NHL 15: Reviewer Impressions (PS4/XB1)

[Sheba2011]

Re: NHL 15: Reviewer Impressions (PS4/XB1)

Unless you live in New York City like I do, where there IS no Walmart.

I live in Thailand where none of these stores exist and you have to buy the game imported from Hong Kong with import tax. Usually new games cost between $65 and as much as $85 depending on the title. American sports games are usually sold at cost otherwise they won't sell here. Needless to say I won't spending that much on this game. I'll wait till I'm back in the US and it's in the $20 bin at GS.

[CheapyD]

Re: NHL 15: Reviewer Impressions (PS4/XB1)

Most of the outrage would have been quelled if they released the game for $29.99 or $39.99. Most of us would have still bought it on day 1 and accepted that it was basically a very beautiful but limited game and happily waited for the content updates to make it at least somewhat playable. Some of us even would have paid for DLC like a full featured GM Mode. EAC messed up monumentally with this in two ways, charging full price for half a game and complete breakdown in communication.

My guess is their contract with the NHL specifies a "full-priced" retail release.

[EliJ27]

in create a player you can't even edit a goalies pad color, custom faces are gone, you have to pick from the generic faces they put in the game, the word bank for your player name is really shrunken down, idk i'm really bummed right now..

[EliJ27]

in create a player you can't even edit a goalies pad color, custom faces are gone, you have to pick from the generic faces they put in the game, the word bank for your player name is really shrunken down, idk i'm really bummed right now..

man I just wish that if they keep charging you almost $70 for these games they'd let you have full control over your game that you buy..

[AdamJones113]

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man I just wish that if they keep charging you almost $70 for these games they'd let you have full control over your game that you buy..

Did you just reply to yourself?

[Nate99]

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I can't believe they couldn't even get edit player in the game, how incomplete is this game!

[EliJ27]

Did you just reply to yourself?

lolol i didnt mean too, and then i figured it'd just look like i was adding on to what was previously said and i could play it off cool ha.

[DBMcGee3]

I played the demo for a few minutes this morning and thought it was pretty blah. It should be noted that I'm not a hockey enthusiast, but it plays exactly the same as the last couple, iterations I played. Graphics are pretty good, but nothing to write home about. I have no idea what all they've 'stripped down' for the game, but I can definitely see how that would upset people and kill sales numbers.

EA has its moments, but all in all they're a pretty terrible company from a consumer's standpoint.

[russ99]

I'm still getting it.

The commitment to add missing modes works for me. If they bring back the AHL games/management to Be-A-GM, that will satisfy 95% of what I get out of the NHL series, since I don't really spend a lot of time with online play or EA's cash cow (HUT).

So I'll play two GM seasons this year, start with the bare bones one, then start over when they fix it.

If people want to boycott, that's understandable. But let's hit them where it hurts. A one-year boycott on microtransaction purchase across all EA games.

[enice128]

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I completely understand how a lot of people feel regarding the game launching with very important modes not included. However, myself as a huge hockey fan am in love with the new upgrades such as presentation especially with the addition of my 2 fav commentators. Gameplay still needs some work but c'mon people....it's a f****g video game! I love the nhl way too much to not be playing this game & I know what a lot u r gonna say.....that I'm giving in to EA by purchasing this game at launch, a game which is flawed & incomplete. My main point being is that just watch......when this game is finally updated by i believe in Oct with all of its modes all the haters & bashers will eventually purchase......I promise!!!

[enice128]

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I'm still getting it.

The commitment to add missing modes works for me. If they bring back the AHL games/management to Be-A-GM, that will satisfy 95% of what I get out of the NHL series, since I don't really spend a lot of time with online play or EA's cash cow (HUT).

So I'll play two GM seasons this year, start with the bare bones one, then start over when they fix it.

If people want to boycott, that's understandable. But let's hit them where it hurts. A one-year boycott on microtransaction purchase across all EA games.

Haha...me too!

[Sheba2011]

Re: NHL 15: Reviewer Impressions (PS4/XB1)

My guess is their contract with the NHL specifies a "full-priced" retail release.

I would imagine it's either a certain percentage of sales or a set amount of money every year, not so much a set price for the game.

[SGMRock]

And that was then. When Madden and FIFA hit next-gen, they managed to get everything in and add things like coach glass, etc.

I think FIFA and Madden have a bigger dev team and bigger budget though. Also I think that Madden 25 on the Xbox One was basically a port from the 360 because they didn't do much with the graphics game play unlike Madden 15 where you can see they actually used the power of the new consoles, I would expect FIFA 15 will be he same where we will see them dig into the power of the new consoles. Next year I would expect Madden 15 and FIFA 15 to do that even more.

As for NHL 15 I think they will keep patching in modes as they can while they recreate them for NHL 16 as I expect NHL 16 to basically be this years play and presentation with all the missing stuff added back in. They will leave some stuff out of 15 for sure to make us by 16 to get everything back we missed from 15.

[BCDX97]

Seems like the reviewer went in wanting to complain about stuff and so he complained.

I wonder how many people here actually play sports video games and how many just complain about them on the internet.

Before the internet, did you all sit around with your friends complaining about games?

[statnut]

Re: NHL 15: Reviewer Impressions (PS4/XB1)

Seems like the reviewer went in wanting to complain about stuff and so he complained.

I wonder how many people here actually play sports video games and how many just complain about them on the internet.

Before the internet, did you all sit around with your friends complaining about games?

Of course he would complain about stuff, there's a legit beef there.

And for the record, I play sports games all the time. Played Madden earlier today, NHL 14 last night. Have been getting NHL Day 1 for a long time and still own NHL 94.