Comments on: NHL 09 Community Event Info

By: r00tabaga

r00tabaga — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:23:41 +0000

Ahhhhhhhh. I hate smart people, they make me feel so dumb! I just like pressing buttons…………….

By: bangpow

bangpow — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:14:10 +0000

OK, now that we got that all cleared up now….;)

By: stroehms

stroehms — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:13:51 +0000

I just bought a PS3 and NHL 08 for it looks like shit compared to the 360 version. So bad that I took it back less than an hour after I rented it.

By: bcrt2000

bcrt2000 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:02:26 +0000

Endorphin and Euphoria are both made by NaturalMotion. I thought they were the same thing, but they are slightly different products. Euphoria does the animations dynamically, and Endorphin is a system to synthesize realistic animations. Thats why the hitting doesn’t look as realistic as I thought it would, because its not Euphoria as you mentioned. I’m hoping next year they switch over to Euphoria.

By: bangpow

bangpow — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:45:20 +0000

OK, I was at the event.

It wasn’t the Euphoria engine, it was something they called the “endorphin” engine and they said that it’s not full rag doll physics. The animations are still canned, but there’s over 300 of them.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:30:38 +0000

Delay of Game: If you play the puck over the glass: 2 minutes

Worried this one will happen everytime it goes over glass…

Anyway looks like a great effort. NHL seems to be getting closer and closer to FIFA in terms of features, which is what I like to see. Now please bring in some older jerseys!

By: bcrt2000

bcrt2000 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:24:23 +0000

pasta, thats not true, he didn’t take the info from wikipedia. I know one of the guys who went from thebreakaway, and I’ve seen two or three guys say it uses euphoria who went to the event.

On the console sports writeup he says “Source: Wikipedia” because he copied & pasted a paragraph describing what Euphoria was from there.

That being said, it doesn’t look like the best implementation of Euphoria from the trailer, or the trailer is running on the 08 engine (which is very possible since the equipment in there is older than the new screenshots).

By: r00tabaga

r00tabaga — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:10:07 +0000

Yeah, I kinda figured that they would throw in more jerseys. Last year was the whole Reebok thing and I heard that they were really limited in what they could do.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:58:28 +0000

I heard thru another forum that classic jerseys will be a part of the next game. Thanks for the congrats as well !!

By: pete

pete — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:52:56 +0000

THIS GAME IS GONNA BE BAD ASS!!!!!