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The Be a Pro mode in the NHL games went to crap when they decided to monetize the crap out of it.

Jayhawker wrote:

The Be a Pro mode in the NHL games went to crap when they decided to monetize the crap out of it.

+1

shag26 wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:

The Be a Pro mode in the NHL games went to crap when they decided to monetize the crap out of it.

+1

EA games in general go to crap when they decide to monetize it to the hilt. The Be a Pro mode was solid on its own. That was my point. How EA decides to ruin their products through nickel and diming customers is another story.

Just down to a couple trophies. One is that stupid "score TD on both sides in RTG" which I might have to try the "turn offside off and cheat" method to ensure. The other is the "win high school championship" which I have actually done 3 times already, and for some reason it won't ding.

I'm afraid I might not be able to 100% this...

By NHL 11, I looked at what you needed to do to earn boosts and such, and it was ridiculous. One was winning the Norris two years in a row. Considering my guy was still in the minors, I was looking at 240 games, minimum. That's if everything went perfect. And if it was that easy to guarantee, why do it?

Basically they just made XP so hard to earn that if you wanted to progress, the only realistic way to do it was buy your way. And that just ruined it even for someone like me that was never going to play EASHL games, and just wanted to play offline.

For what it's worth, EA did the opposite with Tiger Woods 13, as they provided plenty of ways to grow your player by just playing the game. They want to make their bank selling you courses. But at least you can play the game for $60 and enjoy it.

As for NCAA, I got a few games into a college season and got bored. Not interested in RTG at all. The Heisman stuff might actually be interesting though. The emphasis is on playing the game, not growing your player. If the challenges are similar to what NBA 2K11 did with Jordan, it might be a fun diversion while waiting for the league roll.

Got that "High School Champ" achievement. Found a helpful 360 post about logging out of XBL to get it. Tried the same on PSN and voila. So it really doesn't matter how much/little you sim or any of the other crap people were saying... it's just some bug about being online, and is the same bug on both versions of the game. Impressive work, EA.

Now I just need to get lucky with that offense/defense TD thing, which I have been trying to cheat for the last couple hours to no avail. Ugh.

Stele wrote:

Now I just need to get lucky with that offense/defense TD thing, which I have been trying to cheat for the last couple hours to no avail. Ugh.

Worked on that before/after dinner tonight. Scored a defense TD on a blocked punt in my 3rd game. Scored a couple manual TDs on offense, and then simmed the rest. No achievement.

Several people on both 360/PS3 achievement sites were the ones who suggested the OLB position so you could be on all the punt plays and block one. This is supposed to be the easy way to accomplish it.

I might go back to the "start game, super sim to the end" method and just hope that my player gets lucky.

Only one achievement to go, can't give up now, but damn this is frustrating to have actually earned it and get no credit.

EDIT: 30 minutes later I got it! Went back to the simming method as QB/CB, and in game 6 or so, it popped. Wish I could have seen it... was actually a 26-21 game, and I apparently sealed the deal with a pick 6 to put us up 33-21 with just over a minute left. 100%!

Stele wrote:

:lol: 100%!

No one likes you

I'm going to be so glad if they've fixed the DBs who can look back at the last moment and intercept a pass even though they had been beaten deep...and the warping/high jumping LBs. Ugh.

On the other hand, I had an amazing play yesterday in an offline game: opposing team is down 16, scores a TD. They line up to go for 2, but I had called the FG block out of habit. I jammed the audibles button to try to call something, but it was pretty much all FG blocks.

The QB hikes the ball, fakes a handoff to the FB, then flips it out to the HB who is running wide left. The only problem? My LB had broken through the line... He intercepted the flipped ball and ran it back 98 yards for 2 points.

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