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EA_Aljo

Community Manager

4 months ago

NHL 26 Be A Pro Reveal

Hey, Be A Pro Fans! The trailer has dropped. Check it out below. The deep dive blog can be found here.

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MasterB89

Seasoned Ace

4 months ago

What is depressing is that a trailer\game from 2012 has more depth and presence then this deep dive. This is a revamp of the revamp of the revamp?

Can someone at EA confirm how a game from 2012 has more content and presentation then a game from 2025/2026? Walkouts are only in specific moments? Whereas, that one has a walkout presentation for each time you go on the ice.

Again, how does a older game do it better? How does that game offer multiple seasons in the juniors but this one gives you basically moments... Please define how this is a better experience then the other?

NHL 12 - Be a Pro Revamped

NHL 26 - Be A Pro Deep Dive

The proof is right there that none of this is actually that new more just worse rehash of what was. I want to be excited for this but how can I when you don't even get the chance to earn your spot on a world juniors team? What right or reason does your player have to be there? Why are you making an NHL game scripted... this is not WWE?

As a side note I remember when EA NHL used to win awards for their games. The times have really changed.

KingPyrrhus981
Rising Adventurer
4 months ago
MasterB89EA_Aljo To be fair to the developers, the storylines and scripting in the dialog I bet is an intense programming task. I think it is much more complicated than us lay people think. But…
My problem is I am skeptical that a bunch of people asked for the storylines/dialogue, while it is pretty obvious a bunch of people are incensed that full junior seasons aren’t being added again. And it will be more difficult to implement full junior seasons (and more - washouts of NHL in European leagues, all star games, international play later, etc.) as they can break the structured programming of the storyline.
I think they should have built a solid base with all I mentioned in the last paragraph initially without the storylines/dialogue. Then if they insisted on having storylines/dialogue they should have built on that solid base.