WC writes: Fifa is a game that quite regularly delights its loyal fan base; however it has a keener ability for infuriating them, upsetting many and leading to the destruction of their controllers, (I speak from experience: THAT WAS NOT A PENALTY!).
Despite this I have not lost hope in a game which I’ve played for more time than I have spent working, revising and talking to humans and intend to do the same when Fifa 13 comes out…Just as long as it cuts out this list of failures.
Some are technical, some would lead to expanding the gameplay and some are just gripes which bother the man who is emasculated each time his player falls over for no reason and the opposition meanders through to score.
It’s just not right.
Games Asylum: "Outdated football games are a common sight when scouring jumble sales, car boots and charity shops for bargain price video games. Entire shelves filled with decade-old FIFA and PES games spread across a dozen formats. Often they end up in bargain bins, sitting alongside unwanted celebrity fitness DVDs and seemingly random TV show box sets. But here’s the thing. Not all football games gathering dust in the likes of Oxfam are in fact worthless."
Just who is buying FIFA 13 on Wii U? We may never know, but there are more people buying that than there are Bayonetta 2 and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
Sonic Boom is riding off the popularity of the TV show; it's a bad game.
And as for FIFA?
Well, guess that goes to show that there's a lot of older gamers on Wii U that wanted FIFA, then; sports games generally do out-sell action games, and Platinum isn't known for large sales in the first place.
I'm not worried for Bayonetta. It'll hit that 1M mark by the middle of next year, surely, at its current pace.
are seriously trying to downplay Bayonetta 2 with sales
In Fails of the Weak #210, Jack and Geoff bring you fails in Sniper Elite 3, FIFA 13, Sportsfriends, Destiny, Halo: Reach, and FIFA 14.
1: less menus and screens please. Before I even get to start a match I've been pushing an endless amount of buttons and looking at too many different screens, followed by screens asking me if I'm sure...(!)
It's annoying as hell. Just get on with it and quick! I want to play!
2: Fix. The. Replays. !!!
Sometimes you score a great goal or you had a brilliant build-up, so you want to watch the replay, and it's only the last 10-15 seconds(!)
You save it to your HDD, and you can only watch it back as a video-file, i quite crappy quality, in the 'theater'.
You can upload it to the crappy EA Onlie site, but only a max of 5 replays, all just as short as the ones you can save to your HDD.
It's just a horrible old-fashioned mess. Either fix the EA site so it will actually become useful, or just integrate a Youtube-upload link, so I can upload it to my YT account!
And please, for the HDD replays, let us save it as the original replay, meaning we can watch it back as we can IN the game, so different cameras and all that. PES could do it 8 years ago. Why can't FIFA!?
3: A player-editor. Some players look like the real deal. Others are a complete joke. Let me go into the editor and 'fix' existing players, so when I have an Ismail Aissati in my team, I can actually make sure he looks like Aissati!
Again, PES had it 8 years ago. Why can't FIFA!?
Fifa 12 was honestly a disappointment for me. I really think Fifa tried way too hard with the whole 'new defensive system' - after many ranked games it felt like a massive marketing gimmick.
Chip through balls and the attrocious AI sometimes just costing you free goals cheapened the game immensely, not to mention how slow they made the game.. It's not meant to be paced perfectly 'like real life', it needs that tiny little mix of arcadey-ness so the better players can express the superior skill rather than relying on a blatantly imbalanced through-ball that can spack out defender AI.
Fifa 11 was a much better title when it came to purely gameplay aspects imho. Also I only play multiplayer so ya :p.
ont thing that pisses me off is the guy who comes and pushes the ball behind the line and no way to control him properly, plus de mega laggy menus.
Second thing is the 1 on 1 defending system is so crappy, try to take the ball from a player which is not moving at all, it's extremely frustrating to be able to do that. One day i was losing 2-1 the online opponent got scared and he went with the ball everytime near the line so the only way i could take the ball from him is by pushing it behind the line.
fifa 12 is there best effort yet,
but what is the power bar all about, its two small to see. fills up in about half a secound, its pointless, ive never scored one goal from a free kick, im starting to believe its impossible, and no im not searching youtube on how to take free kicks, its a flawed system, when you pick a lenient ref that should apply to the offsides, they call every inch offside, can we please pick more colours/ custom jerseys for teams, way, way, way to much menus, in the loading screen it loads up two players, the goalie and a player, in a four player match it should load up all players