FIFA 17: The Last Good FIFA

Hey guys,
Today is a small video essay over the last good FIFA game: FIFA 17. This game was a testament to what makes a FIFA game good and how far we've fallen off since. The SBCs were were typically great value and extremely worth doing, the rewards from various game modes were solid, and we had a decent balance of game modes from casual, semi-casual, and competitive. FIFA 17 was released over 7 years ago, so some people who are just now getting into the series will have no idea what they've missed out on and I hope they realize it soon so we can have another good game.
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[@karolthegoat3639]

even without the journey (which just makes it better) fifa 17 was just goated

[@DagnalDiagonal]

Genuinely a great fifa in retrospect

[@kdburner7356]

⁠@@DagnalDiagonalI’ve been playing it the past few months and it’s just as bad as recent fifas lol

[@lucwijngaard8413]

I only played since 21 and really miss an engaging career mode

[@thrasherdave1428]

Yeah FIFA 17 was great. Unfortunately it all went downhill from there

[@mantaminer6669]

​@@thrasherdave1428 Fifa 18 is better by far though

[@user-dg8kn9sl8j]

The fact that icons even get special cards on top of being icons is insane

[@thrasherdave1428]

Yeah that is just overkill

[@ZiyadAzouny]

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

[@thrasherdave1428]

@@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

[@throwawaelee]

​@@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.

[@XD-sp4ye]

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

[@RespecTheLevYT]

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]

Makes me wanna go and buy an Xbox 360 lol and just run career modes on the older ones man

[@RespecTheLevYT]

@@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.

[@bobby9458]

@@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

[@RespecTheLevYT]

@@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…

[@elbuki4006]

f yeah, i still play fifa 14 demo with real madrid with la decima team... its so fun to play against the Legendary AI

[@lsymptomaticgaming777]

EXACTLY. The problem since Fifa 17 is the AI on both attacking and defending.

[@ko-rp7ge]

Agreed

[@jonahjameson272]

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

[@dragon_ball_sucks_video]

If ai is bad, then how's it the best

[@Givemeproofkid]

@@jonahjameson272😂😂 You are just trash at the good bro

[@MT-zw1ti]

​@@dragon_ball_sucks_video What the fuck are you talking about?

[@abdulmajeedahm644]

People had different teams and used various tactics and ways to score, finishing was beautiful and I remember actually feeling something when I scored

[@anshtripathi7035]

nostalgia merchants all around here

[@featofclay2295]

@@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.

[@randy4950]

@@featofclay2295I 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.

[@abdulmajeedahm644]

@@featofclay2295 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

[@f0izan161]

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

[@LVLSLY]

Everyone who played fifa 17 knows very well about Musa and his pace 😭

[@DagnalDiagonal]

King Musa, never forget

[@hamburger8872]

My favourite card of all time, what a card he had

[@ibnadam65]

bale as well

[@oopdoop8446]

martial, musa, sterling haunts me…… in a good way

[@rohithraman6488]

Musa on FIFA 17 the streets will never forget

[@badvirlix]

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.

[@badvirlix]

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.

[@RespecTheLevYT]

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

[@josefelfinito6925]

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.

[@austinlarrimore6542]

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

[@badvirlix]

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

[@afstutz]

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.

[@yolobabyy7]

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

[@M4n44n]

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.

[@fifagremlin4559]

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

[@reginald6451]

Long shots with Balotelli and 89 Rooney different

[@jacksonboyd02]

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

[@ariljacott1822]

I remember when we all criticized fifa 17 because it looked like every fifa game released before that

[@DagnalDiagonal]

Little did we know...

[@ANIK-qk9mz]

Fifa 18 also very good with real Madrid what are you talking about baby fifa?​@@DagnalDiagonal

[@Birdman_18]

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.

[@mejaryan01]

Fifa 12 (Rooney cover)should’ve def been mentioned if he was talking bout goat fifas

[@michaelh878]

Yeah fifa has been terrible for at least 10 years.

[@HankYamamoto]

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

[@jrvld1]

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

[@jacksonboyd02]

For me maybe it’s because I started at 12 but 12-15 to me was awesome

[@DenizovicBerlin]

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

[@thefutuniverse5609]

great video. fifa 17 was special. i hope they one day take us back to the glory days

[@DagnalDiagonal]

I'll take anything at this point, i'm starving

[@izmolaitela6684]

nothing like fifa 15 kid

[@milanbaros2005]

Nothing like fifa 95 boy.@@izmolaitela6684

[@SLM-kz8tp]

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

[@ItsMarVvo]

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

[@mgf909]

FIFA 15 and FIFA 14 definitely was the best soundtracks

[@izmolaitela6684]

oh yeah 100% still listening to those bangers

[@diogomelo7897]

Fifa 11 and 12 are up there too

[@HankYamamoto]

2005 for me

[@jhunhior]

FIFA 19 has bangers as well.

[@thegodofglebe2572]

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]

wasn't sturridge still like 6'2 or 6'3 in fifa 17

[@thegodofglebe2572]

@@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

[@Mise22]

@@thegodofglebe2572 yeah I know he was absolutely op with that size and pace

[@ItZzEp1c]

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

[@gamerboyt5924]

first introduction of hunter went craaaaaaaaaaaazy

[@rq7da]

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!❤

[@marcinho20]

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 ❤

[@Jp-jn5bs]

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😂

[@mejaryan01]

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

[@Emma_madison]

That just shows how trash Ea has gotten and how worst they keep destroying the franchise. It like every year they find a way to make the game somehow worst.

[@HerobrineLolz]

Lol

[@Agueroooo]

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.

[@DagnalDiagonal]

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

[@juandedomenico4306]

Remember watching AA9 Road To Glory. That shit was the best series ever

[@DagnalDiagonal]

So many good series and videos overall

[@user-iv7cj7ws1l]

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

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

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.

[@AnasChouaibi]

Cap, Giroud at bayern? What u smoking

[@r0yalr0sePT]

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!

[@timmyng9560]

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 .

[@manuelramirez9151]

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

[@brashradio]

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.

[@DashCash100]

Fifa 17 was the goat. I played 5000 or 6000 UT games. I enjoyed the game soo much. Bultland and ibrahimovic are goats

[@Kanzeyable]

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.

[@jacksavage6804]

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

[@arturoone77]

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

[@DagnalDiagonal]

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

[@samuellaureano9159]

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.

[@_warframe_2070]

Bro you spoke to my soul omg. I literally have the same opinion especially soundtrack-wise. FIFA 14-15 were masterpieces.

[@SergioDiaz-bw9te]

Man the nostalgia you gave me watching this was 18 when this one came out and played it religiously

[@dinomarius3913]

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

[@majaczek7353]

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

[@mizzo_1]

atsel witsel still plays doesnt he

[@majaczek7353]

@@mizzo_1 yeah he plays for Atletico Madrid and he's actually pretty good

[@laselecta9012]

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.

[@shaniell.mathur6372]

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

[@BFMert]

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

[@TomHutchcraft]

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

[@TomHutchcraft]

Pro clubs gameplay was so good too

[@sethketchum5969]

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

[@TomasGonzalez0617]

The reason why I love FIFA 17 the most it's because of Marco Reus. Since I met him through that cover I became obsessed with him and BVB and became a fan for life of BVB... FIFA 17 quite literally showed me the love of my life and I'll always remember it for it 💛🖤

[@h2oallegation]

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.

[@Jewish.Hotdog]

U obviously haven't played career mode

[@davidsemedo8430]

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

[@binzc3052]

driven shot in 17 was amazing. tots season was also so fun.. all the cards were usable.

[@LILTEE775]

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

[@SpartanArmy117]

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.

[@tophmeister3]

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.

[@praveenm5723]

As a bayern fan im tearimg up

[@alvinmasta5267]

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.

[@andrerosario8590]

Werner and Rashford in the attack in career mode😩😩

[@TomPearce-wk3ry]

I rate this vid. You probably could have added that the goal keeping was disastrous but then when is it not in fifa.. looking forward to the next vid 💪

[@royjacobi1906]

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.

[@x.silverchild4987]

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

[@lmaomoofeq2505]

he scored a cold goal against everton with Pickford as GK 🥶

[@mizzo_1]

Still love him

[@brun8294]

Great vid guy, my goat this fifa was son potm and tots nainggolan i also really loved tots mertens

[@DagnalDiagonal]

My friend packed TOTS Nainggolan out of a 7.5k pack, i was so jealous lmao

[@furiousdzn3004]

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

[@kylepatrick2231]

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.

[@pedroszpigiel533]

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.

[@lopezlion3164]

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.

[@crisdeluna9069]

My best pack was Naingollan and Vidal in the same pack. ❤️ My serie A team was a beauty. Winter upgrade second IF Salah was amazing.

[@mrrz100]

Keep up the good work bro

[@Angelu361]

I feel like ever since EA switched to the frostbite engine (in all their games at this point), FIFA just went down hill

[@qobo5socikwa666]

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

[@austinlarrimore6542]

Facts, still had random gold cards that were top tier like the old days of non rates and random Brazilian silvers who were good, gameplay still fun, ultimate team had some good new features, soundtrack and menu were great, and career mode was still fun and even tho no dynamic potential can be painful, training was great and helped a lot. Hell even journey was hype on first play even if it didn’t age well

[@RespecTheLevYT]

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 😢

[@typho6279]

Why cant they just make decent games like this anymore? Why must we always go backwards

[@BFMert]

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

[@tonio8404]

money

[@Cromeyellow66]

Why? Because monopoly.

[@profit812]

Honestly there isn’t much of a difference but people want to feel what they used to feel years ago

[@carlos00700]

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..

[@ytaltacc8008]

I have been playing fifa 17 for a little over one month. The movement of my players is very good, specially when marking the opposition. They do what I expect them to do, and it is very nice.

[@ricardojesus7215]

I also loved carrer mode. It was so nice and with so many young players like mbappe (lotin) or dembele or rashford that were easy to buy and build a mega team

[@eazyroc3594]

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.

[@bigncnv8962]

What a game. I was selling fifa coins and running silver mls and a Japanese team and having fun.

[@cleinerrn775]

You got everything right. It was like a trip back in time when I was in high school and fifa 17 came out. What a beautiful game and vibes. Now I'm in the 4th year of med school and the little time that I have to play FIFA is this garbagge-71depth-cutbacks called EAF24. Even the long shots from FIFA 17 were better. I miss those days...

[@rmccormick27]

Great video. I think the thing I miss most from fifa 20 and earlier is how fun and satisfying it was to score a goal... I can't really explain it but all the next gen fifa's are just so lifeless in game. The power and positioning of the defensive AI has sucked all the joy out of a once fun, attacking based game. Every match feels like such a chore. I'm also glad you pointed out the overbearing barrage of content we have now. There isn't even time to enjoy low rated gold cards anymore because of quickly the power curve leaps. I really miss the old fifa's so much.

[@lorenzostancati]

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 :))

[@user-nw5wp9bw2v]

The graphics, the trailers, the intros, the journey, the gameplay. It was just amazing. Fifa 15 comes at a distant number 2 for me.

[@DagnalDiagonal]

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

[@L47M]

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) ❤

[@DreamsAfterDeath]

Great content! And it is so sad that you are just so right... It was the time when I got hooked up into playing FIFA competitively and my relationship just got worse and worse with the game after that. :(

[@wangsai7649]

It is so sad that you are just so right__have learned this espression😂

[@dvp1694]

FIFA 16-17 were the GOATS years. I always play to buy the best Man City team in FUT and would play my homies in online friendly seasons. Those were the days with my 89 pace, 89 Dri, and 89 shot gold 89 Aguero card so much good nostalgia thanks for the vid 💙🌬🐐⚡️🐌☃️🤟🏻🧘🏼‍♂️🥂😊

[@maelpika]

Damn you are so underrated . Great video

[@DagnalDiagonal]

Thank you thank you thank you, i really appreciate it

[@lukajovanovic16]

I was around 9-10 when fifa 17 was the latest fifa. I can only say that fifa 17 made me love football and fifa games even more. Such a good game.

[@ybx1926]

Chilling late night with the boys playing Fifa 17/18, GTA 5, battlefield 1/4, black ops 3, Rainbow 6, life was good 😔

[@reverseflashplays8615]

40 games of champs was a time to be alive

[@His_racer180]

FIFA 17 was my first ever FIFA and I loved it I still play it to this day every now and then.

[@soft-games4074]

It’s crazy, I spend more time doing sbc’s than actually playing the game in eafc24

[@-_-DatDude]

Fifa 13 was the last good Fifa. However Fifa 06 was my personal GOAT Fifa. 06 had a great soundtrack, career mode was way ahead of its time, commentary had personality to it and it had extras.

[@macca1626]

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

[@DagnalDiagonal]

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

[@iXpertMan]

How does PRO clubs make it any good? Same shitty gameplay and RAT meta?

[@nathanielseltveit3851]

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.

[@user-uyumo8g44x]

Servers are down, sadly

[@Kelvin-hz2gh]

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.

[@Gammon1912]

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

[@DeVoidAS]

FIFA 17 was the last time I remember enjoying the gameplay of FIFA. It had none of the moving GK bs, or defenders just looking at the attacker instead of marking him, DMs actually tracking back and intercepting passes, and so on and so forth. Every game wasn't 5-4 or 6-5 or some ridiculous scoreline like that either. Scoring ACTUALLY felt rewarding. FC24 is the absolute antithesis of that. Its just sad man

[@nabri-nfg3262]

I dont remember ever raging in this game

[@landagreen]

I broke controllers over fifa 17 ut lmao we had completely different experiences

[@karlplays9782]

FIFA 17 was the first fifa I have ever played and looking back at it now gives me a lot of memories

[@manoliliev6850]

Accurate 100%, please don't stop with videos like this hopefully one day EA will fix all of these things and the game will be playable, for me one of the worst things is player switching and slow animations, being stuck in mud

[@buffbrimstone2670]

Who remembers TOTS Mertens

[@bryndenrv]

Broken game after broken game, but yet people still buying new fifa game thats make EA doesnt even care if the game is good or not, just realase it quick cash grab since people still buy it anyway

[@adamgeigerjr6995]

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

[@adamgeigerjr6995]

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)

[@freederickthegreat]

i was so hooked on this game... it just had that magic. I used just gold players for most of the year and different squads for each of the best championships (premier league, bundeslinga, league sandander, calcio a) and if lagging was not present, the gameplay was as good as it gets. The best thing was that by the end of its game you could figure out that in case you won, you actually played better and if you lost you understood the opponent was better. Nowadays with all the scripting and terrible gameplay, the game ends and you just can't understand if you deserved to win or lose

[@xd_noah_yt6257]

Butland in goals and son mane and martial up front 😭

[@DagnalDiagonal]

The nightmares lmao

[@user-oe1fr9wp9p]

Loved this!😊

[@DagnalDiagonal]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@XD-sp4ye]

My favorite is Fifa 15 on ps3 cuz you could still buy coins and afford to do pack openings that actually paid off lol. Then I got a ps4 with fifa 16 and it felt like an actual new gen omgg the draft was new the animations were fresh and hella sunny and at the end of the year it was discovered that chemistry boost only worked on day 1 cards so only golds. After that you could just pick the best player in every draft pick and play him wherever on the pitch and it was the best thing ever I swear. Fifa 17 was my last year buying it in december and playing fut the whole year. It was fun not gonna lie. I still watch the content after years but It’s sad to see how noone is actually happy with what we got 😢

[@MM4332_]

Best FIFA soundtrack: Fifa 2003. In My Mind by Antiloop playing in the loading screen would just get you hyped as fuck. I mean it was the first FIFA I played when I was about 5 or 6 y/o, and the songs from the soundtrack just makes me so full of nostalgia.

[@rusBeckS]

Great vid! from Russia with love