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

[Roscosuper II]

Redshirt,

What's the deal? Is this game going to be able to be played with at least 10 minute periods for a sim game? Playing the demo on superstar hardcore is cool but, within the 5 minute periods shots can get high. Double the totals and wow, back to square one for me. Please tell me honest, I can't afford to waste money this year.

[Redshirt_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by Roscosuper II

Redshirt, What's the deal? Is this game going to be able to be played with at least 10 minute periods for a sim game? Playing the demo on superstar hardcore is cool but, within the 5 minute periods shots can get high. Double the totals and wow, back to square one for me. Please tell me honest, I can't afford to waste money this year.

Offline you can set it anything from 4 to 20 minute periods. Online it is still 5 mins. This is the same as NHL 09, so I might be misunderstanding the question.

Edit: Ok, I get the question now. I think hardcore/superstar will probably require most people to increase the period length to get realistic shot totals. It is likely that some slider fine tuning will be necessary to fit your skill and style if you want to get everything coming out just right, but I think that should definitely be possible now with the sliders that are available. I'm sure there will be plenty of (more objective) feedback on these forums on the matter when the full game is out.

[Ridgeberg]

Quote: Originally Posted by Roscosuper II

Redshirt, What's the deal? Is this game going to be able to be played with at least 10 minute periods for a sim game? Playing the demo on superstar hardcore is cool but, within the 5 minute periods shots can get high. Double the totals and wow, back to square one for me. Please tell me honest, I can't afford to waste money this year.

I think the shot totals in the demo include shots from the first two simmed periods. You might want to see what shot totals are at before the 3rd period starts and then after in order to find out how many shots the teams are taking during the 3rd (if you haven't already done that).

[Qb]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ridgeberg

I think the shot totals in the demo include shots from the first two simmed periods. You might want to see what shot totals are at before the 3rd period starts and then after in order to find out how many shots the teams are taking during the 3rd (if you haven't already done that).

My thoughts exactly. I've rarely seen more than a couple of shots per team playing on hardcore settings. I've had a hell of time generating many good chances, although I'm cycling down low like a MONSTER with the manual passing. It's just not leading to much... yet.

*****

A little birdie just shared a nice nugget of info with me. We'll see user goalies in online versus shootouts in NHL10 (and for penalty shots). Better start practicing, boys...

[CarryTheWeight]

Played Battle For The Cup at least 10-12 times last night and I have to say I'm pretty impressed.

-Hardcore passing is the best thing that could have happened to this series. It took me a long while to get used to (and I'm still getting used to it, quite frankly) but there's so much more control you have now. Variable speeds based on pressure is frustrating at first but it gives you so much more control over what play you want to run. Just the speed of a pass can cause you to overcommit.

-The new board play has made me look at the gameplay a lot more realistically. Instead of crushing an opponent along the boards whenever they came into hitting range like I did in NHL 09, board play gives those who can't hit an opportunity to jar the puck loose while getting a chance to set up some rushes (which I particularly liked...Sykora was pinned along the boards, kicked the puck behind the Penguin net with two defensemen waiting and began the rush to the Wings' end). Great addition, it adds a lot of strategy to the game.

-The crowd! I thought the towel-waving was only a pre-game cutscene. Boy, was I wrong. Seeing the Joe on its feet and towels waving with one minute to go in a tied Cup Finals Game 7 is unlike anything I've seen in a video game. I wish Gary/Bill would also play up how much the fans are going crazy but that's for next year I guess. What they did is fine with me. Chants are awesome as well. A++ in this department.

-I did not hear the booing of opposing star players (I have not had an injury yet so I haven't had that scenario happen), especially when carrying the puck coast-to-coast on a rush with Crosby. Maybe I didn't notice since there's so much other incidental noise in the arena.

Overall I'm very impressed and it only reinforces that this will be a day-one deal for me.

[bad_philanthropy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redshirt_EA

Offline you can set it anything from 4 to 20 minute periods. Online it is still 5 mins. This is the same as NHL 09, so I might be misunderstanding the question. Edit: Ok, I get the question now. I think hardcore/superstar will probably require most people to increase the period length to get realistic shot totals. It is likely that some slider fine tuning will be necessary to fit your skill and style if you want to get everything coming out just right, but I think that should definitely be possible now with the sliders that are available. I'm sure there will be plenty of (more objective) feedback on these forums on the matter when the full game is out.

It's excellent that with the new sliders and gamepaly tweaks, you guys have provided the type of NHL gamer around these boards with the toolbox to really tailor the game to pretty exacting specifications. I can't think of anything that was really overlooked in regards to at least giving us all the options we could need to get the game playing like we want.

[bukktown]

How do you do the leg kick?

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by bukktown

How do you do the leg kick?

click in the right stick.