>Absolutely dominates for a decade>Barely relevant these daysWhat video game franchise is the equivalent of this?
>>719394108Halo
>>719394108WoW
>>719394108Ferris Bueller
>>719394108Blizzard. Pick any of their games.All juggernauts in their prime. All dead and buried.
>>719394108Playstation
>>719394108Square enix
>>719394108>Absolutely dominant for 5 years in the 90s>Arguably one of the worst products on the market ever since
>>719394108Not franchise but rare
>>719397595SEGA
>>719397457That was straight up incompetents. Like they captured lighting in a bottle with multiple hits and just fumbled it
>>719397595>Absolutely dominant for a few years in the 90s>Absolutely dogshit ever since then>But for some reason the fanbase thinks that the next showing will be good
Has a dynastic run for 5 years — then their success is completely overshadowed by the fact a coach was raping and molesting their players. Equivalent to this?
>>719394108Sierra
>>719398028whoops
didn't expect a wings thread this morning. don't care if they're shit now, the joy they brought me as a kid winning cups left and right is enough for me. I have a pic of me as a 9 year old and my family with the 2002 Stanley cup
>>719397973what is pokemon
>complete joke of a company for decades before abruptly becoming the best in the industry
favorite hockey vidya?
>>719398289Hitz 03
>>719394108>be red wings fanAnon it's fucking August why are you already ruining my days?
>>719398204I still hate this logo
>>719398289picI don't know shit about hockey, my dad just got me the game as a kid because I liked NFL Blitz.
>>719394108Half-Life>>719397595Sega as a company>>719397973Mortal Kombat>>719398028>>719398101Blizzard>>719398204Larian
>>719398450>>719398363damn I'm a blitzfag but missed out on this one because I neglected my gamecube. did it age well?
>>719398289Not my favorite but this was the last good NHL. The game has barely changed in 12 years
Behead Chris Illitch and resurrect his dad using necromancy.There, I just fixed the Wings.
>>719398204>wins exclusively due to tax laws, along with vegass and dallassAny games like this?
>>719394108Idk what videogame logo that even is, anon
>>719398676it's one of the teams in the EA NHL franchise.
>>719397973Getting rid Parsons is gonna be a game-changer. This year's the year.
Remember that year when like 2/3s of the Wings roster was hall of famers and they just clowned the entire league?
i feel like if there isn't a single sport out there that you enjoy you're probably a failed male
>>719398829You're also a failed male if you enjoy soccer. But yes, otherwise you're correct.
>>719397878'they' fumbled it by firing their competent staff & overhauling the company.The 'they' who succeeded is not the same as the 'they' who failed. Company name dont mean shit.
>>719398754can't wait to shut that faggot down twice a year and kek while the fudgepackers realize they traded so much and still can't fuck with loinGODS
>>719399054>>719398153Could MCDC fix the Wings too?
>>719398829>>719398884
>>719399125MCDC could solve the JQ, all he needs is the chance.
detoilet has had a golden state-tier speedrun at becoming a bad guy franchiseyou can't find a single person outside of detoilet that thinks lions fans arent faggots at this point
Do they make NHL games anymore?
>>719398829Tennis is going through a real dark period right now. It's tough to watch these jokers get talked up like they're the second coming of Federer.
>>719394108>Dead Wings go back to being deadThis is their natural state. Most of the O6 franchises are actually shitters
>>719399237Not in Detroit.
>>719398829I enjoy watching women beat the shit out of each other for my entertainment in MMA
>>719399237every year EA makes one
>>719399237yeah but I haven't tried one in years since recent maddens have been so bad and I have no friends anymore
>>719399297true>1967
>>719398028>>719398101Not a dynasty with no back to backs. Didn't the Blackhawks suck so bad back in the 50s the league made the other teams give them players or something? They're mostly a losing franchise
>>719399196meant for >>719399105
>>719399365wmma is terrible. I do like watching McKenzie Dern though.
>>719398204THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF HOCKEY
>>719399247What is the EmRadz of video games?
>>719399365why are women's MMA fighters all complete sluts
>>719399235Clearly a butthurt bears fan. The bears are the worst fan base in the sport outside of the cowboys. At least when other teams suck their fans eventually realize it and media stop giving a shit about them. The bears are titans/Jags level of boring and still get talked about non stop
>>719399237yes, but they're excuses to sell hut cards, lootboxes for online modes, and albums for the dogshit "indie" bands they put on their soundtracks (except car seat headrest. i like those guys)
>>719399654The extra testosterone gives them sex drives more akin to men.
>>719399441I still count it, 3 in 5 years is impressive in that league.> Didn't the Blackhawks suck so bad back in the 50s the league made the other teams give them players or something?I have no idea but I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s like all the sunbelt teams being subsidized by the O6 teams because they barely get any revenue when they’re not good. Infomercials got higher tv ratings in Florida than the Panthers in 2011-12.
>>719399697could be any NFCnorthbabby. I see more vicucks and puckers seething about the lions than bears fans, by far
>>719399697Bears just need to draft another quaterback. We broke ours again.
>>719394108PlayStationNintendoXboxAny western and Japanese AAA dev
>>719399701You're right about the hut and loot boxes, deranged about the music, and missing that they barely change the game year over year. Just like all the sports games, companies have perfected doing the bare minimum year after year. Single player modes are barely touched and still have easy to fix glitches year after year
>>719399854>Bears just need to draft another quaterback. We broke ours again.So same as always.
>>719399697not a bears fanwhen you retards go back to being perpetual shit again nobody will feel sorry for you this time
>>719399797I really want the kitties to go back to being irrelevant bottom feeders, there's something about them that I just can't respect. It's not even the tax break thing, I don't have this issue with the lightning. maybe it's brad marchand I can't stand the rat
fantasy football is video games and should be allowed on /v/
>>719394108>mfw some fag from florida or las vegas or california made this threadfakeass hockey fan, playoff streak only ended in 2017
>>719399616Skryim
>>719399797Yeah but those Sunbelt teams are what gets the NHL the big TV deals, which makes most of the money for whole league. Not to mention the expansion fees those teams paid
>>719399909Yup. Caleb Williams might try taking us to the playoffs though. That would be a disaster.
>>719399914>when you retards go back to being perpetual shit againyeah replacing campbell in 25 years is gonna be tough :(
>>719398650there's got to be a few. i thought i heard witcher or stalker was helped by that ages ago. canada also had a few franchises but i never got any good details.interesting attempt might have been kingdoms of amalur. think they got some money but sure didn't win much.
for me, its Sergei Federov. had a signed jersey as a kid that I wore til it was falling apart and was borderline too tight to fit anymore
>>719399930Most based things I've read on here in a long time. Am I crazy for wanting CMC at 5th overall in a half point ppr 10 man league? His bye is right before the fantasy playoffs this year. I figure he has a better chance at being fresh for those games
>>719400049Don't worry, Ben Johnson will bench him in less than 5 games for mental retardation.
>>719398204This would be something like Genshin or Gacha in general, because all the people that aren't fans of gacha absolutely hate them.
>>719399919They’ll be good again next year, but it’s tough to sustain in a cap league. Overall they’re just a plastic franchise, they win back to back cups and nobody really cares. Bad for the league imo.
>>719400060campbell isn't a good coachbrad holmes is a decent gm much like literally everyone from that rams super bowl team's front office
>>719400142>CMC>freshHe's going to trip week 1 and somehow fracture every bone in his lower body.
Basically any name that isn't Nintendo at this point
>>719400142>Am I crazy for wanting CMC at 5th overall in a half point ppr 10 man league?I'm biased because he's burnt me hard multiple years, including with a 1st pickthere's just better options at 5th this year. I got JJ 6th somehow last week. hurt me to take him over Sun God but he's the entire vikeks offense and loins share the wealth too muchI just checked, CMC went 10th in my league
>>719400231>campbell isn't a good coachany other hot shittakes like "mahomes is better than brady actually"
>>719399930Can the nfl PLEASE let Quinshon Judkins play. I can't make it like this
>This threadwhy is there such a huge /hoc/ /v/ overlap?
>dominate the industry for 2 decades >lead developer leaves for another studio >completely irrelevant since.
>>719400212No worse than a big market team winning. Those teams get their dicks sucked by media no matter what they do. Nice to hear about a different franchise in between updates on how the Rangers, Wings, and Hawks are trying not to be shit this year. I swear I heard more about the Blackhawks than any other Western conference team last year, despite them being the same team they've been for years now. Just wait for them to actually get good before covering them so much
>>719398289Pic related made hockey video games relevant again.
>>719397973For me, it's being pleasantly surprised when they win, but enjoying the dumpster fire when they fuck up. I am entertained either way.
>>719400331his decision making is literally the reason you got sent home both times in the playoffs by teams you should've beateni don't really know what else to tell you if you don't recognize thatand im not even talking about his penchant for playing starters all the way through blowouts which was the direct reason more than half of the defense was on IR in the playoffs
>>719400491>>719398289Forgot pic
>>719398289I feel like every single NHL Face Off cover art I've ever seen from the 90s had a Wings player on the cover.
>>719400461They really did overdo the Connor Bedard hype. Tried to make it seem like he was the next McDavid.
>>719398289NHL 2001. One night I went on ebay and bought all the early 2000's hockey games I could find.>>719398829People who didn't play any sports growing up definitely have shit taste and are usually selfish because they don't know what it's like to be part of a team. The kind of "shows up to work and takes a dump for 15 minutes without a single thought that their coworkers hate them" energy. Retards who hate their boss, but don't realize they are on a team. Self-centered energy.>>719399237They went heavy on the 3v3 formula and the last one I played was 24 and it was nothing but people quitting as soon as they were down 3-0. Rarely did any matches get finished.>>719394108This might be Assassin's Creed. The wings are basically not talked about any more, and I watch a lot of hockey content.Since Valhalla, nobody really gives a shit about Asscreed, because the formula is so vanilla and nobody gives a shit about the lore. Asscreed has been uninteresting for 5 years, just like the wings.
>largely irrelevant>throws an absolute banger every 20 years
>>719400681Atlus
>>719400372Because hoc and v go hand in hand ever since pic related came out. Hockey video games were the most popular sports video games in the 90s and have a last impact on millennial.
>>719400681Bucs and the Lions are the only NFC teams I'm not viscerally disgusted by, either out of hatred or face slapping incompentence.
>>719400754Atlus makes games other than Persona anon.
i dont know about hockey but in basketball detroit is complete and utter shit for about 7-9 years then they become hall of fame dogs for 4 years then back to irrelevancy. its very fascinating. pistons' bad boy dna is awakening and the lions are about to implode in the next 2 years. dont blow it detroit.
>>719397878It's not incompetence. It's literal full blown corporate sabotage and greed. They focused primarily on big short term gains over maintaining quality, thinking paypigs with drones will keep consooming regurgitated shit they'll pump out and it worked for a while, i's been happening for past 13-14 years. Activision knew mtx and fomo would sell so they went all in with it, forced mass layoffs despite record breaking yearly earnings, and kept going until they hit the wall and lost all OG talent with competent junior talent who wanted to succeed the OGs and had all the ambition. Now they can't save shit because people today are broke, drones with zealots got old or got tired of gaming, nobody sane minded wants to work for Blizzard, and because younger generations don't want to pick up on Blizzard shit because they noticed ongoing patterns.It's more of same with Call of Duty, more and more people are refusing to buy newer games because they are inferior to older games.
>>719400865The Pistons were really good in the late 80s/early 90s too. They won 2 'ships then too.
>>719400372/v/ is a leaf board.
>>719400681the bucs could have had deep playoff runs in 2018 and 2019 if they simply had a competent QB and that's something nobody talks about.
>>719400854Unicorn Overlord was 10x better than any Persona game if it counts
>>719400567>most injured defensive unit on any team, playoff squad or otherwise, since the 90s>IT WAS CAMPBELL AND HIS DECISIONSbased retard
>>719400854What make you think the Persona games are their bangers? Persona is the shovelware that pays the bills that old gamers buy to relive the childhood they never had
>series ended over 2 decades ago>still has a huge following and continues to bring in new fans
>>719401072>SMT IV>bangerMore delusional than Jets fans.
>>719401132World of Warcraft
>>719400865dumars got lucky in 2004 and was able to stick around waaaay too long on the good graces he got because of itgenerally speaking he sucked. One good year and 10+ shit ones with charlie villenueva and other stupid shit.
>>719401223>More delusional than Jets fans.>realized it does matter which Jets you meantSMT4 is great and Persona games on only decent at best and that is always after the first two version to each title.
I sure hope no anon brings up my home sports teams that would be embarrassing
>>719394108The Wings vs Avs rivalry of the 90s and 2000s was maybe one of the highlights of my entire life. I hated the wings with every fiber of my being back then, but fully admit they won that rivalry by grabbing that extra cup win in 2002. Hockey never got that good ever again. >>719398289NHL 97 on the Genesis for me
>>719401407The NBA is so incredibly gay now. A team like the 04 Pistons would be entirely ejected before halftime for the crime of caring about defense.
>>719401481i know rightwhy do i have to come to /v/ and see a thread shitting on multiple teams from my hometown specifically
>>719401058>>most injured defensive unit on any team, playoff squad or otherwise, since the 90s>>IT WAS CAMPBELL AND HIS DECISIONSthe lions were up 37-9 on the cowboys, 42-6 on the jaguars, and 49-14 on the titans all in the 4th quarter and still had their starters inand you're shocked the lions defense was decimated going into the playoffsyeah i don't know what to tell you
>>719401492>The Wings vs Avs rivalry of the 90s and 2000s was maybe one of the highlights of my entire life.I still occasionally watch Lemieux get beat to death on youtube by McCarty. Sports used to be so much better.
>>719401523just live in the middle of nowhere and have no local sports teams, it's that easyit was the weirdest shit seeing everyone pretend to care about the pacers a few months ago because they're "close enough" (a whole state over) and as soon as they lost go right back to being a purely college ball town again
>>719401132Deus Ex comes close. Other than /pol/ shitposts and Invisible War with The Fall being trash, the series is still kicking really hard and bringing in new people.
>>719399125>They have kanji for Nuclear bombAt least I'm assuming that's what that the kanji is there fore. Can someone more advanced than me explain what the Kanji characters mean literally?
For all the zoomers who don't know what was taken from you in your youth:https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oz4udKvoh2Q&pp=ygUZUmVkIHdpbmdzIGF2YWxhbmNlIGZpZ2h0cw%3D%3D
>>719394108Was making a /hoc/ thread on /v/ part of the Yzerplan?
>>719401536>hutchinson injured during 3rd quarter vs. cowboys>some 2nd stringer injured at some point vs. jags>zero injuries vs. titanswhat the fuck are you talking about? You're really advocating pulling players in Q3? With a half hour left to play? You're fucking retarded, have fun cheering for whatever fuckass franchise you do, we'll see who wins a super bowl first.
>>719401956>>719401492absolute fucking kino. I hated you lads so much as a kid. pure cinema right here.
>>719401598Those 1997 and 1998 playoffs were the best hockey ever played. Tons of raw talent, tons of fights, god I fucking miss it so much. The NHL has become so sanitized and milktoast now that we’ll never see hockey like that ever again.
>>719402085let him cope and seethe anon, that faggot would give his left nut to have this man as his teams coach and he knows it
Games where the villain gets beat by an even more crazy villain?
>>719402231https://youtu.be/mTX3hSPWvYQ?si=Ldj4JBw8PGCFVegE
>>719402231final fantasy 7
>Two great entries amidst a tsunami of liquid shit that probably don't even sell well enough to justify continuing but can barely limp along since they're made on the cheap>>719398204I went to Game 3 against Toronto and no one can take away that absolute cinema from me :)
>>719394108anything from the 90s and early 00s
I don't know the feeling of victory, I watch my team choke in game 7 of the first round every year.
>used to lead the industry in its early days>has lots of prestige attached to its name>tons of talent from that company have gone on to be integral parts of other developers in the modern era>but the actual developer themselves haven't been relevant in 30 years
>>719402395>laffs
>competitive game has rule changes with unintended chaotic effectsWhat game?
>started out promising back in the day and even got close to greatness one time, but has continued to get released despite being pure ass for decades now.
>>719402528the fuck are the leafs doing up there
>>719402427Original SystemsWestwood StudiosAtari
>>719402427So many great games were made by Canada-based devs back in the day. It's sad to think those times are over.
>>719394108Pokemon
who are some people in the video game industry that, when finally given the head honcho job shit the bed or made things worse for the franchise despite being arguably one of the best in their craft? Masuda comes to mind with pokemon, the guy is a great composer but man most of the shit he had a hand in post gen 3 was rough.
>>719402658Pizza Tower is Canadian iirc
>>719402524It's been almost 60 years. Only literal boomers have ever seen the good times.
>>719402687Yuji Naka was a programming wunderkind back in the day but was incompetent at literally everything above that.
>publisher had two distinct stretches of absolute GOLD but has been mediocre for a long time nowI can’t upload ‘mages so you’ll have to ‘magine the team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_x5mO2sBxTw&pp=ygUZUmVkIHdpbmdzIGF2YWxhbmNlIGZpZ2h0cw%3D%3D
>>719402820
>>719400375Konami
I dont care about hockey but I used to love going to Madison Square Garden as a kid.
>>719400865I genuinely hate Handegg with a passion, but if the Lions make it to the Super Bowl, I'll cheer them on like they were my own son.
>>719398153Man 9 year olds back then were built different.
>>719402734balatro is from fucking saskatchewan of all places
>>719402640CFL has a rule were you if kick the ball and it comes to a stop in the opponents end zone, you still get a pointso a shanked field goal could still result in 1 point, which would have broken then 30-30 split.Also it's a rule in any kind of football you are allowed to kick it anytime you want as long as you are behind the line of scrimmage, which is what lead to them kicking it back
>>719398289I played the NES one where the players are fat little guys more but I think NHL 09 or 10 was best because every player on the ice could be a person online so I played a lot with my buddy and 10 random french canadians and it was cool.
>>719402827Kino. I had no dog in this fight but my cousin was a huge Patrick Roy fan so the games were always on when I went over his house as a kid.
>>719403248Look Outside was made by a guy from Montreal. Apparently the apartment building is loosely based off actual apartment somewhere in Downtown Montreal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2YA2M3oOfzs&pp=ygUZRGFycmVuIG1jY2FydHkgY2xhdWRlIGxlbQ%3D%3DWhy aren't we allowed to have nice things anymore? Is this Israel's fault?
>>719401492>The Wings vs Avs rivalry of the 90s and 2000s was maybe one of the highlights of my entire lifeSame here brother, growing up in Sweden every single boy into hockey and myself included had a constant debate and fights with eachother over who was better, Lidströms Wings or Forsbergs Colorado and it was pure kino. I was a huge Redwings fan and hated Colorado so much and the endless talk about them on the news
>>719403415
>>719394108Need for speed.
>>719403345So, we can all agree that Roy was completely fucking insane right? Like, not in a jokey internet way I mean like actually crazy.
>>719403248Cuphead kinda was too. The dev time was split pretty evenly between Regina and Toronto.
This guy made me a hockey fan. Was signed up for mites the next fall after watching him on ESPN one day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBA_k1NSgnI
>>719399441Considering their biggest problem was the salary cap because it forced them to keep getting rid of the best players, which is something previous dynasties didn't have to deal with.They would have 5 peated if that wasn't the case
>>719403683Goalies in general are insane. Roy, Hextall, Binnington, lot of psychopaths.
>>719403941that sounds like omegacope considering how many back-to-backs we've had since the cap started
Brendan Shannahan had 650 career goals and would still beat the shit out of you. Current year hockey players are complete pussies.
What is the Yzerplan of vidya, having something great followed up by 10 years of spinning tires as everyone slowly begins to hate you. World of Warcraft is my vote.
>>719403683He was a complete nutcase, I think that's why my cousin like him lol
>>719397595>dominanttwo positive records and then getting bodied in the playoffs isn't "dominance"
>>719404063man I miss the old squads so much
>>719401660>Can someone more advanced than me explain what the Kanji characters mean literallyIt just means "nuclear bomb". Or if you want to be extremely literal, "nucleus exploding shell"
>>71939828994 is the gold standardopen ice 2 on 2 and Hitz are also great
>>719401492>Hockey never got that good ever again.The strike in, 2004?, really killed it. Fans went elsewhere, players retired, rules got rewritten like the offsides rules and the brawling ended. So it's now offense is forever outnumbered and any goal is pure chance.
>>719403994something about the position attracts strange people. in all of my years being in and around minor hockey, i've never met a goalie that wasn't somehow odd in some slight way. i think the strangeness might be roughly proportional to talent, too
>>719404258>The strike in, 2004?, really killed it.unironically this was the case for me. hockey was my favorite sport as a young kid and the lockout year pushed me towards football which remained my favorite sport to this day
>>719404327"hey man, we need you to stand in front of the net and stop this cold, hard piece of rubber that can hit 80+ MPH with your body" says a hockey player"HELL YEAH SIGN ME THE FUCK UP" replies the totally sane man.
>>719394108trust the yzerplan brothis year for sure
>>719400810>hockey video games were the most popular sports gameslet's not get ahead of ourselves. it was definitely basketball back then, and then skateboarding.
>>719403683Dude is a fucking mental case for sure. He even almost took on the entire opponent team’s bench once when he was the Avs couch briefly. He still looks like he’s one bad play from strangling someone.
>>719401512because full court press breaks basketball, it's a fundamentally flawed sport
>>719403683>>719403994>>719404729meanwhile I met Osgood and he was the chillest dude ever
>>719404729good times
>>719402528>suddenly, rugby
>>719404258It was the 2005 season that got canned, but yeah, that was the point where hockey stopped being as fun and entertaining. I’m not a fan of the new rules and also hate how the chopped the league’s balls off to try and decrease the amount of fights and injuries. Watching players now fake injuries and frantically check their faces for blood during mild hits just so they can send another player to the box on a major penalty is like watching little kids tattle on each other on the playground. It’s just so fucking tame now. I still like NHL hockey, but there’s no question it’s a shadow of what it once was. Those closest it ever got to being as good as it was in the 90s was the Four Nations tournament earlier this year, but really it was no better than an average pre-2005 games. I miss it so much bros.
>>719404627Maybe Cossa will finally get time in the majors!>Brings in Mrazek W-well there's always next year>Brings in Gibson
>>719403296CFL allows punts and drop kicks on any side of the line, too.
>>719404959I like the new rules, the two line pass was fucking garbage. The league also remained very physical up until the late 2010's.
>>719404939Fun fact, leafs still play football on rugby fields, while mericans play football on soccer fields because Harvard didn't have a rugby field.
>>719405092I think that was probably because there was still quite a few dead puck era players still in the league old habits die hard. Virtually all those guys are gone now and it’s just a bunch of whiny zoomer players mostly. Again, I still enjoy it overall, but it’s like remembering a band in their prime and watching them reunite years later and them not even being remotely as good as they once were.
>>719403683Roy was coaching his son's team once and encouraged him to assault the opposing team's goalie. Dude is legitimately unhinged:https://youtu.be/nVIG7RMif6s?si=ODMEBLrG6PaKn82V
>>719405158it's because Harvard tried to play to soccer rules at first but nobody liked it, so they swapped to rugby rules but didn't see need to change the field because it's only a ten yard difference.
Get rid of the salary cap and only allow kids that played pond hockey in some broke ass middle of nowhere farm town (or alcoholic slavs) into the league and hockey will be fixed.This league of soft, rich kid, zoomers who would rather be tiktok influencers is unwatachable.
>>719394108Command and Conquer
>>719404258It wasn't a strike, it was a lockout. Players initiate strikes, owners initiate lockouts. Owners wanted a salary cap for cost certainty and sacrificed an entire season to get it. Then, when the league was healthy in 2012, they locked out again for half a season even though the players came to the table already making concessions on contract length limits (owners were too stupid to stop offering 30 year old professional athletes 9+ year long contracts, so they had to make rules about how long contracts could be). It's a shame that the most powerful people in hockey don't really give a shit about hockey unless it makes then money. For years the players have been wanting to play for free in the Olympics, but the IOC and NHL owners won't let it happen because the money is big enough for them
>>719394108>Absolutely dominate the entire league for 20 years.>One day just stop being good at all for no discernible reason.Really strange, vidya for this feeling?
>>719405783>for no discernible reason.They lost Tom Brady
>>719405783>for no discernible reasonThere is a very discernible reason. Starts with a T and ends with Brady.
>>719398650tell Canada to stop punishing success and maybe they'd win the Cup again
>>719405783>"Brady is a system baby!">Brady leaves>Team goes to complete shit>He instantly wins another championshipTom Brady is the Kojima of football.
>>719404102Star Citizen
>>719405336I agree that there is really a lack of tough players nowadays. Who even is a big enforcer as a younger guy nowadays? All I can think of is Rempe and he's just tall and throws a dirty hit now and again, other than that he's kind of a pussy.
>>719406050Habs have Xhejak. Too bad he sucks at actually playing.
>>719405989you equate Death Stranding with a superbowl? lmao
>GOAT is somebody no one has ever heard of
>>719402687Some people are not meant to leadThe right tool for the right job and all that
>Have a run of 8/10 games every few years>Then a run of 3/10 games>Make GOTY every few decades
>>719402085>your literal star pass rusher got injured in a blowout>this is finei guess if you want to go around thinking playing your $53 million dollar quarterback in the 4th quarter of multiple five score games is good coaching, by all means, its reflective of the education system in your shithole cityif you want to go around thinking a guy who outright refused to allow his kicker to even try basic NFL level kicks in the playoffs and lost twice because of it is a good coach just because you fanboy for former players on the sideline, feel freebut at the end of the day, the lions are basically an eagles-tier team with a jaguars-tier coaching staff until campbell fucks up enough times to get the boot
>>719406392screencapping this, except to see it again someday in the future when you get btfo beyond recovery
>>719406361>Every few yearsBitch shut up you have more than 20 division titles since 1991. And you're just really hurt this year rather than actually bad like most other teams with your current record.
>produce exactly 1 good post-season ever>shit the bed nearly every other year while being content with being shitgames for this feel
>>719406392Motherfucking mooks didn't buy tickets to watch some retarded backup throw picks or boggle snaps, anon.
>>719402223nobody that knows fuck shit about football would want campbell coaching their team. le heckin motivation coaches that go for it on 4th down and choke away massive leads because they're retarded are fucking cringe
>>719404102I hate the Yzerplan but there seems to be a long term trend where anyone who works for Chris Illitch is b& from spending any money, on anything, for any reason. You see the same thing with the Tigers and the only reason they're good is AJ Hinch's black magic.Chris Illitch is a faggot and I hope his dad'a ghost comes back to beat the shit out of him for what he did to Mike's beloved teams.
>>719403049kojima = brady
>top contender for decades>has a minor blip>cannot recover from it>begins a death spiral and gets humiliated in increasingly lulzy ways every month
>>719407061Rare
>>719407061>soccerBegone homo/yuropoor
>>719398204Davo round 3 victory assured. He'll be getting his gold medal and lord stanley.
>>719406831nobody bought tickets to watch jared fucking goff eitherif im a lions fan and my team is in the midst of a playoff run the last person i want to fucking see up 35 in the 4th quarter is the starting quarterback that's already undeservedly making more than patrick mahomes
>>719407168This is the last year of his contract. If the >soilers can't get it done this year he's fucking off somewhere else.
Which vidya do you want your team to collab with, /v/?
>>719406812Dragon Age
>>719406050Enforcers are dead weight mostly. You bring one out, and you risk someone throwing a cross ice pass into your zone because that nigger doesn't know how to play defense. The game is just different. I go back and watch the Avs vs Stars playoffs in the late 90s and the skill is off the charts. It doesn't compare to the modern game. I think that's around the time players got real good with the saucer pass, too. Just KINO.
>>719407217shut your whore mouth, faggot. I would die for Jared Goff. btw he is 2-0 against Mahomes in his career
>>719407168Connor McDavid doesn't even sound like a real name. It's like a fake Jew name or something.
>>719407460Are you saying the skill then was off the charts or the skill now? Because if it's the latter I have fo hard disagree. The game back then was considerably more skillful and it was even more impressive because those guys had like half the space to work with at any given time due to how physical everything was. Also the limitations of the offsides rules and 2 line passes.
>Multiple stretches of Domination but sheer luck, dealings and bullshit to continue said consistency. What game company?
>>719407662Former. There is no one today who compares to Peter Forsberg, and he was just one of many Gods of the game.
Baseball is a shit sport.
>>719398204spiders until greedfall kinda
>>719407867Mets Fan?
>the best is so comically far ahead of the next best that nothing has a remote chance in hell of ever surpassing itgames for this feel?
>>719407942Ocarina of Time.
>>719407942>Rival that has the power to surpass the protagonist tragically dies halfway through the game
>>719407712Then yeah, agreed. Guys like Gretzky, Hull, Modano, Robitaille, Yzerman, Shannahan, Jagr, and on and on make the current league look like complete scrubs. And that's just forwards.
>>719407118You are not white.
>>719407990sure if we're talking about it's own genre
>>719407867It was better before it became entirely about pitching and homeruns.
>>719408032How good was Super Mario? I'm barely a hockey casual but could've he overtaken Wayne?
>>719407867yeah it used to be carried by its sovl alone but it doesn't even have that anymore
>be one of the best game studios of all time>still get overshadowed in your prime by an even better studio
>>719408117He was elite. Well...except at not dying, he wasn't very good at that.
>>719398754>This year's the year.Every year. Every year we say this.
Man, I know the Mario Sports games have taken a hit in recent years, but I'd love a Mario Hockey game. But, Sluggers comes first
>>719408175I knew he beat cancer twice, so he had to be a tough motherfucker at least.
>Everything looks good on paper>It feels like complete shit to play
>>719408117He never played an entire season and still averaged nearly 2 PPG while having God himself attempting to strike him down.He quite literally never got to show off 100% of his power.
>>719407669>unremitting garbage since inception, not one single noteworthy achievementwhich dev studio?
>>719407942Is Gretzky the best in terms of being so dominant to respective sport? The only comparison I've seen in my lifetime was Bonds & Jerry Rice.
>>719407712>>719408040With the exception of Gretzky, the main reason why you think so highly of those guys is because they were dummying everyone else's depth players because depth back then was garabge. Today those guy would be the baseline expectation for third line players.
>>719394108The wings handed off half their roster to the jackets when they started, and it's been a slow downhill march since.
>>719408497out of the main US sports yes, the only argument I'll accept is Tom Brady. even then Gretzkys stats are just fucking absurd
>>719408458Hey, you guys had Bob McAdoo!! Well, when you was in Buffalo at least.
>>719408564You are jewish.
>>719408583Not even Rice who blows out basically every WR ever and one of the few non QBs to be considered the Greatest?
>>719408497The only guy comparable is Hakuho in sumo. And if you read up on how both of them trained it's surprisingly similar: both of them were really big on scouting and out-thinking everyone else. Both kept winning because they were able to anticipate the game like five steps ahead of everyone else.
>>719408032He was just as good imo. The season he had at 35 years old after taking 3 years off for cancer treatment in 00-01 (dead puck era = not as much offensive output) was very impressive. Gretzky is the best, but he wasn’t nearly as dominant in the 90’s when goaltending and defense started getting better.
>>719408040>doesn’t even mention the second best defenseman of all time
>>719408953>>719408117Messed up my you’s
>>719408921>they were able to anticipate the game like five steps ahead of everyone else.Reminds me of another guy like that.
>game series never wins any awards
Why is this thread better than the shit on /sp/? That board sucks ass
>>719409039>and that's just forwardsRead the entire post, anonkun.
>>719409171common story in the NBA, which is why white players are stereotyped as 3 pointer machines. because it's the most logical way to play the game.
>enjoyed only by gay homosexuals who enjoy hard cock in their mouths what game?
>>719409434Oh I’m retarded
>>719409402/sp/ used to unironically be one of the best boards on 4chan, with some of the funniest and creative OC, and then jannies and yuropoors put a bullet in it to turn it into 80 concurrently running variations of divegrass general.
>>719409402If you want to troll, shitpost, and schizo out about a topic, you go to the board where that topic is on-topic. If you want to actually discuss something seriously, you make an off-topic thread on a different board because the schizos aren't there.
>>719408868No, I grew up watching that era so I have plenty of nostalgia and appreciation for the greats of the time, but it's an objective fact that depth across the league was fucking ass, and you had plenty of teams that were just filled top to bottom with absolute shitpumps that would be lucky to make the AHL today. Even with expansion, the baseline quality of play is tiers better today, which is why it's harder for the elite players to stand out.I'm not saying guys like Forsberg would be third line players today because that's obviously wrong, I'm saying the only reason you think those guys are so far ahead of today's top line players is because today's top line players have to play against much superior depth.
>>719409465MJ is my favorite player ever but Bird made basketball look like poetry in motion.
>>719409764>because today's top line players have to play against much superior depthWhich is irrelevant when that depth can't even put a hand on you, or get within three feet, without being thrown in the box. Today's players have so much space they're playing on babbymode and they're STILL worse.
>>719408921GOATest, I'm glad I was able to watch him for years and hardly anyone knew how painful his last active years were on his arms but despite all that his "ring sense" was truly exceptional, all the split second recoveries and positioning was above everyone else's and of course he had technique and powerfuck the JSA though, fucking boomer cunts
>>719409764you are jewish. You grew up scheming and conniving because you are genetic trash.
>game is excellent until the ending which ruins everything and shits itself in a way I wasn't even sure was possible>every entry afterwards is putrid unplayable dogshit
>>719406361I don't think anyone in the Braves org saw the Phillies and Mets becoming good overnightAlso we put too many eggs in the Acuna basket and now he's tearing his ACL every June
>>719394108What goes up, must come down.Saying that, I do not trust the Yzerplan.
>>719410117>Reboot with ability to match if not pass the games of old is coming out Soon™
>>719410117They really frigged up in 2011, I think they would have had a better chance against the Bruins that year. Glad they got eliminated as a B’s fan though.
>studio makes a solid 8/10 game after 20 years of mid slop>execs decide to layoff half the staff
>>719410117Not sure there's a game as bad as the sharks.
>>719410117Never 4get.
what's the vidya equivalent?
>>719410351how the fuck do you tear your acl in baseball
>>719411207Why doesn't Pittsburgh have an apehoop team? If Oklahoma can have one I feel like Pittsburgh should.
>>719411317Baseball involves running and sliding, anon.
>>719411430no rich guy in Pittsburgh wants to start one, none of the other owners want to relocate. Pittsburgh is too blue collar, it's a hardcore football town. You're more likely to see a new team in St Louis
>>719411430They had an ABA team back in the 70s
>>719404018How many of them had to dismantle their team after they won the stan lee cup and won again?
>>719404239Very late since I was busy, but arigato, tomadachi mai nigga.
>>719411763>too blue collarPittsburgh is just about the only Rust Belt city to pull off pivoting to services and tech
>>719408387Will the suffering ever end
>>719411430Pittsburgh's economy fucking tanked in the 70s and they never truly recovered back to pre-70s levels. The Penguins were barely able to hold on and needed two generational elite talents with multiple championships to do so; they'll definitely be on shaky financial ground after Crosby finally retires.
>>719398289NHL '98 on SNES is just comfy
>>719409967>A pol namefag
>>719408387>>719412346>The Marlins are still the last team to win a home playoff game in that stadium despite not occupying it for 13 years.
>>719399247Isn't sinner pretty dominant?
>>719412664Alcaraz and Sinner are both frail mentally to put it lightly and their bodies are already giving them issues.
>>719409895Shitty defenders relied on clutch-and-grab to hide their incompetence. When the league cracked down on that, it meant players had to get better at actually defending through good position play, breaking up passes, and winning puck battles.
>>719408387Torchlight 2>>719412639>this is true
this has been the comfiest thread in a while bros
>>719411430Not a fair comparison. OKC is black as fuck. I don't think I've ever met a nigger from Pittsberk, despite growing up a few hours away.
>>719394108nortubel?
>Considered a legend in the industry>mostly just above average but puts out a few of the greatest games of all time
>Nobody cares if they put out good or bad games and nobody plays them regardless
>>719407942For those that don't know, NHL points are lifetime goals and assists. You get 2 for a Goal, one for an Assist.If you took away all of Gretzky's goals, meaning you only count his assists, which are again one worth one point, Gretzky is still first overall. By a lot, actually.
>>719412784>Shitty defendersBut enough about today's NHL.
>>719413537>You get 2 for a Goal, one for an Assist.Retard
>>719413328square during the ps1/x>>719413329ubisoft specifically ubisoft montreal >Start out with back-to-back classics and released mediocrity ever sense
>>719413769Dead Space?
CHICAGOBULLS
>>71941319820% of the population is black, but they're all Steelers fans. PA blacks are like southern blacks where the NFL is all they care about. basketball is a west coast black thing. Pistons, Bulls, Celtics, et al most of their fanbase is white.
USA is winning the gold next winter
>>719415748if I'm not mistaken, the 4 nations tournament is literally the only Hockey competition last year USA did not win.
This is our year bros, no longer bottom of the league.
>>719415853Yes and they won the World Juniors. Which is the only legitimate international tournament that happened last year.
>>719396009WoW only "dominated" from like 2007-2010 or so, it faded out of mainstream by then and proceeded to nosedive after Cata sucked so much ass
>>719398289NHL 98 PC
the central is once again gonna be a bloodbath this year
The NHL games have barely improved since the skill stick was added like 15 years ago. I played nhl 2k7 recently and it had a ridiculous amount of offline content and the franchise was deeper than modern nhl. I hate EA and HUT so much.
>>719417042I don't even think EA has an exclusive license with the NHL, just nobody else wants to make their own version. like with the NBA, EA just gave up on making Live games because the 2K series outsold them 10:1. no exclusivity license necessary.
>>719397457>Diablo 4 makes more money than you can count (over $0.30)>irrelevant
