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AnarchyKid
2 years ago

NHL 25 Ideas - Threes Mode Depaysement

Threes Mode Depaysement

Depaysement is French for being in a foreign or different place.

Do a new Threes World Circuit mode with Outdoor Rinks inspired by FC Volta's outdoor Arenas, where you play around the world in these elaborate outdoor ice arenas.

Revamp the Threes Mode Circuit and have it where you are playing teams from around the world with unique designs and players that are not in the NHL and mix in games against NHL teams in the Circuit.

Have it where you play 4 NHL Teams and the 5th game is against one of these new Teams; if you win you unlock their best player and the Outdoor Rink for exhibition mode.

You could design very elaborate Outdoor Rinks, you could have one Outdoor Rink in Egypt, one in Japan, and one on a Navy Cruz ship.

Have better customization of your team and players then in previous Threes Mode.

Also have better rewards.

If you win you unlock Equipment for the entire team with different colors depending on the prize.

Have one reward be X Factor attributes to give to your players and unlocked mascots you get after beating the NHL Teams.

Possible Out Door Arenas

Below are some of the Outdoor Rinks I had in mind and the player you unlock if you beat the team in that area.

Navy Ship - Have fighter jets and soldiers in the back round, maybe even have John Hamm yelling at Maverick.

Team: You play a team of fighter pilots and Navy Officers.

Reward Player - Fighter Pilot

Tokyo Rooftop - Just like in FC Volta have a rink on the roof of a Tower in Japan.

Team: You play a team of Street Kids and Street Racers.

Reward Player - Street Kid

Slums - Have a rink outside of a projects development in Brooklyn.

Team: You play a local group.

Reward Player - Lead MC

The 747 - Have a rink in a massive plane. The game happens during mid flight.

Team: You play a team of Pilots and Flight Attendants 

Reward player - Pilot 

Mars - Just like in FC Volta have a rink on mars and maybe have aliens in the stands.

Team: You play a team of Martians. 

Reward Player - An Alien

Space Station - Have a rink outside of the space station, the ice is see though glass and the puck glows, and have astronauts floating to the side as fans. Either have a glass dome around the players, give players space helmets when they play in the space rinks.

Team: You play a team of Astronauts. 

Reward Player - An Astronaut 

Egypt - Have a rink in the deserts of Egypt and have pyramids in the background.

Team - You play a team of Pharos and Mummy's 

Reward - A Mummy

Brazil - Just like FC Volta have a rink in the slums of Brazil.

Team - You play a team of Soccer players.

Reward Player - A Soccer player

Ellis Island - Have a rink right in front of the statue of liberty.

Team - You play a team of Lady Liberty Street Performers.

Reward player - Lady Liberty

Atlantis - Have a Rink under water in the Ancient City of Atlantis, and have mermaids and Atlantis citizens in the background.

Team - You play Poseidon  and his warriors.

Reward Player - Poseidon 

Additional Note

I also think there is a lot of value if you are allowed to use these Outdoor Rinks in other game modes Online and Offline; Like EACHL and Franchise Mode.

You could also have these arena models as an option for players who want to create a team with an Outdoor Home Rink.

Street Mode

An alternate idea to this is remove Threes mode and make all of my Ideas above a new Street Hockey Mode, just like FC Volta.

Either way there is potential to adding features like this and it could bring a larger gaming market to the NHL Franchise, including gamers who never buy Hockey Games.

8 Replies

  • TTZ_Dipsy's avatar
    TTZ_Dipsy
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    Anything remotely resembling the old HITZ games gets a thumbs up from me

  • AnarchyKid's avatar
    AnarchyKid
    2 years ago

    An Updated Threes Mode could honestly become the new Hitz mode for the NHL Franchise. Especially with EA bringing back Broken Glass and Checking players over the Boards.

    They could bring the broken glass Frequency all the way up in threes mode so the glass breaks everytime a player gets hit by the boards and the game just keeps playing.

    This could defiantly be added in a Post Launch update for NHL 24.

  • PernellKarl027's avatar
    PernellKarl027
    2 years ago

    No Offense to the OP, but If the EA team would put effort, time and resources on this, I will quit this franchise forever… And I’ve been there since NHL91…

    Playing hockey on Mars and on a ship is exactly what this game needs 🙄

    OFFLINE modes have been forgotten for awhile and there’s plenty of Arcade Hockey Gameplay going on with this series as is… There’s Fluorescent skates, clown gears and all for Online peeps.

    As much as I loved NHL HITZ for what it was. I hope this is not the direction this game takes…

    NHL FORTNHITZ 2025 ? Now come on !!!

  • AnarchyKid's avatar
    AnarchyKid
    2 years ago

    I will admit the Rinks in space may be a little over the top, but I stand by everything else in my post above.

    This New Version of Threes mode could become very popular for offline and online players.

    Have the offline world circuit.

    Then have a separate online Season Mode, similar to FC Volta.

    The way EA is designing NHL 24 this year, making the skill moves easier to pull off and making the controls more assessable for Gamers who are not experienced NHL Gamers, shows me that EA is trying to make a game for more then just the current Market.

    Putting in an arcade mode like the one I have presented above could help bring in the new crowd as well.

    I am not saying they should put their entire development team on this but this could be a good feature to release in the next few years.

    I don’t think Volta takes anything away from the FC franchise, it just provides a more Arcady amusing way to play the game of Soccer and that can entice people outside of your current market to buy the game.

    I know it worked on me, the trailer I saw for Volta in FIFA 20 was the deciding factor for me when I bought the game.

  • 7df81e6108e66429's avatar
    7df81e6108e66429
    Seasoned Vanguard
    2 years ago

    Yeah,Im not sure what modes youre talking about BUT I am one of those players that LOVES realism and a rink anywhere other than an NHL-AHL professional rink including stadium series would be a HARD NO for me at least!

    I definitely want to see WAYYYYY more Arena-Rink ideas for my NHL team though cause the current 10 isnt nearly enough just like the scoreboards! We NEED more of them!

  • Jutila22's avatar
    Jutila22
    New Hotshot
    2 years ago

    Many things needs to be changed in nhl 25.

    I swear to god that speedboost hitting and arcade game needs to be gone please @EA_Aljo 🙂 :D goalies and all the ai players needs to be better making plays, stop the plays and more. In nhl 24 game just rewards players tooo much making shots all the time everywhere and hitting all the time. I dont like that greasy goal hockey at all. Thanks🙂 

  • hiperay's avatar
    hiperay
    New Ace
    2 years ago
    @Jutila22 Except that "greasy goal hockey" is how you play hockey. Get it to the point, shoot low, get greasy rebounds. That is the essence and realism of hockey. AI does need to be better at guarding these plays so they are not as free sure, but there is always a risk of setting the AI too high that you can basically camp in net. An issue we have seen in the past. As for that speedboost hitting situation, you can blame this community for immediately wanting the change reverted when they did try to remove it. Lasted less than a week before people called for the devs heads on a stick for doing so.

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