NHL 15: What the Ignite Engine Means

[drog1602]

The new ignite engine means another eight years of excuses for poor game play.
You can bet that NHL15 will be nothing more than a port of NHL14 and a couple of gimmicks tossed in to try and sell it.

The EA sports games are all about HUT and micro transactions, that is the focus and not on quality of games.

Kinda sad when a fantasy manager sim seems more appealing than this series.

[drog1602]

Quote: Originally Posted by dlxsf18

At the 20 second mark of this video you can see Crosby and Ovechkin hug, it could be a sign of things to come for celebrations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxF9sqDWU0Q

Group hugs had been in previous NHL titles (NHL10?), I will never understand why they took it out ( along with a multitude of other things). But looking at how the game plays and I guess one can understand the decision. The game play is all about one person doing it all and the team aspect has been pushed aside, so...

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Quote: Originally Posted by metalmilitia623

If they don't bring it to PC then I'm not interested at all. XBO and PS4 are both trash (imo) and a total waste of money. Then add on exclusives and other tactics used by publishers and M$ and $ony to try and boost sales and all it does is ruin games for the people that matter, us.. The gamers. Exclusive games are something that really bothers me. Why would you want to limit your options by only releasing on one platform and not only that but to release on the smallest of the gaming platforms, obviously those being consoles. PC will always have more players, always have more power and always have more innovation so I don't understand this whole sports games (for the most part) are not allowed on PC.

Then you won't be interested. There hasn't been a pc NHL game since 2008, and there are no plans to bring it back.

[ed209_1]

EA puts bullet-points on the back of the box and a lightshow to distract you, while lulling you with sweet buzzwords. It's like dancing with a girl then the lights come on at the end of the night.

[Madwolf]

Well from playing Madden 25 on the PS4 I know the AI will be improved a lot. For some reasons, may be hardware limitations, EA's games on current gen hardware all had a "hive mindset." They didn't seem to have individual AI until they were the active player. It's one of the reasons defense suffered on Madden and on NHL, and one of the reasons that your players just seem to be completely oblivious to what's going on when playing offense.

Everyone has had some really good suggestions on what needs to be improved, and here's a few small things from me:

- Load times - What is EA Sports' deal when it comes to load times? They're all just stupid! When you put in Madden or NHL the game takes a fortnight to get to the screen where you press start, and then you have to wait while the menu system loads! I feel like I could do my laundry in the time it takes to just get to a screen that enables you to head towards a game. It's just silly. The menu's should be so "fancy" that they keep the game from loading in under 30 seconds.

- Player progression - I know that everyone has a theory on exactly how this works. Sometimes it seems like it's okay, and other times you're scratching you're head.

- Uploaded Replays - Feel like these always end up way to short. I want the time to be longer so you get a feel for the play.

[gamerk2]

Quote: Originally Posted by Madwolf

- Load times - What is EA Sports' deal when it comes to load times? They're all just stupid! When you put in Madden or NHL the game takes a fortnight to get to the screen where you press start, and then you have to wait while the menu system loads! I feel like I could do my laundry in the time it takes to just get to a screen that enables you to head towards a game. It's just silly. The menu's should be so "fancy" that they keep the game from loading in under 30 seconds.

Loading screens are just a way to hide the time it takes to load everything into memory. And on the PS3 in particular, that's a significant issue.

[Madwolf]

Quote: Originally Posted by gamerk2

Loading screens are just a way to hide the time it takes to load everything into memory. And on the PS3 in particular, that's a significant issue.

I completely understand that, I'm just saying that it takes too long to load all that stuff. Into the game is fine, loading into the menu's is stupid! It should take 5 seconds to load menus tops.

[Bruce LeRoy]

We all should know by now that the ignite engine means nothing. It doesn't do anything that couldn't be done before. It just allows EA Sports games to borrow tech from each other. The Ignite Engine is just a marketing buzz word.