It suuuucks as a football game. Controls like ass.
Someone bring back PES or cook up a replacement, please. I'm tired of these shitty football games.
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IMO, PES was always so much better than FIFA. Matches were slow, measured, low-scoring exercises in passing and breaking down defences. FIFA always felt like a game, whereas PES was a simulation. I’ve not played either of their descendants for years, but I’ve watched my girlfriend’s kid play FC25 and it seems far more like fucking Pokémon than a football game.
Rematch on the other hand is something else. It’s not a football game, despite its appearance. It’s a future-sports game, like Rocket League or Speedball 2. I’m enjoying it from that perspective.
Agree with the controls though, but I’m still putting that down to my own skill issues.
Even in the 16bit era International Superstar Soccer was a better game than FIFA.
SWOS FTW
Agree with PES being a really good football simulation. I always viewed FIFA as a cynical and jaded attempt at arcadifying football—never really been my cup of tea.
I can't be bothered with the camera management in Rematch. It sucks so bad the game literally tells you get used to no look passing/shooting because you won't have time to adjust your camera. Even when I kinda got used to it and got to score a few goals, I didn't feel any satisfaction—it felt too silly.
I haven't played any of the recent FIFA games but I remember the last one that played had truly awful AI. I never understood why they didn't have a mode where you could have multiple players controlling different team members. This game actually seems to have that. In fact from the trailer it seems that this might be exclusively multiplayer which is an interesting idea.
Although this game is a football game in the same way Balatro is a poker game
I never understood why they didn't have a mode where you could have multiple players controlling different team members.
Older PES games had that and it was super fun before Konami's pachinko machine addiction lead to the franchise's gradual demise.
Rematch is exclusively multiplayer, yes.
What a cancerous website on phone.
Works fine for me. What's your problem with it?
Probably android with adblocker? On iOS it’s almost unusable. Over 50% of screen at any time is covered with ads.
There are ad blockers for iOS
Then please do recommend me one that works. Because neither Adblock nor anything else I tried work well, or at all with Firefox. Doesn't change the fact the website is extremely unpleasant to use without adblockers.
Vivaldi browser has one built-in. It doesn’t always work and some websites just block you for using adblocker, but at least this article looked fine in it with no ads.
I have ad block pro and I also use a VPN that offers ad blocking.
I use Wipr on Safari on iOS. It’s not perfect, but nothing is.
I'm tempted to try it out as an avid Rocket League player.
I'm just not sure there is something in Rematch that I cannot already get somehow in Rocket League.
"What a save!"
I can think of a few things RL has that can't be found in Rematch. Yet.
There's enough toxicity in Rematch already. You can just spam "good job" instead.
What i've noticed subjectively is, that RL has become more mature and less toxic since the release of Rematch.
Maybe all the toxic kids are trying Rematch now and the old farts stayed.
I’ll dispute that. Fired up Rocket League for the first time in a few months yesterday after a couple of hours of Rematch. First game I got into was constant abuse from a teammate against the other two of us on the team. Finished the match with double his points and still got called trash because we lost.
Tbh though I love it. Makes me laugh thinking about how angry the guy must be getting while playing.