NHL 15 Interview with Lead Producer Sean Ramjagsingh Reveals a Few More Details

[bwiggy33]

Re: NHL 15 Interview with Lead Producer Sean Ramjagsingh Reveals a Few More Details

The biggest thing that scares the crap out of me is this. "We’re seeing goalies try new desperation saves because the puck hits them and starts trickling across the goal line and they need to react to that."

This could ruin the goaltending system in this game even more. The desperation saves in the game already make me sick. Goalies IRL don't make desperation saves all that often, but the way EA talks about it is they happen all of the time. Goalies in the NHL are the best for a reason. They are pretty much always in the correct position. They talk about how the physics are taking animations out of the game for the players and puck. How about goalies? Are you working on that? As in the part of the game that looks and plays the worst and has been the exact same foundation since 07. I have a feeling the goalies are copied over from current gen with the way they keep talking about seeing saves they didn't even know existed. I truly hope I'm wrong but something tells me I'm not.

I have a little bit of hope but as people have said, they have been feeding us the same stuff for years and nothing has really changed. Instead they end up scrapping what they did the year prior to rebuild it from the ground up again.

[tigsbaseballfan]

ROSTER SHARING!!!!!!!!!!,this would free up man hrs to concentrate on REAL issues that come later, COMMUNICATION, manual injuries, connect europe leagues with NHL so you can sign someone mid-season or such like in real life, get rid of the world teams, GREAT BRITAIN? are you serious? haha, MORE JERSEYS, there are a tonne of colourful ones yet to be seen by the casual fan, (this would be a plus for NHL Marketing on trying to sell more team stuff), Editing for goalie gear, also who cares that Joe Fan in section 3 on the 3rd deck looks real while the game is on?, more team intro's, Edmontons and San Jose's are awesome. to be continued....lol

[drog1602]

Re: NHL 15 Interview with Lead Producer Sean Ramjagsingh Reveals a Few More Details

Great! More useless desperation saves and pucks that go through goalies. how about we make the goalie, net and posts solid and address the goaltenders inability to cover a puck inches in front of him?

[13whitebread]

He did say in a podcast a couple of days ago that not all licensing is approved for all arenas. So hopefully he will nail that down certainly sounds like they are?

[OSGuy321]

As always with EA nowadays, the approach is one of cautious and guarded. Been fooled to many times now with marketing lingo.

[rudeworld]

its so frustrating NYR fan to see it say & play in Ny arena...not MSG! cannot wait for the custom arenas similar to games like madden, mlb, nba, etc! and stoked for the new commentary team w doc & eddie 0.but i wished they added pierre since he's part of that 3 man team. between the the benches hopefully! and w the ps4 upgrades being way more than the ps3 version I'm solo glad i upgraded.....IF this all holds up & is true!!!

Unfortunately MSG is a special case, just like Barry Bonds wasn't in MVP Baseball.. it's NOT in NBA2K but it is in LIVE. it'd be great to actually hear "madison square garden" but if they (james Dolan) is asking for too much then oh well.... can't stop the train from leaving the station because someone is running late.

[ericromain]

I like what i'm hearing. Can't wait to see gameplay videos. I'm surprised they released this info so early. Just a couple of years ago we never had any details until the stanley cup final. It sounds like they won't release until fall as opposed to the usual early september release, so all these details are coming extremely far in advanced.

People always use the volleyball puck in the corners as the example of why puck physics suck in the game. I think they made corner dump in pucks bounces like that intentionally to increase the effectiveness of dump-and-chase hockey. The puck physics are actually pretty good in the game, deflections and rebounds mostly behave believably. It will be interesting to see if they get wobbling and on-end pucks down this year. I'd love to see the strength/accuracy of a rebound or one timer or deke depend on the lie of the puck

[rudeworld]

its so frustrating NYR fan to see it say & play in Ny arena...not MSG! cannot wait for the custom arenas similar to games like madden, mlb, nba, etc! and stoked for the new commentary team w doc & eddie 0.but i wished they added pierre since he's part of that 3 man team. between the the benches hopefully! and w the ps4 upgrades being way more than the ps3 version I'm solo glad i upgraded.....IF this all holds up & is true!!!

Unfortunately MSG is a special case, just like Barry Bonds wasn't in MVP Baseball.. it's NOT in NBA2K but it is in LIVE. it'd be great to actually hear "madison square garden" but if they (james Dolan) is asking for too much then oh well.... can't stop the train from leaving the station because someone is running late.

[TjJunior]

How about better A.I. for the PS3/XBOX 360 players, been waiting for YEARS for a NHL game from EA with competent A.I. players and competitors. Scale down on a few of those inhuman moments when guys can make no look passes around d-men to the tape of their teammates in the slot. I'm not gonna pay 450-550 dollars for another game console.

[CelticHeart]

Re: NHL 15 Interview with Lead Producer Sean Ramjagsingh Reveals a Few More Details

pure marketing at all....when we see some videos, and some screenshots about new implentation in all of part of game, as career....as hot and cold player signed, chemistry, fatigue...as all kind that can makes all part of game more deeply, and gameplay finally decent and real simulation, ok we can talk now is as beating ad dead horse.

[drog1602]

Re: NHL 15 Interview with Lead Producer Sean Ramjagsingh Reveals a Few More Details

Will real puck physics mean I can finally interecpt those passes that go through my stick when mr. Tap happy at the other teams blueline keeps asking for the puck? How about when they ask for it from the goalie and the bubble prevents me from getting it? My bet on this is, no.

[Peter_OS]

Talk is cheap like someone said here.

Lets see the game in action before we get all excited about next gen hockey.

Please Please don't disappoint us again EA!

[Semipro91]

its so frustrating NYR fan to see it say & play in Ny arena...not MSG! cannot wait for the custom arenas similar to games like madden, mlb, nba, etc! and stoked for the new commentary team w doc & eddie 0.but i wished they added pierre since he's part of that 3 man team. between the the benches hopefully! and w the ps4 upgrades being way more than the ps3 version I'm solo glad i upgraded.....IF this all holds up & is true!!!

MSG doesn't show up in NBA either. They wont give permission to use their name.

[Majingir]

Re: NHL 15 Interview with Lead Producer Sean Ramjagsingh Reveals a Few More Details

MSG doesn't show up in NBA either. They wont give permission to use their name.

I find it strange how sports like NHL,NBA weren't able to use the name, yet when UFC was made by THQ, they had MSG in the game despite the fact that UFC isn't even allowed to have an event at MSG. Though that probably reflects THQs lack of wise money spending(spending lots on something like that instead of actually improving their game) than it does NHL,NBA not doing enough to get rights to MSG in their game.

[bwiggy33]

Re: NHL 15 Interview with Lead Producer Sean Ramjagsingh Reveals a Few More Details

How about better A.I. for the PS3/XBOX 360 players, been waiting for YEARS for a NHL game from EA with competent A.I. players and competitors. Scale down on a few of those inhuman moments when guys can make no look passes around d-men to the tape of their teammates in the slot. I'm not gonna pay 450-550 dollars for another game console.

Sorry to tell you, that's just not going to happen. We have been waiting for that for years and if it didn't happen when their focus was on one gen, then it definitely won't happen when they have two gens to focus on. With the 360 and PS3 expect a roster update pretty much every year. Once NHL 07 hit 360, PS2 and XBOX didn't get any attention so I wouldn't expect anything to change this gen. Also with all of the info that has come out so far it doesn't seem like any focus was put on 360/PS3 at all. Your only choice is to gut it out with 360/PS3 or spend the money to buy a next gen console.