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Old 08-31-2014, 06:48 PM   #401
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I don't know, bwiggy, I saw a good bit of pucks out of play last year when playing online. Lots of shots that hit sticks on the ice and went up and over the glass and especially the pucks off of the cross bar and goalies that bounced over the glass.

It almost feels like in this demo the glass is too high on the ends or the puck just doesn't have that extra spring off of the objects it interacts with. It is way better than the bouncing basketball like puck of last year's post tuner adjustment, but needs a tad more fine tuning, imo.
That surprises me then. I rented 14 from gamefly and played it for maybe an hour, but from what I saw it looked exactly like 07-13 in that regard. The entire last gen just seemed like pucks were tuned to only go so high to prevent whistles, unless of course you do the flip dump way too high. Either way I've never liked this area of the game. The fact goalies never deflect pucks out of play is just another thing about the goalie portion of this game that ticks me off.
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Old 08-31-2014, 11:07 PM   #402
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Gameplay was pretty good. I wasn't too impressed with the graphics. They're nice but they are not on the same level as Madden, nba 2k, or The Show.

I may be interested in HUT this year, does anyone know what the period length generally is?
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Old 09-01-2014, 12:24 AM   #403
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5 minutes per period.
However it may still change.
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Old 09-01-2014, 01:47 AM   #404
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I don't think there's any doubt I'll be turning the commentary completely off. I love Doc and Eddie-O but the play-by-play in the demo is simply horrible.
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Old 09-01-2014, 05:10 AM   #405
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The more I play it, the more I can't stand it. Just the sheer IDIOCY of these people making the game. Why the **** is the same ****ing button that advances the cutscene the one to change my faceoff??? Did one person seriously not play this and stand up and go "This is the stupidest thing we've ever done." ?

Why the **** is there no "restart" option after I finish my game? So I have to go all the way back to the beginning and reset all of my stuff and take 200 years just to get into another 2 minute game.

Why the **** do I have to do all of my settings every single time?

What the **** is the point of the 2-3 strategy if I never have help attacking the puck carrier in the offensive zone? There is never any forecheck whatsoever. Unless of course, I'm in my own zone, then the forecheck is insane.

Why the **** is there no overtime?

Why the **** is it 2 minute periods? I can't do ANYTHING in 2 minutes, just give us one 5 minute period.

The AI is still the same lazy bull****. Instead of making them play smarter on a higher difficulty, they unrealistically make them too good and just throw all ratings out the window. Any time they poke the puck, it's off my stick and onto theirs. I can't do anything. They let you walk into the zone completely uncontested, then there are four guys on you immediately and not a single teammate anywhere near you supporting you for a pass.

Nobody skates to obvious open space. Odd man rushes are a joke. You can't play this game with any realism. They WANT you to deke deke deke swerve around. There is no incentive whatsoever to use any of your teammates because they all have their heads up their asses.

Nobody puts themselves in position to shoot. Lefty/Righty is ignored. A guy will put himself on his off side, leaving no possible way for him to get a shot off if you pass to him. It's garbage. I honestly question if they play the game or not, or if they ever even watch hockey. Seriously it is SO bad.

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Old 09-01-2014, 10:14 AM   #406
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Why the **** is there no "restart" option after I finish my game? So I have to go all the way back to the beginning and reset all of my stuff and take 200 years just to get into another 2 minute game.

Why the **** do I have to do all of my settings every single time?

Why the **** is there no overtime?

Why the **** is it 2 minute periods? I can't do ANYTHING in 2 minutes, just give us one 5 minute period.
The answer to all these is that this is only on the demo.

I think this is really the wise way to do it, because it stops me from playing too much and being oversaturated by this game before the final product. Obviously the final product will have these settings, features, and save files so you won't have these issues.

Your other complaints are probably rather legitimate in that they will appear in the retail version of the game.
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I just say that I enjoyed the demo quite a bit. No doubt that the gameplay and AI have improved.

2 things I hope they fixed in the release version.
-Celebrations where the player collides with the net. Looks quite off.
-The damn shootout. Not only the CPU is still terrible but many of its attempts were whistled down because the puck went backward.
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Old 09-01-2014, 11:49 AM   #408
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Yeah, after 5 minutes of playing this game. I could tell it wasn't good.

Opinion: There is no reason why anyone should be buying this game at full price with the stripped down modes.

You are just giving in to EA's bull.
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