halifax Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/48739/nhl-grab-bag-can-someone-please-help-randy-carlyle-with-his-whiteboard Great Hockey Debates In which we employ the Socratic method in an attempt to settle the issues that have long plagued hockey fans. This week’s debate: Was it OK to score using that worked every time in NHL 94?In favor: Hey, if it’s in the game, it’s in the game, right? Opposed: You are a monster. In favor: Don’t get mad just because I’m a really good player … Opposed: You were a terrible player, and everybody hated you. This includes your friends, family, and pets. In favor: Oh, come on. If you don’t like it, just don’t give up breakaways! Opposed: Great idea in theory, except that breakaways made up one-quarter of all time spent playing NHL 94. (The other three-quarters: one-timers, more one-timers, and complaining about how they took out the fighting.) So if you were playing somebody who thought using The Move was OK, there was nothing you could do to avoid giving up 20 goals a game, short of unplugging their Genesis and dropping it into their fish tank. Which you absolutely should've done, by the way. In favor: You know you could always switch over to manual goalie controls and … Opposed: Literally every person who ever used manual goalies in NHL 94 grew up to be a serial killer. In favor: (Looks sheepishly at freshly dug up sections of back yard.) The final verdict: If you were one of the people who used this move, you should've been rounded up and sent to a penal colony with the people who looked at the other guy’s controller when he was picking his play in Tecmo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachMac Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 My mind is blown! We should be writing for Grantland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segathon Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 http://www.grantland...-his-whiteboard Opposed: Literally every person who ever used manual goalies in NHL 94 grew up to be a serial killer. The final verdict: If you were one of the people who used this move, you should've been rounded up and sent to a penal colony with the people who looked at the other guy’s controller when he was picking his play in Tecmo. These two lines are GOLD. It so was true on the manual goalie stuff. It's fine now, but my buds who used it when we were teenagers would be the 1st people I would suspect of murder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trudatman Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 (edited) Great Hockey Debates In which we employ the Socratic method in an attempt to settle the issues that have long plagued hockey fans. This week’s debate: Was it OK to play using that terrible system know as the Sega Genesis for NHL 94? In favor: Hey, if it’s the game, it’s the game, right? Opposed: You are a monster. In favor: Don’t get mad just because I’m a really good player … Opposed: You were a terrible player, and everybody hated you. This includes your friends, family, and pets. In favor: Oh, come on. If you don’t like it, just don’t play on the inferior system! Opposed: Great idea in theory, except that Genesissies make up three-quarters of all of those playing NHL 94. (The other quarter: PC gamers, Sega CD players and one or two SNES players.) So if you were playing somebody who thought using the Genesis was OK, there was nothing you could do to avoid giving up 20 goals a game, short of hacking in a button that actually allows for immediate goaltender control or dropping their stupid Genesis into their fish tank. Which you absolutely should've done, by the way. In favor: You know you could always switch over to manual goalie controls on the SNES… Opposed: Literally every person who ever used a Genesis for NHL 94 grew up to be a mentally challenged waste of oxygen. In favor: (Looks sheepishly at piles of freshly soiled adult diapers and empty bottles of Mountain Dew Code Red.) The final verdict: If you were one of the people who used that system, you should've been rounded up and sent to a penal colony with the people who looked at the other guy’s controller when he was picking his play in NFL Blitz. Edited January 26, 2013 by trudatman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingraph Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 trudatman provides a textbook case of someone suffering from a superiority complex. From Wiki: When a persons feelings of superiority (trudatman's seemingly endless and nauseating bashing of Genesis) counter his feelings of inferiority (the knowledge that the Genesis version has been recognized and IS the better of the two games). Get some help bro... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickenest Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 I think the biggest argument in favor of the cross-crease is that even if you were the only non-goalie on the ice and you had the puck in that position, you wouldn't really have a viable way of scoring from there otherwise. In fact, if you were alone on the ice it would be even worse cuz there would be no one-timer opportunity. In reality, being open with the puck to the side of the goal is a rather dangerous proposition for the defense, but not in '94 without the cross-crease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trudatman Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da94wookiee Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 trudatman provides a textbook case of someone suffering from a superiority complex. From Wiki: When a persons feelings of superiority (trudatman's seemingly endless and nauseating bashing of Genesis) counter his feelings of inferiority (the knowledge that the Genesis version has been recognized and IS the better of the two games). Get some help bro... LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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