NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

[jake19ny]

Quote: Originally Posted by AdamJones113

The more I play this game offline, the more disappointed I am. After initial impressions of this game being a serious gameplay upgrade, the defenders still play like crap, the goalies play incredibly unrealistically, the passing is outrageous at times, and there is just not enough lateral control over your skater. The worst part this year for me is the puck and stick physics. The first seems completely arbitrary, while the later more than seems completely arbitrary. The collision detection system needs a ton of work. The puck pickup system needs a lot of work. /rant.

I couldn't agree more. My initial impression was very positive but the more time I spend playing offline the more disappointed I become. EAs last set of tuners, which completely jacked up the offline experience, had helped to make something very clear. The vast majority of the work they did on this game was visual. The rest is returning missing modes and essentially the exact same AI tweaked with a tuner. The same problens that plagued this game seem to still be there. In addition to the same bad AI, for the second year in a row, something as simple as season goal totals not showing in your season, goalies not getting credit for shoot out wins/losses, etc....I said awhile back that if this game was just NHL 14 next gen I would be happy, it's not it's worse but with better visuals....it's the old lipstick on a pig saying.

[actionhank]

Quote: Originally Posted by AdamJones113

The more I play this game offline, the more disappointed I am. After initial impressions of this game being a serious gameplay upgrade, the defenders still play like crap, the goalies play incredibly unrealistically, the passing is outrageous at times, and there is just not enough lateral control over your skater. The worst part this year for me is the puck and stick physics. The first seems completely arbitrary, while the later more than seems completely arbitrary. The collision detection system needs a ton of work. The puck pickup system needs a lot of work. /rant.

That's what worries me. I was thinking about picking it up, but at $60, I just worry it will be like NHL14, where I enjoyed it at first, but the old flaws started to show.

[AdamJones113]

Quote: Originally Posted by jake19ny

I couldn't agree more. My initial impression was very positive but the more time I spend playing offline the more disappointed I become. EAs last set of tuners, which completely jacked up the offline experience, had helped to make something very clear. The vast majority of the work they did on this game was visual. The rest is returning missing modes and essentially the exact same AI tweaked with a tuner. The same problens that plagued this game seem to still be there. In addition to the same bad AI, for the second year in a row, something as simple as season goal totals not showing in your season, goalies not getting credit for shoot out wins/losses, etc....I said awhile back that if this game was just NHL 14 next gen I would be happy, it's not it's worse but with better visuals....it's the old lipstick on a pig saying.

Yep. I thought it was completely overblown, but as I go further and further in my season I see how annoying it is. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

Quote: Originally Posted by actionhank

That's what worries me. I was thinking about picking it up, but at $60, I just worry it will be like NHL14, where I enjoyed it at first, but the old flaws started to show.

Yeah. I would have advised you to pick this game soon, but now I'd suggest waiting till it goes on sale. There are just too many old issues that haven't been fixed.

[jack72]

Here is a little play I've written to symbolize EA's relationship with it's customers.

AUGUST 2015
Grandma: I've bought you some very nice Christmas presents that you will love.

Mother and Father: Yes, we have seen the presents and you will think they are great.

Children: Oh boy we can hardly wait.


Christmas Eve 2105
Grandma places the present under the tree as the children watch in anticipation of the big day.

Children: OH BOY,,,Can't Wait

That night they start to dream of all the wonderful presents they have wished for all year long.


Christmas Day 2015
The Children run down to open the presents.
Each gift was a pair of underwear, pants, and button shirts.

Grandma: Aren't these item the best, I knew you would love them.

Mother and Father: These are just the perfect items for the children.

Children:




AUGUST 2016
Grandma: I've bought you some very nice Christmas presents that you will love.

Mother and Father: Yes, we have seen the presents and you will think they are better then next year.

Children: Oh boy we can hardly wait.

[TDKing]

We really need a thumbs down option on these forums.

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[THESHAMISASHAME]

I love hockey to much to quit on this game so I just decided to do what I always do and play on Allstar near default with a few tweaks to goalies and Penalties and then sink or swim and stop making excuses and try to play better .

I set it up to where I can beat weak teams regularly and struggle against good teams so Im pretty happy ! Pre 9/28 tuner happy ? no but its still a blast of a game .

If you look at the game closely it does so many things right and then if you tweak sliders slightly it does some things better but then it can also screw many things up ? .

What Im saying is if you change one thing like shot accuracy as a loose example it should then effect goals scored/shots and goalies and nothing else but thats in a perfect world and their sliders in most cases dont work like that.

All in all I still say if you wanna enjoy this game for what EA NHL has created you gotta stay near default on your level because with all the momentum and tilted ice it just to hard to balance so if you cant tweak it beat it .

Randomness as an example: I had 1 pp as Chi at the Leafs and I couldnt draw anything and lost 3-0 and in game two at Chicago I have 4 PPA in the first period and a 5 on 3 and that kinda randomness is nice to see and I do feel like I earned them through hustle and even the Coaches feedback confirmed it.

Gonna start posting some NHL 16 Playoff Mode Photos soon

UPDATE !
I won Game #2 in OT on the PP Kane to Toews on a tip in screen Chi 4-3 vs Tor my most satisfying game yet as I really felt like I earned it and beat the AI at their own game .

[jake19ny]

You know what's funny in a "I can't believe it" type of way. We all talk about ice tilt and have our own idea of what it means. Some believe it exists no matter what, some believe it's not real, and some believe it's in the tuners but according to the EA forums, EA said it doesn't exist. The EA forum mods have decided to post a warning that anyone who creates a thread about "ice tilt" the thread will be deleted and you will be banned. Anyone who mentions "ice tilt" in any thread, will be warned once then banned. Welcome to tryannical style EA media control. Drink the kook aid or else...Hey EA...Maybe if you don't want people to discuss ice tilt, stop making tuners that create it....or at the very least don't have your in game announcers say "this ice is tilted right now"...

[Splitter77]

There is def ice tilt on superstar and whenever you have CPU difficulty above 0.
All-star seems to be no ice tilt with CPU difficulty at 0.

But the goalies suck and the defensive ai sucks. So you have to jerk around to make games close.