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Originally Posted by codynw
IMO, now that they fixed the weird puck bounces, the goaltending is the biggest on ice change that needs to be made.
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for me, i never felt the goaltending was terrible overall, but just unbalanced. playing nhl was always terribly frustrating for me because how i had to score and how the computer scored was always 2 totally different things. as a human either i had to glitch goal or just grind it out getting like 50 shots hoping a couple got lucky. yet for the computer, they just go to some weird terrible spot and wrist a howitzer past my goalie.
and i get it, flukey goals happen. if anything thats why i had no problems with the goalies. they should let bad goals in sometimes. but for me, it was always my goalie letting in softies and their goalie looking like kipper in 06 against the wings. (hope i got the year right!)
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Originally Posted by AcGold
I wonder if they'll ever make it look even remotely close to actual hockey. The animations have always been terrible but worst of all is the inability to play like an actual dman would, the board battles and scrums look nothing like hockey. Want to defend the front of the net and play like Chara? Too bad, impossible.
It would also be nice if we could designate which player passes are intended for, the passing system has been embarrassingly terrible for a few years now. The only game I want to play on consoles is hockey but man EA just can not produce a game that looks like hockey.
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im not concerned with the passing necessarily, but i do agree they have strayed too far into arcade hockey. i have been of that opinion for years. when i see the nhl on tv, i see a rough game where people are grinding along the boards and dumping the puck in. when i play nhl, i see figure skating on ice with about 29 scott stevens highlight reel quality checks a game. i know a totally authentic game would be more boring. who wants to dump and chase unsuccessfully all night? but i think they have went too far. every year its about the dekes and improvements to how you can figure skate.
makes me sad.