The Unfortunate Downfall of NHL Video Games

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[Alech-gt]

every song on the EA NHL soundtrack: "I have dementia, claustrophobia, high PTSD, and I hate myself"

[DSD]

The issue with these current Chel YouTubers is that they refuse to be honest about the state of the games. Almost like guys such as Nasher have a blank check from EA for being able to make the most insignificant “additions” to the new installments seem like the most groundbreaking thing

[HumanAction]

It won't get better until people stop buying it.

[jordanbeck]

the two people who disliked this video are EA president and head of microtransactions

[zerkle]

If 2k dropped a hockey game you’d see a major shift in EAs effort into their nhl games

[HughJorgan]

The reference to old video games brought back some great memories. I also remember the Hartford Whalers. Feeling really old right now lol. Great vid!

[SingKahKah]

Real ones know that the last great EA NHL game was Legacy Edition for the 360/PS3 (tbf its essentially just a more refined NHL 14)

[TheHitman_Official]

The best feature for 93 (I think it was) That during the intermission you could watch an entire other game, so that you could see what's going on in the league. That was so dope!

[NJDevil]

This ages me in a huge way but I still think the Sega Genesis NHL games are the G.O.A.T's. There were some others over the years that kind of brought the magic back (NHL '98 for PS1, NHL 2004 for PS2, NHL 2007 with the intro of the skill stick, etc.) but overall, I never quite had as much fun with hockey video games as I did in the 16-bit era.

[robertjacobs]

Great Vid. A note for NHL 07: There wasn't a PS3 version since almost every game company was working on games that could run on the new Xbox 360 at the time. It was more powerful than the PS3, so most game companies had games only on the 360, like NHL 07, Ace Combat 6, etc.

[lambknot]

I miss Be an NHL Pro, when I could play as any player on any team.

[KalvinSingh]

2003 and 2004 was a peak sports gaming era

[nichonr]

Tbh at first rn 25 feels better than in many years. Maybe the bugs havent been found yet but they were even in the older ones. The thing we need to really stop is microtransactions and hut

[Terminatedd]

NHL 2003 is the absolute best one for me.
It had the slow motion breakaway camera, slow motion replays with music, matrix - style savecamera and a replay with music if the play stops quickly after the Hasek - style save.
There also were also hockey cards that could alter the game & players if you so chose.
It was the absolute pinnacle of a fun NHL game that we haven't seen since in my opinion. I wish they brought back those slow motion aspects and cool replays.

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The moment 2k folded EA stopped investing in their game. Why bother when you have the only option

[LouieNJ]

Hut was the worst thing to happen to hockey games. The online card stuff is the worst thing to happen to sports games.

[p.lamarre]

To me, NHL 2002 was the best. The spectacularly hilarious commentary from Jim Hughson and Don Taylor made that game very entertaining and super fun to play. I still got the PC version cover disk on display in my living room lol

[KapitanPisoar]

I haven't play the NHL ever since it left PC. Which saddens me as I grew up playing it since NHL 96...

[CarPig]

Seeing myself at 7:53 was crazy cuz I was just minding my own business eating a sandwich watching some YouTube and chilling out lmfao that was trippy af (great vid btw)

[brandonmcfellin]

NHL HITZ 2002 was 🔥

NHL 06 🔥

Been playing NHL games since N64

NHL 25 will be the first NHL game I don't purchase.

Honestly haven't had a fun experience playing NHL games in years.