Apparently Ashton Gate the home of Bristol City is gonna be in the game, this could sway me into a Bristol City Career, usually enjoy doing one plus being my local team.. Ewood Park being added as well I've read, would've been nice last year when did Blackburn career, but good we seem to be getting a kot more stadiums these days
@thurlow885 wrote:Apparently Ashton Gate the home of Bristol City is gonna be in the game, this could sway me into a Bristol City Career, usually enjoy doing one plus being my local team.. Ewood Park being added as well I've read, would've been nice last year when did Blackburn career, but good we seem to be getting a kot more stadiums these days
Yes, this is great news! A few more outside of England would also be good to see.
@JustinCase0110 wrote:
@thurlow885 wrote:Apparently Ashton Gate the home of Bristol City is gonna be in the game, this could sway me into a Bristol City Career, usually enjoy doing one plus being my local team.. Ewood Park being added as well I've read, would've been nice last year when did Blackburn career, but good we seem to be getting a kot more stadiums these days
Yes, this is great news! A few more outside of England would also be good to see.
Agreed, I think there has been a few German, Italian and Spanish 2nd division grounds added I'm not 100% sure, possibly sides who been missing from game for couple years because they were relegated or something. Also pretty sure I saw something about a Portuguese one, I think Sporting
I saw an EA article that listed the below.
Portman Road Stadium (Ipswich/England)
Estádio José Alvalade (Lisbon/Portugal)
Voith Arena (Heidenheim/Germany)
Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor (Darmstadt/Germany)
Estadio Abanca-Riazor (Coruña/Spain)
Stadio Renato Dall’Ara (Bologna/Italy)
Stadio Artemio Franchi (Florence/Italy)
Estadio Mâs Monumental (Buenos Aires/Argentina)
St. Jakob-Park (Basel/Switzerland)
@LABoog4 wrote:I saw an EA article that listed the below.
Portman Road Stadium (Ipswich/England)
Estádio José Alvalade (Lisbon/Portugal)
Voith Arena (Heidenheim/Germany)
Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor (Darmstadt/Germany)
Estadio Abanca-Riazor (Coruña/Spain)
Stadio Renato Dall’Ara (Bologna/Italy)
Stadio Artemio Franchi (Florence/Italy)
Estadio Mâs Monumental (Buenos Aires/Argentina)
St. Jakob-Park (Basel/Switzerland)
Nice! Sporting isn't the biggest surprise with Benfica and FC Porto also having their stadiums added recently. FC Basel and the two in Serie A surprise me though. Positively, needless to say.
So, how's the Transfer Window going for everyone else? 😂
I did not realize Leeds were being picked apart that much.
Thanks for Archie. 🙂
@Alastairhufc Shall we slowly migrate to the FC 25 section? Creating the same Career Mode - Stories segment there, as we have here?
@LABoog4 wrote:I saw an EA article that listed the below.
Portman Road Stadium (Ipswich/England)
Estádio José Alvalade (Lisbon/Portugal)
Voith Arena (Heidenheim/Germany)
Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor (Darmstadt/Germany)
Estadio Abanca-Riazor (Coruña/Spain)
Stadio Renato Dall’Ara (Bologna/Italy)
Stadio Artemio Franchi (Florence/Italy)
Estadio Mâs Monumental (Buenos Aires/Argentina)
St. Jakob-Park (Basel/Switzerland)
Just to add to list it appears we are getting Feyenoord as well
My thoughts/plans keep changing. With Ashton Gate in the game I'm bound to do a Bristol City Career at some point. I've often been tempted by a Coventry career but swayed last moment, few years ago it was Ipswich, last year Blackburn (who's ground has been confirmed in as well now) and now Coventry's Ground has been confirmed in as well so I might finally get there. Also was unaware before, but Galatasary and Besiktas grounds are also in. Roma will be eventually as will Ipswich. Also Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu has been updated as well.
All of them sound like good choices. Roma is the only one I would hesitate on just because it bugs me that the league has "fake" names and not the correct team names for everyone.
@LABoog4 wrote:All of them sound like good choices. Roma is the only one I would hesitate on just because it bugs me that the league has "fake" names and not the correct team names for everyone.
True. I find it hard to play in Italy too. But using the correct team names and logos in the writeups seem to make it a bit easier for me to "overcome" the challenge of playing against the false clubs. At least I had a pretty enjoyable start with Sampdoria in Serie B, until my laptop died and I was unable to retrieve the files from its drive. I imagine that I could have kept that going for a while, if that hadn't happened.
Italy is still my current first choice for a career in FC25. However, I've seen many new faces, stadiums etc i Germany and France, so a part of me also want to look in that direction. But - for now - Italy is still my number one choice. Haven't decided upon a club though, but I'll probably go with a Serie A club, contrary to starting in Serie B in FC24.
I know most of us use our own excel sheets for careers but there is an app "Football Career Mode Tracker" that is pretty neat if it is available in your area.
I probably will not use it because I like more custom stats but for anyone who likes keeping track of results, transfers, and the basic stats like goals, assists, etc. This app would be perfect.
Curious on anyones knowledge or memory of football games
In the 90s probably late 90s as pretty sure after 98 world Cup we had a football game which was purely International Teams and you could replay all the past World Cups including qualifying with real player names well at least some you did as I remember having England 66 squad. You even played the older world cups in black and white.
Does anyone here remember or know this game and what it was called? Couple of us been reminiscing over past games and this one has us stumped
@thurlow885 wrote:Curious on anyones knowledge or memory of football games
In the 90s probably late 90s as pretty sure after 98 world Cup we had a football game which was purely International Teams and you could replay all the past World Cups including qualifying with real player names well at least some you did as I remember having England 66 squad. You even played the older world cups in black and white.
Does anyone here remember or know this game and what it was called? Couple of us been reminiscing over past games and this one has us stumped
Sorry, doesn't ring a bell. I remember a game with vintage club teams though. I believe it was called "This is Football". You could play with the Real Madrid team of the 1950's, Benfica and Inter Milan from the 1960's, Man United 1968, Ajax, Liverpool and Bayern from the 1970's, Barcelona and AC Milan in early 1990's etc. I'm sure there was more. I don't recall national teams being there too, but I can't rule it out either. I think this game was from 2003, give or take.
In that game there was also an opportunity to play with your youth team. So I suppose FIFA are only 20+ years behind 😉
Ah yes that'll be it. My friend at school had it on PC and I remember doing a swap with him for a few weeks for my version of Actual Soccer 2. Loved the game. Also remember This is Football had that on PS1 and remember being able to create on teams and kits as well
@LABoog4 wrote:
I remember playing indoor matches on one of the modes for a FIFA game in the 90s but I was very young so I do not remember much else.
FIFA 2010 is the first one that I really remember getting invested in and all of the games since. Watching YouTube videos of the old games, they had some really nice features that would be fun to bring back.
Same can be said for NFL and MLB games. For some reason they drop features that were really fun.
Indoor matches, that was FIFA Road to World Cup 98, I played that relentlessly back then. I don't remember any other football games with 4 vs 4 indoor games, except FIFA Street, where the game mechanics were much different.
I also had FIFA99, FIFA02 and FIFA04, the latter taking a huge step towards better player likeness etc. It was impossible to dribble though, so I scored half of my goals with long shots from midfielders. Signing a midfielder with a good shot in him, that was almost a cheat code, haha...
After FIFA04 I switched to PES for a while, much better gameplay then with players being able to do more individually. But from FIFA07 - the one with Rooney and Ronaldinho on the cover - I found myself back and have "stayed" ever since.
I wanna say FIFA 2000 had indoor training sessions too, I could be making that up, but definitely played another game with indoor that wasn't FIFA Street
Actually no I just quickly searched, it was FIFA 97. 2000 was the year of big heads, big ball and other weird quirks
@thurlow885 wrote:Actually no I just quickly searched, it was FIFA 97. 2000 was the year of big heads, big ball and other weird quirks
I don't recall ever playing the 97 game, so can't rule that out. But FIFA98 Road to World Cup had the indoor games, I'm certain of that. Plus every effing national team around. One could start with Jamaica or India or whatever and qualify them for the world cup. That was brilliant, especially compared to now where three out of four teams in the Career Mode World Cups are from Europe...😞
I'm thinking of some changes to make to start my CM and keep it fresh.
I had two questions I'm curious for feedback on.
1. If Celtic and Rangers came to England. Should they start in league 1 or Championship?
2. If a team that finished top four in England was punished and lost their Champions league spot. Who should take it. The team that finished 5th or a team that won the FA cup or league cup?
@LABoog4 wrote:I'm thinking of some changes to make to start my CM and keep it fresh.
I had two questions I'm curious for feedback on.
1. If Celtic and Rangers came to England. Should they start in league 1 or Championship?
2. If a team that finished top four in England was punished and lost their Champions league spot. Who should take it. The team that finished 5th or a team that won the FA cup or league cup?
1. Realistically for me it's Prem, for challenge it's Championship
2. 5th Place
@JustinCase0110 wrote:
@thurlow885 wrote:
Actually no I just quickly searched, it was FIFA 97. 2000 was the year of big heads, big ball and other weird quirks
I don't recall ever playing the 97 game, so can't rule that out. But FIFA98 Road to World Cup had the indoor games, I'm certain of that. Plus every effing national team around. One could start with Jamaica or India or whatever and qualify them for the world cup. That was brilliant, especially compared to now where three out of four teams in the Career Mode World Cups are from Europe...😞
Is one of my frustrations how we had more when we had less of that makes sense. I also get why we don't have all the teams, but doesn't mean it doesn't annoy me
