Jama

Jama

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Tabletop, video games, sports and maybe someday some other things if I get the ambition to learn.

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Jama
@Jama

Trying to find as many non-league-sponsored sports games, that cover major sports that have huge associations, as I can between the PS2 Era and today, especially those with Franchise and Story modes. I went through a bunch of PS2 games yesterday and found a couple. Today I think I'll try to go through the Xbox and maybe GameCube catalog.

I want to see how a franchise mode works when not at the behest of the NBA/NFL/MLB/FIFA/UEFA/NHL/etc

I think Racing works best for this. I think you can get a ton of mileage (lmao) out of the game even without a league affiliation.

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Lichtenstein
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Check out Football, Glory and Tactics! It's a great little Ukrainian indie game and I say this as a person who gives zero fucks about football/soccer (I enjoyed watching a match a grand total of one times, and mostly because it had a bunch of Dutchmen going bloodbowl over their opposition).

It's nominally a football manager game, but really it's more like sports XCOM and the management part is the geoscape layer. And yes, this analogy does imply that the meat of the game is turn-based matches.

It's a little unusually... hardcoded? As in, for example, stuff simply working from specific squares of the pitch rather than making a general system rigged to favor those squares. But if you stick with it throughout the tutorial zone of amateur leagues, it's a really cool little game.

PS. It's approach to dealing with FIFA is "it would be a shame if someone modded in real names through these easily available tools".

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