First NHL 12 Screenshot Revealed, What Differences Do You See?

[Money99]

LOL at 4 pages over one little pic.
Sometimes I think these developers probably hate OS more than like us.

[savoie2006]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

LOL at 4 pages over one little pic. Sometimes I think these developers probably hate OS more than like us.

It's amazing isn't it...how much can be made over a pic...only sports gamers

[plaidchuck]

Looks promising if they've overhauled the goaltender AI, physics, and animations. Not going to expect jack for offline improvements except maybe a "winter classic mode" yee-haw!

[Chad0034]

Hopefully they incorporate a way to utilize the winter classic in OTP, though I doubt they will.

Online is the main thing I'd like to hear about. Hopefully some new exciting things come to the EASHL.

I just hope they knock the hitting power down a tad after last year. It was ridiculous. In reality, you'd only see a guy get destroyed maybe once or twice a game. It was happening at least 20 times in most OTP games.

[jyoung]

The reasons hitting is so prevalent in NHL 11:

1) The "legal" time frame for hitting a player after he touches the puck is gratuitous.

2) Height, weight, and momentum don't seem to matter much; if you have high checking and strength ratings, you are a beastly hitter even if you are undersized.

3) You can just barely clip a player's body frame from a terrible angle and it will still trigger one of those "huge hit" animations.

The funny thing is that there will be like 50+ huge hits in an online a game in NHL 11, but you might get 1 random injury out of all these hits that would've sent a real NHL player to the dressing room.

[knighthawksfan]

I can't wait for this game too drop after taking off a year from nhl I will be buy nhl 12 and let's go flyers!!!!!!!!!

[Vikes1]

Quote: Originally Posted by DJ

I'm trying not to read too much into a single screen, so I won't get too worked up about thinigs. It does look nice and I like that we are going to have the Winter Classic. Be A GM improvements are going to be my main focus this year, along with presentation. As an offline guy, this game has grown very stale. I hate to say that b/c I like hockey and I like the NHL series, but really outside of adding some real-time physics and minimal BAG changes, it's getting harder and harder to find reasons to update your game every 12 months.

Ya Dan...just last night while having a great time playing a game in my BEAGM, I thought to myself...I could rather easily, if needed be....play '11' for another year. In fact...this would actually give time to get somewhere with the mode. [more than just two seasons]

However...I dig the game to the point where I pretty much know I just can't resist updating to '12'. But I am hoping of course that EA Canada does an impressive job with this cycle.

[TDKing]

Did you guys see some of the things that are going to be in FIFA 12 ? I'd like to see all that stuff make it into NHL12. Check out the front page of OS.
Oh and the screen shot really did nothing for me but its still early.