Why I hate this game right now and my NHL 17 fixes.

This game is so bad. Its not fun, its not realistic. They haven't made a cool addition to this game since 2012. All they have done is recycled the same game. But somehow have made it worse. This game isn't fun anymore to me. I haven't been overly happy with an NHL game since NHL 14. 15 Was garbage. 16 is 15 with little to no changes. Everything feels the same. NHL isn't fun anymore. I'm already tired of them trying to take a realistic approach to NHL. I miss the days where I could walk in with anyone and snipe a goal. Whether that be an 86 shot or a 95 shot. I miss the days where speed actually mattered. Cause last time I checked, when Patrick Kane fly's up the ice, splits 2 d and dangles the goalie out to score in real life, and you cant do that in this game is beyond me. I'm sick of division's 1 and 2. Everyone cross creases and has the crazily beyond my price range MOV team and just creams me every time, it gets really annoying and really boring really fast. If I were working on the next NHL game right now I know exactly what I would do.

NHL 17 fixes:

  1. Bring back momentum skating. Or fix it at least. The fact that every time I come flying up the ice with Tarasenko or Bossy and the defense turns around and either poke checks me or hits me is super unrealistic and not fun.

  2. Add some real deking. There is absolutely no point to having good hands in this game. Its all about puck control and being strong enough and big enough to hold the puck. You don't see Patrick Kane protecting the puck with his body. You see him do everything to go around them. That's what I want to see in the next NHL. I wanna have the ability to deke fluidly and do some crazy shit that my opponent wont expect. [Like this] (https://vine.co/v/ewAmL5T0avn) , OK maybe not that crazy, but you get my point.

  3. Make the game more fun. Sure, sometimes you snipe one home and it may look nice. But that happening more then once or twice a game is next to none. Bossy, Modano and Taresenko should easily be able to snipe one home almost all the time. It may not be as realistic, but it would most definitely be more fun.

  4. I miss hitting. What do I mean? I miss NHL 14 hitting. You actually felt like you just hit somebody with a giant rock. Can't do that in this NHL. All you do is either miss, or nudge them. But if you do hit someone it feels like nothing. I want to be able to hit like Kronwall does. Like when he wrecked Kucherov, if anyone remembers that.

  5. What do you mean Player likeness? If your talking about how they look then forget it. I want to see the elite players in this game defined. And what I mean by that is i wanna see the 5 attributes matter again. Skating attributes only matter outside of HUT. Shot doesn't matter. Only thing checking tells you is how strong they are. And defense is just if they can poke check well.

Posted Feb 22, 2016, 4:36 AM UTC · edited

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