Anyone else starting to find NHL 2010 a little unbearable to play?

[zukes]

Try the high flip dump to the opposite corner.

[Weiser Wonder]

The game is wonderful, I have a blast playing it. I feel a lot of you are taking an amazing game for granted. Every game will have frustrating aspects but I feel like it's about as realistic and fun as sports video games get. If you want real glitch free hockey, you will have to play real hockey because video games will always have aspects to it that people can exploit.

[Flash Walken]

The dump and chase isn't nearly as effective as it was billed, and I have spent hours trying to figure out if there is a place where it is effective to dump it.

Personally, I think this game is worse than NHL09. The BS connection issues at the launch did nothing to sway me the other way.

[tripin_billie]

Originally Posted by zukes

Try the high flip dump to the opposite corner.

I still can't seam to win the race for the puck when I do that.

Another problem that stems from the lack of goals from shots in the slot is that it makes it too easy to defend against the point. There is no risk in overplaying the d-man because even if the d-man walks into the slot, there isn't going to be a goal. Thus, the point play falls apart because everyone just rushes the d-man like crazy because it is a no lose play.

[StrayBullet]

I just find it ghey when kids are watching the replay of every single one of their goals. A nice goal? - Sure. But the same one-timer that you always do or a cheap wrap-around goal? Weak. I find constantly watching replays slows the game down.

[Igottago]

I find buying the games yearly now seems to get boring. Too often it feels like the same game year after year, granted there are improvements. I'm still playing NHL 09 occassionally and that's good enough for me right now. I'll probably get NHL 11 when the time comes. This year I opted to spend the cash on FIFA 10, and I haven't played FIFA in years. It feels very fresh and I think it'll get a lot more of my playing time than NHL 10 ever would have.

[Gozer]

I might go back to 2K next year.

EA just doesn't feel like a hockey game.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by tripin_billie

In general, the AI stands around way too much. Passing through the neutral zone is pointless because none of the players are skating.

I think this is the single biggest issue. In NHL 09 you could really get a good passing game going up through the neutral zone. If anything, NHL 09 passing was too easy, but at least the AI players were moving, and were moving in sensible, predictable ways.

What we need is NHL 09's fluid player movement with the more realistic puck passing physics of NHL 10.

[jschick88]

Lifting of the stick must go. I am okay with poke checks. In a real NHL game, how often do you see a player lift the other's stick? It might happen once a game.

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by Igottago

I find buying the games yearly now seems to get boring. Too often it feels like the same game year after year, granted there are improvements. I'm still playing NHL 09 occassionally and that's good enough for me right now. I'll probably get NHL 11 when the time comes. This year I opted to spend the cash on FIFA 10, and I haven't played FIFA in years. It feels very fresh and I think it'll get a lot more of my playing time than NHL 10 ever would have.

I somewhat agree. I got Madden 07 and then skipped out on 08 and 09, and now Madden 10 feels totally different and much better. With NHL I have 08, 09, and 10 and they don't feel that different from each other. OTP is basically the exact same except the passing is much worse, and barely anyone uses Board Play. I like a lot of the realistic touches and the new goalie animations, but it doesn't justify a $70 purchase IMO. Only reason why I keep getting them is I play online a lot and the community always moves with the newer game.

And they need to change the stick lift and pokecheck for NHL 11. Make it almost completely useless. I have someguys who will stick lift me successfully about 97% of the time on their first try, and about 28 times in one game. It gets to the point of "why bother playing the game?".

[Chump]

Originally Posted by iggypop

One of the biggest problems with this online play is shootouts. Why did they change it so you have to be the goalie? It takes all the excitement out of the shootout since you and your opponent are both brutal at goalie.
I find I win the majority of shootouts, but you don't really care since you know it's mostly just luck. Bring back how it was in 09 and it would be a lot more exciting.

Well it sounds like at least one thing in the game is very realistic.

[Yeah_Baby]

Does every one the EASHL cherry pick or is just me?

[MJM]

My second biggest pet peeve in the game is people with crap internet connections. Nothing pisses me off more than getting someone with a crap connection, you don't realize it until puck drop, than the jerkoff refuses to mutual quit. Nothing better than playing 45 minutes of hockey cutting in and out to avoid the DNF. There should be someway to make your settings to block out crap connections

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

Does every one the EASHL cherry pick or is just me?

Most teams I play on there is always one a-hole who cherry picks, most of the time they don't even know how to finish either. I play defense with my friend for the most part and we're pretty solid, but we always find ourselves playing with n00bs who cherry pick. If you cherry pick but can finish 90% of the time, fine I WILL get you the puck, but most people suck so I don't pass to them, haha, but then they play like kids and don't pass to me and would rather go through 4 people.

Man, OTP pisses me off almost as much as normal ranked games do, just because of the quantity of idiots in OTP games. I find it rare to find someone who can play defense AND offense. I find people who can either do 1 or the other, but mostly neither. I love it when someone wants to score so badly that they think they can go through 4 people. Always fails.

[BlAcKNoVa]

I don't play online. My brother and I just completed our first season playing offline season mode (thank god EA put that back in). We're having a blast. This is actually the first NHL game in years that I've played more then a week before throwing it away.

One issue I'm having though is the roster updates are brutal. Who's bright idea was it that when it's time to do a roster update, if a player (superstar or not) in the real NHL is injured, they decided he doesn't play and leaves him as a scratch in the game. uuugh.

I've seen it with Franzen, Kovalchuk etc. It's nice they added the rookies in though, but I think I'll just do the rosters myself from now on.

But this is coming from someone who's a roster nut, and I like playing with them the way the real NHL is lol..

[3 Justin 3]

Some of the rankings are pretty bad too. Bouwmeester is only an 84, LOL. Conroy is an 80 as well HAHA.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3

Some of the rankings are pretty bad too. Bouwmeester is only an 84, LOL. Conroy is an 80 as well HAHA.

Bourque 79...

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by BlAcKNoVa

One issue I'm having though is the roster updates are brutal. Who's bright idea was it that when it's time to do a roster update, if a player (superstar or not) in the real NHL is injured, they decided he doesn't play and leaves him as a scratch in the game. uuugh.

But this is coming from someone who's a roster nut, and I like playing with them the way the real NHL is lol..

I think roster updates should take place more often. There is no reason a new update can't come out weekly updating everyone on injuries, call-ups etc...

[dobbles]

i have complained about ratings before. my position is why have a scale from 0-100 when almost all of the nhl players are rated between 78 and 88? there still is no difference between grinders and superstars. not to mention the potential rating is all fubar. the highest anyone gets is A-; there is no B+ that i have seen; so unless you are the next crosby or ovechkin, your potential is B or lower. once again, it makes it hard to differentiate between good, bad, and average players. while i know i have the ability to look at specific skill ratings, and also potential ratings for the 3 main areas, i should not have to waste 5 hours looking at everyone's player cards and writing down stats to compare some players that i want to draft or trade for.

i haven't been playing online as much this year. and though there are always cheesers, i never got to the point where it made me not want to play or anything like that. i felt for the ps3 eashl community things were decent.

back to ratings... i wish there was more rhyme or reason to players upgrading themselves. there is no explanation of how many points a guy needs to upgrade or how many experience points it cost to upgrade an attribute. and though i haven't gotten far enough in my GM mode to confirm for this year, last year i had a huge problem with all of my non centers dumping an absurd amount of their attribute upgrades into faceoffs. it was just silly. on a similar note, i had dman constantly upgrading their deflections as well. in general the system doesn't seem to work IMO. over the summer i finally started playing dynasty mode in 09; i played every game for both detroit and grand rapids. my leading scorer in grand rapids was warren peters with like 70 points. he was a huge plus player and fought quite a bit for me. yet over the course of the season he went from a 68 to a 69! wow, way to show improvement! i think after i started the next season, he had worked his way all the way up to 70!!! woohoo! i realize that a lot can depend on potential rating and other factors, but point is, the best guy on my ahl team didn't get any better ratings wise. its absurd. yet another thing: last year you could score 2 goals in an ahl game in october and get like 35 experience points for your guy. then that same guy could score 2 goals in game 7 of the stanley cup finals and still just get 35 experience points! what kind of logic is that? i have found there is really no reward in bringing young players up to the nhl because they don't get experience any faster. i just think that whole system needs redone.

anywho, thats all for me for now!

[Temporary_User]

I haven't played too many game online against people that I don't know personally yet. Anyways, here are a few rants I have with the game.

The games I have played, about 1/3 have been wins I deserved, 1/3 loses, and 1/3 wins that I deserved, but got due to people quitting early.
I was originally sending these people messages telling them that I still get the win, and they are just screwing up their DNF rating.
It still gets frustrating when people leave, it's almost to the point where I figure I should let up on an opponent if I get a decent lead just so they don't get bored and quit.
Sometimes when they leave it screws up my system too where i have to either turn the machine fully off or only the middle xbox button works. Anyone encounter this?

The other thing I dislike is people that dive all the time. I understand dropping to block a shot from the point or something. Also rushing back to stop a pass across the crease (i.e. dives that would actually happen during a regular game) I hate when people are just diving all over the place to block ordinary passes, working like a poke check, or just so you can't skate in that direction.

Also I like how you can push a lil after whistles. I do this periodically to try and get momentum my way (I try to do it only when I think it would happen in an actual game). I've encountered a few people that push every whistle. My team always seems to push back no matter what, and they take 2 off each time instead of giving me a deserved PP.

Lastly an issue I have with the game is when the other team gets the puck and the guy just stands still. Normally what happens is a computer controlled player of mine goes and tries to stick lift the guy unsuccessfully, leading to a PP for the other team. So cheese.