Online Football Games

I enjoyed I Am Playr for a bit but got fed up of the Facebook-y waiting for a turn stuff but guys, guys, this shit is catnip:

New Star Soccer

You fucker. I've gone and downloaded that and already my life's going to shit. Thank fuck there's a natural break where it wants your money. Delete, never think of again.

no, the online one is free, no money involved, it's up-til-4-in-the-morning stuff

I can well believe it. Pippo was just getting his eye in at Weston Super Mare, if the phone hadn't given me an out that'd be the rest of the week gone for sure.

i am currently Maidenhead's leading scorer

A subdued start to my career at Bromley

i need to play less Blackjack

oh shit they make a tennis game too

a while back I spent a couple of nights pathetically devoted to Jumpers for Goalposts - http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/jumpersforgoalposts4/playgame (I think I preferred one of the earlier versions, but I'm not sure which or why). Though, and I'm blaming playing with a trackpad for this, some of the techniques I found near impossible.

New Star Soccer is amazing. I now play for Barcelona, I left Liverpool as I didn't believe in the project. After a clean sweep of Champions League, La Liga, Copa Del Rey, and World Cup (with England, annoyingly you can't pick Ireland) I think I am firmly in Galactico territory.

another victim to the shimmering advances of new star soccer over here.

i took Maidenhead into League 2 then joined Sheff U in the Championship and suddenly i'm a bit out of my depth

i never read the instructions but i reckon if you do it helps a lot. i discovered some shit along the way that was really helpful.

shoot high when going near post, shoot low when going far. except if the ball is bouncing, in that case hit the top of it and go near post and it'll bounce in over the keeper. in general the further out you are, esp before you get good, bounce the ball in front of the keeper (this can work from 50m out) and it can often hop in over him.

Those only work if you select Joe Hart mode

couldn't handle all the ads for superdry in joe hart mode

New Star Soccer is so addictive

There are some mercenary bitcas in New Star Soccer. No-one would date me until I got a move to the Prem. I see where I've gone wrong irl now.

I had a gf in s conf but since then I've decided to be gay for awhile until I can amass more cash so I dumped her.

i was gonna ask "what's the point of a girlfriend?" but was worried about pvmic

ever since I was a kid I dreamed of playing for FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.

nah actually I change my mind, at the age of 17 I think it's time for that big money move to Qatar.

the girlfriends are just an annoyance mostly, they constantly make your boss hate you.

improve happiness and sponsorship profile i think. I'm 18 and ajaccio's next big thing.

newcastle sold me to colchester, cunts

rip

what do you have to do to get an international call up? thinking of preemptively retiring at this rate.

fuckin tablet screen started playin up, caused me to miss 6 from 8 passes the match after forcin a new, improved contract. I should play for arsenal.

i think i'm basically shit at this, took me till age 26 to get an international callup, which came while taking leeds to a 5th place premier league finish the year after getting promoted. coulda won the league if i hadn't lost my final six matches. we are all arsenal.

my girlfriend crashed my helicopter and i only care about the repair costs. man i'm a dick.

read it and weep:

Age 27 and at Barcelona

Career totals:

Appearances: 587
Goals: 418
Hat tricks: 24
Passes: 1945
Assists: 368
Star man: 123
Furthest goal: 48.9 yards
Furthest pass 56.3 yards
Avg rating: 7.1

This season:

Apps: 31
Goals: 35
Hat trick: 2
Passes: 117
Assists: 32
Star man: 12
F goal: 48.8 yards
F pass: 56.3 yards
Avg rating: 8.3

International:

Apps: 40
Goals: 31
Hat trick: 2
Passes: 126
Assists: 33
Star man: 13
F goal: 50.8 yards
F pass: 41.4 yards
Avg rating: 7.4

my advice would be that if your team is doing shit it probably isn't entirely your fault. quit them for the best team at the earliest opportunity. i wasted a load of seasons at minnows like man u and liverpool.

Were any of those against English opposition?

think we beat arsenal about 6-0 in europe one year, though we wouldn't be the first.

Garda you must be at a level where you can score from practically anywhere, cos my assists to goals ratio is around 2:1 whereas yours is the reverse.

Btw wish the downloadable version of this was the same as the mobile one.

the techniques and stuff start to reveal themselves over time. my other tips would be (and i assume there are other ways to skin a cat here) to focus on skills and energy above all else for basically the first 6/7 seasons or so. eg buy energy drinks to complete training challenges and buy more of them to play at the full 3 hearts energy setting wherever possible in all matches. you get way more chances when you do this. i only stopped playing 3 stars at all times recently.

with crosses, always do a low pass to the man nearest the goal, if it looks an obvious easy scoring chance it usually is. pass all the time when in a bad run of form to get your team back on your side.

for longer shots, curling them does work as you improve.

oh and also, same as energy/skills, get the best possible boots at all times. all the shit like houses/cars etc, that can come later.

agreed on all that. Heaven can wait.

I kind of love how this pits the team against the fans

haha absolutely. Chastening to realize just how little I care about the missing dogs of fans or signing autographs for fans, disabled or otherwise. I'd be an absolute monster if I were actually a talented footballer.

anyone ever take bribes? i never have, never see the point.

irl

definitely would irl. not in this though. care too much about this game.

the day you take the wage on offer they're bribing you in this game, son

I'm curious about the ramifications about taking bribes. I also decided to spend more money on training, got a girlfriend back but don't worry too much about the sponsors since I'm on 15 or 16 a game w/3 for goal bonuses.

cant believe the team dont provide energy drinks and boots for their star player ffs

Not to mention girlfriends and sportscars, eh?

occasionally when i pass a ball it bounces off my teammate's head. have i done too much power training?

hit it very softly or also take a little touch, you sort of can drag the ball down sharply to kill it, though i'm only instinctively sure of how to do this as i never did the tutorials.

eh what? Nothing about that in tutorials.

Get yr power right, aim to feet. Tho i may be imaging that shots are better when the player has a half yard to shift it. Who knows? This game is digital crack. My third season sees me join spurs, WONDERKID

took a bribe, lost the match, 75 clams, no repercussions so far (having a shit season anyway). life is easy.

this guy is using a mouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7foGuVPvI

didn't know you could use it to tee up volleys, i've just been killing the ball with it.

OH WOW

i was gonna try and give this up and now you've dragged me back in again

he seems to click before the ball to kill it

anybody heard the bleep when you hit the ball in some spots?

not on iphone. this thread has got me back playing again, that and the fact i've been off sick each day this week.

after my girlfriend slated my team, the bastards wouldn't pass to me for basically half a season, and we almost lost our massive lead in the league as a result. finally sealed it in the second last game of the season (with the pricks still not passing to me) as i got four second half assists to overturn a 2-0 deficit against getafe. that set up a victory match against real madrid at which point they're back passing to me again following the four assists, hat-trick and we win 5-1. glory.

i'm now a 17 year-old wonderkid at Sampdoria who shd be leading them back to Serie A at the end of the season. i've been trying to balance building my skills with getting the team/manager/fans/sponsors relationship high, feel like having a high team relationship is prob more important than anything

team is most important, definitely. but at the start i'd build that relationship by building skills. that was my approach anyway and seems the quickest route.

team, with a focus on manager if you've been playin well and fancy a crack at a new contract

Any help on getting sponsors? I'm at level ten or eleven star rating, in the premiership and not getting a sniff.

does it fill anyone else with rage when your team scores without your involvement? Like how dare they. Probably what being a professional footballer really feels like

not nearly so much as the fucker's not runnin for a perfectly good pass.

And where the fuck are they during interceptions?

And how come we concede three in three attacks?

Cunts

I am so shit at interceptions. Been neglecting my pace training though

Haha yeah - also the utter boredom after you get subbed off and the rest of the game still has to continue to its tedious, pointless conclusion.

was buying new boots there and turns out you can only control it with the upper echelon of shoe.

missed the crucial penalty in the wc final with england, after scoring 9 goals in the tournament, would have retained the world cup too.

the three goals conceded in a row thing is definitely some slightly annoying bug.

i don't mind too much if team scores without me. but when you do the first pass and they fuck off with the ball that really annoys me. the worst is definitely when gf does an outburst, and it's before you've got really good, so you get benched for half a season until you play those dumb memory games which i'm too colour-blind to win.

My girlfriend seems to need driving lessons

ball control! oh wau!

Just transferred from the conference to Man Utd. Too much too soon? Fuck it, dare to dream

Following in your hero Bebe's footsteps. Is Jorge Mendes your agent?

Accepted a bribe from shady dude, team won 5-0, I had a 9.4 rating. Shady man disappointed in me, refused to hand over the readies. Fair enough.

NOTW have to find another story at short notice now

I tried to beat the briber like that too. Started a new game in the French leagues, haven't had a single element of corruption, nor racist fans (do these stories have any effect in the game, like if you read that X team is in trouble because of their fans, and you subsequently move there you become less happy or more racist or something?)

Haven't watched any football on tv since I've started playing this, starting to feel empathy with your Olof Mellbergs and BAEs and other footballers who don't actually like the game.

fuckit phone call just made me move to chelsea

first game- against spurs. i'm actin the cunt

starting to get the hang of this now. just won the world cup.

nbd

Fucking Arsenal manager cunted me out the team then I couldn't get back in coz I was getting the ball like once every sub appearance. Went to Spurs in the transfer window, scored two and set two up in my first game against Arsenal, finished above them in the league then knocked them out in the Champs League semi final. A proper GET IT RIGHT UP YOU ARSENE of a season.

Fucking HATE interceptions on this. I can't run fast enough and can't be arsed training on it plus I can't see me wee guy under my finger.

I scored two in extra time to win the Champions League for Spurs and scored >30 in a Premier League season and get told I need to play well at a good level to impress my national team manager, who is bottom of his group and scraping 1-0s against San Marino. This is fairly realistic tbh. FUCK OFF CRAIG LEVEIN.

Best pass so far was a 50yard floated corner for a team mate to Scholesy it into the top corner. Furthest goal is 49.6yds - attempting to beat 50 is probably what keeps getting me dropped.

I'm now at Barca and in a serious slump.

finished above them in the league

Limits of realism finally reached.

fuck off calling my 40 yard cross a simple pass

ha

btw when i was unpopular with my team, did i merely imagine that they took up particularly cuntush positions, just so my passing percentage went to fuck?

fifa lag is fucking CUNTISH

I accepted a bribe but won the game anyway - word got out and my maxed out relationships all collapsed. Oops. Time to retire in disgrace cuz I can't be bothered rebuilding them.

I decided to give the downloadable New Star Soccer a go and goodness I'm bad at it. It makes it very realistic, me running around with the ball flying past me every couple of seconds, getting maybe a couple of touches in the whole match.

If the lad works hard in training and listens to the boss he'll be fine

Just had a crack at getting this running in my browser at work. Wasn't having it, thank god. Work ethic is poor enough without a budding career as a pro-footballer to distract me.

Do you get to choose a position? Wouldn't mind unleashing my inner Yaya Toure and developing a 'trademark barnstorming run'

Ok I changed my mind about this and got the downloadable version. Just signed my first contract as Sutton Utd's new centre forward talent.

Oh, and I've just seen that I can only play 5 games before I have to pay to be able to play more? I don't think so chap.

the only version is 100% free and a lot simpler (maybe more elegant) - none of this running around nonsense, only glorious pinpoint cross-field passes and 50 yard shots that somehow bounce over the keeper.

online, not only.

I foolishly started playing the iPhone version, knowing full well that 10 games in I'd have to pay but with no intention of taking that step. Of course, 10 games in and I've just come from the bench to produce a match winning performance for Hampden & Richmond against Dover (2 assists) having been dropped for the game after a pair of sub-1.5 performances (subbed at half time against Truro :(. So basicly there's no way I'm not paying 69p for the opportunity to drag this team towards the playoffs and myself towards redemption.

I did try the browser version tbf, but even on my pretty decent home pc it didn't work at all well. Very slow and laggy for some reason

yeah, the downloadable version is a very different beast to the online. Bit too frantic for my taste

there's a runny version?

yup

Yeah the one I'm playing is drag and click one on the iphone, but I did briefly check out the downloadable pc one. This game is far too addictive. On my third club at the start of my second season, decided to go for the glamour and moved to Perth Glory from Havant. Not a bad career move tbh

I started my career afresh on the online one and a slightly annoying (albeit realistic) thing is that it's not really possible to drag your club up the leagues - I finally scraped a promotion with Eastwood after four seasons of scoring or making 90+ goals, but there's a limit to how far my one-man show can take us when we're shipping four goals a game in the Conference National.

My downloaded one is free (for Android) but doesn't include any running other than the annoying interception bits. I was ruling Europe until I got caught throwing a meaningless Champs League group game for money and my reputation is now in tatters.

I also won a big pile of cash on the slots at one point and my boss dropped me for being a gambling addict :/

lol i am so clean cut when i play this

I'm just a ruthless careerist, even at the very lowest levels. Just finishing my second season, have so far moved in every transfer window - from Havant & Richmond (mid-table) to Havant (top of the league) to Perth Glory (A-League mid-table) to Melbourne Victory (top of the A-League). 8 games to go and leading on goal difference.

I now just need to blow everyone out of the water in these last weeks, win the league and then get on back to Europe after my gap year. I reckon there's a Swiss second division club that'd take me.

I finally scraped a promotion with Eastwood after four seasons of scoring or making 90+ goals, but there's a limit to how far my one-man show can take us when we're shipping four goals a game in the Conference National.

This somehow stopped and my Eastwood are in League 1 after three consecutive league wins, going remarkably unbeaten in my League 2 campaign I LOST THE LAST GAME OF THE SEASON FFS (in the end my record was won 38, drew 7, lost 1) and storming to an unlikely League Cup victory. B-)

I should probably do some work.

o it didn't come to mind that my League Cup win would get me into Europe. I'm playing someone called Honka!!!

http://i39.tinypic.com/205cwl.jpg

I've turned out to be quite good at this. (But h8 u Championship, ruining my career.)

I'm also evidently quite the catch, gonna post that image in my okcupid profile.

Was the star player in the Swiss league for 3 years, currently tanking at barca following my big money moves

I'm getting a new phone soon, which means calling time on my glittering 20 year career. Most realistic aspect of this game is when you get bored with the football and spend all your time and money buying racehorses.