The gratest satisfaction I finally had..

[gigiuzzo]

Usa (me)-Germany world championship semi-final (world class difficulty gameplay and keeper):

83. minute: Usa 1 : Germany 0

than Germany had an un-credible action with a foward dribbling 3 defenders and shooting from outside the penalty area: my keeper saves, the ball goes to my defender I kick it full power, but NATURALLY it goes on the feet of a Ger-striker who shoots and scores. USA 1: Ger 1

89. minute: after a perfect action with a perfect through ball my striker is alone in front of the keeper who strangely does not run towards me and I think "i got you": without haste I calibrate a shot in the upper right corner 3/4 of power and the god-spiderman-keer punches it away on the feets of Klose, who is outside the penalty area. Klose starts running and my midfield-men try to takle him: he is now surrounded by 4 of my players, I press the tackle key but nothing happens, the sliding tacjke key and nothing happens, I push him and nothing happens he dribbles all of them as they even didn't were there, he runs towards my area and 2 of my defenders tackle him but nothing happens he is now alone in fromt of my keeper, shoots a stupid mid-height shot and the ball goes inside. USA 1 - GER 2. I have not the time to make a pass after the game is restarted and the wristle blows. I've lost.

I quit the game, and uninstalled it.
Now I am satisfied.

 

[destrones]

Haha thats because you shall not attempt to beat Germany. Football is a 11 vs 11 player game, but at the end, Germany always win, always...

However, i understand your anger, and you are right. Fifa 08 gameplay is one of the worst i have seen in my entire gamer life. A very big decline from fifa 07 gameplay that was simply excellent.

And yet another frustration... id just scored 2 very beautiful goals, when i tried to save the replay of one, the fuccking game just crashed and i lost a perfect game and those pretty goals as well... WTF???

 

[Styphelus]

You must be mad!!! Fifa 08 has one of the best gameply models ever. In fifa 07 it was really easy to score and mount wave after wave of attacks.

Fifa 08 has to be played just like a real football match. i play in an amateur league and let me tell you that the real thing is just as frustrating. 2 nights ago we were loosing 2-1 with 10 min left and somehow we ended up scoring 2 goals in 10 min to win the game. Not only that but one of our midfielders went by everyone in the other teams defense and scored, so how is that possible? And we have had games were we lost with just seconds left in the clock. It happens! It's frustrating for the team that throws away a game like that but it's completly realistic.

Fifa 08 is no different. Just because you think the game is playing unfair, doesn't mean it would never happen. Problem is you probably let your guard down and then when the computer scored, you got too upset and started pressing, trying to score another goak and that could have created another defensive lapse.

That is way the world lives football. It's an emotianal game where anything can happen at any time.

 

[destrones]

Its stupid and unrealistic that a 50/50/50 team plays you as hard as a 90/90/90 team. Its just out of any reality. In Fifa 07 was easy to score because by playing it more and more you master the controls and become good, so if playing and doing the fair thing it will be easy to score. In fifa 08 doesnt matter how good your team, your player or you are, even if you perform a move that wouldnt fail under any logic, the CPU keeper does his magic and teleports to the ball. WTF is that?

You all say FIFA 07 is so easy. I want to ask you at what difficulty level and what teams you play with and against. Playing legendary i trash almost any team by 7,8 or even 13-0. Thats very natural because my team is 99/99/97. But if i play a team with an overall over 90 (you may need to create it yourself) its more likely im gonna have a very hard game, but CPU players dont do any magic they just REALLY play WELL, and FAIR.

The things you describe about goals at the last minute and etc. also happen in 07 and no need to do any magic tricks. Fifa 08 gameplay sucks so im looking forward to see a patch or something that makes it like in 07 or similar.

 

[No_11_]

Haha thats because you shall not attempt to beat Germany. Football is a 11 vs 11 player game, but at the end, Germany always win, always...

It's not the first time that i hear that...! xD

 

[Muzzsjm]

I think you're a twit the put it nicely!

You expected a far better team to not attack you in the closing minutes of a game? I play real football quite a bit and I know for a fact if my team was better and we were 1-0 down we'd really go for it in the last few minutes.

I think Germany doing that to the USA is quite realistic after all where did USA finish in World Cup 2006????? and where did Germany finish... 3rd!

Ok the game can be a little frustrating with strikers beating several defenders but you need to practice tackling and movement of defenders. Try going defensive or brining in a holding midfielder to close the gap. There's so many options here, defensive style IE zonal/man marking etc, force players back or even add an extra defender using formattion changes.

 

[Jake Bullet]

Gigiuzzo, this all sounds so familiar. The CPU scoring 2 or more goals in the final minutes out of nowhere. So annoying when you've dominated the match, scored 1 or 2 goals from 20+ shots, CPU maybe 2 or 3 shots... It looks like the game decides it is gonna score goals no matter what you do, you can't stop the attacker. Off course this can happen in real life, but every match, come on.

Actually it is quite funny to see 4 or 5 defenders chasing the suddenly superfast CPU attacker and never catch up, lucky for you you can control the keeper a bit, once I got a red card

Anyway, the game has its good points too .. erm.. I guess

 

[destrones]

Anyway, the game has its good points too .. erm.. I guess

Of course it has. The armbands are good.

Hahaha

 

[Styphelus]

Dude, if you don't like it, don't play it. And if you are not going to play it, than please leave these forums.

Fifa 08 is the way it is. Don't like that than you can play PES, or any of the previous 12 fifa (not counting world cup and champ league and road to world cup and euro games).

Or play Wii.

Either way, I find it har to believe that you can win by such huge margins in Legendary mode in Fifa 07 and can't stop an attacker from the oposing team in 08. If you are that good and still loose in 08, than those of us playing in Semi-Amateur should be getting killed by the CPU. However, that doesn't happen, does it?

 

[bruno167]

If you think Fifa07 is too easy it´s because you didn´t try NK gameplay WE2008.

 

[amifla]

Dude, if you don't like it, don't play it. And if you are not going to play it, than please leave these forums.

Fifa 08 is the way it is. Don't like that than you can play PES, or any of the previous 12 fifa (not counting world cup and champ league and road to world cup and euro games).

Or play Wii.

Either way, I find it har to believe that you can win by such huge margins in Legendary mode in Fifa 07 and can't stop an attacker from the oposing team in 08. If you are that good and still loose in 08, than those of us playing in Semi-Amateur should be getting killed by the CPU. However, that doesn't happen, does it?

TOTALLY AGREE. If you don't like it, don't play it. Stop with all this.

 

[amifla]

If you think Fifa07 is too easy it´s because you didn´t try NK gameplay WE2008.

Bruno, really Fifa 07 is too easy with or without NK's Gameplay. This is the sad true.

 

[=Ultra=]

Tastes and colours differ. To me Fifa08 is the crapiest of all Fifas and no I don't play PES either. To some it's the best, everybody is entitled to his/her opinion.

 

[crswind17]

Either way, I find it har to believe that you can win by such huge margins in Legendary mode in Fifa 07 and can't stop an attacker from the oposing team in 08.

This is happening to me also.I could simply thrash fifa07's legend difficulty, 8-10 goals were no surprises.
But what the hell can i do to stop the cpu from scoring?
If the CPU wants to score, it will score.I just exited from a Deportivo-Sevilla game, because of cpu's crappy goals, it couldn't score from close range, so it did from long range, one from Kanoute, and one from dunnowho, but both were so sh!t goals i simply quit and won't even play it a while.

This game is not even worthy to f_ck my brain up with it

 

[destrones]

Dude, if you don't like it, don't play it. And if you are not going to play it, than please leave these forums.

dude, if you dont like my posts, dont read them. If you cant understand this is a DISCUSSION forum and therefore opinions differ from each other then leave YOU these forums. I dont tell YOU what to do with YOUR life, dont tell ME what to do with MINE. I have the right to give away my opinion and thats not your business. If you get an orgasm playing fifa 08 its your problem, you can grab it and shove it into your ass and i dont give a shiit. So LEAVE ME ALONE.

TOTALLY AGREE. If you don't like it, don't play it. Stop with all this.

the same to you, If you don't like it, don't READ it. You moron.

This is happening to me also.I could simply thrash fifa07's legend difficulty, 8-10 goals were no surprises.

As long as you keep playing prefabricated teams that are far weaker than yours its gonna be always like that. Create a team with over 90/90/90 and play agains it. Then come back and tell me it was easy to beat...

Either way, I find it har to believe that you can win by such huge margins in Legendary mode in Fifa 07 and can't stop an attacker from the oposing team in 08. If you are that good and still loose in 08, than those of us playing in Semi-Amateur should be getting killed by the CPU. However, that doesn't happen, does it?

thats why im saying gameplay in fifa 08 its totally fuccked up. I never said i cant stop and attacker in 08, but i cant score more than 1 or 2 goals either yet against teams far weaker than mine and performing really good combinations and moves. I can pretty dodge the defenders and make my way to the goal despite CPU cheats but its useless because the keeper is unrealistically invincible. If it was a keeper with an overall over 90, fine, but ANY keeper even those whose skills are around 50 are like if they had a magnet for balls wedged onto their hands. Its ridiculous. Lower their level you say? then ALL the keepers even those who are supposed to be the good ones become stupid. Its that lack of balance and logic what makes fifa 08 gameplay so bad.

 

[Duong]

Nah, I've now realized that the damn game just try to force us to play better more than before. After some trying until I almost uninstalled the game out of frustration and boredom, I've finally got all the skills I need to pwn World Class difficulty and World Class GK. It's simpler than you think when you've actually found out there weaknesses.

Use your midfielders to attract the defenders' attention, then pass the ball to a free striker, no one will even chase after you. When you oppose the GK, just aim for a weak low corner shot when the GK is trying to approach you or when you've gotten nearly inside the 6-yard box you'll almost always score (btw I can score in more different ways now). If you're not confident with your shooting, when the GK is approaching you, hit D+S+either a left or right direction to do a fake shot, he'll always be fooled and now all you have to do is to shoot the ball into an empty goal.

I'm not sure how you guys are defending, but if you're holding D all the time then your defenders will always chase behind the ball and you'll never get it. I suggest you try running across the path your opponent is running and start holding D when you get near him, and quickly release D when you feel the ball, you'll most probably get it, if not then you'd have cleared the ball for a throw-in. Maybe you should also choose the player to control better so that you don't have to run all the time. In fact if you run (and fast) you can't get the ball as well as when you're only moving slightly or slowly or even when you're not moving at all.

And CPU strikers are actually not so good, it only depends on how you play your GK. When their striker is about to get past your last 1 or 2 defenders, don't bother defending anymore. Start holding W and call your GK up. Their striker will most of the time shoot (75% trying a chip shot) and miss the target, if not your GK will either get the ball in his feet or punch his shot away (just like what the CPU GK does to you). There're only slight chances of him scoring a goal if your GK closes down fast.

Oh yeah and keep the ball for reaaaallly long when you're in possession. If you let them have more possession they'll push you more and more.

Just so you know the game can be played quite normally, not so frustrating anymore for me. Last match I used Valencia against Liverpool on World Class difficulty + GK, I won 2-0 with 54% possession and 13 shots (9 on target) while they could only shoot 2 off target.
And there definitely is a huge difference between 90/90/90 and 50/50/50. Trust me.

Keep trying maybe it's not so bad after all.

 

[crswind17]

As long as you keep playing prefabricated teams that are far weaker than yours its gonna be always like that. Create a team with over 90/90/90 and play agains it. Then come back and tell me it was easy to beat...

I never played with a, as you say, 'prefabricated' team
Leeds United - Birmingham City 10-3, 3,5 star vs 3,5 star.I wouldn't say that far weaker.
I restarted this game though, i didn't want to win with an unrealistic goal difference.

Duong, i'm happy you already found your 'skills' as you say
The thing is, i always have my huge chances, i could simply beat the crap out of fifa08 also, but the cpu's goalie always prevents it.Sure that's why a goalie is on the pitch, but this...pathetic.
What makes me mad, is when i have chances, what a 3rd class strikes would finish in style, but none of them is a goal because of the cheating goalie.After all these chances, the cpu comes forward once, shoots from 30 meters away, and it goes in.

These kind of things happen once or twice a season, but not every game for cryin' out loud
I exit the game, not because i'm a sore loser, but because of the huge un-fairness.If the CPU wants to win, do it in a fair way, not like this...

 

[LUCCADRACCO]

TOTALLY AGREE. If you don't like it, don't play it. Stop with all this.

Totally agree too. I love fifa 08.

 

[destrones]

I never played with a, as you say, 'prefabricated' team
Leeds United - Birmingham City 10-3, 3,5 star vs 3,5 star.I wouldn't say that far weaker.
I restarted this game though, i didn't want to win with an unrealistic goal difference.

Both Leeds and B. City are prefabricated teams, that means that they exist in the original game, in other words, that its not a customized/created team by you. So create a team, only with players above 95 and challenge this team preferably not at home and you will see what im talking about... I just won a tournament where the last 4 matches were against 4 of my created teams. All of them above 95. Believe me, whereas i easily trashed Olympiakos 11-0 in one game (in 4min of halftime), i had a horrible time against my teams. Actually i lost 3 times in a row against one of them, something that never, never happens, not even once... i never lose but this time i had to rematch in order not to get eliminated from the tournament and it was till the 4th time i managed to defeat them, 3-0 but it was not easy at all...

Totally agree too. I love fifa 08.

the same to you, if you love fifa 08 its your business and i dont give a shiit. I dont like it, so what?

 

[yaccos]

Love fifa 08 me too. Peace.