NHL 13 Delivers Major Innovations That Will Change the Way You Play the Game

[johnnyg713]

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I'm hoping for more stick control. I feel you should be able to do way more moves with the stick. I want to have puck handling skills that compare to FIFA's freedom with the ball. Also more celebrations. Skating down the bench to pound fists with the team, etc.

[infinityBCRT]

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$79.99???? Ouch. They priced me out.

That's for the Collector's edition. Regular version is still the standard $60.

[savoie2006]

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I'm hoping for more stick control. I feel you should be able to do way more moves with the stick. I want to have puck handling skills that compare to FIFA's freedom with the ball. Also more celebrations. Skating down the bench to pound fists with the team, etc.

Only if they make playing D as fun and effective. Offense overpowers the game already.

[Therion7]

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Hmm. Intrigued by the skating but I've got a funny feeling that the title is going to be "deja vu all over again" once that hour or two of "hey, the animations are slightly different!" wears off. The game will live or die for me by the CPU AI visibly showing some variations between players and styles. It's all very well to say that the AI is smarter or the skating makes a difference but it needs to be evident on a player through team basis.

Team-specific presentation? That will be nothing more than a "set your favourite team" option on launch, then a backdrop change in the frontend. Something FIFA, MLB, Madden have been doing for years now.

Refined on-ice presentation? The goal celebrations back from NHL 11 probably. Well, I hope so anyway!

Still holding out hope for customisable season length as that might be included for the sake of online Be A GM.

Cautiously optimistic, but some new anims in the same old inaccurate rinks, shrouded in the same black veil of a frontend will get tiresome before Bill and Gary give us the same old schtick about "absolute lasers".

[hollywood_cpm]

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Seriously. When are they going to realize what a goldmine idea this would be. Take the old assets, use the current teams/players (licensing), and spend a few weeks figuring out online play. $10 ($5 would be even better and sell more). Cash checks. Done.

Completley agree. I'm shocked it's not an Xbox Live game yet. I don't want just the new teams/players though. Give me the 94 teams and all the old players too.

[murph17]

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Completley agree. I'm shocked it's not an Xbox Live game yet. I don't want just the new teams/players though. Give me the 94 teams and all the old players too.

i hear ya. ultimately that's what i would want too. but it would cost them and be a real pain in the butt to license all the old players again. since they already have the current NHL and NHLPA licenses, it would be a lot cheaper and quicker this way.

[andrew165]

all of this looks great my only other hope is that they have finally change the stanley cup celebration as the current one is four or five years old

[hollywood_cpm]

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i hear ya. ultimately that's what i would want too. but it would cost them and be a real pain in the butt to license all the old players again. since they already have the current NHL and NHLPA licenses, it would be a lot cheaper and quicker this way.

argh you're right. I totally forgot about the individual licences needed for all non-current NHLPA players - see Legend Teams this year - that would be a massive undertaking and likely impossible.

Oh well current rosters NHL 94 ftw!

[BlueNGold]

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I hope that the new skating shows a difference between the good, great, and bad skaters. With over 1000 new animations I'd like to think that will be the case.

[hollywood_cpm]

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I hope that the new skating shows a difference between the good, great, and bad skaters. With over 1000 new animations I'd like to think that will be the case.

What i'd really really like to see is different skating styles. I might be too hyped on the news but to me watching Hall skate in the trailer reminded me of how Taylor Hall actually skates. Very wide stance and arms more to his side than out infront of him. I'm hoping they have multiple skating styles to really add some realism much the way the 2k NBA games have different shooting styles.

[MizzouRah]

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They have my attention, now I want to see some in game footage.

[Simple Mathematics]

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Well smack my *** and call me Judy!

Looks like the devs got pissed at my "No NHL 13 info yet..." thread. Well in that case... "There have been very little BaGM improvements over that past few years"

Hope it works! But in all seriousness, this is GREAT NEWS!

all of this looks great my only other hope is that they have finally change the stanley cup celebration as the current one is four or five years old

PLEASE give us the ability that's mentioned in the NHL 13 Community BaGM Wishlist thread. Let us skate around with the cup with no time limit. Let us decide when the celebration ends. Let different buttons do different things like hold it up, pump it up and down, kiss it, pass it to a teammate, etc.

And the celebration should not stop here. Let us have a parade (sort of like in Madden, but 100 times better). Make it so that winning the Stanley Cup is actually awesome!

[bwiggy33]

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Well I won't lie this was quite the surprise after just getting home from Las Vegas. There is no way that I'm going to over hype any of this news because the past few years I've done that and nothing has changed. I love hearing about the skating being completely redone and it seems as though the presentation is getting an upgrade as well. It also seems as though team strategies and gameplay styles will be redone as well.

The one thing that we are all still looking for is the player separation. I don't see it yet. Maybe the skating engine will help with this, but until they get rid of the unrealistic moves that the skill stick has, which every player in the game can do, this game will continue to play the same every year no matter if they completely overhaul the skating or not. They just have got to figure out a way to separate players and I'm still not sure that all of this overhauling will do that. Hopefully it will.

I'm also extremely happy I don't play any EASHL or Ultimate team because then I would probably be tempted to buy the special edition. It honestly sounds like the biggest waste of 20 dollars but it will definitely save people money who are into spending their money on EASHL boosts and Ultimate team packs.

[Vikes1]

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Hoooooly ****.

I'm ready to put in a pre-order. Fully in on this even after the first press release.

Yep BNG...I'm not even going to try to fool myself. I'll be in line on 9/11.

Besides...my son and youngest daughter would be well...pissed, if I didn't get NHL each year. Yep, even my 20 year old daughter loves playing the game.

Psssst...don't tell her I let her win all the time!:wink:

[Vikes1]

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Everything "sounds" great, but how it will play out? First there was Adaptive AI, when helped but wasn't great. Then there was Anticipation AI, which I'm not exactly sure what it did. Now there's Hockey I.Q.... this be the one.

Agree Savoie.

Although ya...I'm more than sure I'll be buying. But, I'll be going by history not hype.

Personally, I feel the upgrades the last several years have been fairly decent, but imo...didn't really live up to the hype machine. Including the things you mention above.

I'm as always looking forward to the new coming game. But yeah...really reserving any real thoughts that something truly "Revolutionary" is headed our way. But man....sometimes it's good to be wrong. Hopefully this is another one of those times for me.