09-30-2016, 08:53 AM
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Rookie
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Re: The Journey
It really started out interesting, but I feeling the glory is quickly fading off. There os a couple of things that really annoys me. It apparently being only one season is really disappointing, and kind of makes the journey name pointless. The journey to what? I imagined the journey being from rookie whipping boy to full fledged superstar, not the train ride to down to a Championship club.
And when I chose Liverpool as my favorite club in the beginning and later signed for them, the club my grandfather proudly played for, why in Gods name do I have posters of Martial and Hazard up in my room? How many Liverpool supporters have United and Chelsea payers on their walls? This is the small details that completely break the emersion. That being said, they nailed a realistic detail in Sturridge getting injured and missing time.
I also don't like that this is a mode that don't reward you for making the right decisions as a football players, but rather forces you to play a selfish, ball hogging type of football. Instead of rewarding me for setting up a goal by passing the ball to the man on the open goal, I get punished in that I fail to reach the expectation from the manager of scoring. And to even raise my own in game rating I have to call for the ball in every situation to be involved enough to effect my rating.
The scripted elements of pats of the game is also really stupid. I score 4 goals and assist on 2 during the preseason tour, in two of the games coming on as a sub, but I'm still not good enough to start. I follow that up with scoring in the first two or three games of the season as a sub, only to still be benched in favor of you friend, who never is portrayed as being the superior player of the two of them.
I'm 5 games into the regular season at this point. I will still play for now, but this really seems to go nowhere. I like the story aspect of the mode, but it would be great to feel like you have something to do with what happens instead of just being a passenger on the ride.
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