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Football Manager 2017
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tommysvr
Paul Stalteri
I've got it - much faster on my Mac this year so for that reason I really like it but other than that not really many groundbreaking features. If you enjoy reading nonsense on social media, fortunately they've added that this year (it actually is kind of interesting to read.)
Just as addictive as ever too.
Just as addictive as ever too.
StephenH
Tommy Harmer
Ill give it a go till xmas then give to my 9yo grandson - he loves 2015!
El Dante
Les Ferdinand
Downloaded this tonight. Two games in, as Spurs, have sold Ben Davies. I signed Michael Keane & Assensio. I tried to get rid of Sisokko but he wouldn't accept Monaco's contract.
I beat Leicester 3-1 away, and Watford 1-0 at home.
I haven't played FM in years..so I'm still catching up on the ways of the game, but it's a fun distraction for now.
I beat Leicester 3-1 away, and Watford 1-0 at home.
I haven't played FM in years..so I'm still catching up on the ways of the game, but it's a fun distraction for now.
jabbathehut
Milenko Acimovic
maybe will dip in if price drops to nearer £20
DubaiSpur
Jack Jull
I've really cooled on the latest versions, tbh. '05, '06 and '07 were the best ones in terms of the time I spent on them (as much as humanly possible, given that I was a feckless student ), and I found the ones from '08 to '12 really enjoyable - my greatest success came in the last one, when I made Rochdale unbeaten Prem champions and was a whisker away from winning the CL three times on the spin, thanks almost entirely to a GHod-like regen named Pauletto from Brazil who scored 55, 59 and 63 goals respectively.
Then something changed in '13, and the ones afterward - you couldn't just find a successful tactic or two and transplant them across teams anymore, and a lot more work was needed to tailor your tactics to individual games and leagues. As someone who viewed games in the match engine in 'Extended' highlights mode up until that point, it was a struggle to watch the whole thing and actually pinpoint what was going right and wrong. I missed '15 because of straightened financial circumstances
, then '16 came out and just broke me entirely - it took way too much time to figure out what was going wrong as I kept getting sacked, and '16 in particular was horrible because the match engine excessively rewarded tactics that used traditional wingers getting down the line and getting balls into the box - I have a pathological fudging aversion to playing that way, since I nearly always go for some variation of narrow teams with wing-backs and one-two passes in the final third. 
I don't know if I'll pick up '17, in all honesty. If you guys like it, do let me know - also, I'd love to hear if they fixed that whole 'wingers are gods' thing from the '16 ME.
Then something changed in '13, and the ones afterward - you couldn't just find a successful tactic or two and transplant them across teams anymore, and a lot more work was needed to tailor your tactics to individual games and leagues. As someone who viewed games in the match engine in 'Extended' highlights mode up until that point, it was a struggle to watch the whole thing and actually pinpoint what was going right and wrong. I missed '15 because of straightened financial circumstances
, then '16 came out and just broke me entirely - it took way too much time to figure out what was going wrong as I kept getting sacked, and '16 in particular was horrible because the match engine excessively rewarded tactics that used traditional wingers getting down the line and getting balls into the box - I have a pathological fudging aversion to playing that way, since I nearly always go for some variation of narrow teams with wing-backs and one-two passes in the final third. I don't know if I'll pick up '17, in all honesty. If you guys like it, do let me know - also, I'd love to hear if they fixed that whole 'wingers are gods' thing from the '16 ME.
StephenH
Tommy Harmer
I've really cooled on the latest versions, tbh. '05, '06 and '07 were the best ones in terms of the time I spent on them (as much as humanly possible, given that I was a feckless student ), and I found the ones from '08 to '12 really enjoyable - my greatest success came in the last one, when I made Rochdale unbeaten Prem champions and was a whisker away from winning the CL three times on the spin, thanks almost entirely to a GHod-like regen named Pauletto from Brazil who scored 55, 59 and 63 goals respectively.
Then something changed in '13, and the ones afterward - you couldn't just find a successful tactic or two and transplant them across teams anymore, and a lot more work was needed to tailor your tactics to individual games and leagues. As someone who viewed games in the match engine in 'Extended' highlights mode up until that point, it was a struggle to watch the whole thing and actually pinpoint what was going right and wrong. I missed '15 because of straightened financial circumstances
I don't know if I'll pick up '17, in all honesty. If you guys like it, do let me know - also, I'd love to hear if they fixed that whole 'wingers are gods' thing from the '16 ME.
I've got it. But there are only so many thing they can "upgrade"!
It's OK but not different enough from my last version 2015 IMHO
DubaiSpur
Jack Jull
Yeah, that's fair enough, I suppose - I can't expect them to account for my tactical inflexibility, after all.
Let me know how your game goes, mate - if you find it's easier and less time-consuming than 15 perhaps was, I'll definitely look at picking it up in the Christmas sales.