Post by gazz on Mar 3, 2014 12:13:19 GMT
.... probably not, but after yet another blatant piece of scripting to deny me an FA Cup final win in stoppage time I felt compelled to rant again!
I've had enough of it, I just had to post something somewhere. I played an entire FA Cup campaign as Nottingham Forest ( I refuse to play as PL teams) and I ended up against Stoke in the final. I went 1-0 up early on and I absolutely dominated the game, 3 chances for every one of the opposition, shots that should be going in blazed way over the bar, hit the woodwork and bounce out in favour of the opposition or my shots went ridiculously and inexplicably wide. The first kick in the nuts was just before half-time when they equalised with my defence stood around like statues no matter how hard I bashed those buttons.
The second half was much of the same, totally dominated by me, and into extra-time it went, again total domination by my Forest side. With the classy Andy Reid dominating midfield, surely it was just a matter of time before I scrambled the winner, if only from a set-piece or something? Then, just when I thought it was going to penalties, my defence decided to down tools and become spectators, and with one swift opposition attack amid a frantic bashing of as many buttons I could get my thumb to in injury time, my 120 mins of hard graft were blown away by Peter f**king Crouch. My defence stood shaking their heads in disbelief, as if they'd just woken up after being drugged. The truth is they were, by EA.
This game is utter garbage, and the AI is so unfairly stacked in the CPU's favour it's diabolical. Actually, there isn't any 'proper' AI to speak of, just blatant handicapping of your abilities at crucial times, abilities you had all the way to the cup final, but are then mysteriously sapped away from you when it really matters.
There are also other annoyances, such as when you're chasing an equaliser in stoppage time and the CPU team lay siege to your goal, you know it's gone way over the allotted injury time, by at least a minute, yet the game keeps going, and going, and going. That is until you win the ball back, and play a through ball on the break, and as soon as your forward is about to break clear................. the ref blows the whistle.
FIFA 14 is a pile of horse dung, made by lazy, bone-idle designers. I wouldn't have it given to me, seriously, avoid it at all costs. Thinking of buying it? Don't bother, it's littered with scripted sequences that ensure you have absolutely no power to affect the outcome in those matches that really count.
I've had enough of it, I just had to post something somewhere. I played an entire FA Cup campaign as Nottingham Forest ( I refuse to play as PL teams) and I ended up against Stoke in the final. I went 1-0 up early on and I absolutely dominated the game, 3 chances for every one of the opposition, shots that should be going in blazed way over the bar, hit the woodwork and bounce out in favour of the opposition or my shots went ridiculously and inexplicably wide. The first kick in the nuts was just before half-time when they equalised with my defence stood around like statues no matter how hard I bashed those buttons.
The second half was much of the same, totally dominated by me, and into extra-time it went, again total domination by my Forest side. With the classy Andy Reid dominating midfield, surely it was just a matter of time before I scrambled the winner, if only from a set-piece or something? Then, just when I thought it was going to penalties, my defence decided to down tools and become spectators, and with one swift opposition attack amid a frantic bashing of as many buttons I could get my thumb to in injury time, my 120 mins of hard graft were blown away by Peter f**king Crouch. My defence stood shaking their heads in disbelief, as if they'd just woken up after being drugged. The truth is they were, by EA.
This game is utter garbage, and the AI is so unfairly stacked in the CPU's favour it's diabolical. Actually, there isn't any 'proper' AI to speak of, just blatant handicapping of your abilities at crucial times, abilities you had all the way to the cup final, but are then mysteriously sapped away from you when it really matters.
There are also other annoyances, such as when you're chasing an equaliser in stoppage time and the CPU team lay siege to your goal, you know it's gone way over the allotted injury time, by at least a minute, yet the game keeps going, and going, and going. That is until you win the ball back, and play a through ball on the break, and as soon as your forward is about to break clear................. the ref blows the whistle.
FIFA 14 is a pile of horse dung, made by lazy, bone-idle designers. I wouldn't have it given to me, seriously, avoid it at all costs. Thinking of buying it? Don't bother, it's littered with scripted sequences that ensure you have absolutely no power to affect the outcome in those matches that really count.
