5 seasons in a few weeks is normal once you get sucked into the bloody thing, its more addictive than crack. Is there a console version coming out?

 

No chance. This is from an interview with Miles Jacobson (studio director of SI) from a few years back:

 

You’ve said there won’t be a return to home console until you find the right control scheme. Any progress on that?

None at all. In fact we’ve gone the other way. SEGA did a huge study last year to try and work out exactly why it was that the console version didn’t work out. Obviously control scheme was right up there, but also up there was that people don’t like having the TV in their living room taken over for six hour session. They’d much rather be sitting on a laptop while they watch something on TV. So, no, we’re not looking at going back to home consoles any time soon.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8703014/Football-Manager-2012-Miles-Jacobson-interview.html

Management games on consoles just aren't that great. I'm more into console gaming than PC...but give me football manager on my laptop and something good on the telly and I'm in heaven.

You can get it for the iphone/ipad. Thats how i play it mostly (unless im on holiday and then i play it on my psp). It is no way near as in depth as the pc game but its still ok. I wish they would make it a bit more in depth but i guess they are limited to what the iphone can handle.

Management games on consoles just aren't that great. I'm more into console gaming than PC...but give me football manager on my laptop and something good on the telly and I'm in heaven.

I agree, but I just havent time to game on a pc anymore, or the inclination. Maybe the next gen can handle  decent footy management game now, especially with bigger game installations.

I agree, but I just havent time to game on a pc anymore, or the inclination. Maybe the next gen can handle  decent footy management game now, especially with bigger game installations.

 

It's not the ability to play the games, it's the control system...having to use the console controls for a game like football manager where it's so much point and click is tedious.

I've gone from being on the brink of getting sacked to unlocking the 20 games without a loss steam achievement. From struggling to make the top 4 to being a front runner in the title race.

 

I love this game.

I've gone from being on the brink of getting sacked to unlocking the 20 games without a loss steam achievement. From struggling to make the top 4 to being a front runner in the title race.

 

I love this game.

 

Very nice, what helped you change it around? 

Very nice, what helped you change it around?

Went back to 4-2-3-1 from 4-2-2-2. Also, hazard has decided to play. He's scored 17 and were in March. Khedira has just torn his groin though. Pretty lite in the middle now.

It's not the ability to play the games, it's the control system...having to use the console controls for a game like football manager where it's so much point and click is tedious.

Ah right, again I've got to agree. Wonder if they could use kinnect in some way, sort of like minority report.

Gutted....

 

Ah right, again I've got to agree. Wonder if they could use kinnect in some way, sort of like minority report.

Maybe it'll be available on the upcoming Steam Machines (http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/) in a few years. That is, if Steam's product will be a success.

Just started a new save.

 

The 800M challenge.

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=193866929

 

Take charge of Steam FC in Skrill South league with 800M transfer budget and guide them to Champions League success.

 

Great fun

Edited November 11, 201312 yr by JoeyN

Just beat qpha in the league cup quarter final. They conceded 3 penalties and Joey Barton got a straight red. Lovely.

Oh, and Arsenal are 14th.

Management games on consoles just aren't that great. I'm more into console gaming than PC...but give me football manager on my laptop and something good on the telly and I'm in heaven.

 

Good music is essential for FM. That, or football podcasts.

I made a right tit of Boga...somehow managed to lose him on a free. I have no idea what happened. But he left, and there's nothing I can do about it now lol. That said I scouted him again once I realised, and he's down to 3 star (that's not to say he can't get higher again)

 

Must be just my save. He's 4.5 star (was 5 for some time)

 

I'm still in my first season and he's second top scorer with 11 behind Lewandowski, with half as many starts as Mata, Hazard etc.

 

Just scored this goal too. Chip from 31 meters out.

 

It's weird how someone with much lower stats outperforms someone with much higher. Even if their both roughly the same

Lewandowski started the season as a 4 star rated striker, got a 3 month injury...now he's 2 1/2 stars

 

:(

 

Jeeeeezzz...just had a look at my fixture list at the end of January.

 

City (H) (I won 1-0)

 

Arsenal (A)

 

United (H)

 

Liverpool (A)

 

(4 consecutive games over the course of only 11 days)

 

If I'm still on top at the end of those games, I'll be very confident of winning the league in season 3.

Edited November 12, 201312 yr by Cam

Lewandowski started the season as a 4 star rated striker, got a 3 month injury...now he's 2 1/2 stars

 

:(

 

Jeeeeezzz...just had a look at my fixture list at the end of January.

 

City (H) (I won 1-0)

 

Arsenal (A)

 

United (H)

 

Liverpool (A)

 

(4 consecutive games over the course of only 11 days)

 

If I'm still on top at the end of those games, I'll be very confident of winning the league in season 3.

 

The Football Manager FA is obviously conspiring against you with those fixtures so close together. 

The Football Manager FA is obviously conspiring against you with those fixtures so close together. 

 

City 1-0 win

Arsenal 5-0 win (I laughed so hard...Rom got 4)

 

United 2-0 win

 

Liverpool 2-0...loss :(

 

And 3 days later had to face Swansea too, who had recently beaten both United and City, and beat them 3-0.

 

Can't complain with that run.

Is it worth getting it?

Is it worth getting it?

 

10 pages of discussion in about a week?

 

Some of Chelsea's match day threads don't prompt this much passion and debate. 

Is it worth getting it?

 

You're basically signing your life away.

 

Do it. 

Haha thanks both of you ForeverCarefree and JoeyN

Ive been a bit quiet on the thread purely because i hit a wall with finding a tactic that i liked, so i started a new save with a lower league team and played around for a few days with formations and tactics and voila i am now ready to head back to the premier league or the EPL as people like to call it " thats my pet have by the way ".

T.B.C.

Is it worth getting it?