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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Did anyone here play the PC versions of NHL 96 through NHL 2001?
Every year, the menu was fresh. Each one had its own feel, yet was still familiar enough that you'd know where you were going to start a game, create a player, look at tasks, view goalie masks (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring this back). The presentation throughout the games, you'd get to see the starting lineups, etc. NHL 13 started slowly getting back to this (I don't have '14 and don't intend on buying it), but it seems like the front-end and in-game presentation team has been mailing it in for years.
Anyone remember what NHL '07 for Xbox 360 was like compared to '07 for PC/PS2/XBOX? Even if the player faces all looked like trolls, the graphics were a MASSIVE improvement. That was a change in engine and shader model.
I think if NHL 15 gets a nice shiny new engine (pleeeeease DX12), we might be blown away again. I'm really hoping it's not just NHL 14 with a roster update.
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This is exactly how I feel... that game with the masks was amazing. I remember on PC they had fantasy drafts, that was another feature they removed only to bring in as a "new feature" in like 2012 or 2013, I forget.
Anyway I didn't bother buying 2014, they don't deserve it. When they update the menus that have been used for like 10 years, maybe they'll get me paying attention, it's just lazy at this point. Do they only have like 3 people working on the game? Oh ya and the load times are ####ty and the lack of change in the custom team function for the last (literally, you'd think I'm making this up) 10 years has been nothing short of embarrassing.
EA needs a home run here or they could suffer I think.