NHL 16 [Edit - Admin.] [ Edited ]

[BP24Tank]

This game is an absolute joke. I've been playing the nhl series since 2007, and this is pathetic. There are way too many glitches and way too many things wrong with this game that really make me hate EA and their nhl series. The fifa games are all fine and very realistic, this game is a pathetic excuse for hockey, i'll number off the 100s of different things wrong with this game.

1) Way too many glitches to score. This isn't hockey, it's a competition between who can do the most glitches to score. examples of some

- Walk in holding aim towards short side high, goes in every time

- Unrealistically spin in circles with the the puck carrier, defenceman leaves the front of the net comes chasing(no hockey IQ), throw an unrealistic backhand pass to the front of the net and score

- Random 1 time wrist shots. Skate in, throw a pass across, player somehow shoots a 1 timed wrister (extremely fluttery puck) goalie lets it in even though the puck is barely moving

- Back hand 1 timers. The player accepts the pass on the backhand, maintains perfect control and some how shoots a backhanded 1 timer, not a deflection, a 1 timer

- Even on 1 on 1s as the D-Man i have 1 side of the net covered the opponent can come in and deke forehand-backhand and it works almost every single time.

- Puck floats off the stick. Players don't even shoot the puck, soon as someone presses the shoot button the puck goes flying off the stick regardless of how he was controlling it, and regardless of the fact the stick didn't even move. There's no momentum or physics. I play FIFA just as often. If you press kick from a terrible angle or when you don't have full control, the player kicks appropriately. NHL however has no physics whatsoever.

- Sticks going through players body's and the boards. Stupidest thing i have ever seen. The stick will literally go through my players body or the boards or the net as if it wasn't there. You guys have been bragging about realism and physics, yet i have yet to see any.

2) Puck carrier can be invincible if you know how to glitch.

- Players spin in circles endlessly (unrealistically) until they get open or someone else and then use a glitch to score. I have never once in my entire life seen any player at any level skate in circles with the puck non stop like that.

- Unrealistic skate cuts that only the puck carrier can make.

- Puck carrier can't get stick checked or body checked. He'll be lined up perfectly and the hit lands, but it has absolutely no effect on the puck carrier, he just stands there or skates through the hit as if nothing happened.

- Puck carrier can hold the puck on the back hand and somehow he becomes magically invincible and immune to stick and body checks

Players just keep holding the puck on the back hand, spin in circles unrealistically the entire game until they get open and then shoot a 1 timer or shoot the puck short side and it works 99% of the time. There is no physics engine, this game is an absolute joke. There is no momentum factor or any type of real physics. The player can change his direction of skating in 1/10th of a second and continue to skate at full speed, and while doing this for some reason body checks and stick checks have no effect on him. 

3) Terrible missed penalty calls every single game. Players will come charging, hit a player from behind, board a player, hit the goalie and maybe 1 out of 100 of them will get called. It's ridiculous. I bought this game to play ice hockey not this garbage you gave us

4) Goalie passes. Countless times every single game the goalie makes the most unrealistic passes that change the entire game. I crash the net with all my forwards and surround the goalie. The goalie has the puck covered for 3 seconds, but for some reason the whistle isn't blown. The goalie can then make a pass and none of my players (even though they're in perfect position) can hit the puck in the net. Instead the goalies able to make a pass that goes through all my forwards crashing the net and my opponent goes on an odd man rush and sometimes scores. It's beyond ridiculous. If i'm standing in the crease with my stick on the ice and the goalie throws the puck out towards me, common sense suggests i would be able to easily tap it in the net. But no for some reason you guys decided it made more sense for the forward who is wide open for a tap in to completely miss the puck, and instead the defence man standing 5 ft behind him to gain control of it

5) Unrealistic slap shots. A player will be skating away from the net but you press slapshot, he makes an immediate 45 degree turn in less than half a mili second and can shoot the puck at full speed at the net. No physics engine used what so ever

6) No injuries. Countless times i'll be in the offensive zone and the player will block a slap shot with his face or in the foot. The player has no reaction to the puck hitting him. Instead the puck bounces out of the zone and he goes out on a breakaway. When was the last time you saw a player block a slapshot with his face and skate it off immediately like it had no effect ? I can't remember

You guys made me absolutely hate hockey games, this is a joke. I've been a fan of the NHL series for a very long time but this is the worst piece of trash you could have made, there was 0 effort by anyone. Play FIFA it's very realistic and it's soccer. Play NBA 2K, it's very realistic and basketball. NHL is a joke, this is not hockey if i knew this is what you were selling us i wouldn't have bothered buying it. Way too much wrong with this game, i'm hoping 2K comes out with a much better and much more realistic game than this, like they did with basketball. [Inappropriate comment removed - Admin.]

[mikeyflex]

I hear your frustration. This sounds like Division 1 play in HUT. I bounce between 1 and 2 and every time I get to Div 1 the garbage you talk about shows up. Glitch goals, endless circling around waiting for an opening for no-skill glitch goal. If you lose to these no-skill players, they talk trash that you suck. If you beat them, they talk trash because you didn't let them do their no-skill glitch *. You can't win. Unlike you, I'm very happy with NHL 16 and thats because I haven't played the game for nearly a week. I've been playing Halo or should I say Black Ops 3. At least I know the game will play they way it should, and there is little to no lag.

Perhaps the solution is to take the FIFA dev team and move them over to the NHL side. Its mind blowing to think that EA thinks that this garbage they put out is good and that these people should still have a job. But the minute you start bashing the devs (seems like it doesn't matter which forum you're on) moderators get their panties tied in knot. The fact is the game has digressed over the past 3 years, the feedback is overwhelming negative and yet these people (the devs) still have jobs. A responsible company would shut down shop and reassess whats going on and come up with a plan on how to fix this.