minutes periods are fine with me. What's the next option? 6 or 10 minutes?
I actually chose "Slow" as the game speed for our second game. I thought that's what you picked for the first game too. "Medium" is fine with me though. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 1:12pm
We could use the new standings site: http://www.sportsgamingnation.com/standings/index.php?conf=1 - http://www.sportsgamingnation.com/standings/index.php?conf=1
It's much easier to use and was made for hockey. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 1:27pm
| That is interesting, but wouldn't the standings look funny with NJ and Vancouver having 8 games played and all the rest having 2? |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 1:28pm
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Damn, I forgot about that. I just put the entire schedule in too. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 1:49pm
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5 minutes is fine for me too. We can stick with slow if you like. We can always do a home and away with NJ vs VAN. That would put us up to 18 games, still within your request for 12 to 20. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 1:53pm
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Let's go with "Medium" speed.
So the schedule would look something like this (played in any order):
Jason / Ted
Updated below. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 1:58pm
| Looks right. It might be easier to do the home and away for each opponent on the same night. In any order works for me, but I think we should save the big match for the end of the season. |
Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 2:06pm
| I like the colors to easily see who is who. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 2:20pm
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Jason / Ted
Upcoming Games
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 7:22pm
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Are you open for Wednesday night? |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 8:20pm
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Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-06-2007 at 10:37pm
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How did I play last night? I tried to play "smart" hockey but don't know if I really did. I tried dumping the puck on offense when I had a slow line on the ice and went for the breakaways when I had a fast line on the ice (Elias & Gionta).
I have no idea if my defense played "real" hockey. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-07-2007 at 2:01pm
What time do you want to play tonight? Should I use my headset? ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-07-2007 at 3:39pm
You won both games right? It looked like a hockey game to me. If you are adjusting your tactics to which line is on the ice then you are doing a better job strategically than I am so far. At this point I'm trying to study your play and find some weaknesses. I wouldn't worry about if I was playing "real" hockey. It is a video game and as such a representation. If there are tactics that work in the game that wouldn't in real life I would definitely still use them and vice versa that if there were tactics that were highly effective in real life, but not in the game I would avoid them. The dump in 07 was a prime example of the latter and thankfully is a much better tactic in 08. Edit: I just had a look over the old tactics and tutorials I wrote on hockey and realized there wasn't anything in there about defense. Perhaps I should write something up. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-07-2007 at 4:29pm
You're going to be studying for a loooooong time  .------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-07-2007 at 4:57pm
| Do I have to use the new controls? I would like to use my own custom controls if that is ok with you. I just can't get past fumbling with that shot stick and want to just play. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-07-2007 at 5:47pm
I was going to ask you the same thing. I was planning on using custom controls tonight too. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-07-2007 at 6:04pm
| I'm fine with that. I've tried and tried and I just don't want to learn the new tricks. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-07-2007 at 7:55pm
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We're not starting our season tonight, are we? I'd like to play some more exhibition games. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-07-2007 at 8:00pm
| I agree. Two more exhibition games tonight if possible. I'll be using Vancouver and bringing a bucket full of aggression. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-08-2007 at 10:40am
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Medium speed seems perfect to me.
Are you leaning towards 10-minutes periods now? If so, we may have to limit our games to one a night or we can save the 10-minutes periods for certain games (playoffs, Devils vs Canucks). Let me know what you think.
BTW, I still haven't played an entire offline game yet. The only other time I've played, besides playing against you online, was when I played one period when I first bought the game. I'm hoping to play some offline games tonight though. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-08-2007 at 12:40pm
| I just wanted to give the 10 minutes a try to see how long it lasted (in real time). I noticed our shots were a little low in all three games. But we can stick to 5 minutes for the sake of efficiency and getting through the schedule. I have no problem with it. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-08-2007 at 1:07pm
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Let's try another exhibition game at 10 minutes and see how it goes. I'm in no rush to finish the season. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-08-2007 at 5:37pm
| OK...interested in trying slow game speed again? |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-08-2007 at 5:51pm
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I was very happy with the Medium speed. Do you want to try Slow again? ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-08-2007 at 11:02pm
| No, we'll just stick with medium then. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 11:09am
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Can you play an exhibition game (10-minute periods) at 9pm tonight? We can make this our final exhibition before we start the season. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 1:51pm
| I should be able to. I'll confirm a bit later today. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 1:57pm
No problem. I'm hopelessly hooked on this game. Last night I had to fight the side-effects of Nyquil to squeeze in my first full game against the CPU. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 6:47pm
| 9 pm might be cutting it close if we need to go grocery shopping. Is 10pm not workable? 9:30? |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 8:03pm
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I always watch "The Soup" with my wife on Friday at 10pm and Bill Maher at 11pm. I could always squeeze a game in from 9:30pm - 10pm or 10:30pm - 11pm but I really wanted to try out 10 minutes periods.
How are you looking for tomorrow night? Actually, if I'm not too tired (or asleep) after Bill Maher, would you be able to play at midnight EST? I can't guarantee that I'll make it though. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 9:03pm
| I just got home...want to try? (9:05) |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 9:15pm
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Relax and enjoy dinner. We'll try later. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 9:27pm
| Already ate. Oh well. I'll be flying online with my son starting at 11 your time so I guess we'll try for Saturday night? |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-09-2007 at 11:12pm
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Arrrgh!!! The season finale of Bill Maher was canceled due to the Writers Guild strike. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: TedSGN
Date Posted: 11-10-2007 at 12:45am
| Oh man. Bad timing all around. |
Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-11-2007 at 12:57am
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I just won the Stanley Cup on "Medium" difficulty - I jumped right into the playoffs though and skipped the regular season. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-11-2007 at 7:35pm
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Ted,
Do you use the shot-stick offline? I was testing it out in the free-for-all mode and really like how intuitive and responsive it is. The reviewer from http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/sports/nhl08/review.html - Gamespot that said the shot-stick is unresponsive has no idea what he's talking about. It's a shame you can't use custom controls with the shot-stick though. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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Posted By: JasonSGN
Date Posted: 11-13-2007 at 11:35pm
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Good games tonight Ted. ------------- http://profile.mygamercard.net/JasonSGN">
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