re: FIFA Thread. The 23rd is our day

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FIFA 14 was all about getting the ball up the wings quickly and slinging in crosses non-stop for a majority of the players. With the improvement of the keepers and better defensive AI, build up play and finding players making good runs seem to be the major "theme" of this FIFA.

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they said the exact same thing about Fifa 14

they've been trying to simulate "buildup play" and "possession" since Fifa 12 (who remembers the shitty CPU teams playing like barca that year?). while Fifa 13 had anti-crosses, fifa 14 had super crosses. and with the lack of touch, proper counter-attacks are not possible

fifa still hasn't fixed the longball issues, either. this leads to offenses online that would make the old english crowd insanely happy (oh you're pushing up players to posses? i'll just have my shitty unskilled CB boot a perfectly-placed clear out downfield that hits my striker against only 3 defenders)

have they finally brought back the offensive shielding move? they took that out in 12 iirc (may have been 13) and it's fricked up offense since. you could "shield" in 14 but you just get run over by defenders

also the skill moves became super powered (esp for non-skilled superstars) and EA responded by including the gimmick cheat defensive shading. this is basically a cheat mode for people who can't defend on their own. fricking idiotic crutch that is an attempt to fix a frickup by adding in another glitchy frickup

Fifa is just a mess. it needs to be completely deconstructed and rebuilt