NHL 13 Season Ticket Impressions

[savoie2006]

Quote: Originally Posted by JimmyDeicide

No doubt EA has a certain formula to their games, Im a huge Fifa player too and its true a mirror image of each other. Its such a shame that there is always something there that takes away the longevity to their games whether its AI not enough separation from players,teams and styles. If you break down both games on a whole they are brilliant pieces of work the control is second to none in both. The stuff in the NHL game is mind boggling, broken sticks,goal reviews, chop puck, incredible features and it all gets glossed over by many people because of some niggly thing with their games. They should seriously look at some of this stuff and complaints as their games could get more credit than they even do now. Ive relaxed on the annoying things and tried to focus on the enjoyment of the whole package, thats easier to do with NHL than Fifa right now. Id say both products are top notch and deserve anyones money when you break them down.

I agree to an extent. The NHL series has come A LONG WAYS over the years and honestly is probably the deepest NHL game ever for console. HOWEVER, the nagging issues do wear thin on ya after so many years. Epsecially when it's something like penalties, which were once done to perfection almost and now for two years straight been poor. The AI is something that I've grown use to and can live with. At least this year, there is a noticable improvement in that area.

[JimmyDeicide]

I agree Savoie. I did take a year off from NHL for 12 and the same for fifa in 10. it does a world of good.

[bwiggy33]

100% agreed guys. Savoie as you said they had everything perfect back in 11 and the previous iterations as far as penalties, offsides, and the overall flow of the game. All they truly needed to do was add what they just added for NHL 13 to NHL 11 and bam we would have a great hockey game. To me NHL 12 and so far with my time playing 13, are steps backward from NHL 11. This stuff we are talking about is what makes the NHL, the NHL. I just don't understand how one year with NHL 11 we had penalties, offsides, and things you see every game done extremely well. Then for 12 it all disappeared. It's a mystery to me. I'm wondering what they did with the gameplay to make it play out this way. I really just can't describe how frustrating it is.

Another point I want to add is that penalties and offsides are things that people want in a game whether you're casual or not. Hell if you don't want that stuff you just turn it off in the settings. That to me is why offsides and penalties barely being in the game is inexcusable. I remember back in 10 and 11 players were pretty dumb going offsides, but honestly I would take dumb AI offsides rather than barely having any right now.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

After playing through the Blackhawks/Yotes moment again I noticed the lower right boards FPS hit was actually on the left side in Phoenix. I started investigating other arenas but realized this is the exact same trash as NHL 12 with a new skating system and different glitches then deleted it. Since it did improve a little I'll give it a -29.99/30 whereas NHL 12 was a -30.

Why do even bother playing these games?

[jyoung]

Goh, you can fix the stuttering issues by making a custom camera that crops out the crowd from the image.

When a lot of the crowd is on-screen, that's what causes the stutter.

If you zoom the camera in tight enough, the crowd won't ever appear on-screen and the game will run smoothly.

[skrody]

k. maybe it's just me. but i've watched a bunch of videos of cpu-cpu / cpu-human, and there have been penalties called?

i'll take 1-2 PP/PK in a 5 minute period game any days. too many and the games drag on and on.

[nVschultz1325]

In EASHL games interference is non existint, hooking is never called, clear penalty shots are just penalties

[lhslancers]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

Goh, you can fix the stuttering issues by making a custom camera that crops out the crowd from the image. When a lot of the crowd is on-screen, that's what causes the stutter. If you zoom the camera in tight enough, the crowd won't ever appear on-screen and the game will run smoothly.

Custom 2 with settings at 45-45 works great except for some international rinks.