Viewing Thread:
"We are all testers in the Great Videogame experiment..."

Since it debut in '95, FIFA has appeared on pretty much every console a casual player can mention. From Mega Drive to Gameboy Color, to Playstation to XBox; in many iterations (World cup '98, FIFA '99, etc.)

It's EAs biggest cash cow, in fact probably the biggest cash cow in video games; let's just say the cow s*its money! It's the reason the Tea Lady wears a Versache suit, and why the bog roll is gold-plated.

This was going to be the start to my review of the latest FIFA game, but I thought I'd bring the topic down to the floor. Who pushes the industry, and who tells the pushers where to push to?

In theory, we, the consumer, should be able to choose the direction we go. After all, we pay the money for the game, without us, videogames would still be in the hands of bedroom coders (is that a bad thing?)

Unfortunately, not every company listens; why should they? EA churn out a new FIFA game every year with no improvements and we still buy the darned thing. If FIFA has one thing going for it though, it's fun. Yes, FIFA can be fun to play, unlike many other cash-cows. Tomb Raider, good game. Tomb Raider 2, well, it's playable. Tomb Raider 3, erm... we'll leave it there. Lara chest got bigger, the fun facter didn't. Again, we'll leave it there.

Those that do listen to us seem scrupolous, too. They add a significant feature to game, great, but it should have been put in the first one. Why should I pay money for a game that has a new feature present that wasn't (and should have been) there the first time?

*PaperJpn wipes swea from brow.*

You can probably tell I'm writing this as I go along, maybe I should have planned it better; maybe I'm cramming too many points into one topic. In fact, what is the main point of this topic, it's turning out to be spam. I'm sorry, maybe I should just stick to my FIFA review. Well, talk to you lot later.

paperjpn wrote:
> Oh still, that's pretty good.
> BTW Belldndy, it's a shame Ocean didn't survive, they were the sole
> diet of a generation. Where are they now?

Wizball was genius.

Oh still, that's pretty good.
BTW Belldndy, it's a shame Ocean didn't survive, they were the sole diet of a generation. Where are they now?

(To mem ...)

O' course, forgot about THAT.

Don't forget that EA, like all software companies, has to put up piles of cash up front for licenses like FIFA, and indeed to develop any game at all. Successes like FIFA pay for the crap sellers like....er...Harry Potter.

Besides, I think EA just lucked out being the only surviving software company from the earlier days, had Sensible survived then we could have had Senesible Soccer 2003 to look forward to, oh and whoever made the Super Kick Off games as well.....FIFA jst happened to survive.

~~Belldandy~~

You have to be a full SR member to win a game, non-members get a years membership and free gift.

It depends if you write good reviews or topics or not. That's what affects your chances.
Anyone can win, yes.

Goto gameaday.co.uk and check it out.

Can anyone win? What are the chances? They good?

I've only been here 2 days. I wouldn't mind Operation Flashpoint or something. You played that. Excellent game.

Yup.