It's not a bad simulator if you don't play FUT lol. You can actually apply the defensive and offensive set up structure in real life to help yourself and team
But yea it gets arcade-y quietly with some game modes but that's ok
Here comes my old ass. That has played soccer games since. International superstar 64. And fifa 99. I don’t play in real life and fifa always hits the spot. I dont care for all the gambling and different game modes other than playing a few matches.
I played every Fifa since PES 2008, I know that I'm talking about 😅😅 idk how old you are/when you started playing the series, but trust me, it was way better then. I get the idea of the "new" defence type, back then. In a simulator it was, in theory, a great idea. But something along the way didn't click, it was fine-ish for a few years, but then every year it just seems to get worse and worse, sadly. I have up buying the game eventually and play a bit when it's free on PS Plus service, but I feel the same every single year lol.
I did too and it rlly wasn’t that much better back then it’s mostly just nostalgia blindness. Idk if u mean pes or fifa but Fifa career used to have different options but the most depth in management u had was custom positions on the pitch. the new games did add a lot of strategy
I meant FIFA, specifically. I was the guy in my group of friends that started playing ISS2 while everyone was still playing FIFA, and the started to see the FIFA potential in 2009 while everyone was playing PES 2009 and so one, calling me mad 😅
Idk how really to explain it, but since they changed the defense, and later made it almost mandatory, I feel at some point, the players started to kinda slightly "drift" in the pitch with the new system, and it made defending extremely frustrating for me, to the point to eventually just almost stopped playing. Which was really sad, because I absolutely loved early editions of FUT
idk bro defence has always been mandatory lol it’s soccer have u ever played in real life 😂? i meant more so career mode tho i never got into ultimate team to be honest, that’s what i meant by better sim
You are very likely just not cognitively able to function the same way anymore. That isn't a long enough time to become that bad at something you supposedly play every year. I genuinely recommend getting a brain scan, this is very likely early onset alzheimers or dementia. You cannot lose the ability to play a game that you buy every year and play constantly.
The problem is FUT (or whatever it's called nowadays) makes more money than actual game sales. There's no incentive to make the core game good because they've managed to successfully hook a generation on microtransactions.
I used to like FIFA, and The Journey was probably the best, most unique thing they did for many years - but the game itself is now a vessel for FUT.
It's one of those classic games where it's realistic....up until some utter bullshit happens that would never happen in real life (except sometimes said bullshit does happen in real life).
It statistically happens in real life. Not in the nature at which is shows graphically. Look how many times around the world last season where defenders passed back to their keeper and their keeper completely missed it, resulting in an own goal. Or when strikers completely wiffed sitters at an open goal
Not really. AI is quite terrible with moving around the ball so it limits your offense. Same goes for defense. FM is much better for simulating tactics.
Yeah, I'm a huge gamer and a huge sports fan and I have never been able to stand any of these. Dabbled a bit with FIFA and Madden in college when I was hanging out with people, but just don't get how people play for hours on end by themselves.
FIFA used to be goat tho, I remember playing on playstation 2 with my family from US and from Denmark. Goddamn, those were some good days :) I haven't played any of the recent fifa so I cant give opinions, and last FC i played was maybe 2022?
This has been a problem for years. If you do some googling, you'll find some specific slider settings that players have found that make the game feel much better, and fairer.
Bitte hört auf euch jedes Jahr für 80 Euro ein neues Fifa mit Live Service booster pack mechanik zu kaufen die nach einem Jahr wertlos ist. Der Inhalt ist so minimal anders dass es einfach so absurd ist sich das immer wieder aufs Neue zu kaufen. Ihr seid verrückt
The one good thing I can say about FIFA is that one time I went to my friends house for a World Cup game and they had a FIFA game on the tv and I didn’t realize it was a video game for like a full 5 mins. I wasn’t watching closely, just kinda outta the corner of my eye but it’s the first game I’ve seen that my brain just accepted it as reality first. That’s the only thing positive I can say about the franchise.
I owned fifa 02, and then got into it around ‘08 and didn’t stop playing until 2016 or so. I loved the game and learned players through the game instead of watching them play in real life.
The amount of fury and rage I would get when a terrible team is catching up to my fastest player because the system wants to keep the game competitive is ridiculous. I wouldn’t use the superstars but it still felt like the old Mario kart rubber banding effect if someone is better than their opponent.
I cut it out of my life and the amount of stress has decreased. I hated the FUT mode as well because I feel the game shouldn’t be a card collecting/pack opening/p2w type game.
I'm a football guy, even have a season ticket for my local team, and after Fifa 20 I gave up. Game made me so irrationally angry because it points you in the direction of playing online, where they can make the most money, and proceeds to kneecap you and script the gameplay. After breaking my 2nd controller in 6 months I called it quits.
All the good competitors died and now they don't bother to develop the game because they rake in millions from live service multiplayer only modes regardless of how broken it is. Its sometimes a fun time sink in single player, but it lacks the magic it once had.
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u/Academic_Patient_175 Aug 19 '26
Fifa/FC I'm not really much of a sports guy in general, but yeah never got into it
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