FIFA will never be a good game again

The first FIFA I ever played was FIFA 06 when I was 7 and it was the next year with FIFA 07 that I fell in love with the FIFA franchise. The quality of the gameplay and the graphics at the time were amazing. It took me a very long time to get good at the game, to master the passing, shooting, dribbling and defending aspect of the game. The game would give you little help, especially when it comes to defending, we’ll get back to that later in the article.

There have been a fair amount of FIFA games that sucked. FIFA 14, for example, had way overpowered lobbed through ball passes and heading shots. FIFA 15 was even worse, it took pace, that is always overpowered (which to be fair, is also overpowered in real life in a way) and made it unstoppable, it was a Zig-zag shit show.

But then came FIFA 16 and 17, both were great games, and FIFA 17 looked like the start of what will ultimately be the pinnacle of realistic football gameplay with the introduction of the Frostbite game engine. Unfortunately, that’s where it stopped. We went from arguably the best FIFA game ever to today’s FIFA 22, that made a passionate FIFA player like me completely quit FIFA until further notice. A special mention to FIFA 19, which is without ONE SINGLE DOUBT, THE WORST FIFA GAME EVER.

The issue that I have with the FIFA games, starting with FIFA 19, is the assistance from the game. Garbage players become great all of a sudden after they learn how to use the assistance correctly. Players don’t need to take the time, the losses especially, to learn what they have to learn to be better, because the game takes care of 70% of that. All players need to do now is to time a through ball and dribble pretty well, the rest will be taken care of by the game : assisted defending, pressing, auto block from incoming shots, the next step would be an EA employee coming the play the game for you and win it when you’re not doing well or ban any player who beats you.

Ironically, the self-proclaimed football simulation is no more a simulation of football, but more of an arcade game now. All because EA want to grab more money by giving garbage player the skill that they never had, it is a great business idea but it’s gonna turn off many people from the game, hopefully enough so that it hurts the revenue of EA or give enough space for another Football game to bring serious competition to FIFA. One thing is for sure though, it’s not gonna happen over night. At the end of the day, what do I know ? Maybe I just started sucking at the game and I blame it on the game because I’m too salty to admit the truth. Thank you for reading.