NHL 10 Video: New Goalie Animation

[Boucher]

Quote: Originally Posted by baa7

It has nothing to do with how good goalies are in the NHL. It's a matter of gameplay balance in the video version of the sport. For many of us, goalie skill is out of balance in relation to the rest of the gameplay. I can easily skate up the ice, for example. I can walk into the CPU's zone, every rush. I can skate around in circles and the CPU can't touch me. I can kill penalties by simply skating up and down the ice, and the CPU will never touch the puck. But I seldom score more than 1 goal a game -- the goalies play like Jacques Plante incarnate. The gameplay is out of whack. Goalies need to play less like brick walls and CPU defenders need to check with some intensity.

Its more like Patrick Roy or Garth Snow before equipment regulation

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redshirt_EA

That video is about a month old, so some stuff has changed. Three months from the retail date doesn't mean there are three months left to work on it. Approvals and manufacturing need to fit in there too, so at the moment we are putting the final touches on the game.

Yeah that did cross my mind as well. I wasn't sure what your cut off date was to get the final build ready for mass production and the like, I figured maybe you guys had a couple weeks left before having to submit a final master.

[Splitter77]

Quote: Originally Posted by baa7

It has nothing to do with how good goalies are in the NHL. It's a matter of gameplay balance in the video version of the sport. For many of us, goalie skill is out of balance in relation to the rest of the gameplay. I can easily skate up the ice, for example. I can walk into the CPU's zone, every rush. I can skate around in circles and the CPU can't touch me. I can kill penalties by simply skating up and down the ice, and the CPU will never touch the puck. But I seldom score more than 1 goal a game -- the goalies play like Jacques Plante incarnate. The gameplay is out of whack. Goalies need to play less like brick walls and CPU defenders need to check with some intensity.

exactly

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by baa7

It has nothing to do with how good goalies are in the NHL. It's a matter of gameplay balance in the video version of the sport. For many of us, goalie skill is out of balance in relation to the rest of the gameplay. I can easily skate up the ice, for example. I can walk into the CPU's zone, every rush. I can skate around in circles and the CPU can't touch me. I can kill penalties by simply skating up and down the ice, and the CPU will never touch the puck. But I seldom score more than 1 goal a game -- the goalies play like Jacques Plante incarnate. The gameplay is out of whack. Goalies need to play less like brick walls and CPU defenders need to check with some intensity.

If you're patient on offense, look for screens and work the puck around the goals come easy enough in 09. Sure you can skate in all day long and one timer it or just fire it on net, much like real life its going to get stopped. I'd much rather it be that way and present a challenge then be able to score at will. I can easily see AI CPU goalies being more scorable on this year anyway with the elemination of the puck magnets and rolling down the backs anyway.

[baa7]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

I'd much rather it be that way and present a challenge then be able to score at will.

Oh yeah, I understand that, and I understand why goalies are so good on the higher levels. I really don't have an issue with it as just I edit goalie ratings before playing on the higher difficulty levels. I was just responding to the post about NHL goalies being good, when the issue raised actually had to do with gameplay balance concerns.

[savoie2006]

Doesn't NHL 10 have plenty of Goalie sliders this year? That should have prevent the "god goalie" problem, except online, but that's OK. The better the AI goalies can stop the glitchers the better.

[Ruffy]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

If you're patient on offense, look for screens and work the puck around the goals come easy enough in 09. Sure you can skate in all day long and one timer it or just fire it on net, much like real life its going to get stopped. I'd much rather it be that way and present a challenge then be able to score at will. I can easily see AI CPU goalies being more scorable on this year anyway with the elemination of the puck magnets and rolling down the backs anyway.

Exactly.

The game has sliders this year so you can adjust for your offline tastes. Me I love the goalies to be walls forcing me to pound in rebounds and capitalize on 2 on 1s or maybe even a rare breakaway chance.

[BigH2k6]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruffy

Exactly. The game has sliders this year so you can adjust for your offline tastes.

Lets hope they work properly