Lior said:
Apart from the very clear bug when the ball was headed in, what was so wrong with that footage? I saw some very promising and new animations in there.
I think the issue here is, that not only is it a very <b>obvious and clear bug</b>, but the fact that many a time these bugs are NOT ironed out of the game before it goes gold then is released.
You play the demo, and you spot a bug or two and in the past think 'this is a demonstration, not the final game...this bug won't be in the final product on the shelf, it's too obvious and ruins the experience!' ...so what do you do? You buy the game and are shocked when these obvious, clearly enjoyment-stopping bugs turn up in there. I wonder if the people who test the game sit their sipping on a can of coke and laughing at each other and cheering at goals rather than taking some sensible notes and passing them onto the programmers when bugs are spotted. Sometimes it makes me wonder, and what is sad is I don't think EA SPORTS have enough time to sort it out, by the time it's passed onto testers, they don't have enough time to get rid of these bugs...either that or they have a fix for it, even though it comes with more issues and it's called FIFA 08? That is a question in itself as that seems to be what has happened in the past. I doubt EA are quite like that at all, nor are they money mad-heads, I know they do want customers to enjoy the product, but perhaps FIFA is such a large game, and growing by the year that they don't have the time to develop it bug-free!
I love my FIFA games, but say;
*shooting on goal, clearly missing and having the game count it as a goal
*Clearly score and not have a goal counted
*see the keeper get to the ball during open play, the ball goes through his hands and scores
*taking a penalty kick, keeper saves it, but ball goes in for a goal and it's counted as a save
*you foul a player, no referee is shown or any action takes places...you have no idea what's gone on. You pause the game go into match facts and see you've been booked! (should've shown it before)
*more bugs than that...won't mention them all.
Well, I hope FIFA 07 has a more 'bug free' game like PES. Yes PES, you know if you knew me somewhat 5-6 years back I HATED PES, i was the evil one in the PES forums who just moaned about PES and hailed FIFA all the time saying how great it was.........then you notice the FIFA players' on this board switching over. A lot of the smart gamers who were genius at patching FIFA went away, these guys were here years ago and now, as far as I know they're enjoying PES. And now, like them I play both games but am still a huge fan of FIFA, always will be! But it just sucks how my perceptions have changed over the years because the FIFA gameplay has lacked realism and difficulty.
NK.