Football Manager 2008 - Released!

[Elta]

And only 30 bucks! + I can put it on my Mac

Hearts of Iron 2 or Football manager .... this will be tough.



I am in between jobs so I am on a budget right now

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Goodbye, life. I didn't know you well, and I'll never will.

 

[steviejay]

Yup, it draws you in.

Personally I'd go for FM08 but HoI2 is relatively cheap from what I've seen so it depends on how much spare collateral you want to have at the end of the day.

Keep an eye out for Kleberson at the start of the game, he's available for nothing.

 

[Maniacal]

I don't give a rat's butt about these games, but I'm curious, what's the difference between each year besides the rosters?

 

[steviejay]

They tweak some things, change the engine, update certain aspects of the game which peopole didn't like from last eyar, stuff like that.

 

[steviejay]

Hopefully Kan is subscribed to this thread



Please? [pray]

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

You bastard. You bastard...

I shall purchase tomorrow, and will enact my revenge!

 

[Hitti-Litti]

I shall get mine on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Before that I'll plan my master tactics on winning CL with MyPa(and that will take awfully long time...)!

 

[steviejay]

I always play my first game as Rangers, just to try it out. I'll try a Championship team next then probably an Italian game cause I like going Lazio

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Low blow I admit, but I won't be starting a proper game until later this week, and I needed to counter with something

Looking forward to getting back into a new FM. I'm already confused by the hotlinks to messages and what not being at the top of the screen rather than at the bottom. There's also a rather large amount of white, it seems.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

^^



"... there is no chance they will ever see eye to eye."

 

[steviejay]

Heh that's truey awesme. Let the games begin

One thing I have noticed is that about a quarter way through the season, Celtic try to get a new chairman, so you might get quite the war chest to spend in the january window.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Heh that's truey awesme. Let the games begin

End of first season results in our respective games to decide the winner?

 

[steviejay]

heh, ok, I accept the challenge. Most points after all games played?

and lets not count champions league results cause I got beat 3-1 and 3-0 against Chelsea and then I've got Real in the next round.....

Celtic naturally, didn't qualify *titter*

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Sounds decent enough. We'll consider any additional trophies and achievements a bonus.

Feel free to start the season afresh, if you like. I won't be starting until tonight at the earliest, but more likely Tuesday.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

I'll join it as MyPa. I win if I win the UEFA Cup.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Yay! I have it!

You all, buy Mika Ääritalo. He is way too good in this compared to RL. Also Jukka Lehtovaara and Patrik Lomski appear to be much better in this. The one who scouted TPS surely wasn't honest, he greatly overrates it.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

I don't give a rat's butt about these games, but I'm curious, what's the difference between each year besides the rosters?

Only the hardcore nuts buy the new one every year. Most people buy one then wait afew years until they buy another, so they get the cumulative effects of 2-3 iterations of the game when they buy a new one instead of the baby step changes that happen year to year.

Or at least, that's what I do/did.

 

[Maniacal]

^^



"... there is no chance they will ever see eye to eye."

It's probably mostly due to Stevejay's shortyness.

(J/k)

 

[steviejay]

Hardcore nuts, raise your hand

*raises hand*

Won the league last night as rangers at the start of April, at least 15 points in front. I'll get to the end of the season and post a screenie.

The thing I'm most impressed with was the fact I rarely dabbled in the transfer market. There was never one huge signing (most expensive signing was some young guy for about 800k) alot of young players for the future. My main signing were the Russian international captain who I got for nothing.

There's alot of interesting little ideas in it which makes it more ... realistic

*players seem more tempremental (despite being top of the league, and playing in every game, Alan McGregor felt 'jaded and wanted a move', needless to say I told him he's going nowhere and the Russian Captain I have for no apparent reason began to 'dislike Carlos Cuellar' so my two main defenders just started hating one another. I've had several players suddenly start to worry about the club because they feel I don't rate them highly (even if they're an important player)

*At least once in a game there will be a goal disallowed, or someone ruled offside, only to have someone from your team or their team complain about it afterwards.

*the idea that fans now have a say in what you're donig is annoying, they rate everything you do from games to signings but they only seem to remember the last few signings you've done and also they don't seem to differentiate between a first team regular signing and some 16 year old Itallian you've bought for the future.

* people are ALWAYS complaining, if you don't play them for anything over 4 games they start to say they feel left out and may wish to move on, which is annoying. Ok that happens in real life but only once every now and again and certainly what feels like everyweek

When's the patch due out? anyone know?