Fifa is a game that quite regularly delights its loyal fan base; however it has a keener ability for infuriating them, upsetting many and leading to the destruction of their controllers, (I speak from experience: THAT WAS NOT A PENALTY!).
Despite this I have not lost hope in a game which I’ve played for more time than I have spent working, revising and talking to humans and intend to do the same when Fifa 13 comes out…Just as long as it cuts out this list of failures.
Some are technical, some would lead to expanding the gameplay and some are just gripes which bother the man who is emasculated each time his player falls over for no reason and the opposition meanders through to score.
It’s just not right…
1. Imaginary Issues Affecting How Well The Players Play
The Problem:
Now I’m not a man who denies people have their problems; even the multi-million pound earning, beautiful woman loving footballer.
However in the Fifa world the problems manifest themselves in explanation-less dips in form where their dribbling, passing and general ability is affected. It’s a nice feature; but the often random nature of them and the then explanations of ‘I had a problem, it’s over now.’ is infuriating when you’re on manager mode without any way of fixing this.
If I’m going to spend £48 million of my budget on David Silva and he’s going to say ‘He has problems’ and play badly, I sure as hell want a way to fix it.
The Solution:
It’s already somewhat integrated in to the game; someone complains about not playing enough matches, they play, they are happy. However this could be expanded to deal with player contracts, minutes on the pitch, importance in the play, personal problems and allow you to have a dialogue with the player.
Give you a few options of responses and the one that does the best job helps your relationship with the player and how he plays, the worst one brings that down and the poor form lasts longer.
It’s a double edged sword, but it would be nice to have a way of dealing with things that the game feels the need to randomly make up.
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22 Comments
we want fixed? says who? you have problems with online play and defense?? get better sounds like your terrible. plus you want manager faces stuff to spend money on ya ea please make it to where we can have pink afro having managers that can buy a nice house in the south of France that we can pick the decor for!!
Have to say I agree with this list. Luckily FIFA 13 is going to have customisable faces for managers as far as I know.
How about some of these also;
- In Career Mode, if you are managing a team who in real life is in Europe, then your team should start in Europe in the first season.
- Ibrahimovic’s abilities should be toned down – my word he’s been overrated from FIFA 10 onwards!
- Extra-time and pens should occur in an online match against a friend – for some reason if the scores are level when you’re playing a mate, the match ends as a draw.
- Pro Clubs should have customisable kits, badges, even stadia.
- In Pro Ranked Matches, when you select a side, you should be automatically set as ‘ready’. This would stop the whole lobby having to wait ages on the one person each time who does not ready up.
- Virtual Pro keepers should not be anywhere NEAR as good as they can get. Sick of playing super-human goalies online who cannot be beaten!
Improved defending – like I think you said – defenders should not be constantly ball-watching, they should be following runs like I tell them to!
hey @nail i like ur overated improvmnt on ibrahimovic….i feel there is many player who are underrated nd many are overrated..ea should need to improve there
I’ve thought about this and so many times it feels like they are just filling in attributes that they think certain players have and some players are made the worse for it.
Also you find the smaller clubs and players are often almost ignored, they pick an attribute, give them that and leave it.
I’m not just talking about lower division clubs, West Bromwich Albion players often have none of the attributes I see them have.
I think to get this better done they should hire football journalists from each division to analyse the players in depth and give more well rounded abilities than just the reputation ones they seem to have a lot of the time.
i get really upset when i see pepe make an amzing header goal, and then i go into fifa and his headers suck. and im like “i just saw him make an amazing one” maybe he doesnt have that rep for it or doesnt do them all the time, but when he does, they seem to be pretty good to me. this along with other players that are rated wrong.
Even some high level club footballers are underrated. For example, my favorite footballer, Mesut Özil, played an overall better season than both xavi and iniesta of Barça yet he is an 86 while Iniesta is 91? Its a minor complaint, i know, but I feel like the research they do sometimes doesnt match up with what I see for myself
The bit about how well the keeper play in relation to pass completion and posession etc is silly. My style of play lets the opposition have plenty of the ball, they pass it around looking for an opening but I’m ace at defending so they rarely get through. As soon as I have the ball I make a quick counter-attack and try to make a defence splitting through ball, but probably less than half of these come off so my pass rate is low, when they do work I am usually one on one with the keeper and score around 90% of the time. My posession is always lower than the opposition. Punishing me for being having a tactical/conuter atticking stance is unfair!
Hello, I agree with that which is why I said it should be relative to how well you play or what you do whilst on the ball. So the possession isn’t the factor but if you have a pass complete percentage below 80, which will invite plenty of pressure, then you shouldn’t be rewarded with an awesome online goalkeeper.
It could work with shots on target or stuff like that.
I have to agree with matt here. In real life there has been many, MANY games where a team has played poorly but has still got a good result because of an outstanding keeper performance. so I think that it is an extremely unrealistic change if the keeper were to perform on the reflection of the outfield players. As a keeper myself sometimes when the team is playing poorly, I get more action and so I grow in confidence as I make more saves and so I can have a fantastic game while the rest of the team does not. I think the target of FIFA is to make the game as close to real life as possible, making this change would be UNREALISTIC and so I would STRONGLY disagree with this change!
I definately agree with the one about more interaction with the manager, like showing signings being unveiled and manager celebrations etc, or even interviews. Would make it so more interactive and overall better experience.
i dont know if this happens to anyone else or is it just me but being the goalkeeper on carrer mode sucks . my rating goes down automatically for no reason even when im just standing here doing nothingg !!!!!
Pro Clubs improvements:
Customizable jerseys. Customizable and ugradeable stadiums, practice arena against computer dummies so players can practice set pieces and plays.
Improved point system. Wins should be 3 points, draws 1 point and loss 0 points. It’s utterly unfair that just because you’re a new or lower ranked club, you get hundreds of points for winning and still gain points when you lose but if you’re an established or high ranked club, you get only 1 or 2 points for winning but lose hundreds for losing especially to a lower ranked team.
Improved Pro Ranked Match:
Allow position select as soon as you enter a lobby. It makes no sense to make players to wait 2 mins for players to join a lobby only for everyone to scramble for positions after the 2 mins are over. Lots of people end up leaving because they didn’t get their position and you’re left with 4 vs 3 or something like that. Allowing players to select positions right when they enter a lobby makes more sense.
Kicking GKs out of matches. Remove this feature. Outfield players can’t be kicked but GKs can? It’s especially annoying because some GKs don’t get their positions and they pick an outfield position just to kick the other GK out. Talk about sour grapes.
Remove the ANY feature from clubs. It takes away from the spirit of Virtual Pro which is to control your PRO not the entire team.
Some key things that need fixing, more so than some in the list are:
- Advantage is terrible, it doesn’t work for more than a second and the ref tries to play it in ridiculous circumstances.
- The ball hits the ref way too much, get him out of the way!
- The computer can get away with blatant fouls
- AI trying to intercept a pass when its nowhere near getting the ball
- punishment for getting brought down by the keeper is inconsistent
- players occasionally go out of their way to use their weaker foot
Get the gameplay sorted first then worry about the different modes.
In 2 player mode, they need to allow us to replay and change teams, without having to go back to the main screen and start over. Rematch just uses the same teams. So annoying.
While many people would disagree with me, I maintain that legacy defending remains a better system than does tactical defending. The ideology behind tactical defending is to make the controller do more of the defensive work but the execution itself was poor; it quickly became very infuriating to have your “tactical” defender running in circles around the opposing attacker despite my intentions being clear. I agree that legacy defending did much of the “sticking” to the attacker; but against a skilled opponent you still have much of the defensive cohesion work to do. A good compromise would be to increase the close marking ability of the tactical defending system. And bring an option to use legacy or tactical defending online, instead of shoehorning everyone to the tactical defending. I quickly quit online play when it became obvious that a clearly inferior opponent could simply run his forward in a straight line right at my goal and I’d be powerless to stop him simply because all my defenders would be running around him like a group of headless chickens. Bit of a rant i know…
that just means you’re terrible. legacy defending is for noobs who don’t know hw real ppl defend, and just want to slamp ppl together to defend. key to tactical defending is be TACICAL. u probably just sprint at ppl, stick to unranked since you’re probably division 9 quality
phcityfan. You are making severely retarded assumptions based on the fact that I dislike tactical defending. Different people have different preferences, you can’t make everyone play on tactical. And trust me when I say i’m no noob, I’d love to see you try taking me on on tactical defending, and I’d hate to be you playing me on legacy defending. Think with your mind a bit, and stop exercising your left hand so much.
i agree wid the legacy defending thing….but tactical defending isnt that bad when u get used to it..
It’s funny no one mentions the obvious crap that desperately needs to be sorted out to fifa 13.
1. Switching players manually with the right stick is useless cause it picks the wrong player 90% of the time. And this is related to my two other complaints.
2. Remove or atleast reduce the delay from when you push a button to when it happens on the screen. It’s a completely retarded feature.
3. Fix the lag, my internet connection is good but it feels like i’m using a 56k connection in fifa.
4. Fix the passing. When trying a long pass they pass to the wrong guy about 60% of the time, and it almost feels like they deliberately pass to an opposing player much of the time. Even when i just touch the pass button for a split second, sometimes they try to pass the ball back to a defender but of course gets intercepted.
5. Let me win the game when i’m the better player for crying out loud. Like Luke said, i can be dominating completely but their keeper saves everything but my keeper let’s everything in. This is especially visible when i’m Bayern with Neuer in goal and playing vs Real madrid, Barcelona or Chelsea (always one of theese sigh…)
6. Balance the teams MUCH better. Barcelona, Chelsea and Real madrid are so goddamn powerful, while Bayern are completely useless. I’ve been trying desperately to beat these teams using Bayern but it is close to impossible.
7. The ridiculous fumbling of players, especially defenders. They have the ball and should just pass it away or shoot it away but starts to fumble or make a super bad touch and there the opposing striker just takes the ball and scores. Happens at least once per match.
These are not all the reasons I have to be doubtful of buying fifa 13 but the worst ones.
I would like to see a better career mode in regards to transfers etc, I find it way to easy to sign top quality players for teams like a Bolton, Blackburn etc. Get the transfer system to the level of Footy Manager and I will be pleased (a unrealistic request but hey its what I want!)
The points of underrated and overrated players is understandable, but surely EA can easily update this, I tend to improve players myself as Im not much of an online player.
I’m a Yank and have a gripe. Although I primarily follow the EPL and they do a decent job updating squads due to transfers (I do agree that they should hire some better folks to rate the players though) In the MLS I have to manually switch the squads around. I know we are off season but it’s something I would really appreciate, for goodness sake My stud forward for Seattle this year is Eddie Johnson, formally of Bolton…and he isnt even in the game!
if ppl stopped moaning and did nt buy the game they would improve it but while we all buy the game why would they make changes that cost them money, Ea do not even own the servers the game runs on they rent them and they share them with 3 other games, thats why the lag is so bad