My Opinion on NHL 25. Top 100 ranked player iAINTgotYOmoney
Ok so to begin, this years edition of NHL is a vast improvement over last years game. So many things that were broken in ‘24 have been clearly worked on and refined. But because the game last year and the year before was so terrible, I’m definitely keeping the $70 in my pocket and running a couple trials until I see the things that are wrong with this game get improved. It’s not like there’s a point anymore with the world championship being scrapped.
First off, the bread and butter to every player is the ability to put the puck in the back of the net when you’re alone. Any good player can do it and the top rank players never miss on breakaways. So it makes you play with defense in your mind whenever you have the puck offensively. But in this game, it is incredibly hard to score. Which is fine and an actual improvement over last year when about half of my games lost, the other player had multiple lucky pucks rolling under the goalies legs. But the thing about it is, is that the breakaways are almost impossible to score on now. ButI see myself at the top of the zone scoring on top shelf snappers. Going in at a pretty high rate too.
That’s gotta get fixed.
That’s because a lot of casual players just love to overload the goalie with a shot as soon as they step across the blue line. And then when I’m playing a good player that cannot make a pass against my defense in the zone it seems like they revert to that style too. That’s going to be even more maddening for people like me that hold the puck and torture the defense with crafty passes until I can go on a moonwalk with the goalie. No I’m not saying to jack it back to last year, but there needs to be an adjustment, especially with breakaways.
Second off, why did you do anything to the energy levels? Energy was fine. You had to be smart about how much you sprint, don’t get blown up. And you should be in the green for the entire period. Now if I run the ice one time the player goes into red, and it is impossible to recover from. Get blown up you’re going into red. Recovery takes way too long To the point where I see myself softly icing the puck at least twice just to get my energy back without allowing them to get a chance. This is even worse when it comes to the computer players because they’re staying full green the entire period and just blowing past me In a little Ford focus. I even tried player locking with Nathan McLaren. It doesn’t work.
That’s gotta get fixed too.
Like I said earlier, the game is actually pretty good overall and has a chance to be great with a few adjustments. But I’m not changing the way Ive played CHEL for the past 10 years. Even with last year‘s game being completely random at times I still was 900-150 in versus and threes online. I already know here’s no way I’m gonna be anywhere close to that this year. The only thing that I’ll be able to hang my hat on is with my team on WOC but we all feel the same way about this game. So I won’t be buying this one until these areas are improved, because while the weak goals sucked. Bottom line is I still won most games in ‘24 just like I have since NHL 15.
And I’d rather win games.
And if it stays this way this year EA is more than likely going to lose more good players this year than the past couple years because enough is enough. Were at the point that we are literally begging 2K to make an NHL game again.
GO CATS!
Edit: Removed mention of ice tilt. This has never been in any of our sports games and does not exist in them currently. It is against the rules here to discuss this as it is purely misinformation. -CM
