NHL 13 Video - 8 Minutes of Gameplay with Associate Producer, Andy Agostini

[shogunofharlem3]

Quote: Originally Posted by Legend.

I believe the puck was deflected and the original shot from Pronger was going five hole, hence why Fleury had his paddle down. I'm not 100% sure and to be honest I'm not a huge hockey guru, but that's what it looks like to me.

Problem is, you don't go paddle down to block the 5 hole on a point shot. You paddle down when the puck is close and you need to cover the bottom of the net. Example would be, stopping a shot, leaving a bad rebound, you may paddle down there hoping to take away the bottom part of the net assuming the offensive guys won't have leverage to lift the puck since you dmen should be knocking their butts down.

You'll never see a goalie paddle down on point shots (except for me in my men's league, damn I am out of shape).

Once that puck went to the point, he should have reset to his feet or at the minimum, gone to standard butterfly which would have helped stop the deflected shot in a number of ways. That is not a paddle down situation. However, it is a videogame and won't be perfect so I am good with that, but it does stick out

However, I will say, and I say this as an avid 2k hockey guy (no I'm not starting a war) I am sold for the first time since 99 on my N64. I am really looking forward to this game (it'll have to split with 2k10 though I am guessing). Looking good EA.

[bwiggy33]

Quote: Originally Posted by Legend.

I believe the puck was deflected and the original shot from Pronger was going five hole, hence why Fleury had his paddle down. I'm not 100% sure and to be honest I'm not a huge hockey guru, but that's what it looks like to me.

You are correct that it was deflected but in the replay of the goal at 4:35 you can actually see Fleury go down well before the shot even comes. Fleury just goes into paddle down immediately and then waits, waits, waits, waits, and then finally Pronger shoots and it gets deflected and goes in. As Shogun said standard butterfly would have been the proper move if Fleury was going to go down to his knees. IMO though I would have liked to see Fleury try and fight through the screen and then go into standard butterfly. I mean EA did say you will now see goalies looking over players in front of them to see the puck.

Now this is just a small sample size, but if this happens often I may lose it. Goalies are just way too important to me so these things stick out like a sore thumb. The goalies have been my least favorite part to this series. They look stunning, but move and play like idiots.

[gopher_guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by bwiggy33

FIFA does this with a cutscene. When you score there is the manual celebration but if you wait for your players to come it goes into the cutscene of the player celebrating with his teammates. If you start running away from your team when you score, they continue to run towards you no matter what and it always ends in your teammates hugging the player and celebrating. That's exactly how NHL should be.

Yep, they need to go talk to the FIFA guys. Cele's in FIFA are perfect.

[gopher_guy]

And I forgot to mention:

LOVE the inside the goal cam replay!

[bwiggy33]

Quote: Originally Posted by gopher_guy

And I forgot to mention: LOVE the inside the goal cam replay!

No question! I'm actually very surprised they added both the in net camera, and the actual in net replay. I never thought either one of those would even be added. It looks awesome. Sadly the first time seeing the in net cam in action I found a problem with the goalies. It looks really sweet though. Much more like a live telecast. It at least freshens things up a bit. I'm pretty much run down with Thorne and Clement but EA adding in the subtle presentation changes should help freshen up the game at least a little bit.

[ezzle]

penalties?

[Dazraz]

Quote: Originally Posted by ezzle

penalties?

I think Penalties are going to be the new feature for NHL 14. EA ran out of time to put it in this year. Ha ha


In all seriousness though I'm liking the look of this years game. Can't wait for the demo. Does anyone know if the demo has slider adjustments?

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by Weapon X

The sad thing is, they did recognize it for one glorious year (I think it was 11?) and then it mysteriously vanished, so it's not like it hasn't been in the game before. For all the "real time presentation" stuff they put out, I would've had no problem with bringing back that old group goal celebration cutscene after the zoom in on the goal scorer... *sigh* Oh well... WX

NHL2004 still had the best celebrations in any hockey game. Not only did you get the small individual celebration (arms raised), but then all the players would gather for the group hug.
They also had multiple camera angles to display the group hug.
It looked 100% authentic and super cool.

Still not sure why that hasn't been replicated since.