Football Manager 2021

[Mad Jack]

Release date announced, so have a thread.

 

[Kyle]

Xbox version this year. If it comes to Game Pass I'll certainly play it.

[Bobfoc]

I'm glad it's still on Steam.

[King Ellis]

Who knew the Invisible Man was into football?

Will be interesting to see how the next gen Xbox versions especially compare to the average PC. No PS equivalent is a little strange, even if SI have been in bed with MS on the whole gamepass thing for the last few years as least. No sign of the Stadia logo amongst that lineup at the end, that lasted long then.

[Mad Jack]

15 minutes ago, King Ellis said:

Who knew the Invisible Man was into football?

Will be interesting to see how the next gen Xbox versions especially compare to the average PC. No PS equivalent is a little strange, even if SI have been in bed with MS on the whole gamepass thing for the last few years as least. No sign of the Stadia logo amongst that lineup at the end, that lasted long then.

 

Being asked this a lot & will get into trouble for answering..
Our friends at @Xbox have spent years asking for us to come back to their consoles. It's how both FM19 & FM20 ended up on gamepass towards the end of the cycle, and now FM21 on Xbox One & Series X/S.

Sony didn't. https://t.co/G4PJPWctdO

— Miles Jacobson (@milesSI) September 24, 2020

[Bobfoc]

It isn't the first time it's happened, but I can't imagine playing Football Manager on a console. Using a controller to navigate the menus sounds like such a pain.

[METALMAN]

Not going anywhere near this until they clear up what's happening with the Man Utd badge. 

[Naitch]

13 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

It isn't the first time it's happened, but I can't imagine playing Football Manager on a console. Using a controller to navigate the menus sounds like such a pain.

My first one was FM07 on the Xbox 360 and it was so difficult to play. It created my overuse of the assistant manager's automatic team selection because manually swapping players around took so damn long. I still suffer from it to this day just from habit.

[Baddar]

Not being able to have any of the correct logos in the Xbox version would drive me crazy. The fake competition names are less of an issue, but the big ugly logos are a no go for me.

[TCO]

I definitely had a Football Manager on Xbox 360 at one point. It wasn't as bad as feared with the navigating. Stick worked like a mouse and d-pad snapped between directly between the nearest link in whatever direction. I got used to it pretty quick!

[METALMAN]

When I was a little boy I played Championship Manager 01/02 on my friend's Xbox regularly. It was hellish.

[mattu29]

controller + my facepack/logo OCD makes it a no from me lol

[Kyle]

As someone that doesn't particularly give a shit if the logos are right, if it's on Game Pass it's a no-brainer but if I had to buy it I wouldn't. 

[Bobfoc]

If it were on Game Pass for Xbox, it would almost certainly be on Game Pass for PC as well.

[Lineker]

 

[Twist]

40 minutes ago, Lineker said:

 

So no new features then?

[FLiam]

1 hour ago, Lineker said:

 

Substitutions confirmed. 

[Mad Jack]

1 hour ago, Twist said:

So no new features then?

There were loads of new features in that video - revamped press conferences, talking to agents about available players, better player conversations, manager body language during the game mattering, much more in-depth analysis, potentially a fully licensed Premier League(?!) or at the very least Leicester City.

For a minute of video that's a fair number of features and enough to get my excited certainly.

[Lineker]

1 hour ago, Twist said:

So no new features then?

 

34 minutes ago, MadJack said:

There were loads of new features in that video - revamped press conferences, talking to agents about available players, better player conversations, manager body language during the game mattering, much more in-depth analysis, potentially a fully licensed Premier League(?!) or at the very least Leicester City.

For a minute of video that's a fair number of features and enough to get my excited certainly.

QFE. What more did you want from them!

[Twist]

Seems more like a lick of paint to me than anything else.