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On paper, the Jaguars were capable of having a good season. I expected to go 8-8 with a shot at making the playoffs as a Wild Card team. We ended up winning two games more than expected, going 10-6 and missing a divisional title by a half a game. The Texans managed to go 10-5-1 on their way to winning the division. The playoff matchup was a tough one, but we ended up losing to the Texans in a bitter game. The 49ers and the Patriots would go on to ultimately compete for a Super Bowl.
Chris Conley had a career year behind the play of Nick Foles. He caught 1,400 yards, 8 TDs with 29(!) catches of 20+ yards. But he also dropped a whopping 14 total balls. I guess that is forgivable considering Foles targeted him 184 times throughout the year. After the playoff loss, Conley immediately indicated he wanted a new deal and was on my radar as a potential holdout for next season.
Front Office Football 8 is a stat generator of the highest order. If you are someone who likes to dive into the nitty-gritty details of your team, your players, and your opponents, you are immediately going to feel right at home with this game.
A lot of games are good at pumping out stats, but Front Office Football 8 makes sure the stats are useful. These advanced statistics make it so that you can dig in and find out what is going on with your team so that you can target areas to improve on and adapt as the season and career progresses.
You might have had a running back rush for 1,200 yards, yet your offense still struggled. What happened? Upon further investigation, you realize that your star running back has an abysmal 3rd down conversion rate, which tanked a lot of promising drives. Now you can target a specialized third-down back in the draft or free agency to complement your bruiser.
You can filter and sort every kind of statistic or player group with a couple of clicks of the mouse. This feature is something you will quickly learn to appreciate as you begin to tinker with your team.
In the modern age of gaming, it is easy to forget that sport management games started as text simulators. The original games that our current favorites are built on top of had no graphical representation of the things going on on the field. Front Office Football 8 is in the vein of the old text simulators. There are no fancy graphics, no modern UI elements, and no graphical representation of plays or players. Everything is presented as numbers and text.
Once you get into the game proper, it flows exceptionally well. Each season is broken up into manageable chunks that quickly become a rhythm during play. You can fly through seasons as quickly as you want, or you can agonize over every game plan in an attempt to squeeze as much as possible out of your team.
Front Office Football 8 offers a robust gameplan system that makes you feel like a head coach. You can set parameters for almost every conceivable situation on the field. It is possible to set up a general gameplan for your team as a whole based on a philosophy, let your coordinators set the game plan, or you can call each play individually during every game.
You can be the ultimate tinkerer, or you can set a philosophy, load up your roster with pieces you think are a good fit, and let the season fly on its own. Each season can be simulated in less than ten minutes, and it is possible to build a world quickly.
After each game, the engine is generating a ton of stats. Each player is accruing basic stats and advanced stats, and these are being compiled into box scores, stat sheets, and analysis tools, which allows you to go in after each game and figure out exactly what happened.
The ultimate accumulation of this system shines late in the season and in the playoffs. Each team is building a profile for itself, and the game then presents this to you in the best scouting report on the market. Many sports games give you scouting reports before each game, but they usually only provide information you already know. Front Office Football 8 shows its chops with their scouting reports by offering a complete statistical breakdown of your opponent for you to look over.
The actual games are only half of the battle in American football, and, again, this game does its best to show that. After the games are done for the season, many times, the work is just beginning for you.
This realism made it disappointing how unrealistic the staff hiring phase of this game is. Head coaches, assistants, and coordinators are chosen in a draft style system that is confusing and frustrating. Instead of bidding on staff as you do players, you have a chance to retain the people you want, and then the rest are put into a pool, and you go through and draft people like the new player draft. It feels like an odd standout for a game where everything else feels so realistic.
Like many other aspects of the game, the draft comes with oodles of personality and statistics that make drafting a fun and technical experience. You can sort by a variety of unique markers such as 40-yard dash speed, development score, and position score.
For example, if you need an immediate impact starter, you might want to take a player with a higher position score and development rate but a lower ceiling, or you can take a guy with low development score but a ton of raw talent to develop over time. The tools they give you allow you to have full control over the draft process and the prospects.
Front Office Football 8 is the king of the American Football simulation genre right now. The game breaks down the intricacies and nuances of the game of football into manageable and digestible nuggets of stats and numbers, which allows you to have full immersion. This simulation is a little heavy on the text side, but if you love numbers, statistics, and the game of football, you are going to love this game.
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As the eighth iteration of a legendary franchise, the simulation engine, outcomes, and game flow are unmatched. The only thing keeping this game from ultimate greatness is the lack of a modern graphical interface. Luckily, word on the street is the next version is being developed in the OOTP engine.
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The football offseason has begun, and with some free agents already signing with new teams, and the combine and then the draft coming this spring, there's plenty of work to be done on your franchise. For all you GMs ready to burn the midnight oil for your team, Front Office Football 8 is here to fill that need. The text simulator came out late last year on PC, and offers the kind of offseason and gameday options that any wanna-be GM and coach would appreciate.
The game features editable teams from all the NFL cities (you can also relocate your team or get a new stadium) with real-life player names, and fans of franchise management will appreciate that there are amenities such as multiple rounds of free agency (with multiple stages within each round), a coaching carousal, draft scouting, the ability to tweak salary offers, and other considerations. Players themselves can holdout, they have attitudes to consider, as well as various personality traits such as loyalty and fan popularity.
Playing through a season and offseason, I liked the info and options at my disposal, whether that was gauging a relatively weak free agent crop, picking through the players dropped later in the summer, gauging a draft prospects' potential and possible "volatility," and evaluating players before the draft and after they're on the team. I think the game does a good job of presenting the right kind of information such as a players' combine numbers, medical history, or contract wishes, without making drafting players or signing free agents a 100-percent done deal. There are few of such situations in real-life football, and the game replicates that fine line between giving you enough information to make informed decisions without making you swim in it. The game also comes with an in-depth guide, which is definitely worth studying.
Playing games seems pretty solid as well. I appreciate being able to see playart of the myriad plays available (you can construct your own playbooks from the plays at hand) as well as seeing which player is the principle target of the play. I also like how developer Solecismic has sprinkled some text descriptions for plays as they unfold such as telling you that a throw by the QB wasn't even close, or who made a key block on the play.
Stats wise, apart from EJ Manuel having the highest QB rating one season, I didn't see anything too glaringly off in terms of the stats showing up for players over the course of a year. I did think that some of the completion percentages during single games for average QBs were high, possibly padded out by the number of check downs I saw to the fullback. One of the cool things the game does with stats is that it shows you how many targets and catches a receiver has (and the carries/yards for a running back) before you call a play. Thus, you can get a quick look at who's hot and what's been working. Conversely, I didn't see a way to manage my depth chart during games, which was frustrating when I wanted to switch out my ineffective running back.
Steep's free Alaska update is now available, and apart from introducing a new mountain with 17 drop zones, 21 challenges, branded challenges, 37 points of interest, a mountain story, a raised level cap (25 to 30), and more, one of the things players will notice is that at least one of the new mountain's villages includes plenty of rails to grind and slide. This was possible in the original, but not a point of emphasis.
I tried out the Alaska villages' and while glad they were included in the update, found that they weren't quite as satisfying as I had hoped they would be. Games with rail grinding/sliding always face the dilemma of wanting to make it easy to let players get on a rail and stay on it, but without it feeling like they are being sucked or stuck to the rail. The problem I have with Steep's board slides currently is that it's easy to slip off of them and it feels floaty, like you're not really on the rail. I compare this with series like Skate and Tony Hawk, where grinds and board slides were very satisfying. You also don't score any extra points for what you do on a rail, which is disappointing. Hopefully this is something the team can keep working on, as I want to attack rails when I see them, not avoid them.
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