@jlnhl2001 wrote:
@KidShowtime1867This. Why do people feel like EA NHL isn’t hockey? It’s the closest I’ve felt to being in the NHL, and likely the closest I’ll ever get.
lol because anyone who has played hockey at a semi-competitive level knows this might as well be Mario Strikers compared to real hockey. There's ZERO real hockey forechecking strategies in the game. There's ZERO offensive zone strategies that involved a high cycle. There's ZERO defensive zone strategies that mimic real life hockey. You don't even have to remotely apply "general" hockey concepts to this game to have success. I know this because the AI aren't even good enough at executing a break-in or break-out to apply said general hockey concepts.
I encourage you to watch any popular streamer play this game 1v1 while having even a high school aged game from MN, MI, MA, or Canada on side-by-side and see if you feel the same. Because this game doesnt even flow like hockey. This game flows like basketball. Its ISOball (NBA style) with super defined possessions and these little streamer kids running "plays" on both 1v1 and 6v6 because they know these plays are broken and they know that "normal" shots from IRL "high danger" spots are completely useless if you dont do the right move like an 8 year old playing horse in his driveway (you know, "take 4 steps, do a circle, then left hand layup" - we all know this kid) which means defense isn't played with an urgency outside of the "spots" or "plays" which means we dont have any natural pressure or moments of capitalizing on an over-commit, which means we don't have any true spcaing that youd see in real hockey because virtual hockey is just passivelybackup and play spots, so the game turns into this super boring passive ISO ball with the puck carrier doing his 400 spins in the corner than the comp scene insists they "NEED" to create sapce, and the defense just put their controller down and glide in the nmiddle of the ice till the puck carrier thinks about driving the lane so they can press Rb once (SUPER SKILLED PLAY) and hope the game lets them poke it.
Does this sound like the flow of real hockey?
