Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 7, 2017 13:14:59 GMT -5 Will likes this
Post by markopolo on Mar 7, 2017 13:14:59 GMT -5
www.oldtimehockeyarcade.com/
Straight from the developers mouths:
Experience hockey the way it was meant to be played in this old school arcade style hockey game where blood on the ice is just another day at the rink. 70s afros, big moustaches, no helmets, dirty hits, bench-clearing brawls, goalie fights, stick fights, ref abuse and locker room language – that's Old Time Hockey. Players in this league live by one simple rule - Never look at the puck, just take the body. Timely hits are crucial in this dangerous sport where getting on fire is the difference between winning and losing.
Question #1: But Polo... what if I don't like hockey games?
This isn't a hockey game. This isn't even a game. It is an experience. It is a trip down memory lane. A simpler time. A time when things were... just plain better.
Question #2: But Polo... what if I just don't like sports games?
You don't need to like sports games. Because this is not a sports game. It is a trip to the essence of an ethos. Of an nation. The game is but a vehicle, a corporeal vessel upon which the spirit travels.
Question #3: What the f$$k are you talking about Polo?
This game is a mirror to the past. You watch the trailer and seem "booms" and "pows" and blood flying and you read about drinking on the bench and bench clearing brawls and bone crushing hits. This is how hockey was 40 years ago. The 20 second clip takes you back to when the sport was pure. When you didn't worry about stats. When you didn't worry about data. When the sport was a sport and players were players. When sacrifice and heart and blood and sweat and effort meant something. When you were judged by the character of your being and not on someone's spreadsheet.
But most importantly... back when it was fun. Back when people played "for the love of the game"
When is it coming out Polo?
When I know... you'll know.
Last Edit: Mar 7, 2017 13:15:31 GMT -5 by markopolo
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 7, 2017 14:48:05 GMT -5 blackbarney likes this
Post by blackbarney on Mar 7, 2017 14:48:05 GMT -5
looks AWFUL
..and I'm Canadian!
It's like they decided to make an NBA Jam game on the rink
Last Edit: Mar 7, 2017 14:48:25 GMT -5 by blackbarney
Mar 7, 2017 14:48:05 GMT -5 blackbarney said:
Shut your whore mouth.
You just liked your own comment; go back to facebook
i thumb myself so much that I'm going to go blind.
it's much more fun doing it on Facebook though. you guys are pretty smart here so you get it, but on Facebook the people take up arms against me when I do it. It's like they self-deputize to deal with the self-thumbers. Love it.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 7, 2017 16:08:30 GMT -5
Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Mar 7, 2017 16:08:30 GMT -5
What if I just don't like hockey in general?
Mar 7, 2017 16:08:30 GMT -5 ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) said:
Do you believe in a simpler time?
Do you believe in something, celebrated in it's purest, most beautiful form?
Do you believe in incorporating alcohol and sporting events?
Post by Den on Mar 7, 2017 16:27:39 GMT -5
But does it beat
BLADES OF STEEL?
K/D below 1.0
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 8, 2017 3:20:44 GMT -5
Post by Will on Mar 8, 2017 3:20:44 GMT -5
Mar 7, 2017 16:27:39 GMT -5 Den said:
No sports game will ever compare to Blades of Steel. "Ice Hockey" is pretty gosh darn golly gee whiz fun, don't get me wrong, but you just can't beat Blades of Steel. The loser of the fight gets a penalty, the winner does not. You just can't beat that game balance
Titanfall is better
Post by markopolo on Mar 8, 2017 9:30:41 GMT -5
Okay... I said it was the best game of 2017; I didn't say it was the greatest sports game in the history of Life.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 8, 2017 9:31:01 GMT -5 blackbarney likes this
Mar 8, 2017 6:33:56 GMT -5 Mousey said:
this looks like shit
Pfff... takes one to know one.
Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 3:19:40 GMT -5
How old-school? You mean like the early 20th century version of hockey where veteran goalies had dentures or the 3rd century version in Rome where, if the match got boring, they'd release lions onto the field for the lols?
Post by blackbarney on Mar 9, 2017 8:36:59 GMT -5
the one where there were no black players
Mar 9, 2017 3:19:40 GMT -5 @sweetwater said:
Rome didn't have ice rinks, but the Forum in Montreal did... pleb
Mar 8, 2017 21:30:33 GMT -5 Mousey said:
ur the one who posted it
No_u!
Mar 9, 2017 8:36:59 GMT -5 blackbarney said:
I find you lack of hockey knowledge concerning.
This concern leads me to question your claim that you are Canadian.
I would even question if you are American living north of the 40' line of Latitude.
Missouri? Yea... you're from Missouri. You'rea proud member of the Show Me State
ack! And I'm a Montrealer too! For shame
Why must you sully this thread with your lies, your deceit, and your utter dishonesty?
We have a politics thread dedicated to this sort of thing.
I CAST YE OUT, SATAN!!!!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 10, 2017 0:55:57 GMT -5 markopolo likes this
Post by Will on Mar 10, 2017 0:55:57 GMT -5
To be fair, Quebec ≠ Canada
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 10, 2017 7:59:23 GMT -5 via mobile blackbarney likes this
Post by markopolo on Mar 10, 2017 7:59:23 GMT -5
Mar 10, 2017 0:55:57 GMT -5 Will said:
To be fair, Montreal doesn't mean Quebec either.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 10, 2017 8:33:31 GMT -5 blackbarney likes this
Post by blackbarney on Mar 10, 2017 8:33:31 GMT -5
is that ever the truth
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 10, 2017 11:25:50 GMT -5
Post by markopolo on Mar 10, 2017 11:25:50 GMT -5
Your Missouri-subterfuge won't work here; I see through your Show-Me State Tricks and Lies
Last Edit: Mar 10, 2017 11:26:22 GMT -5 by markopolo
PS4/steam release date: March 28.
Xbox and Switch: TBA
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 16, 2017 10:44:58 GMT -5 blackbarney likes this
Post by mannon on Mar 16, 2017 10:44:58 GMT -5
I don't know about the game, but this thread is entertaining.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 16, 2017 10:58:30 GMT -5 blackbarney and markopolo like this
Post by blackbarney on Mar 16, 2017 10:58:30 GMT -5
byyyyyyyy mennon!
Mar 16, 2017 10:58:30 GMT -5 blackbarney said:
Have you been browsing sites with a .ca instead of a .com address?
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 17, 2017 1:08:47 GMT -5
I mean, I'll buy it. But the gameplay footage looks like shit.
eLantern
"Oh, cruel fate, to be thusly boned! Ask not for whom the bone bones, it bones for thee!" - Bender
Post by eLantern on Mar 17, 2017 13:19:03 GMT -5
If Xbox Live's Free Games with Gold makes it available down the road I'll certainly be downloading this and giving it a play. As someone who played quite a bit of these past hockey titles: Ice Hockey (NES), Mutant League Hockey (Genesis), NHL Powerplay '96 (Saturn), and NHL Hitz 2003 (Xbox) I find this one fairly interesting. I do wish I had played Blades of Steel back in the day given how it's held in such high regard.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Game of the Year for 2017 Mar 17, 2017 14:22:11 GMT -5 Will likes this
Mar 17, 2017 6:07:08 GMT -5 Mousey said:
then why would you buy it
Because he's canadian, duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You'd make a lousy Canadian Mousey.