Had an absolute blast of a career on Fifa 16. Wanted to roleplay an hypothetical return of Ancelotti in 2015, and rebuild Milan.. also added Uruguay (from the second season onwards) in the loop for some NT adventure.
Well, it turned out into incredible fun.. I think I've never enjoyed Fifa 16 as much as I did in this career, indeed. First year I grabbed an Euro League spot in the last and lost the Coppa Italia final against roma; lost another Coppa Italia final in the second year, this time against napoli, and arrived in the fourth place (chairman asked me for the Champions qualify.. the game considered it accomplished, but apparently the object is just generally set on the fourth place and in Italy only 3 teams go in CL, so I played EL anyway).
Anyway, action in the field was so damn satisfying. I found myself constantly adjusting my team, searching for the perfect balance. And honestly I couldn't remember how intense were certain games (like direct clashes, or Cup finals). Just to name one that stuck with me, I went 3-0 against Juve in the first half, only to take a goal in the beginning second and being truly afraid of them coming back in game (which not happened, but felt really good anyway). It's perhaps the only football game existent that makes me want to raise up the half time duration (currently at 8 minutes and sometimes I still feel like it isn't really enough).
Third year was so real life.. I threw half the season by trying to sacrifice Aubameyang as a COC to play my new striker Kane in the front, that when I finally put Auba back a second striker going deep, and Kane playing as a post player, they were both phenomenal, but it was kinda too late as I lost too many points in the league and I had to choose between going behind the fourth place, again, or the Euro League. Of course I choosed the latter and, after a great ride, I lost it against Tottenham in the final.. ending ninth and being sacked.
Anyway, I eventually accepted an, ironically enough, offer of Tottenham. Curious to see how it will play in Premier.
In the meantime, I'm playing the World Cup with Uruguay. Group stage was really entertaining as well! This game for example:
was super eventful with autogoals, two injuries in the first half, line saves and so on, that made me breath some real WC atmosphere
p.s. man, at this point I'm probably totally fine retroplaying football games for the rest of my life, but what I would pay for something in this spirit, with current tech 😭