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Bates5

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What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

09-10-2013, 01:46 PM

I'm desperately trying to find a pro or college football simulation game that is most like OOTP 14!!!!
Please let me know with details
Thanks
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09-11-2013, 02:04 PM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Me too. Has anyone tried out Football Mogul?
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09-11-2013, 02:36 PM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Originally posted by Perceptor

Me too. Has anyone tried out Football Mogul?

Yes its brutal.

The options are extremely limited. FoF or PFS and personally neither are that good. PFS is amatuerish which is about right the developer does it on side and he has been very busy so not much has come out lately. FoF looks like it should be run on MSDos and has some really poor AI that is game breaking imo.

If you are into college, Bowl Bound College Football by Greydog is by far the top football sim, but it is college. The mod packs are amazing and the game overall is incredibly deep.

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Bates5

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09-12-2013, 03:04 PM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Cool... I was thinking about buying it but a couple of things I read said the game is a little outdated. Can u still get updated rosters and current d1 schools and conferences?
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09-24-2013, 03:05 PM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

"Front Office Football" is the best one out there now in my opinion. It has everything that football provides that you want to see. Playing in an MP league is the best because you go aginst other Human players. I've been playing in a MP league for over 3 years now.

1. Free Agency
2. Trading
3. Penalties (you even have ilegal formation as a penalty)
4. Draft
5. Your players ratings mean evrything.
6. Game planning
7. Salary Cap
8. Build stadium, set ticket price.
9. Updated NFL Rosters
10. MP League websites ie: http://www.fof-gml.com/teampage.php?teamid=7

Now the developer of FOF is coming out with a newer version of FOF this year. Some are saying as quick as Nov.

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10-19-2013, 09:42 AM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Originally posted by Bates5

Cool... I was thinking about buying it but a couple of things I read said the game is a little outdated. Can u still get updated rosters and current d1 schools and conferences?

Yes you can get updated rosters, but not sure about the new conferences. However it is very easy to do those yourself. Also, you can do a playoff format before you start.
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12-08-2013, 03:46 PM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Great game here http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/signup?ref=412056
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12-11-2013, 10:30 AM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Was hoping to be able to start my own thread but noobie here.

 First time poster looking for a recommendation. I’m looking for a Football simulation that would let me setup a fantasy league with a structure that isn’t the normal NFL structure, teams or players. Has a draft, free agency, salaries and a cap that I can set. Ability to design plays and hopefully see those plays acted out on the field to some degree. Would also like to be able to design my own helmet, field and endzone logos that would show up in the game to some degree.

I have looked at Front Office Football, Football Mogul, Action PC Football, Pro Football Simulator and Strat-O-Matic Football but I can’t get a good feeling on which one of these fits.

Really hoping to get some insight from people that actually have these games.

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12-12-2013, 03:36 PM

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Strat-O-Matic is really only good for a single season, unless they've changed something. Growing up I played it a ton, and back than it was roll dice and look up the results.

dksports (Dave Koch) has a football game, but I'm not sure if it's good for multiple seasons.

Is FOF designed along the lines of OOTP, FM, EHL?

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12-12-2013, 05:15 PM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Originally posted by jesmith29

Strat-O-Matic is really only good for a single season, unless they've changed something.

That's kind of the feeling I got from looking at the webpage and seeing all the talk dealing with seasonal cards. So with that said Strat-O-Matic doesn't look like it would fit what I'm looking for. Anyone else able to help me figure out if these others might be what I'm looking for?

Front Office Football
Football Mogul
Action PC Football
Pro Football Simulator

Thanks
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12-29-2013, 01:16 PM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Front Office Football is fun. I haven't gotten the new one yet but I have heard it is very good. The layout and graphical design has never been good, but what's under the hood has always been a lot of fun and the product on the field is very realistic. Gameplanning used to he a major hassle in the game, and a lot of times came down to knowing the game rather than knowing football, but the user-created gameplan libraries mitigated this somewhat, since somebody took the time to approximate what would execute these offensive strategies in the game.

If you want to agonize over the difficulty of finding a franchise QB to add to your competent team, this is it. If you want to lament that your defense simply doesn't provide any help for your superstar-laden offense, this is it.
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01-07-2014, 06:26 PM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

any good college ones? that will run on win 7?
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01-12-2014, 09:54 AM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Originally posted by heitkamp94

any good college ones? that will run on win 7?

Bowl Bound College Football is the best. You can find it here: http://www.greydogsoftware.com/bb/

I'd recommend going to the forums and getting the updated conferences and logos mods (by Icy I think) as the game comes with a pretty old database.

Pondering the perfect Text-Sim.
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01-15-2014, 11:54 AM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

Pigskinempire
Pigskin Empire is really deep in terms of what you can do.
You start off as a coordinator and you build plays to call in game. You can playcall live vs other team which is what we call Live Play Calling (LPC). Here are the features.
If you are in...

College( D1 ).
Scout HS All Star Games
Scout other college teams
Create plays
Gameplan vs other users
Recruit local or national prospects
Play call in game
Develop your own players
Make an EMPIRE
Make the super cool playoff system we have.

College (d2)
Compete for a lower level championship.
Recruit from the same pool as d1
Same thing on really everything else on d1

Pro-
Scout d1 and d2 college games
Gameplan vs other users hungry for a title
Make hall of Famers
Develop college studs into stars
6 round draft from the college level
All New Free Agency Tracker to see who is trying to take your player

Misc-
Practice-
Drills
Plays
Scrimmages
Cardio
Weights and much more...

Go try it out!
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01-22-2014, 11:49 AM

Re: What is the best football txt sim game for pc?

What is the best?
Well it's a matter of tastes, right.

This one is not like OOTP 14 but if you still looking for a "good" browser football game - give this a try!

-> RedZoneAction.org

It's made by a dedicated and talented German developer!

RedZoneAction.org is a world full of and in football and it is free!
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