Hey guys...
Hopefully as mentioned, EA producers will be reading this forum and seeing what us fans would like to have on the games.
It seems easy for us to request thousands of things and hope that they implement them, but I believe most of us understand the hard thing that it is to completely revamp some situations on the game while trying to continue the FIFA style.
It’s probably hard for them in the spam of a year to tweak gameplay, update player names and faces, as well as player style of play and be able to implement all of the other changes we’ve been requesting.
Regardless, I believe that it’s valid to request a lot of things and if it doesn’t come in this console generation, let’s hope it comes true in the next console generation.
My request list will be very extensive, and while I don’t think it can all be implemented in FIFA 2006, I believe they are what can make the realism of the game better. The other thing I think some of these can be implemented in 2006 because it doesn’t require that much change, but the others might.
1. I would like to see a change in the gameplay style. The most blatant problem I still see in FIFA 2005, although it’s almost all gone, is to have players usually defending intercept the ball from a through ball, a long pass or a cross and be able to kick it or head it into the opposite direction extremely fast and strong. If you understand what I’m describing, it’s the most stupid thing that can ever happen, it’s absolutely unrealistic.
A player cannot manage to turn 180 degrees or sometimes just kick it with the back of the foot, a ball that was almost inside the box and be able to have it cleared all the way to the CF up front. I’m sorry EA, but that’s just absolutely impossible physics, and it still happens.
Other areas of gameplay would include having the AI on my own team tweaked a little more, so that the team accompanies the player that has the ball strategically, so that when I’m moving my CAM or CF I have my wing players follow me and I don’t need to stop the ball and wait or use Off-the-ball to make them run, I mean, they should accompany me all along.
The other thing about gameplay would be to perfect a more fluid style of play. I believe that has been happening consistently since FIFA 04, so keep going.
2. The second thing I want to talk about is the on-the-pitch game situations. For example, the substitutions in FIFA 05 seem to never happen, there’s not even the names on the screen mentioning that players were substituted or so, adding animations for substitutions would look pretty nice as well. So would animations of the bench.
Another situation would be corners. I should choose whether I want to be the kicker or the receiver of a corner, what if I want to try and score a goal from a corner? Should I not be able to do that?
I should also be able to choose players that will kick the PK if the game has tied.
What happened to EMPTY STADIUMS in home stadiums where teams were not doing so well? It seems that every game I play with any team, the stadium is always full.
Adding extra animations for warm-ups before the game, winning a cup or a title, and scoring goals would be a plus.
ANIMATIONS OF FANS CELEBRATING A GOAL… more often…
A REF ON THE PITCH at all times. C’mon is that too hard? Is it unlockable? because I didn’t see that in FIFA 04.
There are many more situations that happen in a real footy game that could be put it, but I think they are not essential as these.
3. Career Mode. I mean, what happened to team training and individual training in career mode??? The player should be able INSIDE CAREER MODE to choose a player from their own team and train them individually (NOT JUST AS A CLICK OF A BUTTON OPTION), but actually take the player to the pitch and do some runs and exercises to perfect a player’s ability (ESPECIALLY YOUNG PLAYERS). It frustrates me that my SCOUTING guy is offering me these very bad players for our team to buy, but I can’t make them better with training.
The same goes for team training ON THE PITCH with different runs and exercises. NOT JUST TRAINING FREE KICKS, CORNERS, PK and freestyle training…
The other thing about career mode is the simulation of games to go FASTER. Also, the simulation has TOO MANY FOULS AND INJURIES, c’mon, does that happen to players at almost every game? I don’t think so…
The other thing about career mode is the manager’s ability to manage more of the club outside the pitch, INCORPORATE MORE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS.
15 years seem to be nice for CAREER, but there should be an option for teams to negotiate players during these 15 years, not just my team negotiating. So let’s say that for the 2008 season Adriano goes from INTER de MILAN to BARCELONA, and etc.. even if I do not manage the team… JUST SOME GUESS TRANSFERS, BUT IT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER THAN JUST RETIRING PLAYERS.
A little more interaction with the board of directors and the press, not just a half a page of news… you know what I mean?
INSIDE CAREER MODE, more tournaments that would be similar to COPA LIBERTADORES, UEFA CUP and stuff, for most leagues… A team would classify to COPA LIBERTADORES if it is within the first four in the ranking of the leagues (brazilian, Mexican, argentinian etc…)
4. Other tournaments that would benefit from CAREER would be if a MANAGER HAS DONE WELL IN A CLUB TEAM, to be invited to coach a NATIONAL TEAM in a league or a tournament. AND DO A SMALL CAREER MODE EMBEDDED WITH NATIONAL TEAMS. Be able to recruit players, train and play.
5. SOUNDS. I believe that European teams have a pretty good fan chants going on, it could be made more realistic DEPENDING ON SIZE OF STADIUM or so, with more or less echo and more or less people singing…
For other teams, especially brazilian, more real chants. I mean, I am a fan of CORINTHIANS and THERE IS NOT A SINGLE CHANT FOR THEM… That’s just stupid… WHY IS THAT? There are a lot of real chants to record for these teams, for Corinthians and other teams, more of the chants from here… IF YOU GUYS WANT, just fly me there and I’ll record these chants for all brazilian teams, THERE ARE LOTS MORE CHANTS FOR BRAZILIAN TEAMS, ESPECIALLY CORINTHIANS.
Since you can hear the voice of “players” or the “manager”, it would be something to hear the goalie screaming “right, left,” during a Free kick, and even the REF when giving out a card or so…
More GREAT SONGS…
CONTINUE TO HAVE A MORE FLUID COMMENTARY. Do the same for other languages, make it more fluid… HIRE GALVÃO BUENO for PORTUGUESE EHEHEHEHEHE
6. ANIMATIONS. PLEASE, PLEASE FIX THE PHYSICS OF THE NET… PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…. Also make the nets realistic to the stadium it is in, whether it’s size, color or shape.
Maybe this is more for the next generation of consoles… put more realistic eye and head movement when with the ball, more expressions of pain, anger, happiness, etc… Also THE HAIR… MAKE IT REAL… MAKE IT MOVE… maybe on PS3 I don’t know…
7. PERFECT OFF-THE-BALL, I think it is a great addition, but it could be made better. That goes well to saying stuff about OFFSIDES, please the offside should be called when the ball comes off the passer’s foot, not when the receiver touches the ball, I’ve had VARIOUS experiences when I didn’t hear the ref stop the game because of offsides and hoped that when the ball fell on the feet of the receiver I could score, only to notice that as soon as it touched his feet the offside was called. C’mon, it’s not hard to fix that…
8. KEEP THE MENUS AS THEY ARE, especially looking at player fatigue and morale… DON’T completely change it, the 2004 menu WAS HORRIBLE, don’t go back to that.
9. ADD more weather effects, more windy, really heavy rain, EVEN SNOW…
10. KEEP FIGHTING FOR LEAGUES AND TEAMS, We keep paying you $50 bucks every year… so justify it…
11. MORE PLAYER ANIMATIONS on-the-pitch. RUNNING STYLE (ROBERTO CARLOS), kicking style, dribbling moves (RONALDINHO, RONALDO signature moves), ALSO MAKE SURE PLAYERS STRONG FOOT is the right one and so on.
12. MORE OPTIONS FOR BOOTS, BALLS, UNIFORMS (not just home, away, but a third one, choice of sock color, etc…) NOT UNLOCKABLE, keep the classic stuff unlockable, even classic balls, shoes, etc…
13. LISTEN TO WHAT WE SAY AND THINK ABOUT HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER…
Don’t forget, the best thing to perfect is GAMEPLAY, make it more fluid, more realistic, ALWAYS!!!!
Thanks,
Marcelo
PS: There’s more things to say, but I think that should be plenty of requests.
Hopefully as mentioned, EA producers will be reading this forum and seeing what us fans would like to have on the games.
It seems easy for us to request thousands of things and hope that they implement them, but I believe most of us understand the hard thing that it is to completely revamp some situations on the game while trying to continue the FIFA style.
It’s probably hard for them in the spam of a year to tweak gameplay, update player names and faces, as well as player style of play and be able to implement all of the other changes we’ve been requesting.
Regardless, I believe that it’s valid to request a lot of things and if it doesn’t come in this console generation, let’s hope it comes true in the next console generation.
My request list will be very extensive, and while I don’t think it can all be implemented in FIFA 2006, I believe they are what can make the realism of the game better. The other thing I think some of these can be implemented in 2006 because it doesn’t require that much change, but the others might.
1. I would like to see a change in the gameplay style. The most blatant problem I still see in FIFA 2005, although it’s almost all gone, is to have players usually defending intercept the ball from a through ball, a long pass or a cross and be able to kick it or head it into the opposite direction extremely fast and strong. If you understand what I’m describing, it’s the most stupid thing that can ever happen, it’s absolutely unrealistic.
A player cannot manage to turn 180 degrees or sometimes just kick it with the back of the foot, a ball that was almost inside the box and be able to have it cleared all the way to the CF up front. I’m sorry EA, but that’s just absolutely impossible physics, and it still happens.
Other areas of gameplay would include having the AI on my own team tweaked a little more, so that the team accompanies the player that has the ball strategically, so that when I’m moving my CAM or CF I have my wing players follow me and I don’t need to stop the ball and wait or use Off-the-ball to make them run, I mean, they should accompany me all along.
The other thing about gameplay would be to perfect a more fluid style of play. I believe that has been happening consistently since FIFA 04, so keep going.
2. The second thing I want to talk about is the on-the-pitch game situations. For example, the substitutions in FIFA 05 seem to never happen, there’s not even the names on the screen mentioning that players were substituted or so, adding animations for substitutions would look pretty nice as well. So would animations of the bench.
Another situation would be corners. I should choose whether I want to be the kicker or the receiver of a corner, what if I want to try and score a goal from a corner? Should I not be able to do that?
I should also be able to choose players that will kick the PK if the game has tied.
What happened to EMPTY STADIUMS in home stadiums where teams were not doing so well? It seems that every game I play with any team, the stadium is always full.
Adding extra animations for warm-ups before the game, winning a cup or a title, and scoring goals would be a plus.
ANIMATIONS OF FANS CELEBRATING A GOAL… more often…
A REF ON THE PITCH at all times. C’mon is that too hard? Is it unlockable? because I didn’t see that in FIFA 04.
There are many more situations that happen in a real footy game that could be put it, but I think they are not essential as these.
3. Career Mode. I mean, what happened to team training and individual training in career mode??? The player should be able INSIDE CAREER MODE to choose a player from their own team and train them individually (NOT JUST AS A CLICK OF A BUTTON OPTION), but actually take the player to the pitch and do some runs and exercises to perfect a player’s ability (ESPECIALLY YOUNG PLAYERS). It frustrates me that my SCOUTING guy is offering me these very bad players for our team to buy, but I can’t make them better with training.
The same goes for team training ON THE PITCH with different runs and exercises. NOT JUST TRAINING FREE KICKS, CORNERS, PK and freestyle training…
The other thing about career mode is the simulation of games to go FASTER. Also, the simulation has TOO MANY FOULS AND INJURIES, c’mon, does that happen to players at almost every game? I don’t think so…
The other thing about career mode is the manager’s ability to manage more of the club outside the pitch, INCORPORATE MORE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS.
15 years seem to be nice for CAREER, but there should be an option for teams to negotiate players during these 15 years, not just my team negotiating. So let’s say that for the 2008 season Adriano goes from INTER de MILAN to BARCELONA, and etc.. even if I do not manage the team… JUST SOME GUESS TRANSFERS, BUT IT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER THAN JUST RETIRING PLAYERS.
A little more interaction with the board of directors and the press, not just a half a page of news… you know what I mean?
INSIDE CAREER MODE, more tournaments that would be similar to COPA LIBERTADORES, UEFA CUP and stuff, for most leagues… A team would classify to COPA LIBERTADORES if it is within the first four in the ranking of the leagues (brazilian, Mexican, argentinian etc…)
4. Other tournaments that would benefit from CAREER would be if a MANAGER HAS DONE WELL IN A CLUB TEAM, to be invited to coach a NATIONAL TEAM in a league or a tournament. AND DO A SMALL CAREER MODE EMBEDDED WITH NATIONAL TEAMS. Be able to recruit players, train and play.
5. SOUNDS. I believe that European teams have a pretty good fan chants going on, it could be made more realistic DEPENDING ON SIZE OF STADIUM or so, with more or less echo and more or less people singing…
For other teams, especially brazilian, more real chants. I mean, I am a fan of CORINTHIANS and THERE IS NOT A SINGLE CHANT FOR THEM… That’s just stupid… WHY IS THAT? There are a lot of real chants to record for these teams, for Corinthians and other teams, more of the chants from here… IF YOU GUYS WANT, just fly me there and I’ll record these chants for all brazilian teams, THERE ARE LOTS MORE CHANTS FOR BRAZILIAN TEAMS, ESPECIALLY CORINTHIANS.
Since you can hear the voice of “players” or the “manager”, it would be something to hear the goalie screaming “right, left,” during a Free kick, and even the REF when giving out a card or so…
More GREAT SONGS…
CONTINUE TO HAVE A MORE FLUID COMMENTARY. Do the same for other languages, make it more fluid… HIRE GALVÃO BUENO for PORTUGUESE EHEHEHEHEHE
6. ANIMATIONS. PLEASE, PLEASE FIX THE PHYSICS OF THE NET… PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…. Also make the nets realistic to the stadium it is in, whether it’s size, color or shape.
Maybe this is more for the next generation of consoles… put more realistic eye and head movement when with the ball, more expressions of pain, anger, happiness, etc… Also THE HAIR… MAKE IT REAL… MAKE IT MOVE… maybe on PS3 I don’t know…
7. PERFECT OFF-THE-BALL, I think it is a great addition, but it could be made better. That goes well to saying stuff about OFFSIDES, please the offside should be called when the ball comes off the passer’s foot, not when the receiver touches the ball, I’ve had VARIOUS experiences when I didn’t hear the ref stop the game because of offsides and hoped that when the ball fell on the feet of the receiver I could score, only to notice that as soon as it touched his feet the offside was called. C’mon, it’s not hard to fix that…
8. KEEP THE MENUS AS THEY ARE, especially looking at player fatigue and morale… DON’T completely change it, the 2004 menu WAS HORRIBLE, don’t go back to that.
9. ADD more weather effects, more windy, really heavy rain, EVEN SNOW…
10. KEEP FIGHTING FOR LEAGUES AND TEAMS, We keep paying you $50 bucks every year… so justify it…
11. MORE PLAYER ANIMATIONS on-the-pitch. RUNNING STYLE (ROBERTO CARLOS), kicking style, dribbling moves (RONALDINHO, RONALDO signature moves), ALSO MAKE SURE PLAYERS STRONG FOOT is the right one and so on.
12. MORE OPTIONS FOR BOOTS, BALLS, UNIFORMS (not just home, away, but a third one, choice of sock color, etc…) NOT UNLOCKABLE, keep the classic stuff unlockable, even classic balls, shoes, etc…
13. LISTEN TO WHAT WE SAY AND THINK ABOUT HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER…
Don’t forget, the best thing to perfect is GAMEPLAY, make it more fluid, more realistic, ALWAYS!!!!
Thanks,
Marcelo
PS: There’s more things to say, but I think that should be plenty of requests.
