btw EA bought 2K because they didnt want to compete, they did the same for basketball too when playgrounds came out, playgrounds 2 was put on hold cause EA bought it to add in more MTX in the game
The issue with these current Chel RUclipsrs is that they refuse to be honest about the state of the games. Almost like guys such as Nasher have a blank check from EA for being able to make the most insignificant “additions” to the new installments seem like the most groundbreaking thing
This is a HUGE problem in the gaming space, whether it's on the journalism side or the streaming/RUclips side. The second you dare speak out, you potentially lose your access to that company's games and thus your job (for journalism) or whatever money you're getting from the company as promotion for your gaming channel. It's disgusting.
It is the same for F1 games. EA seems to pay enough for them to lie to their viewers. Except that F1 24 was so bad that even some youtubers paid by ea has started to bash the game.
@@hhtptai I buy the games because NHL is a great game. I have as much fun playing 24 as I did 14. The thing is that for 80$ a year (for me more around 35$) the added value is often disappointing, but the base product is still great
I wouldn't go that far I would say it wouldn't get any better until people stop buying ultimate team packs It's what killed the franchise to begin with things were fine up on till people started buying stupid digital card packs
Ikr I had an old NHL game on the Genesis that I sunk so many hours into. It had fighting, you could break the glass and, of course, UT was nowhere near born then! 😂
Right since they are in control they do what they want but if they had competition that stole money / players from them, then EA would be more open to listening to fan’s feedback and request . But until that happens the game will always be mediocre.
The best feature for 93 (I think it was) That during the intermission you could watch an entire other game, so that you could see what's going on in the league. That was so dope!
Yeah. And the freaking cut scenes and off ice challenges are so repetitive. Plus, I also miss when you do your “custom” celebration being able to control it, not having the game jump to some stupid cut scene,
Great Vid. A note for NHL 07: There wasn't a PS3 version since almost every game company was working on games that could run on the new Xbox 360 at the time. It was more powerful than the PS3, so most game companies had games only on the 360, like NHL 07, Ace Combat 6, etc.
If 360 was more powerful.. then the game quality outside of shooters is suspect at best Bought 360 before I bought PS3 huge regret! PS3 im playing/using until the casket drops! 360 well after having a 3rd new system red ring been done ever since
I think this take is incorrect. I think when they found out how to monopolize HUT, they stopped caring about every game mode except HUT. Why make things better in other modes when they don't earn EA money?
100%. They could be focusing on Be A Pro, Franchise, and the overall changes to the game than stupid gimmicky emotes and shit aimed towards little kids. So many game franchises do this. The audience that made them money are all in our late 20s and 30s. And they abandon them to focus solely on youth. You can do both, but the aging fanbase have careers and money now. Makes no sense to abandon that generation completely. Lol
What you don’t enjoy the 4 helmets they let you choose from? Red with lighting isn’t cutting it 😂😂😂😂 not to mention the fact that all the goalies do not have real life helmets. If you’re gonna repost the same game every year atleast just add the helmet models that year. As simple as scanning it lol
This ages me in a huge way but I still think the Sega Genesis NHL games are the G.O.A.T's. There were some others over the years that kind of brought the magic back (NHL '98 for PS1, NHL 2004 for PS2, NHL 2007 with the intro of the skill stick, etc.) but overall, I never quite had as much fun with hockey video games as I did in the 16-bit era.
Having your birth year in your name also ages you! Genesis sports games were always better than their SNES counterparts. NHL 95 will always be special to me. I was in grade 8, played it alot. Introduction to player creation, season modes, trades, league leaders etc. The good ol days
NHL 2003 is the absolute best one for me. It had the slow motion breakaway camera, slow motion replays with music, matrix - style savecamera and a replay with music if the play stops quickly after the Hasek - style save. There also were also hockey cards that could alter the game & players if you so chose. It was the absolute pinnacle of a fun NHL game that we haven't seen since in my opinion. I wish they brought back those slow motion aspects and cool replays.
Unless another company decides to make an NHL game (or something of that sort), EA just won't care about putting 100% into the NHL series. So, if I were you, save your money. This is coming from someone who only has two games from this series & they're several years apart. 🤣
Seeing myself at 7:53 was crazy cuz I was just minding my own business eating a sandwich watching some RUclips and chilling out lmfao that was trippy af (great vid btw)
NHL HITZ 2002 was 🔥 NHL 06 🔥 Been playing NHL games since N64 NHL 25 will be the first NHL game I don't purchase. Honestly haven't had a fun experience playing NHL games in years.
HUT is the biggest downfall of the game. People who think the number 87, or 89, or 92, or 94 is somehow going to make their game special and more enjoyable so they keep buying the random packs and keep hoping for another number. It is absolutely sickening when you really think what they are buying
💯 it’s amazing there aren’t more comments saying this. This is the cash cow of the game and where they put all their resources. I prefer EASHL and couldn’t care less about the NHL license.
Tbh at first rn 25 feels better than in many years. Maybe the bugs havent been found yet but they were even in the older ones. The thing we need to really stop is microtransactions and hut
Never played 2003, but NHL Hitz 2002 was my favorite hockey game as a kid. I also had NHL 2003. My dad preferred to play me in NHL, but Hitz was something else. I miss that game.
NHL 2004, which I think had Dany Heatley on the cover, and NHL 2K5 with the ESPN presentation… Those were the last 2 hockey games that I had an absolute blast with and really felt like I was playing a game that simulated the real life sport that you saw on TV. And now ever since 2015ish, it feels like we’ve been fed the EXACT SAME game every year; and you just don’t get that same feeling of playing a sport that you see on TV, because the presentation is so bad/lacking.
The early releases of NHL 2004 had Heatley on the cover (which I had) before he was replaced by Sakic after the whole Dan Snyder drunk driving incident.
Finally a RUclipsr who speaking the truth about the NHL series I've been saying this for years but it doesn't seem like anyone ever listens and then of course you've got these content creators who focus on ultimate team and put their ugly mugs on their start of their videos like I don't care what you get in your packs dude I don't care how much money you spend or didn't spend give me a good franchise mode a good be a pro mode and fix the world of chel and I will be happy and oh yeah don't forget about the gameplay cuz the gameplay is kind of what feeds those modes
I bought every NHL since 2008 and stopped buying them in 2021. Now I just wait for them to come onto gamepass and im always thankful I didn't purchase it as they feel worse every year. NHL 14 was the best but I also didn't mind NHL 19. Now they feel too clunky and awkward to play. I think they forget it's a video game and should have abit more of a arcade style with huge hits
I stopped playing NHL after 14 because of EA being EA but also that was the year I decided not to buy the next gen of console and switched to PC. Another segment of the gaming community seemingly ignored by EA's NHL. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everything about this video is ON-POINT. I became sick of what EA had to offer and I don't even really enjoy current gen consoles all that much. I'm a proud Steamdeck owner and I emulate the PS3 version of NHL 2K10. Which is a VERY slept on hockey game and was really well done. I really missed the boat on that game.
It’s as simple as if there’s no competition, if you’re the only officially licensed NHL hockey game in town why would a company try extra hard to make their game awesome if they know from experience that every year these sports games are some of the highest selling and people will buy them anyway. It’s legitimately that simple, if a company doesn’t have to compete to sell a product then they don’t have to work as hard and why would they? If you sold a product that nobody else could sell (you have the exclusive rights to NHL video games) why would you try extra hard if you’re already making tons of money every year and it’s already in the bag? These games have been going down in quality and you’d think that would slow sales down sales but again when you’re the only NHL licensed game in town you either play the game or you play the complete knock off version with the Calgary heat and Tampa bay thunder 🤣 doesn’t hit the same. Maybe someday someone will make an unlicensed hockey game that’s so good people will play it instead of the licensed game. The issue is it’s very hard to compete with official licensing, your hockey game with teams like the Minnesota timber’s just isn’t the same as official players and arenas 😂. Even if this game was good lots of people won’t try it just because they can’t play as their team and favorite players
So I used to play nhl 13 and 14 alot and even nhl 11 but I stopped once they made being a goalie in be a pro so hard. It's sad to see EA ruining franchises because even in games like apex they're seeing a beloved franchise fall before their eyes
Be a pro was my favourite game mode bought the game every year for it, but I haven't bought a new NHL game since NHL 21 and it's probably gonna stay that way until they actually do something with it. The cutscenes are way too much and the X factor system in be a pro needs a rehaul, you should be getting x factors on how you play not through "storylines".
Listening to another year of Cybulski fellating my player for minor achievements and having random radio people say I'm the shittiest hockey player of all time for not having a point in a game even though I already have potted 50 in 10. Thinking each year that they'll finally fix BAP in some significant way. Single player modes don't interest EA anymore, it doesn't make them money. HUT and CHEL do. As long as that remains prevalent, single player modes and innovations in online modes will continue to stagnate
To me, NHL 2002 was the best. The spectacularly hilarious commentary from Jim Hughson and Don Taylor made that game very entertaining and super fun to play. I still got the PC version cover disk on display in my living room lol
Well said! Couldn't agree more with the stuff you mentioned in the video. The last NHL game I bought brand new was NHL 21. I bought 22 and 23 on sale and then I didn't even bother with 24. It's just such a shame, because I thought EA was making leaps in the right direction from NHL 16 to NHL 19 gameplay wise. I always remember the tuner updates at release feeling fresh and fun aside from a few issues some years, that I think they could have easily fixed. (I can't remember the year, but I remember one launch or update it being impossible to use R1 without getting a penalty). Then slowly as the season went on, people in the community would start to bitch about the newer tuner changes that made it harder to score or just small things that made the game feel more like a real hockey game. By the end of the season, the game would just slowly get tuned back into the same broken crap from the year prior. I find the AI players have been inconsistent literally forever it seems. I find I can play two back to back games and they are playing the complete opposites in each game. I feel as though you can notice it the moment the puck gets dropped. Any 1v1 mode online is just atrocious to play because everybody just abuses the AI on defense and never plays any real defense themselves. They will just switch focus away from the player closest to the puck, which in my eyes kind of defeats the purpose of even playing online. How poorly I think the goalies play now is a whole other discussion. World of Chel is the only thing I can really think of the last few years where I can actually find myself wanting to go and play. On a side note, NHL 07 was actually an Xbox 360 exclusive and had not been released on PS3.
The shooting button and the hitting button are the same button! This results in so many interference calls when I'm just trying to swat a loose puck into the net
Great video. I have a small nitpick though, when you were talking about NHL 07, you showed gameplay footage/trailers from the previous gen. Version, which lacks features such as the Skill stick and is functionally very similar to NHL 06.
The problem with modern ea sports games is the frostbite engine because is always not designed or always not allow for any ea games or ea sports games, which is bad because of code complexity that nothing works properly, riddles with glitches, and it's rather difficult to use. It's became an absolute nightmare on how they ruined it. Just remember, the frostbite engine is only allow for fps games which is good, most notably the battlefield series was created by dice.
I used to score up to 30 goals per game in NHLPA '93 by pulling off that classic move of deking the goalie. If anything, scoring went down after one-timers were introduced. In the later NHL games, you could still score 12 or 13 goals per game with the one-timer, if I remember correctly.
If you're talking about offline modes it's just because they made the hardest difficulty harder. Back in NHL14 on old gen I would win every game in my GM mode 30some for 40some to nothing. I would play every game in GM mode on the hardest difficulty with the sliders entirely against me ... one season I only allowed 20 goals while scoring like 2700 ... and who was my goalie you ask, some random WHL goalie I had never heard of before (who actually ended up playing like five NHL games in real life; Landon Bow). Fast forward to next gen and NHL 16 I had jump down from hardest difficulty to second hardest with even sliders and suddenly my games were all close and I would rarely ever hit double digits. Truthfully though it did make the game more enjoyable as games were closer and I wasn't winning every game. As for today, NHL 24 was the first game I hadn't bought going all the way back to NHL 02, NHL 23 I bought and I think I played four periods before throwing it aside, NHL 22 I think I played about 40 games total, NHL was the last game I really spent any significant time on but NHL 19 is honestly the last one I actually really enjoyed playing
NHL19 is my favorite. I got NHL22 and the pre game presentations were gone, no hats on the ice for hat tricks, the players skate slow and all bunch up in the slot, one replay only, I didn't like it, got NHL24 and was immediately repulsed by the cringe worthy goal celebrations, the annoying pressure ring on the ice, will not get NHL25, Going back to playing my favorite NHL19!! The playoff pregame presentations were 2 minutes long and informative and great as opposed to the 15 seconds of players standing for the national anthem in the games now.
And this is exactly why I don’t buy it every year. Only buy it when something actually new happens or there is an event that I’m personally interested in that will be in the game (Adding the WHL, my cousin winning the cup)
Kind of funny the comments about it not being any different because the skating is COMPLETELY different… and there’s a handful of things that work very differently from 24. Passing, hitting, and skating are all different. My team plays in WOC and we recognize how different this year is- we appreciate it and are learning to play a new game. And we’re having fun. 🤷♂️
Thanks for the 94 special mention. But I'd love to fill you in on some of the actual lore around it, from being someone who has been in the cult for 5 years now, after maining '97 for 22 years. Let me know if you'd like to hear my story 😊
The more realistic it got, the less fun it got. It's a weird phenomenom. I picked up NHL 23, it was cool, but i don't like how there are too many things I personally am not a fan of as far as like replays or 'cut scene' type things between periods or when there is a dead puck and its on xbox. Before that I had last played NHL 2001 (for PC)and loved it. I had customized my entire team with players (which did not take all that long which was nice) compared to NHL23 where i get a little time to play, make a character and next thing I know it's been like an hour because loading menus and visual options seems to just take a long time. I also had a very difficult time moving players between NHL and AHL and getting them on the correct lines I wanted them to be on. Sometimes when I take someone out of the lineup who was maybe on a bunch of 2nd or 3rd line pairings, and I want to put a new person in, and it just swaps that person in every place, but then I cannot put someone else in the space because it ends up swapping them in all the places that player was at. It is hard to explain, but it has been almost a year since I played. I was just too frustrated trying to edit my lineup and roster. I like the gameplay, but creating teams, players, custom league (I do not have online on my xbox, but my wife did not buy me the PC version for some reason) is just a lot of frustration.
@@p.g.9442014 was the last nhl game that was good I've got the game day 1 for 18 years every year is more disappointing me and all the friends aren't even going to buy the streak is over
Great video man. Frustrating to say the least. I get it, EA is a business and they have to make money. But, greed is one of the biggest sins on the planet and it rears its ugly head with every new release. A battle pass in an NHL game? A $100 HUT pack on Day 1? The same BAP for 5 years in a row? It’s disgusting. The whole “don’t buy the game” thing sucks because I WANT to play an NHL video game. EA is lazy, careless, and disrespectful to ALL of their fans, not just NHL. Sadly, until I’m proven wrong, I don’t and will not get excited for any EA releases. I’ve been that way since 2019. Again, great video HH. You summarized everything really well. Do they have mods for NHL 14? Might have to look into that. Thanks for the read if you’ve gotten this far! 😁
It's just crazy to me that while NHL 2k10 wasn't perfect, when you compare it to NHL 25 in terms of presentation, modes, options, features...it is absolutely insane what we don't have anymore. It took EA YEARS to make a simple change of the scoreboard location, so imagine any other small things we wish were still here and how long that'll take. We will probably get more realistic presentation and updated goalie masks on NHL 36 on the PS7 and Xbox One Series YX.
Even just look at the achievements for these recent NHL games. Not one achievement is different or new. It perfectly symbolic of how NHL games nowadays are driving away fans. Not bringing any new fans in.
I griped to EA once, reminding them that since covid the sale of laptop/desktop computers has exploded since everyone was working from home. And they really should consider porting over to PC... funny I never heard anything.
I stopped buying the games when the HUT thing got out of control. The micro transactions were insane. I’m also convinced NOBODY has worse luck than me with packs. I probably opened 150 dollars worth of packs over the years in various games in the series and my best pulls were an 87 overall Rick Nash and 87 overall Mikku Koivu.
I love the NHL games playing them is so fun to me I'm mainly an offline player who plays Offline Play Now and Franchise Mode. I was gonna get NHL 25 this year but I don't have a PS5 or Xbox Series X and I'm not planning on getting one until GTA 5
I've been a hockey fan my whole life but I've probably played MLB the show more in the last 2 years than I have any NHL games, and I never really was into baseball that much until MLB came to game pass
The only way NHL recovers is if they give it to a new studio and it’s rebuild using a new engine, the current one just tacks on gimmicky features and the core is permanently broken.
Usually games full of microtransactions and pay-for-power are FREE. It's crazy that EA gets away with $70 per year, when these games are essentially no different than any other free to play, live-service game.
Once HUT became popular every other game mode went on the backburner. Having the NHL license exclusively means they never need to innovate. Decontenting NHL15 was the first sign that HUT was the priority now over local multiplayer or single player. It's sad but I don't think NHL games sell enough outside of Canada to get the same attention that the MLB, NBA, and NFL games get. They were a yearly staple for every boy growing up in Canada in the 2000s-2010s.
I remember watching a youtuber starting a Be a Pro career in NHL 15, continuing his popular Be a Pro series that was a staple of his channel. After jumping in the first game and playing his first shift then going back to the bench, he slowly realizes that there is no more sim to the next shift option. First is in denial and then he trashes EA. ~This will be a quick series boys. The series ended there. That small missing feature was a brutal one since it made a major game mode unplayable. That was just the tip of the iceberg. NHL 15 was an insult to fans of the series.
The new games aren't bad per say, we're just mad about paying 100+ $ a year to play what is basically an update, espacially with fanbases of games like fortnite who can just play the same game for years without putting in a single penny. At the end of the day, the games are still great and I'll still play them. We need to realize that the lack of added value is really the problem with yearly releases.
EA seems to do the same thing with the lesser-selling sports franchises. I play 3 EA games regularly (NHL, UFC and F1). Be a Pro in NHL and Career in UFC have remained untouched over multiple releases, so I've chosen to ignore them. I do enjoy the on-ice game play in exhibition in NHL 24 and 25, as it's helped me create memories with my son, who is 10 years and playing AA hockey. We have had some wild, close games, and I'm also streaming pre-season (soon to be Season Mode) games with my favourite Easter and Western team the day of the actual game, and I've enjoyed it immensely. I know EA has let the fans down, and it's a shame that they focus on making money, but if people didn't spend money on things like HUT, it would shift EA's focus. I chose to buy the game every year because I enjoy going through the season mode, and updating my during Free Agency and the Trade Deadline, so for me I am willing to buy it each year because the replay value is worth it.
Im still playin nhl 23. Before that i was on nhl 19 which was better than 23 untill my franchise mode kept making the game crash. Im glad i watched this video. I will not be wasting my money on nhl 25
Man, seeing the amount of stuff on that list that STILL hasnt been added is crazy. I wonder if EA realizes they'd make more money by releasing really good hockey games every few years, instead of a shit one every year.
Love how there’s so many current issues and yet they take the dive celly out of being X/A. I know that sounds like a small change but these people make $100k a year and a change of any kind in business requires meetings and approval from multiple levels. Just makes no sense how that’s even a topic of discussion lol
I was hoping they would finally add PC support. I feel like an easy homerun would be a big rework to the main 2 offline modes Be a Pro and Franchise mode but they don't seem to care about anything you aren't constantly paying for.
Hot take: it justs a game. It suppose to be just for fun. The glitches go both way and its still a great way to wind down after work. I can see where some people are coming from that are trying to genuinely trying to compete and want a fair game.
Complaining about the fact that they never changed one thing it’s still OK game for me. I don’t know why everybody complains. It’s a video game. You’re not gonna get everything perfect who cares
Play nhl 12 today. Better everything except deking. Better menu, better aesthetic, music, commentating, winter classic, hitting people over the boards, glass breaking someone when you check someone (glass looks better broken in nhl 12 then nhl 24, be a pro is AMAZING not having a multitude of things: pond hockey cutscene, actually being able to get injured and sim games which you kind of need to do in order to actually be able to get through a season of be a pro, pointless talks with coach during and after games that just waste so much time for nothing. You could allow choose you skate angle from three options allowing you to be faster or more mobile. Also you could change the flex of the stick and curve of the blade to change your shot power and accuracy. Like how do we lose that feature? Can I also mention of celebrating was I would say 1000x better in nhl 12 but 1000 x 0 is still zero. You could literally score, pump your first or both fists up (you know like most guys start their celebration) then after that you could get on one knee and choose how you want to pump your first. I like to score lift up and arm then scrape a knee, scrape the ice with my hand then do a punch to finish it, all controlled by me, with my inputs and that’s just one celly you could do out hundreds of combinations you could do to celebrate like however you want. Now… you press a button for a clunky unrealistic joke of a celebration, and that’s IF you get to even see it without the stupid new camera thing they do when you score. Actually makes me sad how they have gone backwards in progress. I actually don’t understand how it’s possible. Who are they hiring. Sorry I’m not even done, nhl 12 just does so many things better. After the whistle you could skate into the opposing teams goalie and bump him causing a team scrum and players looking to hit you or fight you for touching the goalie. How realistic and awesome. Now? You can’t touch the goalie and there’s barely time to even fight a player you want after a whistle. You could also fight a player with a goalie. Like hooowwwww do they go backwards in progress and make a worse game. Also compare the opening shot when you do a face off in the game. Graphics look actually better and more realistic in that shot. And what about actually being able to see where you were aiming when you look at the clip in a replay. I could keep going but what’s the point, I could name every thing that the old game does better but it doesn’t matter, they won’t ever make it good again. Year by year they will just add features back that they removed in previous years. Can’t wait for the big reveal on nhl 26 where brag about having a winter classic 😂😂 hey ea, if you want to have the dumbest camera shot when people score just to show those stupid cards people pay and play with, then show the cards when the players are fist bumping the teammates on the bench, for sure do not have a cut away after people score and have the lights getting dim (which doesn’t happen in the nhl) and a close up of a camera angle that would never exist. I’m still going to go in about nhl 12 in between whistles and post fight, this game provides endless amounts of new and REALISTIC camera angles while SHOWING the actual play that happened. That’s right, if you score or hit someone it will actually show you a replay where you can see what happend 😂😂 insane that’s a thing that I even had to say. Players mouth off to eachother after a fight. Like dude how did you guys go backwards. It’s like building a beautiful mansion and you keep working on it and it turns into a card board box. How is that possible
You conveniently omitted they said GM Connected is coming. Hey, I agree with what you said, but you should give the people all the information. The dev team also let it be known that they don't have the support like other titles, and it takes three years to make any changes.
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NHL07 Wasn't on ps3. It was only ps2. It was on xbox360, because they came out a year earlier.
btw EA bought 2K because they didnt want to compete, they did the same for basketball too when playgrounds came out, playgrounds 2 was put on hold cause EA bought it to add in more MTX in the game
every song on the EA NHL soundtrack: "I have dementia, claustrophobia, high PTSD, and I hate myself"
high ptsd nigga read a book
Maybe it's a hidden insert of a cry for help from the devs who are trapped in a warehouse somewhere producing this game. 🤣
@@DubberRucks right?
California dream girl got me feeling zesty
@@DubberRucksgame hasnt had devs in about 10 years. They just remove more festures and update the rosters every game now
The issue with these current Chel RUclipsrs is that they refuse to be honest about the state of the games. Almost like guys such as Nasher have a blank check from EA for being able to make the most insignificant “additions” to the new installments seem like the most groundbreaking thing
This is a HUGE problem in the gaming space, whether it's on the journalism side or the streaming/RUclips side. The second you dare speak out, you potentially lose your access to that company's games and thus your job (for journalism) or whatever money you're getting from the company as promotion for your gaming channel. It's disgusting.
@@AJR-zg2pyThats why I lost trust in journalism over 10 years ago when I realized this. You can buy everything with money, especially opinions
It is the same for F1 games. EA seems to pay enough for them to lie to their viewers. Except that F1 24 was so bad that even some youtubers paid by ea has started to bash the game.
It won't get better until people stop buying it.
i buy it on sale every year, they don't sell enough 1st month than boom 50% off
@@p.g.944You're still giving EA money aka more incentive to keep producing terrible games.
@@hhtptai I buy the games because NHL is a great game. I have as much fun playing 24 as I did 14. The thing is that for 80$ a year (for me more around 35$) the added value is often disappointing, but the base product is still great
It’s a great game that 99% of people have lots of fun with. It’s just a small number of whiny incels like you that complain about it.
I wouldn't go that far I would say it wouldn't get any better until people stop buying ultimate team packs It's what killed the franchise to begin with things were fine up on till people started buying stupid digital card packs
the two people who disliked this video are EA president and head of microtransactions
And don't forget the pay pigs who dump ridiculous amounts on it every year. Them too. 😂
Real ones know that the last great EA NHL game was Legacy Edition for the 360/PS3 (tbf its essentially just a more refined NHL 14)
It's basically the same game ever since, NHL 25 is still agreat game, there'S just little to none added values so it seems like it's bad
I’m running NHL Legacy on my PC through the emulator, with updated rosters and custom music. It’s absolutely awesome.
on the 360 nhl 14 15 and legacy editions were the same game with new rosters
The reference to old video games brought back some great memories. I also remember the Hartford Whalers. Feeling really old right now lol. Great vid!
Ikr I had an old NHL game on the Genesis that I sunk so many hours into. It had fighting, you could break the glass and, of course, UT was nowhere near born then! 😂
2003 and 2004 was a peak sports gaming era
If 2k dropped a hockey game you’d see a major shift in EAs effort into their nhl games
NHL2k was an AMAZING game. Next to EA's NHL 2004, it ranks as one of the best hockey games I've ever played.
I really wish someone else would make a hockey game
@@oilerguy5494 EA has the NHL rights until 2029 so lol wont happen until then
@@91_Revolution yeah that’s rough
Right since they are in control they do what they want but if they had competition that stole money / players from them, then EA would be more open to listening to fan’s feedback and request . But until that happens the game will always be mediocre.
The best feature for 93 (I think it was) That during the intermission you could watch an entire other game, so that you could see what's going on in the league. That was so dope!
Always watched it
@@who399 ngl every period i would hope to watch a game, loved when they tied then saw like a 5 min O.T
I miss Be an NHL Pro, when I could play as any player on any team.
Yeah. And the freaking cut scenes and off ice challenges are so repetitive. Plus, I also miss when you do your “custom” celebration being able to control it, not having the game jump to some stupid cut scene,
And get drafted to any team based off your performance. Not just go 1 or 2 in the draft
Great Vid. A note for NHL 07: There wasn't a PS3 version since almost every game company was working on games that could run on the new Xbox 360 at the time. It was more powerful than the PS3, so most game companies had games only on the 360, like NHL 07, Ace Combat 6, etc.
If 360 was more powerful.. then the game quality outside of shooters is suspect at best
Bought 360 before I bought PS3 huge regret! PS3 im playing/using until the casket drops! 360 well after having a 3rd new system red ring been done ever since
The moment 2k folded EA stopped investing in their game. Why bother when you have the only option
Exactly. When that happened EA had no incentive to innovate. Like their other games they unfortunately dominate in. And not in a good way
I think this take is incorrect. I think when they found out how to monopolize HUT, they stopped caring about every game mode except HUT. Why make things better in other modes when they don't earn EA money?
It also happened to happen just during the start of the microtransaction infested hellscape.
Hut was the worst thing to happen to hockey games. The online card stuff is the worst thing to happen to sports games.
100%. They could be focusing on Be A Pro, Franchise, and the overall changes to the game than stupid gimmicky emotes and shit aimed towards little kids.
So many game franchises do this. The audience that made them money are all in our late 20s and 30s. And they abandon them to focus solely on youth. You can do both, but the aging fanbase have careers and money now. Makes no sense to abandon that generation completely. Lol
I miss the old games😢
I still can’t customize my goalie helmet, it’s been like this forever
What you don’t enjoy the 4 helmets they let you choose from? Red with lighting isn’t cutting it 😂😂😂😂 not to mention the fact that all the goalies do not have real life helmets. If you’re gonna repost the same game every year atleast just add the helmet models that year. As simple as scanning it lol
This ages me in a huge way but I still think the Sega Genesis NHL games are the G.O.A.T's. There were some others over the years that kind of brought the magic back (NHL '98 for PS1, NHL 2004 for PS2, NHL 2007 with the intro of the skill stick, etc.) but overall, I never quite had as much fun with hockey video games as I did in the 16-bit era.
Having your birth year in your name also ages you!
Genesis sports games were always better than their SNES counterparts.
NHL 95 will always be special to me. I was in grade 8, played it alot. Introduction to player creation, season modes, trades, league leaders etc.
The good ol days
ESPN NHL Hockey 2K4 was the best hockey game of all time imo
NHL powerplay 1996 is my favorite NHL game of all time.
The fact that you could actively check players who celebrated after scoring was the best
other than nhl 14, nhl 17 was my goat. lasted me 3 years
Remember back throughout the 2000s, to around 14, when the NHL games were winning "best sports game" awards and were an actual blast to play?
NHL 2003 is the absolute best one for me.
It had the slow motion breakaway camera, slow motion replays with music, matrix - style savecamera and a replay with music if the play stops quickly after the Hasek - style save.
There also were also hockey cards that could alter the game & players if you so chose.
It was the absolute pinnacle of a fun NHL game that we haven't seen since in my opinion. I wish they brought back those slow motion aspects and cool replays.
Unless another company decides to make an NHL game (or something of that sort), EA just won't care about putting 100% into the NHL series. So, if I were you, save your money.
This is coming from someone who only has two games from this series & they're several years apart. 🤣
Agreed. Without competition they can just rest on the bare minimum knowing the paypigs will keep the game profitable, even if it's not a good product
Seeing myself at 7:53 was crazy cuz I was just minding my own business eating a sandwich watching some RUclips and chilling out lmfao that was trippy af (great vid btw)
lmaoo made sure to include you
It's all about inclusivity. It's important to have representation from the gay community in these kinds of videos.
NHL HITZ 2002 was 🔥
NHL 06 🔥
Been playing NHL games since N64
NHL 25 will be the first NHL game I don't purchase.
Honestly haven't had a fun experience playing NHL games in years.
NHL06 is my favorite of the series. Second best is probably NHL2014
HUT is the biggest downfall of the game. People who think the number 87, or 89, or 92, or 94 is somehow going to make their game special and more enjoyable so they keep buying the random packs and keep hoping for another number. It is absolutely sickening when you really think what they are buying
💯 it’s amazing there aren’t more comments saying this. This is the cash cow of the game and where they put all their resources. I prefer EASHL and couldn’t care less about the NHL license.
Absolutely fantastic video, well done boss
Thank you man! Love the content.
Tbh at first rn 25 feels better than in many years. Maybe the bugs havent been found yet but they were even in the older ones. The thing we need to really stop is microtransactions and hut
Yes, absolutely! 💯
Never played 2003, but NHL Hitz 2002 was my favorite hockey game as a kid. I also had NHL 2003. My dad preferred to play me in NHL, but Hitz was something else. I miss that game.
NHL 2004, which I think had Dany Heatley on the cover, and NHL 2K5 with the ESPN presentation… Those were the last 2 hockey games that I had an absolute blast with and really felt like I was playing a game that simulated the real life sport that you saw on TV. And now ever since 2015ish, it feels like we’ve been fed the EXACT SAME game every year; and you just don’t get that same feeling of playing a sport that you see on TV, because the presentation is so bad/lacking.
The early releases of NHL 2004 had Heatley on the cover (which I had) before he was replaced by Sakic after the whole Dan Snyder drunk driving incident.
Finally a RUclipsr who speaking the truth about the NHL series I've been saying this for years but it doesn't seem like anyone ever listens and then of course you've got these content creators who focus on ultimate team and put their ugly mugs on their start of their videos like I don't care what you get in your packs dude I don't care how much money you spend or didn't spend give me a good franchise mode a good be a pro mode and fix the world of chel and I will be happy and oh yeah don't forget about the gameplay cuz the gameplay is kind of what feeds those modes
I bought every NHL since 2008 and stopped buying them in 2021. Now I just wait for them to come onto gamepass and im always thankful I didn't purchase it as they feel worse every year. NHL 14 was the best but I also didn't mind NHL 19. Now they feel too clunky and awkward to play. I think they forget it's a video game and should have abit more of a arcade style with huge hits
I stopped playing NHL after 14 because of EA being EA but also that was the year I decided not to buy the next gen of console and switched to PC. Another segment of the gaming community seemingly ignored by EA's NHL. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everything about this video is ON-POINT. I became sick of what EA had to offer and I don't even really enjoy current gen consoles all that much. I'm a proud Steamdeck owner and I emulate the PS3 version of NHL 2K10. Which is a VERY slept on hockey game and was really well done. I really missed the boat on that game.
It’s as simple as if there’s no competition, if you’re the only officially licensed NHL hockey game in town why would a company try extra hard to make their game awesome if they know from experience that every year these sports games are some of the highest selling and people will buy them anyway. It’s legitimately that simple, if a company doesn’t have to compete to sell a product then they don’t have to work as hard and why would they? If you sold a product that nobody else could sell (you have the exclusive rights to NHL video games) why would you try extra hard if you’re already making tons of money every year and it’s already in the bag? These games have been going down in quality and you’d think that would slow sales down sales but again when you’re the only NHL licensed game in town you either play the game or you play the complete knock off version with the Calgary heat and Tampa bay thunder 🤣 doesn’t hit the same.
Maybe someday someone will make an unlicensed hockey game that’s so good people will play it instead of the licensed game. The issue is it’s very hard to compete with official licensing, your hockey game with teams like the Minnesota timber’s just isn’t the same as official players and arenas 😂. Even if this game was good lots of people won’t try it just because they can’t play as their team and favorite players
So I used to play nhl 13 and 14 alot and even nhl 11 but I stopped once they made being a goalie in be a pro so hard. It's sad to see EA ruining franchises because even in games like apex they're seeing a beloved franchise fall before their eyes
Most video game franchises have this issue, it will continue til everyones sales plumit
Be a pro was my favourite game mode bought the game every year for it, but I haven't bought a new NHL game since NHL 21 and it's probably gonna stay that way until they actually do something with it. The cutscenes are way too much and the X factor system in be a pro needs a rehaul, you should be getting x factors on how you play not through "storylines".
Listening to another year of Cybulski fellating my player for minor achievements and having random radio people say I'm the shittiest hockey player of all time for not having a point in a game even though I already have potted 50 in 10. Thinking each year that they'll finally fix BAP in some significant way. Single player modes don't interest EA anymore, it doesn't make them money. HUT and CHEL do. As long as that remains prevalent, single player modes and innovations in online modes will continue to stagnate
To me, NHL 2002 was the best. The spectacularly hilarious commentary from Jim Hughson and Don Taylor made that game very entertaining and super fun to play. I still got the PC version cover disk on display in my living room lol
Well said! Couldn't agree more with the stuff you mentioned in the video. The last NHL game I bought brand new was NHL 21. I bought 22 and 23 on sale and then I didn't even bother with 24. It's just such a shame, because I thought EA was making leaps in the right direction from NHL 16 to NHL 19 gameplay wise. I always remember the tuner updates at release feeling fresh and fun aside from a few issues some years, that I think they could have easily fixed. (I can't remember the year, but I remember one launch or update it being impossible to use R1 without getting a penalty). Then slowly as the season went on, people in the community would start to bitch about the newer tuner changes that made it harder to score or just small things that made the game feel more like a real hockey game. By the end of the season, the game would just slowly get tuned back into the same broken crap from the year prior.
I find the AI players have been inconsistent literally forever it seems. I find I can play two back to back games and they are playing the complete opposites in each game. I feel as though you can notice it the moment the puck gets dropped. Any 1v1 mode online is just atrocious to play because everybody just abuses the AI on defense and never plays any real defense themselves. They will just switch focus away from the player closest to the puck, which in my eyes kind of defeats the purpose of even playing online. How poorly I think the goalies play now is a whole other discussion.
World of Chel is the only thing I can really think of the last few years where I can actually find myself wanting to go and play.
On a side note, NHL 07 was actually an Xbox 360 exclusive and had not been released on PS3.
Well said. This will be my first year opting out by finally learning my lesson. Good video, keep em coming
The biggest problem for me (the newest game I played was 09 on PC), is the lack of care regarding any other league than the NHL
The shooting button and the hitting button are the same button! This results in so many interference calls when I'm just trying to swat a loose puck into the net
Agreed. That’s been a problem for years.
Hold LT when doing that and you won't body check
@@jakewilliams8193 never been a problem for me ever lol for sure skill issue
One of my new favourite hockey creators! Thanks for feeding my IV!
Thank you!
NHL 08 shootout mode was the best feature. Bring it back it wud be even crazier now
The best part of NHL 2004? It has VERY satisfying board play. It doesn't get talked about much but it's very noticeable.
Great video. I have a small nitpick though, when you were talking about NHL 07, you showed gameplay footage/trailers from the previous gen. Version, which lacks features such as the Skill stick and is functionally very similar to NHL 06.
The problem with modern ea sports games is the frostbite engine because is always not designed or always not allow for any ea games or ea sports games, which is bad because of code complexity that nothing works properly, riddles with glitches, and it's rather difficult to use. It's became an absolute nightmare on how they ruined it. Just remember, the frostbite engine is only allow for fps games which is good, most notably the battlefield series was created by dice.
I used to score up to 30 goals per game in NHLPA '93 by pulling off that classic move of deking the goalie. If anything, scoring went down after one-timers were introduced. In the later NHL games, you could still score 12 or 13 goals per game with the one-timer, if I remember correctly.
If you're talking about offline modes it's just because they made the hardest difficulty harder. Back in NHL14 on old gen I would win every game in my GM mode 30some for 40some to nothing. I would play every game in GM mode on the hardest difficulty with the sliders entirely against me ... one season I only allowed 20 goals while scoring like 2700 ... and who was my goalie you ask, some random WHL goalie I had never heard of before (who actually ended up playing like five NHL games in real life; Landon Bow). Fast forward to next gen and NHL 16 I had jump down from hardest difficulty to second hardest with even sliders and suddenly my games were all close and I would rarely ever hit double digits. Truthfully though it did make the game more enjoyable as games were closer and I wasn't winning every game.
As for today, NHL 24 was the first game I hadn't bought going all the way back to NHL 02, NHL 23 I bought and I think I played four periods before throwing it aside, NHL 22 I think I played about 40 games total, NHL was the last game I really spent any significant time on but NHL 19 is honestly the last one I actually really enjoyed playing
All I want back is GM Connected. Many of my friends left after they removed it.
NHL19 is my favorite. I got NHL22 and the pre game presentations were gone, no hats on the ice for hat tricks, the players skate slow and all bunch up in the slot, one replay only, I didn't like it, got NHL24 and was immediately repulsed by the cringe worthy goal celebrations, the annoying pressure ring on the ice, will not get NHL25,
Going back to playing my favorite NHL19!! The playoff pregame presentations were 2 minutes long and informative and great as opposed to the 15 seconds of players standing for the national anthem in the games now.
NHL video games peaked with NHL '94 and it never reached that height again
ESPN 2k5 was my first hockey game I really enjoyed playing it when it came out
I would play NHL Breakaway and NHL Powerplay now, instead of the new NHL. Those games were fun as hell.
And this is exactly why I don’t buy it every year. Only buy it when something actually new happens or there is an event that I’m personally interested in that will be in the game (Adding the WHL, my cousin winning the cup)
Kind of funny the comments about it not being any different because the skating is COMPLETELY different… and there’s a handful of things that work very differently from 24. Passing, hitting, and skating are all different. My team plays in WOC and we recognize how different this year is- we appreciate it and are learning to play a new game. And we’re having fun. 🤷♂️
45 seconds in I pressed the like button.
I miss the full Be a Pro season in the CHL so bad:(
I remember when 09 came out when i was in college....played the hell out of that game
Thanks for the 94 special mention. But I'd love to fill you in on some of the actual lore around it, from being someone who has been in the cult for 5 years now, after maining '97 for 22 years. Let me know if you'd like to hear my story 😊
The more realistic it got, the less fun it got. It's a weird phenomenom. I picked up NHL 23, it was cool, but i don't like how there are too many things I personally am not a fan of as far as like replays or 'cut scene' type things between periods or when there is a dead puck and its on xbox. Before that I had last played NHL 2001 (for PC)and loved it. I had customized my entire team with players (which did not take all that long which was nice) compared to NHL23 where i get a little time to play, make a character and next thing I know it's been like an hour because loading menus and visual options seems to just take a long time. I also had a very difficult time moving players between NHL and AHL and getting them on the correct lines I wanted them to be on. Sometimes when I take someone out of the lineup who was maybe on a bunch of 2nd or 3rd line pairings, and I want to put a new person in, and it just swaps that person in every place, but then I cannot put someone else in the space because it ends up swapping them in all the places that player was at. It is hard to explain, but it has been almost a year since I played. I was just too frustrated trying to edit my lineup and roster. I like the gameplay, but creating teams, players, custom league (I do not have online on my xbox, but my wife did not buy me the PC version for some reason) is just a lot of frustration.
It went downhill after nhl 2005
2014 was ELITE
@@p.g.9442014 was the last nhl game that was good I've got the game day 1 for 18 years every year is more disappointing me and all the friends aren't even going to buy the streak is over
It depends on what mode you prefer
If limp bizkit can make a return so can NHL Hitz 🙏
Great video man. Frustrating to say the least. I get it, EA is a business and they have to make money. But, greed is one of the biggest sins on the planet and it rears its ugly head with every new release. A battle pass in an NHL game? A $100 HUT pack on Day 1? The same BAP for 5 years in a row? It’s disgusting. The whole “don’t buy the game” thing sucks because I WANT to play an NHL video game. EA is lazy, careless, and disrespectful to ALL of their fans, not just NHL.
Sadly, until I’m proven wrong, I don’t and will not get excited for any EA releases. I’ve been that way since 2019.
Again, great video HH. You summarized everything really well. Do they have mods for NHL 14? Might have to look into that.
Thanks for the read if you’ve gotten this far! 😁
Not sure if '14 is able to mod. I think most the modding comes from PC versions of the games and those stopped in '09.
It's just crazy to me that while NHL 2k10 wasn't perfect, when you compare it to NHL 25 in terms of presentation, modes, options, features...it is absolutely insane what we don't have anymore. It took EA YEARS to make a simple change of the scoreboard location, so imagine any other small things we wish were still here and how long that'll take. We will probably get more realistic presentation and updated goalie masks on NHL 36 on the PS7 and Xbox One Series YX.
This is what a monopoly on a franchise does.The NHL needs to allow other companies to make an NHL game.
Even just look at the achievements for these recent NHL games. Not one achievement is different or new. It perfectly symbolic of how NHL games nowadays are driving away fans. Not bringing any new fans in.
I griped to EA once, reminding them that since covid the sale of laptop/desktop computers has exploded since everyone was working from home. And they really should consider porting over to PC... funny I never heard anything.
It's funny. 2007 on PSP has commentary from Jim Hughson and Craig Simpson. I wonder what the difference was between the two.
I stopped buying the games when the HUT thing got out of control. The micro transactions were insane. I’m also convinced NOBODY has worse luck than me with packs. I probably opened 150 dollars worth of packs over the years in various games in the series and my best pulls were an 87 overall Rick Nash and 87 overall Mikku Koivu.
“Pricey pond hockey you got going there”.
Awful
I love the NHL games playing them is so fun to me I'm mainly an offline player who plays Offline Play Now and Franchise Mode. I was gonna get NHL 25 this year but I don't have a PS5 or Xbox Series X and I'm not planning on getting one until GTA 5
I've been a hockey fan my whole life but I've probably played MLB the show more in the last 2 years than I have any NHL games, and I never really was into baseball that much until MLB came to game pass
UT and packs have ruined sports games, I can’t believe people are foolish enough to continue sinking money into it
Glad I haven't made a purchase since buying the NHL'14 disk. The writing was on the wall even then.
The only way NHL recovers is if they give it to a new studio and it’s rebuild using a new engine, the current one just tacks on gimmicky features and the core is permanently broken.
Be a pro needs improvement 👍
It would be nice for another video game company or a new video game company to make nhl games, nba games, and nfl games.
Usually games full of microtransactions and pay-for-power are FREE. It's crazy that EA gets away with $70 per year, when these games are essentially no different than any other free to play, live-service game.
Once HUT became popular every other game mode went on the backburner. Having the NHL license exclusively means they never need to innovate. Decontenting NHL15 was the first sign that HUT was the priority now over local multiplayer or single player. It's sad but I don't think NHL games sell enough outside of Canada to get the same attention that the MLB, NBA, and NFL games get. They were a yearly staple for every boy growing up in Canada in the 2000s-2010s.
I remember watching a youtuber starting a Be a Pro career in NHL 15, continuing his popular Be a Pro series that was a staple of his channel. After jumping in the first game and playing his first shift then going back to the bench, he slowly realizes that there is no more sim to the next shift option. First is in denial and then he trashes EA. ~This will be a quick series boys. The series ended there.
That small missing feature was a brutal one since it made a major game mode unplayable. That was just the tip of the iceberg. NHL 15 was an insult to fans of the series.
That was 2BC, that videos hilarious.
The new games aren't bad per say, we're just mad about paying 100+ $ a year to play what is basically an update, espacially with fanbases of games like fortnite who can just play the same game for years without putting in a single penny. At the end of the day, the games are still great and I'll still play them. We need to realize that the lack of added value is really the problem with yearly releases.
Now they've taken away weekly rewards so they only way you can get decent players is by opening packs. Scummiest company around
EA seems to do the same thing with the lesser-selling sports franchises. I play 3 EA games regularly (NHL, UFC and F1). Be a Pro in NHL and Career in UFC have remained untouched over multiple releases, so I've chosen to ignore them. I do enjoy the on-ice game play in exhibition in NHL 24 and 25, as it's helped me create memories with my son, who is 10 years and playing AA hockey. We have had some wild, close games, and I'm also streaming pre-season (soon to be Season Mode) games with my favourite Easter and Western team the day of the actual game, and I've enjoyed it immensely. I know EA has let the fans down, and it's a shame that they focus on making money, but if people didn't spend money on things like HUT, it would shift EA's focus. I chose to buy the game every year because I enjoy going through the season mode, and updating my during Free Agency and the Trade Deadline, so for me I am willing to buy it each year because the replay value is worth it.
Nhl 2012 was my fave with the legend cards and otp
This years one I actually like cause it finally changed franchise mode which is my most used mode
Im still playin nhl 23. Before that i was on nhl 19 which was better than 23 untill my franchise mode kept making the game crash. Im glad i watched this video. I will not be wasting my money on nhl 25
Man, seeing the amount of stuff on that list that STILL hasnt been added is crazy. I wonder if EA realizes they'd make more money by releasing really good hockey games every few years, instead of a shit one every year.
EA NHL died when they gave up on PC.
That's not true. NHL 10, NHL 11, NHL 14 were great
@@de132nhl 14 was garbage 13 was better with physics
Love how there’s so many current issues and yet they take the dive celly out of being X/A. I know that sounds like a small change but these people make $100k a year and a change of any kind in business requires meetings and approval from multiple levels. Just makes no sense how that’s even a topic of discussion lol
I was hoping they would finally add PC support. I feel like an easy homerun would be a big rework to the main 2 offline modes Be a Pro and Franchise mode but they don't seem to care about anything you aren't constantly paying for.
Hot take: it justs a game. It suppose to be just for fun. The glitches go both way and its still a great way to wind down after work. I can see where some people are coming from that are trying to genuinely trying to compete and want a fair game.
i played NHL 94 on my uncles snes it was a fun game I enjoyed playing it
Complaining about the fact that they never changed one thing it’s still OK game for me. I don’t know why everybody complains. It’s a video game. You’re not gonna get everything perfect who cares
I actually really enjoyed NHL 24 but it just feels so far from it's glory days
Play nhl 12 today. Better everything except deking. Better menu, better aesthetic, music, commentating, winter classic, hitting people over the boards, glass breaking someone when you check someone (glass looks better broken in nhl 12 then nhl 24, be a pro is AMAZING not having a multitude of things: pond hockey cutscene, actually being able to get injured and sim games which you kind of need to do in order to actually be able to get through a season of be a pro, pointless talks with coach during and after games that just waste so much time for nothing. You could allow choose you skate angle from three options allowing you to be faster or more mobile. Also you could change the flex of the stick and curve of the blade to change your shot power and accuracy. Like how do we lose that feature? Can I also mention of celebrating was I would say 1000x better in nhl 12 but 1000 x 0 is still zero. You could literally score, pump your first or both fists up (you know like most guys start their celebration) then after that you could get on one knee and choose how you want to pump your first. I like to score lift up and arm then scrape a knee, scrape the ice with my hand then do a punch to finish it, all controlled by me, with my inputs and that’s just one celly you could do out hundreds of combinations you could do to celebrate like however you want. Now… you press a button for a clunky unrealistic joke of a celebration, and that’s IF you get to even see it without the stupid new camera thing they do when you score. Actually makes me sad how they have gone backwards in progress. I actually don’t understand how it’s possible. Who are they hiring. Sorry I’m not even done, nhl 12 just does so many things better. After the whistle you could skate into the opposing teams goalie and bump him causing a team scrum and players looking to hit you or fight you for touching the goalie. How realistic and awesome. Now? You can’t touch the goalie and there’s barely time to even fight a player you want after a whistle. You could also fight a player with a goalie. Like hooowwwww do they go backwards in progress and make a worse game. Also compare the opening shot when you do a face off in the game. Graphics look actually better and more realistic in that shot. And what about actually being able to see where you were aiming when you look at the clip in a replay. I could keep going but what’s the point, I could name every thing that the old game does better but it doesn’t matter, they won’t ever make it good again. Year by year they will just add features back that they removed in previous years. Can’t wait for the big reveal on nhl 26 where brag about having a winter classic 😂😂 hey ea, if you want to have the dumbest camera shot when people score just to show those stupid cards people pay and play with, then show the cards when the players are fist bumping the teammates on the bench, for sure do not have a cut away after people score and have the lights getting dim (which doesn’t happen in the nhl) and a close up of a camera angle that would never exist. I’m still going to go in about nhl 12 in between whistles and post fight, this game provides endless amounts of new and REALISTIC camera angles while SHOWING the actual play that happened. That’s right, if you score or hit someone it will actually show you a replay where you can see what happend 😂😂 insane that’s a thing that I even had to say. Players mouth off to eachother after a fight. Like dude how did you guys go backwards. It’s like building a beautiful mansion and you keep working on it and it turns into a card board box. How is that possible
Sorry
I haven't play the NHL ever since it left PC. Which saddens me as I grew up playing it since NHL 96...
Emulate
You conveniently omitted they said GM Connected is coming. Hey, I agree with what you said, but you should give the people all the information. The dev team also let it be known that they don't have the support like other titles, and it takes three years to make any changes.
I still play NHL Legacy with updated rosters just for the winter classic mode!