Now that Jamison has secured the funds for the Yotes purchase I guess we know where Doan is signing.
I honor of the NHLs strike & most likely a loss of majority of a season, apparently EA sports felt they can put out a steaming pile of crap for NHL13... Yikes, this is definately gonna be a long winter since without real hockey I dont even have fun video game hockey to tie me over... Anyone else pick up this pile of garbage yet... lol you cant even control the goalies arms & legs anymore in goalie mode... Its lik playing with a bubble hockey goalie
Was thinking of picking it up this weekend. How shitty is it? I'm excited to try out the new skating engine.
I imagine it will get better once they adjust the online sliders, but for now its pretty brutal. The goalies are amp'd way up so most Online Team Play games with CPU goalies are 1-0, 2-1 games. I havnt tried versus yet. The new skating engine is pretty bad IMO. Players do not transition forward to backwards or different directions like they do in this game. Sometimes when skating forward and you want to turn around, the turning radius is wider then more then half the rink. Thats definately not realistic. The screwed up OTP & EASHA goalie mode as you no longer use the right analog to control your goalies arms & legs. You dont even control the arms & legs anymore, you just move the goalie in from of the puck and the computer makes the same. its terrible. I used to be really good at goalie & enjoy it. The graphics took a major hit & remind me of a 2K game. i donno why they downgraded them so much. Its almost like they forgot to add any detail while texture mapping the game -- That wont be able to be fixed with upgrades or patches, graphics are graphics & we are stuck with them. They are also very choppy (that might be the EA servers, im not sure)... OTP Be a Pro, every charecter style no matter if you pick grinder or playmaker has the same numbers which is dumb as fawk! Everyone starts with every category at 55 across the board. So a grinder has the same passing as a playmaker who has the same shooting as a sniper... Basically it looks like they rewarded the noobs that complained that the good players were skating circles around them, so they nerfed everything. I avgd about 3.40PPG in about 4-500 games last year. This year ive been lucky to get 1 a game, if that. Like I said, I havnt tried versus mode, and that might be ok, but EASHL & OTP suck bad. They added more strategys though which is cool, but I have no idea how to work them yet lol Goals all seem random and majority of the goalie saves look like highlight reel desperation saves. Its on you if you wanna buy it, I buy the game every year & play it weather its shitty or not, cause there isnt any other options out there. But IMO it definately isnt as good as NHL12 at this point.
Perhaps all BAP starts at 55, but the cost of increasing certain skills are different per player type. For example, shooting skills are cheap for snipers while body checking skills are cheap for grinders.
I'm a sucker, I'll buy it just to try it. Thanks for the warning. Much like the 2013 Sharks, I'll keep my expectations low.
so I guess I better buy Madden13 first!
Why can't all this BULL SHIT about getting a new CBA get resolved? This shit is getting really old now.
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