Least Favorite In-Game Animations?

[Lightbringer719]

If there's one thing that slightly annoys me about EA's game, is the many animations that either look terrible or simply look stupid. Here's a list of ones that grind my gears:

- Of course you can't have a list of bad in-game animations without the infamous tripping flop. They literally use the same animation for every tripping penalty in a game. So you'll do a standing pokecheck, and the guy getting tripped outright dives.
- All the goal celebrations are weak, but the ones that stand out are that one where the guy simply raises his hands, the stupid point-and-spin one (though if the goalscorer points at the goalie, it's pretty funny), and that double fist-pump one.
- And while we're on the subject of goal celebrations, I have to say the "reaction" animations for the team that got scored on, look as equally dumb as the celebrations. From the one where the guy just hunches over like an angry senior citizen to the one where a player just shakes his head and skates away like he pooped in his hockey pants, they're all terrible.
- That two-second freeze when you get stick lifted.

Any others?

[Trevelyan]

The stick lift because it affects gameplay so much.

[pf8363]

stick lift and tripping for sure

[Bama83]

1) Stick Lift Animation - I hate when they barely pop my stick and it flies up over my head and I'm left dazed for two seconds. That's simply poor and lazy programming to me.
2) The "ouchie my hand" animation - I have never seen an NHL player get slashed and stand around shaking his hand for 10 seconds as the opponent skates around him to get the puck and immediately start the PP.
3) Tripping - Really? Really?

[alx83]

The shooting animations.

[swil]

what's wrong with the shooting??

[Panther84]

Goalie doing splits all the time!

[BobSacamano]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bama83

2) The "ouchie my hand" animation - I have never seen an NHL player get slashed and stand around shaking his hand for 10 seconds as the opponent skates around him to get the puck and immediately start the PP.

In overtime no less! It's actually kind of eerie how much that looks like something that would happen in NHL.

But seriously, that animation is really bad. That and the tripping one really have to go.