NHL 14 Gameplay Video - '94 Anniversary Mode

[daflyboys]

In case anyone give's a rat's *** what we're talkin' about:

http://youtu.be/4H3ONFXTfmU?t=6m50s

[Garism]

Changes in menu's, commentaries, and presentation are nice. But majority of the players are online; thus minor tweaks are still appreciated. Skating.. passing.. etc. I hate that skating turning animation where you are stationary trying to do a 180 degree turn; wayyyyy too slow.

I feel you offline players, when I play GM Connected with my buddies.. the AI are very frustrating. The AI in this game is the reason why I play online.. so I dont have to deal with this. You may have work or family responsibilities and don't have time to play online, but you may have more fun in a drop in game than playing against the computers. I don't even play club most the time, and I have a lot of fun playing drop in games due to the fact that I dont have to deal with CPU AI. You don't even have to stay dedicated online, because if you play drop in games, clubs wont matter. Every game if different because you playing with different people each game, and you know the mistakes made are not made by the stupid AI. It's actually someone on the world making the mistakes.

As for the commentaries, after a while I turned them off completely. Either playing my own music or just listening to in game effects is better than listening to the commentaries. New commentaries would be nice, but you'll get tired of it sooner or later because they'll just repeat the same stuff as the same situation every time.

For a solely online player, I can say i got my 60$ (actually 45$ cause I got it part of E3 Futureshop deal) worth of fun NHL for 9 months. You could always wait for black friday sale and order it from Origin at a discounted price. Most online players would say they got their moneys worth, but not offline and I completely understand that.

[canucksss]

Quote: Originally Posted by Garism

I feel you offline players, when I play GM Connected with my buddies.. the AI are very frustrating. The AI in this game is the reason why I play online.. so I dont have to deal with this. You may have work or family responsibilities and don't have time to play online, but you may have more fun in a drop in game than playing against the computers. I don't even play club most the time, and I have a lot of fun playing drop in games due to the fact that I dont have to deal with CPU AI. You don't even have to stay dedicated online, because if you play drop in games, clubs wont matter. Every game if different because you playing with different people each game, and you know the mistakes made are not made by the stupid AI. It's actually someone on the world making the mistakes.

Thanks for the sympathy. Yea, I think that's the ONLY way to enjoy this game is to play online. But if I will play a drop in game, guess what.....most of the gamers are A*S*O*L*S and onlygeared towards cheating or capitalize on the glitches to win.

THAT my friend is the reason why I cannot play this game online. SURE there are great guys, specially here, who can play real-life hockey but we all live in different time zones, and have works etc and hard to find time to hook up.

I used to play with leagues online (i remember Fiddy being a member of that league, from another site) playing 82 games/season and we play 2 seasons in 2k3, 2k4, 2k5. Why? because no one cheats, well except fiddy...jk.

But going back to EA's, if the only way to enjoy this game is to play is ONLINE because of half-hearted effort in BaGM (offline)...I am not going to waste my money. I'll play NBA 2K14 or probably even MLB and stay away from EA NHL, even though there's only one NHL game today.

[emericaridr11]

ok we get it you guys are not going to buy the game

thats all i literally ever hear here anymore, place used to be somewhat exciting

i know its a shame but jeez, do we really need to hear how many times you arent going to buy the game

i get it, sorry i usually hate to be that guy, but jesus, we get it

again sorry i hate being that bHole guy, just annoying

[Segagendude]

Quote: Originally Posted by emericaridr11

ok we get it you guys are not going to buy the game thats all i literally ever hear here anymore, place used to be somewhat exciting i know its a shame but jeez, do we really need to hear how many times you arent going to buy the game i get it, sorry i usually hate to be that guy, but jesus, we get it again sorry i hate being that bHole guy, just annoying

Are you buying? Cause I'm not...

[st67]

So I'm a little confused by this - it looks to me like it's NHL 14 with penalties turned off, and hitting and speed turned up. Am I missing something here?

What I do like to see is EA trying to go all out arcade, though. They keep hiding an arcade game behind this facade that it's a simulation game - I keep seeing "realistic" used in articles talking about the recent NHL games, and it's hilarious.

If they decided to really embrace that their game is an arcade game and stopped with the AI cheating bullcrap and just made good AI, I think they'd have a game worth playing.

But am I missing something with this NHL 94 thing, or is it just NHL 14 with basically what appear to just be slider and setting changes?

[MizzouRah]

Oh goodness.. never should have watched that.

I've played the heck out of NHL 13, best version yet, but I need to see some different presentation!

Even NCAA 14 has some new presentation elements this year.. NBA 2k does it every year.

The intros, celebrations, commentary are all BORING. It's time for some changes EA!