NHL 12 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[goosedennis]

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The comment about this being NHL 11.5 looks pretty accurate.

Wouldn't be such a bad thing if NHL 11 wasn't NHL 10.5.

Last sentence:

You have to be kidding.

[mondoguitar]

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Crushing, crushing disappointment- No face for Brad Marchand. Absolutely crushing. I'm so sick of the gigantic lack of real faces in this game. So pissed right now. For ****s sake, they still haven't changed Thomas's generic face either and he won the Vezine and he's STILL only rated an 89. Pathetic.

It's a demo, not the real game. Thomas' face is plastered all over the goalie fighting video... it looks pretty realistic to me.

[mondoguitar]

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Like the puck physics. I actually scored a 5 hole above the the circles. AI is still pathetic though lol.
Just ran Raymond with Chara, Chara bounced off....

Hopefully the hitting is something they tweak with sliders, they did it last year. I think if more "slot goals" are scored legit, then people might feel the need to glitch less. If the only way you can score on the goalie is with a glitch move, guess what, people will do that. It was the goaltending that needed fixing the most. When you have a 5ft shot in the slot, it should go in half the time, not 1% of the time.

[Fiddy]

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another pro i just noticed.. when you deke out to left or right, it seems as if you loose speed and dont coast full speed anymore.. if so, thats great.. will make some moves tougher to pull off unlike last year.. but with that said, its just with the NHL guys, who knows how the boosted players etc will act in those situations..

[Money99]

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Hopefully the hitting is something they tweak with sliders, they did it last year. I think if more "slot goals" are scored legit, then people might feel the need to glitch less. If the only way you can score on the goalie is with a glitch move, guess what, people will do that. It was the goaltending that needed fixing the most. When you have a 5ft shot in the slot, it should go in half the time, not 1% of the time.

Very true. Most guys, even 3rd liners will bury that opportunity more than 50% of the time.
That's why making the D smarter and more effective is the answer.

Again, I only played 2 games, but I found the D harder to penetrate than last years.
But I also stink at these games.

[adayinthelife]

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The comment about this being NHL 11.5 looks pretty accurate.

Wouldn't be such a bad thing if NHL 11 wasn't NHL 10.5.

See that I disagree with, which is why me thinking that this game feels 11.5ish is not a good thing.

To me NHL 11 was leaps and bounds better than 10 (which was probably my least favourite in the series this gen), and the differences were quite noticeable.

This time around however, the "300 gameplay improvements" just feel like they're either a) too small to notice after only playing a couple games (this could be good) or b) total bull****.

[RealmK]

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Sliders are locked? really? /facepalm

[Fiddy]

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yeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!

they brought back being able to use any camera while being locked on the goalie.. woo!! i was so heated last year when you had to use either low or high.

for those that dont know, prior to playing a play now game, hit edit lineups, use the X button to position lock..

[MiNiDiTkA]

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Another vid. I'll have some videos of HUT and BAP later on.

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[Mike Smoove]

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Can someone with gold upload the demo somewhere so silver users can test the demo too? It's killing me if I have go wait another week

Not sure if this is legally allowed, that is distributing it without consent. Just saying.

[adayinthelife]

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Sliders are locked? really? /facepalm

Yep. It's a good thing because it means that there's a 99% chance you can make the retail game play better, but a bad thing because we'll have to wait to see if the sliders are effective in the least bit.

[FBeaule04]

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another pro i just noticed.. when you deke out to left or right, it seems as if you loose speed and dont coast full speed anymore.. if so, thats great.. will make some moves tougher to pull off unlike last year.. but with that said, its just with the NHL guys, who knows how the boosted players etc will act in those situations..

If that's the case, it's going to be a blessing for D-Man that we're unable to follow as soon they made a move reacting to a forward making a deke. There's no way a D pokecheking a guy trying to make a deke should been thrown out immediately off the play and the guy making a crazy deke still full speed!

[FBeaule04]

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yeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!

they brought back being able to use any camera while being locked on the goalie.. woo!! i was so heated last year when you had to use either low or high.

for those that dont know, prior to playing a play now game, hit edit lineups, use the X button to position lock..

Much needed, and quite honestly, I never understood whey they got rid of it in NHL 11.

Looks like my BaP goalie can make a return with the classic cam on. Yes!

[RealmK]

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Yep. It's a good thing because it means that there's a 99% chance you can make the retail game play better, but a bad thing because we'll have to wait to see if the sliders are effective in the least bit.

They weren't locked last year, which gave a good idea for how the game would play on SS with realistic sliders. It makes zero sense to me that they would lock them this year. Hiding something EA? /sigh

[bad_philanthropy]

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The changes I've noticed so far are subtle, but I like them. As others have mentioned, puck physics are improved and skating feels a bit better. Manual passing seems a touch quicker, but I didn't have a problem with how it was before.

One thing though, of all the demos released for NHL this gen, I've had the least difficulty adjusting to this one. I was able to put it on SS HC mode and felt completely comfortable. In fact, my overall feel was that I couldn't really tell if I was playing NHL 11 or a new game.

I like the game, and I like the under the hood improvements, and I'll definitely buy.

Last point. It hurts to say this, but in an age when NCAA, Madden, FIFA, and even Side's Rugby Challenge are implementing all sorts of new lighting mechanisms and visual polish, I feel like the look of EA's NHL series is a bit dated. Presentation upgrades are nice, and I know hockey is different that an outdoor sport, but I just feel like it might be time for a bit of a visual overhaul for the series -- this is the fifth edition since going to 60fps, and the look has differed little over that span.