@Jagavekov wrote:Does this look like hockey to you:
I don’t know what it looks like, but to me, if I squint my eyes a bit, with everything lighting up on the screen, it looks like a Christmas tree 😳😂😫
Now, I don’t know if I should laugh or cry 🤔
Community ManagerWhen I look at that, I see hockey. Yes, you don't get passing icons or a pressure meter when you watch a broadcast game on TV, but this also isn't meant to look like you're watching hockey on TV. It's a video game and exceptions are made to improve playing the game. Which is the intent to begin with. That people are going to actually play the game and not just watch 2 AI teams play each other so they can replicate watching a TV broadcast. The last thing I would think about when seeing that gif is a Christmas tree. I get you're exaggerating, but the complaints that this game doesn't resemble anything like real hockey seem pretty ridiculous. I think anyone can look at the game and recognize it's hockey.
I know the added elements that help with gameplay are distracting to the purists and hope we have an option to disable them at some point in the future.
@EA_Aljo wrote:When I look at that, I see hockey. Yes, you don't get passing icons or a pressure meter when you watch a broadcast game on TV, but this also isn't meant to look like you're watching hockey on TV. It's a video game and exceptions are made to improve playing the game. Which is the intent to begin with. That people are going to actually play the game and not just watch 2 AI teams play each other so they can replicate watching a TV broadcast. The last thing I would think about when seeing that gif is a Christmas tree. I get you're exaggerating, but the complaints that this game doesn't resemble anything like real hockey seem pretty ridiculous. I think anyone can look at the game and recognize it's hockey.
I know the added elements that help with gameplay are distracting to the purists and hope we have an option to disable them at some point in the future.
Good thing you’ve noticed that I was exaggerating 😉
I know it’s a game also and I also know some people like having all of these stuff on the ice while playing. I don't. I play with nothing at all on 23. So that’s why all the ''non removable'' stuff on 24 are a major pain to me and for people I know. For myself it’s all about immersion.
I mean the only thing missing from that clip was the trainer and there would have been no more room to put anything else 😆
Yes it’s a hockey game and it doesn’t reflect reality, but why can’t it be ? Or at least give the end user the option to turn them OFF like they did for that said trainer.
Thats all I’m asking and maybe then I won’t be seeing any Christmas tree 😉
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@PernellKarl027 wrote:Yes it’s a hockey game and it doesn’t reflect reality, but why can’t it be ? Or at least give the end user the option to turn them OFF like they did for that said trainer.
This is just how this year's game was designed. Again, it's possible this could change in a future release. I wouldn't expect that to happen with NHL 24 though.
@EA_Aljo wrote:This is just how this year's game was designed. Again, it's possible this could change in a future release. I wouldn't expect that to happen with NHL 24 though.
And I wouldn’t expect to buy 24 also.
It's a sad day thinking that I bought all the games since 91. But yeah, I’m not part of EA's target audience anymore.
@EA_Aljo wrote:When I look at that, I see hockey. Yes, you don't get passing icons or a pressure meter when you watch a broadcast game on TV, but this also isn't meant to look like you're watching hockey on TV. It's a video game and exceptions are made to improve playing the game. Which is the intent to begin with. That people are going to actually play the game and not just watch 2 AI teams play each other so they can replicate watching a TV broadcast. The last thing I would think about when seeing that gif is a Christmas tree. I get you're exaggerating, but the complaints that this game doesn't resemble anything like real hockey seem pretty ridiculous. I think anyone can look at the game and recognize it's hockey.
I know the added elements that help with gameplay are distracting to the purists and hope we have an option to disable them at some point in the future.
The fact we have to use the term "resemble hockey" in 2023 in an age where AI is creating 1 to 1 animations in 2K tells us how far behind EA is.
Can you show me 3 clips of goalies Flopping like a fish in the NHL this season? Last season? This decade? In the history of the NHL? I can hop on now and get a video within a half hour. Can you show me 5 clips of a Michigan being scored in the NHL this season? Last season? This decade? In the history of the NHL? I scored 2 in my first 6's game. Can you show me how many times this season 1 player has performed a hip check? I'm gonna guess I have more in 1 night than ANY player will get this season. I get your job is to defend this game at all costs and if the aim is just to "resemble" hockey that seems like a pretty low bar for a game that costs as much as a game that does SO much more.
@EA_Aljo wrote:When I look at that, I see hockey. Yes, you don't get passing icons or a pressure meter when you watch a broadcast game on TV, but this also isn't meant to look like you're watching hockey on TV. It's a video game and exceptions are made to improve playing the game. Which is the intent to begin with. That people are going to actually play the game and not just watch 2 AI teams play each other so they can replicate watching a TV broadcast. The last thing I would think about when seeing that gif is a Christmas tree. I get you're exaggerating, but the complaints that this game doesn't resemble anything like real hockey seem pretty ridiculous. I think anyone can look at the game and recognize it's hockey.
I know the added elements that help with gameplay are distracting to the purists and hope we have an option to disable them at some point in the future.
you rotinely see puck carriers sprint at 90 mph of .2 seconds then hold their sticks out 8 feet away and do 270 degree pivots that have the same effect as an explosive powerturn then whip a 200 mph backhand pass from said outreached position with no momentum? that's hockey to you?
All while the AI are constantly spritning around around and "filling in" during the man advantage which kills any sort of flow, passing play, spacing, etc?
We have very different definitions of hockey. This isnt even close. This makes NHL Hitz Pro look like a sim experience.they actually had a possession poweturn animation in their game that triggered contextually. So do did 2k actually.
