I’m sure you’ve heard someone who doesn’t play FIFA say something like, why bother buying that game, nothing changes each year! But what exactly has changed in the past 7 years? I’ve redownloaded FIFA 16 and today we’ll be comparing how Career Mode has improved, changed or got worse since 2015.
We’ll be trying to answer the questions, is it really worth buying FIFA every year? Is old FIFA really as good as you remember? And is FIFA 23 really the best FIFA of all time.
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31 Comments
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." —David Brinkley
bro i jumped from fifa 17 to fifa 22
For years now career mode players have been asking for EA changes in career mode to make it more realistic which EA are more than capable, even if they wanna drip feed a new feature every year.
But no, they just gave us more time consuming cutscenes.
They really have cornered the market.
Hi Geografifa, I am American and recently bought & started a career mode at Watford. I currently play on World Class difficulty and 6 minute halves. I feel like my games always are very high scoring. I have the most GF and GA in the Championship, can you recommend any better settings? Thanks.
I completely forgot about squad ranking, a small thing that should come back
How do you use development and trainings? Do you get your developments done with A sharpness to all trainings? Leave it untouched? What would you say is the most realistic way to use these 2 features of the game?
how do you talk about everything but gameplay???
The problem is not the content. the problem is the price
the last fifa i play is 17 after that move to pes 17 cause of mods and this year decide playing the last fifa name in series it feels great and refreshing
Gameplay was definitely better then but no dynamic potential is a pain. Quite torn when it comes to career as to what was better.
Fifa 16 is the best career mode, I'm still going back to play fifa 16, yeah the fact that there are no real faces, numbers and badges don't update and issues with champions leauge qualifications are annoying, but for some reason the Gameplay and transfer system just make the game so fun, criminally underrated and I'm glad u made a video on it
Requesting funds, u23 teams, stadium builder, manager sackings, increase board harshness (optional) and online career mode are some things that come to mind. I'd take 3 out of these in the next 5 FIFA's or EAFC games🥴 they're so slow and my expectations every year just get lower and lower
I really think the career mode team should just put all their focus on FIFA 25/26. Ive heard the reason for the small updates each year is because the code is so old. They should just revamp the whole code and make career mode from scratch.
The biggest difference is how frustrating the AI is when you actually play. Most people don’t even play the actual game and sim most of the season. It’s frustrating how every team you play against on fifa 16 is heavily tiki taka. Passing speed and accuracy is frustrating when even lower division players are lasering all over the pitch
One thing you didnt talk about that i absolutely love in the newer Fifa(s) is being able to change someones position. Especially in your youth academy like 50% of players are not in the correct position. Wrong foot on the wrong side or just a defender that cant even defend. Being able to change them to the correct position is a very nice feature.
Also being able to train workrates, weakfoot, and skillmoves ofcourse
Any fifa is better than fifa 23. Worst marking and defending i have ever seen.
Fifa 12 is better then 16 because it had player manager mode it was both saves in one but you could play your player as many times as you want a season. Transfer negotiations in these older games there is some challenge some teams would be like we don't want your player or we want the player + some more money teams could still say no to paying your price also who cares about realism it's fun at the end of the day and on these older games the board are very strict you do poor they will sack you I was the Sheffield united manager got sacked while I was at the bottom of the premier league then took Birmingham back to Europe season after sacked after finishing 8th in the premier league then had glory with valencia winning it all.
How about managing International Team? I remember we have to qualify for a world cup and play a lot of games. For FIFA 23 all the international team is confirm word cup. I remember I use to sim the club game and only play international game. But I forgot on which FIFA. Do you know?
I’m struggling to keep my career modes going without them getting boring. LITTERALLY they last for a season at the most cause I get bored. Anyone have any advice to make them go on for longer
I have good idea for player career you make yourself brazilian and then you go to europe like vini or gabriel jesus
What I’m seeing here is that changes to happen in FIFA, but they’re so incremental over such a long time. Like in the grand scheme of things, career mode hasn’t really changed in 7 years – so disappointing
I genuinely believe career mode was better on fifa13 than more recent games
While the gameplay is more smooth and fluid in the newer fifa's, the old ones felt more realistic. First touches and turning with the ball and things like that were harder if your player didn't have really high agility and ball control, defending was more physical, mechanics just seemed more realistic as the ball didn't just stick to every player like glue and there was much more of a discrepancy in players with good or poor ball skills, shooting, and high or low pace. On FIFA 23 I can score 20 goals in a season with a striker with 50-some finishing, but in the older fifa's like 19 and back I would be lucky to get a few goals with a player like that. More draws, more low scoring games, also more realistic. Feature wise the new ones have more, but to me the old ones feel more like a simulation and the new ones more like fantasy/arcade.
I have one of Dortmund and I’m loving my Werner/Reus, Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan attack
FIFA 16 had the best menus ever. Period.
I would compare Fifa 19 to 20, because that was the fully new gen
I prefer career mode much more now from 21 onwards. I much prefer the new growth system, development plans and being able to change player position and upgrade skill moves and weak foot. Career mode has always had bugs or just general things that ruined the fun for me. Like in older fifas (I played fifa 13 onwards) 13 to 18 players would randomly ask cor a transfer request and there was nothing you could do to keep them, this was fixed in fifa 19, if a player asked to leave you could just negotiate a new contract. FIFA 20 had loads of bugs for me so around January 2020 i just went back to fifa 19, fifa 20 was too annoying. Fifa 20 would crash constantly, bugs with the menus, bugs with pre game screens of the line ups. For me at least 19, 21, 22 and 23 have been my favourite. Least amount of bugs/annoying features. If i want the old training system i load up fifa 19 and have some fun.
Finally, a review of FIFA 23 Legacy Edition for Switch
Do the same for fifa 2004, barely anything changed in that decade
Nice, I still play fifa 18 CM till this day, more leagues in Europe but has more to offer compared to 19 or 20 ?
The number of top players which can be signet as a free agent in newer FIFAs really need to be worked out.