NHL 11 Hands-On E3 Impressions (IGN)

[Victory23]

I imagine it will be like FIFA, where you have the option to skip the celebration by, A, running to your teammates, or B, pressing LB + RB to trigger the usual generic celebration.

[Lightbringer719]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dalsanto0026

I can't believe people requested user controlled goal celebrations. How is seeing the same 5 - 6 goal celebrations over and over again seen as an issue? The things some people focus on. Hopefully there's an option to turn off this gimmicky feature.

I've played a lot of EA's NHL games, and seeing a guy stop in place after scoring on a breakaway to just do a double fist pump, or a guy spinning and pointing to no one kinda got old.

[tgalv]

celebrations are fine with me as long as there are some reasonable ones to choose from.

over/under: MS point cost of the pony ride

[plaidchuck]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flyermania

Over-the-top celebrations have no place in a "sim" game IMO. Hopefully this type of "addition" didn't take time away from the attention the CPU AI drastically needs.

I'm just gonna be very disappointed if all this stuff has been added and the AI is the same as NHL10. Which might be the case, as they haven't mentioned anything regarding AI/goalie improvements. And you know how EA typically is: if they don't hype it or mention it, it usually means nothing has been done.

[lunch pale gang]

Hopefully, one of the user controlled celebrations will be all the players on the scoring team celebrating together.

[Bama83]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flyermania

Over-the-top celebrations have no place in a "sim" game IMO. Hopefully this type of "addition" didn't take time away from the attention the CPU AI drastically needs.

Thank you.

I never understand when people focus on the simplest (and in my opinion dumbest) of things. For instance, if they don't have the Bauer 3300 wood stick I'll boycott. I mean ... wha??!!

Silly celebrations - leave it for the kiddies that play Madden. The only thing the NHL community wanted was better celebrations with the team being involved.

Why not make a real time presentation camera (like The Show) and just have them celebrate like a team would. It'd be different every time and it'd be cool to watch. Wouldn't take much from a programming perspective either.

[kazo0]

I really doubt that the animators who worked on the User Controlled Celebrations are the same people as the programmers working on AI. I'm not saying I expect the AI to be any better this year but I don't think User Controlled Celebrations is to blame for that...

I personally don't mind having some new celebrations that we can control, it's just a fun little addition.

I'm also looking forward to what they did for disallowed goals, in the E3 trailer it says "All New: Disallowed Goals" when it's listing some of the 200 new features.

[Bama83]

Quote: Originally Posted by kazo0

I really doubt that the animators who worked on the User Controlled Celebrations are the same people as the programmers working on AI. I'm not saying I expect the AI to be any better this year but I don't think User Controlled Celebrations is to blame for that...

Nothing against you, but I am so sick of this comment.

Look, any given game is a project. As a project you are given a budget to pay for and hire resources.

So, let's not look at this as "programmers" vs "animators". Let's look at it as an allocation of resources (ie budget). So, when you break it all down, the resources spent on silly celebrations took resources that could have been used to tweak/test the AI further.

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I personally don't mind having some new celebrations that we can control, it's just a fun little addition.

It's a pointless addition that takes away from the realism. Again, if there are "over-the-top" Madden celebrations - then this game took a step away from sim.

I *DARE* an NHL player to Superman down the ice and see what happens during his next shift.