mrfunktastick

the FIFA game is more a rival to FM than CM is really

retired_Frappin'

I think that's an issue for all football management games. They can't seem to do season consistency well, especially for middle of the road teams in a division. It's great run, terrbile run, great run, terrible run. And it's not clear why one of the runs suddenly began.

You're near the top of the division playing well with high morale and then for no reason you get stuffed at home by the bottom team, who lost their previous game 5-0 at home. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Middle division teams and consistency don't go together.

Charlton anyone, high flying for ages to years ago. Now there in the championship.

Leicester were top of the Premiership under Peter Taylor in October I think. Relegated later that year. Not even close to surviving.

mrfunktastick

a new feature



wow, advanced stuff!

retired_Frappin'

two years ago.

my bad.

retired_srini_aug1

its more short term streaks though. Like winning 5 in a row, then suddenly losing 5 in a row. Happened to me even if i was a top team.

retired_rockstar

Yes, how dare I defend a game I enjoy playing etc yadda yadda yadda

Grow up. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Defending a game you enjoy playing is fine - however, taking an ostrich approach when someone points out pretty serious flaws in it is not.

Surely it's more beneficial for SI to have people on these boards that openly criticise and say what they don't like/what doesn't work, as opposed to having a bunch of sycophantic fanboys already on their knees in preparation for the inevitable fellating they get on release of a new game?

At the end of the day, I do still enjoy playing FM, but not as much as I used to - and there are clearly plenty of people in the OTF FM thread who are in the same boat as me. I bought my copy of the game, so I reserve the right to criticise it if I feel the need - in the hope that my criticism will be taken constructively.

You have mentioned on occasion that there are things within FM07 that you are not a fan of, and that there are bugs within the game. Why not bring them into the public domain for discussion - like most of us do in the on-topic thread - as opposed to mentioning how you've put it forward to the team, in some clandestine, tester-only conversations? Surely having a more collective, community-based response on such issues would be better for the game than just having certain people who act like and/or believe their opinions are more important than others?

retired_browneyes_58

Just got the demo (yeah I know I'm behind the times) and there are a few things that really impress me.

As I'm sure anyone who has seen my recent posts will attest, I have been dissatisfied with FM of late, feeling that a lack of competition has made SI a bit lackadaisical. Competition is needed in my opinion.

Now I'm still waiting for the FIFA demo to come so I can check that too but the CM demo suggests a game that has come a long long way. If you consider where BGS have come from it's pretty remarkable really. I certainly won't suggest it's perfect as the match engine clearly has a long way to go. I also can't comment on longer-term issues like regen quality. However there is much that is pleasing. The tactical interface is much nicer. The use of an arrow at the side of the pitch to set the offside trap. Brilliant. Why can't we have that for defensive line? Players are positioned left or right or up or down to position them. Why not that rather than ambiguous sliders? Options to wind up players are easily found, options to rough someone up (come on, it happens), all that stuff, it makes a game of football more accessible. I don't think it's quite there yet though I don't think it would be a terrible purchase, but I think maybe the next version or two might see SI looking nervously over their shoulders.

retired_nashfine

Fifa manager demo is already out.

retired_txanya

Seems like BGS are taking on what the users want to struggling to implement the features properly, which is no surprise since they're relatively new to this.

SI are just bunging rubbish into the game, not fixing glaring errors and not adding decent features. But as well as having a better match engine they've got the great research.

retired_MrScotlander

Someone works as a double agent?