I'll still be picking up the game on the 27th. I'm not expecting it to be great, I've seen the BETA and it did not look good! ....but I'm still curious to give it a run myself anyway.
For a stretch I quite liked 22 NG, and I can still get enjoyment out of it - but it's far from perfect. Overall 22 NG for me was an improvement on 21, which was the worst FIFA I've ever played. Expectations are pretty low but let's see it.
I've also been playing a lot of NBA 2k23 on ps5 - and as
@saturator said, that's a brilliant game and shows where we could be if we wanted to create a true simulation. There's no real sacrifice in responsiveness for animations, the mechanics are unforgiving (in a really good way) and in a sport where there's only 5 players on the pitch/court, your teammates actually MOVE!
Oh and as
@papinho81 said, I'm still at peace with the situation because I have the old games to go back to - especially our treasured 16
Yes fifa 21 NG was the worst FIFA since FIFA 17. Nothing to save!
If you enjoy FIFA 22, you will really enjoy FIFA 23, il it looks like FIFA 23 beta.
Not marvellous, but there are a lot of tweaks very noticables whom help gameplay to be less unatural, less frenetic. Really new animations are greats more fluid but in trailers I haven't see the difference. GK look shit on trailers too but they don't if you pushing the sliders to 65.
Vanilla game could be very bad, with amazing scores fest if lacenty is there like the beta.
FUTO is really really assistés and you have more freedom on FUMA than befor. Thanks to ball physics. On FUTO it's vert scriptes, it's a direct Line for passes with a unrealistic speed when you kick it. It didn't happen on FUMA or rarely.
I have made 4 divisions matches and international matches. The fun is equal. More technics on international but more battles, more errors on D4.
The first thing to change is the rythme of the game. Slowing down passes, speed and shoots and some nice animations you will see. Even inertia is there. Turn back is really well done.
Stats are the key to judge sliders.
If you have a score of 4-5 with 25 shoots for the CPU, you failed.
If you have 2-1 between City and Liverpool with 15-16 shoots on goals you succeed.
My tips :
* Made 5-6 matchs on vanilla with differents level if teams and conditions: low division, international and Elite teams and Sunny/snow/rain
* Look at the stats to know what's wrong
* Try ti change 1 or 2 values in a riw, not more to see what happened on the pitch
*If it works you can change others sliders. If not, change by 5 the value ( except acceleration)
The 3 differents spirints it 's a very nice feature if you manage to tweak a little accélération. 46/48 is a nice value. Mbappé have of course an Real advantage but Van Dick with his physic can win the duel.