NHL 15 Trailer and Screenshots - True Hockey Physics

[TarHeelbred33]

"Thanks to the new consoles..." or "if you dont have a new console your s**t out of luck"

[pm83]

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Puck physics look really good and lovin' collisions aswell. Can't wait to get into battles and scrambles in front of the net. However I just can't get over the fact that they show no love for the goalies. Seriously since 08 it's been a total nightmare...and yes I blame 2K8 for setting bar so high for the goalies.

[Elite49]

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Looks great, let's hope all of these improvements make it play better than last year. Now tell us about those game modes! Really hoping for an option to set season length in franchise unlike last year.

[MavsUCCB]

This is exciting stuff, we actually got to see what looked like 2 seconds of real game play (00:27-00:29 I know, blink and you missed it) as opposed to what looks like cut scene pre programmed marketing hype BS.

[Pezell04x]

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This has been the best of the "trailers" they've shown, but I wish they would just show us Rammer and someone sitting down playing a period uncut and at normal speed.

[Money99]

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This has been the best of the "trailers" they've shown, but I wish they would just show us Rammer and someone sitting down playing a period uncut and at normal speed.

They did that last year near release and I'm sure we'll get that again soon.
This is only the beginning - showcasing specific points in close-up and slow-mo video's.

I liked what I saw and I don't mind the hits being a bit over-the-top.

I'll do my best parrot impression again, but the thing I'm really hoping for is distinctive player and team types.

[PPerfect_CJ]

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With all of the slowed down animation, I still didn't get a whole lot out of this. Just show someone playing a normal game, for Pete's sake.

[Dolphins88]

Yes totally agree when they get team differences and individual player differences then I'll be happy and of course better goalies ala 2k8.

[johnnyg713]

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I doubt it will be, People give EA too much credit when they lose and not enough when they win. You mean the same people that can't code AI to do something different can code exactly when a puck is going to jump over a stick? I doubt it. I'm as frustrated as anyone with this series, but sports games need things like this because it does mimic real life.

As far as the trailer goes, it is the best one yet. I'm interested in the game now. I've come to accept that goalies are going to be bad and movements bad, but if we can score realistic goals I'd be happy. I've been playing this series for so long that I always shoot top shelf because it goes in 75% more than anywhere else on the goalie. Hits are always going to be weird, especially in the first year of this cycle, but hitting is one area the sliders actually work.

Have you been reading up on this game? They have a physicist who worked on the hadron collider to puck physics. If there is someone to accomplish a feat like this. It would be this guy.

Not saying this is the end all be all to physics in video game but my expectations are extremely high.

[BDG]

Looks awesome! Hopefully the game is still offline 4-player.

[brandon27]

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Looks awesome!! Can't wait for this game!

[asu666]

I'm really excited for NHL 15 on the current gen consoles. NHL 14 is already great and the extra power and nice product development direction have me feeling really good about what the final product can be. The physics dev diary is another positive step in pointing out some of the little things that sports gamers only tend to notice over the course of playing through a season. I feel like NHL 15 is be solid up front, but reveal a lot of little positive touches as I play.

[Pezell04x]

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They did that last year near release and I'm sure we'll get that again soon.
This is only the beginning - showcasing specific points in close-up and slow-mo video's.

I liked what I saw and I don't mind the hits being a bit over-the-top.

I'll do my best parrot impression again, but the thing I'm really hoping for is distinctive player and team types.

Agreed. That's what the NHL Revamped team did, but it would be nice to not have to rely on people's personal lives allowing them to put all that time and effort into it.

If the Bruins play like the Bruins and the Panthers play like the Panthers and Crosby plays differently than John Scott then I won't bitch about anything else being the same.

[SpectralThundr]

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It is what is programmed to happen now in the game if your team has taken too many big hits. The momentum is programmed into the game so that your team will become rattled and a pass that should easily be handled bouncing off of or over your stick is one of the common results. Lazy programming if you ask me. How about learning to play defense properly to break up a pass or scoring chance and not having to rely on selling out to crush someone, with or without the puck, and then getting rewarded from taking yourself out of position because the other team is "rattled".

When my skilled teams played teams like this we loved it in real life. Make that extra pass or chip it past someone and you are off to the races. If you want to see someone get rattled, watch as their goalie gets lit up from countless odd man breaks and a devastating power play that is on the ice every other shift as a result of their undisciplined game. According to EA and what they think works in the NHL, the Flyers should have won every cup since 1975.

Except that it isn't programmed to do that at all. The game has no comeback logic, Redshirt and other's on the dev team have said this repeatedly over the years. I think I'll take their word over a guy that can't help but find something to complain about with every new screen shot or video.

[snc237]

There is no bloody ice tilt in the game. Been play nhl series since 98 heavily (04-06 years were pretty bad games). Nhl 2002 had the momentom meter that was showed on screen. That has been the closest the game has been to ice tilting. After thousands of online games played sometimes the puck doesn't bounce your way. Simple as that.