While I don't like the player models and skating as much, if the game plays a realistic brand of hockey and has a great franchise mode then they'll get my money.
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Agreed. Watch that Detroit intro on the IGN hands on.. sickest intro I've ever seen in a video game.. I'm a Blues fan, but I got goosebumps just watching that.Comment
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I appreciate your POV. But I have to ask: What is motivating them to do that? Are they taking their new mantrum to cater to the pick-up-and-play crowd to an extreme here? Do they think that pretty rinks are going to wow the crowd into opening their wallets? Sorry, I question that development strategy. There is so much that's wrong with their game, and the last thing they need to be doing is upgrading the one aspect that's already much better than the competition.While I agree with you to some extent Baa, think about it this way:
A lot of the comments from the EA customers are about how the arenas and presentation needs some upgrades. Even for NHL10 as per info released so far, EA has not touched up on those things much for NHL10.
I think 2K by doing a lot of work on the authenticity of the arenas and game intros are distinguishing themselves from EA. his I think is somewhat of a smart move given the hill they have to climb to get back on the same level as EA after 2K9.Comment
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For starters? His glove is bigger than his head for pete's sakes! Really its more so equipment dimensions are wacky as all hell.Comment
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I'll put it in spoiler tags because I don't want the thread to get all stretched out (as I'm doing it side by side).
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I'd have to say RealmK is off in his saying that the glove being bigger then the head is not right. You can clearly see that the glove should be bigger than the head.
What they need to do is drop the shoulders a tad and do something with the goalie masks.NHL - Philadelphia Flyers
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I agree then, but the Ducks goalie would be in big trouble.
Also the reason his shoulders look like that is because he is shrugging. That is the animation after giving up a goal he shrugs his shoulders.Comment
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I hear ya. But I think with the potential improvements as shared by the 2 dev insights, they seem to have improved a lot of the aspects for which they were slammed last year. If the game is really improved gameplay wise, they will be able to use this authentic arena and intros to differentiate themselves from EA and trying to capture the portion of the market that thinks that EA lacks in presentation which brings authenticity. Maybe it's just me that sees things this way. Just to give you an example, I bought 2k6 (on Original Xbox) after playing the debacle of NHL05. One of the reasons I got the game was because they had customizable soundtrack and goalhorns which made the game so much more authentic to me. That combined with the gameplayI appreciate your POV. But I have to ask: What is motivating them to do that? Are they taking their new mantrum to cater to the pick-up-and-play crowd to an extreme here? Do they think that pretty rinks are going to wow the crowd into opening their wallets? Sorry, I question that development strategy. There is so much that's wrong with their game, and the last thing they need to be doing is upgrading the one aspect that's already much better than the competition.
I also think that tomorrow's insight which is supposed to be AI Improvements by WWTC has the potential of really getting things going for VC and 2K.
We've seen what the body of the car looks like, now we'll get to get a glimpse of what's under the hood
							
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