Hopefully we can have some actual fun when playing the game next year.
One thing I want to see change in FIFA 21 is updates to Pro Clubs.
I'm sick of Ultimate Team getting all the updates. Clubs has just literally had nothing
for years, and it could be the biggest game mode on FIFA
if EA gave it a chance. Fix a load of the bugs, improve the gameplay, allow us
to play cross-platform, add a ton of new features
and tournament styles to Pro Clubs.
So it's not just divisions
and the cups. Can you imagine a Weekend League-style tournament on Pro Clubs? Like,
you play like 20 games over the weekend with your club
and you can become the No. 1 ranked in the world.
Just give us some updates. Nothing compares to playing a little bit of Clubs
with your mates.
One thing that I want to see in FIFA 21 sounds really basic
but just some positive gameplay.
I'm more of a Career Mode player,
so I play against the AI more often than I play online, and every single time they're so negative.
Nobody goes forward. The run-making is shocking. People just
stand still. The AI just pack the defences,
and I can count on one hand the amount of times
I've had more than two goals in a game, probably for this entire game cycle.
I love realism, but hopefully we can have some actual fun when playing the game next year.
The one thing that I want to see in FIFA 21 is improvements to the youth academy in Career
Mode. From playing games with your youth team to break up the monotony of a first-team season,
to simple things like expanding the name pool.
It would add greater depth to Career Mode, additional playability,
and a personal touch to promoting those youth academy
players into the first team, eventually. Some of the
best managers in the world are seriously involved with the youth-development
side of their club. You don't get that chance on Career Mode
yet, and I hope in the near future you can.
For too long it's gone unchanged, and I think it's time that EA Sports invested some
serious time into how the Youth Academy works on FIFA.
There's a lot of international teams within the game that you could
go and do a World Cup Career Mode with, but unfortunately,
you can't scout them for new youth talent. Countries like Iceland, India,
Bulgaria, Hungary, Wales even, you can't scout them
for youth talent. You're very heavily reliant on the current players in the current roster.
But it would be nice to go out there scout some new youth players
and maybe take one of those nations to the World Cup.
And that's what I want to see in FIFA 21.
One thing that I want to see on FIFA 21 is more attacking AI movement.
The beautiful thing about football is that
when people lay-off a pass, they move when people are making a run into the box,
they drop their shoulder, they make their way in and they create space.
They arc their runs. They run from the right-hand side of the pitch
across a diagonal line against the defence.
They create openings. We don't have that on FIFA 20.
Everything is one way. They run in a straight line into the goalpost.
No one makes attacking, intelligent AI runs.
I wish EA would make that a little bit better. Just to let people move, you have passes on,
it then makes it harder to defend,
because you've got to decide am I going to track that run
or am I going to put pressure on the ball holder?
You have to be good at right-stick switching. You have to be able to
then see the vision of the runners that
are making and you make that pass. One thing that needs to, needs to
massively be in the next game is more
attacking AI movement, to make the game more fun
and score more goals.
One thing I would like to see for FIFA 21 is a fluid game engine.
I believe the Frostbite engine has shown us over the last couple of years that it's
not capable of giving us a fluid football simulation.
I know there are game modes like Pro Clubs and Career Mode that do need upgrading heavily,
but the game engine itself has got major issues and I would like to see them ironed out.
One thing that I want to see in FIFA 21 is a more in-depth player Career Mode.
It's game mode that hasn't gotten much love from EA in the past.
You've seen other sports franchises such
as 2K do great things with their My Player, while FIFA and EA haven't done much of anything.
It's been about the same game mode for the past five years.
We need different things such
as the ability to talk with your manager, talk with your team-mates, to get more options
on teams to move to, being able to do something with your actual salary that you get,
being able to upgrade the attributes you want.
It's a game mode that has not been touched almost ever.
Yes FIFA and EA did do the Journey mode a few years back,
but that was with Alex Hunter. We want to play with our own character, take them on our own journey.
And right now, with what the player Career Mode has been like, EA just does not allow us to do that
And FIFA 21,
we need a massive overhaul of the player Career Mode.