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  • Money99
    Hall Of Fame
    • Sep 2002
    • 12708

    #1

    NHL 11 Hands-On E3 Impressions (IGN)

    IGN has posted their NHL 11 impressions.

    "In order to combat all of this crazy checking action, the developers from EA's Vancouver studio have given players a new quick deke ability. The mechanics are extraordinarily easy. All you have to do is hold the left shoulder button and flick the right analog stick to the right or left and your guy will pull off a deke. Of course, as soon as I successfully pulled off my first deke, I tried to take a wrist shot and wound up snapping my stick. It was a little disgruntling, but it was still pretty damn cool.

    The final addition to NHL 11 to make its way into EA Sports' E3 demo was user-controlled celebrations. By using both the face buttons and triggers, players can access a large library of goal celebrations. The one I saw was essentially a guy sliding face-first down on the ice, hands outstretched. I was told there were plenty more to be had, but that's all I saw in my short demo at E3."
  • Bama83
    Banned
    • Dec 2008
    • 399

    #2
    Re: IGN Hands-On (E3) Impressions

    User Controled Goal celebrations has me completely turned off now.

    If I ever saw a guy slide head first, superman style, as a celebration ... I would personally kick his teeth in.

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    • Mikey88
      Rookie
      • Aug 2005
      • 294

      #3
      Re: IGN Hands-On (E3) Impressions

      Originally posted by Bama83
      User Controled Goal celebrations has me completely turned off now.

      If I ever saw a guy slide head first, superman style, as a celebration ... I would personally kick his teeth in.
      lol cmon.. its just celebrations man. personally, i wouldn't mind pulling off an Avery "bench press" or a Kane "Heart-breaker" online just to rub it in a little bit lol

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      • Lightbringer719
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        • Aug 2009
        • 219

        #4
        Re: IGN Hands-On (E3) Impressions

        The celebrations might be over-the-top, but it's a better alternative than seeing the same 5-6 celebrations over and over again.
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        • Flyermania
          MVP
          • Jun 2004
          • 2182

          #5
          Re: IGN Hands-On (E3) Impressions

          Over-the-top celebrations have no place in a "sim" game IMO. Hopefully this type of "addition" didn't take time away from the attention the CPU AI drastically needs.
          "And by the way, you know, when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea - have a POINT. It makes it SO much more interesting for the listener!"

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          • Lightbringer719
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            • Aug 2009
            • 219

            #6
            Re: IGN Hands-On (E3) Impressions

            A welcome solution would be an option to skip the celebrations by pressing a button, or have a toggle in the settings that turns off custom celebrations.
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            • SwinginAs12
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              • Feb 2009
              • 273

              #7
              Re: IGN Hands-On (E3) Impressions

              Set to launch on SEPTEMBER 14th!? what the..

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              • Dalsanto0026
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                • Aug 2007
                • 729

                #8
                Re: NHL 11 Hands-On E3 Impressions (IGN)

                I can't believe people requested user controlled goal celebrations.

                How is seeing the same 5 - 6 goal celebrations over and over again seen as an issue?

                The things some people focus on.

                Hopefully there's an option to turn off this gimmicky feature.

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                • Victory23
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                  • Mar 2009
                  • 288

                  #9
                  Re: NHL 11 Hands-On E3 Impressions (IGN)

                  I imagine it will be like FIFA, where you have the option to skip the celebration by, A, running to your teammates, or B, pressing LB + RB to trigger the usual generic celebration.
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                  • Lightbringer719
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                    • Aug 2009
                    • 219

                    #10
                    Re: NHL 11 Hands-On E3 Impressions (IGN)

                    Originally posted by Dalsanto0026
                    I can't believe people requested user controlled goal celebrations.

                    How is seeing the same 5 - 6 goal celebrations over and over again seen as an issue?

                    The things some people focus on.

                    Hopefully there's an option to turn off this gimmicky feature.
                    I've played a lot of EA's NHL games, and seeing a guy stop in place after scoring on a breakaway to just do a double fist pump, or a guy spinning and pointing to no one kinda got old.
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                    • tgalv
                      Banned
                      • Jan 2007
                      • 617

                      #11
                      Re: NHL 11 Hands-On E3 Impressions (IGN)

                      celebrations are fine with me as long as there are some reasonable ones to choose from.

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                      • plaidchuck
                        Pro
                        • Aug 2009
                        • 894

                        #12
                        Re: IGN Hands-On (E3) Impressions

                        Originally posted by Flyermania
                        Over-the-top celebrations have no place in a "sim" game IMO. Hopefully this type of "addition" didn't take time away from the attention the CPU AI drastically needs.
                        I'm just gonna be very disappointed if all this stuff has been added and the AI is the same as NHL10. Which might be the case, as they haven't mentioned anything regarding AI/goalie improvements. And you know how EA typically is: if they don't hype it or mention it, it usually means nothing has been done.
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                        • lunch pale gang
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                          • Jun 2009
                          • 203

                          #13
                          Re: NHL 11 Hands-On E3 Impressions (IGN)

                          Hopefully, one of the user controlled celebrations will be all the players on the scoring team celebrating together.
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                          • Bama83
                            Banned
                            • Dec 2008
                            • 399

                            #14
                            Re: IGN Hands-On (E3) Impressions

                            Originally posted by Flyermania
                            Over-the-top celebrations have no place in a "sim" game IMO. Hopefully this type of "addition" didn't take time away from the attention the CPU AI drastically needs.
                            Thank you.

                            I never understand when people focus on the simplest (and in my opinion dumbest) of things. For instance, if they don't have the Bauer 3300 wood stick I'll boycott. I mean ... wha??!!

                            Silly celebrations - leave it for the kiddies that play Madden. The only thing the NHL community wanted was better celebrations with the team being involved.

                            Why not make a real time presentation camera (like The Show) and just have them celebrate like a team would. It'd be different every time and it'd be cool to watch. Wouldn't take much from a programming perspective either.

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                            • kazo0
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                              • Jun 2010
                              • 4

                              #15
                              I really doubt that the animators who worked on the User Controlled Celebrations are the same people as the programmers working on AI. I'm not saying I expect the AI to be any better this year but I don't think User Controlled Celebrations is to blame for that...

                              I personally don't mind having some new celebrations that we can control, it's just a fun little addition.

                              I'm also looking forward to what they did for disallowed goals, in the E3 trailer it says "All New: Disallowed Goals" when it's listing some of the 200 new features.
                              Last edited by kazo0; 06-16-2010, 12:30 PM.

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