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Originally Posted by Red John
Not really.
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This has been the worst release so far for the NHL series.
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Yeah, that's being over-dramatic. You haven't even
played it, FFS.
We're not EA fanboys, but you have a really selective memory if I've ever seen one.
I've owned every EA NHL game from 1995 to current except 2012 and 2014 when I got really bored of the presentation and decided to stop buying them yearly, sort of like AutoCAD releases. However, what's important is that I remember and owned the games when they transitioned to the 'next-gen' platforms in their day.
They always
lose features in their first year as a next-gen game. Why? Because for the first time in a long time, they have to re-work the actual guts of the game. Remember when NHL '07 was released on Xbox 360? It was the first game to use the current engine. NHL '07 for PC, PS2, and Xbox used the old game engine. The next-gen NHL '07 was missing a LOT of stuff. As it matured through '08 and '09, the game got back to par with the previous gen and then started adding on new features.
Same thing this time around, though not nearly as bad. NHL '15 won't have a lot of stuff that the last-gen consoles will, because the next-gen hasn't had seven or so years of development in which to add features.