NHL25 Wishlist (hopefully some in NHL24)
- Full presentation back (removed in NHL23)
- All NHL teams intro (instead of few teams)
- Being able to CONTROL EVERY TEAM in Franchise/Custom League or at least let us have the same league editing as in Custom League for season mode. I spend hundreds of hours on retro rosters, with as much as possible accurate appearance, contracts, gear, overall rating. But I have 32 teams… and it kills a little the magic in season mode. For Franchise, I like to play with different teams during the season. It’s offline mode anyway. Let us use it as we want. MLB and NBA have this for years.
- Add back the « Stanley Cup playoffs » text on the ice when it’s playoffs. You already use it for Rivals and other EASHL, last Playoffs I saw it few times and even Stanley Cup Finals.
- Three stars animation at the end of the game.
- Winter Classic mode (generic arena in the worst case). Add the actual Winter Classic arena for play now and for the 2 teams playing it in that season in season/franchise mode. + two team for future years are chosen randomly every season.
- ALL STAR GAME during Franchise and Season mode. Like back in the days, with generated lineups depending on sim.
- Return of Stanley Cup banner rising in Franchise and Season mode
- Hat trick recap like older games.
- Accurate gloves colours! Penguins 2015-2016 are bright yellow when they should be golden. I’m sure many other retro or current teams have this problem. Put black gloves or edit palette to Penguins gold.
- Playoffs mode has been a mess for years! No edit lines, strategies, retired numbers option doesn’t work. Please let us compete for different trophies too. Memorial Cup, Spengler Cup, etc.
Creation :
- Edit generated players
- Create helmet less players
- Edit players (appearance, overall ratings) once Franchise, Season mode has started
- New beards, more length instead of 0 to 4, 0 to 6-7.
- Hair colour, maybe letting us use the colour wheel since many are off or too extreme.
- Hair style, more hair style, especially for black descendants. Maybe possible to edit length would be nice.
- New goalie masks (been the same forever)
- Add new attributes such as Backhand power, accuracy, we have speed, we need speed with the puck. Offensive awareness is vague. Should be called Offensive constancy. Same for defensive. And the value of this should be higher. So instead of having to put Caufield strong, and speedy. You put 90 off and it makes him a 86 right away.
- Add new mentality attributes for Franchise purposes, should be a loyalty, money interest and winning meter. Depending on the meters, players choose to re-sign for much less to win.
- Edit player injury options players such as Landeskog, Nolan Patrick, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane. Being able to add an injury without having to put the player 70 overall. Being able to decide if they are injured which body part, how long. If I play season or franchise and Eichel gets injured for 6 months in real life, I can add it so it matches reality. NBA 2K has it and it’s awesome. Durability is fine. I would add body parts along the way. Knees, ankles, elbows, fingers, back, shoulders and head. Crosby is not injury prone if not for concussion for example.
Goalie masks models
- 1950 (Jacques Plante, early years)
- 1970-1980 (Dryden, Wregget, Cheevers)
1950-1970-1980-1990-2000’s model goalie masks, you add them in the standard mask.
Make them blank, and we can edit colours for straps, grid and the rest of the mask with the colour wheel.
The other part, is to revamp all the existing goalie masks of every league. Some have been added recently, but some are 10-11 years old. Throughout the year with patchs maybe?
I’d really like to see 3 new looking models for all NHL teams + at least one iconic goalie mask!
I’m thinking, Luongo, Brodeur already in the game, but maybe, Price, Joseph, Fleury, Giguere, etc. With actual colour and design as much as possible.
(Because of copyrights)
- Add new « vintage » gear such as CCM HT1 helmet, Jofa 390 helmet, more wooden hockey stick, leather gloves for 50-60’s hockey, option to remove shoulder pads, classic black and white ccm skates like in 90’s hockey to match more the idea of the custom league!
Sidney Crosby’s CCM Fit Lite 80 (5K) helmet, ! The guy that was face of NHL for years and doesn’t have his proper helmet since NHL11.. so, does Tarasenko and alumnis Pronger, Briere, Sedin twins, just to name a few don’t have their actual helmet. Time to add it back..
NEW SUGGESTIONS :
- Add presets in Custom League. Such as 1950, 1960, 1970, 1990, 2000’s. Within those presets would have rules, gameplay sliders, number of teams, salary cap, etc. (that you could still manage), overall look maybe even a filter like old camera/broadcast. (NBA 2K did this in NBA2K23 and it’s genius).
- Edit existing arena, from seat colors, to the name or even change venue and decade.
- Edit uniform just like in created team, change the gloves colours, font, etc. for existing teams.
- Ones - Revamped Free for All from 2004’s version, different indoor/outdoor environments, arcade style of play, every player from every team is available and not just 7 players you have to unlock.
- Threes circuit —> NBA streets Vol2 type, you play against 5 different divisions - ECHL/CHL/AHL/EUR and NHL. In each you play 10 games, everytime you defeat a team, you pick a player from this team. You choose 10 teams of all teams in that category. Once this league finished, you have to pick one hero card from it. For example in CHL : A 2006 London Knights Patrick Kane with 75 ovr, younger, actual hair, facial hair, face and skills for example. The card has the authentic 2006 picture. Maybe they could go on your HUT team in the end. EUR : Victor Hedman 17 years old, with Modo, and so on. Until you need to defeat Gretzky, Lemieux, Lidstrom and Roy for example as a boss.
- Being able to change age (switching between custom age or real birthdate) in roster or in season/custom league mode, so your player is not 48 years old.
- Being able set default jerseys in custom league, season for retro teams for example instead of always having to pick them.
- Retired numbers for franchise/custom league an actual animation of the jersey being lifted and players looking at it. The player in suit waving. Something exciting.
- Milestones should be more rewarding! If you score 500, 1000 points, etc, there are animation right now, but it’s not exciting enough.
- Franchise, sim engine is off. I hate that every sim is really different, 90% of the time, best players and teams should be best players and teams..! I’d sim and get Columbus first in the league and having Arturi Lekhonen even with McDavid at 68 pts. Needs to be changed. We like surprises but you know…! Potential is also off! I don’t get why every players get to 90 overall within a year…
