(Official!) FIFA 2010 wish list

[stuartyd]

Add a Halo3 like Theater mode (or Highlights mode) In Halo3, twenty odd of your last matches are saved for you to go back and view, edit or send to friends after the match has finished. No one likes to get their nose rubbed in it by being made to watch some guy watching a replay of his 90th min winner over and over but if this type of thing was added you could just skip his replay so as you didnt have to watch it but he would still be able to go into his Theater Mode (Highlights) after the game and mess about with it till his heart is content. Best of both worlds I think and a must for Fifa10. PLEASE EA, ARE YOU LISTENING?

[stuartyd]

I think to make the game more realistic, it should be far easier to round the goalie. In real like this is fairly easy to do but in Fifa09 it is almost impossible. Make it less likely to have a one on one with the goalie, but when you do, make it easier to go round him.

[stuartyd]

Before I start, there is so much right with FIFA09 that i fear that it may be tweaked too much next year. Please do not mess about with it too much as I feel it is almost perfect. Saying that, there are some things which need looked at/implemented. Here's my thoughts:

Pros from FIFA09:-

Custom Tactics
Need both players to agree to skip cutscenes/replays (love this)
Animations are awesome
Can see the crowd when playing (Tele - height down)
Collision System
Goalkeepers release ball quicker
Net Physics
Stadiums
Atmosphere
Faces (except eyes)
Ball Physics
Dipping volleys
Custom camera angles


Cons From FIFA09:-

Responsiveness (between button press and action happeneing)
Keepers dive dramatically when ball is trundling past them
Close control not as effective as 08
Through ball takes too long to charge up
Advantage rule flaws
Replay framerate
Replay angles (why always from below player?)
Those bloody "Lets FIFA09" signs next to goals (looks awful)
Super Cancel (player slows down when you pull out of run)
Weather issues (can't see rain, no weather in MM)
Players zombie eyes
Quick unranked match option (takes bout 5 mins to find in menu)
Player switching (can't switch to closest man quick enough)
Keepers still seem hesitant coming out when button pressed
Too many outside of the foot shots
Player movement doesn't seem free (still on rails)
MM mode issues
No replays of reason for booking after advantage has been played
First time shots (ball running toward oncoming player) should be far more powerful.
Tall defenders should not be marking posts at corners.
Half the team do the same stretching animation at the same time just before kick off.





Would like to see in FIFA10:-

Quick free kick
Real time cutscenes/celebrations/bookings etc
Longer replays
Highlights mode (ala Halo's Theater Mode)
Face Import (Tiger0 for all players (so I can put proper faces for generic faces or better faces for official faces - if possible)
Tall players automatically come up for corners
Choose whether to head the ball or volley it (it's fairly random just now)
Finesse button for outside of foot shots
Editing suite (PES)
Save replays to HD (EA Sportsworld sucks)
Quick select for set piece taker / lay off man
Set play creator
Correct fans celebrate goal (not just stand up and sit down)
If connection is lost during a game on live, say who disconnected/got cut off
The ability to save customs team line-ups and formations for online play.
Different net styles at different stadiums.
Be able to round the goalie.
The option to play online matches with specific settings (ie shooting semi and through balls manual etc) not just manual everything or assisted everything.
Create a celebration mode (I know some people hate the celebrations but i think they add something to the game)



Would love to see the cons sorted and the new ideas added

[LegendUri666]

Update the game constantly with boots shirts and advertising stuff.
Player faces.

And make the AI react to tricks and allow them to do tricks.
AND FOR FOULS!!
Make it easier to get a freekick. like in real life.
When somebody is unbalanced WHILE TAKEING A SHOT or PASS and somebody bumbs in to him. It's always a FREEKICK

[PolishPrancer]

New Leagues Request:

1. Greek League
2. Russian League
Also, some form of relegation to mix things up in different leagues.
Rest of World:
Top 2 teams from European and South American leagues not included in Fifa 10

[joshbotelho1994]

here,

Manager Mode

New! Online Idea! Manager Mode Online!

Remember in EURO 08 how we represented our country?

Arena

Petition for Creating Teams!

Online clubs idea

[Grimace619]

get rid of benfica ! add chile

[Rockba]

OK, i dont know how official this list is but i guess if its *official*, then EA should have a look at it so i would want to be very critical, as i love FIFA 09, and i only want FIFA 10 to be the best. As usual, the top priority should be gameplay before any manager mode , ( i know some really were dissapointed with it this year) or online modes. So Ill just make my comments critical on everything concerning the gameplay
Gameplay-Let me first say that there is something i dont know if ea has fully reaslized yet, but its the little things that make a good game. ingame animations and cutscens. yes, they did a good job here but much is still to be done. Instead of all those ridiculous cutscenes , take a look at pes for example, better use realistic ingame animations which i believe uses less disk space. Watch TV matches, those scenes never happen when a ref gives a card, its like its some hollywood movie filmed from a weird angle. When a player shoots wide, he should kick the grass ingame or cover his face with his shirt. if he shot and fell down and missed he can situp, pull up his socks and get a hand up from a team mate,i mean believe me this make the game more believable.When the ball goes out, the player should go pick it up and wipe it on his shirt, i mean i see that all the time. A simulation is not only about how the gameplays but also what goes on that makes it feel like its a football match. The entrance scenes are not bad but they are below par. For me it ruins the excitement before a match.Where are the refs before the players exit the tunnels? add him with his officials holding the flags, while he holds the ball. Lets see a player or two in the crowd shouting out, waving flags, i mean again i would say just look at pes 09 for entrance scenes to get wat im saying. Even the aspect of controlled celebrations should have an option to be switched off. Most look ridiculous. Id rather have anelka score and do his trade mark butterfly INGAME, or have Campbell run at the crowd in excitement in game. i know i keep saying this but look at pes 09, it does an excellent job in TV representation. A player scores a goal and starts running and his team mate pulls him down ingame before the camera zooms in.
The Touchline Coaches and subs- Another issue that i had with fifa 08, which part has been solved in 09 is the touch line. Wheres the coach or the reserve team box? this is necessary trust me. You could use real coach faces for may be only CL teams and genric faces for the rest. How good would it be if wen u change your tactics u could see Arsene wenger at the touch line shouting out words at his youngsters and makin signs, or a player warming up for a sub. And talking ablout subs, they have the worst cutscenes. We should have the fourth official holding up the board with the sub waiting to enter i mean realistic cutscenes should not be that hard to get.
Long rangers -Now there can be nothing as spectacular as a well placed cracker from a player like Stevie G (captain fantastic) into a top corner from 35 yards out. how can fifa be a simulation without this. Watch the prem league or something, they are frequent enough, belletti style. But in this game, i dont know if its the shots which balloon away too often (the ball weight in fia08 feels very right,it feels heavy enough) or its the GKs who are too good.
Goalies- And yes the GK logic has been rewritten but they just cant be beaten from distance which makes them feel superhuman. GKs ARE HUMAN! They should be caught unawares at times, or sometimes just watch a well placed FK dash into the top corner and start blaming the wall. Also as if beating them from far was not a problem enough, its a problem at close when you want to round them up torres style. They should be easier to round up like in pes 09. I know sometomes u can use those complex skills to get past them on one-on-one, but it should not only be that way.
Beating the AI players -But then this is where theres another problem. Getting past the AI players. Its close to impossible to beating players by dribbling past them, u have to use skill moves which take some time too. Players should have closer ball control and should be able to beat defenders realistically. This problem i feel comes from the ease with which tackles are made. Just holding the X or A button (PS3 or 360) makes the tackling very easy. the defender just stands in your way and tackles, NO! In real life the defenders run back while trying to get your pace and then the attacker has to change pace at times to beat the defender, but i think this just a problem with the tackling system, which makes it too easy to get the ball.
Dribbling animation-My next problem is the dribbling animation. Some are good, but the change of direction animation DOES NOT look realistic and sometimes the player stretch out weirdly. Please change the dribbling animations!
Set pieces and quick FK-Theres also something about the set peices. Tall defenders SHOULD go up for corner kicks, look sat hyppia or vidic for example, thats how they get their goals! FIFA 10 would do very well to have a setpiece editor where you can plan out how many players go for a corner kick or the 2nd fk man etc. And y is there no quick free kick rule, I mean this will keep the pace of the game rather than stopping the game unnecesarily allowing subs which waste even more time. PUT QUICK FREE KICKS!
Body Models-My last gripe is the body models. They still dont look too much like real soccer players. they should look more solid and have an athletes physicality. Thank u EA for listening to your fans feedback, i hope FIFA 10 will be the best ever. Cheers to all those who took off some time to read this, LETS FIFA 10!

[DKDan1980]

Originally Posted by stuartyd

Half the team do the same stretching animation at the same time just before kick off.

That is the thing about the game that annoys me the most, to be honest... It would be soooo easy for EA to change.
I can't believe that no Beta Testers or in game testers, animators or whatever hasn't noticed.

I know it is just a tiny thing that doesn't affect gameplay, but for me it takes alot away from the otherwise near autentic match day experience.

Pleeeease EA, sort this one quickly!!!!!

[trishp]

I completely agree with the first post on what needs to be included. My personal priorities would be:
-Inclusion of Argentine League AND at least Boca + River's stadiums
-In-depth Kit editor (including team creator)
-360 degree free kicks (yes, it is pretty stupid that you can currently only kick forward)
-Improved crowd chants to include regional/country and player ability to control crowd chant for better atmosphere
-Improved weather control (I can only see how to make it night/day or snow/summer so how do you make it rain?)

[trishp]

Yeah, I agree about half-empty stadiums. I also think crowd support/noise should vary over a season depending on how well your doing or if it's a big match. Imagine the difference in atmosphere - a) you're a top team who has not lived up to expectations and are losing at home, in the cold rain, to a bottom-of-the-league team. The stadium would be half empty, and many fans would be frustrated and jeering. Contrast the atmosphere with b) you're about to win the league at home, beating your arch-rivals, and you're infront of a packed stadium of celebrating fans. THE CROWD NOISE/STADIUM FULLNESS ARE CURRENTLY EXACTLY THE SAME IN CURRENT FIFA GAMES AND THIS DOES NOT HELP BUILD A GOOD ATMOSPHERE OR INVOLVE THE PLAYER. Sure, your fans change if you're losing or winning 3-0, but those are the only times.

[trishp]

Other clasic teams I'd like to see:
Barcelona 1991-1994
Juventus 1992-96
AC Milan 1987-95
Man Utd 1999

[Jhnssn504]

• The ability to block shots without giving away a penalty
  If you do a tackle to block a shot and the player run over you after his shot he will get a freekick/penalty in 09. This is not how it works in real life, he would only get a freekick if you actually tackle the player so he can't finish.
• Backing of or getting closer to a ball that is getting to you
  This doesn't always work as it should. Sometimes you can't back of if someone crosses to you, because the players automatically moves towards the ball. In theory you should be able to do this by holding down the LT (NA scheme). It worked very well in PES, you just held down R2 and you'd face the ball but move freely towards or away from the incoming cross. This way you can back of right before the ball reach you to be able to volley the ball instead of heading it. If you're lucky you can pull this off in 09 by timing the button press late, but if the player move towards the ball he might just get it in the chest instead. I should point out that I know about Cancel but using this does not result in what you really want to do, because you want to just back off a little like R2 in PES. PES has super cancel too but you don't use it to back off a little.
• Through ball must charge up faster
  How this should be solved is by adding the advanced option to customize the speed of the charging up for every action (shot, pass, through ball etc.)
• Keep the replays at 60 fps
  It looks good enough as it does in game don't add whatever you're adding to make the replays 30 fps, it is not needed it just ruins the replay.
• The ability to try to hit a low driven shot
  In FIFA you have to time the shot very late to hopefully pull off a low hard/driven shot. But in real life it doesn't work like this. You adjust your body and your running so that you get into right position to shoot low and hard. You don't just run the same and hope that the ball gets close to your feet when you want to shoot. However this does NOT mean that you will alwaylalalala perfect low shots, there will still be plenty of room for error from attributes and bad positioning to the ball.
• New optional control scheme
  Try to figure out a new optional control scheme that eliminates all the possibilities to press a button and getting a different result than you were expecting (ex. cross instead of tackle, call for pass instead of pass and so on). Find inspiration from the NHL 09 developers, they came up with a complete new control scheme for 08 that eliminates button mashing and concentrate on the sticks and shoulder buttons.
• At least 32 direction movement
  You gotta be kidding me that we still use the movements that are made because of the D-pads limitations.
• Option to remove the sprint button
  And have the player do walking all the way to full sprint by how much you lean the left stick.
• Save replays to hdd
  But this I know will be in because of the high demand for it.
• No limitation for how many players that can lock on to the ball
  If I play BAPS I should be able to try to shoot/head the ball if I'm close to it. Right now a pressed button results in screaming pass or shoot if a team mate is locked on to the ball (even if I'm in a better position to shoot/head it). Open up the game, stop making it so scripted like this. Two defenders with bad communication should in theory be able to try to head the same ball, or 3-4 people should be able to try to head a corner. Right now every corner feels stiff and just like the last one because of the 1-on-1 script that ruins the dynamic feeling of the game.

Edit:
A huge problem in 09 when playing against the cpu or BAP is that defenders are really bad. When you hit a through ball they just run straight towards the balland always end up behind the attacking player. There are so many one on one with the keeper in this game because of this. In real life defenders make sure that they always try to make sure they are between the attacker and the defender. Sure sometimes they'll try to attack the ball directly, but that doesn't happen very often.

Not sure how to describe this problem, but it is like the defenders stops (or start to walk) and let the attacker run past them. I'm sure everyone have noticed this, hopefully EA too. This happens on all difficulty levels I presume because it happens on World Class and Legendary. You can see this behaviour a lot on video compilations when people have a break away goal.

There is also a bug when playing BAPS where the computer has a freekick and pretty much always just pass the ball to the closest player. So if you just walk up in front of that player and wait he will pass the ball to you. Pretty lame, the AI should still analyse the situation like they do when the game is on.

[ilovenatalie]

u should be able to do international manager mode and they should add team creater should be able to choose how much money u have u should able to add a picture of ure self then it makes your face like a fifa cartoon player create a manager and be the referee and u should be able to live a life like buy cars and date hot woman and buy houses they should be able to make the match length a hour long and create a stadium and finaly cheat codes for cheaters to stop them hacking and bloody moaning lol

[Verius]

Please, dear god, fix the run of insane matches in manager mode. How in the world am I going to have an away FA match and a home EPL match in the same day? It just shouldn't happen. It gets even more exciting when there is a Thursday match, then two matches on Saturday

This has been happening for years, and should be an easy fix.

[cittedepalermo88]

Originally Posted by Verius

Please, dear god, fix the run of insane matches in manager mode. How in the world am I going to have an away FA match and a home EPL match in the same day? It just shouldn't happen. It gets even more exciting when there is a Thursday match, then two matches on Saturday

This has been happening for years, and should be an easy fix.

ps2 or ps3? I got it on ps3 and that never happen to me, even when I'm in europe......

[GruesomeEight]

Why has know one said Goalie mode!? That would be wicked! just like in nhl

[ramboros]

Server shouldn' suddenly disconnect players from games.

[PlayZare]

This
put a training mode like FIFA 08 PC
I really liked that.
And that green pallet to choose which shooter

But instead of choosing FK 1,2,3,4,5 to choose(like in fifa 08 PC)
Like have a where do you want to freekick feature(like a football pitch and you put a a black dot on where you want it and it spawn your player , the ball and the wall )(maybe choosing how many people in the wall or maybe
Practice Solo(like arena) or play multiplayer(online training for clubs)

[CFC_Shadee]

What does ROTW stand for

[danielrh]

just be aware EA - please don't go overboard with certain teams - the bottom line is any team can win on a given day.

and at the moment 95% of people choose MAn U online/offline (as well as) - in tournaments so you end up with "let's fifa09 Man U" - now that cannot be healthy....and competitions become stale, tacky, cheap and boring to watch.
I think teams should be more level to each other and then it will be down to the player to make that team play superb.

keep you game exciting, fun and most of all fair

[tunde12]

the keepers react too slow
and we have 2 put longer tape
and we need under armours
and a penalty shoot out mode
and most of all be able 2 change da colours of da boots
tnks

[smeltzerinho]

it's "the", not "da"..... THE colours of THE boots











THE! say ittttttttttt




1. Make manager mode enjoyable, and make it so that you're not scared of it screwing up mid-season meaning you have to start all over again.

2. Fix the weather, you promised this for 09, you didn't deliver, you need to now. Nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

3. I'm bored now

[Lishman]

ability to have pre season friendlies on next gen

I just find it stupid how during the transfer window you only get about 5 or 6 opportunities to buy players (after each game) They should make it so during the transfer window you can bid for players every couple of days if you want to

[fifa07micke]

photo game face!