Aye, I bought it a few minutes before I wrote that. Just felt like a moan.
FM is pretty much the only game I'll buy pre-release because they always do these discounts. The full price is too much though, but nobody pays that because half the people get it around Christmas probably around that £28 price.
Will defo be buying it. As is tradition. Off on Friday, but gonna get up at normal time and go down to Tesco and get FIFA. Then I'll have all day on it. (Likely jack it by 10am in a rage )
Fifa and FM18, and still loving the Baseball game i got anaw
On the subject of FM, I'm in 2020 on my Hearts file. Signed this boy from Rangers a couple of seasons ago and he's just come big this season. 13 goals in 9 games in the league. Cost me £800k with money over time and add-ons. Signed Jay Fulton and Ryan Gauld for buttons as well, amazing players in the SPL
(09-27-2017, 10:36 PM)Fire Mixtape Wrote: No bother mate, I've put a note in my calendar.
On the subject of FM, I'm in 2020 on my Hearts file. Signed this boy from Rangers a couple of seasons ago and he's just come big this season. 13 goals in 9 games in the league. Cost me £800k with money over time and add-ons. Signed Jay Fulton and Ryan Gauld for buttons as well, amazing players in the SPL
Not knocking it but don't really get it. I take it that's pretty randomised? Where's the skill? Like in another save could the boy have scored 2 in 9? What is it about your skill in the game that means he gets 13 in 9?
(09-27-2017, 10:45 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: Not knocking it but don't really get it. I take it that's pretty randomised? Where's the skill? Like in another save could the boy have scored 2 in 9? What is it about your skill in the game that means he gets 13 in 9?
How dare you knock my ability in a spreadsheet football game.
Well, he's a regen player so his stats and potential are randomised. The better the player stats the more likely he is to have a strong performance, to an extent it's all RNG but having better stats improves your chances of favorable outcomes. The challenge is getting the best possible players on the budget you have.
I wouldn't call FM a skill game, in the same way a theme park sim isn't skill based, but you can still be better than other people at it. So where I come into it is scouting players like that, I go look up individuals in particular teams that I think have good stats or suit the way I play or a position I need, sending scouts to find more info on them to make sure their hidden stats are good enough (more scouted a player is, the more you know about him), making sure the player is within budget and doing a deal. If you spend time doing that kind of stuff then you can build a team that's superior to all in the league over time.
For me, it's watching it come together over a few seasons, and it's satisfying to see players you signed or developed performing well. It's a background game I'll play when I've got the TV on or am listening to a podcast.
How dare you knock my ability in a spreadsheet football game.
Well, he's a regen player so his stats and potential are randomised. The better the player stats the more likely he is to have a strong performance, to an extent it's all RNG but having better stats improves your chances of favorable outcomes. The challenge is getting the best possible players on the budget you have.
I wouldn't call FM a skill game, in the same way a theme park sim isn't skill based, but you can still be better than other people at it. So where I come into it is scouting players like that, I go look up individuals in particular teams that I think have good stats or suit the way I play or a position I need, sending scouts to find more info on them to make sure their hidden stats are good enough (more scouted a player is, the more you know about him), making sure the player is within budget and doing a deal. If you spend time doing that kind of stuff then you can build a team that's superior to all in the league over time.
For me, it's watching it come together over a few seasons, and it's satisfying to see players you signed or developed performing well. It's a background game I'll play when I've got the TV on or am listening to a podcast.
Cheers. Makes a lot more sense now seeing it as an adult version of the Sims than a skill based football game like fifa. Probably my fault for comparing the two as I could never see the appeal of FM. I just couldn't handle losing knowing the results were computer generated.
(09-27-2017, 11:04 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: Cheers. Makes a lot more sense now seeing it as an adult version of the Sims than a skill based football game like fifa. Probably my fault for comparing the two as I could never see the appeal of FM. I just couldn't handle losing knowing the results were computer generated.
I never liked it as a kid, but got into it when I was probably 15-16. It's a simulation game but not "the sims", closer to a city builder or a theme park game than most other things but still unique in many respects.
I like the idea of FM but I can just never be arsed, if I was going to play it I'd want to go deep in to it but I can't be arsed doing that so I just don't play it.
I remember way back playing as Feyenoord and I had De Vries scoring a tank of goals, can't mind If I signed him or he came from Feyenoord but him and Van Hooijdonk were tearing shit up, Shinji Ono in midfield anaw, glory days.
Back in the glory days of FM09(?) I was winning the Premiership and tearing up the CL with Boston United in c. 2020, with two young unknowns called Jese and Roberto Firmino tearing it up behind a regen Brazilian striker, and current Queen of the South goalkeeper Alan Martin in nets.
Mind in one of the first years where everyone switched from CM to FM there was a glitch where the big names would be released by their clubs at c. 33/34 and you could pick them up cheap, but their stats didn't actually go down. My Hearts side won the Champions League with a midfield of Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard and Ballack, and an extra-time winner from Jamie McAllister.
Think Dank's right that you need to get a few seasons into it before it really gets interesting. Have bought the last couple of years' editions but the first season or two are pretty dull and been busier the last couple years so haven't managed to get into them at all. Will try not to rashly buy this year's one as something to do on Boxing Day and not touch it again for months.