I have to get something off my chest.
It's unbelievable how many negative reviews and sometimes nasty insults there are against EA.
The game is great!
The gameplay is really great, it's always exciting and the difficulty levels are absolutely OK.
The graphics are great and the presentations are also good.
It's a lot of fun, Wild Card is great to play and the new franchise is great.
Learn to play or be quiet.
Let's see online play ballerinas ,puck raging, speed boost LTing, terrible goalies ,and most comical of all skill based one timers because a bullseye lights up telling you when to pass and push up ,something you can do before but it did actually take skill to do because you didn't have a bullseye telling when to do it
Sadly, if you think about it. How much of that is the game and not the player base? Those features work fine in offline play and are not OP what so ever. Its how the player overly uses those abilities that cause the issue sadly.
Goalies on superstar difficulty and some catered sliders are fine for the most part. A few goals here and there with odd animations and some where a goalie has a bad game (3 goals on 5 shots - but this is actually not a far stretch from real life). Game I played last night offline was out shot 39 to 27 and lost 1-0 in overtime. Average games are 27-22 in shots with a score from 3-1, 3-2 to 4-3.
The skilled based one timer is also not overly bad in offline as well. Myself or the AI tend to use it a few times in a game as defensively you can close them off pretty well or block them at times. Same is said for the AI. Id say the its around 70-30 for offline play in my experience (75+ games), with some being intercepted passes, blocked shots, goalie stoppages and goals.
Community ManagerHi there. Thanks for the positive feedback. Really glad to hear you're enjoying NHL 25!
It's fun to play offline but horrible online. So you obviously play offline. I haven't met one person that loves this game online.
Community ManagerI've seen a lot of positive feedback for online play. My own club is having more fun than they have in years. I'm in no way saying that everything's perfect. I can see how it would be very frustrating without human D.
Can you show me something positive? We got here, Reddit hut forums, streamers etc just absolutely blasting this game for how bad it is. I've played a few games of 3s and it was probably the worst game mode for spamming One Tees because of the open space. If that's fun for you and ur team then good for you but majority of this fan base plays HUT and has to deal with a zero defense game mode where you can't hit a guy spinning in circles in ur zone for 15min. FC 25 has more contact than NHL 25 at the moment.
No offense to you Aljo but we desperately need a community manager that plays HUT. If they played 1 game just 1 division rivals you probably uninstall the game. There is no way someone loads up a hockey simulator game to spin around in circles in each other's Ozones till a One Tee indicator flashes. I challenge you Aljo to play the rivals placement games and come back to this thread. You would all the clips you need.
Is it OK to complain about not being able to access woc and play the game I purchased I haven't been able to play since launch
I totally agree, I play franchise only and there some issues like sliders not saving and i would like to be able to switch off the passing icons but other than that I think the game plays well with my slider set , after all it's a game , I've not found a perfect game yet in any genre, not saying that's right but it's how it is. And as for 2k10 I had both ea and 2k sports and 2 k was an ugly game compared to ea.
