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RicochetII's avatar
RicochetII
2 years ago

Lack of Direction - What is the EA NHL series?

This is not intended to be a rant or complaint thread, though there may be some examples which feel that way.   The direction and design simply isn't being made clear to the consumer base.  What is...
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Sega82mega
2 years ago
I don’t know if It's that easy that EA just can choose how realistic they want the game to be.

If you look at the graphics, that's one thing that takes the game closer to the real hockey, by it looks.

But to get the right feeling must be much harder.

I think EA will continue to do their best to give us the most out of two worlds. Video gaming and hockey.

The better the technology gets the easier it gets to both have a fun game and a game that look and feel like hockey.

But to get everyone that play the game to play realistic hockey, is that possible?

EA can absolutly give us the right tools but I also think the people that play the game need to give something too..
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RicochetII
2 years ago
@Sega82mega

The looks are the easiest thing to get right. It's a choice that involves more effort not to.

As I said before, the technology may have limitations, but the basic, most rudimentary elements have existed for decades. Get the most essential thing right, then add the next thing, then the next. (Without breaking what worked previously.)
With 30(ish) iterations, there should be a steady progression towards "something", but there's a disappointing lack of progression and even some regression, because that "something" has been lost sight of.

The "NHL" on the cover should make the goal clear, in my opinion. You are selling an NHL game, so make an NHL game. That attracts people with an interest in the NHL.
Once you get their attention, you have to keep it and perhaps more importantly, avoid losing it.
Outdoor rinks? You're going to lose more attention than you gain. Steadily adding similar elements is going to result in losing attention from those looking for NHL hockey while alienating existing users.

As far as getting everyone to play a more, I'll say reasonable rather than realistic, game of hockey, I'm not suggesting that is easy.
It would require emphasis on "actual hockey play" being rewarded and educating players on what actual hockey play is.
Not everyone is going to be a good player, but most of them can at least get to the point of being a serviceable teammate.

The community can absolutely help in leading by example, but you can't give good examples when the game makes them look like bad ones. Good hockey play isn't rewarded. Cheesy meta play is.
  • misterflugietime's avatar
    misterflugietime
    New Vanguard
    2 years ago

    To put it simply - the EA NHL series is a complete and utter mess just as the Madden series is. EA needs to completely scrap the engine they are using and build from the ground up for their NFL and NHL series in order to get back on track. They made a lot of changes for this years game but the vast majority of the changes were a swing and a miss and broke the game in many other ways. 

  • Sega82mega's avatar
    Sega82mega
    2 years ago

    @RicochetII

    But to prevent cheesy meta play to be the 'shizzle' would have to mean that EA need to create a bulletproof game without any backdoors to exploit.

    I just don’t see that happen.

    Might be in line of asking for peace in the whole world.

    Just imagine how hard we push boundaries to find loopholes to exploit. People are making a brand on youtube by doing tutorials on how to 'score the easiest way'.

    It becomes a cat and mouse game, where EA try their best to patch together all the 'cheese' the online community find by testing this product over "million" of hours online in a competitive invironment.

    It wears it down pretty hard, everything has a limit of what it can take.

    Fair play will never be equal to cheese.

    I hope im wrong though, that we can get a straight up cool realistic hockey game without a lot of nonsense.

    That would definitely get me back in the game. 

    But untill then, It's better to lay low and(try to)retain sanity. 😏

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