The football debate reaches fever pitch...
Gameplayer: As regular as clockwork, that time has come again where football fans the world over must make the call on which simulation of their favourite sport, FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer, to invest in. For the better part of this decade, the choice has been quite easy with Konami's PES providing a far superior gameplay experience. But this year EA and their FIFA game have made some great improvements to their title that has rattled the faith of even the most hardened PES fanatic.
GamingLives mourns the decline of socialising in online games and explores why.
" If an individual wants to include a social side to their gaming, they must now do so in dedicated communities, gaming clans and guilds, or by restricting themselves to their own friendship groups. No longer can it be found in our everyday experiences of the games we play online."
The reason why no one chats in-game anymore is because of three types of people:
1) The assholes that take the game too seriously and insult anyone that's better or worse than them,
2) The trolls that do nothing but teamkill or play loud, obnoxious music through the mic, and
3) The prepubescent snot-nosed children that are a mix of everything above.
If gamers actually had respect for one another and did their best to keep a clean competitive online environment, then maybe more people would be willing to plug their mics in. The odds of that ever happening, though? Slim. Very slim. It's a fact that being an anonymous entity online gives people a scapegoat to be immature; it gives them a mask to hide behind, and it's common for gamers to abuse that anonymity. Half of the stuff gamers say to each other while playing a game, they would never say face-to-face. Try going up to a random person at a gas station or shopping mall and call them a "d***-sucking f***** n*****" or talk about their mother. Odds are they'd deck you in an instant. But online? There's nothing they can do. It's essentially a Get Out Of Jail Free card.
It's a sad reality, but that's just the way it is -- and as much as we want it to change, it probably never will.
TGC writes: There are those that like to argue whether you are a Fifa gamer or a Pro Evolution Soccer gamer. I’m going to take it one step further and say your either a football gamer or a non football gamer. The fact of the matter is a new game comes out every year with possibly the slightest difference from the previous game and they release it onto the shelves in quantities thinking that they’ve made something new and improved. I really think they should hold a prize for anyone who can spot the difference between FIFA 09 and FIFA10 because I’m really struggling.
I use to buy every sports game I was interested in madden,MLB,nba and wwe along few others and I remember buying playing for few days than thinking why I paid full price for this. Than one year about 4 years ago I said no more and I have never bought another sports game at launch sometimes I do buy me when they $20 on craiglist of sale but that's barely
IMO sports games don't do enough to justify a fully price and that's just my opinion
If 2k can sell nfl 2k5 for $19.99 and make a profit than why are games today with less content are selling for full 60? No wonder why EA ran to nfl and bought the exclusive rights
FIFA
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Sports games shuld be every 2 years and in between dlc and more updates and stuff like tournaments
If people are willing to buy them then whats the problem? i think its cod or mw123 you should be talking about, the new pes and fifa look good this year.
There's no doubting that Gamerscore has been a phenomenal success for this generation of consoles. Microsoft's scoring system has proven to be an addictive mechanism that has incentivised gamers to keep playing even when a game is completed. So much was its success, that Sony even got into the act with the belated introduction of Trophies.
But if there's one thing we hate more than anything else, it's those odd-numbered achievements that mess up your score. Here's our pick of five of the offenders
... ever since ISS on the SNES I've been a konami football fan. I LOVE Pro Evo. I STILL play Pro Evo pretty much every day.
That said, Konami isnt getting my money this year. Most likely, it will go to EA for Fifa, or I'll skip it completely this year.
Why isnt Konami getting my money!? Simple. This is 2008 now. And Konami is still serving us a souped up last-gen game.
Everything is fine, but not great. They STILL dont have the licenses we want. They STILL havent fixed many of the small problems we have with the game. They STILL have the crappy menus and such.
It just seems like Konami is lazy, or that they dont REALLY care. They know it will sell. And they're right, PES2009 will once again sell well.
However, not to me. I'm not spending 60 euros on a poor effort like this. They dont DESERVE it. They havent done enough. This new game isnt WORTH 60 euro.
I'm not saying Fifa is a better game. TBH, I'm not so sure about that. What I do know is that EA HAS improved tremendously over the last few years! They HAVE made an effort. They DO deliver a finished and polished next-gen game.
Konami hasnt, and just for that, I'll be skipping PES2009. Konami really needs to get their act together. Cause the way the PES series is going, the fans are all slowly moving over to see what EA has to offer them instead.
I am definitely not the voice of reason, but, I've become accustomed to FIFA's gameplay and style. I will probably stick with the franchise and I am excited about their upcoming title. Can't wait to meet you guys on the pitch.
gota tell you guys fifa09 is amazing, this years fifa owned pes seriously
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hoping for a better choice next year! FIFA08 still got a lot of my playtime