Comments on: Don’t worry, be happy

By: not-Greg

not-Greg — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:28:09 +0000

stinger – LLM looks like a deep strategy game with a football theme. I’m tired of Civilization4 and the other PC games I have like it, so a spell of FM—my first for years—is well in order.

It looks as if the FM2009 DRM issues are fixed. I definitely will resist the purchase, though. I’d be crazy to get it when I’ve only just started playing 2008. I’m planning to get a proper gaming-friendly desktop PC in the spring, so I’ll probably jump to 2009 then.

By: stinger

stinger — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:01:38 +0000

It well and truly is meant to be and I wish you the best. I’m not a bragger but I have semi-mastered the art of LLM on FM over the past few editions so if you ever need some advice or suggestions feel free to ask.

I have been following the release and it’s exactly what I feared, thankfully here in Australia we have our own servers so have suffered no where near the problems that have been seen over there, I actually really feel for SI because they are trying to protect themselves but it has turned out horribly.

I haven’t picked up FM09 yet, I really am torn between what games to uy at the moment, Guitar Hero will be my next purchase as I agreed to go halves in it with a mate early next week which is always some good multiplayer fun. Then come next pay day it will be a big toss up for COD5, FM09 and PES2009.

If your ML reporting continues as is I will find it very hard to resist PES2009 and my laptop needs to go in for a tune up before FM09 is a viable purchase so I’mnot to sure what I’ll do reallly

By: not-Greg

not-Greg — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:00:47 +0000

stinger – have you been following today’s release of FM2009 – ?! It’s been a disaster. The SI forums have been carnage.

I’m definitely going to stick with FM2008. It looks like SI have got 2009′s DRM-related issues sorted out now, and I’m VERY tempted just to go for the Steam download option. But I never played FM2008 and it’d be wasteful to skip it just for the few new features in 2009. No doubt I’ll ‘catch up’ with the FM series in a few months.

I think I will go for Bath City. You mentioned them the other day and something about the name just strikes me. And, if that was’t enough, in the LLM section of the SI forum they have an automatic team-chooser for the undecided – and it chose Bath City for me. It’s just meant to be.

By: stinger

stinger — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:26:57 +0000

Bath City is well and truly the go. A club very close to my heart of course as I’ve reported previously, great success of FM06. LLM is awesome fun, picking up free transfers, anything you can to improve your team. Much like ML really

By: not-Greg

not-Greg — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:30:17 +0000

stinger – thanks for the thumbnail on Fallout3, like I said I will definitely be picking it up eventually, as it’s my kind of game. I just constantly feel that games developers got rid of the traditional turn-based, strategically-deep RPG combat model far, far too easily.

I’ve played the first ten games of a season on FM2008 and I’m about to be sacked at Coventry City. Second-bottom of the table, without a league win so far. If I do get sacked I’ll go for lower-league management with a Bath City-type club. Like I’ve said before this is my first serious effort to get back into FM since FM2005, and I did the Coventry thing back then. I’ve been reading a lot on the official SI forums about lower-league management and I think it’s for me.