In these times of pandemic and remote working, a large part of the conversations concerned what we had experienced, how we had dealt with it and, finally, the inevitable discussion on what a manager is or should be today and tomorrow.
#Football manager 2021 vs fifa 21 pro#
There were not pro FIFA or pro Football Manager but those who like to build, to create a context, a “system” that works and wins through the others (the others = the players simulated by an artificial intelligence on the field) and those who like to go on the field, to roll up their sleeves, to put their “hands in” and to create the exploit by themselves.īut let’s go back to the beginning of the dinner. However, the discussion about what people found interesting or frustrating in one or the other quickly turned to a certain philosophy of the game. Knowing which game was “better” was of little importance: they are not comparable in nature. If you take a poorly built team during the season with a shaky squad, a bad atmosphere between the players, tactics that need to be changed and finances in the red, you are not going to end up as champion overnight even if you are an excellent player. You can take an average team and improve it over time but it takes several seasons: if tactics and management are up to you, you need players, players cost money, money comes with results…and again when your club is not known even if you have the means it is complicated to attract renowned players. If you take an average team from the second division you will not be European champion the first year even if you are experienced in the game. What has been built, or not built, in the past will shape the future for some time and changing things will take just as long. In Football Manager it is difficult to go against logic. As an example, not being a fan of the game, I think that even if I took the PSG I would be unable to beat a friend of mine who is addicted to the game and who would take a team of amateurs. A player who masters the game very well, is very technically adept with his controller, will easily beat with a weak team a neophyte or not very gifted player who would take a very strong team. In FIFA I would say that an excellent player can go against the odds or logic. What happens on the pitch is only the result of what has been prepared behind the scenes.
You can change players, give them instructions, change the strategy during the match, but you don’t control the players. But at the moment of the match you are a spectator. You manage a club, its finances, training, recruitment, training of young players, strategy, relations with the press and players. You control the players with the joystick and you are “on the field”, in the heart of the action because you are the first actors.įootball Manager is more of a strategy game.
To simplify for those who know nothing about the subject.įIFA is an action game. The conversation quickly turned to who was more into FIFA or Football Manager.
Not everyone around the table is a video game fan, far from it, but between those who are interested in this category of games, those who are interested in video games in general, those who are interested in football without being interested in games, and the two who are not interested in any of that but joined the conversation on the way because it allowed us, as you will see, to digress on other subjects, the conversation was very long. It’s a subject that quickly gained consensus. And to be more precise: football simulations. The story I’m about to tell you took place during a dinner with friends and I’ll start with the end: the dessert.Īfter having discussed many interesting topics we ended on something lighter: video games. Let’s go off the beaten track for once and compare management to ….
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