NHL 13 Season Ticket Impressions

[ChubbyBanana]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rhinoboy50

For non-Canadians, Tim Horton's is Canada's blue-collar, non-snobby, non-hipster, less expensive version of Starbucks. They are probably the most prolific food vendor in Canada. Named for a former NHLer, they originally were purveyors of coffee and donuts but have expanded to offer other foods and beverages. A popular local hangout for small towns, big cities, and a frequent stop or hockey teams and parents during tournaments and early morning practices.

We have them here in the States also, just probably not where the poster lives.

Gonna try lowering the learning slider on Pro and see if that helps me maybe win a game. So far I'm 0-6.

[Spanky]

Quote: Originally Posted by SlyBelle

One hugely annoying thing happening in season mode is when the CPU offers me the same trade a million times throughout the season. Even though I declined the trade, seems like the CPU keeps offering me the same deal every week.

That's nothing more than an aggressive, persistent general manager, like Garth Snow.

[jyoung]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

Another issue with the lower right corner,on top of the huge frame hit every time,players go through the boards sometimes:

One thing you can do to resolve frame rate issues with certain cameras is to make a custom camera that cuts off that part of the crowd so it doesn't display during gameplay and cause frame drops to occur.

Just fiddle with the custom camera settings and you should be able to eliminate any camera-related frame rate stutters.

[jyoung]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rhinoboy50

For non-Canadians, Tim Horton's is Canada's blue-collar, non-snobby, non-hipster, less expensive version of Starbucks. They are probably the most prolific food vendor in Canada. Named for a former NHLer, they originally were purveyors of coffee and donuts but have expanded to offer other foods and beverages. A popular local hangout for small towns, big cities, and a frequent stop or hockey teams and parents during tournaments and early morning practices.

I noticed there are EB Games ads, too.

I believe EB Games no longer exists in the USA (they are all Gamestops). They are exclusive to Canada now as far as North America goes.

[jyoung]

Quote: Originally Posted by derektown

Gary and Bill are again very good but still would like to see a change next year something more fresh. This is partly due to only playing offline.

I am very impressed with the new context-specific commentary they added for replays and end-of-periods.

The commentary during live action is mostly the same as usual, though. I am already hearing many of the same lines that have been in the game for 4 to 5 years now.

And of course, there's that whole thing about Bill and Gary having not called a NHL game together since before the 2004-2005 lockout when ESPN still had the NHL's television rights.

[theaub]

This is the first NHL game since '09 where I can enjoy playing against the CPU

If they can tune in some penalties I'll be playing this for a long time imo

[jbd345]

Played a quick game last night. After skipping last year the game feels fresh again. The sounds during gameplay are incredible it seems both NHL and stepped it up in this department, and mixed with the true broadcast it feels like im watching a real NHL game on tv. I have season ticket for PS3 but tried the demo on 360 and hated the controller, defentally prefer the PS3 controller for NHL.

[Majingir]

Just played winter classic. The lighting on it is great. Makes me wish EA still made MLB games lol.

2 days ago I lose on PRO 2-1.
Yesterday I won on all star 4-2
Today I lose on all star 3-1


Games have been great so far. Minus the lack of penalties, it's been good. Still need to do some slider adjusting(players on both sides lose pucks way too easily, and shot totals are too low for CPU, and need to adjust amount of goals:save ratio so that sv% end up being normal)