NHL 11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[Lightbringer719]

I love how at the end of the fight, it shows BOTH guys getting a penalty, as opposed to simply showing an overlay of the home guy getting a penalty.

[Section_25]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lightbringer719

I love how at the end of the fight, it shows BOTH guys getting a penalty, as opposed to simply showing an overlay of the home guy getting a penalty.

Absolutely agree!

What would really be nice is if the full version showed facial damage after the fight....bloody nose, split lip...heh

[Lightbringer719]

Quote: Originally Posted by Section_25

Absolutely agree! What would really be nice is if the full version showed facial damage after the fight....bloody nose, split lip...heh

It gives me hope that coincidental roughing minors will also show the two guys getting the penalty, and not only the home player.

[Steven547]

Quote: Originally Posted by idrisguitar

biggest thing for me, one of the reasons why i didn't buy 10, after owning 09 for a while. (indeed it happened in that game) was the robo goalies, the magnetic saves, the almost toally random "fingers crossed the ai allows me to score this game" feeling. i hated that the comeback ai would just fire in a laser as my goalie would sit like a dump, and on the other end my top corner shots were being caught without any difficulty. the demo so far helps negate that lack of control feeling (the worst feeling you can have in a sports sim imo) by leaving it to real time physics. you can see the puck was saved because the shot went there, and the goalie put his glove in the right place in a realistic fashion. when i score it feels like i hit a spot that was impossible to stop in that instance, not that this time the ai allowed the puck to go in. which is how it felt in nhl 09 and 10 for me anyway. im thinking there will still be come comeback ai and lack of control feeling, which will definitely get on my nerves, but real time physics helps to aleviate it a bit, as there no puck warp, or Neo style matrix saves from what i can see.

I'm thinking that the "loose puck" feel on the CPU's stick will help eliminate this feeling. I don't think there was necessarily "comeback" last year as much as the CPU just didn't make mistakes when passing or shooting. From playing this DEMO, I've seen more loose pucks which is a good thing.

[mkharsh33]

I would also like to see the rest of the players ON ICE during a fight. As soon as one starts, every aspect of the game is removed and the focus is only on the two players. We need the players on ice and the crowd into it, beating on the glass and yelling!

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by mkharsh33

I would also like to see the rest of the players ON ICE during a fight. As soon as one starts, every aspect of the game is removed and the focus is only on the two players. We need the players on ice and the crowd into it, beating on the glass and yelling!

And have the framerate drop to 2 fps. Thats the sole reason its the way it is.

[sknapple]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lightbringer719

It gives me hope that coincidental roughing minors will also show the two guys getting the penalty, and not only the home player.

It does; I had a delayed slashing penalty coming to me, and once the play was whistled dead, the opposing player tried a little post-whistle push and shove, and when they called the penalty, they showed both my slashing penalty, and a roughing penalty for the opposing team, with both players on screen at once.

[Splitter77]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

And have the framerate drop to 2 fps. Thats the sole reason its the way it is.

if its the first person fighting that causes the framerate drop, they should just go back to the fighting in nhl 96 on the genesis. The first person fighting is brutal. Hopefully next year they get rid of that and go back to fighting like 2k series had, or the old genesis 96 version.