Started a PL on Legendary as Bournemouth. Best Sheffield United 5-0, and I'm a guy who was struggling for wins in my FIFA 19 save. Beat Aston Villa 4-0. Just ridiculous.
When the AI has the ball, they make no runs whatsoever. Two strikers move up, the midfield line barely moves up from the halfway line. All because eSports players don't like it when the AI, er, does things. Imagine that.
Started a new one on Ultimate, as Leicester. Simmed until Christmas to see what happens. Norwich top of the Premier League by 9pts. Erm.
Anyway, on Ultimate. Got bored and decided to hold sprint down with a defender and see how far I could get.
I mean.
What's the point?
I genuinely am so shocked at how bad this is. It's like it's on purpose.
Hi man. i normally stay away from this section, as everyone knows my beef with EA and their gameplay but enough is enough now!
I think its time, we are not at a point where we just have to be brutal and tell EA the truth.
They have to start again from now, i believe going back to FIFA 11 and working from there is the only way forward! I did download the demo yesterday and honestly this is probably the very worst football game of all time in terms of pure gameplay when you consider the budget which has gone into the game.
The little kid in me came back to stop the anger, now i'm genuinely like you a bit shell shocked i am. I still remember as a 5-6 year old playing FIFA 95 an then especially FIFA 96 along with 10 other football games around at the time.
There is just something very surreal about this time to be alive. Its like this game has finally used up all its excuses and deception in avoiding making keep fundamental changes to create a solid, free base for so, so long, its like the end of a long ponzi scheme almost, they cannot kick this can down the road any longer.
I haven't play FIFA anymore because i already got my peak fix from its visuals and atmosphere, i got that back even in the PS2 era, as an artist, that's what i reallly liked about the FIFA modding community, it as just all about artwork and pure having fun and the whole football atmosphere, experience. PES was just all about amazing, wonderful slick gameplay and creating your own personal legend. They both had their appeals to me in the 2000's and mid to late 90's they where both special to me but i have very much fallen out of love with EA for such a very long time.
I like honesty, i don't like liars, EA love to lie and do dishonorable things like release the demo on the same date PES releases its full game, really scummy move imo! this sums up their arrogance over the years and shows they their game is a complete and utter mess in terms of gameplay.
Thing is i don't even want to speak much about the FIFA 20 demo, instead i will just upload clips later to show why this game has reached the end and we need a reset, for the good of people who love FIFA, this engine was on a highway to the hell we have in FIFA 20 as soon as the coped out of sorting out the pressure issue way back in FIFA 12, there was no, never and absolutely no point making 'tactical defending'. What EA needed to do was improve the fundamentals in regards to stamina (Obviously) and how players are allowed to control the ball depending on their ball control and dribbling stats and built animation sets on this depending on milestones between 90-85-80-75-70 as we have always seen in PES and sometimes not seen enough. This isn't easy its hard and takes time to do and test, but EA avoided it. They hid away from this and this lead to a reoccurring theme of some bullshit 'engine' added every year, bear in mind ontop of the core basic arcade game that FIFA 11 was, aaaaand which still needed to preserve the 'silky smooth animations' every year so the game remained liner and generic but every year to hide the flaws, to hide how shallow the game still was they removed, more and more freedom from the game.
FIFA 20 Two key points and then after that its just videos.
- Tactics in the demo at least are restricted and broken, you not allowed to change the formation in attacking, ultra attacking etc.. this is an attempt to hide how rigid, heavily on rails and scripted the gameplay is. I did managed to win 1 game out of 10 using non serious, experimental Chelsea teams against Real Madrid on legendary in the demo, so at least there was a challenge which kept me playing in using a weak Chelsea team vs the big side in Madrid. But every match i played of this fixture was the carbon copy same game, the only difference was some of my crazy experimental aggressive formations to see what the game was about. All Real Madrid did every game, every single game was just run down the wing and cross o the far post, every game!
- I remember back on FIFA 98, i'm sure of it, you could man mark, yet despite it being almost 21 years ago now and we are in a day where your phone could probably play FIFA 98 along with 94-97 on a $50 cheap smartphone with ease, there is no direct, man marking whatsoever in this game. No, instead in 'Role's you can be either 'Conservative, balanced or Aggressive. That shows just how far EA go to hide things, they have taken away the very basics for you in areas to force you to play in a certian way or to force you not to even care about any simulation aspect, the only simulation here is the wonderful graphics and atmosphere an how players line up and prepare to take corners etc..
Everyone hear speak about the same thing, players 'float' and 'skate'. Its because this is a pure animations first driven game, the physics are essentially non existent, the best way to describe it is 'canned', on rails. The priority in the programming here is making sure everything is smooth, that's it!
My post here is to remind everyone what FIFA used to do so well became you can see its totally lost now in single player vs the CPU.
This is what FIFA should go back to then work from there, just make the game fun again at least, its like what my man
@MafiaMurderBag says, it would be nice to have two really good football games doing different things for everyone to enjoy both, it would be nice to have more mind you
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