NHL 13 Delivers Major Innovations That Will Change the Way You Play the Game

[Millennium]

Quote: Originally Posted by BaylorBearBryant

Kind of disappointed with the lack of EASHL improvements.

The changing of the base skating engine alone, if successful, will make EASHL 100x better.

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[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by Qb

There's plenty of room for skepticism and while I'll allow myself to dream at the moment, I ultimately need to see/feel the new skating in action before I'm sold on it. However, as much as the two of us have droned on & on about the need for better skating, I assumed you'd be doing the dance of joy with me. Something I noticed in coming back to the thread a second time was the screenshot. I skipped directly to the meat of the post, but this time I checked it out. The body positioning of the players looks SO much better. Let's hope that's a good sign the NHL team is on the right track.

LOL, trust me QB, I want to be excited to read that the skating physics were completely revamped, but given the history of this series, I'm done holding my breath.
They revamped the hitting physics too and they are far from perfect. Little guys still hammer on bigger guys. I can still pin Chara with Hudler even if we're beside the boards, and I'm perpendicular to them.

The skating engine certainly needed a really, really big upgrade and I'm glad to read that they've addressed it.
But until I see that the forward-backward-pivot move (without losing momentum) has been completely eradicated I won't be getting excited for anything.
EA is no different than any other company, but they have a propensity to overhype everything and then when you actually get your hands on it, it's nothing close to what they advertised.

I hate being a wet-blanket on a sunny day and perhaps I shouldn't have posted anything. But I haven't been truly happy with this series since NHL09 so I'm not expecting this new skating engine to change anything.

I'll be downright shocked if this fixes the biggest issue I have with this game and that is proper player and team separation.
If the CPU can no longer pull of impossible moves, then I fear they will be given even greater boosts to artificially make games harder against a human opponent.

[savoie2006]

Everything "sounds" great, but how it will play out? First there was Adaptive AI, when helped but wasn't great. Then there was Anticipation AI, which I'm not exactly sure what it did. Now there's Hockey I.Q.... this be the one.
Hopefully the physics based skating improves the physics based hitting, which is kind of poor. Kind of disappointed not to hear of a major Presentation overhaul, but if all this works out I'll live another year.

[Fiddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Qb

I ultimately need to see/feel the new skating in action before I'm sold on it.

well lets be honest, it cant be any worse than it is now, right? i mean the skating engine is pretty much the same as in NHL 94.

so even if its not what we all expect, its still a notch better than what we have had in this series IMO..

[LuGer33]

Quote: Originally Posted by Feldman011teen

This game needs a presentation overhaul, as its football counterparts are getting. The game itself is still a great game, but its starting to get stale. I can't remember the last hockey game to have great presentation. In game highlights and daily scores of what's going around the league would really help get you into your season, especially during a playoff push.

OS... the home of people who want to watch, not play, their video games.

Haha I'm kidding, of course, and I do agree that presentation is a huge component of our sports games and the NHL franchise in particular is lacking a bit, but I still don't get why it's such a priority for some people. If you gave me the choice of overhauled and dynamic, NBA 2K or The Show style presentation for NHL vs. something like new skating, hitting, and puck physics, I'm going to choose the gameplay upgrades every time.

I get the sense (from OS especially) that a lot of people would honestly choose the presentation elements, which baffles me, but hey, to each their own.

[tlobster12]

I'm pleasantly surprised I love the new skating physics and team specific presentations. Great time to be a hockey fan.

[savoie2006]

So why does it look like there is a bit of 2K Fog in the screenshot

[plaidchuck]

Yeap will believe it when I see it, i.e. in actual gameplay vids that come out later in the year. The question is even if this is improved will they follow the usual pattern of breaking or neglecting 15 other things in the process? Will live goalies still be a train wreck? GM mode improved? Anything added to make offline modes worth playing? Will the EASHL still be a glitch fest where only 2 or 3 attributes matter? Will I still be able to level Chara with my 5'6 sniper?

Whole lotta questions to be answered before I even feel a tinge of excitement for this.