NHL 15 Available Now for PS4 and Xbox One - Post Your Impressions Here

[Smirkin Dirk]

Why, oh why, can't we save our strategies?

Im sick of having to do them before every game.

[mgftp]

I think the overall gameplay is for the most part improved, skating, stick handling, and collisions all feel better to me. My one complaint about the gameplay is there seems to be no collision detection for the stick of the puck carrier. As the puck carrier you can take your stick with puck attached and bring it right through the sticks, legs, and skates of the opposition like you are constantly doing a magic trick. This is a huge flaw to me and wasn't an issue in 14. If it wasn't for this I would be raving about the new gameplay engine.

Onto the missing modes, 90% of the game modes we know from previous NHL games are gone including what I think was the most fun, EASHL. This is beyond unbelievable to me considering the popularity of the mode. I played EASHL with many guys regularly, and the majority these guys who would always poke fun at me for not playing the new game every year right at midnight are passing on NHL15 altogether. Leaving out EASHL is again, an unbelievable blunder. Be A Pro and Be A GM are there but so stripped down they are unplayable IMO. All of these missing game modes are simply inexcusable, and an indication to me that EA is choosing not to fund the development of the NHL franchise properly.

As a guy has spent hthousands of hours playing EA NHL games for years now I must say after this installment I am dying for 2KSports to come back to hockey. It's clear EA doesn't care about producing a quality product, they are simply taking the money of poor fans who have no other choice of a hockey game at this point.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

Ok after playing since 10 am wed till 3 am Thursday Im settling on playing near default Allstar as this game is programmed so much like mlbts with the tilted ice which is very realistic this year and just not boost mode when the cpu mounts an attack.

But the huge slider for me on default is the attribute slider effect which is on 5 with default and I was getting too many high scoring games but once I brought it down to 3 and players play more to their skill I now struggle with bad teams and have more success with better teams so EA really must have did alot of AI work under the hood as Im now icing the puck do to the pressure or Ill pay !

I also cant tell you how many different type of penalties I saw since I went back to near default and a few ejections too so you might wanna think twice about tweaking sliders especially shooting accuracy so low as all these little things in my opinion just like the show can really wreck and skew how the game is programmed to play so thats my two cents and thanks to all that helped me better understand how this addictive great game is programmed

Extra Bonus : My last game I was getting killed by the Preds and man handled as they were out shooting me 14 - 7 and up 1-0 on a PPG but I battled back in the second on a 4 on 3 PP and tied it up then Neal preds got a 5:00 minute game misconduct for creaming little kaner so I went up 3-1 and had a 23 -22 shot advantage but then the preds put on the heat and though I won 4-2 with a ENG they out shot me 39 to 27 in the end and Craw stood on his head ! I went 2 for 4 on the PP and the cpu went 1 for 4 on the PP and just a really good game with a great back and fourth flow and I have never been out shot and out hit in a game and even the TOA was only 2 minutes difference and now time for bed after a little pizza pie !

[Smirkin Dirk]

All I know, is that I was at work all day wanting to come home and play.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hot Kidd

All I know, is that I was at work all day wanting to come home and play.

Hey Man I havent been this excited about playing a sports game in a long time , maybe NFL2k5 ? and I think there line on the back of the box was " IT WILL OWN YOUR SOUL " So maybe EA NHL can use that for NHL 16

But what you said above says it all and thats when you know a game is great when you just cant wait to play it and Im about to start another Marathon but I cant wait till EA NHL 15 releases the new free content for September which is Playoff Mode and 3 stars .

[Elite49]

Quote: Originally Posted by THESHAMISASHAME

Hey Man I havent been this excited about playing a sports game in a long time , maybe NFL2k5 ? and I think there line on the back of the box was " IT WILL OWN YOUR SOUL " So maybe EA NHL can use that for NHL 16 But what you said above says it all and thats when you know a game is great when you just cant wait to play it and Im about to start another Marathon but I cant wait till EA NHL 15 releases the new free content for September which is Playoff Mode and 3 stars .

Let's hope its September and let's hope it's an improvement patch besides these 2 updates. One more they should add in is in game stats when you score, etc.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

Quote: Originally Posted by Elite49

Let's hope its September and let's hope it's an improvement patch besides these 2 updates. One more they should add in is in game stats when you score, etc.

I hear yah but only a few weeks left and I was originally worried will there be issues with the updates but I think thats why there not releasing other modes with more depth as there would probably be issues they couldnt address and I hope they dont mess with gameplay that much as I finally locked in my sliders .

[Hockeynut99]

Quote: Originally Posted by THESHAMISASHAME

I hear yah but only a few weeks left and I was originally worried will there be issues with the updates but I think thats why there not releasing other modes with more depth as there would probably be issues they couldnt address and I hope they dont mess with gameplay that much as I finally locked in my sliders .

What is your minutes setting at. I use the same default sliders with that thing set to 3 too.