EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerNHL 25 Grudge Match Reveal
Here's a peek at the new Grudge Match feature coming to NHL 25.
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ea finally gave a presentation of what the players want. there is no other way. ea's problem is that there are not enough people to create a good enough presentation. it is not easy to visually convert a presentation that was produced and tuned by thousands of people in the studios into a game form. espn employs thousands of people all over the world just to create interesting visualizations to draw the viewer into the game. and there are simply no people for that. hiding behind your own visions and concepts is of course nonsense. no one will make a new car or EA sports.
"it is not easy to visually convert a presentation that was produced and tuned by thousands of people in the studios into a game form. espn employs thousands of people all over the world just to create interesting visualizations to draw the viewer into the game. and there are simply no people for that."
Then what is this?:
EA can absolutely put together an authentic, broadcast style hockey presentation. They just choose not to.
SHEESH it was SO GOOD. Simplicity and execution. I would take this exact set of scenes with the modern animations and graphic fidelity and a few more stat-based highlighting of certain players over what we have now. The kicker? It would be an EASIER project than what they created for the Grudge Match system.
I miss a truly skilled commentary team, as well. Cibulski does his best but just sounds a little too non-professional for my ears.
Either WE'RE out of touch with what the fanbase wants or the shot-callers at EA Sports are.
Do you think "thousands of people" create the ESPN intro graphics and visual effects? I HIGHLY doubt that. It's probably a small team of graphic artists/animators that do that.
Other teams do the actual studio filming, ice-preparation for the shots, project managers for the in-between, directors, producers, etc. So if you count them as well then I could see it.
