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Football Manager Touch 2018 Out Now On Switch
- Thread starter sinonobu
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With FM the real life season isn't important. I know about a guy whose career is simulating year 2050 I think.
Maybe it's a test for next season. Although late in the real season its its not like the next one is dropping any time soon.
Sure FM doesn't get released till October.
Not really, the main point is simulating offline seasons. I've personally never touched the online part but since the ratio of preparing for matches and actually playing matches is heavily skewed towards the former I imagine it gets a bit tedious.
Still, a shame it's not in for the folks who want it. Is it in any of other Touch versions?
I'll be really needing the joy-con straps
Not really, tbh. People play online and do tournaments, etc but the real MEAT is the offline, at least for the pc version. But I think shorter term saves and online tournaments/fantasy draft games would fit better the Switch/FMTouch than, say, do a 30 years youth only challenge or a long journeyman career.
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Here's a video of DrBenjy playing it. It looks like it's close the PC version? I have the FMT on PC but I never played.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idtwk97jV94
I've played this series for literally thousands of hours over about 20 years. Never once played it online.
I have about 4000 hours in the series and I played it online once, I absolutely hated it.
The main selling point is how good a simulator it is. Not that is has online functionality.
A bit more expensive than the PC version... but at least early impressions seem to indicate this is a well-done port. I might get it down the line.
Same, don't understand the fuss earlier in the thread about that.
The teams will be updated as of January anyway so they'll be up to date, and the entire game world starts changing the minute you boot into a game anyway. I'm not going to be worrying about my teams real life shit house season while playing this regardless.
Because the season has already (mostly) taken place already. So there's a real life scenario which has gone past what I can do in the game. I get excited about playing these sorts of games at the beginning of a season - not the end. By the end I don't get the same excitement.
I think you are both kinda right to be honest. Guess the question you need to ask yourself is if you had the chance to buy this 7 months ago would you stop playing once the real life season ends. If no then buying it now shouldn't really be an issue
Do UK PayPal eshop codes work for the Switch? Their website does not list the Switch, but list 3DS, WiiU, etc.
Hopefully it is much better than the Vita version of 2014 - that was horrible to play.
No chance I'm picking it up so late in the season (and in the middle of a save on the PC version) but I might get 2019 if it launches alongside the PC version.
No chance I'm picking it up so late in the season (and in the middle of a save on the PC version) but I might get 2019 if it launches alongside the PC version.
I was hugely excited for this even despite the steep price, but then I remembered how FM has had a problem getting official licenses for the past few years. When you follow the real competitions somewhat closely, it's a pretty jarring prospect to play a version with generic/fake team names and logos. It takes a minute to get a fanmade fix for that on PC, but it'll be impossible on the Switch. Ah, damn. :( I'm pretty sure that quite a few people are in for an unpleasant surprise with this.
Comparing eshop prices with app store prices isn't really the smart thing to do.
The steam version is still £30
I love Football Manager (actually playing it right now on PC) but £30 is a little steep for the touch version. The game was released last October and the season is virtually over, if it was £20 I would have been in.
The game usually goes on sale fairly often if it drops on Switch ill pick it up.
Been playing the series since around 1999 or so (owned every game since) which is fecking scary
The game usually goes on sale fairly often if it drops on Switch ill pick it up.
Been playing the series since around 1999 or so (owned every game since) which is fecking scary
Really? Ahh, this is a bummer, I thought I could look into this.
Will they patch the game in September with squad updates or are they going to sell another version?
Nah thats next years game. They do the winter transfer window for free but the summers changes will be the big selling point for FM 2019.
It usually releases in October/November on a yearly basis so if you enjoy the game and haven't played 2018 youll still get plenty of hours from it, its likely 7 months until the new release.
It's very easy to switch regions back and forth on the Switch if you want the game and don't mind the lack of german.
Irrelevant.
It's the same price as the PC Touch version but it's missing features like cross play, online and the draft.
Ouch. I got burned bad with Last day of June and it's framerate. Will have to wait and see with this.
To be fair, his/her experience sounds pretty much the same as my experiences with FM on any touch device. So far, I'm having a decent time with the Switch version. The mixture of touch and button controls is actually quite nice to use.
Oh, my man! You are the person who I was expecting to see in this thread to read his impressions :)
I will buy the game this month, nice to read that is a good version of the game.
I havent played this series before, can you 'beat' the game? Or its like FIFA where you start the season over?
Hey dude!
I was wavering on buying it given it's a bit pricey but thought 'screw it' as I really liked the other versions, had a lot of e-credit that i got cheaply from offers (and some gold coins) and wanted to support the dev for doing something that, up until a few weeks ago, was just a dream.
I'm not hugely far in so far, but I'm enjoying it. Having table top mode with split joycons is actually a really cool way to play as the mouse cursor is responsive and there are enough buttons to act as shortcuts. Currently playing while I have a late dinner and check on my team (Villa).
I will say that between this and Don't Starve, the battery is taking quite a hit, though. An hour of combined gameplay on both has me from 100% to 86%, Wi-Fi off. Don't Starve is probably the bigger hog, but we'll see how FM does once it really gets going.
But so far, a positive experience.
Another redditor:
"Been playing this the last couple of hours. Takes a little getting used to with the controls, but after 30mins it's perfectly fine. Really impressed with the performance, sometimes in the match engine, the cursor can be a little laggy when you first move it.
Ideal game I wanted for switch to play in short bursts!"
Seems to be okay based on this and cbrotherson
"Been playing this the last couple of hours. Takes a little getting used to with the controls, but after 30mins it's perfectly fine. Really impressed with the performance, sometimes in the match engine, the cursor can be a little laggy when you first move it.
Ideal game I wanted for switch to play in short bursts!"
Seems to be okay based on this and cbrotherson
seasons are nowhere as important for football as they are for american sports. specially because it is always mid-season somewhere in the world
this is huge, HUGE
while i dont get charging more, no online really isn't a big deal at all.FM is best enjoyed alone, while your wife sleeps, like its the dirtiest thing in the world but youre only starting at spreadsheets all night
this is huge, HUGE
while i dont get charging more, no online really isn't a big deal at all.FM is best enjoyed alone, while your wife sleeps, like its the dirtiest thing in the world but youre only starting at spreadsheets all night
Well, you'll need to devote some time to learn about the inner mechanics of it, specially if you're not that savvy on the football world as a whole. The Touch version simplifies a lot of the more troublesome stuff though. Also, difficulty is pretty much defined by yourself when you pick a team to manage - trying to get Forest Green to the premier league is going to be harder than just taking over Man City and buying anyone you want, for instance.