scotmachi

NHL 19 was the last EA NHL I bought and can never ever see myself ever buying any future installments. Just played it on EA Play 10hr trial, SHOCKED! by how bad the gameplay was and can't see myself fulfilling the 10hrs, games are suppose to be fun not intensely stressful. Do they even ever play the game other than develop it. Played NHL 14 around a year ago (PS3), now that was fun! NHL 11-14 2k8-10 are far superior to this, WTF are they thinking, are they sabotaging they're own game because of EA underpaying and abusing they're past efforts? TOTAL REGRESSION! VERY SAD and MISERABLE!

I've played this after 3 days after buying it and I'm mentally drained and find it hard to launch the game from lack of motivation. No surprise critics are given it an overall mediocre score. Royal Rumble should be fun but its tedious and unfair, esp. on legend. Showcase on Legend was so frustrating with the fun **** out of it, 2k tower mode, good idea but poor execution, its too stressful and pointless when you get to the final match, eg as roussy you must win by submission then meet steph mac in cage match where she has a finisher at the start, used it, then climbs cage and wins in under 2 mins. and the game expects you to grind back to the start and win 4 matches to try it again, eg 2 C. Flair must submit Paige where Paige will use payback about 7 times to escape your submissions, which I eventually won after 25 mins eg 3 beat Undertaker in 5 mins by pin or submission no foreign weapons (DQ) but he was counted out and I progressed?. Payback benefits the AI more than it does you especially in Legend. Elimination Chamber use to be my favourite match type, but now its too stressful with Payback and even when I play without. Warning!!!!! This game is not improving enough to be an entertaining simulation, especially non-children and non-wrestling fanatics and gamers who don't have someone competitive on their level of skill to play with. After 3 weeks, had to trade it in. The franchise seems dead to me and don't think if I would buy another for a long while.

November 2020 the est. release of ps5 and next xbox. So another 3 (2 if new gen release earlier) before EA Canada might start AI from scratch introduce new overall gameplay mechanics and physics as the current one cheats too win, trolls the gamer, uses ice tilt (same as NHL 94). NHL22 (or 21? could be unfinished as NHL15). The game is too stressful, mediocre fun factor, unfair, unbalanced, pointless, mentally draining, frustrating and tedious. (eg Madden, Fifa). If your playing it right now, aren't you somewhat embarrassed (funding something that's broken and unrepairable) and exploiting you for your money.