NHL 10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here (360 & PS3)

[Redshirt_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by sroz39

It is not, unfortunately. It will be the level down from that, Normal I believe. I'm just as disappointed as you are. Passing is kind of my thing. It's how I got to play div. 1 last year. I am in no way a very skilled forward. If I ended up trying some of the things my teammates were doing, I ended up looking foolish. I was a valuable cog in the wheel because of my positioning, defence and most importantly my play making. This would've really seperated the average passers from the great passers. It's too bad.

We did test 6 on 6 out with Hardcore passing and you have to believe me, it would not be a popular move if we forced it on everyone. I honestly doubt that you would like it as much as you think you would. I like hardcore fine playing 1 vs 1 or against the CPU but it was extremely frustrating 6 on 6.

Even using Normal for online the passing is a lot different and much more skilled based.

[Hotstreak]

Couple first impressions, (lots of positives but I'll stick to the negatives for the game's sake):

-Kicking the puck out of a pin seems too easy, and the puck moves too fast/far when you do it. ( as far as I can tell your chance of successfully kicking the puck loose is 100%)

-Similarly to the above point, it seems as though all players can pin just as well as the next guy (although I need to test it a bit more.) Sykora shouldn't be able to hold a guy against the boards as well as Gill.

-Goalies still go into that damned split-save animation too much, though they get up faster this year and can apparently make saves from their butt (though I haven't seen this yet). Overall it doesn't seem to be as big as a problem from last year, but it just looks so damn unrealistic, especially since the goalies can go into that split-save almost instantly from any other position.

-Rebounds bounce up too much forcing the goalie into those desperation save a little too often, but more importantly it gives opposing players in the area too many whack-in-out-of-the-air-goals. I've seen these types of goals twice in about 5 games (really 5 periods), and the CPU is 2/2 at them. More shots (especially hard ones, should deflect up and over the glass instead, or at least behind the net cleanly.)

-Similarly to the point above, although it's great there's more rebounds and that the goalie tries to direct rebounds away from the net, the rebounds seem to be left in the crease to often, they need to deflect off the pads with a little more power so that they're no lying in the crease for an easy tap in.

[Ridgeberg]

Well thanks for following through with the screen shot!
And if I am going to find some positive, then at least VL4's face looks better than it did last year.
If you cannot make anymore changes, does this mean that the game has gone gold?

Thanks for looking into getting it in either via patch or in NHL11.

Here is a real screen shot...

[Stranius]

Didnt take long until something like this was found, hopefully there is ways to fix this for the release. Otherwise you can imagine what online will be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vadnn4i8OgM

[centauris]

anyone know why the passing is so slow when i'm jamming my right trigger down as hard as I can...

is my controller broken?

[akula]

Quote: Originally Posted by Stranius

Didnt take long until something like this was found, hopefully there is ways to fix this for the release. Otherwise you can imagine what online will be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vadnn4i8OgM

what the hell EA? how could you not see this? the leg lift should be limited to once every 5 seconds or something. PATCH!!!!!!!

[akula]

Quote: Originally Posted by blinkfan77

Before I read through 13 pages (and I will soon, but I'm just curious about this right now) has anybody noticed that the "one-handed deke" from last year is gone? AND I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER!!! Seriously. I couldn't stand that last year. The only time you see those is when someone rarely does them in shootouts. Soooo many times the one-handed animation screwed up my backhand shots etc... So far, from what I've seen, the animation is gone. Anybody else notice or see otherwise? Thoughts?

agree 100% at least ea has the balls to admit the feature was broken and yank it out of the game. this game is amazing. going to play more bbl for full impressions.

[kai123]

Quote: Originally Posted by akula

agree 100% at least ea has the balls to admit the feature was broken and yank it out of the game. this game is amazing. going to play more bbl for full impressions.

Press vision control and deke and you'll see that the feature is still there.