FIFA 08 Wish List - Current Generation

this might sound stupid but I think that fans should have pitch invasions at the end of the season if they win the league and another thing have you ever noticed when you look at the home and away end theres no police so say that happenede in real life at a millwall v chelsea game think of it it would be a riot
I would also like to see more british stadiums in the game.

most needed is the

free kicks like in fifa06 in 07 you cant drill it across the ground and they are always shiot

Scottish Football League

this really needs to be included, its all good playing a few seasons in the scottish premier league but with few teams it gets boring a repetative with clubs relegating and moving around it would be great

maybe the next scottish leagues as well

european leagues and clubs

russia
greece
scotland2
france3
germany3
bulgaria
israel
republic ireland

asia/oceania leagues and clubs

a-league (aus)
j-league (jap)
china

american leagues and clubs

brazil2
argentina1/2
chile
ecudor
mexico2
hondorus

african leagues and clubs

cameroon
south africa
morocco

better sponsers - more money etc
clubs actually trying to buy you into their club as a manager instead of you choosing, offers etc

better stadium graphics , seeing subs bench,ref etc.
more control over scouting and youth teams and money (sponserships)
. making the upgrades more noticable so if your fitness coach is on 10 or something your players shouldnt tire unless injured.different manager faces and more options for the managers.

i can think of moree.....

my wishlist!

Im not sure if this should be posted in current gen or next gen so i'll post it in both, sorry for the inconvenience....
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Some of these wishes may already be posted by other users, oh well, let's repeat!

# Player editor
let's face it fifa 07 have crappy faces, i would really enjoy having a better editor with more options, also for existing players! we all know how footballers love changing their haircut! This would also be useful for players with fifa's standard faces, shame on you fifa for forgetting david silva etc.

no really, put it in!

# Creating a new team
more options in kit design, colors, fonts, badges etc. also maybe an option to put a sponsor logo on the kit, this should also be considered when playing a season with a real team. for example if arsenal gets a new sponsor the emirates logo should be replaced by the new sponsors logo (option to choose color of the logo)

may i add that this is a good way for EA to cash in on some extra money from bigger companies!

# Money, money, money!
now i realise that this is nof fifa manager but hey! we can do better!

What happens when a "crappy" team from a crappy league plays in the champions league and reaches let's say the quarter finals?
They get alot of sponsor-money from tv or whatever, this should be included when playing manager mode so you don't have to play with chelsea just to afford a descent striker!

# Superstar mode
creating a young player, training, getting signed and in the end become one of the best!
i'll let EA sort out the details

and the last one, maybe not the most important but a lot of fun!

# Roman Abramovich mode!

Buy a smaller team, put in loads of cash and rule your league!
maybe not for everyone but let's face it, it's the future!

btw.

does EA ever read these posts or did i just throw away a moment in my ever so important life?

ps. i know, my english is fantastic!

for fifa 08 i would like to see better teams for the rest of the world, which i would like to see NK Siroki Brijeg (BiH). and mostly the rest what the other ppl have said.

Fifa 08

There are a couple of things that I think would make FIFA alot better.

1> I better game scheduling system, so you don't get 2 games in a day, or three games in 2 days.

2> Also explainations from your players as to why they have low morale or are refusing a new contract.

Does anyone think people at fifa read this forum?

My Fifa 08 Recommendations

I agree with everything that 20Legend, mcdonry, and dipset say. Also you could see a fan run on the pitch and jump on a player after scoring a goal then being taken away by a police man.

You should be able to have the sponsor you choose on your kit, and be able to choose the design of a selection of kits for the next season.

But I also think that they should team up with Konami and make a game called 'FifaLution' lol (Fifa Evolution). So the customing, the way the players run, jump and everything, except free kicks and corners, they should stay the same as Fifa. The Menus, and Game Modes should be the same as Fifa as they are so clear and ace.

The major things i'd like to see changed is being able to have more control over editing current players, getting rid of Anton Ferdinand's stupid 'tache', more hair options and facial options available.

Also I would love to see tattoo's for the first time, all they need is arm, forearms and such, just where they can be seen. Considering that alot of players now have them I think this would be a major step towards a even more realistic game.

I'd like to see a wider range of kit changes and editing current teams, including sponsorship, badges and kit logos. So when the season ends you can change to keep up to date.

Also I'd love to see the squads going up to maybe 40 players rather than 30, that way more reserve and fringe players can be put on the teams.

Balls and ad boards for specific competitions. If you are playing in the UEFA CL I wanna see the official ball and adboards instead of the generic ones for the club playing at home. Also I dont want to hear "First goal of the competition... that suprises me thought he had 1 or 2 already" in the first bloody game of the competition!

robsaich;2309635 said:

I agree with everything that 20Legend, mcdonry, and dipset say. Also you could see a fan run on the pitch and jump on a player after scoring a goal then being taken away by a police man.

You should be able to have the sponsor you choose on your kit, and be able to choose the design of a selection of kits for the next season.

But I also think that they should team up with Konami and make a game called 'FifaLution' lol (Fifa Evolution). So the customing, the way the players run, jump and everything, except free kicks and corners, they should stay the same as Fifa. The Menus, and Game Modes should be the same as Fifa as they are so clear and ace.

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We must have the same dreams at night

The improvement i'd like to see made to Fifa 08 are a major change of the free kick and corner system, the one in 07 is terrible, i aint scored one goal from a free kick, corners are just as bad.

i still remember when i played fifa99.. when i press Q the player will do bad action like tackle the cpu player's knee/ waist, push the cpu player.. when alt+Q the player will suddenly fall down (pretend that they being push by someone).
the gameplay of course when we select world class the cpu players really do more action skills that works.. not like recent fifa which they do more stupid actions n unnecessary moves on the field. the new engine used on fifa07 is the best football game engine but really need to be fully utilize. come on ea!

Why do these threads exist? It's not like EA are going to take any of the ideas in even if they say they are....

please ea autosave
cl 07 is terrible in saving data

2 PLAYER VS COMPUTER cooperative play in DirectIP or LAN.

Please!
Please!

Please!

For me if the gameplay is improved would be the biggest thing. I would like to be able to switch off player switching completely. Even when you turn it down fully it still switches and as I play mostly online it drives me mad.
The auto clearance drives me mad too when I'm trying to do a quick pass under pressure. When you have two defenders with two attackers coming against them, one defender is pressuring the ball and you are controlling the other one covering the other attacker, but as soon as the ball is passed the covering defender makes a scrited dash or turn and you are out of position. Very annoying.
And when you have a midfielder slected but the attacker has beaten him so you try to select a defender, it just switches between the chasing midfeilders instead of switching to the defenders.
Its poor programming and testing. Let me switch to the players I need to do the job.
I need less scripting too. In the area when you are defending after a shot and the ball is parried around the six yard box, the defenders are scrited to freeze and sometimes they just stay frooze watching the crowd behind the goal until the attacker or keeper gets the ball. Is this football?

But EA wont pay a scrap of notice as been said.

My biggest wish would be to see more management features in manager mode. Simulation of other leagues running concurrent to your league, simulation & scheduling of reserve games, that kind of stuff. Incorporate alot of stuff from Fifa Manager into Fifa Football and you've got a way better game with way more replayability.

My "short" FIFA 08 Wish List

spurs21;2311055 said:

The major things i'd like to see changed is being able to have more control over editing current players, getting rid of Anton Ferdinand's stupid 'tache', more hair options and facial options available.

Also I would love to see tattoo's for the first time, all they need is arm, forearms and such, just where they can be seen. Considering that alot of players now have them I think this would be a major step towards a even more realistic game.

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I agree that more player edit options are a must for more personalisation of the game (a reason why I used to adore FIFA 99 ).

Now for my short list of recommendations:

GAMEPLAY

1) I would prefer an interactive game, with real players' reactions to the game and responses that involve the gamer. You remember FIFA 04? Where dead balls used to have a virtual directional pad (U,D,L,R) on the screen allowing you to choose from diverse playing scheme? FIFA can implement that same sort of thing after an action (e.g. a narrowly missed goal) where the U button will make the manager encourage the players, L make the manager shout at the shooter not to play by himself, etc.. These may not have oly graphical effects, but e.g. the U (encourage) will boost team morale, L (shouting) decrease individual performance, higher chances of missing etc. Such situations where this sort of thing might occur are the times where cutscenes are seen during the game (missing goals, fouls, throwins, and maybe even a "rare" fight taking place some distance from the ball, and I say rare because in reality they tend to become a tad more common in hotter games);

2) More involvement from the opposition. Say you cross dangerously well. An opponent may try to make a deliberate handsball with a combinaton of keys (say L2 and R2). I'm sorry to say that I have been disappointed with the interpretation of handsballs in FIFA games, with such fouls often being punished by nothing more than a simple freekick. FIFA 08 can implement such fouls with diverse situations, where players can be pnished from a simple freekick to send-offs. Also, point 1) can be newly implemented here, where e.g. U makes the player who fouled argue with the ref, getting a higher chance of booking/send-off, L makes the whole team argue with ref, with possibilities of multiple bookings/send-offs, U makes the players stay passive, and R makes the team + manager argue with ref, with again a whole range of possibilities of sanctions;

3) In UEFA CL 04/05 it was claimed that the ref is prone to take wrong decisions (no offsides given, ignoring fouls...). I have NEVER seen such wrong decisions. The ref seemed to give fouls for even the most minuscule of offsides. A "decision range" (of a similar type to the penalty shot meter in WC06) can be implemented (no need to be seen on screen, of couse) for the refs (and it's about time we see some diverse linesmen and a decent fourth official) such that the better refs have less chance to make mistakes (but are still capable of making them), whilst the worse ones will be highly prone to making such mistakes;

4) In-game involvement may be improved, with more fouls and opponent pressure occurring near the side lines (as in TV), more realistic aerial challenges (with players elbowing thanks to user controls), and freekicks for dangerous play, something I have, to date, never seen in a FIFA game;

5) More responsive games. In previous FIFAs, hot games against the big of the league, or maybe a cup knockout in its advanced stages, tended to bring about more fans to the stadiums in play. More responsive action to these types of games could involve: fights breaking out (even distances away from the ball), dirtier fouls (something which may depend on the teams' defending mentalities - again, a sign of live response), more responsive crowds in reaction to important goals or bad fouls (cheering, jeering, etc.), and a sort of "attendance statistic" which works out more fans of one important team than the other (resulting in more chants to their team and more booing, jeering and whistles for the other team during different ball possessions);

6) We need more realistic in-game response and reactions from the players themselves. Take positioning, for example. How can players like Roberto Carlos or Zambrotta first race all the way to the corner flag of the opposition, lose the ball, have their respective team commit a foul and "magically" see them flanked on the back of the pitch when time has just passed enough for the ball to be placed on the freekick spot?! Where are the quick freekicks? To pass a ball to a teammate a minimum of 3 to 5 seconds must first pass! Where are the counterattacks? With such positioning as mentioned above, it's inexistent, of course! AND how can a computer player first race up all the length of the pitch, loses the ball, and gets involved in a counterattack by following the opponent with the same speed (if not faster!) and stamina?! Or are they taking virtual steroids?!!

GRAPHICS

1) The graphics in FIFA 07 were convincing enough for me to believe that the game has its own aesthetic improvements, especially for the new plethora of animations we've seen. BUT I don't understand how one animation is linked to the other in the same way as in FIFA 2000! Fluency of animation is bad. A player losing a ball is unbalanced by his opponent, but keeps the same, linear orientation? That's quite previous-gen;

2) The way in which the players turn about at normal pace. I am absolutely certain that no player turns each little turn EXACTLY by 45° each time! But in FIFA 07 and the older family (well, FIFA 2002 had players which did not run exactly like that, but it was a question of camera choice of play), we got that all the time! How about some new, more natural directions of play which eventually turn out to the desired one? Like a sort of small circular movement? I think that would be more natural;

3) Change of pace using R2 was much convincing, IMHO, in the defensive stages of the game, but not much when it comes to hanging of possession. In fact, the players, rather than hang to the ball, tend more to lose it;

MODES OF PLAY

1) The Career Mode in FIFA has been solid ever since its first appearance in FIFA 04 (my first ever team in Career Mode being Ternana). There was a glitch, however, in the choice of teams as from FIFA 05 onwards, where you had to start with the lower classes. Changing the line-up of the first teams to the worse reserves allowed one to pick up teams like Inter or Man.Utd as their starting stone! Why don't FIFA just start it off from the lower leagues, period?

2) A lot of cups are available to play in FIFA games, but each of the cups ends in the same obscure way. Why do the players just hop around the stadium for a minute or so when they win a cup?! On TV, we do see them hopping around, for a quarter of an hour - that is, before the medals awards. Speaking of which, the set-up must take place, and a podium set up is the least we like to see. The losing team is still awarded a silver medal (including the manager), then come the referees, with their special prizes, and finally, each of the winning team's players, including reserves (still in their Carlos*ets), keepers without gloves, and manager. All this is followed by THE CUP ITSELF. It could be a small, football-shaped crystal orb, or it could be the heavy, silver Champions League Cup - it still deserves importance, not to mention a decent appearance in the cutscene. How about some fireworks? THe importance of the cup may change things such as these, from little (such as paperworks) or nothing, to a full set of synchronized fireworks in the team's colour (for the more prestigious leagues and cups). After awards, players may be seen giving off interviews to TV journalists, or making all sorts of joyous celebrations, including a round-the-pitch run.

That said for cups, leagues could still have that sort of thing (e.g. the Bundesliga shield, or the Serie A league), with maybe even the players wearing a special edition of their kits in view of their newly won league (as in Serie A often happens).

3) If we need more teams, then at least let us balance them! Why do we get a lot of English sides, but no Second Division in the rarer leagues? Come to speak of that, why doesn't the Italian league have the Serie C1, C2 and D leagues implemented? What about the others (France, Germany, Spain)? A good idea (because here I know I am requesting too much) is that of creating continent-based versions of FIFA (Europe, Asia, Americas etc, or UEFA, CONMEBOL, CONACAF etc.) which will base themselves with the region concerned. I am Maltese, and would have LOVED to see at least the national squad in the games.

4) Is it impossible to have a decent player editor? EA, we would LOVE it. Why can't we have players who stick to their appearance throughout all the season? In FIFA 99, if a long-haired player shaved his head, the first thing I did when I came to know of it was load the game and fix that appearance right away. If the editing option for these details is really impossible for the custom (not generic-faced) players, a good idea for the online consoles would be that of updating the game in this aspect as well, so a download patch for players' appearances would be available in the lounge every now and then, say at least at each of the transfer windows.

5) Speaking of editing, I would again LOVE to have some detailed editing for players. It's worth mentioning twice. And please, it's useless for us to be able to edit our Created-Player-Nobody's nose when it's other in-game players' noses which I want to edit! The union of the two would be really powerful, and of course it gives greater realism to the aesthetic aspect of the game.

6) Last, but not least, I would ADORE a TEAM EDITOR, complete with sponsor creations, editing of each part in great detail, and the like! But I have requested so much, I wouldn't really mind if this were not implemented in FIFA 08 .

Well, I believe that's all there is to it for the moment. I know it's not short, but I mentioned all my ideas here .

Punk Sk8r;2324082 said:

Why do these threads exist? It's not like EA are going to take any of the ideas in even if they say they are....

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yh right I dont think EA view this topic but still people like to express their opinions mate.