NHL 25 Gameplay First Look

Tbf they didn't look like they had played the game much in the past. Luckily for them they are much better at the real game.. lol 

Only disappointment for me is we still have the same UI graphics. For me I'd expect them to be different. Its small things like that make it feel like you've actually bought a new game. 

Watching someone else playing is hard to judge how the gameplay is.  Its something you have to try yourself. 

Our first look at extended gameplay and it’s a clip from at latest, July? Something that was at least 2 months pre-release? 

Ive never seen such little time or effort put into marketing a new game. Such a weird release year.

The video doesn't do some of the changes some justice.  For one seeing the Ice IQ isn't gonna show as well when you got 2 humans on each team moving around doing whatever.  It's one of those things you will notice both offensively and defensively.  There will always be bonehead plays by the AI regardless.  

Imo the goaltending is greatly improved and yeah some of those goals were definitely weird, but it's hard to program a goalie to either stop everything or let everything in.  

I agree using the NHL players doesn't showcase what can actually be done in the game, but it's meant to be more of a marketing tool using the cover athletes.  Come Friday you can watch and hear from the better players how they feel about changes and such.

For those that were asking about the speed boost checking. Yes its still in the game (@3mins). 

Thats unbelievable considering the reaction from the community.  

EA_Aljo can we get feedback from the devs why this is still in the game even though the community asked for it to removed. We were told last year that after it was removed that so many people complained that it was added again. I've seen far more posts asking for it to be  removed. Actually I seen next to no posts on Reddit, Twitter or the EA forum asking for it to be added again. 

This is the worst advertisement for a new game I have ever seen. The brothers clearly did not want to be there, no new mechanics shown off, it cuts away when one of the brothers starts commenting about something negative with the game, nothing looks different at all. I don't get what is going on EA right now. The absolute worst year since 15, period. 

The tunnel vision goal celebrations are terrible. Why are they still in the game? Might as well have someone doing the “Fortnite dance” after they score a goal…… likely a future patch I’m sure….

Could you give any specific examples of when ICE-Q was prominent in the gameplay? I have watched it a few times and did not see anything that made any of its features stand out. Plus, the goalies didn't look different at all from NHL 24 saves and movement, if there was, what part of the gameplay video portrayed it?

I'm generally curious about it as I held up the video of the gameplay (using a tablet) and had it beside NHL 24 gameplay (on my tv) and couldn't see a difference  whatsoever. 

Flex celebration still in... a lot of people like myself, are out. Total cringe, just plain stupid and silly. There are a lot of adults wanting to play a hockey video game, not kid stuff. 

They already have fortine dances in WOC. I wish I was joking but they have literally copied and pasted some fortnite dances.

Can we PLEASE turn the flex celebrations off, put an on/off switch? Please?? These are so dumb and no one asked for them.