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Seasoned Traveler

4 months ago

NHL 26 Feedback and Rating

First thing is first, Hats off to the EA NHL Team on a good game they built this year. There’s definitely some changes with the gameplay and different modes they diligently worked on this past year...

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dfhiijklmm

Seasoned Newcomer

11 days ago

One of the worst sports game on the market hands down. EA just keeps releasing a weak product with minimal changes. Really wish 2k had control over the hockey rights. They could hire monkeys to develop their version and it would blow this game out of the water. This game is absolutely pathetic and will just be the same reskin/release next year. EA do yourself a favor and sell this game over to 2k. They actually have a clue about how to make a sports game. Y'all can go ahead and throw this game in the garbage, its awful.

Maybe listen to the community, revert some changes made that were idiotic, add content that's actually valuable (be a pro is sad, even though completely revamped), and make changes to things the community has been raging about for years now. EA has too many games under their belt, and the one embacile you have working on this one is trashcan dan. Please sell the rights to this game to someone who will actually do it justice. We love hockey and u guys keep producing a crappy game every year.

KidShowtime1867

Hero

10 days ago

dfhiijklmm wrote:
Really wish 2k had control over the hockey rights.

"Hockey rights" aren't a thing. Anyone can make a hockey game.

dfhiijklmm wrote:
They could hire monkeys to develop their version and it would blow this game out of the water.

Time to step up, champ. In today's age of vibe-coding, you could develop the hockey game of your dreams.

dfhiijklmm wrote:
They actually have a clue about how to make a sports game.

2K does a lot of the little things right, but from a pure gameplay standpoint, they were always abysmal when put up against EA's NHL gameplay. There were a lot of animation sequences that you were forced to watch play out. It left you feeling less control over your players than the EA game did. 2K also did a really good job with puck physics. They really made you feel like the puck was a different asset from the player's body model. EA does that to an extent now, but there are still moments you feel like the puck is glued to the player animations.

I also really loved how 2K integrated online versus play into their offline season modes. Meaning; if you were getting tired of playing against the CPU in your offline franchise, you could just select an option to search online for an opponent in your next game.

dfhiijklmm wrote:
Maybe listen to the community, revert some changes made that were idiotic, add content that's actually valuable (be a pro is sad, even though completely revamped), and make changes to things the community has been raging about for years now.

As we see evidenced here from time to time, what people perceive as a 'problem' with the game usually turns out to be a skill issue. There are surely bugs and nagging issues that should be addressed, so don't try to make a claim about how I'm saying the game is perfect. I'm not. But a lot of the 'rage' you see comes from people who think they should win games that they aren't.

dfhiijklmm wrote:
Please sell the rights to this game to someone who will actually do it justice.

EA doesn't hold exclusive rights to the sport of hockey or the NHL. Anyone, including yourself, can make a pitch to old Gary Bettman to acquire an NHL licensing deal.