NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

[Money99]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

Destroyed a water bottle. I basically jumped out of my chair when I did that.
Frickin. Sweet.

[bad_philanthropy]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

Destroyed a water bottle. I basically jumped out of my chair when I did that.
Frickin. Sweet.

The game can look a little underwhelming from the gameplay view with its LoD scaling, but in replay, it's pretty damn impressive, and some of the animations even have impressive fidelity and subtlety to them. But, yeah, sniping, and blowing up the water bottle looks as good as it ever has in a hockey game.

[DJ]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

Lost 5 games in a row in my Avs Be A GM. Can't remember the last time that's happened.

[Xero Theory 42]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

Bought the game tonight. Started Be a GM mode w/ NYR, wanted to sim through to get a feel for the game. The frame-rate is extremely choppy, and the loading screens and lag made it almost unbearable to play. Made it to the draft, and after every single CPU pick I had an offer for Zucc/Brassard. That was awfully annoying, and then it froze. Rebooted the game back up, took over from my last save point, I go to assign my scout to a region and it freezes again.

I'm going back to target tomorrow to return it. The quickest I've ever gotten rid of a game. It's unfortunate but I won't be buying this series for a few years if their game is anything like this.

[slickdtc]

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I'm settling in now after 25 games in my NSH BAGM and about 10 exhibition games. Like the base sliders I've got, so now it's just a matter of tweaking difficulty-type sliders as I see fit. Got plenty of leeway to increase CPU difficulty.

Just recently bumped down goalie reaction speed for both me and CPU after noticing both my goals allowed and goals for a game were near bottom of the league. That can happen, but I prefer another goal or two per game. Just had a crazy 6-5 SOW where I went up 3-0, then down 4-3, came back twice to force OT.

This game does have breakdowns every now and then, but I've found player switching to be by far the biggest problem with this game. It's comically bad and can screw up a whole possession leading to a goal allowed defensively. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to it.

All that said, I still race home after work to get in a game or two before going to pick up my wife from work, and try to sneak in a game any chance I can get. This game looks so beautiful and provides a fun, challenging yet still realistic enough experience that the flaws can be dealt with.

[Xero Theory 42]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

Bought the game tonight. Started Be a GM mode w/ NYR, wanted to sim through to get a feel for the game. The frame-rate is extremely choppy, and the loading screens and lag made it almost unbearable to play. Made it to the draft, and after every single CPU pick I had an offer for Zucc/Brassard. That was awfully annoying, and then it froze. Rebooted the game back up, took over from my last save point, I go to assign my scout to a region and it freezes again.



I'm going back to target tomorrow to return it. The quickest I've ever gotten rid of a game. It's unfortunate but I won't be buying this series for a few years if their game is anything like this.

I'm going to do a 180 here. I decided to try the game out one more time, with some tips I found online to limit the freezing and speed up the menus/lag of the game. Now the last hockey game I owned was nhl 10 and loved it., so It's still a process to get used to the different menus and calendars and all. It's not a great game, I like the morale system but they haven't changed much in terms of scouting or free agency, but I'm glad I kept the game. I just have to get used to it now.


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[Blackhawksfan4ever]

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Now looking, that NHL 16 is enought hockey for me. If NHL 17 doesn't bring any big new innovation, I don't bought and cotinue with NHL 16. Only reason, that I bought NHL 16 was new games modes and EASHL.

Same thing happened with Fifa 16. Fifa 15 was good for me and Fifa 16 doesn't included nothing big innovation, so I still playing Fifa 15.

[actionhank]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

Bought the game tonight. Started Be a GM mode w/ NYR, wanted to sim through to get a feel for the game. The frame-rate is extremely choppy, and the loading screens and lag made it almost unbearable to play. Made it to the draft, and after every single CPU pick I had an offer for Zucc/Brassard. That was awfully annoying, and then it froze. Rebooted the game back up, took over from my last save point, I go to assign my scout to a region and it freezes again.

I'm going back to target tomorrow to return it. The quickest I've ever gotten rid of a game. It's unfortunate but I won't be buying this series for a few years if their game is anything like this.

I really wish you could block trades. The Canucks must have offered me the same defender at least 20 times during the draft.

[Splitter77]

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just think I needed time away from this game.
I played last nite for the first time since like December.

Game played great.

was using newest rosters.

[CptPizzo]

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Hello,

Quick question here and I apologize if this was mentioned earlier, but I couldn't effectively review the 52 other pages here...

Anyway, there is an issue with my slider settings being reset before each game in BeAGM mode. Am I missing a setting here? Or do I really have to go through the settings menu and put in my sliders before every game in Be AGM mode?

Thank you

AP

[GetThePuckOut]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

Hello,

Quick question here and I apologize if this was mentioned earlier, but I couldn't effectively review the 52 other pages here...

Anyway, there is an issue with my slider settings being reset before each game in BeAGM mode. Am I missing a setting here? Or do I really have to go through the settings menu and put in my sliders before every game in Be AGM mode?

Thank you

AP

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...63&postcount=2
;-)

[Money99]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

Now looking, that NHL 16 is enought hockey for me. If NHL 17 doesn't bring any big new innovation, I don't bought and cotinue with NHL 16. Only reason, that I bought NHL 16 was new games modes and EASHL.

Same thing happened with Fifa 16. Fifa 15 was good for me and Fifa 16 doesn't included nothing big innovation, so I still playing Fifa 15.

I'm in the same boat.
I'm having fun with NHL16 so unless '17 blows my mind with massive upgrades, I won't be buying.

The gameplay/AI would need to take a huge leap forward and they would have to add considerable depth to the Franchise and BAP modes in order for me to consider paying full price for '17.

[slickdtc]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

The gameplay/AI would need to take a huge leap forward and they would have to add considerable depth to the Franchise and BAP modes in order for me to consider paying full price for '17.

To me, it's the AI that needs a leap. In fact, I think it's the most maddening thing about this game. Unfortunately, it's a thing that you won't know until you play if it's been improved or is still leaky.

I'm having a hell of a time balancing my game and the random inexcusable breakdowns in AI are a big problem. It takes me back to NHL 2K10, which had incredible potential but the flaws were too glaring to ignore. I forgot how frustrating it can be after having a nearly flawless time with NHL 11 and NHL 12 for the past 5 years.

[Hockeynut99]

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I'm in the same boat.
I'm having fun with NHL16 so unless '17 blows my mind with massive upgrades, I won't be buying.

The gameplay/AI would need to take a huge leap forward and they would have to add considerable depth to the Franchise and BAP modes in order for me to consider paying full price for '17.

5 man hug!

[Money99]

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5 man hug!