@@ZiyadAzouny I see your point but my argument is that we don't need that many icons in the ecosystem. Back in the FIFA 14-17 days when they were called Legends and had one version per player it was much simpler and you had to worry less about them cause fewer people had them and they didn't make that much of a difference in gameplay
@@ZiyadAzounyit's definitely overkill for legends to have so many cards, should be maybe 2 at most. it kills their special air. Also I feel like they could use that space to add more icons.
Oh remember Valderama who was a new legend back in the day and had worse stats than gold iniesta but still cost 10 mil just cuz he was new and rare and exciting? Good times man
The most frustrating thing in FC24 is when you have a player with a clear path to goal but instead of running forward they just completely stop their run and start running backwards.
I guess we have to press l1 button to give command to make other players run. Anyways i am new to fifa, and i am a pes2017 lover. Even new efootball games suck, forwards never make runs and their is no option to give them command to make run which makes the game suck
@@anshtripathi7035 People in the community reminiscing about FIFA 17 seem to have forgotten that it was the first game in the series in which *input delay* was prevalent between both online and offline matchmaking. The gameplay was inconsistent, and menu surfing was so buggy that there were times when people would unintentionally discard items from their Ultimate Team club. With that being said, the skill gap in FIFA 17 was much, much higher, and the overall simulated football experience was vastly superior, in my opinion, to what’s been released in the last 5 years. It’s a travesty what’s happened to the franchise, but I suppose it was to be expected from such a negligently avaricious troglodyte company like EA.
@@NobodyNowhere888 that doesn't change the fact that we had better gameplay and more new content in 2016 than now, which is ridiculous, nobody is saying it was perfect
Fifa 17 will always have a special place in my heart, playing The Journey, career mode, it's also the first game that i've played on my newly bought ps4 in 2017
FIFA 17 is all what next-gen FIFA was meant to be. I just haven’t gotten the same BUZZ of excitement over FIFA since. That’s why I just stick to FIFA 10-17. The fun you get from the gameplay and soundtrack alone is unmatched
@@bobby9458 YES YES YES exactly bro X360 and PS3 is where FIFA peaked man I swear. I remember buying FIFA 18 legacy edition coz I didn’t have a PS4 at the time. Was the game any different from 17? No. Did I enjoyed it more than 20-24 on next gen? HECK YEAHHH.
@@RespecTheLevYT and the actual rosters were so much better I prefer that era much more to modern day not that I dislike modern players but idk 10-17 just had some absolute icons
Hey Dagnal, former TOP100 player from Berlin here!! FIFA 17 was just amazing, your video gave me nostalgia like nothing else before. FIFA 18 was the last FIFA i actually bought, after the "timed finishing" feature got introduced, which was the end of my FIFA career. Your video was just like "back to the future" for me. If you will be ever in Berlin, i would like to invite you to a Hertha BSC match. Continue with this amazing content. Deniz
Interesting take, IIRC 17 was considered way worse than 16 at the time. Pinball Fifa. Agree though, that 18 was even worse. I, too, quit Fifa for good then.
I was up 4-2 I believe my opponent did team press and mind you I put a defensive setting now and my backline just stares while one man runs inbetween the final 4. Not to mention instead of having the team all defending they are all over the place its a mess
This was my first fifa game, ive stopped playing the game now, but the soundtrack along with the practice arena was such a cool vibe, like a summer day where youre going to the beach
I Totally Agree, I Think The Best Sports Game Ever Was FIFA 17. The Animations of the Players, the Physics of the Ball, and the Perfect Shots Provided a Completely Masterpiece Experience in Terms of Gameplay. For example, when you dribble with Ronaldo, you will feel like you are really dribbling with Ronaldo. Fifa did this in the 17/18 Games and then it completely collapsed.
And let me add one more thing: the journey mode was definitely on another level, they continued it until 19, I wish we could experience that journey mode with the player we created, they haven't fixed the career for years, I don't think they ever thought about this either.
Gameplay was sooo well balanced there was actual variety: Low driven shield ball chip shots Finesse shots Skillmoves that aren’t unrealistically overpowered longshots AI that actually makes runs Low rated players who are actually usable peak fifa
Fifa 17 and 18 has that special feeling. So much fun. Smart AI. I still play them. The most realistic likeness of ronaldo in every way until date was perfectly done in 18.
Idk about that but it’s definitely imo the most balanced sports game ever in terms of like quality across game modes. Like it might not have the best career mode or the best ultimate team, but it’s qullit gang😂imo
ronaldo was best done in fifa 18, then they completely cut updates with ronaldo, after fifa 21 it was like we were looking at someone else's face and hair, not ronaldo, and they still haven't fixed it, I still don't understand what is the problem with ronaldo.@@josefelfinito6925
I’d say peak FIFA was 06-13. That jump to next Gen in 09 or whatever it was felt huge. Introduced ultimate team before it got mainstream, introduced clubs.
I like fifa on the 360 i found the players played better together and the ball would go to you want pass or cross into where as the newer ones i try to cross the ball to the guy closer to me the ball somehow goes to someone further away who is being blocked by the other team so their get the ball back with ease it cost some of my team matches sometimes and that can be a boomer with new football games still got somewhat around it and enjoy the new games but that period in the 360 was a lot better for controlling the players
fut founder on badge, the old chat rooms for pro clubs matchmaking/chat rooms w xbox live haha that was a melting pot of chaos, live epl scores in ticker and audible, online seasons div 1 fifa 08-18
100% Agree. They ruined it both for us and themselves and think, that if they complain enough, EA will change it. It is too late, FUT makes too much money for them to change anything. That's why I stopped playing FIFA and started enjoying Football Manager.
CAREER MODE GANG 🤝🤝🤝 Also Ultimate Team players have no right to complain about microtransactions in games.. in many ways ultimate team was the catalyst for EA aggressively adding microtransactions to all their games bc they saw how many people were willing to throw money at silly digital products that will be outdated in a year maximum
@@rah-mown6392 you’re twice the loser if you flex your pay-to-play squad of OP cards to other people and think they care.. I knew a kid like that back in college
@@linhza501 Yeah i've found myself constantly playing FIFA 18 for the past few months, i've just been doing lots of career modes for 6-7 seasons because the gameplay feels SO GOOD compared to FC25, it's a shame the AI aren't very good otherwise FIFA 18 would be legendary
FIFA 13 on 360 was the best for me because it was actually skilled based. And i used to slap people up with a silver ivory coast team. I enjoyed FIFA 17 but already hated FUT by then.
agreed, fifa 13 hit different imho, ofc there were certain things on FUT that were exploited but they still had counterplay, and i reckon the game was a lot more fluid and skill based then, too
Same. I used to play 2v2 on PC. Few players, especially since it was already dead. We were basically one of the best players around having a fierce rivalry with a Ukranian duo. Fun times.
Fifa 13 was amazing, ribery and robben, was that fifa with the glitched podolski with insane pace and shooting. I will never forget silver jimmy kebe, did absolute bits down the wing
I stuck to Online Seasons mode and I just remember friends watching in awe as I took Bayern to Division 1. Hell, I won with Giroud up top as a strategy for awhile. I just remember this game as being intense and every match exciting. It was rewarding.
Fifa 17 was my first year playing ultimate team so this video brought back some beautiful memories. Ben arfa was a sensual card oh my days. Sturridge and lukaku up top also went to work in a 41212 narrow
@@Mise22 nah back then people didn’t spam left stick dribbling like they do now so height wasn’t really an issue. Obviously pace was still the meta though so he worked nicely
you really had me completely focused watching a 20min video about fifa… such a rare thing nowadays, continue the good content, you now have a new subscriber!❤
And for career mode guys like myself, it was one of the last to have meaningful training systems (every drill you instructed had purpose for improve a specific attribute of a player). Today's training just affects form which affects overall growth; not specific growth in just one particular area) This meant that you could actually train a player to improve in a certain aspect of his game without having the change his entire position or be forced to choose from a collection of arbitrary attribute gains. Sort of hard to explain without visuals but yeah the career mode was more fun back then even without Create a Club being added back in yet (a feature once there but removed for FUT ushering only to be brought back as a "new" feature)
ALSO I don't see enough people praise the DEFENDING on this game; you could actually manually switch to and select the right defenders so much easier with more accuracy, and move players into the right positions. That is so important because its so frustrating nowadays when you have to be able to somehow control every single one of your defenders at once and drag them into the right position, while also dealing with the game switching to players nowhere near the ball, and by that time your opponent has played through your out of position players or taken advantage of the LB/L1 or RS switch to a player you don't want
I used to be in div 2 back in FIFA 16/17 with a generic gold team. I've had a fair break but these days Im struggling in division 7 lol. Feels more like a simulator with all those features rather than a game
i was talking about it with a friend recently. we both loved fifa 17 and we started watching some old fifa 17 pack opnenings and weekend league gameplays. The nostalgia kicked in man we had so much fun in this game. It is so sad to see what this game is like nowadays.
Would be cool of you to mention more of the offline modes. Career manager recieved some amazing improvements in this FIFA. That said I still play this game regularly to this day, what a game
I think the reason our generation keep playing is we're trying to chase the nostalgia if 14&17 hoping that one day it will go back to that so we continue to buy it hoping
Bro the off ball AI teammate runs in this game were the best to date, didn't need to manually do it or it wasn't stupid. It was genuinely perfect. The runs and ability of passing in this gamw were top notch.
17:23 this is such a good point, that many fifa players dont realise because they dont play anything other than sports games/live service games. Like yeah i like fifa, really liked fifa 17, but it isnt even close to being in my top 10 or even top 25 games OAT, singleplayer games are for the most part just so much more polished and cared for, then modern day sports games. And it is truly sad that alot of Fifa players will never try games like elden ring and BOTW
You forgot to mention the “tournament mode “ with different restriction . And the reward of tournament is excited , a permission to enter WL , plus tradable good pack , plus sometime is a special card . Also , in fifa 17 , skill gap 100% exist . Some high level player like to use op silver team to beat a very good team in season . Season is so enjoyable , you can see real variety of team , variety of playstyle . Fewer meta rat , more innovation . That was fun ! I miss this old day very very much .
When you could have a gold team and didnt need to spend 5k on points to be meta. Fifa 17 is the last time i was ever div 1 as just loved playing it. Also, never forget that ben arfa card, best cam ever on fifa
Wow I actually forgot how good the player movement was. Seeing some of those old cards brought back really happy memories for me so thank you. The newest game is absolutely atrocious. I just watched your other video on why fc24 is a bad game, but seeing this one and just comparing the old gameplay to they new is so sad. The game used to feel alive. Now every game is just mind numbing and infuriating. Everyone uses the same meta rat cards, the same meta rat tactics, the same run down line, cutback, sweaty bullshit. I remember using like 3 different squads all at once, all from different leagues with just mediocre players and I was able to compete in the weekend league and get wins. Now I have two heroes and an icon in November and it’s a “bad team”. It makes me so unbelievably sad to see the thing I once loved so much slowly become completely unplayable. FIFA used to bring me so much joy, now it’s just an empty shell of what it used to be.
Rashford in career mode. I just used to spam training with him(fill him in all the slots and make sure he gets As in everything) and he ended up an 89 overall in 2 and a half seasons. Crazy asset for me.
Loved FIFA back then. This video explains it all. Back then you could GRIND the game, use your own Meta, having fun with the game. Even the gameplay was so much more fair and playable. Nowadays its just too much sweat, too much ratness, you playing 10 games of division rivals just gets you in a bad mood since you dont control the game. You lose to bad players and win sometimes against better players than you. fifa 17 gameplay was just like chess. You make a nistake you get punished, you read your opponnent you get rewarded! And for that i could play 10hrs straight, thats impossible to do nowadays!
Very interesting video. I used to be #84 in Canada in FIFA 10 lol. I have been playing FIFA since forever. My last fifa was FIFA 17. I was always a divisions guy. Made it to div 1 and would have a blast playing the game. I didn’t think others would think it was the best fifa made. I asked some younger peeps which fifa they loved and 17 always comes up. For me a defining feature of that game were the runs the players make. The tracking felt great. I have returned to FC24 and it seems like an even bigger monetization mess. But I don’t fault only FC , 2k is just as bad. Watching this vid did make me remember the good times.
Really appreciate the vid, for someone who didn't played fifa 17 ut but the normal game it brings memories and i started playing again after 6 years juste to enjoy. This vud makes this even better thank you and keep up the great work ❤
Been playing Fifa 17 for the last few months. Best decision I’ve made . Took me back to when it was really amazingly fun to play the game. Started 2 carrers, one with Totti’s last dance, and another were I moved rooney to Everton 2 years earlier and he demolish the prem. It’s really worth it.
I remember getting to div 4 or div 3 with using a very low budget bpl team + alex hunter. sad that now that everyone basically has the same players and the same playstyle
I dont mind driven shots, they felt so much fun and its the build up that make you deserve those yes. I heard some friends say "i miss the time where we shot from the ground" talking about this ear and i agree
Imagine if all Fifa fans just gets back to Fifa 17 and play it at a consistent basis and blow light in to the game again, so we all can just enjoy it together.
Overthinking AI just ruins the flow of the game and they went too advanced to build everything over again i guess. So we're just sitting on a broken code, hotfixing it fifa by fifa. We're playing against not our opponents, but against AI, Pressure, RNG moments, bounces etc
Ehh in my opinion: people who think everything is almost and or always going backwards, are typically the ones that are stuck “backwards” in the past and don’t like change..
I, being old enough remember how people were calling it the worst game ever. Maybe 7 years from now someone will be making a video about how awesome fc24 was😂
In my eyes the worst thing to happen to fifa was the OP finesse shots & the crazy packed cards.After a while you didn’t have to earn..EA was just giving stuff away for free didn’t feel fun anymore building a squad…so now I stick to seasons
my favorite fifa 17 player was 84 Ben Yedder IF that actually got upgraded because he was an 81 before the winter upgrades, I packed him from a 5K pack after losing in the first round of draft
it’s crazy how these games shape people. I listen to Resonance when i’m gaming all the time (especially Fifa) and all my friends online that grew up playing similar games found it as well
I played Fifa 16 a lot and that point about sunny lit background is sooo true, now when u enter the game it just feels like u timetravelled. The sunny bakground just makes it more nostalgic
Man, FIFA used to be great before microtransactions ruined everything. I remember reaching Division 1 in FIFA 15 ultimate team using a squad of all French players that probably cost less than 50K coins, good times.
Oh my god, finally an awesome video of the best FIFA of all time (maybe FIFA 14 or FIFA 15 can also be there). Thank you for making this for new generations and for us to remember what it was to play a good FIFA game
Thank you for reviving the nightmare Fenerbahçe duo of Emenike and Sow from my well suppressed nightmares. 7 years later, I can finally look at them fondly.
FIFA 17 was the first one I ever owned. I remembered playing earlier versions of the game at a friends house and saw it on sale for like $20. I loved that game and it was the one I was worst at.
My friend just started playing seriously last year and he’s always complaining abt the “lack of content” and he doesn’t believe me that back in the day we would have to wait for like 2 weeks to get different content. It was also okay to use cards that you wanted 2 without having to worry that the cards tanking in price.
Facts !! *FIFA 17 Gameplay on the XBox360 is still PEAK across all consoles.* (newer FIFA's tried too hard to be more realistic than last year that the gameplay gets worse each year) Craziest part is that i.d.e.c about the Online part of it, I've ALWAYS enjoyed the purity of playing video games OFFLINE without strangers being involved in my chill-time.. JUST ME, MY CONTROLLER & CAREER MODE !! (Maaan Those were the days) ❤
broooo I remember packing 80 pace, 3*/3* , 61 agility and 45 balance TOTS Dzyuba on my homies' PS 3, we linked him with like Witsel or Dzagoev and he immediately became the star of our squad. and the excitement you got while getting walkout, we all were just screaming "WALKOUT WALKOUT" while packing some Santi Cazorla lol
This looks great! In FC25 my team seems to just run away from the ball instead and not really try to defend, while the other team is just super aggressive
It's crazy how every word you said is so true, there are things here that I've been thinking about for so long but no one dared to say, specific things. Thank you !! There will be no FIFA like FIFA 17 ever.
I absolutely loved the journey I played all of the games with it. I also loved the learn to play ( which was the free pitch) I loved it because there was a nice atmosphere. The stadium was GOATED
I hate ea fc. It’s so assisted I feel like Im watching a simulation sometimes. I used to be so good at the old fifas but this one you can’t even get the ball quickly of a sht player. There is no 1v1s anymore it’s almost like it’s designed for new or sht players so they can have a chance and pass it around. It’s lost it’s identity and it’s just custom tactics. It Feels like football manager. And I haven’t even started on the passing and the dribbling. Sometimes when you’re defending you just have to hope and wait til they make a mistake, it’s hard to even get near the ball. I just think you will always concede no matter how good the opponent is, your team just opens for them. My record is insane and I still hate it, it makes every game hard no matter how good the opponent it. The ONLY reason I still have it is because if pro clubs
i used to play fifa 13-17 with my friend at his house, and by the time i got my xbox it was the end of fifa 20, at least i got to experience the good games
Man, I just discovered your channel in the last few period and I love your contents! And this is video is wonderful, you captured in the best way all the details that made this game perfect. My favorite FIFA of all time, I dream to live those times again! 🧡 Ps. I remember that one of my favorites players was Rashford because he was quite unknown and loved his stats! And my career mode in Italian Serie B with Ferrara (SPAL) was goated, with Mirko Antenucci being my best striker hahah :))
One of the most important thing is, back in those times the Momentum Mechanic was not this strong (or obvious)… these days I cannot even relax when I am 3-0 up
this is the best fifa video i’ve ever seen as for nostalgia - i think this was the first year where 4231 was meta (before it was ratty) and i think i had POTM Ibra CAM, POTM Hazard ST, and some inform or special card Mertens and Son LCAM and RCAM. radja nainggollan and kante cdms
even without the journey (which just makes it better) fifa 17 was just goated
Genuinely a great fifa in retrospect
@@DagnalDiagonalI’ve been playing it the past few months and it’s just as bad as recent fifas lol
I only played since 21 and really miss an engaging career mode
Yeah FIFA 17 was great. Unfortunately it all went downhill from there
@@thrasherdave1428 Fifa 18 is better by far though
Everyone who played fifa 17 knows very well about Musa and his pace 😭
King Musa, never forget
My favourite card of all time, what a card he had
bale as well
martial, musa, sterling haunts me…… in a good way
Musa on FIFA 17 the streets will never forget
The fact that icons even get special cards on top of being icons is insane
Yeah that is just overkill
i dont agree with that its one of the rare things EA did right. Makes a lot of icons viable and gives us variety. The gameplay is dogshit tho
@@ZiyadAzouny I see your point but my argument is that we don't need that many icons in the ecosystem. Back in the FIFA 14-17 days when they were called Legends and had one version per player it was much simpler and you had to worry less about them cause fewer people had them and they didn't make that much of a difference in gameplay
@@ZiyadAzounyit's definitely overkill for legends to have so many cards, should be maybe 2 at most. it kills their special air. Also I feel like they could use that space to add more icons.
Oh remember Valderama who was a new legend back in the day and had worse stats than gold iniesta but still cost 10 mil just cuz he was new and rare and exciting? Good times man
The most frustrating thing in FC24 is when you have a player with a clear path to goal but instead of running forward they just completely stop their run and start running backwards.
The game is scripted pal. The amount of people that don't realize this and still play is beyond me
@@MillerTheOriginalthe same problems when having players on clear path to goal also happening on FC 25.
Just tried E Football. Players there are OPENING AND RUN TOWARDS THE FREE SPACE WHERE NO DEFENDERS ARE LOCATED!!!
🤯🤯🤯
I guess we have to press l1 button to give command to make other players run. Anyways i am new to fifa, and i am a pes2017 lover. Even new efootball games suck, forwards never make runs and their is no option to give them command to make run which makes the game suck
People had different teams and used various tactics and ways to score, finishing was beautiful and I remember actually feeling something when I scored
nostalgia merchants all around here
@@anshtripathi7035 People in the community reminiscing about FIFA 17 seem to have forgotten that it was the first game in the series in which *input delay* was prevalent between both online and offline matchmaking. The gameplay was inconsistent, and menu surfing was so buggy that there were times when people would unintentionally discard items from their Ultimate Team club.
With that being said, the skill gap in FIFA 17 was much, much higher, and the overall simulated football experience was vastly superior, in my opinion, to what’s been released in the last 5 years. It’s a travesty what’s happened to the franchise, but I suppose it was to be expected from such a negligently avaricious troglodyte company like EA.
@@NobodyNowhere888I thought you have some points until I read the menu part. Tell me in ea fc 24 your longest time without having to restart the game.
@@NobodyNowhere888 that doesn't change the fact that we had better gameplay and more new content in 2016 than now, which is ridiculous, nobody is saying it was perfect
Yea the excitement and goosebumps you feel when you press that o button to shoot the last time I felt it was on fifa 17
Fifa 17 will always have a special place in my heart, playing The Journey, career mode, it's also the first game that i've played on my newly bought ps4 in 2017
Same I bought the ps4 FIFA 17 version in 2016. Good memories.
FIFA 17 is all what next-gen FIFA was meant to be.
I just haven’t gotten the same BUZZ of excitement over FIFA since.
That’s why I just stick to FIFA 10-17.
The fun you get from the gameplay and soundtrack alone is unmatched
Makes me wanna go and buy an Xbox 360 lol and just run career modes on the older ones man
@@bobby9458 YES YES YES exactly bro
X360 and PS3 is where FIFA peaked man I swear.
I remember buying FIFA 18 legacy edition coz I didn’t have a PS4 at the time.
Was the game any different from 17? No.
Did I enjoyed it more than 20-24 on next gen? HECK YEAHHH.
@@RespecTheLevYT and the actual rosters were so much better I prefer that era much more to modern day not that I dislike modern players but idk 10-17 just had some absolute icons
@@bobby9458 yeah back then the game just hit different bro. EA can’t replicate the same magic that made the game so special in the first place…
f yeah, i still play fifa 14 demo with real madrid with la decima team... its so fun to play against the Legendary AI
Hey Dagnal,
former TOP100 player from Berlin here!!
FIFA 17 was just amazing, your video gave me nostalgia like nothing else before.
FIFA 18 was the last FIFA i actually bought, after the "timed finishing" feature got introduced, which was the end of my FIFA career. Your video was just like "back to the future" for me. If you will be ever in Berlin, i would like to invite you to a Hertha BSC match. Continue with this amazing content.
Deniz
Interesting take, IIRC 17 was considered way worse than 16 at the time. Pinball Fifa. Agree though, that 18 was even worse. I, too, quit Fifa for good then.
EXACTLY. The problem since Fifa 17 is the AI on both attacking and defending.
Agreed
I was up 4-2 I believe my opponent did team press and mind you I put a defensive setting now and my backline just stares while one man runs inbetween the final 4. Not to mention instead of having the team all defending they are all over the place its a mess
If ai is bad, then how's it the best
@@jonahjameson272😂😂
You are just trash at the good bro
@@Shitposting_IHMN What the fuck are you talking about?
This was my first fifa game, ive stopped playing the game now, but the soundtrack along with the practice arena was such a cool vibe, like a summer day where youre going to the beach
I Totally Agree, I Think The Best Sports Game Ever Was FIFA 17. The Animations of the Players, the Physics of the Ball, and the Perfect Shots Provided a Completely Masterpiece Experience in Terms of Gameplay. For example, when you dribble with Ronaldo, you will feel like you are really dribbling with Ronaldo. Fifa did this in the 17/18 Games and then it completely collapsed.
And let me add one more thing: the journey mode was definitely on another level, they continued it until 19, I wish we could experience that journey mode with the player we created, they haven't fixed the career for years, I don't think they ever thought about this either.
Gameplay was sooo well balanced there was actual variety:
Low driven
shield ball
chip shots
Finesse shots
Skillmoves that aren’t unrealistically overpowered
longshots
AI that actually makes runs
Low rated players who are actually usable
peak fifa
Fifa 17 and 18 has that special feeling. So much fun. Smart AI. I still play them. The most realistic likeness of ronaldo in every way until date was perfectly done in 18.
Idk about that but it’s definitely imo the most balanced sports game ever in terms of like quality across game modes. Like it might not have the best career mode or the best ultimate team, but it’s qullit gang😂imo
ronaldo was best done in fifa 18, then they completely cut updates with ronaldo, after fifa 21 it was like we were looking at someone else's face and hair, not ronaldo, and they still haven't fixed it, I still don't understand what is the problem with ronaldo.@@josefelfinito6925
I’d say peak FIFA was 06-13. That jump to next Gen in 09 or whatever it was felt huge. Introduced ultimate team before it got mainstream, introduced clubs.
Fifa 12 (Rooney cover)should’ve def been mentioned if he was talking bout goat fifas
Yeah fifa has been terrible for at least 10 years.
I like fifa on the 360 i found the players played better together and the ball would go to you want pass or cross into where as the newer ones i try to cross the ball to the guy closer to me the ball somehow goes to someone further away who is being blocked by the other team so their get the ball back with ease it cost some of my team matches sometimes and that can be a boomer with new football games still got somewhat around it and enjoy the new games but that period in the 360 was a lot better for controlling the players
fut founder on badge, the old chat rooms for pro clubs matchmaking/chat rooms w xbox live haha that was a melting pot of chaos, live epl scores in ticker and audible, online seasons div 1 fifa 08-18
For me maybe it’s because I started at 12 but 12-15 to me was awesome
great video. fifa 17 was special. i hope they one day take us back to the glory days
I'll take anything at this point, i'm starving
nothing like fifa 15 kid
Nothing like fifa 95 boy.@@izmolaitela6684
Fifa 25 has to do better
Ultimate players crying about FIFA 😂. You realize it was you guys spending money on cards that caused EA to give up. CAREER MODE 4 LIFE
100% Agree. They ruined it both for us and themselves and think, that if they complain enough, EA will change it. It is too late, FUT makes too much money for them to change anything. That's why I stopped playing FIFA and started enjoying Football Manager.
it was cool for a bit but it ruined fifa and sport games,ive never bought packs...it was fun when you could grind and get packs for free
CAREER MODE GANG 🤝🤝🤝 Also Ultimate Team players have no right to complain about microtransactions in games.. in many ways ultimate team was the catalyst for EA aggressively adding microtransactions to all their games bc they saw how many people were willing to throw money at silly digital products that will be outdated in a year maximum
Buying packs has to be the most loser sh*t you can ever do.
@@rah-mown6392 you’re twice the loser if you flex your pay-to-play squad of OP cards to other people and think they care.. I knew a kid like that back in college
I remember when we all criticized fifa 17 because it looked like every fifa game released before that
Little did we know...
Fifa 18 also very good with real Madrid what are you talking about baby fifa?@@DagnalDiagonal
19 and 22 aren’t bad it just 22 is the PSG fifa game
lol same. I was quick to realize this was the last good fifa though .
you must be french I loved that game from the get go it was one of my first games on my then brand new ps4
I’m not accepting the FIFA 18 Slander bro. That World Cup mode was goated
At least 17 still the best among the entire modern FIFA game since 18 to 25.
I only played FIFA for single player and 18's AI is trash on legendary. The game just feels too easy. Too bad because the gameplay feels pretty good
@@linhza501 Yeah i've found myself constantly playing FIFA 18 for the past few months, i've just been doing lots of career modes for 6-7 seasons because the gameplay feels SO GOOD compared to FC25, it's a shame the AI aren't very good otherwise FIFA 18 would be legendary
FIFA 13 on 360 was the best for me because it was actually skilled based. And i used to slap people up with a silver ivory coast team.
I enjoyed FIFA 17 but already hated FUT by then.
agreed, fifa 13 hit different imho, ofc there were certain things on FUT that were exploited but they still had counterplay, and i reckon the game was a lot more fluid and skill based then, too
Same. I used to play 2v2 on PC. Few players, especially since it was already dead. We were basically one of the best players around having a fierce rivalry with a Ukranian duo. Fun times.
Fifa 13 was amazing, ribery and robben, was that fifa with the glitched podolski with insane pace and shooting. I will never forget silver jimmy kebe, did absolute bits down the wing
Long shots with Balotelli and 89 Rooney different
I always liked fifa 12 imo fifa 12-15 was prime fifa. 16 and 17 where also fun. How we’ve had this bad of a drop off is crazy
Don't stop at fifa, football itself was better back then.
I didn’t afford a console back in those days so i missed out on all of this. We’d save money then go to a place where we’d pay to play kickoff
I stuck to Online Seasons mode and I just remember friends watching in awe as I took Bayern to Division 1. Hell, I won with Giroud up top as a strategy for awhile.
I just remember this game as being intense and every match exciting. It was rewarding.
Cap, Giroud at bayern? What u smoking
Fifa 17 was my first year playing ultimate team so this video brought back some beautiful memories. Ben arfa was a sensual card oh my days. Sturridge and lukaku up top also went to work in a 41212 narrow
wasn't sturridge still like 6'2 or 6'3 in fifa 17
@@Mise22 nah back then people didn’t spam left stick dribbling like they do now so height wasn’t really an issue. Obviously pace was still the meta though so he worked nicely
@@thegodofglebe2572 yeah I know he was absolutely op with that size and pace
you really had me completely focused watching a 20min video about fifa… such a rare thing nowadays, continue the good content, you now have a new subscriber!❤
As a Fenerbahce fan you really brought back some deep memories. That Sow and Emenike combo was deaaadly. I used to ball with my SüperLig team
My fav FIFA was when Fener last won a title 😁
FIFA17's menu alone made you wanna boot it up and play a game ... Sunny, warm & inviting. Add a bomb soundtrack to it and there was nothing better
And for career mode guys like myself, it was one of the last to have meaningful training systems (every drill you instructed had purpose for improve a specific attribute of a player). Today's training just affects form which affects overall growth; not specific growth in just one particular area) This meant that you could actually train a player to improve in a certain aspect of his game without having the change his entire position or be forced to choose from a collection of arbitrary attribute gains. Sort of hard to explain without visuals but yeah the career mode was more fun back then even without Create a Club being added back in yet (a feature once there but removed for FUT ushering only to be brought back as a "new" feature)
ALSO I don't see enough people praise the DEFENDING on this game; you could actually manually switch to and select the right defenders so much easier with more accuracy, and move players into the right positions. That is so important because its so frustrating nowadays when you have to be able to somehow control every single one of your defenders at once and drag them into the right position, while also dealing with the game switching to players nowhere near the ball, and by that time your opponent has played through your out of position players or taken advantage of the LB/L1 or RS switch to a player you don't want
Pro clubs gameplay was so good too
I used to be in div 2 back in FIFA 16/17 with a generic gold team. I've had a fair break but these days Im struggling in division 7 lol. Feels more like a simulator with all those features rather than a game
Reus on the cover.. chef’s kiss.
I could cry watching this back, used to place consistent top 100 in fifa 17 now I can't even break rank 1 ;( it's so saddening.
i was talking about it with a friend recently. we both loved fifa 17 and we started watching some old fifa 17 pack opnenings and weekend league gameplays. The nostalgia kicked in man we had so much fun in this game. It is so sad to see what this game is like nowadays.
first introduction of hunter went craaaaaaaaaaaazy
Man the nostalgia you gave me watching this was 18 when this one came out and played it religiously
Would be cool of you to mention more of the offline modes. Career manager recieved some amazing improvements in this FIFA. That said I still play this game regularly to this day, what a game
Bro you spoke to my soul omg. I literally have the same opinion especially soundtrack-wise. FIFA 14-15 were masterpieces.
FIFA 15 and FIFA 14 definitely was the best soundtracks
oh yeah 100% still listening to those bangers
Fifa 11 and 12 are up there too
2005 for me
FIFA 19 has bangers as well.
Fifa 13
I think the reason our generation keep playing is we're trying to chase the nostalgia if 14&17 hoping that one day it will go back to that so we continue to buy it hoping
Maybe, but those days are long gone. I play the 10 EA play trial hours every year and then call it good until next year.
Bro the off ball AI teammate runs in this game were the best to date, didn't need to manually do it or it wasn't stupid. It was genuinely perfect. The runs and ability of passing in this gamw were top notch.
U obviously haven't played career mode
17:23 this is such a good point, that many fifa players dont realise because they dont play anything other than sports games/live service games. Like yeah i like fifa, really liked fifa 17, but it isnt even close to being in my top 10 or even top 25 games OAT, singleplayer games are for the most part just so much more polished and cared for, then modern day sports games. And it is truly sad that alot of Fifa players will never try games like elden ring and BOTW
You forgot to mention the “tournament mode “ with different restriction . And the reward of tournament is excited , a permission to enter WL , plus tradable good pack , plus sometime is a special card .
Also , in fifa 17 , skill gap 100% exist . Some high level player like to use op silver team to beat a very good team in season . Season is so enjoyable , you can see real variety of team , variety of playstyle . Fewer meta rat , more innovation .
That was fun ! I miss this old day very very much .
Start naming the soundtrack song
Me: Dont know a single one. Move on.
Remember watching AA9 Road To Glory. That shit was the best series ever
So many good series and videos overall
When you could have a gold team and didnt need to spend 5k on points to be meta. Fifa 17 is the last time i was ever div 1 as just loved playing it. Also, never forget that ben arfa card, best cam ever on fifa
Wow I actually forgot how good the player movement was. Seeing some of those old cards brought back really happy memories for me so thank you. The newest game is absolutely atrocious. I just watched your other video on why fc24 is a bad game, but seeing this one and just comparing the old gameplay to they new is so sad. The game used to feel alive. Now every game is just mind numbing and infuriating. Everyone uses the same meta rat cards, the same meta rat tactics, the same run down line, cutback, sweaty bullshit. I remember using like 3 different squads all at once, all from different leagues with just mediocre players and I was able to compete in the weekend league and get wins. Now I have two heroes and an icon in November and it’s a “bad team”. It makes me so unbelievably sad to see the thing I once loved so much slowly become completely unplayable. FIFA used to bring me so much joy, now it’s just an empty shell of what it used to be.
The squad building was the best part, I'd be building new teams every week lmao it was actually a joke within my friend group
Rashford in career mode. I just used to spam training with him(fill him in all the slots and make sure he gets As in everything) and he ended up an 89 overall in 2 and a half seasons. Crazy asset for me.
Werner and Rashford in the attack in career mode😩😩
Loved FIFA back then. This video explains it all. Back then you could GRIND the game, use your own Meta, having fun with the game. Even the gameplay was so much more fair and playable. Nowadays its just too much sweat, too much ratness, you playing 10 games of division rivals just gets you in a bad mood since you dont control the game. You lose to bad players and win sometimes against better players than you. fifa 17 gameplay was just like chess. You make a nistake you get punished, you read your opponnent you get rewarded! And for that i could play 10hrs straight, thats impossible to do nowadays!
Very interesting video. I used to be #84 in Canada in FIFA 10 lol. I have been playing FIFA since forever.
My last fifa was FIFA 17. I was always a divisions guy. Made it to div 1 and would have a blast playing the game. I didn’t think others would think it was the best fifa made. I asked some younger peeps which fifa they loved and 17 always comes up.
For me a defining feature of that game were the runs the players make.
The tracking felt great. I have returned to FC24 and it seems like an even bigger monetization mess. But I don’t fault only FC , 2k is just as bad.
Watching this vid did make me remember the good times.
Fifa 17 was the goat. I played 5000 or 6000 UT games. I enjoyed the game soo much. Bultland and ibrahimovic are goats
FIFA 14 was my first FIFA, absolute memories.
I shed a tear every time I look at fifa 17 martial, my hero, my goat, my everything, I bought his jersey as a kid cause I loved him so much
Still love him
balls
Really appreciate the vid, for someone who didn't played fifa 17 ut but the normal game it brings memories and i started playing again after 6 years juste to enjoy. This vud makes this even better thank you and keep up the great work ❤
Been playing Fifa 17 for the last few months. Best decision I’ve made . Took me back to when it was really amazingly fun to play the game. Started 2 carrers, one with Totti’s last dance, and another were I moved rooney to Everton 2 years earlier and he demolish the prem.
It’s really worth it.
I mean, anyone 25 and over remembers the goold old days, my favourites, 03, 12 and 16
My last good fifa was fifa 15 but this was the last good fifa with modern content and gane modes. Miss these times. Likely won't be playing ever again
I respect it. I think FIFA 17 hinges between a good game and one of the better versions, but FIFA 15 could be better for sure
I played FIFA 17 so much when I was like 11, if only I had known back then what FIFA would be like when I’m an adult
I remember getting to div 4 or div 3 with using a very low budget bpl team + alex hunter. sad that now that everyone basically has the same players and the same playstyle
That’s when the driven low shot was crazy good and useful… plus easy to do with the double power tap action
I dont mind driven shots, they felt so much fun and its the build up that make you deserve those yes. I heard some friends say "i miss the time where we shot from the ground" talking about this ear and i agree
It’s crazy, I spend more time doing sbc’s than actually playing the game in eafc24
Damn you are so underrated . Great video
Thank you thank you thank you, i really appreciate it
Bro !! They got tired of us hogging the TV hitting bongz every evening,17 was a blast of a game !! 😂 so sad where we are now
I may have to re-download this game. Brings me back to the deadly duo: Frank Ribery and Arjen Robben. Also with Alaba still as LB.
As a bayern fan im tearimg up
Imagine if all Fifa fans just gets back to Fifa 17 and play it at a consistent basis and blow light in to the game again, so we all can just enjoy it together.
Why cant they just make decent games like this anymore? Why must we always go backwards
Overthinking AI just ruins the flow of the game and they went too advanced to build everything over again i guess. So we're just sitting on a broken code, hotfixing it fifa by fifa. We're playing against not our opponents, but against AI, Pressure, RNG moments, bounces etc
money
Why? Because monopoly.
Honestly there isn’t much of a difference but people want to feel what they used to feel years ago
Ehh in my opinion: people who think everything is almost and or always going backwards, are typically the ones that are stuck “backwards” in the past and don’t like change..
Chilling late night with the boys playing Fifa 17/18, GTA 5, battlefield 1/4, black ops 3, Rainbow 6, life was good 😔
I, being old enough remember how people were calling it the worst game ever. Maybe 7 years from now someone will be making a video about how awesome fc24 was😂
In my eyes the worst thing to happen to fifa was the OP finesse shots & the crazy packed cards.After a while you didn’t have to earn..EA was just giving stuff away for free didn’t feel fun anymore building a squad…so now I stick to seasons
Lol
I remember complaining about the only way to score when the game came out was low shots 😂😂. How I wish we could go back in hindsight
my favorite fifa 17 player was 84 Ben Yedder IF that actually got upgraded because he was an 81 before the winter upgrades, I packed him from a 5K pack after losing in the first round of draft
seeing how the players automaticaly moved is a nice change
it’s crazy how these games shape people. I listen to Resonance when i’m gaming all the time (especially Fifa) and all my friends online that grew up playing similar games found it as well
40 games of champs was a time to be alive
driven shot in 17 was amazing. tots season was also so fun.. all the cards were usable.
I feel like ever since EA switched to the frostbite engine (in all their games at this point), FIFA just went down hill
I played Fifa 16 a lot and that point about sunny lit background is sooo true, now when u enter the game it just feels like u timetravelled. The sunny bakground just makes it more nostalgic
Man, FIFA used to be great before microtransactions ruined everything. I remember reaching Division 1 in FIFA 15 ultimate team using a squad of all French players that probably cost less than 50K coins, good times.
Oh my god, finally an awesome video of the best FIFA of all time (maybe FIFA 14 or FIFA 15 can also be there). Thank you for making this for new generations and for us to remember what it was to play a good FIFA game
I dont remember ever raging in this game
I broke controllers over fifa 17 ut lmao we had completely different experiences
Thank you for reviving the nightmare Fenerbahçe duo of Emenike and Sow from my well suppressed nightmares. 7 years later, I can finally look at them fondly.
I will never forgive ea for removing low driven shots
That ultimate scream 64 rated Emre Mor was goated. Mfs would build their entire team around him in October / November that year 😩💔
FIFA 17 was the first one I ever owned. I remembered playing earlier versions of the game at a friends house and saw it on sale for like $20. I loved that game and it was the one I was worst at.
My friend just started playing seriously last year and he’s always complaining abt the “lack of content” and he doesn’t believe me that back in the day we would have to wait for like 2 weeks to get different content. It was also okay to use cards that you wanted 2 without having to worry that the cards tanking in price.
FIFA 17 was my first ever FIFA and I loved it I still play it to this day every now and then.
Facts !!
*FIFA 17 Gameplay on the XBox360 is still PEAK across all consoles.*
(newer FIFA's tried too hard to be more realistic than last year that the gameplay gets worse each year)
Craziest part is that i.d.e.c about the Online part of it, I've ALWAYS enjoyed the purity of playing video games OFFLINE without strangers being involved in my chill-time..
JUST ME, MY CONTROLLER & CAREER MODE !! (Maaan Those were the days)
❤
broooo I remember packing 80 pace, 3*/3* , 61 agility and 45 balance TOTS Dzyuba on my homies' PS 3, we linked him with like Witsel or Dzagoev and he immediately became the star of our squad. and the excitement you got while getting walkout, we all were just screaming "WALKOUT WALKOUT" while packing some Santi Cazorla lol
atsel witsel still plays doesnt he
@@mizzoscreedbymichaelngwana yeah he plays for Atletico Madrid and he's actually pretty good
This looks great! In FC25 my team seems to just run away from the ball instead and not really try to defend, while the other team is just super aggressive
fifa 17 online servers closed like a few weeks ago unfortunately
I was hoping to log into my FUT account for the video, but I couldn't :/
The ironic thing is that the ad in the begining was from FC 24
Who remembers TOTS Mertens
It's crazy how every word you said is so true, there are things here that I've been thinking about for so long but no one dared to say, specific things. Thank you !! There will be no FIFA like FIFA 17 ever.
Ohhhh the soundtrack and menu’s of this game are SO underrated and SO nostalgic bro
I was 10 yrs old coming home from school logging onto FIFA 17 😢
I absolutely loved the journey I played all of the games with it. I also loved the learn to play ( which was the free pitch) I loved it because there was a nice atmosphere. The stadium was GOATED
I hate ea fc. It’s so assisted I feel like Im watching a simulation sometimes. I used to be so good at the old fifas but this one you can’t even get the ball quickly of a sht player. There is no 1v1s anymore it’s almost like it’s designed for new or sht players so they can have a chance and pass it around. It’s lost it’s identity and it’s just custom tactics. It Feels like football manager. And I haven’t even started on the passing and the dribbling. Sometimes when you’re defending you just have to hope and wait til they make a mistake, it’s hard to even get near the ball. I just think you will always concede no matter how good the opponent is, your team just opens for them. My record is insane and I still hate it, it makes every game hard no matter how good the opponent it. The ONLY reason I still have it is because if pro clubs
Pro clubs is AMAZING, tbh that's a good reason to play. Beyond that, not so much
But also, football manager is great i won't take that slander haha
How does PRO clubs make it any good? Same shitty gameplay and RAT meta?
I still play fifa 17 on ps4 and ps5 . I have played the news fifas but I keep going back to 17. You are spot on
The graphics, the trailers, the intros, the journey, the gameplay. It was just amazing. Fifa 15 comes at a distant number 2 for me.
Lowkey, the mechanics of FIFA 15 were better imo, but in good gameplay the general experience of fifa 17 and everything it offered was better
Zardes Dybala and Elton Tots, Legends.
i used to play fifa 13-17 with my friend at his house, and by the time i got my xbox it was the end of fifa 20, at least i got to experience the good games
Man, I just discovered your channel in the last few period and I love your contents! And this is video is wonderful, you captured in the best way all the details that made this game perfect. My favorite FIFA of all time, I dream to live those times again! 🧡
Ps. I remember that one of my favorites players was Rashford because he was quite unknown and loved his stats! And my career mode in Italian Serie B with Ferrara (SPAL) was goated, with Mirko Antenucci being my best striker hahah :))
One of the most important thing is, back in those times the Momentum Mechanic was not this strong (or obvious)… these days I cannot even relax when I am 3-0 up
Why are you only yapping about ultimate team, career mode is where it’s at
sadly nobody plays carrer mode that much
No one plays career mode lil bro
On monthly rewards the Icon was only on X-BOX on PS only the 44 red Informs
Let’s talk about Ibarbo
I'd rather not get PTSD flashbacks, thanks
this is the best fifa video i’ve ever seen
as for nostalgia - i think this was the first year where 4231 was meta (before it was ratty) and i think i had POTM Ibra CAM, POTM Hazard ST, and some inform or special card Mertens and Son LCAM and RCAM. radja nainggollan and kante cdms
Fifa 18 was pretty good to I say 😀
What I remember first time when playing FIFA 17 is the grass look absolutely stunning on high res.