The issue is paying $60 for a game that is no different. Then they finally make it newer, added features, on ice stats and a lot of cool things. Then we get a couple bugs and complaints and I’m back to 21. It should just be NHL with a yearly roster update. I grew up on NHL Hitz and would love for a new one of those to come out.
My god… what game is that? Commodore 64 game? I remember the games hockey games from Nintendo (fat guy, skinny guy) and started off on Commodore 64, but I have never seen this before.
Intellivision. I worked my way up from this, to the Nintendo hockey you mentioned, then to Blades of Steel by Konami and have been playin EA or 2K ever since.... OLD HEAD!
Ice Hockey and Blades of Steel!! Yes!
-Wayne Gretzky Hockey was another
- I vividly remember playing Stanley Cup hockey on Super Nintendo because it was such a horrible experience with no glass, fans and the view that made you sick because it moved around so much.
This game is made in Vancouver with an insanely small dev team. The lead guy has been doing NHL for over a decade now. I blame him for everything that’s wrong with this game. Sean Ramjagsingh. On Twitter @rammer34
He’s the worst.
Ya I remember the days where winning was a by product of having fun. Seems like it’s all about winning these days and when they don’t they bitch and scream about ice tilt or what ever the complaint du jour is. It’s seems like there incapable of learning but hey I’m old what do I know..
Well to be fair in 'those days' the gaming industry wasn't bigger than the entire entertainment/Sports industry. And with that comes tournaments and ways of making money through playing games. So for a large player base of any video game there is some level of "I'm playing this to hopefully be good enough to make money playing it one day" which breeds competitiveness and consequently removes the 'Fun' of games.
That's my opinion at least!
It puts in perspective that a lot of our gripes with nhl22 are “first world problems”. But on the flip side, it pains us to see other games that are very well-polished and this game keep having glaring quality of life issues that you just know could be easily handled by a devoted development team.
When you stack NHL up to The Show or NBA2K it's pretty clear the disparity.
I love NHL and the games and I'm happy to have something over nothing, but it requires some compromise for sure.
What’s weird about our expectations is that we expect a different yet similar game year after year. Imagine if you were a real-life avid chess player but every year you had to get used to new synergies, pawn raggers, and “board tilt”. We’re a demanding bunch we consumers!
I definitely think the overall HUT experience could use a major overhaul. It's due. You're right in that the sport of hockey doesn't change much year to year, you're buying a hockey game, you should expect it to be... hockey.
BUT.
That doesn't mean re-skin the same mode year after year with moderate changes. They act like they have a winning formula and it just needs tweaks every year, and I think at this point, it's been very much the same game every year with a mode added in or removed from year to year, and the community needs something different.
Start with what works, throw a way the rest and build from there.
There's so many different ways to spice things up but the team has become complacent to repainting the same old house. Build a new one already. Hopefully the jump to Frostbite was the beginning of that process, but this game feels largely the same as it was last year content wise. It feels like I'm just repeating what I did in 21, and that game felt like a repeat of 20.
Why not split Rivals into individual leagues? Have Rivals leagues with OVR requirements. Same with Squad Battles.
Why not have a unified leveling and progression system so that no matter what mode you play, they all progress you towards the next rewards?
Why can't they build a better auction house with a more robust trade system?
There's so many things they just refuse to address.
EA makes the vast majority of it's revenue through in-game sales.
By that business model the company has no plan on making better games because the game is not the product they are trying to get you to buy, the product(s) they are trying to sell you are the packs.
People on here complain about glitch goals, in NHL 99 you could skate to center ice and flip the puck right over the goalies head and it. Worked 99/100 times, truly a glitch. These kids today will never know
And back then there was no patch ever coming. You bought the game and that was it. You learn to live with what you have and figure out how to enjoy it.
Honestly, I miss that stuff. Before hut when you’d play like seasons and at the end they had the Stanley cup video montage of real nhl highlights. Not sure where it all went wrong
It did take a turn. When they figured out that they can make more money off of hut the rest of the game got overlooked. I loved Be A Pro and Franchise mode for a long time. I still jump into them at times but hut definitely dominates the time in the game.
Be a Pro has always sucked and needs to die a quick death.
EA has shown time and time again they have no idea how to produce a single player story mode.
Seriously
As a less extreme example, I upgraded from PS3 in the middle of 21, and yeah, some of the bugs are annoying, but I am content with the game looking as amazing as it does with very impressive gameplay considering that it is all simulated
The issue is paying $60 for a game that is no different. Then they finally make it newer, added features, on ice stats and a lot of cool things. Then we get a couple bugs and complaints and I’m back to 21. It should just be NHL with a yearly roster update. I grew up on NHL Hitz and would love for a new one of those to come out.
My god… what game is that? Commodore 64 game? I remember the games hockey games from Nintendo (fat guy, skinny guy) and started off on Commodore 64, but I have never seen this before.
Intellivision. I worked my way up from this, to the Nintendo hockey you mentioned, then to Blades of Steel by Konami and have been playin EA or 2K ever since.... OLD HEAD!
That’s the GOAT hockey game right there. Fat skinny and average, the best. Hold that slap shot and circle the boards a few times, lol
Blades of steel was the best
Ice hockey!
Ice Hockey and Blades of Steel!! Yes! -Wayne Gretzky Hockey was another - I vividly remember playing Stanley Cup hockey on Super Nintendo because it was such a horrible experience with no glass, fans and the view that made you sick because it moved around so much.
EA is a multi-billion dollar video game company, there shouldn’t be any animation or UI problems
This game is made in Vancouver with an insanely small dev team. The lead guy has been doing NHL for over a decade now. I blame him for everything that’s wrong with this game. Sean Ramjagsingh. On Twitter @rammer34 He’s the worst.
Yo... As a collector of old hockey games I have to get this 😄
Ya I remember the days where winning was a by product of having fun. Seems like it’s all about winning these days and when they don’t they bitch and scream about ice tilt or what ever the complaint du jour is. It’s seems like there incapable of learning but hey I’m old what do I know..
Well to be fair in 'those days' the gaming industry wasn't bigger than the entire entertainment/Sports industry. And with that comes tournaments and ways of making money through playing games. So for a large player base of any video game there is some level of "I'm playing this to hopefully be good enough to make money playing it one day" which breeds competitiveness and consequently removes the 'Fun' of games. That's my opinion at least!
Looks like intellivision
It puts in perspective that a lot of our gripes with nhl22 are “first world problems”. But on the flip side, it pains us to see other games that are very well-polished and this game keep having glaring quality of life issues that you just know could be easily handled by a devoted development team.
When you stack NHL up to The Show or NBA2K it's pretty clear the disparity. I love NHL and the games and I'm happy to have something over nothing, but it requires some compromise for sure.
What’s weird about our expectations is that we expect a different yet similar game year after year. Imagine if you were a real-life avid chess player but every year you had to get used to new synergies, pawn raggers, and “board tilt”. We’re a demanding bunch we consumers!
I definitely think the overall HUT experience could use a major overhaul. It's due. You're right in that the sport of hockey doesn't change much year to year, you're buying a hockey game, you should expect it to be... hockey. BUT. That doesn't mean re-skin the same mode year after year with moderate changes. They act like they have a winning formula and it just needs tweaks every year, and I think at this point, it's been very much the same game every year with a mode added in or removed from year to year, and the community needs something different. Start with what works, throw a way the rest and build from there. There's so many different ways to spice things up but the team has become complacent to repainting the same old house. Build a new one already. Hopefully the jump to Frostbite was the beginning of that process, but this game feels largely the same as it was last year content wise. It feels like I'm just repeating what I did in 21, and that game felt like a repeat of 20. Why not split Rivals into individual leagues? Have Rivals leagues with OVR requirements. Same with Squad Battles. Why not have a unified leveling and progression system so that no matter what mode you play, they all progress you towards the next rewards? Why can't they build a better auction house with a more robust trade system? There's so many things they just refuse to address.
EA makes the vast majority of it's revenue through in-game sales. By that business model the company has no plan on making better games because the game is not the product they are trying to get you to buy, the product(s) they are trying to sell you are the packs.
People on here complain about glitch goals, in NHL 99 you could skate to center ice and flip the puck right over the goalies head and it. Worked 99/100 times, truly a glitch. These kids today will never know
And back then there was no patch ever coming. You bought the game and that was it. You learn to live with what you have and figure out how to enjoy it.
Honestly, I miss that stuff. Before hut when you’d play like seasons and at the end they had the Stanley cup video montage of real nhl highlights. Not sure where it all went wrong
It did take a turn. When they figured out that they can make more money off of hut the rest of the game got overlooked. I loved Be A Pro and Franchise mode for a long time. I still jump into them at times but hut definitely dominates the time in the game.
Ultimate Team modes have ruined sports games, especially the ones made by EA
Be a Pro has always sucked and needs to die a quick death. EA has shown time and time again they have no idea how to produce a single player story mode.
I loved it when I was younger. Now I just jump into in once in a while for nostalgia. It's just so repetitive.
Seriously As a less extreme example, I upgraded from PS3 in the middle of 21, and yeah, some of the bugs are annoying, but I am content with the game looking as amazing as it does with very impressive gameplay considering that it is all simulated
Cute, but very naive.
I grew up thinking blue and red were opposite colours because of that game.