That intro video was 🔥

This summarizes exactly one of my biggest frustrations in past decade. I worked on that skill, and was getting pretty good at it. Now it's all taking advantages of AI glitches.

HUT ruined it all, they can just make an roster update and kids will spend 500$ in HUT every year

To me, EA relied on one touch buttons to execute all these fancy puck moves. Maybe 2K had those same buttons, but I didnt need special puck magic buttons to beat my friends and family. I just stick handled around them like real life, no cheater buttons to make me Patrick Kane. Just me, handling the PlayStation controller manually.

I’m not going to lie, now that I think about it, pretty much all sports game hit their peak before or in 2011. After that, a slow descent.

It’s the same thing that ruined most all video games…youtube marketing. You have a bunch of people with zero connection to a game forcing development to happen in a way solely for how it will “look” in a 2min fall time hype trailer. That, and they know we won’t have another option so fuck us right?

Lost interest for the series after NHL 16

@@kistar3460 me 2. Out of curiosity I picked up 22 on sale, meh. I let my little cousin borrow it and he lost it. Lets just say I'm not mad

For the NFL, EA Sports has an exclusive license. That's why Madden has stayed stale. NHL has no such excuse. Why have there been no ESPN 2K NHL games out in so long?

yup...still hockey

@@tomservo75 EA has an exclusive license for the NHL series, it was established in 2012.... hence why no one else came out with an NHL sponsored hockey games after 11... look into it pal, Betteman screwed the loyal gamer.

100% agree!

Biggest reason the game has stagnated! Good example of how monopolies hurt inovation.

@@capthappy8884 monopolies and companies whos main priority is having modes that lead to more micro transactions.

that's insane to see different brands for the same year. I remember ea was leading the rest in realism and graphics then , now it's least real in gameplay with no competition for years.

Yep. Agreed. And it got two whole seconds of representation in this video.

@@the406seadonkey6 yeah even then they credited with the SNES version The Genesis version is the one that lives in infamy.

@@Boswdabsolutely

Lies. Lmao

My favorites are Ice Hockey for NES, NHLPA 93, NHL 94 - 96 for Genesis and NHL 10 for 360

I saw a different game in the place of NHL 23.

NHL 14 was my grind

Can you still get all these games

NHL 93 Super Nintendo

2006 was an AMAZING year in the NHL. But then again, I'm a Hurricanes fan.

Nowadays 13's wouldn't even picture the situation. You're priveleged afterall, and so am I.

@@CelticGladiator7 Your absolutely right when you think about it..👊

me and my friend played sega hockey for money. i think it was the hockey before the blood and fights. i would get chicago for jeremy roenick and ed belfour always gave up goals from the length of the ice even tho he was a 98 rating. i would put in ray leblanc or someone. my buddie would never play me on my nintendo. asshole. LOL.

The menus as well, oh lord was it exciting!

Thank you. I was hoping someone would say this.

Yes

Yesssss!!!

NHL 95

92,93 and 94 were all fantastic in their own ways. I always preferred 93 though. Anything after 94 was an after thought.

Wasn't the skill stick introduced in NHL 07? I remember buying it for the 360 and I feel like I remember distinctly tutorials "introducing the new skill stick feature"

@@tyehardy4534 shooting with the skill stick and more control over passing were introduced then I believe. 2004 you had enough of a skill stick to stickhandle

В 2004 NHL я играл очень много.

@@PeacedoorbaII В 2004 даже если и выиграешь Президентский кап, то в плей-офф обязательно в первом раунде вылетишь. Очень сложно было играть в плей-офф даже сильной командой против компа.

@@Alexsapir_21 ну хз. Я выигрывал 99% матчей на самом сложном уровне. Тактика была щелкнуть вратарю в блин и добить. Но нужно брать ручной прицел в настройках. И из-за ворот тоже много забивал. Ну короче надо вратаря запутать и положить. 😅

Triple Play had the best fake product ads. “Extreme doilies, the in your face doilies.”

Yzerman SHOOTS IT HARD! STONED COLD BY PATRICK ROY! Shame he retired, still got it. That was the voice of my childhood.

I miss the game ads, now it's real ads for a Honda Pilot...... Boring

I love this game too. Peace!

Well, at least we've got 100% all genders and nationalities represented among the refs in NHL23.. except white men. You know, since the NHL in reality has a 100% white male referee squad, why would anyone want to play the game as realistic as possible? 😆

​​@@hollowmadegenders? What, EA now putting preferred pronouns and pride flags on the game? Instead of actually fixing this piece of ass?

NHL 2024 where black Asians with blonde bowl cuts feel included. 😂

i liked that game too but the controls of the intellivision were awful. also games were ending many times 15 to 12 or something which was not realistic. the goalie sometimes being almost dead on the ice for like a minute after a shot was funny. it was the best hockey game at that time i agree even if it had issues but it was not the best game there was. remember that pac man was also an 1980 game or missile command , berzerk , battlezone and there was also other good games out there and not everyone like hockey. note that there was a better version of this hockey game. it was super pro hockey on the intellivision and you could play vs the computer. at that time i had only the game which need 2 players and i was playing alone sometimes lol

used PS2 + intellivision lives games and you are back in times

I think the Atari 2600 Ice Hockey was superior in terms of being better than the Intellivision version of Hickey in the early 1980s

@@raphaellall6270 I preferred Activision

Atari used the Activision developed games. So it's really Activision/Atari@@sappyjohnson

I like the 2k11 for the best atmosphere. EA NHL series is a money maker. I get it. They’re not interested in giving us what we want just what will sell. The technology exists to have the absolute coolest hockey video game but they need the consistent income. So the consumer gets less than their money’s worth.

04 yes

EA NHL 2001 was my 1st introduction to the hockey video game franchise. Later on I got the original Xbox and had NHL 2002, and man I loved that game. I wouldn't pick up another hockey game 15 years later (NHL 17) and NHL 17 was really good too. Then I got NHL 20 which in my opinion wasn't as good as NHL 02 or 17. I haven't picked up any NHL games since 20, but definitely would like to get back into it

I totally Agree. NHL 04 and 2K5 were my 2 favorites personally.

NHL 02 best ever!

A fucken men 😂

The body checks in that game were fantastic. Guys would literally go spinning in the air. Slap shots could knock the goalies and nets back into the boards. Toe to toe, bare knuckle boxing matches for fights. It WAS amazing.

It's on purpose to show one of many things 14 had and they took away

Yes You got it.

What’s weird nhl games made me watch hockey

along with there soundtracks

That's gonna cause health issues if it hasn't already

me too! always tried to push to take gloves off.

so by that math hopefully nhl 24 will be incredible too. since 14 every game has stunk. but i do agree with you. all those out of the EA series were the best.

I have NHL 14 and love it, no reason to get another game.