9:31 100% when someone just flicks up from the point it goes in all the time. Then I'm sitting there taking the best shots possible and their goalie stops everything. 25 shots to 10 and I'm losing 2-1 every time hahahaha
i can shoot all over the goalie within 10 ft or more and nothing goes in...when i shoot a one timer or slap shot from 20 ft out.... half of them go in or more.
EA switched developers 2 years ago for NHL 24 and 25 with the frost bite system. Since the switch the game is terrible and they went more to arcade style then realistic. Hopefully EA gets gets back to a realistic game and reason last two years have had horrible reviews and most people don’t like it
I would love to see the graphics of today with the play style of 14, 15 and legacy where you can build your character how you wanted to build it. Where stick blade curve was a factor skate blade radius was a factor. Strength weight height speed balance and so on.. not all this threes and pond and all this other hockey. Back to the basics real hockey.
ive gone back to playing NHL '19 BAP. it was the last year with Mike Emrick doing play by play and the BAP is straight forward with no pointless and repetitive conversations between EVERY game!
I swear they put in all the pointless convo to slow people down on be a pro... Like i don't want to stop simming to have a convo with a teammate about going to the zoo again...
I feel the same way about sports as video games as I get older. I have my favorite teams, but I don't lose any sleep or care almost at all if they don't win compared to when I was younger.
The glitch shots were figured out so early, never fixed and broke the game. Offensive Xfactors need huge nerfs, goalies don’t adapt to the same high stick or short side glitch shots over and over again. One tee and bigger tipper requires no skill to succeed with. Stupid buggy looking skating styles have taken over the game making players so bugged out you can’t hit them and your do or die poke check is insanely unrealistic. The most arcadish hockey game I’ve ever played. We need an NHL 2K sports game again 🙏🏻
D to D one timers completely broke online. The Superstar difficulty CPU just chase your tail and spam hit you. The goalies are freaks making every save from the slot but they’ll let up muffins from far away. Line changing is broken. There is so much wrong with the gameplay and I think a lot has to do with the CPU. But the fact everyone spams D to D one timers is not fun at all and makes online not enjoyable. If they fix that I think they’re in better shape already…it goes in 70% of the time if the puck gets through traffic
@@mr198221 I honestly can use a difficulty above Superstar, I find myself easily winning games. I just CANNOT stand the CPU following you and continuously spam shove you. My controller is non stop vibrating the entire game lol. They don’t even poke check anymore! I can write a novel about what else is wrong but it’s just the same or new issues every year with this game
4:40. You're asking for too much here. First of all, there is no competition. 2K quit years ago. That would solve a lot. Second of all, you cannot please everyone, so with 1 game in town, we may never get the hockey game we need. I started way back, with NHL '97, when there was no online!
NHL 97 for PlayStation was something else! I was excited for the next gen after playing on sega with NHL 94 95 etc... NHL 97 was super cool to see the graphics and it played really good for the first next gen hockey
They need to make small speed demon type players easier to knock of the puck. The biggest issue in the fane right now are the 5'9 snipers with 95 speed accel and agility being impossibke to keep up with and impossible to puch them off the puck.
I have to agreee with the segment. Ive been playing for over 20 years and this year feels good but is just cheap at the end. Rewarding players for dumb things is a huge understatement. Like my team out plays most teams but if we make 1 mistake its a goal against. Our stats are doubled the other teams and we have no goals. This year our team is like 17-65. Like he said even when you are dominanting youre beating the other team so badly its not even fun. I just want fair competitive games that are fun. I dont mind losing a game where i can actually nod to the other team and be like damn they are actually really good. Other things like dumping the puck but it always hit someone or they catch it everytime, the stupid energy wheel thing has to be the dumbest thing they put in the game. you have 6 players on the ice losing energy and they arent even moving much or at all and when you do make a move you run out energy completely and you are just fucked. why am i losing endurance when im standing still. so frustrating. Just imagine if they took 2 years to develop the game instead of churning out garbage for the past few years.
I did the same with MLB the Show... I love baseball, but the ultimate team formats are exhausting and repetitive. I've been having a blast on World of Chel, so much more relaxing than HUT
they screwed with the skating so much in 24 and 25.. you can't skate and stickhandle at top speed, the protect the puck change is dumb and bumping people off the puck is nearly impossible in situations where it should be easy to get the puck. the controlling of your players was so much better in NHL 23
I've learned for NHL I let the other team take the first 5 shots of the game and then my goalie plays amazing the rest of the game while his goalie lets in the easiest shots
Goals are The same in every game. My problem is the same for decades. I mainly play offline for NHL and Madden. When it comes to my seasons. I do play online sometimes. But it's offline I hate. It's because the AI reacts the same game by game for both sports. It's super hard to win. They don't make mistakes liek humans and its hard to score goals and keep them from scoring. They score the same way almost everytime. It's so annoying. In Madden, don't even get me started on getting TDs and play D against AI. Super hard and annoying.
I mean tbh the whole one timer thing ruined the gameplay. Half my game is spent trying to prevent a d to d pass or a corner forward to weak side d pass. That’s the entirety of the offense that 50% of people play. And then I’m sitting in the lane, the puck goes right through my 90 victor hedmans feet, boom clap top corner.
Top 5 in points eashl dman for 10 years and nhl 25 was the breaking point where I quit playing as the gameplay is too far gone off the cliff and every player skating with that glitchy looking idiotic skating style that boosts speed and pay to play boosted builds catering to noobie randoms.
I used to only play as myself in EASHL. HUT got me around December of last season. It's January and I'm only a level 10 with my player, thanks to HUT 😂
There's no luck. It's %. You can see the game course correct when it's assumed percentages aren't working out because of the human factor. Then when it's only humans the game does sillier things. Gamer kids also figure out these circumstances as exploits. The game imitates seemingly random physics but that is not what's happening.
i'm not bothered when i lose to people who are more skilled, but it does bother me that there are OP tactics that get exploited...and when there's an insane imbalance in CPU goaltending
@@cmz5847 It takes like 10 minutes to learn D2D OT and then you can win every game. But for people who want some variety they get penalized for trying to do dekes and do cool goals. Either make everything OP or everything average, Having like 2 ways that are just so overpowered to score easily kills the vibe.
9:31 100% when someone just flicks up from the point it goes in all the time. Then I'm sitting there taking the best shots possible and their goalie stops everything. 25 shots to 10 and I'm losing 2-1 every time hahahaha
i can shoot all over the goalie within 10 ft or more and nothing goes in...when i shoot a one timer or slap shot from 20 ft out.... half of them go in or more.
NHL as a game can be incredible, it has simply not strived to be and neglect has led to degradation
My god EA Drop the x-factors already.
NHL25 is soulless
Most ea sports games are
EA switched developers 2 years ago for NHL 24 and 25 with the frost bite system. Since the switch the game is terrible and they went more to arcade style then realistic. Hopefully EA gets gets back to a realistic game and reason last two years have had horrible reviews and most people don’t like it
I would love to see the graphics of today with the play style of 14, 15 and legacy where you can build your character how you wanted to build it. Where stick blade curve was a factor skate blade radius was a factor. Strength weight height speed balance and so on.. not all this threes and pond and all this other hockey. Back to the basics real hockey.
ive gone back to playing NHL '19 BAP. it was the last year with Mike Emrick doing play by play and the BAP is straight forward with no pointless and repetitive conversations between EVERY game!
I swear they put in all the pointless convo to slow people down on be a pro... Like i don't want to stop simming to have a convo with a teammate about going to the zoo again...
@@justforfun927 +250 to teammates score if you pay for everyone. -250 management for staying out past 9pm or ate hotdogs. exciting stuff!! lol.
I feel the same way about sports as video games as I get older. I have my favorite teams, but I don't lose any sleep or care almost at all if they don't win compared to when I was younger.
make it less arcady and get rid of this stupid hitting....
Stumbled on this podcast looking for a Sleeves video. Feel your pain on the current state - nice pod guys!
The glitch shots were figured out so early, never fixed and broke the game. Offensive Xfactors need huge nerfs, goalies don’t adapt to the same high stick or short side glitch shots over and over again. One tee and bigger tipper requires no skill to succeed with. Stupid buggy looking skating styles have taken over the game making players so bugged out you can’t hit them and your do or die poke check is insanely unrealistic. The most arcadish hockey game I’ve ever played. We need an NHL 2K sports game again 🙏🏻
D to D one timers completely broke online. The Superstar difficulty CPU just chase your tail and spam hit you. The goalies are freaks making every save from the slot but they’ll let up muffins from far away. Line changing is broken.
There is so much wrong with the gameplay and I think a lot has to do with the CPU. But the fact everyone spams D to D one timers is not fun at all and makes online not enjoyable. If they fix that I think they’re in better shape already…it goes in 70% of the time if the puck gets through traffic
Superstar difficulty is borderline assault! I only play WC for the reward path to go quicker. I'll take my .300 winning percentage there!
@@mr198221 I honestly can use a difficulty above Superstar, I find myself easily winning games. I just CANNOT stand the CPU following you and continuously spam shove you. My controller is non stop vibrating the entire game lol. They don’t even poke check anymore! I can write a novel about what else is wrong but it’s just the same or new issues every year with this game
4:40. You're asking for too much here. First of all, there is no competition. 2K quit years ago. That would solve a lot. Second of all, you cannot please everyone, so with 1 game in town, we may never get the hockey game we need.
I started way back, with NHL '97, when there was no online!
NHL 97 for PlayStation was something else! I was excited for the next gen after playing on sega with NHL 94 95 etc... NHL 97 was super cool to see the graphics and it played really good for the first next gen hockey
They need to make small speed demon type players easier to knock of the puck. The biggest issue in the fane right now are the 5'9 snipers with 95 speed accel and agility being impossibke to keep up with and impossible to puch them off the puck.
I have to agreee with the segment. Ive been playing for over 20 years and this year feels good but is just cheap at the end. Rewarding players for dumb things is a huge understatement. Like my team out plays most teams but if we make 1 mistake its a goal against. Our stats are doubled the other teams and we have no goals. This year our team is like 17-65. Like he said even when you are dominanting youre beating the other team so badly its not even fun. I just want fair competitive games that are fun. I dont mind losing a game where i can actually nod to the other team and be like damn they are actually really good. Other things like dumping the puck but it always hit someone or they catch it everytime, the stupid energy wheel thing has to be the dumbest thing they put in the game. you have 6 players on the ice losing energy and they arent even moving much or at all and when you do make a move you run out energy completely and you are just fucked. why am i losing endurance when im standing still. so frustrating. Just imagine if they took 2 years to develop the game instead of churning out garbage for the past few years.
I did the same with MLB the Show... I love baseball, but the ultimate team formats are exhausting and repetitive. I've been having a blast on World of Chel, so much more relaxing than HUT
Sleeves for Mayor 🥸
It’s subjective but I have really enjoyed the gameplay, at least in franchise mode, on NHL 25.
they screwed with the skating so much in 24 and 25.. you can't skate and stickhandle at top speed, the protect the puck change is dumb and bumping people off the puck is nearly impossible in situations where it should be easy to get the puck. the controlling of your players was so much better in NHL 23
I've learned for NHL I let the other team take the first 5 shots of the game and then my goalie plays amazing the rest of the game while his goalie lets in the easiest shots
Goals are The same in every game. My problem is the same for decades. I mainly play offline for NHL and Madden. When it comes to my seasons. I do play online sometimes. But it's offline I hate. It's because the AI reacts the same game by game for both sports. It's super hard to win. They don't make mistakes liek humans and its hard to score goals and keep them from scoring. They score the same way almost everytime. It's so annoying. In Madden, don't even get me started on getting TDs and play D against AI. Super hard and annoying.
NHL 25 has all the tools and no tool box
the NHL franchise is the poster child of what a game looks like when it gets 0 funding and keeps getting it's staff cut year after year.
I run Truculence on d and play drop ins i am 61-22-2 it is a good time taking all their energy.
Offline and online hut need to be split so objectives can be more reasonable for online play
I mean tbh the whole one timer thing ruined the gameplay. Half my game is spent trying to prevent a d to d pass or a corner forward to weak side d pass. That’s the entirety of the offense that 50% of people play. And then I’m sitting in the lane, the puck goes right through my 90 victor hedmans feet, boom clap top corner.
McDavid is just super lucky
Pretty sad that chel on old gen is night and day better than next gen
Top 5 in points eashl dman for 10 years and nhl 25 was the breaking point where I quit playing as the gameplay is too far gone off the cliff and every player skating with that glitchy looking idiotic skating style that boosts speed and pay to play boosted builds catering to noobie randoms.
Play world of chel, it’s a little less missrable. I refuse to play 1v1s due to how bad the game is.. too slow, too unrealistic, compys suck.
i rather play be a pro than eashl... i dont have to deal with dmen playing out of position and constantly trying to score like a forward
I used to only play as myself in EASHL. HUT got me around December of last season. It's January and I'm only a level 10 with my player, thanks to HUT 😂
There's no luck. It's %. You can see the game course correct when it's assumed percentages aren't working out because of the human factor. Then when it's only humans the game does sillier things. Gamer kids also figure out these circumstances as exploits. The game imitates seemingly random physics but that is not what's happening.
The LT Is ruining this game, all top players are ballerinas now 😡
99%of players only using Last year far side snape and d-d 1timers.and the 99%not éven try anything else. Ea made sh@t again
Didn't ask
The d2d’s are too much but if you wanna be good, you put the time and effort in like anything. Skill issue sadly.
i'm not bothered when i lose to people who are more skilled, but it does bother me that there are OP tactics that get exploited...and when there's an insane imbalance in CPU goaltending
@ I totally agree and get it. To overcome it, you gotta put a lot of time in to get good. It sucks
@@cmz5847 It takes like 10 minutes to learn D2D OT and then you can win every game. But for people who want some variety they get penalized for trying to do dekes and do cool goals. Either make everything OP or everything average, Having like 2 ways that are just so overpowered to score easily kills the vibe.
@@justforfun927 preaching to the choir