NHL 17 Wishlist Thread

[combatcop]

simple and easy......real-time season stats on the presentation overlays. Goals,assists,pts all show for the game not total season.

[actionhank]

Quote: Originally Posted by combatcop

simple and easy......real-time season stats on the presentation overlays. Goals,assists,pts all show for the game not total season.

I think the presentation of stats in general just needs to be completely overhauled. Hell, the presentation in general, while better, needs to get some love.

There's no real feeling of being in the NHL. You're just a team, playing another team on any given night. Look at the end of this season, for example. You had teams who were struggling to catch up, teams that had clinched, and teams that were playing spoiler.

In the NHL series, everything is so sterile and boring. You don't hear "Tarasenko scores on the powerplay, giving him his 39th goal of the season, and tying him for first with Alex Ovechkin". There's just no feeling of existing in a world. No rumor mill, no players demanding trades, no real rush at the trade deadline. It's all so flat.

[iCake]

Easy. Make this game really competetive... No more chip tilt and glitch goals... Make people actually earn those goals. I'm not even demanding a realistic gameplay now... Just make it truly competetive.

[TheBuddyHobbs]

- actual board-play and lots of it.

- a lot more physical play. THIS IS HOCKEY!

- more and better goalie animations

- better teammate AI

- better goalie AI

- more CPU awareness about what's going on around them

- AI more dump and chase and running to the boards

- more and a lot better celebrations

- a lot of in-game stat graphics. Including stats, that aren't currently in the game. Such as scoring chances, odd-man rushes etc. Also, stats that are in-game, but not shown. Would love to have a lot of in-game stat graphics.

[HELLFIRE463]

BeaPro
Play in different leagues around the world
play for the national team in the Olympics or IIHF or Hockey World Cup

in general
real looking fights
more realistic moments like rival teams getting into a scrap after the whistle(players grabbing and shoving in a pack at the bench were the refs are trying to break it up)
ref mode
Zamboni mode during intermission. not a mini game though
KHL needs to be added.
no more bull****ting on euro league player overalls for some
college teams( minus the real players. like ncaa football games)
realistic fan turnouts good teams fill out(Montreal, Boston, San Jose) bad teams dont(Florida{sadly there good but no fan turnouts} buffalo
different Language's for announcers.(french swedish german russian)
online customizer(like fifa

be a gm
control more than just nhl teams( let use manage chl or euro leagues)
relocate
change stadium
build a new stadium
coach national teams

would also love a first person camra choice when in eashl or be a pro.(would work if also a be a ref mode(ref career) or be a coach mode)

[iFnotWhyNoT]

1. Neutral zone positioning pressure

2. Would love to be able to chip the puck forward...speedy players used realistically for once.

[csamuelsvt]

-5 man goal celebrations. Enough already. This is next gen, no more excuses about how it's not in because players like Chara make the celebrations look weird and awkward if he's hugging smaller guys. Figure it out.

-Updated NBC Presentation/MORE STATS during season mode that pop up a lot. Overload it if that is what it takes. I want to see more

-Doc has to have his enthusiasm in this game. Take recordings from real games and put it in the game. I don't see why this would be hard to do. Hopefully for these playoff games, they're tapped into his mic and put it into this game. I can't stand hearing the same boring "scorreeee...and this one is tieeeeeeed or "scoreee and the game is eeeeeveennnnn." It has been TWO years, GET HIS SIGNATURE GOAL CALLS IN THIS GAME! No more excuses! The same goal calls are in for a preseason game as it is in the stanley cup playoffs/finals! The technology is there to do it if it can't be done with him in studio! EA UFC has the SAME issues with Bruce Buffer not being able to bring it fully in studio. So what did they do? For the entrances they used his ACTUAL audio from the fights and put it into the game. So don't say it can't be done or that Doc's goal calls are in the game already...we all know they aren't. When you pin the team in the zone Doc gets a little excited but much is needed to improve it from the "why isn't he shooting" line that he says every single time you pin the opposition or they pin you for awhile.

-Goalies need to be completely overhauled. Each and every goalie plays exactly the same. Eddie Lack coming in fixed some small things, but they need to seriously re-haul everything. When was the last time you came flying down the wing and sniped a shot with a flick of the right stick 5 hole or glove high without using an exploit? You see it all the time in the NHL but never in the NHL series. The goalies are stiff and lack animations. When the puck is behind them they just sit there or do that ridiculous turn around and throw/wave the stick animation. It looks nothing like real life.

-The A.I. needs to be completely re-written "from the ground up." I am tired of seeing the AI during offline mode not be able to enter the zone and turn around and around until all of your players are out of position and then they dump it in and zig zag all over the place. It's unrealistic and makes the game look awful. You can truly see how awful the AI is picking 2 teams and having the computer play as both. Just awful

-Make player differentiation/speed matter! If I'm a Crosby or Ovechkin, I still don't feel like I'm anything close to them at all.

-The pinning/board mechanic needs to be completely redone as well as this has been the same way for how long?

DJ NEO/other game changers can you PLEASE let us know if they plan on fixing these things or have/are looking into this for NHL 17? I can't take another game that has the same issues over and over again and minor things are just fixed.

[shogunofharlem3]

For me:

1. Goalies
2. Online Coop in Be a GM (even if not GM Connected, love to play with my buddies in franchise or a season)
3. AI
4. No more destination puck (even though that has gotten better, still not great, challenge that by watching poke checks, very rarely they go to space, they always end up on a stick)

As a whole, I played a full season and playoffs for the first time since 2k10. I really do enjoy this game, alot! But without #2 above, I can't see myself getting 17.