The Retro FIFA Discussion Thread (All FIFA games by EA are welcome!)

[TheKusanagiBlade]

Moving on by going back:

he should have also put direct link to his archive.

EDIT: here it is - https://archive.org/details/@rohankar

I asked a question, and was completely ignored.
Do the more recent FIFAs in this folder work without the need to use the EA app? If so, how?

 

[Sami 1999]

Aye, I could see that as I played. But I did like both of them on my 360, and I liked that at least the PC had finally moved into the current generation (what with how hideous 10 looked on it). So I didn't mind, even though I preferred 11 on the 360.
And credit where it's due, at least EA apparently thought of the players who didn't have the most powerful computers around that time of the later 00s; maybe that's why it took them so long to roll out the Impact engine on PC, and when they did they pulled what we'd later know as the "Legacy Edition" stunt. Which is one thing I can speak higher of them than of Konami (I remember how PES 3 would chug along if you didn't have a top-of-the-line machine back in 2004, and even later still with the seventh-gen and Fox Engine games) and some other publishers (coughrockstarcough).

It was such a bullshit excuse. At that point you might as well stop making games for pc.

And in the end, the next gen ports of FIFA games ran on intel integrated gpus just fine and on regular dedicated low end gpus it ran completely fine. Same with next gen PES games, they all ran just fine on potato.

The players who couldn't be bothered to even buy the lowest end hardware to run next gen games would have just pirated the games anyways.

 

[HeraclesMilano]

I've came to the conclusion 14 on pc is the worst looking Fifa of all times. It's a shame cause gameplay is really solid in my opinion, but colors, details... it's all so off putting.

I was going to post here and ask about fifa 14 PC graphics. I thought my potato laptop was the problem but even with the same settings fifa 13 looks better, hell even fifa 12 XD

In fifa 14 PC the grass looks dead. A flat cardboard basically. The lighting is non-existent, no contrast between shades, everything looks opaque, no bright tones, it looks like a much older game. In fifa 13 everything looks alive and bright, there's a nice contrast between the different hours of the day and even according to season, I just don't know how they took a work of art and failed to build on it for the next game.

Which is a shame cause fifa 14 introduced some nice features mainly in the gameplay, the ball has more weight just like the players, the AI is smarter and more intense especially when defending, it puts more pressure on you and there are a lot of midfield battles, mistakes and long balls. It's a little slower but not enough (I always set fifa games to slow and the pace felt great in 12' but not in next games), but still better than lighting speed fifa 13. The game is not that fun but still engaging and challenging.

I tried using moddingway but it can't fix the pitch. Maybe I'll run the classic patch and see everything looks there

 

[TheKusanagiBlade]

It was such a bullshit excuse. At that point you might as well stop making games for pc.

And in the end, the next gen ports of FIFA games ran on intel integrated gpus just fine and on regular dedicated low end gpus it ran completely fine. Same with next gen PES games, they all ran just fine on potato.

The players who couldn't be bothered to even buy the lowest end hardware to run next gen games would have just pirated the games anyways.

Well, okay, what do I know? I'm a goddamn stupid naïve idiot anyway, right?

 

[Sami 1999]

I was going to post here and ask about fifa 14 PC graphics. I thought my potato laptop was the problem but even with the same settings fifa 13 looks better, hell even fifa 12 XD

In fifa 14 PC the grass looks dead. A flat cardboard basically. The lighting is non-existent, no contrast between shades, everything looks opaque, no bright tones, it looks like a much older game. In fifa 13 everything looks alive and bright, there's a nice contrast between the different hours of the day and even according to season, I just don't know how they took a work of art and failed to build on it for the next game.

Which is a shame cause fifa 14 introduced some nice features mainly in the gameplay, the ball has more weight just like the players, the AI is smarter and more intense especially when defending, it puts more pressure on you and there are a lot of midfield battles, mistakes and long balls. It's a little slower but not enough (I always set fifa games to slow and the pace felt great in 12' but not in next games), but still better than lighting speed fifa 13. The game is not that fun but still engaging and challenging.

I tried using moddingway but it can't fix the pitch. Maybe I'll run the classic patch and see everything looks there

The visuals were downgraded, twice on old gen versions. If you see the earlier gameplay footage, the lighting still had contrast even though the pitch texture already changed. By the time the demo got released, the overall color tone and lighting was already changed. But then the biggest downgrade happened with the final retail release where they completely toned down the lighting shaders, thus making all the shading based on normal maps near invisible. This affected the jerseys the most. The jersey models already started looking like ugly cylinders and non human since FIFA 11 [12 pc] and without the normal map shaders- it just looked downright ugly.

It looks worse than even ps2 era fifa games in terms of overall art style.