My view is that NHL 14 has obvious shortcomings, many of which have existed for several iterations of NHL. The move to a new, more powerful platform was an opportunity to address a whole bunch of these. That opportunity appears to have been squandered - my cynical reaction is that they figured that with it being a new platform release, people would upgrade regardless of what they did.
How do the changes seem more significant than the past several years? The only gameplay change they've announced appears to be new puck physics, and they haven't even explained what that means. For me, the new skating engine was a bigger deal; one which they promptly nerfed to make it feel closer to the previous games. The big changes here appear to be mostly window dressing.
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