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Seasoned Vanguard

4 months ago

What Do we Gotta Do?

EA_Aljo What Does the Community Need to do to get results? I hate to be this guy who Just complains but my god man this game just isnt fun anymore. Unfortunately it the only hockey game out there a...

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MostlyHubris

Rising Adventurer

4 months ago

I feel you man, I really do. I just think maybe you got rose-colored glasses for NHL 14. Drag wrister still went in from pretty much anywhere in the offensive zone. Backhand forehand and forcing the cross crease were still 100% goals. Hitting was WAY overtuned at launch because of the big hits trailer. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that was the year they decided to remove the hitting input entirely and let you just skate into guys to hit them, which was a disaster. I remember it all, though. I remember the disastrous "momentum" thing and the subsequent years of it running behind the scenes while they denied it had ever been in the game at all and started banning people who talked about the dreaded ice tilt. Lol. I remember the useless boosts for real money. I remember Ramjagsingh standing there telling me they wanted to eliminate the "game within a game" mentality of tapping for the puck and making a mad rush for the cross crease one timer, and here we are 12-13 years later still talking about it.

I think probably we're in agreement a lot about the current state of the game. I'm just saying there's usually two camps of people in a group like this; there's the kind who give constructive feedback and the ones who just say "Game sucks nice job EA your game is trash and you're ruining hockey" etc etc. It's easier to get seen and heard if you're in the former group, no matter what other people think about it.

MollysHatchet

Seasoned Vanguard

4 months ago

MostlyHubris No NHL game has been Perfect and I admit that 14 had its flaws but it was alot closer to Hockey than NHL 26 is. I dont totally hate the goaltending on 26. But a huge problem over the last 5-10 years is theyve made the game a wet dream for the people who enjoy playing as an individual and not as a team. Back hand Forehand or Forehand backhand has always been there even since the early 2000s. Some of the horrendous Animations and the OP LT spam its taken away from the game. You now why people cross crease because its usually open people didnt want to defend it was all speed no Defending. The toedrag shot top corner was a frequent goal but you know how you stop that you played defense. It was super easy to defend against that shot.

NHL 14 had its flaws but they could've been easily corrected They had a good base Sure people had its complaints for years it was about Poke checking and how it was OP. If EA Wouldve just fixed attributes and Fixed the Pokechecking i wouldve bought the game just for the Minor fixes. Instead They Made NHL 15 lol the start of the downfall. The only thing they got right on that game was Having Bergy as the cover athlete. Now we have a game that the gameplay could be okay but Xfactors prebuilds and skins ruin the game.

NHL 14 or NHL 26 im taking NHL 14 with its flaws over 26. I wish EA just understood that Less is honestly more when it comes to games. Meaning if I had a copy of NHL 14 and for one full year all they did was fixed the Ai for Eashl or Hut and the Ai actually was good and polished Id Buy the next game. If they Got the Attributes to work properly like each Attribute actually worked the way it was intended and thats all they did for the whole year id buy the next game. If they Fixed Pokechecking where it felt Balanced and thats all they did Id buy the next game.

The latest NHL games just feel like They add as much as they can and see what sticks. Unfortunately most of it is awful.

Even if the Used the game play from 26 but with the how NHL 14 worked. Attributes and Boost. bring back all the cool stuff The stick Curve and Flex Bring back the skills area in Free skate . Remove the Nonsense that is in NHL 26. Even the Little Stuff Bring back the Ability to move your winger to the top of the faceoff circle for One timer. Get rid of Wind up hitting. Just make NHL fun again.