NHL 14 Gameplay Developer Diary with One Touch Dekes Gameplay Trailer

[hydroshubong]

Danglefest!!!! wooo

[hydroshubong]

It's gonna be like, deke after deke after deke after deke after deke after deke, shot and score!!!!

[porky14]

Imagine the C H E E S E now !!!!!!!

[bwiggy33]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fiddy

so, they made deking even easier than it is now. great. from the looks of it, the loose puck dekes, the puck is still glued to the player/animation and cant be poked away like it should when in position. great. they got rid of the skating in mud when turning or making a quick change of direction. sweet, even easier to skate around the d men with speed, agility, and endurance. great. honestly, wish they would have just updated the skating animations from 12 to 13, not added this new skating stuff. bc its done more harm than good IMO. same goes from 13 to 14, keep updating the animations for dekes, new ones etc. keep updating and tuning how the AI reacts to plays and what not. yet they dont. IMO, as much as i moan and groan, these guys are close to making a solid gameplay hockey game, but yet so far away. bah!

Fully agree!

The only reason they are so far away from making a great game, is because they don't realize how close they are and what has to be done to make it great.

[jonapaloma]

As long as you will be able to counter dekes like this it will be fine.

I hope you can change attributes and yuou see the difference so it isnt like in NHL 11 where you could change puck control to 36 and you could still deke with any player and it was almost impossible to lose the puck.

[ComaFaction]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fiddy

so, they made deking even easier than it is now. great. from the looks of it, the loose puck dekes, the puck is still glued to the player/animation and cant be poked away like it should when in position. great. they got rid of the skating in mud when turning or making a quick change of direction. sweet, even easier to skate around the d men with speed, agility, and endurance. great. honestly, wish they would have just updated the skating animations from 12 to 13, not added this new skating stuff. bc its done more harm than good IMO. same goes from 13 to 14, keep updating the animations for dekes, new ones etc. keep updating and tuning how the AI reacts to plays and what not. yet they dont. IMO, as much as i moan and groan, these guys are close to making a solid gameplay hockey game, but yet so far away. bah!

Interesting to interpret it that way, instead of realizing that these very things are what can (potentially) bring balance to the defense. Being able to strafe as well as quickly pivot are things that will give defenders a much bigger toolbox to defend with.

[Fiddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by ComaFaction

Interesting to interpret it that way, instead of realizing that these very things are what can (potentially) bring balance to the defense. Being able to strafe as well as quickly pivot are things that will give defenders a much bigger toolbox to defend with.

yeah, hate to be a downer, but everything they add or tweak ends up making the o that much stronger than the d. so until that track record is broke, i will continue to look at it that way.

i hope it does bring balance to the game for sure.

[Money99]

I like the widening of the cone vision. I hope it also means that weaker defensemen will have a slimmer cone than others.