EA Sports FC 24 Reveal and First Impressions

[Steve_OS]

In the first bit of official news since parting ways with the FIFA license, EA kicked...

Written By: Kevin Groves

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[dubcity]

How many hypermotions, player ID's, sapians, or whatever new marketing term they want use, before we can have a game that plays like actual football? One that isn't designed for people to play repetitive 12 minute FUT matches online, while the rest of us get bored with the gameplay after a month?

[Cod]

The problem is, and continues to be, the Frostbite engine. EA executives pressured all the studios to adopt the engine as a cost effective measure after the potential the engine showed in Battlefield 3. Of note, studios weren't forced to use it and the teams (Respawn, etc.) that pushed back against Frostbite used engines they were familiar with. Games like Anthem, Blackfoot, newest NFS-series, FIFA, Madden, etc. have suffered because of the decision because the engine is made for FPS games. Recent success stories like Jedi Order, Codemasters' games, etc. are not using the Frostbite engine. Developers publically and privately have complained about the engine in non-FPS usages.

Another problem is yearly releases and consumer expectations. The code base of FIFA has been built on and built on throughout the years without any refactoring, re-writes, etc. which has turned much of the code base into a house of cards. Developers want to make the game better, but they just aren't given the resources required. We're seeing this same issue with other sports franchises, even non-EA ones like MLBTS. Unfortunately, the development teams aren't given the time and resources to make big changes because of the pressure to release yearly. Sports Interactive, makers of Football Manager, proved you can do this though with some investment from leadership. They've been actively working on a new code base using Unity engine that will release in 2025, while still releasing FM yearly with decent updates.

[LoadStar81]

"More RPG-like" is not necessarily a bad thing for Career Mode (either side, tbh).

Look at MyCareer in NBA 2K: arguably a little too bloated, sure. But I'd rather see career modes err on the side of having too much going on, in an overbuilt game world, than the usual slate of skeletal, barely outside the lines experiences, which wouldn't have been out of place a couple of generations ago.

The deliverable is emotion, and you won't get that in a career mode by just slapping a player lock on a season mode and calling it done. That just gets you an emotionless slog. The user has to care about the character, and the best way known to accomplish that, so far, is to step outside the lines and flesh them out. The ticklish part, is how to maintain enough compression of space and time, in so doing.

[RobotRosKO]

So that just ported fifa 23 over,or did they rebuild the game from the ground up? Based on the one comment, they did not rebuild it. Did they rebuild the game for next generation or just import same assets to the new console?

[sheredia]

if the game is as good as it should be, then did they ever really need the FIFA license anyways? did FIFA really restrict that much in terms of features, modes, etc.? only time will tell.

[KG]

Quote: Originally Posted by sheredia

if the game is as good as it should be, then did they ever really need the FIFA license anyways? did FIFA really restrict that much in terms of features, modes, etc.? only time will tell.

I think FIFA limited EA when it came to partnerships since FIFA, being the standup organization they are, probably wanted a nice little cut.

I’ve been saying it for a while but the actual FIFA license is meaningless considering how poor the World Cup games have become. Maybe when the Club World Cup expands it will be valuable but I’ll reserve judgment for that when it actually happens


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[adoptedscouse]

Quote: Originally Posted by sheredia

if the game is as good as it should be, then did they ever really need the FIFA license anyways? did FIFA really restrict that much in terms of features, modes, etc.? only time will tell.

I believe it also restricted them with stuff like smoke & flares in crowds as they are against it, also surrounding & arguing with officials etc.

Also sponsors stuff like that had to be fifa endorsed.


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