Team First Presentation?

[acelang123]

HMMMMMMMMM.....

I hope this means the following things.

1.) Break In Play Music further categorized such as
a.) Music played at the end of the 3rd period (ala Dont Stop Believing - Journey in Detroit.)
b.) Music played only once a game so no repeats from the random playlist. If you go to 41 Red Wing home games, the playlist is very consistent and it's very familiar after a while.

2.) Goal songs for each player, ala Cant Drive 55 for Kronwall.
3.) Goal songs for specific situations like Hey Hey Hockeytown for the first goal of the game or horn blairs for number of goals scored.

[savoie2006]

Re: Team First Presentation?

It probably has more to do with the menu screen and such, like team wall papers and such that you'll have to purchase

[gopher_guy]

Re: Team First Presentation?

HMMMMMMMMM.....

I hope this means the following things.

1.) Break In Play Music further categorized such as
a.) Music played at the end of the 3rd period (ala Dont Stop Believing - Journey in Detroit.)
b.) Music played only once a game so no repeats from the random playlist. If you go to 41 Red Wing home games, the playlist is very consistent and it's very familiar after a while.

2.) Goal songs for each player, ala Cant Drive 55 for Kronwall.
3.) Goal songs for specific situations like Hey Hey Hockeytown for the first goal of the game or horn blairs for number of goals scored.

Not happening....

[Lightbringer719]

Re: Team First Presentation?

It's definitely just going to mean an menu interface that caters to your favorite team. (i.e.: If your team is the Flyers, you'll have Claude Giroux, Chris Pronger, Brayden Schenn, etc. on the menu, as opposed to random players.)

[Cycloniac]

Re: Team First Presentation?

It's definitely just going to mean an menu interface that caters to your favorite team. (i.e.: If your team is the Flyers, you'll have Claude Giroux, Chris Pronger, Brayden Schenn, etc. on the menu, as opposed to random players.)

...I really hope this isn't the case.

[bwiggy33]

Re: Team First Presentation?

They've already said the menu system is team specified. I doubt anything else is team first presentation. They may have added a few more team specific intros like last year when they added the Sharks and Oilers entrances. Other than that I don't think it's much more.

[Cycloniac]

Re: Team First Presentation?

They've already said the menu system is team specified. I doubt anything else is team first presentation. They may have added a few more team specific intros like last year when they added the Sharks and Oilers entrances. Other than that I don't think it's much more.

I've heard persons from E3, in refference to that snippet of gameplay video, say that presentation underwent a pretty significant overhaul. It can't just be menus and such.

[MizzouRah]

Re: Team First Presentation?

They've already said the menu system is team specified. I doubt anything else is team first presentation. They may have added a few more team specific intros like last year when they added the Sharks and Oilers entrances. Other than that I don't think it's much more.

I hope they have all the team specific intros this year.

[Cycloniac]

Re: Team First Presentation?

I hope they have all the team specific intros this year.

I hate to say so, but I doubt that'll happen this year. Then again, maybe the devs'll surprise us. Only thing I'm sure of is that Team First Presentation isn't only aesthetics like menus and backgrounds in-game.

PA announcers maybe? It's possible. All they have to do is get sound-bytes of each PA announcer introducing the team. They probably wouldn't be able to get their goal calls, but maybe team specific things like Boston's "Woo" after the goal is called could be included.

Or maybe they'll let us further customize how our teams are presented e.g. when creating teams, they may allow us to choose from a preset list of unique goal horns, or allow us to name our new arenas etc..

[RealmK]

Re: Team First Presentation?

I hate to say so, but I doubt that'll happen this year. Then again, maybe the devs'll surprise us. Only thing I'm sure of is that Team First Presentation isn't only aesthetics like menus and backgrounds in-game.

PA announcers maybe? It's possible. All they have to do is get sound-bytes of each PA announcer introducing the team. They probably wouldn't be able to get their goal calls, but maybe team specific things like Boston's "Woo" after the goal is called could be included.

Or maybe they'll let us further customize how our teams are presented e.g. when creating teams, they may allow us to choose from a preset list of unique goal horns, or allow us to name our new arenas etc..

I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment to be honest. I doubt it will extend much beyond team selected players in menus, or a logo here or there.

[Cycloniac]

Re: Team First Presentation?

I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment to be honest. I doubt it will extend much beyond team selected players in menus, or a logo here or there.

There's no way EA'll screw us THAT badly, although yes, maybe I'm getting my hopes a bit too high. Psh, guess I'll deal with the PA stuff myself, since I won't be able to count on EA for that lol.

One can dream though, one can dream. Maybe in another 5 years ;p

[RealmK]

Re: Team First Presentation?

There's no way EA'll screw us THAT badly, although yes, maybe I'm getting my hopes a bit too high. Psh, guess I'll deal with the PA stuff myself, since I won't be able to count on EA for that lol.

One can dream though, one can dream. Maybe in another 5 years ;p

It's a bullet point for the back of the box really. I'm more interested in the on ice stuff being improved with the real time(ish) replays with commentary. Years ago, I can't remember if it was NHL 2001 or 2002 (it was one of those, which prior to 07 was the last EA NHL I had played) They had something called "Game Story" where they broke down plays with commentary, it was supposed to come back the following year and ended up being stripped out of the game for whatever reason, one year after it was added.

I've been waiting for something like that to return ever since, being a big on ice presentation guy. It's sad I know but aside from the skating and the AI, (and hopefully the GM Logic if it pans out) I think I'm almost as excited to see that aspect of the revamped presentation than anything else.

[Cycloniac]

Re: Team First Presentation?

It's a bullet point for the back of the box really. I'm more interested in the on ice stuff being improved with the real time(ish) replays with commentary. Years ago, I can't remember if it was NHL 2001 or 2002 (it was one of those, which prior to 07 was the last EA NHL I had played) They had something called "Game Story" where they broke down plays with commentary, it was supposed to come back the following year and ended up being stripped out of the game for whatever reason, one year after it was added.

I've been waiting for something like that to return ever since, being a big on ice presentation guy. It's sad I know but aside from the skating and the AI, (and hopefully the GM Logic if it pans out) I think I'm almost as excited to see that aspect of the revamped presentation than anything else.

Guess we'll have to wait until August for the details. If they bring a feature back like that, I'll be impressed.

The part of the "real time" on-ice presentation that concerns me is the length of time between stoppages. From the snippet of gameplay shown at E3, those "cutscenes" were pretty short. The goal celebration was pretty short too, and once again has that one goal scorer celebrating alone without any interaction with his teammates.

[RealmK]

Re: Team First Presentation?

Guess we'll have to wait until August for the details. If they bring a feature back like that, I'll be impressed.

The part of the "real time" on-ice presentation that concerns me is the length of time between stoppages. From the snippet of gameplay shown at E3, those "cutscenes" were pretty short. The goal celebration was pretty short too, and once again has that one goal scorer celebrating alone without any interaction with his teammates.

The stoppages have gotten shorter ever since they added EASHL really. The online casuals can't be bothered with presentation they're just going to button mash through to get to the next glitch goal opportunity.

Why this affects the offline game as well really annoys me. I just hope that they mentioned added PBP that's relevant, actually works out.

[Cycloniac]

Re: Team First Presentation?

The stoppages have gotten shorter ever since they added EASHL really. The online casuals can't be bothered with presentation they're just going to button mash through to get to the next glitch goal opportunity.

Why this affects the offline game as well really annoys me. I just hope that they mentioned added PBP that's relevant, actually works out.

Ideally, you'd want two presentation options: casual and hardcore. Casual would be as is I guess, or they could skip cutscenes entirely. Hardcore presentation could be authentic, and we could actually have minute-long goal celebrations like in real-life. It's not something that complicated either.

i'm curious of how instigating fights and post whistle activities will take place if stoppages are 5 seconds long (nope, no exaggeration; gameplay video).