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Originally Posted by Igottago
Exacty. Its all about context. Showing a close up of a puck on edge gives me, as a player, absolutely zero insight into how that affects the overall flow of the game or how it'll impact my passes or shots. Showing close ups of players celebrating shows me no overall indication of how the AI used positional intelligence to setup the powerplay and score. It's a very shallow look at any of the real gameplay that most of us care about.
There's nothing wrong with some cinematic trailers but there's very little there that matches the true player experience. Show off 30 seconds of sustained gameplay and lets see how these features all stack up together as a cohesive representation of hockey, where two teams are all interacting within the confines of the same game, going after the same puck, having to defend and attack.
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this. 100% this.
we all know the game is going to look better. we could tell that the moment they started releasing screens of the arenas. however, what we have been told for the last 4 or 5 years by fans and the ea team is to not expect major gameplay improvements because we were at the limits of what the last generation of consoles could manage.
so now, after taking a year off of the new consoles unlike some of the more popular EA games, many of us are expecting some legitimate improvements in things like AI intelligence, puck physics, etc. I don't care how cool the pre-canned intro video is because after the first day i hit X to get through it as fast as possible. but what I DO care about is whether or not sticks will still just magically go through things like the puck, other players, and the goal.
so I fail to understand why people wanting to see some actual gameplay are being mocked as crazies. time after time, we see people rationally and calmly wish for a better flow of information about the upcoming game. yet then they are just trolled by the same EA apologists over and over and over. (and sorry if i stooped to their level right there by calling them apologists and trolls, but i was on a roll!)
additionally, the reason why the flow of information is important to many of us is that for many NHL is the main reason we have a console. the reason i bought a ps3 many years back was that they stopped releasing nhl on PC. and i have yet to purchase a new console and was hoping that NHL would finally be a better game this year and would be my reason. now sure, i can just wait until after the game comes out and get opinions, but is it so much to ask that a game publisher would want to promote the awesome new features of their game?