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The "Who Is Going To Be The FOFC Guinea Pig Who Buys Football Mogul This Year" Thread
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09-11-2015, 09:48 AM | #2 |
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How the AI?
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09-11-2015, 01:04 PM | #3 |
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There are some things on that list that sound like pretty reasonable and positive additions to the game.
For 2000. (right after the original version came out and these glaring weaknesses were clear as day) |
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But at this point, I don't have a whole lot of confidence in them getting these things right.
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09-11-2015, 01:53 PM | #5 |
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I like how some of the selling points are fixing bugs from last year's version. Isn't that what patches are for?
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09-11-2015, 01:57 PM | #6 |
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NOT IT!
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09-11-2015, 02:01 PM | #7 |
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I don't see the Beer tent feature.. i'm out
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09-11-2015, 02:16 PM | #8 |
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I'm most excited about the correct NFL schedule for the upcoming season.
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09-11-2015, 02:26 PM | #9 |
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I think if I stumbled on a copy of this at the dollar store (like I once did with one version of FM) I'd fire it up. Short of that, probably not.
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09-11-2015, 03:50 PM | #10 |
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As much as I trumpet how fun of A game Baseball Mogul can be, Football Mogul is as worthless as sneakers on a snake.
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09-11-2015, 07:24 PM | #11 |
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I'm still a fan of Baseball Mogul. Sometimes I don't need my text-sims to be a mile wide and ten miles deep. It's quick and easy and accurate enough.
Never tried Football Mogul, but will keep shying away from it until I see something positive. |
09-11-2015, 08:21 PM | #12 |
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09-11-2015, 08:28 PM | #13 | |
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The fact that this was literally the very first bullet point as a 'feature' made me chuckle. Here's hoping they've come up with something better - I'd love to see some diversity in the genre. |
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09-15-2015, 12:02 AM | #14 |
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I bought it and I have bought it in the past. But I also bought pro football simulator which never really evolved much. Mostly I will buy just about anything that might give me a better NFL simulation.
I thought the past games were OK, but never good enough to maintain my long term interest. |
09-15-2015, 08:22 AM | #15 |
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Do it Ben!
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09-15-2015, 09:27 PM | #16 |
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So the designer wrote a blog about why you shouldn't buy the game:
The Game Designer: Five Reasons You SHOULDN'T Buy Football Mogul 16 The biggest WTF statement I see is the issue about historical seasons. I've played too many board games that don't skimp on accuracy in the older seasons. A look on pro football reference shows you kicking stats for all 1970 teams. Seems like admitting to a lack of research. I really liked their card game, Masters of the Gridiron, but they've completely dropped the ball on it. Still only the 2013 season decks that are way over priced (I kickstarted mine for 1/3 of that). The game screams for historical seasons, and they've been in the pipeline for a year. If that's how they do things, can't say I'll ever give the PC game a try. |
09-16-2015, 07:13 PM | #17 |
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That would not be the article I would write if I was trying to expand my market and sell more games.
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09-16-2015, 07:37 PM | #18 | |
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Glad I'm not the only one who thought that was really really bizarre. And if you look at it closely, it's actually almost even MORE bizarre. Among the missing kickers from that screen shot: Bruce Gossett - SF (tied for most XPA in the league in 1970) Jim Bakken - STL (3rd most XPA in the league in 1970) and that's where I'll stop. Honestly, once I realized how badly f'ed up that screen shot showed this aspect of the game to be, I knew there really wasn't any point in going any farther into it. Whatever process is being used for these seems likely to be the problem ... and he ought to be downright embarrassed to have posted that particular thing as his example, one of the sloppiest moments I can recall seeing from a designer attempting to use social media.
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09-16-2015, 09:05 PM | #19 |
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Apparently this years version of Baseball Mogul was supposed to be a big step forward and it appears as if the only thing big about it is the letdown most users are experiencing. A thread titled This Is The Worst BM Ever, seems to be rather apropos
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09-16-2015, 10:11 PM | #20 |
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Yeah, BM was not good this year. I went back to OOTP and haven't looked back. I'm not sure what Clay does anymore as far as programming.
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09-16-2015, 11:39 PM | #21 |
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I remember someone (Digamma?) Had a hilarious FM post back in the day. Something like Vick tossing 65 INTs.
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09-17-2015, 12:19 AM | #22 |
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I actually did find an old old copy of Football Mogul once in a garbage software bin and played the hell out of it. I'm thinking of was around 2000 or so.
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09-17-2015, 07:52 AM | #23 |
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I know I ran a dynasty thread playing FM at some point. I recall going empty cupboard and starting out my team with the "He Hate Me" guy from the old XFL as my only recognizable player. I did some searching here, couldn't find it. Maybe it was before we switched to this board? Possible.
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09-17-2015, 11:25 AM | #24 |
College Prospect
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I have been playing the new Football Mogul 16 and it is better then most previous versions.
mostly it is a casual game, very little depth. But nice as a quick hit game to play when you have a free 15 min. |
09-17-2015, 11:41 AM | #25 |
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Last one I played was a few years ago.. and I could never get my Rams to the Super Bowl.. so it was challenging.
How is the sim stuff holding up Agustus? |
09-17-2015, 03:50 PM | #26 |
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09-17-2015, 05:39 PM | #27 |
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I feel like blowing $30.. but will I?
Madden is great.. but I play every game, so it will take me too long to do drafts and what not.. I'm bored with FOF.. so... I might get FM16.. or not.. depends on how much I drink tonight! |
09-17-2015, 05:40 PM | #28 |
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I think it'd be more satisfying to take $30 and flush it down the toilet.
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09-17-2015, 05:42 PM | #29 |
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09-21-2015, 12:09 PM | #30 |
lolzcat
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In all seriousness, this free online game (there was a thread on it a while back) is really close to the FM experience in feel, control, depth and pace.
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cool - they even open sourced it (or at least portions of it) dumbmatter/basketball-gm · GitHub including their nifty facegen javascript: (faces.js - A JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces)
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