![]() ![]() ![]() I prefer a challenge, and the harder the better. That style of play is not for me, though. There are many FM players who play like that, picking the richest and most powerful teams and buying all the best players in the world to steamroll all competitions, and as long as they're enjoying themselves I have nothing against it. What's stopping you from taking over the best team in the world and win all the things effortlessly, then? In such a sandbox game without any set goals, having such a gigantic world at your disposal is a huge blessing. And it's not like you're about to run out of options even if that happens the game has 51 (!) national leagues, most of them with multiple levels, in its database, plus all the major continental and worldwide competitions, both at club and international level. You're not even tied to a single club, or even a single league, and can in fact jump ship whenever an offer for your services come or if, heavens forbid, you're ever sacked. Instead, the player gets to decide lineups, design tactics and set pieces, buy and sell players, interact with the press and the board, handle training and scouting, and all the fun stuff real life football managers get to do. Regardless, all the player can do while a match is in progress is change tactics and shout at the players, so no pressing R2 for sprinting nor anything like that. Nowadays the game features a not particularly beautiful but mostly functional 3D engine for the matches, and retains the option to watch it in 2D instead, with the players replaced with numbered dots. It hasn't been that long since you couldn't even watch the games, and had to do with a text-based narration. This is a pure manager game, meaning you don't get to control the players directly on the pitch. Then, what's this? Something like Winning Eleven and the like? ![]() We're due the fourteenth game since the name change next November, and the train doesn't look like stopping any time soon. The result was that Eidos had to hire a new team to continue the Championship Manager series on their own (and failed spectacularly), while SI just rebranded their game as Football Manager and kept the pound bill printing machine the series had become by then going nonstop. There was a problem, though: while Eidos had the rights to the Championship Manager name, SI kept the rights to the game's code and, more importantly, the humongous player and team database they'd gathered throughout the years. Then, after CM4 and its 2003/04 seasonal update were a thing, SI and Eidos decided to take separate paths. After the first three titles in the series were released, Domark was bought by Eidos, yet both sides kept working together for almost a whole decade. Back in the early nineties, SI partnered with Domark Software for distribution duties, and the series began its long life known as Championship Manager. The series has a bit of a funny history when it comes to names, actually, and not just because of regional differences in the English language. That's why the series was known in the US of A and neighboring heretic countries as Worldwide Soccer Manager until 2009, when the developers at Sports Interactive (SI for short) and the publishers at Sega decided that the American crowd was prepared for the sport to be called by its original, correct, and sacred holy name. The kick-a-round-ball-all-over-the-pitch-and-into-the-net kind, not the only-kick-a-melon-shaped-ball-once-in-a-while kind, mind you. Football Manager (FM for short) is the name of a series of sports management videogames focused on, you guessed it, football. I mean, I might wish to murder some of my players at some point, and I most certainly will want to go all goldenslaughterer on their agents' asses sooner rather than- The point, Neon. ![]() Or rather, stop reminiscing of the good ol' times and throwing names at me and start explaining what this thing is about, will you? At least there'll be no bloody killings all over the place this time, I assume? Oh, come on, just because my two previous LPs have been of Japanese visual novels doesn't mean that's the only thing I play, you know? I mean, I've probably been playing the Football Manager series since long before I even knew that visual novels existed! Well, back then it was still called Championship Manager instead, but- Wait. I mean, not a visual novel? Not a single moonrune in sight? Seriously, are you really okay? Was about to, but then I saw that logo and, well, it left me sorta speechless. Feels like it happens every single time for some reason. Hey, are you okay? You kinda fell silent mid-sentence there.Īctually I was waiting for someone to interrupt me there. Welcome to my new Let's Play! In this thread we'll play through the. ![]()
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