I know FIFA has it's faults but actually how much is user generated.
Hear me out.
I know I am one of the worst people for shouting at the game "That pass is so wrong, how did you under hit that"... sound familiar to anyone?
The reason why I got thinking is a friend asked me to watch him play some rivals games to prove that the game was against him and that the new team he had was broken.
So we are in a PS party together and he is talking me through as he is playing...
When I watched him play and he started reeling off the issues.... "he should of got to that! "that's not where I passed", "I pressed the BUTTON AND NOTHING HAPPENED AHHHHHH"
It was only then that I realised how unrealistic some of his expectations were in terms of what the players could do and what should happen in that situation
The worst thing is.... I heard myself and my constant gripes.
Prime example, he has the ball on the outside of the area trying to play out and varane is facing the goal. He then attempts a 180 degree spinning blind pass up the field (granted he knew where he wanted to play it) but it was poorly hit unsurprisingly and led to another opponent attack.
he was adamant that there was unseen forces at work but in reality that pass should never work.
Same with trying to pass when not in full control of the ball and blaming button delay.
Look don't get me wrong I am not trying to start a war or any sort of conversation on anything that may or may not be in the game. I am simply saying that actually it gave me an education.
Do you ever look back at your replays after a game and thing damn actually why did I attempt that?
I know I am one of the worst people for shouting at the game "That pass is so wrong, how did you under hit that"... sound familiar to anyone?
The reason why I got thinking is a friend asked me to watch him play some rivals games to prove that the game was against him and that the new team he had was broken.
So we are in a PS party together and he is talking me through as he is playing...
When I watched him play and he started reeling off the issues.... "he should of got to that! "that's not where I passed", "I pressed the BUTTON AND NOTHING HAPPENED AHHHHHH"
It was only then that I realised how unrealistic some of his expectations were in terms of what the players could do and what should happen in that situation
The worst thing is.... I heard myself and my constant gripes.
Prime example, he has the ball on the outside of the area trying to play out and varane is facing the goal. He then attempts a 180 degree spinning blind pass up the field (granted he knew where he wanted to play it) but it was poorly hit unsurprisingly and led to another opponent attack.
he was adamant that there was unseen forces at work but in reality that pass should never work.
Same with trying to pass when not in full control of the ball and blaming button delay.
Look don't get me wrong I am not trying to start a war or any sort of conversation on anything that may or may not be in the game. I am simply saying that actually it gave me an education.
Do you ever look back at your replays after a game and thing damn actually why did I attempt that?
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Like 99.9 percent of the times i make the mistale or have bad decision making or just not good enough reflexes.
0.1 is when rngeesus fails me.
I know some like that , I get videos proving fifa is against him but when I see I'm like if took 1 touch more to face the guy you were passing 2 🤦♂️.
I hate game blaming .
Its 1 thing hitting the post at 2 -1 down
People have a tendency to not accept their own faults, and only look at part of the problem (I really do the same).
It's no that one pass that failed, its not that one shot, its the entire game that you should look at.
This plus EA do love to occasional like to slip everyone a length
I played a few games today in rivals and recorded one of them where I thought that everything was going wrong .
Sent a few work emails (gotta pretend to work) and then rewatched (not fully - i am not that sad) with a cuppa and actually could see the mistakes I was making before I was making them,
Its given me a different outlook and definitely think it will make me a little more considered in my approach, easy to say though when your not fighting for your life in WL against a drop back team in 80th minute though.
I have played more online games in the last 10 days than in the last 10 years, and I am quite happy to acknowledge that I often enter short phases of panic. And when you're panicked or angry you start rushing and aren't fully in control of intricate touches and then things like passes will go astray.
Although for a full gauge of the community's response to this theory i suggest you bump this at the weekend when all the crazies come on to cry about how its never their fault.
Hahahahaha some people just want to see the world burn clearly!
I would never dare post this with the weekend crazys with their fresh forum accounts full of rage and wearing Tin Hats.
When players randomly can't run, AI goes to sleep, no attacking AI runs are made for you... it's incredibly obvious and I really don't get how people who play for years don't see or feel that. Just make sure to acknowledge that this gameplay logic/engine will happen for and against you.
rose tinted glasses
games engine was a joke back then, so arcadey
It was much more fun mate. Still fifa bs and clearly less realistic in places, but I would argue the engine on all ps4 titles has never been as enjoyable for a a plethora of reasons.
I'm 27 now and 09-13 were the glory days, but i've dipped in and out in the last 7 years and I think Fifa 17 (maybe?) was the only one that felt rewarding. Winning or losing doesn't have as much ownership as it used to.
you know why it was more fun?
less stress/pressure to win cause no rivals/champs
the people you were playing were likely WELL below your skill level
it wasn't as common knowledge about how to exploit the game as well (twitch/youtube not a thing or as big)
people weren't taking it as serious, see all of the above
less meta players again due to less people spending money/time trading
the chem/formation swapping thing resulted in less meta squads again
the game was unbelievably arcadey, ridiculously easy to score in and yeah
you could have similar fun if you chose to not play in objective modes, but people go into champs/rivals then whinge about varane/mendy, like what is actually wrong with these people, they go to the competitive mode and complain people are taking the competitive option, it's MADNESS