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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Rank Their Top 100 Respective Video Games part 3
TheKnightOfNee 02/21/21 8:09:44 PM #196:	#19. Eastside Hockey Manager (PC, 2015) This is the highest sports game on my list! As a fan of hockey far more than all other sports, it would make sense that a hockey game lands here. Eastside Hockey Manager is the hockey equivalent of Football Manager or Out of the Park Baseball (which as on my list back at #97). It's a general manager/coaching sim, where you set up the team how you want it, tell the AI players what to do as much as you want, and then sit back and watch to see how things ultimately play out. A big reason this is here, and OotP farther down the list is just my familiarity with hockey. I know what player strengths and strategies I want to use, I know how the draft system works, I know how contract restrictions and the salary cap play out, so I'm not wasting time looking all this up. And even if I didn't know this so well, I don't feel it's a terribly complicated system to work with, so I can focus more on setting my lineups and trading players and hoping old useless guys just retire already. And of course, there are a ton of stats to browse and track for both the present and historical. EHM doesn't receive quite as much love from its developer as those other sports sims. They get yearly updates, but EHM is the same EHM. Luckily, Steam workshop and dedicated fans step in with yearly roster updates and work to keep the game balanced. European leagues and minor leagues exist too and get the same update love. There are also some fan mods adding historical or fictional teams/leagues, and it's fun to pretend you're managing a WHA team that may still exist today. I've been playing this off and on for years, sometimes sticking with the same league that's decades deep, or starting a new one. I find it's a great game to put on while sitting at home and watching real sports. During downtime or breaks in the play, I can sim a couple days or a game in EHM. It's a game that has a lot to do, but also something I can jump in any time without having to worry about doing a lot, if that makes sense. --- ONLY FIVE CAN LADDER. Sushi, kamikaze, fujiyama, nippon-ichi... <cite>TheKnightOfNee posted [p:950924660] in The Board ... [t:79281225]...</cite> <quote>#19. Eastside Hockey Manager (PC, 2015) This is the highest sports game on my list! As a fan of hockey far more than all other sports, it would make sense that a hockey game lands here. Eastside Hockey Manager is the hockey equivalent of Football Manager or Out of the Park Baseball (which as on my list back at #97). It's a general manager/coaching sim, where you set up the team how you want it, tell the AI players what to do as much as you want, and then sit back and watch to see how things ultimately play out. A big reason this is here, and OotP farther down the list is just my familiarity with hockey. I know what player strengths and strategies I want to use, I know how the draft system works, I know how contract restrictions and the salary cap play out, so I'm not wasting time looking all this up. And even if I didn't know this so well, I don't feel it's a terribly complicated system to work with, so I can focus more on setting my lineups and trading players and hoping old useless guys just retire already. And of course, there are a ton of stats to browse and track for both the present and historical. EHM doesn't receive quite as much love from its developer as those other sports sims. They get yearly updates, but EHM is the same EHM. Luckily, Steam workshop and dedicated fans step in with yearly roster updates and work to keep the game balanced. European leagues and minor leagues exist too and get the same update love. There are also some fan mods adding historical or fictional teams/leagues, and it's fun to pretend you're managing a WHA team that may still exist today. I've been playing this off and on for years, sometimes sticking with the same league that's decades deep, or starting a new one. I find it's a great game to put on while sitting at home and watching real sports. During downtime or breaks in the play, I can sim a couple days or a game in EHM. It's a game that has a lot to do, but also something I can jump in any time without having to worry about doing a lot, if that makes sense. --- ONLY FIVE CAN LADDER. Sushi, kamikaze, fujiyama, nippon-ichi...</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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