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.
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.
I'm sorry, but this is such an overreaction. The passing system is not "embarrassingly terrible." Maybe you're just not very good at it? Of all the things that need to be fixed in the game, passing is the least of my worries.
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IMO, now that they fixed the weird puck bounces, the goaltending is the biggest on ice change that needs to be made.
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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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.
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.
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There should be a stop button. The skating mechanics are so terrible. Basically if you over skate the play or puck at any point your Mac Truck player takes about 3 years to turn around.
There should be a stop button. The skating mechanics are so terrible. Basically if you over skate the play or puck at any point your Mac Truck player takes about 3 years to turn around.
If you're skating one direction, pull the joystick in the exact opposite direction, you stop.
The skating is the best it has ever been (in any hockey series).
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Yeah that's not an issue. If anything, it's way too easy to recover when you overskate a puck or get caught flat footed. They had actually implemented that in the first year of the new skating engine but nerfed it almost immediately when 12 year olds started whining about how it wasn't the same as the year before. It's always the whiny, shi**y casual players who screw things up because that's the major target consumer. They WANT it as arcade as possible.
Do people still say nerfed?
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Yup. We've seen a pleasant demo but then they rollback so much in the patches/tuners so much over the past few years.
I think the skating feels clunky because the player model and using a stick to get the puck when it isn't perfectly place on the forehand isn't up to par. I am happy to hear they have called out this concept as a gameplay enhancement this year.
There should be a stop button. The skating mechanics are so terrible. Basically if you over skate the play or puck at any point your Mac Truck player takes about 3 years to turn around.
This to me outlines why there will never be an NHL game that everybody agrees upon as high quality. For every feature, there is an army of people that say it's as good as it's ever been, and an army claiming it's absolutely broken. If some of you got your wish and they took a year off to focus 24 months on fixing things, they would just release a product that would annoy the other half of the playing field.
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This to me outlines why there will never be an NHL game that everybody agrees upon as high quality. For every feature, there is an army of people that say it's as good as it's ever been, and an army claiming it's absolutely broken. If some of you got your wish and they took a year off to focus 24 months on fixing things, they would just release a product that would annoy the other half of the playing field.
I owned NHL 2K5 (I think), and they had preset sliders that were tailored to what type of game you wanted (arcade vs. sim). Worked really well from what I remember.
I owned NHL 2K5 (I think), and they had preset sliders that were tailored to what type of game you wanted (arcade vs. sim). Worked really well from what I remember.
I find that with the current crop. I totally understand people who complain about online gameplay because you can't edit sliders, but I'm somebody who only ever plays local. I tweak the hell out of everything and find that I've managed to customize the gameplay to be highly enjoyable.
For NHL 16 we do have the lighthouse in Minnesota and we've been fortunate to license many authentic goal songs this year including Chelsea Dagger for Chicago. We’ll have more information about other team goal songs coming soon.
