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[adayinthelife]

Quote: Originally Posted by FBeaule04

You know Realm, it's tough to give them some slack. My main grief is setting the priorities. Unless they are wrap in bubble film, inside a building without any access to the world and unable to read what people are saying, then I could understand. Sincerely, you get that Dev. Team in a War Room and what came out was goalies fight, helmet popping out and bumping goalies? No matter how you want people to understand what they are doing, you can't. Presentation of the game as been so ordinary for the last few years (even worse when you see what NBA 2K11 did and what Madden 12 is up to) that it's tough giving these guys a slack. You can't do miracle in 10 months, I agree. But there's nothing to defend when you come out with stupid features and aren't even able to update gameface and players profile pictures.

This is what I'm saying. I'm actually excited about not having invincible goalies and nets coming off and helmets coming off, but there are still so many stupid things that wound up becoming the focus of the game it seems.

Sure, they only have 10 months and that's not a very long time at all, so why wouldn't they make use of that time better is what I'm wondering. Again, it just seems like there was a lack of focus.

[FBeaule04]

Quote: Originally Posted by bwiggy33

Also why couldn't EA create the different styles and allow us to choose which teams do what style? NHL 2k8 allowed this. Also Madden has virtually every teams playbook in their game. Sorry but creating each teams playbook takes a hell of a lot more time then creating 10 different systems. There really aren't many different systems in the NHL. They are all kind of similar. Whatever team wins the cup, the next year the teams try and do that same thing.

To me Bwiggy, since the inception of EASHL, there's nothing showing me that the EA NHL team isn't developping the game to be play online only and that the offline modes are side-orders in the game, and I should say thanks just to have these offline options in.

I don't have that feel with other sports games. Maybe those who play NHL are playing it mostly online and it's why offline experience as been pretty static for the last 3 editions. If that's the case and for this reason people are playing mostly online, then EA can say that anyway, people play online so we better concentrate on the online stuff.

The playbook exemple is pretty good, but who need a system when you play online and control either your player or all of your players. Why bother going deeper since the system you want can be apply if you're controlling everyone and there's no need for a system if you control 1 of the 6 players on the ice in the EASHL?

I maybe wrong, but that's the feel I have with the NHL game.

[Rogie Vachon]

I haven`t read it anywhere,and I don`t think I`ve seen anyone doing it on any of the videos,.....at least not very much,because I don`t recall seeing it.

Can a puck carrier still push the puck ahead?

Like I say,..I`ve been looking for it and haven`t really seen it on any of the videos out there.

[bwiggy33]

Quote: Originally Posted by FBeaule04

To me Bwiggy, since the inception of EASHL, there's nothing showing me that the EA NHL team isn't developping the game to be play online only and that the offline modes are side-orders in the game, and I should say thanks just to have these offline options in. I don't have that feel with other sports games. Maybe those who play NHL are playing it mostly online and it's why offline experience as been pretty static for the last 3 editions. If that's the case and for this reason people are playing mostly online, then EA can say that anyway, people play online so we better concentrate on the online stuff. The playbook exemple is pretty good, but who need a system when you play online and control either your player or all of your players. Why bother going deeper since the system you want can be apply if you're controlling everyone and there's no need for a system if you control 1 of the 6 players on the ice in the EASHL? I maybe wrong, but that's the feel I have with the NHL game.

You are very correct on the online play and that really sucks. I can no longer play NHL online. I have gotten sick of the cheesers and even online gets stale because the same goals get scored over and over. I'm actually really good at this game and to say that winning online is not fun sounds nuts. The thing is that's how I feel because the game has become a little bit stale even when you are playing against another human.

Also my big thing is BeAGM. I love starting one with the Wild and playing every game. It's just what I love to do. You can only play so many online games. The Show is the perfect game for me because they focus specifically on offline play. Sure they add online features, but baseball games just aren't very good for online play due to lag. I just wish that EA could focus more time on BeAgm and offline play. I mean just dedicate one year to it to tune it up. It's almost there. I think one year of focus could really help this game with offline.

[gopher_guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by bwiggy33

You are very correct on the online play and that really sucks. I can no longer play NHL online. I have gotten sick of the cheesers and even online gets stale because the same goals get scored over and over. I'm actually really good at this game and to say that winning online is not fun sounds nuts. The thing is that's how I feel because the game has become a little bit stale even when you are playing against another human. Also my big thing is BeAGM. I love starting one with the Wild and playing every game. It's just what I love to do. You can only play so many online games. The Show is the perfect game for me because they focus specifically on offline play. Sure they add online features, but baseball games just aren't very good for online play due to lag. I just wish that EA could focus more time on BeAgm and offline play. I mean just dedicate one year to it to tune it up. It's almost there. I think one year of focus could really help this game with offline.

I'm pumped to play with the Wild in this game, with Seto and Heatley

[Qb]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rogie Vachon

Can a puck carrier still push the puck ahead? Like I say,..I`ve been looking for it and haven`t really seen it on any of the videos out there.

Yes. It also seems like it was tweaked somewhat... the move itself didn't seem to give me as much speed, but the defender didn't get a slight boost to counteract it either. Not how I remember it in NHL11...

I did it when I was about even with a defender on the rush and he didn't automatically take the puck from me. I didn't blow by him, but gained about half a step which enabled me to get a shot off. To be fair, this was on Pro difficulty since it was in the HUT demo mode, so maybe on AS or SS he simply absorbs the puck as seen NHL11. Guess I need to remember to try it in a similar situation during play now game on a higher difficulty.


On a very loosely related note, the puck protect for driving to the net from wide was more effective when I tried it with Lucic and Iginla in HUT. That was something that was present early on in NHL11 but was eventually tuned out due to online abuse. Hopefully it's back to stay and it can't be tap-spammed anymore because it's a fairly standard tactic in the NHL.

[adayinthelife]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rogie Vachon

I haven`t read it anywhere,and I don`t think I`ve seen anyone doing it on any of the videos,.....at least not very much,because I don`t recall seeing it. Can a puck carrier still push the puck ahead? Like I say,..I`ve been looking for it and haven`t really seen it on any of the videos out there.

Yep, you still use L2/LT.

[jonapaloma]

Damn you EA or who it is who decides that you got to have a gold membership on live to be able to download nhl 12 demo :S :P