NHL 15: Breaking Down the Initial Information

[DJ]

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As the NHL series moves to the PS4/Xbox One, I'd like to see the developers work on the CPU AI. It may take 2 years, but ultimately what I'd like to see is teams actually play like their real-life counterpart. You'd have teams like Colorado that, while weak defensively (good goalie), can utilize their speed and offensive skill to stay in the game. Then you'd have your defensive-oriented teams (Wild, for example) and go through the league.

The way the game plays now, all the teams play the exact same way. It gets old after several years of seeing this.

[canucksss]

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The way the game plays now, all the teams play the exact same way. It gets old after several years of seeing this.

THIS! AND THIS! AND THIS!

That's why whenever I see announcement of EA regarding NHL, I am not all excited. It's the same issue every year. And Im sick about it...hopefully RAMJ and his team will improve on this....IF NOT CUT HIM OFF FROM EA and have a new person take in-charge.

[Segagendude]

Re: NHL 15: Breaking Down the Initial Information

As the NHL series moves to the PS4/Xbox One, I'd like to see the developers work on the CPU AI. It may take 2 years, but ultimately what I'd like to see is teams actually play like their real-life counterpart. You'd have teams like Colorado that, while weak defensively (good goalie), can utilize their speed and offensive skill to stay in the game. Then you'd have your defensive-oriented teams (Wild, for example) and go through the league.

The way the game plays now, all the teams play the exact same way. It gets old after several years of seeing this.

That's what Revamped is for.

[canucksss]

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That's what Revamped is for.

Thats why I really appreciate the hardworks of those guys...even if I skipped NHL 14....these guys who were doing Revamped were making so much effort to make this game playable. The OS'ers are more reliable that those guys at EA, specially comparing to RAMJ (somehow i lost respect with this guy). With guys doing the Revamp, its not wise to get the game early because it really takes awhile for them to do the job, which at the very fist place should be EA's.

[eF 5ive]

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I hope goal celebrations are scripted and replicate real life better.

[Kalkano]

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We need something like connected franchise in NHL

*heart attack* Connected Careers destroyed Madden for me. I'm still playing '12, because of it. LET ME PLAY MY WAY.

[Nextel Husker]

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Fired UP! I love NHL14 and can't wait for 15.

[PPerfect_CJ]

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The one thing that concerns me, there was no mention of cleaning up the game menus. They are way too slow! Going back and forth between screens is BRUTAL. And when you're first putting in custom tracks, it takes the majority of a night.

[Schmackity]

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The one thing that concerns me, there was no mention of cleaning up the game menus. They are way too slow! Going back and forth between screens is BRUTAL. And when you're first putting in custom tracks, it takes the majority of a night.

Well for obvious reasons, there won't be custom music for NHL 15. Hopefully by the time NHL 16 comes out, the consoles will include that ability.

[Wiggy]

The one thing that concerns me, there was no mention of cleaning up the game menus. They are way too slow! Going back and forth between screens is BRUTAL. And when you're first putting in custom tracks, it takes the majority of a night.

I totally agree. The menus have to be overhauled. I suspect they will be.

[spidertour02]

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The one thing that concerns me, there was no mention of cleaning up the game menus. They are way too slow! Going back and forth between screens is BRUTAL. And when you're first putting in custom tracks, it takes the majority of a night.

I don't think they mentioned it because it's a guaranteed change. EA has been rebranding all of their sports titles to achieve more uniformity, remember? NHL will probably be no different -- tile-based menus, "player staring into your soul in awkward fashion" cover, etc.

[Dolphins88]

Yes I totally agree they have to make each team play their unique style.. Eg bruins use size for hitting and speed, forecheck.. Montreal uses speed, chicago uses skill, speed.. LA uses size and speed game, etc.. You should have to change strategy for each team.. For instance shadowing top players like Kane , kopitar, Toews, Crosby , etc.. And each goalie should have unique style and weaknesses.. Quick, price, Rask and Crawford should be stand outs

[Majingir]

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I really hope they've fixed sliders, because there's at least several sliders in these games which do next to nothing(and some might even be reversed,where putting it on max does what the minimum option was supposed to do).

While there are some problems in the game, a number of them could actually just be fixed by slider changes, but that's not possible if the sliders are broken. They need to have a 2K style sliders where it ranges from 0-100 and there's dozens of different sliders for both CPU and User

[jengo]

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I hope they fix the overall play of the a.i. Far too many things missing in the game. As it is now it's like a game of pond hockey. A.I needs to clear the puck out of there zone when under pressure instead of always making a perfect pass to center ice. More attack time in the o-zone, set up on the pp instead of making 60 passes in a 5 second span. Close the user off along the boards in the neutral zone and force a dump in. And fix the penalties. I swear I get 1 pp every 2 games on NHL 2014. I don't know how many times a game the a.i gets away with slashing, interference, and a whole slew of other infractions.

[13whitebread]

I hope they fix the overall play of the a.i. Far too many things missing in the game. As it is now it's like a game of pond hockey. A.I needs to clear the puck out of there zone when under pressure instead of always making a perfect pass to center ice. More attack time in the o-zone, set up on the pp instead of making 60 passes in a 5 second span. Close the user off along the boards in the neutral zone and force a dump in. And fix the penalties. I swear I get 1 pp every 2 games on NHL 2014. I don't know how many times a game the a.i gets away with slashing, interference, and a whole slew of other infractions.

I agree penalties have been broken since 2007