It's definitely a part of the NHL series biggest flaw for me, which is drawing me into the game. I haven't been able to last more than 3 months with any of the last 4 NHL games because after a short amount of time, I just end up incredibly bored with it.
There's nothing really happening around the league, I know nothing about which teams are fighting for which spots unless I go and scroll through the Standings page, which is boring. There's just no real excitement in the game. Tarasenko looks the same scoring his 5th of the preseason as he does scoring the game winner in Game 7 OT for the cup. Everyone skates the same, every team plays the same...it just slowly becomes a grinding game of me enduring the unchanging scenery on the screen.
Even creating my own team last year ended in disappointment when I waited a whole season to finally move the team, designed the uniforms (Oh, and that small mistake you didn't notice...well, it's permanent now. No changes) and got the team ready, and then...that's it. We're in the new stadium. No fanfare for the first game, no real mention of it...just a new stadium. That ignores the frustration at being stuck with a sad list of team names and an ever sadder list of team logos to choose from, because I couldn't name my team The Fox, but Fear the Beard and Deke and Destroy were an option. I also couldn't do my own logo, so I had to settle on being yet another Wolves team, and going with some boring wolf head logo.
The NHL series has been sadly stagnant over the past few years, and I'm really hoping that NHL 18 can take a giant leap forward, before I lose faith in the series entirely and just give up. This is the year it has to work.
06-04-2017, 11:08 PM
