A Chat About NHL 17 (Roundtable)

[RaychelSnr]

Today, Editor and Chief Chris Sanner sits down with Staff Writer Fraser Gilbert -- who reviewed NHL 17 -- to talk about the game a few days after the review hit the site. In the chat we talk about NHL 17's gameplay, how accessible the game is, and what we can look forward to with the future of the series. Check out our chat after the jump!

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[kariya05]

8 is definitely too high for this game. Did barely anything to improve itself and is weak in so many areas to begin with. I can see how casual hockey fans might like this game, but for hardcore hockey fans its garbage.

[seasprite]

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Have really enjoyed it so far. Plays very well IMO. Have only been playing EASHL games, but that's all I really play.

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[snc237]

Good game, better then last years (however it won't let me into HUT at this moment). Nothing hugely changed just a lot of tweaks. The downside is there probably still a lot of tweaking needed, I'm assuming next year will have a big change somehow.

[GrandMaster B]

Don't change to a standard uniform in EASHL or you will get booted from club and won't be able to get back in.

[onlybygrace]

This game after finding the right sliders is pure crack. I could never get into NHL 16...I could play this all day.

[ParisB]

Can someone please elaborate on the AI as an opponent? I mostly play single player in Season mode so the AI makes or breaks for me.

I stopped playing after '15 because I never felt I was playing another team. It was the same AI wearing different team jerseys. No differentiation between teams nor players. Didn't matter if it was Chicago or Toronto, or Getzlaf or Joe Schmoe from 4th line. Every goal scored was something you saw coming after some tic tac zip passing that felt faster than normal play, or the same deke in the slot with a snap shot.

[BBallcoach]

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This is the first NHL game I've bought since 2004. I love it but man they need a skills trainer like Madden badly. I had to Google how to.win face offs and passing I've started to learn the passing mechanics, it's a bit frustrating but still fun as hell.

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[wshcaps30]

I have a question for everyone, I play goalie on drop-in games, they did the update where if there was a delayed penalty, you go to the bench and come on as the extra skater. It seems that update is no longer valid since everytime I go to the bench, it just shows me standing on the bench waiting. Is this a bug with the update?

[Dirkules]

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heyy hockey fans, i am from Germany. i have a general question about NHL 17. does this years Edition have any Sounds of the show , similar to mlb the show? ( for example, can i create own music for every stadium, or creating music for every 32 teams, when a team scores a goal, or penalty etc. )
i ve seen it on a preview i think. but i am not sure. ( it was standing like : " in this years nhl 17 u can create your whole own team, u can relocate, u can play ur own music, ) any of you have seeing this new thing???

[Cletus]

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I have a question for everyone, I play goalie on drop-in games, they did the update where if there was a delayed penalty, you go to the bench and come on as the extra skater. It seems that update is no longer valid since everytime I go to the bench, it just shows me standing on the bench waiting. Is this a bug with the update?

They had to take that out because of a bug with the EASHL leaderboards.

[13whitebread]

Played two games so far in World Cup offline and lost the first one 6 to 0. I was USA and the second game I won 4 to 2 against powerhouse Canada. Now there was a lot of loose puck play which is not a bad thing but my CPU players would either skate away from picking up the puck. Much to my dismay I clearly have seen on a number of occasions when I would knock down an opposing player and he would get up and skate away with the puck at this point it is unacceptable. Hopefully with some tweaking of the sliders this can be corrected. This is just what I have seen so far at least.

[go expos]

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Now there was a lot of loose puck play which is not a bad thing but my CPU players would either skate away from picking up the puck. Much to my dismay I clearly have seen on a number of occasions when I would knock down an opposing player and he would get up and skate away with the puck at this point it is unacceptable. Hopefully with some tweaking of the sliders this can be corrected. This is just what I have seen so far at least.

Whitebread.... pls pls pls, tell me how i can tweak the sliders to make this not happen? Every time i check someone, my player just stands there and waits till the player who is down on the ice gets back up and takes the puck. This happens 100% of the time.. NO JOKE. 100% of the time.

Is there a section in the sliders that i can play around with to make this stop happening? if you know, can u pls share it with me? This is the only thing i hate about this game. U can make my life so much better, whitebread, if you can tell me how i can stop this. thx