I'm surprised to see we had no topic of these great games so far.
FIFA 2009 era again, now I'm with PSG. French championship sucks...
I prefer PES :)
PES was much better a few years back. Now, EA managed to copy almost the entire game and they are pretty much the same today...
PES 6 is the best football game ever IMO (I challenge anybody to beat me and Czech Rep. in PES 6)
Quote from: Chulk on November 04, 2012, 07:40:48 PM
PES 6 is the best football game ever IMO (I challenge anybody to beat me and Czech Rep. in PES 6)
FIFA 2004, on the other hand, is the worst one - or at least bad enough to keep me away from the series for years ;D Recent FIFAs appear to be decent games, however; no clue about current PESs.
You don't know anything about football if you didn't play Striker :D
(http://www.vintagepcgames.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/striker-300x225.jpg)
Quote from: alanrotoi on November 05, 2012, 02:22:58 AM
You don't know anything about football if you didn't play Striker :D
(http://www.vintagepcgames.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/striker-300x225.jpg)
You're right! I had this on SNES and I have great memories of staying up all night long playing this with my brothers and friends. We even had customized teams as Gimnasia (Brazil, used by me), Estudiantes (Denmark, used by my oldest brother) and Independiente (Germany, used by my older brother) shirts, names and all. Really a great game, I can still remember the music completely (actually... downloading it for ringtone purposes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72n92dPBSRs
Other football game we played a lot on NES (with a fantastic BGM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syc4xBypwqU
Yeah that's the song! :'(
I played Striker for about two or three year then I started with Striker 95!
The same but hundred of teams to edit :) and a "better" engine. So again I edited the whole indonesian league I invented back in 1990 and first edit of the main teams was on Striker. I remember you had many faces types, noses, etc. to set up your players.
In 1996 born a bad game called Striker '96. Very bad game, it had nice menus, sounds (I remember the sounds where .wav files so I changed the "kick" sound for the sound for artillery firing from Civilization II, it was fun), etc. I didn't like it at all :(
It passed many year until a football game liked me. So it came PES 4, was a revolution this game, so again I edited (only one team this time because no motivation to set up a whole league with faces, bodies, height, etc.) So I created the national team of Indonesia :). I created another team to play against. They had 99/99 in all the abilities, the hardest team in the game.
I still love PES 4 menu music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEwhmlYZ1yo
I played that! I had almost forgotten about it.
As far as I recall, it was quite entertaining, but you could only score goals in the same few quite easy ways. There were 9 good teams and the rest were really bad.
That's right, the best teams were wich had two strikers with speed 5. Argentina, Brazil, Germany and I guess England too. Spain has only one, Butragueño.
I remember playing Taffarel as a center midfielder because he was the faster player in Brazil. I know Rasmussen was just as fast in Denmark... don't remember who was the fastest in Germany though
Don't make me install it again xD
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on November 05, 2012, 10:04:31 PM
I played that! I had almost forgotten about it.
As far as I recall, it was quite entertaining, but you could only score goals in the same few quite easy ways.
Not really... The easiest goal was a crossing and then a header aiming at the post the GK was not guarding, but that was easy to defend once you played enough. I played 5-4-1, and the center back always stood between the attacker and the keeper, so you could use that player to stop the header to one post, while the keeper guarded the other post.
As you can actually change the ball direction and speed after shooting (not after a header or an overhead kick, but after shooting with the ball in control), with enough practice, you could curve the ball enough to score even from a corner kick. Those where hard to defend...
Quote from: alanrotoi on November 06, 2012, 03:13:30 PM
Don't make me install it again xD
Do it, do it, do it!
I remember that. The curling effect was quite exaggerated for the best players. I used to shoot from very far out and try to guide the ball right up to the corner and fool the goalkeeper. I usually just scored by either dribbling around the keeper or by running towards the back line a little outside the goal frame and then shoot the ball into the far corner of the goal once inside the penalty area. Maybe that didn't work against the best teams...
I like how the goal scorer celebrated differently if the goal was really good.
It's an EA FIFA topic... :P
Here "Fifa" means "skid" :)
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on November 06, 2012, 08:39:37 PM
I usually just scored by either dribbling around the keeper
That worked easily on any AI team, even the strongest ones. That was really hard to do while playing against a human player, as usual.
Quote from: CTG on November 06, 2012, 08:44:22 PM
It's an EA FIFA topic... :P
Talk about it, then...
Oh, I don't think I ever played against a human...
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on November 11, 2012, 09:36:51 PM
Oh, I don't think I ever played against a human...
Having siblings, we always tried to get games we could play against each other
In FIFA 2009, Casillas and cr have the highest overall score (91-91), followed by Messi and Buffon (90). They must be really blind at EA Sports...
By the way, I invented the playing system of FC Barcelona and Spain national team. In FIFA99, I had great success just pressing the 'pass' button all the time, making short, flat passes and having the opponent just run around, never touching the ball.
Have you ever noticed that England has too much available competitions in FIFA games? Most of the biggest countries have 3 or 4 (first class, second class, cup, sometimes league cup), while in the case of England you can choose from SEVEN different competitions / cups: Premier League, 2nd-4th class, FA Cup, League Cup, Johnstone Paint Cup.
Btw I guess my usual strategy is the most primitive one: running up at the side, pass to the center and score from 5-10 meters. :D
New York Red Bulls is one of the worst teams I've ever controlled. Or at least the team unit is far the weakest.
Quote from: CTG on February 10, 2013, 12:17:56 AM
New York Red Bulls is one of the worst teams I've ever controlled. Or at least the team unit is far the weakest.
Nop, India.
Anyway, numbers mean nothing. I can easily beat my friends and brothers playing 4-2-3-1 with Czech Republic while the usually play Barça, Real Madrid, The Netherlands, Germany, Argentina and Italy.
Quote from: Chulk on February 10, 2013, 01:01:40 AM
Quote from: CTG on February 10, 2013, 12:17:56 AM
New York Red Bulls is one of the worst teams I've ever controlled. Or at least the team unit is far the weakest.
Nop, India.
Anyway, numbers mean nothing. I can easily beat my friends and brothers playing 4-2-3-1 with Czech Republic while the usually play Barça, Real Madrid, The Netherlands, Germany, Argentina and Italy.
I never checked the team unity value of any squads - that's only an impression based on the gameplay.
(there's no India in FIFA 2009)
Quote from: CTG on February 10, 2013, 12:09:36 PM
(there's no India in FIFA 2009)
Oh, I thought you meant 2013
Quote from: Chulk on February 11, 2013, 01:54:05 AM
Quote from: CTG on February 10, 2013, 12:09:36 PM
(there's no India in FIFA 2009)
Oh, I thought you meant 2013
Quote from: CTG on December 22, 2008, 11:09:04 AM
We will see... just got the SMS from Notebookspecialista store: it arrived.
Type: Hewlett Packard 6735s
CPU: AMD Turion™ 64 X2 mobile technology 2,0GHz RM-70 (better ranking than the very basic Core 2 Duo or average dual-core CPU models, but of course not as good as T7xxx or T8xxx)
Chipset: AMD M780G
RAM: 3GB DDR2 667MHz
Screen: 15,4" WXGA (16:9)
HDD: 320GB SATA 5400rpm
Optical driver: DVD writer (supermulti) + Lightscribe
Video card: ATI Mobility™Radeon™ HD3200
Sound card: Intel High Definition audio compliant audio chip
Battery: 4000 mAh (Li-ion) - not so high... but as I said, I don't need good battery
Interface: 56K modem, VGA monitor output, Bluetooth, Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000), USB 2.0 (4), Express card kártyahely, Wireless LAN 802.11 a/g/n
Multimedia: 6 in 1 card reader, webcam
OS: FreeDos (they said HP drivers are compatible with XP)
Weight: 2.7 kg
Size: 358 x 267 x 32 mm
Warranty: 3 years
Extra stuff: notebook bag
Prize: 170.000 HUF
My notebook is too old and weak for that.
Just got the FIFA 2012 game in an EA Classics sale - only for 1990 HUF (~7 Euro). I wonder if my 5 years old notebook is able to handle it.
Quote from: CTG on May 31, 2013, 08:57:19 AM
Just got the FIFA 2012 game in an EA Classics sale - only for 1990 HUF (~7 Euro). I wonder if my 5 years old notebook is able to handle it.
Ouch, video card is weaker than expected.
I don't like FIFA 2012. It's way too sterile. However, it runs without any problem under Win8, even with the best available graphics.