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  1. Hey guys I am coming back to 94.

    I made a Rom a while back( i need to finish 2-3 teams)

    That features (my opinion) The greatest Teams in NHL History

    The catch is that Each team in 94 has its "best" Squad

    So you can be the 84 Winnipeg Jets

    91-92 Pens, 85 Oilers,52 Wings,72 Bruins, 61 Sens ect

    I tried to exemplify the SUPERSTARS more in this mod. SO the teams are comparable even though the 2001 Av's are playing the 52 Canadians

    Let me know if you want to see it so far!

  2. I think it comes down to a few things.

    - The Wonky Skating. It's just different than the later games. In 94, the players 'swoop', whereas, in the newer games, they turn on a dime. It's just better somehow. You really need to work with the momentum of the players. If your player is skating the wrong way, you shouldn't just turn around and skate the other way, you should try to pass to a guy who has some momentum in the right direction. If you miss a check, you REALLY miss the check.

    - The Wonky Passing. Making over 60% of your passes is quite an accomplishment. I don't know why, but this unpredictability makes the game more fun, than knowing that every pass will work. If you pull off 3 good passes in a row, resulting in a goal, you just feel like you scored an amazing high-light reel goal.

    - The Quirks (which are also wonky). NHL 94 makes me laugh, plain and simple. I've played so many games of 94, yet I'm still surprised by some of the things that happen. How i wish i hadn't accidentally saved over the clip of me scoring off Larry Murphy's face...

    - Player Diversity. In new games, the players all feel pretty much the same. Not so in 94. The speeds, agilities, shot power and accuracy, and checking ability of the players are so varied, that every player has his own feel. Try playing with Randy Wood on the Sabres, whose speed is ~85, but agility is ~40. Then compare him to someone like Mike Modano (same speed, but better agility). Gretzky's shot will surprise no goalies, while Tomas Sandstrom's inspires fear in goaltenders, and Al Iafrate's inspires fear in every single player on the ice, other than the goalies.

    - The Sounds. the check noise in 94 is just SO SATISFYING. BLLOOOAARRGHh!!!

    - The Polish. The game is basically the evolution and refinement of a single vision over 4 years, from the first NHL Hockey game, to NHL94. OK, there are bugs for sure.. but they're good bugs! Also, compare the one-timers in NHL94, to the one-timers in NHL06 for the XBox -- the NHL94 ones seem much more natural and fluid.

    - Unpredictabilty. I touched on this before with the passing. It also applies to the shooting, such as when Iafrate shoots a shot at around 500 mph about 35 degrees off from the net, nailing a guy minding his own business by the boards in the face; and the checking, where you don't always know if your check will knock the player flat, or if he'll slide off the check and go in for an easy deke (you need to know the players well to know who can check whom -- or get good with the B-button poke-check/trip). Unpredictability creates obsession. A bit like gambling, or a girl you just can't quite figure out, but feel endlessly required to try to. Yes, i am comparing NHL94.. to love.

    Dude brilliant post!!! That sums it up for me as well. The Iafrate deal is spot on and hilarious as well UMPH!

    Biggest thing is each player "felt" different. They each had their own character. Thats what I loved. I knew every players ratings and knew and felt what to do with them. EX

    Bob Errey was fast as s**t but you would never try to wind up with him. He wasnt even that good at the deke cause his SH was crap..it was either a ram goal or no goal. And lo-and -behold if you could complete a tic tac play with Rick tocchet! He would either rifle a 100mph slapper in or the pass would rattle off his stick. Its those little things where you have to decide DO I PASS IT when you know Rob Ray is lumbering down your right wing cause you know there is a 70% chance his stone hands wont hold onto the pass.

    No game since has had the individual differentiation 94 had in respect to the players. That and the feeling that I scored the goal. The stop and go move to freeze the d then the manual spinorama around another D finished off with a delayed lazy backhander deke for the goal. You manufacture the play and the stick work.

    Thats why I love 94!!

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