How far we have come!

[Ian Skippy]

Many, many years ago I played my first football game: Konami MSX soccer:
[video=youtube;QEECd9hrKUg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEECd9hrKUg[/video]

Within four hours, Konami will release their new football game, Pro Evolution Soccer 2018:
[video=youtube;y0FCfnmlEwI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0FCfnmlEwI[/video]

Sometimes its hard to believe how far we have come.

 

[Riedquat]

Absolutely!

I remember playing some of the early football games on my C64, but then years later Sensible soccer came along and had me and my friends completely hooked.

I think I must have owned almost every copy of Fifa, I did change to Pro Evo for a few years at some point because there was a period where I felt Pro evo was superior, but I think Fifa has come leaps and bounds has been at the top for a good number of years now. ( I havent tried Pro Evo this year though).

I only play the career mode on Fifa, Ive never done any of the online stuff.

 

[Ian Skippy]

Absolutely!

I remember playing some of the early football games on my C64, but then years later Sensible soccer came along and had me and my friends completely hooked.

I think I must have owned almost every copy of Fifa, I did change to Pro Evo for a few years at some point because there was a period where I felt Pro evo was superior, but I think Fifa has come leaps and bounds has been at the top for a good number of years now. ( I havent tried Pro Evo this year though).

I only play the career mode on Fifa, Ive never done any of the online stuff.

Ha, sensible soccer, those were the days! I've started with Fifa in 1997 (although I played '96 at a mate's place), then switched to PES a few years ago. Off the pitch FIFA is way better: interface, number of modes, licenses, soundtrack: its better at pretty much everything. On the pitch PES rules IMHO though. Espescially the AI is just years ahead of FIFA at the moment, and it results in spectacularly realistic matches on higher difficulty. I just started a career with Millwall, in the English Championship at the highest difficulty. Its brutal. When it comes to career modes: PES made some small improvements this year. Most notably a 'challenge mode' where the possibility of being fired is actually real and more detailed transfer negotiations. In particularly transfer fee clauses make it much harder to turn a tiny team into a dominant one. Still, FIFAs career mode is richer off-pitch on almost every level.

There is a PC demo coming soon, might be worth checking out.

 

[Mole HD]

Ha, sensible soccer, those were the days! I've started with Fifa in 1997 (although I played '96 at a mate's place), then switched to PES a few years ago. Off the pitch FIFA is way better: interface, number of modes, licenses, soundtrack: its better at pretty much everything. On the pitch PES rules IMHO though. Espescially the AI is just years ahead of FIFA at the moment, and it results in spectacularly realistic matches on higher difficulty. I just started a career with Millwall, in the English Championship at the highest difficulty. Its brutal. When it comes to career modes: PES made some small improvements this year. Most notably a 'challenge mode' where the possibility of being fired is actually real and more detailed transfer negotiations. In particularly transfer fee clauses make it much harder to turn a tiny team into a dominant one. Still, FIFAs career mode is richer off-pitch on almost every level.

There is a PC demo coming soon, might be worth checking out.

Repped for mentioning Sensi soccer [yesnod]

My brother in law and I often came close to blows playing that game....

As to FIFA, I don't really play per se...I create 7 or 8 maxed stat players, name them after my friends, insert them into random team of choice (currently Plymouth Argyll because I liked the colour of their shirts), import Christiano Ronaldo and Messi to bolster the already 100% stat team.... Start off in division 2, get promoted to the premier league then run up the pitch and boot the ball in the net 11 times a match against Chelsea and Man United playing in pro mode.

And Scotland always wins the World Cup....

I'm an ex rugby player so I can be excused for not really understanding the nuances of the wrong shaped football. The way I play FIFA... it's certainly not cricket [squeeeee]

 

[Aiken Drum]

I remember Sensible Soccer. Loved it. I even got the revamped version on PS2. Personally thought Kick Off was better game play, but Sensi allowed you to personalise teams even if was just changing the kit and name of the team, with customisable names, skin and hair colour for the players.

Seem to remember Banik Ostrava was the best team to be. Never heard of them before or after Sensi, but they was an awesome team in game.

 

[Necronaught]

Speedball 2 and Sensible Soccer on the Amiga. After playing those games all other sports games seem to suck or just don't have the same appeal. Just like dungeon crawlers don't ever compare to the original Gauntlet.

 

[Aiken Drum]

Speedball 2 and Sensible Soccer on the Amiga. After playing those games all other sports games seem to suck or just don't have the same appeal. Just like dungeon crawlers don't ever compare to the original Gauntlet.

I have speedball 2 on my PS3. I should dust it off and fire it up sometime. Or maybe i can download on to PS4.

 

[Stewart_]

I loved the first Evo soccer on the Wii - with its 'god mode' like play.

best footy game I've played.

 

[Riedquat]

Ha, sensible soccer, those were the days! I've started with Fifa in 1997 (although I played '96 at a mate's place), then switched to PES a few years ago. Off the pitch FIFA is way better: interface, number of modes, licenses, soundtrack: its better at pretty much everything. On the pitch PES rules IMHO though. Espescially the AI is just years ahead of FIFA at the moment, and it results in spectacularly realistic matches on higher difficulty. I just started a career with Millwall, in the English Championship at the highest difficulty. Its brutal. When it comes to career modes: PES made some small improvements this year. Most notably a 'challenge mode' where the possibility of being fired is actually real and more detailed transfer negotiations. In particularly transfer fee clauses make it much harder to turn a tiny team into a dominant one. Still, FIFAs career mode is richer off-pitch on almost every level.

There is a PC demo coming soon, might be worth checking out.

I'll have a look at that, its been years since I tried Pro Evo.

Does it use real player names?, I know you have to edit the team names (which I dont have a problem with), but if all the names are wrong that would be too much work!

 

[Ian Skippy]

I'll have a look at that, its been years since I tried Pro Evo.

Does it use real player names?, I know you have to edit the team names (which I dont have a problem with), but if all the names are wrong that would be too much work!

Player names are correct, team names often not (depends on the competition. They have full Champions League rights for example). Definitely dont edit anything yourself though, just download an Option File. For years now a number of websites take care of that, editing all team/league names and kits/logos to be correct. Its why I never care about the licenses very much, you have them anyway in five minutes. Often these appear immediately on launch, so I suspect Konami actually gives these teams pre-release copies.

 

[askavir]

Speedball 2 and Sensible Soccer on the Amiga. After playing those games all other sports games seem to suck or just don't have the same appeal. Just like dungeon crawlers don't ever compare to the original Gauntlet.

Ha, I loved both those games back then in my Commodore Amiga, specially Sensible Soccer. I was actually the school champion of Sensible Soccer (yes that was a thing )

Played a ton of soccer games back then, from the unforgiving Kick Off to Sensible World of Soccer (with transfers!). My soccer game interest started to die a little since the FIFA games came up and took over. There was just far too much movement/pass/shoot automation, and I never played soccer games again (except manager games) since we crossed into XXI century.