Day 2 and still angry.....

Evening guys!

Just finished a long day at work and bathed the baby boy and wanted a quick kick about on FIFA, yet again i was beaten but it got me thinking this time after starting this blog:- what were the past FIFA's like?

I slate FIFA 13 and EA deserve everything they get for the way they have disappointed us all this year but was it always this way on FIFA 13? see around the month of October i started to lose a hell of alot more, my rate was 1 in 10 losses up until October but thinking back have i got worse? have my opponents got better? my first seven seasons i won all leagues and had very good stats but it turned October and the the flood gates opened and i was in trouble, below is a list of things i think have changed hence the losses we have suffered alot more often:-

1) Passes - See this is quite an important one for me, i seem to recall that if you passed with your back turned to the direction you wanted to pass it, it would have a very high risk of it travelling in a direction you didn't want it to, i love keeping possession, i think its why i class myself better than average, yet it now seems no matter what direction your facing you can ping a pass 40 yards with your back turned and not seem to worry but that brings me to another very annoying passing aspect, if a player can hit a 40 yard pass along the floor......why cant he pass to a player that 4 yards away? it almost seems like each thing you do has a scenario planned, hit a 4 yard pass to your fellow midfielder and it will be very slow and the scenario plays out that the other teams midfielder intercepts. Passing has been dumbed down to help the amateur player compete against the more experienced player.

2) Shooting - I'm not quite sure about this one, let me explain, i wanted to test finesse shooting at long distance (i say long distance but it was just outside the area) i chose the best long distance shooter on the game Ronald koeman from the all star team and proceeded to try and curl one into the top corner, just bare in mind that the player being used has 98 long shooting accuracy and i couldn't do it, time and time again it went wide or went directly at the keeper.
The reason i stated I'm not sure was because i don't think it was ever part of FIFA 13 but part of FIFA 12 and one of the best parts, when i curled in a top corner finesse shot it was a good feeling and looked great when it went in but finesse in this game....well it looks like its exclusively for close range shooting.

3) Pressuring - Now you may disagree with me here but holding down a couple of buttons to pressure an opponent is ridiculous, why play a game where you want the computer to do the work? both FIFA 11 & FIFA 12 had an option to chase down an opponent which if you were a good enough player it could spell trouble for your opponent as it left them with gaping holes on the playing field yet FIFA 13 puts this tactic in and even encourages it, i used to test what my opponent was like by stopping dead and seeing what reaction my opponents player had, if he started to drift left and right in a snake like motion and not come directly to me i knew it was a player using this tactic, its something i cant stand and its something i wont use.

4) FUT - Now this is a big one, ultimate team is catered for the player who wants a better team (fair enough) my problem though is trying to make players think there team isn't good enough and to buy packs, now i will admit i have used cold hard cash to fast track my way to a better team (come on we have all done it) but when i was there things started to happen, my team started to play like they were a Sunday league team after a heavy night out the only thing that was missing was players vomiting from the beer the night before, at first i thought "well maybe I've become complacent" so......i sold my whole team and made about 350,000 coins, i went from a very strong 4-3-1-2 premier league team to a 4-3-3 la liga team that was still very good but yet i had the same outcome. I then thought i used to be good when my team were average what the hell happened?! EA happened, they have coded the game specifically to make you want to spend money and unfortunately veteran players have seen straight though this and like myself are upset.

so just to finish this post, let me know your own views and any links to your own youtube videos but have a go at putting a finesse shot in the top corner.