NHL Team
@phomi99 wrote:
@llamaverox wrote:
@KidShowtime1867 wrote:
@llamaverox wrote:In sports games you cite Madden and FC and for years they have gotten bad community reviews yet they still sell
This is because people post and spread unfavorable "reviews" after they spend $100+ on a new HUt/FUT/MUt team and take a few losses.
When people spend money and expect to win and they don't, they're going to bash the game relentlessly and obsessively. It perfectly explains the reasoning as to why someone who "hates" the game, "will never buy it" and thinks "it will never get better" spends countless hours on all social channels for said game trying to convince anyone who will listen to agree with them.
Also, sports games change year after year. New Mechanics, New controls... if a certain segment of the population doesn't master the new controls and begin dominating the leaderboards "like they did last year" - then they think all of the changes are garbage and start bashing the game, posting poor reviews etc in some weird attempt to delfect any responsibility from actually learning new mechanics.
Obligatory - I Don't think the game is perfect. I'm not saying everyone who posts complaints or bad reviews is a butt hurt HUt bunny - Be a Pro, Franchise.. I don't play them but there are legit complaints about years long bugs in those modes.
My point being - sports games from any company are always going to have a subset of users who will obsessively spend their time arguing that the game sucks and insist everyone see things from their point of view, otherwise you're just a 'shill'
That is completely your own opinion. I don't buy madden because the game is bad. Not because I take a few losses. NFL 2k5 is compared to madden every year and 2k5 is better in many aspects a now 20 year old game is a better simulation of football than a 2024 video game and it's extremely obtuse to suggest it's because people lose games of FuT. Please don't gaslight legitimate concerns about gameplay for a series that consistently ranks in the 60's on metacritic and an average 1.2 from the community on metacritic.
I've seen people give 1 star because they couldn't figure out new controls. Reviews in the gaming industry mean nothing.
Only thing you can do is monitor community feedback and rectify any issues you see that are trends and make sense to the vision of the game. This NHL they cracked down hard on all the glitch goals which was much appreciated. Hopefully next year they tackle the META like big goalies, skill zoning defense, AI, and hitting mechanics.
It's the best NHL we have had in a while.
We just flat out disagree, I think it's the worst nhl game I've played for 1v1, there are still a few glitch goals, and the gameplay is not fun to me as the AI continues to be horribly designed with trying to switch with players. I am in a community of players in 6s league and the overwhelming consensus with one or two outliers is the game is horrible. This is not just a few people it's 8/10 if not more of the people I play with.
@phomi99 wrote:
@llamaveroxOh yea well clubs is garbage. I'm talking about HUT. They don't care about clubs so I don't bother with it either.
I think the game is even worse in hut at the moment. It's so cheesy.
I don't think the game is broken, per se. I think it's just a frustrating game to play at times. A lot of times, the issues in the game aren't even particularly obvious. So, you won't know exactly why the game is frustrating; you just know that it is.
Just as an example, there's an issue in the game where the goalies will constantly face the puck and thus inadvertently turn and expose part of the net, letting goals in that should've been stopped. Most players probably don't notice this, but it's an issue, one of many, in the game that can lead to frustration.
I myself am not the best player in the world, but I am in the top 100 for goalies. So, I would think that I know reasonably well how to play the game.
I like to go into the pro-am mode and play on the hardest difficulties, namely against the hall of fame teams. Despite me being primarily a goalie who doesn't play forward, I can still go in and skate circles around the aI players and put up double hat tricks most games.
Some will say, "if you don't like the game, then why are you still playing it?", as though there aren't people who HAVE quit playing. Just speaking from personal experience, I've gone from playing 3 or 4 games every night to maybe playing a couple of times a week because the game has become more frustrating to play than it is fun. At this point, I probably spend more time on this forum than I do actually playing the game it's dedicated to.
Perhaps it's a waste of my time to discuss so much a game that I don't enjoy anymore, but I'm hopeful that the game developers will read my criticism, along with the criticism from others on this forum, and take it to heart and use it to create a better game in the future.
