NHL 13 (XBOX 360) GWJHL Season - Week 6

I'm also good with simming my last game (guess I didn't realize we were still in this week) unless I can catch Psycho sometime tonight. I'm a bit busy, but I'll try to pop on around 9pm EST.

I have two games left in this current week, one against The Counselar and one against magnus. Pretty sure The Counselar is unavailable, and I haven't been able to catch magnus online. I'm fine simming either or both if we need to keep this rolling.

Northbound 35 on my way to Cowboys stadium, so no Xbox time for me tonight.

Yes, driving and posting.

Gang$ta!!

LooseTooth wrote:

Hey, sorry Green. My 7 month old has strep throat. He's been a little bear lately. I'm gonna be on there tonight around 10:30 EDT. Hope that works for you.

Perfect!

Okay, so the plan is to roll after LooseTooth and Mr. green play tonight.

Yay! Lost one more!

GG LooseTooth!

Spoiler:

God I hate this game. No, really. Slow, sluggish, random, boring. Complete sh*t. Also, I suck.

Rolled.

Welcome to Week 3!

Let's try to set next Monday night as our deadline.

Ugh. My week 3 schedule has the three teams I hate the most on it.

Pit at Tor
NJ at Tor
Tor at Wsh
Stl at Tor
Tor at Pit
Ott at Tor
Tor at Car

Two simmed games, two losses. Thanks CPU!

Here's my schedule for the week:

Boston @ Tampa
Boston @ Florida
Boston @ Ottowa
Colorado @ Boston
Winnipeg @ Boston

magnus wrote:

Ugh. My week 3 schedule has the three teams I hate the most on it.

Pit at Tor
NJ at Tor
Tor at Wsh
Stl at Tor
Tor at Pit
Ott at Tor
Tor at Car

Gotta wonder if the Blues are on that list. I have always ind of liked the Stars.

I have a fairly open schedule. Let me know what kinds of times will work for you. You're my only human opponent this week, so I have lots of time.

Mr.Green wrote:

Yay! Lost one more!

GG LooseTooth!

Spoiler:

God I hate this game. No, really. Slow, sluggish, random, boring. Complete sh*t. Also, I suck.

Thanks Green! You too! At the time, we were the top teams in our conferences.

EDM @ WSH
EDM @ PIT
EDM @CHI
CHI @ EDM
FLA @ EDM
EDM @ DAL

i have my cpu games done. going 1-2 just have 2 human games now between Boston and Carolina.

willhouse4078 wrote:

i have my cpu games done. going 1-2 just have 2 human games now between Boston and Carolina.

I'M GONNA BEAT THAT ASS! OH MY GAWD!

Eh, probably not. I can likely do most evenings after about 8:30PM EST. When can you go?

thats good for me as well i can do tomorrow say 9

Mr.Green wrote:

God I hate this game. No, really. Slow, sluggish, random, boring. Complete sh*t. Also, I suck.

I know exactly what you mean. I'm in the middle of a long losing streak - I mean, I don't remember the last time I won. I played four random games vs. the CPU tonight, and didn't score a single goal. 0-3, 0-2, 0-4, 0-3. The last game I actually outshot the CPU 33 to 12, and almost doubled possession time, but nothing goes in. I try wrist shots, I try slap shots from the red line, I try one-timers, I try wraparounds, I try every damn thing I can think of and the CPU goalies just laugh it off. Meanwhile mine's off getting coffee while the CPU team plunks in goal after goal. It's maddening.

Also, I cannot hit. At all. Defenders get anywhere near me and they're like %#@& Jet Li with the punches and knockdowns, but I line up a perfect shot and just bounce off their puck carrier.

This game is so painful to play. No, not the game itself. The menus and EA server connection stability. This is a joke. It took 7 tries to finish my game of Madden. And now I lose connection midway through the 3rd period up 3-0. I think EA is rage quitting on me because I am slapping them around so much.

And here I am, 5 minutes of "Downloading match schedule from server, please wait."

18 minutes to get from the main title screen to an actual game.

Boudreaux wrote:
Mr.Green wrote:

God I hate this game. No, really. Slow, sluggish, random, boring. Complete sh*t. Also, I suck.

I know exactly what you mean. I'm in the middle of a long losing streak - I mean, I don't remember the last time I won. I played four random games vs. the CPU tonight, and didn't score a single goal. 0-3, 0-2, 0-4, 0-3. The last game I actually outshot the CPU 33 to 12, and almost doubled possession time, but nothing goes in. I try wrist shots, I try slap shots from the red line, I try one-timers, I try wraparounds, I try every damn thing I can think of and the CPU goalies just laugh it off. Meanwhile mine's off getting coffee while the CPU team plunks in goal after goal. It's maddening.

Also, I cannot hit. At all. Defenders get anywhere near me and they're like %#@& Jet Li with the punches and knockdowns, but I line up a perfect shot and just bounce off their puck carrier.

Glad to see I'm not the only one seeing the truth.

All you f*ckers can go on pretending to have fun but in the end you'll all get what you deserve.

NHL 14.

Jayhawker wrote:

Gotta wonder if the Blues are on that list. I have always ind of liked the Stars.

I have a fairly open schedule. Let me know what kinds of times will work for you. You're my only human opponent this week, so I have lots of time.

Nope, not the Blues

I'm normally on after 9pm CST.

I'm loving the game so far. The Devils put up quite a fight last night, exchanging the lead a few times before I beat then 4-2 with an empty net goal at the end.

Fear the Leafs

willhouse4078 wrote:

thats good for me as well i can do tomorrow say 9

See you then!

I have all AI games to play this week. Started off with a 4-2 win against the flames

I'm 1-1 in my CPU games. I lost 1-0, and then snuck out with a 2-1 shootout win. While my location finder is off, I am also getting outshot now. All I have gotten down in this game is defense, and even that comes off the rails sometimes.

Leroyog wrote:

This game is so painful to play. No, not the game itself. The menus and EA server connection stability. This is a joke. It took 7 tries to finish my game of Madden. And now I lose connection midway through the 3rd period up 3-0. I think EA is rage quitting on me because I am slapping them around so much.

And here I am, 5 minutes of "Downloading match schedule from server, please wait."

It is completely ridiculous. You should see how long it takes to roll when the game has to sim 89 games. And I might consider getting more involved in trades and free agency if every time i went to a new page it din't take 20 seconds to load.

For what we are doing, it works well enough. But if this were a deep sim with lots of roster activity, it wold be a huge fail. EA's servers are fairly horrible enough. Designing an online league mode t hat requires the game to load data with every page view is one of the dumbest designed decisions ever.

And the lack of so many essential features that should be a staple in any online league type game is even worse. We can't look at past box scores. We can't look at a list of past and future games. I can't see who has games left to play. I can't invite more people through the game's interface.

Seriously, this feels like a pre-beta build.

Trades and free agency is much faster via the iOS companion app.

i do all my roster stuff early in the morning seems to work well in down time

UGH! So I was about to wrap up my last CPU game vs Calgary just now when I got a disc read error. I take the disc out--nice big ring right around the edge of it. So, my copy is screwed. I'm still not sure how it happened, either--my 360 lays flat.

I'll see about renting this from Redbox or something to finish out this week, but I don't really want to lay down another $60 for a new copy. So, my NHL time might be cut short this season We'll see though, I'll probably end up just getting it again.

That being said, my HUM v HUM matches for this week are:

EDM VS CHI (Rebellion Scum)
CHI VS EDM (Rebellion Scum)
SJ VS CHI (PsychoKillerZ)

I'm good for tomorrow or Friday 5pm-10PM EST guys. Saturday is kind of play it by ear, and Sunday would have to be after 8pm EST. Let me know.

There are places that fix that disc error for $5. Given how much I play the game, I usually have to do that at least once every year

I went through three APFB 2K8's. At least it plummeted in price, so the new discs weren't much more than five bucks.

As fr laying flat, I don't think it makes a different. I was forced to go to a standing position on my 360, and my research, including a bunch of people here, showed that there is really no risk in either postion. Now, if you move the 360 with the disc spinning, it's gonna be ugly.

Jayhawker wrote:

Now, if you move the 360 with the disc spinning, it's gonna be ugly.

Oh of course, and that's what is so weird about the whole thing--the 360 wasn't moving.

My fists however, they were shaking at the screen quite violently I had yet another OT game, a game that I lead 3-0 after the first, only to lose 4-3, and another loss. It was a pretty rough go of CPU games

I'll be picking up another copy of the game tomorrow. I would try tonight to get in some games, but I just don't think I'll be able to make it out.