Dear Devs: Will Custom Music Finally Make a Return in NHL 21?
January 9, 2019 12:05AM
edited January 2020
Since it is a topic in quite a few threads, I thought it deserved it's own. I really loved the custom music feature in the last-gen games. I'm aware that in the beginning of the PS4 (not sure about the Xbox one) era it wasn't possible to play your own music on the new systems. But now you're able to listen to your songs from a flash drive, and to import them into games as well. MLB The Show has a custom music feature that works great IMO:
https://youtu.be/drz3lpbFXu8[/url]
There's lots of people complaining about the the soundtracks of the current-gen games. The return of custom music would solve their problems. And I know I'm not the only one that would love to put in own tracks and playlists for goal songs/horns, breaks, powerplays, PKs, intermissions, wins, menu music etc. The return of custom music would please a lot of people that like authenticity.
I bought every game of the series since NHL 97, but I've always been a strictly offline guy (I'm probably too old for all these online shenanigans). Since the switch to the new consoles, Franchise and other offline modes seem to get much less love. Being at least close to the real show is quite important to me (and others), thus the more customization options we can have, the better.
So, dear devs, are there any plans to bring back custom music?
https://youtu.be/drz3lpbFXu8[/url]There's lots of people complaining about the the soundtracks of the current-gen games. The return of custom music would solve their problems. And I know I'm not the only one that would love to put in own tracks and playlists for goal songs/horns, breaks, powerplays, PKs, intermissions, wins, menu music etc. The return of custom music would please a lot of people that like authenticity.
I bought every game of the series since NHL 97, but I've always been a strictly offline guy (I'm probably too old for all these online shenanigans). Since the switch to the new consoles, Franchise and other offline modes seem to get much less love. Being at least close to the real show is quite important to me (and others), thus the more customization options we can have, the better.
So, dear devs, are there any plans to bring back custom music?
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That is not even close to custom music.
I do not want to necessarily listen to music every single minute I am playing hockey. But, for the times there is music, I want it to be my music. I want my own goal horns, etc.
Spotify does nothing for this except play music over the game sounds.
I agree 100%!. Get rid of soundtracks and bring back licensed goal songs. Just give us generic background music because honestly most of us turn it off after a few times playing anyways. Chelsea dagger and crowd chant, all 31 teams should have their goal songs instead. Spend the money on licensing those instead! Thank you.
They don't even have to, just bring back custom music, EA could save some money, and we can put in whatever music we like. It seems so simple.
Yea no kidding. I can assure you, my favorite color is not blue lol.
LMAO very true.
I do enjoy the option to have the generic music in the background versus the soundtrack so that I don't have to be reminded about a singer's favorite color.
Nobody is being ignored. I definitely get how you can make that assumption, but that's not the case. If there was an infinite amount of time, we could get everything in the game that everyone wants. The focus has largely been on gameplay, but there were a lot of presentation changes made with 20. Hopefully, we'll see custom music added in the future. I miss it too. Every year I looked forward to building a few playlists I could swap out. It's unfortunate this feature still doesn't exist, but it's not because anyone is being ignored. Other areas of the game have had higher priority. As they get handled, it opens up opportunities to add and improve other features.
Do you see a chance for 21?
There's always a chance, but we don't have any news on future games. We'll have to wait and see what happens.
Don't count your chickens. I'll be surprised if '21 is released for new consoles taking that they are due out holiday season and '21 drops in September. We will get the same 'ol "No time and resources".
This is since years your argument that the main work is based on the gameplay ! But is it really so much better than 5 years ago ? It’s good in offline, but in online I think no. You have more possibilities to score, better shooting technic yes .... but online it looks like figure dancing and more Arcade like due this dangles and moves which are very rarely in reality and also about the hectic movements of the Players . Every Grinder can dangle in your game but happens seldom in reality and should be limited only on some Elite, Franchise Player. Good enough for Pond hockey, but not for NHL style. In offline mode you can reduce the gamespeed and some other sliders and after it looks more than a Hockey game cause this hectic movements looking more fluidly. At your plays of the month and from other online clips in the net this game looks funny and far from a real Hockey game. The only good looking playable mode is offline with adjusted sliders. That’s it, now back to topic of the custom music.
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