An Honest Review Of FC 25 🚨 

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One of the biggest issues is (still after 8 years) inconsistent gameplay, this game is unplayable at 7pm and playable at 2 am.. no other game I’ve ever played is like this and this will always be the biggest issue in this game until it’s fixed

Passing is some of the worst it’s ever been? One touch passing is essentially non existent, the defending AI is outrageously strong to the point the games are dull, while the attacking AI is awful - making for an extremely unenjoyable experience. The dribbling is silly at this point, holding 4 buttons at a time to have any kind of control of the ball is insane and to cap it off when you finally create a great chance the shooting is horrible or Keeper has closed you down instantly. Even after all the fundamental issues with gameplay - rebounds/tackling back is the worst I’ve ever seen it. Oh yeah and input delay 👍🏻

Worst FUT ever! No skill gap at all, rebound simulator. Ultimate edition already on sale for $39 tells you everything! Even if you had a 50 million coin team the game wouldn’t be enjoyable, r9 being caught and autotackled from behind by a 79 pace OP gold CB. I quit and I’m happy. Haven’t played in 2 weeks and this is from a guy that would play most weekend leagues even in the summer. I’m sure they are losing playerbase faster than ever.

This game is so garbage. I, this game, was made by Sean Dyche and Tony Pulis....Everybody plays with 5 CBs and 4 CDMs every game. I swear EA hates passing, dribbling, and build-up play. TOTAL Negative Football

Great timing nep, no 7pm content 💀

Fc IQ doesn’t improve players with + and ++ roles instead it just nerfs players who are “out of position” also we just accepted hyper motion technology but it is the reason why we have all been defending on the halfway line for the past few games, players should not be able to catch vini Jr because they are “lengthy”

They made us think the 75 x 50 is a better pack than an ultimate, but the no minimum rating makes it horrible…

nep picked the best week to go on holiday.

For me the content dosent matter at all, WHEN THE GAME IS LEGIT BROKEN. 3 years in a row I use EA Play just to try the game out 1 mouth, just to see if they fix anything, but no sadly. Inconsistent gameplay, delay, and just totally broken things in 2024 is not for me....

this is by far the worst fifa of all time

It’s absolutely hilarious because at the start of the video you’re talking about broken evos, now you’re away for the week and we now have broken player SBCs. This game is on a rapid rapid downfall

Literally fixing the inconsistent gameplay and the input delay and lag would solve so much with this game. I truly believe the lag connection and delay causes animations to change and become very weird and just off. It disables skill because it just results in terrible gameplay, normally counters and constant rebounds. And why why why do all gameplay patches lean towards encouraging AI defending and not manual tackling which is broken in itself.

I've been a SB enjoyer since it got introduced in fifa 18, but I can't lie, this is the first time I genuinenely hate it. Now, you'd THINK the games being reduced is a good thing, and it is, but all the way down to 12? (14) nah, and here's why (from a casual perspective) - The mode is casual, and has always been casual. With champs being harder to qualify, rivals with it's 15 wins is tiring, you have SB to rely on at least. Now the 12 games means there is far less room for error, and needing to win 5-0's in all your games to get a decent ranking.. plus dealing with the AI that is even more cracked than in previous years.. all it's done is added this level of stress to the mode which never existed beforehand. I'm probably the only person conplaining about this lol, but you should get the gist

I havent played fifa since i was a teenager since 2014ish. Got it again on a whim, and looked up nepenthez out of nostalgia from those days. Im seeing lots of comments about how it’s a terrible game and all, but i just am excited to feel like a kid again playing this game and watching nepenthez videos again!

If we ignore the content for a second the gameplay is miserable. The people who play this game want the games to go as fast as possible because it’s not fun to play, people are addicted to upgrading their team and that’s it.

Most dda in a fifa ever let’s be honest the game decides who will win not the skill gap

I've complained the most this game then I have ever on any other fifa, the gameplay is terrible, yet here I am everyday grinding, conceding goals to glitch corners, rebounds and my defenders being unable to pass, but there defends can smack one in top bins with a trivela

I disagree with champs finals rewards being good. I hit 8/9 wins on two accounts and most of the time, I don't get above 80k, which is a joke. Unless you get rank 3 or higher, it's not worth it. 7/8/9 wins, most of packs are untradable and the tradable ones have abysmal pack weight.

I think for squad battles they just need to change it to set points levels for ranks. The fact only what a month to get elite one you have to beat legendary minimum in all games is so stupid. Squad battles isnt supposed to be some massive competative mode but with how its set up now its just wrecked by boosters so its impossible to continually do it. Set each rank as a point limit to hit and i think squad battles would be perfect for what its designed for

A few days ago: Ea managed to fix evos lets go!! 🥳 Today: ea managed to break something so they’re unable to release ultimate team content 🤣🤣

Game sucks. That it. Thats the video

This guy needs Ea to survive

Instead of allowing us to make the ultimate team, they’ve restricted us more. Now every team has to be meta and if you don’t pay a little money to upgrade your team, you get shat on

I've worked in software/game development for 8 years and have never seen anything like what we see from EA on the daily. So many mistakes, nothing tested before it's released to the live game, fixing one thing seems to break another. I know this is the nature of the beast when developing in general but it shouldn't be by the time it's released to the live game. As for the gameplay issues, they've had 25 years to get it right but still haven't i expect to buy a finished 'product' each year for the money they charge, not one of EAs whacky experiments that don't work properly.

Objectives 0/10 Sbcs 0/10 Gameplay -100/10 Content -100/10 Evos 0/10 Game modes 0/10 Rewards 0/10 Well done ea you killed it

Incredible timing, they've broken SBCs 💀

I am a casual player who is in Yr 7. I grinded out 45 points in div 3 and i can tell you it was painful. Cutbacks after cutbacks after cutbacks and it was annoying. I still reached my goal though. But that just shows people only play one way.

The gameplay is the worst it’s ever been

Once per week i get disconnected from squad battles. Never had a disconnect in any other mode. Very frustrating.

A competitive multiplayer game should not be this unresponsive, it’s unacceptable. Do you think Activision would release a Cod with a delay before firing your gun? Every input in this game is either delayed or just doesn’t register the input entirely.

I remember when cyberpunk 2077 was released, there was this glitch where if you left your car somewhere and moved to another area, the game will not stop loading traffic into the area where your car is at. So, while you're unaware, the game keeps loading cars until eventually it becomes too heavy and the game would crash. EA FC/FIFA, for the last few iterations, felt like that. It felt as if there's something running in the background making the game heavier and you don't realize it. Every game is different gameplay, every time you open your squad page or open an SBC, it takes a different amount of time to load the page. Something in the code is making the game heavier as you play and they, for years now, can't fix it.

I think Rush needs to have it's own division rivals. Where you play with friends or you play with someone close to your division. Rewards could be added for it too

The way I’m enjoying is just building my past and present Leicester team. I don’t stress about needing coins and just play and evo players I want :)

Thanks for pointing out that the Devs aren't the problem, they're normal working people working their passion. There's only so much you can do in a yearly cycle whilst the people at the top only care about money

something EA need to add with roles is the ability to develop a role. for example, if you play someone in a certain role for x amount of games they get a + on that role added on. would be sick

What even is the point of the Draft? The players to choose suck the rewards suck and the gameplay is the same as any other mode. I had over 20+ draft tokens in FC24

As im watching this Ea aint letting me play the game i paid for 😂, dumb servee maintenance

Objectives, simple fix why not make them seasonal. So, they refresh every season, and the rewards are adjusted to cover this. Draft, updated rewards are needed but also make the captain pick a 100% promo card from the latest promo. Friendlies, lack a purpose. Friendlies were best when Silver Stars was a thing. Squad Battles, each rank isn't a % it's a set number so elite 1 is 25k, elite 2 then 22.5, elite 3 20k and so on down by 2.5k points per tier. Rush, 100% agree with everything said, but would add 2 things, 1 we need roles like league of legends, have a game that no one wants to defend is silly. 2 soft bans for AFKer, have a situation where if they don't press a random button combo they get kicked. Also, with the rush evos why is there not a rush mode that is evos only? Rivals to many games for not great rewards. would it hurt to give everyone no matter the division a TOTW, just cap it make 83 or lower for 10 to 7, 6 to 3 uncapped and 2 to elite 83 plus. Champs seems to be a good set up, but I don't understand why for better rewards you don't get more qualification points. In terms of game play there never will be a perfect game. but from everything I've watch it looks like the newer gen console game wasn't built for console it was built for PC. Also, why can we not select which server we connect too. I've match up with so many Dutch and French players that it's not enjoyable to play. I feel Nep describes it best when he says this game feel more like a beta than a full release.

Nep saying 10% of the gameplay is utterly broken, then proceeds to list a whole host of things from Menu's to Gameplay that are totally flawed. I get what he means though, from his point of view, I just feel that if you spend 33 min reviewing the Menu's of a football game, then it has ultimately failed at its most important aspect because most of it would be irrelevant had the gameplay been good. But no hate Nep, love the content, keep it up!

I stopped playing the game. I could not take it anymore. It's really sad because there is a lot of potential like Nep said.

Can’t believe how good this came out!

games trash rebound goals galore every team has evo rashford and traore, sbcs and evos dont work and the game freezes every time i complete an sbc

EA should get people who have played the game for years like Nep as a consultant , just a few sessions would elevate this game to new heights in the long term

All i want is duplicate protection from Icon/Hero SBC packs. Packing Joe Cole twice is a fu*** Pi** TAKE!

So this whole ‘ don’t have anything to play for ‘ I don’t get as the best FIFA’s we had nothing to play for yet they were the best memories which is weird right?

You forgot to mention the stutter that happens in Rush every 4-5 seconds, it's minimal but noticeable and it ALWAYS happens, and they haven't aknowledged it yet even tho they have put out patches already with "performance and stability fixes".

Uninstalled the game yesterday.

I really wish they would stick with a certain way the game plays and not change it every year so you have to relearn how to play i used to be so good in fifa 12-16 i was mid in fifa 19 to 22... i was div 1 last fifa but in this fifa i feel so trash and i know its not me thats what pisses me off the most

not worth getting the deluxe on sale ?

What I’d like to see in Rush is a ranking based on position. So if you play CB you’re encouraged to defend and get points based on tackle% and headers won etc and then same for attackers with goals, shots etc. Encourage us to defend and pass the ball. Also give us MOTM cards again like we used to with boosted stats based on the match performance. Why did they remove the orange MOTM cards!!!??

I wish they wouldn’t have lowered the champs qualifying to 5 games. I’m in div 3 like two wins away from div 2 and struggling to qualify 😢

Simple don't buy packs ... buy the next game at 60-80 and they will make the worst one out let them. It's for the better

I played the Beta and loved Rush and was so excited for it this year. But the reason I loved Rush in the Beta was because everyone was playing properly - now it’s just people being selfish trying to complete play, score or assist objectives. If EA just removed the score and assist objectives from Rush and made rewards far more about winning games in Rush then at least people might play properly and it might become enjoyable again.

The pack weight is really tough this year. I didn't pack a single walkout from these most recent SB rewards(Elite3)

You seem to forget, the average player isn't sitting there for hours every day cranking out content. There's plenty of content for the normal FIFA player... plenty.

as a fan of the nhl games i was really upset with what they did this year at the start, but after playing both NHL and FIFA i’m starting to notice that it might’ve been better, they changed the overalls so the highest base gold is an 85 rated and made it so most packs give you a bunch of bronze and silver cards, now any gold card at all sells for like 15k and even cards like 75 silvers sell for 6k+. everyone can also use cards from teams they like since having a 79 isn’t much different from the “Meta” 81 overalls that most players are still using although with FIFA and all the different leagues doing it to this scale wouldn’t make sense, but i think implementing a similar change in FC 26 would be much better for the markets and the feel of actually playing with players you like and still having good feeling rewards without giving everyone 90+ cards at launch.

Biggest annoyance is when players decide to run in quick sand at 1 mph and let the opponent just run round and get the ball.

80% of the goals are score due to rebounds. The last 20% are score due to kick of glitch and corners. Good bye EA.

Worst game in years. It’s almost like as technology gets more sophisticated, the gameplay gets worse and worse. One step forward, two (or more) steps back.

This is why this is my final FIFA, it’s horrendous

Think one thing that EA should implement is a title screen per day with what they have released at 18:00 so we can at a glance check if there are things to do

I took a break from fifa for like 3 years and came back to this. I'm a casual player of maybe 2 hours a night. If you add up 15 games for rivals, 14 squad battles plus trying to get rush games done and if ya qualify for weekend league it's way too much. Rivals rewards should be 30 points. You should be relegated with losses I'm in division 3 but not good enough to be there so I just keep losing and don't want to play it. General gameplay is awful needs a massive fix

Should done so u can collect icon tokens again. Remove rush ( reskinned volta/ no point in playing beside sp points) Fix the game. We still have kickoff glitch ai defending etc..

I just feel if the devs weren’t being shafted with tight deadlines and had a 2 year production period, then it’d be way better.

Once again it’s not about the packing players, it’s about the time consuming and the wins, good for you that you can grind the game for 6 to 8h but it’s really hard for some one like the casuals that plays only 2h or less x day do everything. I think you only focus on the people who really has the time to play.

I’ve been in the elite division for 3 weeks and my friends in divs 2 and 3 are packing better players than me from rivals rewards. When the season resets I’m not gonna push to get to elite anymore, it isn’t worth it

Winning every game in squad battles 5-0 on world class gives you 2000 per game. Do the low level teams on legendary gives you 2500 if you win 5-0. That takes you to 28000 points each time. That's what I do.

Very true in what youre saying nep, but missed out one of the biggest if not *The biggest imo problem and thats how bad the menus are, the amount of weird ways your game just freezes, soft locks is mental. And so many basic things like id say a 1/3 of the games has the glitch of not showing the oppositions team. Like how hard could that possibly be to fix.

one thing with the player sbc's is that they hardly ever release any premier league cards

I remember on FIFA on the psp there was a moments sort of thing which was sick it was like you had loads of tasks where you have 5 minutes to win a game at 1-0 down and stuff like that it was sick. I feel like that is what moments is meant to be but just isnt

Btw squad battles you can get elite 1 by playing mix of legendary and world class. Play the 1-2 low rated on legendary the other two on world class get around 26-27k points

21:17 You've always said people should have an opportunity to grind game modes though. It shouldn't be an issue that those who want to play the game more should get better rewards.

i don't usually buy the game at full price on launch day, but this year i did. in my very first match i could not believe how bad the gameplay was, like my mouth was drooped which has never happened with any previous fifas... truly awful game this year it feels like its still in beta testing

So far for me, as a casual player 2 big problems, amount of points for premium rivals and afk on Rush

my biggest trigger is players fainting for no reason, trigger to come short feints if someone touches them, trigger to make a run faints and makes me lose the due to pressure

As someone who just gets their 6 wins in rivals, and plays all champs over the weekend but no time for anything else , this game is terrible , the gameplay is awful, the players can’t make a sprint in behind without being offside or the AI tracking them perfectly, the rewards are shocking and the menus are broken

Love the respect for developers. A lot of decisions happen from suits above them. Nobody wants to create something that falls short of both internal and external expectations.

The rewards for moments and rush are so ass, that’s what’s annoying me the most this year

Consistent 10 win fut champs player. Div 2 15 wins every week. $200 spent on the game. My best pull? Rudiger in September. 6 hero packs my best pull is ole. Boutta retire early from this game. It’s in shambles

Ultimately the game is limited eather by EA's poor coding (gameplay bugs/glitches, menus freezing) or their lack of care to release by far the best product in the footballing sphere. The game could be so much better if it wasn't the same copy paste each year. Even small changes to foundations/milestones objectives would be appreciated by the community imo.

What game is he playing defensive ai far too op and I still see a lot of 5 at the back

What i would like to add, besides everything people said in here, is regarding the devs that left, and the new ones don't know how to make changes. I'm a small time IT guy, don't do programming, and even in our company, whenever someone leaves or changes department, they leave behind a ton of documentation regarding their past activity. Are EA telling us that a big time company like theirs is don't have tons of documentation regarding every single line of code written? It's a pathetic excuse and totally unrealistic.

The game is pretty much identical to last years fifa from the sbcs/the achievements and cards I feel like I'm playing the same game. People actually paid close to £90 for it...

The attacking AI completely breaks when the opponent has everyone on come back on defence. The new defence system they added to new gen has completely killed the gameplay. I don’t care that it’s more ‘authentic’, it’s NOT FUN. I don’t play FIFA to play a ‘break down a low block’ simulator. Give me end to end gameplay.

I agree with most but not ranked mode in rush. It’s supposed to be a casual mode. Don’t wanna hear a peep about sweats if you then want more competition in a cas mode. Otherwise I agree

I've said over and over EA has made customers pay for the Beta of FC26 we're testing this game and everything else in it while they try to figure it out for next year. Wish y'all the best on this Beta. And EA stop hiding behind Promos

Stop linking Evos to rush for the love of God. I still can't get the Forward Fortification one finished, as every game I get a rubber bander, and it's almost impossible not to concede more than two goals.

4 weeks after release the ultimate edition is £40 on psn. Something aint right. Never seen that before

For all people who complain,don't play the game. Because I like the game and don't feel the issues that people have

This is a legit review from somebody who cares about the game. Great job Nep! Awesome suggestions too.

I'm done with the game. Just not feeling it anymore. After 12 years I'm over it. EA have turned very money oriented, and even when you spend money you don't get top cards. You're lucky if you get a good gold rated card. I'm done

Unfortunately ea’s incompetence will never change

I’m sick of being “disconnected” like I’m playing squad battles at least let me keep the score the way it was before the disconnection. I’m not quitting, I just wanna play but I get “disconnected” whilst my wifi never crashes. So crap.

23:10 how come we've never ever got any goalkeeper evolutions? Im running a Korean/Japanese squad and their best GK is only 75 rated

If we’re being honest the only thing that’s an improvement is Rush. Everything else got worse.

I agree with every word you just said, but a good percentage of what you just suggested would mean profit loss for ea, eg if we had unlimited grind this early no one would go to store, can't see them as anything other than money grabbers so I dont think they will change alot, money is there only language unfortunately, not playerbase year after year we complain on deaf ears

This man is the most honest fc RU-vidr out there man I love him

Ever since the new gen this has became worse and worse. Remember when people were all playing the PS4 version of the game? So weird.

I 100% believe they gave league sbc's because Evo's were broken