NHL 14 needs tweaking ASAP
So, I literally just finished playing a season of NHL 14 Be a Pro as a goalie. My team got to the playoffs. We were knocked out of the conference semi-finals in 6 games. Game 5, we were up by three g...
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I agree with all of these posts. I have been a loyal NHL fan since the 1997 version came out and with the exception of three versions of the game (99,09,13) I have owned every single version.
The first issue I would like to discuss is the skating. The last time I checked it doesn't take a hockey player half the width of the rink to turn, I recently played NHL 12 to see the difference between that game and 14. I was amazed at how much more control and how much quicker the players turned in NHL 12 vs NHL 14. And this is supposed to be the most "realistc" game? It makes the game very very frustrating to play when I try to manouver my player around the rink but it takes for ever to turn the player up ice. The best analogy I can make of this is, it's like turning a frieght ship on the ice as you need half the ice to make your turn.
My second issue revolves around the goaltenders. Yes once in a while a "soft" goal may go through a goaltender, however, the amount of goals that hit your tender and roll over his shoulder into the back of the net is ridiculas. Not to mention the ones that seem to slide under the tenders pads like he's 4 inches off the ice is madening. I will not go too much further in depth on this topic as the original post has made it very clear that the goaltending in future games needs to be addressed.
My final issue is with puck physics. I played 15 games in the span of three days with my brother and we purposly dumped the puck into corners to test a theory, and sure enough we found what we were looking for. Every time the puck gets dumped into a corner it jumps off the boards OVER players. Once again I do not remember ever seeing this happen in a real hockey game (realistic?). Not to mention how the puck bounces around like it is a lacrosse ball everywhere else on the ice just makes me shake my head.
I will say I have loved the additions to "Be a GM" mode, however unless these game play issues are resolved I do not know how I can ever justify spending my money on another version of this game again.
The NHL franchise used to be available for PC, but not anymore. I wish it were, so that perhaps a community of modders could take it upon themselves to fix these problems. (If my memory serves me correctly mods for the PC version once had released KHL teams and custom goalie masks, which are a couple of cool features) I can only speak about this game from a goal tender's point of view because that's all I play as. I haven't played as a skater since NHL 10 and I don't even think I know how skater controls work. But yeah, an NHL player is able to deke on a dime, and when it comes to turning they don't need the whole rink. I think what irritates me the most is that this franchise has the ability to become a great game, but it's like EA chooses not to. The fact that I have complained multiple times about this issue and how many bugs there are and why there shouldn't be any ice tilt in the game, and yet EA has not given a official response to my concerns shows me that they don't care. I wish another company would make an NHL game, because if they just simply focused on creating a bug-free environment with no ice tilt, it would be a good game. I would buy it. Just now, I played another exhibition in NHL 14. We were up, they tie. Go into OT and they score and win. If I feel like I have no control over the outcome, then the game is not fun. The amount of games where we lose the lead and then lose the game in OT is too many to be chance. So far in the current season, my record is 2-0-5.
